Sheffield Wednesday manager, Brian Laws, tore into his players following a display at Derby County on Saturday that he tagged as 'awful'.

The Owls turned in their worst performance of the season and were brushed aside 3-0, leaving a fuming Laws to assess the damage.

He said: "Quite simply it's not good enough. Where do you start? You have to earn the right to play and did we earn it today? No. We know that Derby had a difficult game at Cardiff and would always respond but I would expect my players to respond better than that. I'm bitterly disappointed.

"From the start we looked shaky, our passing was nowhere near the standard we require and our finishing was woeful. They got a goal from an error you would see in Sunday league. Second half, we said if we get the next goal we could win this game because they could get nervy but we missed an open goal. I can't believe we've not scored and that changes the game.

"They broke away from a corner and the whole team collapsed. It was absolutely shocking and I'm disgusted with all of them."

Laws felt desperately disappointed overall with the manner in which Wednesday went down to their heaviest defeat of the season so far.

The manager said the Owls were sloppy all over the pitch and finished with exactly what they deserved.

He added: "I've been backing them 100 per cent, I've given them every reason to be positive but today they have kicked me right where it hurts and I'm gutted.

"I actually feel worse than when we lost 6-0 at Reading and that's saying something. If that's what I'm going to get, then I will make changes. It doesn't represent the way we want to play and doesn't represent the way that we want to move forward at this football club."

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