Sheffield Wednesday had fairly high expectations at the start of the season. Have those changed? Well, I guess there's a question mark over that at the moment because of the situation we find ourselves in, just above the bottom three in the Championship.
There are managers in the bottom five or six of this division who still seem to have ambitions of the play-offs. That just shows you how open the division is.
But we can't think about challenging for the play-offs in the situation we are in right now. We have to have the mentality of being in a dogfight because that's the only way we will start to get results.
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All of us were left really, really disappointed after our 4-0 defeat at home to West Brom last Saturday. I was disappointed personally but as a group of players we were all deflated collectively.
It was the performance none of us ever wanted to see as a team and none of us were satisfied with the way we played.
A result like that spoils your whole week, not just your weekend. You want to lock yourself away at home and not have to see the newspapers and media reports.
We let ourselves down but we also have to be realistic about the result because it is not going to do us any favours to dwell on that one game. It was always going to be tough against West Brom because they are flying high.
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It was nice to get back on the pitch last Saturday after four weeks away from first-team action. I was out injured for a fortnight and then we had the two-week international break. I was really pleased to complete 90 minutes at Ipswich and I felt stronger, more comfortable and more confident as the match, a hard-fought 0-0 draw which could have gone either way, went on.
It was end-to-end in the second half but there weren't too many clear-cut chances. It was nice to get a point though because it was the kind of game Wednesday might have ended up losing late last season by giving away a silly freak goal or something. Credit has to go to our goalkeeper, Lee Grant, and our back four because they did a tremendous job in difficult conditions.
We had a card-happy ref and three of our back four were booked in the first 20 minutes. It was a bit of a concern with three defenders on a yellow card but the lads showed real discipline to make sure they stayed on the pitch.
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Hi, I'm Michael Gray. I've played more than 500 league games for Sunderland, Celtic, Blackburn, Leeds, Wolves and Sheffield Wednesday over the past 17 seasons. I'm currently enjoying life at ambitious Sheffield Wednesday and the aim of my blog is to provide an insight into the life of a footballer.
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