“I’ll try and arrange a game on Tuesday to give a few of the lads who haven’t featured as much a chance to play and we’ll try and add one or two”. Not surprisingly, the win got the travelling Wednesday fans rather excited. The one thing I told the players is that we don’t lie down, we battle, we fight, we chase, we put people under pressure. We’ve got to be upwardly mobile, be positive in our thinking, be tougher at the back and stop conceding sloppy goals and we’ve got to start putting the ball into the back of the net.
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Redfearn has yet to taste victory in his first three games at the helm and he is battling changing his new side’s philosophy with the need for results.
Rotherham did find a late consolation when Thorpe side-footed home a free-kick from former Wednesday forward Chris Maguire, but it remains second from bottom having earned just one point from the four matches since the departure of Steve Evans.
“It will be a great game. From everybody at our football club and no doubt at Sheffield Wednesday, these are fixtures that you look to pick out on the calendar”.
‘At half-time we talked about coming out of the traps for the second half and we did the opposite.
It’s about being diligent and getting these players where they need to be.
“It will be a very tough game, all the derbies are”, he said.
“They have changed the coach recently, they have new ideas, new energy, it’s an organised and tough team”.
‘We’ve got to be more consistent and there’s got to be more belief and conviction’. These kind of games are special environments, it’s a game where anything can happen.
Rotherham eventually stemmed the tide and tried to muster a few sort of response, but they never looked like reducing the arrears as Wednesday’s defence, marshalled by Glenn Loovens, had as trouble-free evening as they could have wished for.
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Last six games: Rotherham LWWLLD, Sheffield Wednesday WWWWDD.
