Sheffield Wednesday are still deep in relegation trouble in the Championship this season, but a win over high-flying Barnsley will have boosted their confidence going into the international break.

Darren Moore opted for a lot of experience at Oakwell and it paid off, with Jordan Rhodes netting both goals in a 2-1 victory over their South Yorkshire neighbours.

Experienced players are all well and good, but if there's one thing that seems to be lacking though at Wednesday in recent years, it is youngsters coming through into the first-team at an early age.

In the 20-man squad for the victory over Barnsley, there was just one teenager - goalkeeper Luke Jackson - whilst the other youngsters including Osaze Urhoghide are at the start of their 20s.

It would be nice for the fans to see a starlet break through from a young age and become a top player for them, and if they do get relegated into League One that may end up happening.

Speaking of young players, let's look at the ten youngest scorers for the Owls of all-time (per transfermarkt) - and it speaks volumes that the most recent one out of the 10 was in 2008!

It's funny how football works sometimes, and it was pure coincidence that both Hirst and Humphreys scored at the age of 18 years, 8 months and 18 days - although there was nearly a whole 10 years between the two matches.

Hirst had just joined the Owls from Barnsley in 1986 and in his first home appearance he netted against Everton off the bench, and he would go on to strike 105 more times for the club in the league.

Humphreys meanwhile didn't end up being quite as prolific as Hurst - although after going on Wednesday's pre-season tour in Holland in 1996 he was likened to Marco van Basten by the one and only Johan Cruyff - but he scored on the opening day of the 1996/97 Premier League season against Aston Villa.

Humphreys never quite made it at Wednesday despite having an exciting start, but he did have a good career with Hartlepool before becoming the chair of the PFA in 2013.

Talbot was a regular fixture for Wednesday in League One in the 2004/05 campaign, frequently being used off the bench and he was very effective, scoring five goals that season - including in the play-off final against Hartlepool.

His first goal though came a couple of months before that in March 2005 at the age of 18 years, 7 months and 15 days when he netted in a 2-0 win over Doncaster Rovers,

Unfortunately the rest of his Owls career would be blighted by injury, and after a spell at Luton, Talbot would settle at Chesterfield for most of the rest of his playing days.

A highly-rated Chelsea teenager at the time, Sahar joined Wednesday in the second half of the 2007/08 campaign and it took him a few games to find his feet initially.

But at the age of 18 years, 7 months and 12 days he found the back of the net in a 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace at Hillsborough.

Sahar would score two more goals for the Owls before becoming a much-travelled striker - he's played in Holland, Spain, France and Germany before returning to his native Israel in 2015, but he's currently on loan in Cyprus at APOEL.

Prendergast came through the youth ranks at Hillsborough in the 1960s, and after excelling for the reserve team he scored his first goal in 1969 at the age of 18 years, 4 months and 16 days.

That was in a defeat to Newcastle and after that first goal he scored plenty more - 53 times in 183 league outings to be precise - but his career was blighted by injury a few years after he made his breakthrough.

Cartilage trouble, internal bleeding in his knee and also a broken leg scuppered Prendergast of prolonging his playing career, and he ended up retiring at the age of 29.

Another player of the past of Wednesday, Bradshaw actually made more appearances in his career for Wednesday's bitter rivals Sheffield United, who he moved to in 1989 after a brief spell at Man City.

But it was the Owls who he started at as a right-back, and he was thrown in at the very top level in the old First Division back in 1986 after a loan spell at Barnsley.

His first goal came at the age of 18 years, 2 months and 19 days in a 2-0 success over Newcastle - he played 32 times in the league for Wednesday but went on to make 147 league appearances for the Blades across the city.

Wednesday took a punt on Bart-Williams after he broke into Leyton Orient's first-team squad at the age of just 16, and in the four years he spent at Hillsborough the midfielder was a success.

He bagged for the first time in September 1992 at the age of 18 years, 2 months and 17 days in a 2-1 home loss to Coventry, before going on to score 15 more times in the league before his 1995 departure to Nottingham Forest for £2.5 million.

Bart-Williams was probably better known for his time at Forest in the end but he was definitely a good and effective player for the Owls, and he netted them some decent profit as well.

Pugh started his career at Wednesday and at the age of just 18 started in the FA Cup Final in 1966 - which Wednesday lost out in to Everton.

He scored his first Wednesday goal though on the run to the final, and it was in the semi-final against Chelsea where he bagged at the age of 18 years, 2 months and 11 days.

The longest spell of Pugh's career was at Wednesday - he spent seven years at the club before departing for Huddersfield Town, and then played for Chester, Barnsley, Scunthorpe United and Matlock Town.

The youngest three scorers in Wednesday history are all defenders, starting with Crane who came through the Wednesday youth system but is from Liverpool.

Crane made a breakthrough into the senior squad in 2000 following Wednesday's relegation from the Premier League, and at the age of 18 years, 1 month and 30 days he scored for the first time in a 3-1 away victory against Watford in November 2000.

He was a versatile player but fater playing 48 times for them in the league, Crane opted to leave the Owls in 2003 a following their relegation to League One and joined Grimsby Town, eventually dropping into non-league before retiring.

A colossal unit as a youngster, Beevers was given his bow for the senior side in January 2007 as a 17-year-old, and the following season he became a regular fixture in the first-team.

The centre-back's first goal for the club came in an FA Cup fixture in January 2018 at the age of 18 years, 1 month and 16 days when he bagged against Premier League side Derby County in a 2-2 draw.

Beevers made 140 league appearances for the Owls remained at Hillsborough until 2013, which is when he joined Millwall and then later Bolton - both of whom he made over 100 outings for.

Wood beats Beevers to the number one spot by nearly a whole four months after he netted at the age of 17 years, 9 months and 21 days in April 2003.

That was a memorable game for more than Wood's record-breaking goal, as Wednesday triumphed 7-2 over Burnley at Turf Moor in a game where the Clarets were down to 10 men after 21 minutes.

Wood remained at Wednesday for a number of years, eventually departing for Coventry City in 2010 after playing 189 times for the Owls.

At the age of 35, Wood is still playing at Rotherham United in the Championship which is testament to his ability and character.