Sheffield Wednesday's rebuild gets its first proper examination on Thursday night, when Bradford City come to Hillsborough for a Yorkshire meeting between two sides who have started the League One season perfectly.
Both won on the opening weekend. Wednesday took a 2-1 win at Leyton Orient on 15 August, Callum Slattery opening the scoring and Jamal Lowe settling it after the hosts had levelled. Bradford beat Peterborough United 2-0 the same afternoon through Macaulay Gillesphey and Nick Powell. Each had already come through a League Cup tie the week before, Wednesday 1-0 against Bolton Wanderers and Bradford 2-0 against Rochdale.
The context at Hillsborough is a club reassembled in a hurry. The Chansiri era ended this summer with a takeover by Arise Capital Partners, and under new owner David Storch a squad that finished 24th in the Championship has been rebuilt close to from scratch: Barry Bannan returned from Millwall, Louie Barry arrived from Aston Villa, Billy Mitchell and Slattery were added, and goalkeeper Pierce Charles was sold to Manchester City. Henrik Pedersen, kept on after last season's collapse, is new to this division.
Optimism has run ahead of the infrastructure. Building work is still under way around the ground, supporters queued to get in for the Bolton tie, and the ticket pricing for this very fixture drew complaints. There is a case for holding expectations steady: promotion is possible, but this is a project starting from the ground up rather than a quick correction.