Hitman looks for some steel

Tonight’s game on the Wirral is the middle game of three matches in six days – a tiring schedule by anyone’s standard, with Athletic coming to Hillsborough on bank holiday Monday.

The Owls last season were told that they were not physical enough and did not have a backbone, but how things change over the summer and Chris Turner’s mass culling of the squad looks to have paid dividends.

Peacock especially is the sort of player who will not hide when the going gets tough, and he thinks that if Wednesday work hard as well as pulling together when times are hard, the team will be successful.

He told Footymad: “Tranmere and Oldham are two very good, honest and hard-working teams and that is what you are going to get in this league.

“You are not going to get world-class players in this division or flair players, we will have to come up against lots of hard graft but we have a good work ethic too so we should match up with them no problem.”

The former Bristol City striker, who knows this league like the back of his hand, also believes that the team have shown great determination to bounce back after the Colchester defeat.

He added: “It was a bad start for us losing by three goals which all came in the last ten minutes against Colchester.

“But since then, things have gone well for us and we have got some steel grit for when we go under pressure we look like we are going to get through it.

“And from what I have heard from last season, we didn't have that resolve.”