Garry Monk admits “results are king” as he battles to rescue Sheffield Wednesday’s stuttering season

Garry Monk: Under-fire Sheffield Wednesday manager has come out fighting.

The Owls have been in a tailspin since Christmas, dropping from third to 15th in the Championship, and the pressure is mounting on Monk to end a shocking run of just one league win from their last 10 outings.

Heavy 5-0 defeats book-end that sorry run – at home to Blackburn Rovers and last week’s crushing loss at Brentford – as the Owls prepare to welcome Nottingham Forest to Hillsborough tomorrow.

Monk has spoken to Owls chairman Dejphon Chansiri about the club’s decline, but knows only results can safeguard his future.

“I know what I have to do,” said Monk.

“As a manager, you have to produce results, regardless of support or no support.

“I have already spoken about his (Chansiri’s) support and his want for me to do well and the team and the club to do well.

“But I know in my position you have to produce results. Results are king. I have to use these games going into the international break and the remaining games in the season to put a consistent run together. We all do.

“We are all fighting for various reasons but we have to do it together.

“The changing room is together but we are going through a tough time. It doesn’t mean we can’t come out of it.

“We would have liked to have come out of it a lot earlier.

“We have let ourselves down in a few situations, which we know, and we have to make amends for that and that has been the focus this week, rather than dwelling on the negative side of it.”

Monk only arrived at Hillsborough last September, but admits Wednesday’s recent decline has been tough to deal with.

“The last three months have been strange. It has not gone to plan,” he admitted.

“Our form has not been where it needs to be and some of our performances have been nowhere where they need to be.

“It doesn’t mean you should lose belief. It doesn’t mean you should lose trust and understanding. I try and put those things into place.

“There’s no giving up. There is no lying down and taking it. You have to come up out fighting.”