Discussing another Sheffield Wednesday defeat at Birmingham City

The Star, Sheffield

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00:00 Well, Joe Crown, another away day with Sheffield Wednesday.

00:04 It's the same old story, it's a groundhog day.

00:06 Impressive for much of the first half and they leave with nothing.

00:09 Yes, it's just kind of in some repeat at the moment.

00:13 We come in, there's an improved performance.

00:17 Today there was a goal which we haven't seen too many of this season.

00:20 We get knocked for six just before half-time and it kind of knocks us to a stuffing half.

00:24 They never really got back to the levels that you set early doors.

00:27 If Wednesday had gone in 2-0 or 3-0 up at half-time, it wouldn't have flattered them.

00:31 They created enough, there was some nice play, the intensity was good.

00:36 I thought Malik Wilkes had a really bright start to the game, his first start in a long time.

00:42 But yes, after that it just kind of knocked them and it feels like Wednesday are just,

00:48 I suppose, going through the motions a little bit when it gets to that point in games.

00:53 The thing is that we can't keep talking about the same things.

00:58 I know that Danny said it himself, there's a frustration and there's the same pattern to these matches.

01:06 The bottom line is that Wednesday just had no time to waste because of how disastrous the start to the season was.

01:12 The gap is now to ten points.

01:14 Yes, and I think the frustration today especially was,

01:19 this was a game against a team that are in a difficult run of form.

01:24 They looked poor-sided to me.

01:25 Yes, you come here, you play well enough to get something out of it, away from home.

01:29 It's less than next, so you're not expecting anything from that.

01:33 You come away from this one just going, 'Oh, well that was annoying because we saw it coming.'

01:42 How many points in that first half did Wednesday miss a chance?

01:46 We'd sit there and say to each other, 'Oh, well, there's probably a goal for them coming soon.'

01:51 Because that's just what we've become so used to now.

01:54 So quality isn't it in the key moments, both at the front and the back?

01:57 I thought with the first goal they conceded, I thought they were a little unlucky Wednesday.

02:02 For the ball to find a gap with four players and crash them down.

02:07 But in the context of the rest of the season, you find yourself banging your head against the wall with those moments, don't you?

02:13 And they had great chances, that Barry Bannen ball for Josh Windass, his chance in the first half.

02:17 That's as good a cross you'll see from anyone this season.

02:19 A moment of real quality and they've just not been able to make the most of those moments and put them away.

02:25 Yes, and I think that it's something that is probably one of the biggest differences you'll see from League One.

02:30 The chances that fell to teams against Wednesday in League One last season that weren't taken,

02:36 this season those chances get taken practically every time.

02:40 You look at the second goal, I thought Cam Dorsum made a really good save from the first effort.

02:46 It's not dealt with after that.

02:48 Those little moments in games where maybe in League One someone is able to clear that,

02:55 but the attacker hasn't got the quality to get it out of his feet and get the final touch to put it in.

03:00 And yes, like you say, that difference in quality is very, very clear to see.

03:05 I think it becomes even more so when a team is struggling for confidence because

03:10 does a fit and firing Josh Windass finish off that chance from that Bannerman cross?

03:17 I think so.

03:18 And Wednesday are just in that zone at the moment where it happens to every team that's struggling.

03:24 Like you say, that first goal, when you're down in the dumps a little bit, it finds that gap.

03:29 When you fly in, that little bit of luck it takes and it costs literally any of those four players

03:35 closing him down and goes out for a throw-in or goes out for a goal kick or a corner or whatever.

03:41 But yes, it just feels like we're doing the same match report every game at the moment.

03:49 Yes, it does. There's four words there, 'down in the dumps'.

03:53 And I think that's certainly where we are. It feels like the whole club is.

03:59 It's not a whole lot of fun at the minute, but we will keep churning out all the content,

04:03 all the analysis of today's game. Reaction from Danny Roel and yes,

04:09 there's no rest for the wicked Leicester City on Wednesday. We'll see what happens then.

04:14 But for now, from St Andrews, signing off, Alex Miller and Joe Cramm.

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