Discussing Sheffield Wednesday's 0-0 draw with Huddersfield Town
Discussing Sheffield Wednesday's 0-0 draw with Huddersfield Town
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00:00 Alex Miller and Joe Graham from the Sheffield Star are reflecting on another goalless draw
00:05 for Sheffield Wednesday, the third point of the season against a familiar face in the
00:09 opposition dugout and Huddersfield Town. Joe, it wasn't thrilling, but it's another point
00:17 and some really interesting things to pick up, despite the fact it was a pretty sleepy
00:22 goalless draw. Yeah, I think the narratives and stuff was actually more interesting than
00:25 the game itself. Wednesday looked a lot more organised, a lot more structured, they had
00:30 a bit more purpose to their play. Obviously the big talking point was the fact that everyone
00:34 was back, you know, the strongman, Bernard, was the only one who was at Chisco signings.
00:42 And Wednesday, they looked like a team that had played together. I think that's probably
00:46 the best way of describing it, they looked like a team that knew where each other was
00:50 meant to be, thought the back line was really good today, obviously you had Icky back in
00:54 the middle, he seemed to marshal things really nicely, Deshaun and Don were strong as well.
01:01 And really nice to see Rhys James come back. Let's talk about his performance, because
01:05 ultimately he had to come off towards the end. I think he slowed up as you'd completely
01:09 expect, he's barely kicked a ball on a football pitch for a little while. But with that manager's,
01:17 one of which was here today, took a lot of that balance in recent seasons. And how important
01:21 that is, a few years ago he was pretty, it wasn't rare at all that he'd have a left back
01:27 who was right-footed for example. I think we really saw the benefits of that today,
01:32 particularly the byline play and the touchline stuff, it really did make a big difference
01:39 having him in there. Yeah, you saw with the quality of the delivery, especially in that
01:42 first half, some really nice balls from Rhys. It was nice to see him get a good evasion
01:48 as well when he came off, because I'm sure that'll event the world to him after what
01:52 he's had, his difficulties over the last three months or whatever it is. But yeah, he looked,
01:59 I'd say in my play reads, he looked like a bit of a man on a mission, didn't he? He looked
02:03 like a player who was determined to show somebody that he deserved to be here.
02:10 Let's look at the mission men, as you describe it then, Will Vaux was all action in the middle
02:16 of midfield, another one that maybe slowed up a little bit but gave a lot of hard work
02:21 and commitment. Michael Smith won just about everything in the end.
02:25 Yeah, they were starved of real service up top, Greg isn't as much into what they do,
02:34 they ran the socks off and like I say, Smith won loads in the end, just tiled us running.
02:40 But they do, and it's something that Wayne's need to address at some point, is they really
02:44 lack a creative spot when Bannon's not there. Buckley came on and I thought he injected
02:49 some real energy into the pitch when he came on, but you look at someone like Pato and
02:55 what Pato brings is very different to what a Bannon brings. I did think Pato was great
03:01 today, I thought his work ethic, the way he was throwing himself into tackle, trying to
03:05 drive Wednesday up the pitch was good. There was plenty of positives to take from today,
03:13 it was a pretty exurgic game of football and we won't be watching any highlights of tackle
03:18 because of that, but it's a first home clean sheet this season and that is a positive.
03:26 Very quickly then, we are at the very front end now, two weeks off, not ourselves, we'll
03:31 have an awful lot to do up here, but in terms of match day involvement with the international
03:35 break, we fully expected to have a new manager in that time and we dropped a little bit in
03:42 news an hour or two before kick-off.
03:44 Yeah, Denigrul, former Bayern Munich, Southampton, Germany, just come from the German national
03:52 team, he's in talks, they're having conversations, whether that comes for anything more than
03:57 that we'll have to wait and see. I think these situations, you've got both parties trying
04:01 to sum each other up and try and size each other up and see if it's going to work. It'll
04:06 be an interesting appointment, it feels like something he's not the sort of manager you'd
04:10 think they were looking to appoint on a short-term basis, because of his age, he's younger than
04:17 De Gregorio I think. But yeah, it'll be a very interesting appointment and it would,
04:22 going for something like that, it says a lot about what the chairman is thinking rather
04:27 than going for a tried and tested firefighter like we wanted.
04:31 Sorry, that was just a moment of mourning. Yeah, there we have it, an international break
04:37 to follow, we'll have plenty thrown at you potentially and probably a managerial unveiling
04:43 at some point. Dave von Chan, Siri was here today, he's obviously very much involved in
04:48 that process.
04:49 Oh, we read a message from Darren Moore as well, he wants to tell you all thanks very
04:53 much for the warm reception today, he's sort of called us after the game, so yeah, he's
04:57 very appreciative.
04:58 He couldn't really clap back could he, it's a bit of an awkward thing all this football
05:03 business these days. But yeah, there you have it, Sheffield Wednesday nil, Huddersfield
05:08 Town nil, another point on the board, fairly uninspiring, but I think the next two weeks
05:12 will tell us a lot about the rest of Sheffield Wednesday's season. Keep it locked as ever
05:16 to thestar.co.uk.