By Terry Hibberd

This weekend the spotlight was on the referee at Hillsborough, Anthony Taylor, a referee ranked good enough to officiate in games for FIFA (I won’t go onto them) and the Premier League, but he disallowed a goal which our visitors, Leeds United, obviously thought should have stood as their manager Steve Evans went apoplectic and left their fans seething.

Away from that though at the other end of the field in an entertaining Yorkshire derby, the legitimate goals scored by the Owls to take all three points were scored by a player who is the subject of plenty of transfer speculation this weekend, Gary Hooper.

The on-loan Norwich striker’s deal with Wednesday ended the day after the Leeds game and the fans left our owner, Dejphon Chansiri, in no doubt of what he should do next … ‘Sign him up’ were the chants. Now, if the rumours are to be believed that is something that will happen sooner rather than later, with speculation of a fee between £3 - £4 million being mooted to bring the former Celtic player on a permanent basis to South Yorkshire who has scored six goals in his last six appearances in an Owls shirt.

Jack Hunt has now joined on a full transfer Credit: Press Association

Over the last seven days or so we’ve made a signing which may have slipped under the radar to supporters of other clubs, Jack Hunt’s season long loan from Crystal Palace became a full transfer; a deal which is symptomatic of the proactive nature which surrounds the club at the moment. On top of that there were new deals for core members of the current squad: Sam Hutchinson, Glenn Loovens, Atdhe Nuhiu and Barry Bannan all committing their futures with Bannan and Hutchinson citing the push for the top flight as one of the main reasons for their signature.

Last summer there were enough players coming into the club to start a whole new team, there were players who were in limbo almost right to the end of the season not knowing if they were going to have to move their families from the area into pastures new.

I mean no disrespect to our former chairman Milan Mandaric who saved the club from extinction, but we’ve always seemed to be in limbo regarding players and if we did unearth a gem it felt like it was only a matter of time before someone swept them away. The transfer window was always met with trepidation rather than anticipation but now that certainly isn’t the case and it’s still a little odd to see it this way round.

Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal (L) and owner Dejphon Chansiri Credit: Press Association

We’re now constantly being linked with players coming to the club and even if our targets don’t come to fruition then we move on, find someone else who does want to come to the club and get on with that. The fan’s eyes are on the prize of promotion to the Premier League, our home record at the moment speaks for itself, we haven’t lost since the end of August on our own patch and we’ve won six of our last seven games, including the last four of them consecutively in all competitions, if we are to win our next game at Reading to take that run to five wins on the spin that will be something we haven’t done since our promotion season from League One back in 2011/12.

While we can all look to previous records and suchlike to ramp up the positive feelings and anticipation of what might be, as the our head coach Carlos Carvalhal reminds us, the next game is the most important one of the season… let’s just stick to that.. for now.

Terry Hibberd has been a Sheffield Wednesday season ticket holder for the last 20 years and his all time favourite Wednesday player is Chris Waddle. Terry is the editor of OwlsOnline.