After the trip to Crawley….errr I mean round Iain’s to watch it in comfort on ESPN, attention turns back to the bread and butter of League One this Saturday against Sheffield Wednesday…. weather dependant.

With Town failing to hit any sort of consistency, other than consistently shipping goals in at the back, we’re all left wondering how and when our season will resemble anything near our expectations.

At 1.17 points per game won so far, if Town carried on at this rate we’d only secure a measly 54 points and in danger of the drop.

Our current position of 20th in League One after 18 played plainly isn’t good enough, although the crumb of comfort remains the unpredictability of the league this season with only an 8 point gap between us to Oldham in 6th. So there does remain a chance things could turn around.

Even though there is 8 points to make up this means we sorely need to put a run of wins together to make any sort of impression on the top half, let alone the play-off positions. However with 2 wins in 10 games and no successive victories since beating Southampton, Walsall then Huddersfield back in early Autumn something needs to change. When is a winning run like we enjoyed at this point last season going to start?

Well to start this run on Saturday isn’t going to be easy. Wednesday come to The County Ground on the back of 6 wins on the bounce in league and cup, scoring 21 goals and conceding 6, until their 3-1 defeat in the JP Trophy at Carlisle on Tuesday night. Also, with the match being the first league game under the helm of serial club owner Milan Mandaric, Wednesday will no doubt be out to impress now the cloud of administration over the team has been finally lifted.

For Wednesday their 12 goal top scorer Neil Mellor will be sorely missed, out with a serious ankle injury suffered on Tuesday night. At least there are players returning to the squad for Town with Ferry back in the squad, Lucas available, Douglas recovering fast, Andy Frampton is back on loan for another month after recovering from injury, plus Matt Ritchie’s loan has also been extended and is available until the Charlton game on 3rd January.

Wilson played his cards and went ‘back to basics’ for the FA Cup First Round tie at Plymouth. Whilst the team have improved and only the late defeat at Notts County a truly disappointing result.. there is hope. His ‘back to basics’ team need to start delivering and deliver quickly otherwise we can forget another trip to Wembley and I can forget my winnings from a £30 bet that Town would finish 3rd….. I know… I was rather optimistic.

As for a score…for what it’s worth…my prediction is a 2-1 victory for Town to kick-start our season.