Discussing Sheffield Wednesday's massive win over Blackburn Rovers

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00:00Alex Miller and Joe Cran here for the Sheffield Star with smiles on our faces because Sheffield

00:05Wednesday have jumped out of the championship relegation zone for the first time, but we're

00:10still baking up. Since 1985. We're still baking up back in August. A whole autumn and a whole

00:16winter has come and gone and Sheffield Wednesday are where they want to be. There's two games

00:22left, nothing's done, no one's celebrating but it's a good feeling. There were some celebrating.

00:27They needed a performance today after the way the results went on Saturday. It would

00:36have been anti-climatic as an understatement if Wednesday hadn't got all three points today.

00:41It started brilliantly, Josh went nuts with it. I think it's fair to say the goal this

00:45season, I don't think we'll be seeing anything like that.

00:48Let's just talk on that for a little bit because obviously we're going to talk about where

00:51it's left Wednesday. The technical ability in that goal.

00:56It was coming across him. A really, really good goal. I think it just shows the sort

01:02of thing that Wednesday have been missing when Josh Winders isn't on the pitch.

01:07Those little moments of quality. 3-1 was the result. What did you make of the result? The

01:16first half was very scrappy. It was very scrappy. It felt quite tense. The two moments, Sammy

01:27Smodic's goal was very much taken like a bloke who was scoring his 31st goal of the season.

01:32And obviously Winders' moment. It was a first half that was scrappy and just devoid of a

01:36bit of quality.

01:37Yeah, it seemed to knock Wednesday for six a little bit when they equalised. It was four

01:40minutes I think afterwards. Wednesday were hit for six a bit with that. It just felt

01:47like they got into the end of the first half and 1-1 felt fair. I think the game was just

01:55bombing along really. The second half, Wednesday took pretty much control of it.

02:01It was an excellent goal, wasn't it?

02:03Yeah, really good. A great ball from Masada to find Johnson. He finished brilliantly.

02:08Another important goal from Marvin Johnson. He's got quite a few of them this season since

02:12he's come back into the works. The third goal was a great finish as well.

02:16Yeah, I'll be honest. I saw that for the first time about ten minutes ago because my head

02:22was very much in my laptop and just heard a lot of shouting and didn't really know what

02:26was going on by the time I looked up all the Wednesday players were diving into the crowd.

02:29It's just one of those. Wednesday have been so bereft of luck this season. It feels so

02:35often that when it's come down to results, when it's come to moments in games, Wednesday

02:39just haven't had that slice of luck. Look, if that's the one we get and it effectively

02:44keeps Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship, I think most people will take that.

02:48I spoke to Danny Real afterwards. He doesn't subscribe to the idea that Wednesday have

02:54gone from the hunters to the hunted. He wants Wednesday to chase down Plymouth, to go up

02:58Blackburn. There's six points remaining and he wants all six.

03:01Yeah, I think Wednesday can still finish 15th.

03:03That's right, isn't it?

03:04But yeah, to be fair, that's not changed, has it? That has been Danny's viewpoint for

03:10a long time. He wants to win every game and it doesn't really matter who they go up against.

03:14I think probably sometimes, maybe even to their detriment, you look at when they've

03:18tried to go at teams that they maybe shouldn't have tried to go at. But today it paid off

03:23and you look at the two games that are left and you wouldn't say they're easy games

03:30by any stretch, but you wouldn't say that they're games that are completely out of Wednesday's

03:34reach either.

03:36Yeah, a word on the fans. Nearly 7,400. Danny made the comment, didn't he, that it made

03:45an away game feel like a home game and it sort of did. Where's your car, by the way?

03:49We're just sort of wandering through Lancashire. It very much felt like that. It was immense,

03:55wasn't it?

03:56Yeah, from the off as well. I think what Danny said about it becoming a home game, it did

04:01really feel that way. They just had him at the back and I think it's no surprise that

04:08the important goals came in front of that stand as well. I think a big day for Barry

04:15Bannon, his 400th appearance for Wednesday and he was saying to me afterwards that he

04:19was pretty pleased that he won because if he'd not then his 400th would have had to

04:23go under the radar a little bit. But Baz was full of praise for the Wednesday fans afterwards.

04:30He said that they were immense and I just think that in a season like this with the

04:36things that have happened to Sheffield Wednesday and where they're at, if you'd said to me

04:43four months ago that Wednesday were going to be coming to Blackburn with three games

04:47to go, 7,000 Wednesday fans there and they still had a chance, I'd have snatched your

04:51hand off.

04:52No, it's more of a chance. It's in their hands. Sheffield Wednesday, as we said, three

04:551-1's over Blackburn Rovers, two games yet to go. How are your nerves? As ever, keep

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