For now, it is business as usual. As the club continues its search for a new manager, Hamshaw is preparing to lead the Owls into battle on Sunday.
Make no mistake, Wednesday are fortunate to have someone like Hamshaw at the club. His willingness to step into the breach evokes memories of Lee Bullen and Neil Thompson, who repeatedly answered the call as caretakers during the previous regime. Good football people who put the club first and do whatever is required in its hour of need.
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The feel-good factor that surrounded Hillsborough earlier in the season has inevitably faded. Wednesday have slipped to ninth in the table after winning just one of their past seven league matches. Two woeful performances and results at Notts County and Doncaster Rovers ultimately cost Henrik Pedersen his job.
Highly regarded within the game and universally well-liked, Hamshaw has impressively navigated a difficult situation to keep the show on the road.
Yet Hamshaw has been a calming and reassuring presence since Pedersen’s exit. Highly regarded within the game and universally well-liked, he has impressively navigated a difficult situation to keep the show on the road. He is a bright, bubbly personality and instantly got a reaction from the players in their midweek draw with Cambridge United.
This is far from Hamshaw’s first rodeo. He knows what League One inside out, both as a coach and a manager, having enjoyed significant success at Rotherham United before taking charge of the Millers in difficult circumstances last season.
“I’ve been fortunate to have success in League One with a previous manager (Paul Warne),” he said. “We had four promotions out of this league.
“I managed in it last year so I’d like to think that there’s not a lot I kind of don’t know about this league. It’s important that I bring that. Look, I’m nowhere near perfect. I don’t see everything sometimes right so that’s where you need your staff.
