Brian Laws defended Enoch Showunmi and Ronnie Wallwork after hauling them off before half-time in the weekend win over QPR.The Owls boss, who sent on Deon Burton and Sean McAllister in the 39th minute in a bid to inject some urgency, insisted he was to blame for starting with the wrong line-up.

Laws said: "I'm very disappointed with that first half-hour because we are in the mire, we are in the bottom three and that performance wasn't going to get us out.

"But, having said that, I'll take responsibility because I pick the team and I hold my hands up and say I got it wrong.

"It's not just the two players that were at fault, it was the whole performance, but I will take responsibility for that, not the players.

"The second-half performance was much more like it. It gave us the energy in the middle of the park, while Deon Burton gave us the quality in holding the ball up."

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