Karl Fuller on Ipswich Town's 2-2 home draw with Sheffield Wednesday

I would say that once Nathan Broadhead’s superb free-kick found the back of the net, we just about had the better of the last five minutes of the first half, as well as the second period.

One thing is for sure, it was yet another afternoon of pure frustration.

There was not a member of those that I sit with that was confident of Conor Chaplin scoring our penalty. Sorry Conor, no slight on you.

It is just another in a list of missed moments that we have gotten used to.

Thereafter, for the next 20 minutes, we were all at sea. But had Chaplin scored, and Marvin Johnson been identified as the offending culprit, and shown a red card, would the afternoon have panned out differently? We will never know.

Ipswich Town are now eight points adrift of league leaders Plymouth Argyle. (Image: Steve Waller)

As broken as we looked, we sure found a great response to hit back. Michael Smith did exactly what Michael Smith does against Ipswich. And when George Byers made it 2-0, nobody in the ground would have thought that we would go on to witness an exact role reversal of our previous meeting at Hillsborough last September.

But instead of this game being affected by a hostile crowd, and with the help of a match official allowing a dubious offside goal, Town secured a point through their own efforts, backed by a crowd that were almost ready to ring the boos, I feel, just moments before the break.

When we got back to 2-1, I had joked that I remember a previous game against a side from Sheffield at Portman Road where we were 2-0 down and came back to win 3-2.

For a while, it felt like we could be on for another dream outcome. In the end, it was another draw which, despite throwing away a two-goal lead, Wednesday will have been the happier with.

Many of their fans before the game were quoting that they would settle for a point. I probably would have in most cases too. But the draws are killing us now. We really needed all three points.

Conor Chaplin saw a penalty saved against Sheffield Wednesday. (Image: Steve Waller)

The defeat of Rotherham, the draw at home to Burnley, the narrow defeat last week in the replay and much of the second half on Saturday are all proof that this side can cope with big challenges.

I agree with Kieran McKenna, two draws against Sheffield Wednesday will not define our season. Failure to win games against lesser opposition might.

I will not give up hope yet at all. There are too many games left. But I do confess to having mixed emotions right now.

We do lack the game playing antics that so many try against us. Wednesday looked bigger and stronger than us. Are they a better football team than us? They were not as easy on the eye as Plymouth were recently. But they had more than us in the physical aspect of the game.

In many ways, they reminded me of previous Rotherham teams that knew how to get out of this horrible league.

But look, the bigger picture is still brighter than this time even a year ago. Some refuse to believe it is, but would you want to be languishing between 11th and 14th again right now?

Those positions were ridiculed as being the norm back then. We have come a long way from those days and, yes, we all want to go a lot further still.

Patience is required, but more importantly so are wins. Winning is the be all and end all it would seem these days. Patience has long since gone out of the game.

Two wins over Bristol Rovers and Forest Green Rovers would make Saturday’s draw look a lot better.

It was remiss of me last week not to congratulate our Under-18s following their FA Youth Cup win over Liverpool. What a great result that was and thoroughly deserved.

A massive well done to Sam Darlow and our young Blues, and good luck to them in the quarter-finals when they take on West Ham United at 7pm on Wednesday, February 22, at Portman Road.