Rooney 'disappointed and angry' after awful start to Plymouth job

If there is one thing you are guaranteed from the opening weekend of the Championship season, it is a tidal wave of hyperbole that is easy to get swept away in.

- Aaron Bower

Sheffield Wednesday 4

Lowe 35, Galloway 520g, Windass 82, Smith 90+6

Plymouth Argyle 0

What we see in the early August sunshine almost always fails to translate into reality by the time we reach May and on the basis of what Wayne Rooney's first game as Plymouth Argyle manager delivered here, he will certainly be hoping that is the case.

Results and performances on the opening weekend can often feel seismic one way or the other: after all, it's the only sample size we've got to go on. So to suggest this was an inauspicious start for Rooney in the Argyle dugout would be putting it mildly.

These two sides finished 20th and 21st in the Championship last season but on first glimpse here there could be a slightly bigger gap between them this time. Sheffield Wednesday have ridden a wave of momentum since Danny Röhl's arrival in S6 last October which continued here courtesy of a thoroughly deserved win against Argyle.