Boss slams Bees

The Owls boss, who publicly lamented his side after the Grimsby debacle, contradicted his criticism by keeping an unchanged side in one of the worse sporting spectacles of the century yesterday in the dour 1-1 draw with The Bees.

Wednesday were dreadful, pure and simple, although Martin Allen’s side were not much better and despite the visitors scrapping for everything, they played to a game plan and it worked.

Seldom can Wednesday fans remember their team playing to anything less than a self-destructive game strategy in recent years but many supporters were on the way out of the ground before Brentford’s opener, let alone Dean Smith’s equaliser.

Turner moaned: “It was one of the worst games of football I have seen for a long, long time, I think the tactics of Brentford took the game back fifteen years and we found it hard to cope with.

“Admittedly we didn’t do well and to have lost to a team like Brentford would have been more than disappointing, fortunately the players stuck to the task to a certain degree and showed a little bit of spirit culminating in Dean Smith’s equaliser.”

The Owls boss again reiterated that the team need more of a backbone and it showed against Brentford, who they breezed past earlier in the season at Griffin Park.

He added: “We have lost to Grimsby, Chesterfield and Stockport recently, three physical teams, who have big players, and then drew with Brentford, but from my point of view I know we are not good enough and I know what needs to be done to take us out of this division.

“The fans demand more and I demand more and at this moment in time I am just waiting for the opportunity to change things, put ideas into practice during the summer so that when we meet physical teams we have the players who can cope with it. I can’t wait until the end of the season so I can do these things.”