Sheffield Wednesday manager Brian Laws insisted his team's performance against Ipswich Town was not good enough on Saturday afternoon as the Owls were dispatched by a 2-1 score line at Hillsborough.

Laws lashed the performance levels of his players, after a lacklustre display against Jim Magilton's Suffolk-based side.

"The energy and drive that we had a couple of weeks ago just wasn't there today and we were just too flat," Laws said after the match. "We started badly and gave a cheap goal away when really we should have closed the player down. We didn't, we stood off him and that allowed him to drive the ball at the near post.

"That put us on the back foot and the crowd became really quiet and rightly so because we didn't give them anything to shout about. We got back in it and Marcus Tudgay got his goal again. Out of everyone today I thought he was our shining light, he gave us everything he had and was our best player but he needs help."

The Owls boss was most concerned by the lack of tempo from his team.

"Today we started sluggish and even though we made changes it didn't seem to make a lot of difference in terms of effort and drive within our game which is what we should be all about," Laws stressed before sounding a warning to his players about the dangers of letting matters slip at this stage of the season.

"We all know what position we are in and it doesn't take Einstein to show you we are in trouble," the manager stated. "Performances like that will not improve things, they'll make them worse and if we go into these next few games like that we are not going to win a bean.

"We need to change, we need to improve on the park and if it means making changes by bringing in loan signings then that is what we will have to do because we have got to get that spark back."

"You have got to have that drive and ambition. You certainly need to know when you are in trouble and want to get out of it, we've got what is required; we know because we've seen it but it needs to be reproduced and that is down to me to get that out of the players."