Sheffield Wednesday column: Pragmatic or unambitious? It got the job done

Maybe Wednesday should play their fellow White Rose teams every week.

Whatever you think of Jos Luhukay, you cannot deny that he gets his players fired up for local tussles.

Which leads us onto last week's much-discussed 0-0 draw at Bramall Lane.

It was a worthy point, no question about that.

But the performance in the 130th Steel City derby wasn't pretty by any stretch. 

The Owls hardly had a sniff going forwards and enjoyed just a quarter of the ball.

But the key thing, as alluded to by Owls' boss Luhukay afterwards, was that Wednesday didn't lose.

Granted, it wasn't an overly-ambitious statement but sometimes needs must.

Wednesday went back to a three-man defence, deployed in Luhukay's first game in charge against the same opponents, and repelled the swashbuckling hosts time after time.

In the aftermath of the game, plenty has been aimed at Luhukay's tactics.

No ambition was one of the barbs aimed at the Dutchman on social media.

Fair cop or below the belt?

Let's not beat around the bush, the performance at Bramall Lane was a pragmatic one.

It stopped the rot and quite frankly anything would have been an improvement on the shoddy collapse at home to Norwich City