Ally Robertson: How on earth can that have ever been a penalty against West Brom?

Supporters needed to see we could stop giving stupid goals away and begin to get on a run to put ourselves in a better position.

If we’d have nicked a point and won two home games we’d have been right up well in the top six.

A couple of good results changes things. We beat Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 at home and we didn’t play well. They didn’t bother getting forward but we were fortunate to score early, I know the last few minutes we were all ready for the referee to blow the whistle!

John Swift has been playing ever so well. He’s been full of running, before that we’d had the ball with nobody making runs, all of a sudden one player’s movement can spark something in others.

It made us look like we wanted to attack and it’s a shame we had to see him limp out injured at St Andrew’s.

I was watching on the telly on Friday night and I was the same as everybody else – thinking “well what has he blown for?” Because it wasn’t a penalty or a free-kick.

But when the referee pointed at the spot you were thinking “come on – that’s never, ever been a penalty”. Not one single player thought it was a penalty, and that’s the biggest giveaway.

Of course, the decision then changed the whole game, it put them in a more positive mood, it flattened us. If the decision happened down the other end and we’d gone 2-0 up, that would have been game over.

We gave the home side a soft second goal though, a free header, and that proved really costly for us. It was 1-1, we just had to get to half-time and re-group.

Otherwise, we looked OK with the ball until the final third, but at least it looked like we were trying to get forward.

I’m hopeful that our two games at The Hawthorns, against Plymouth and QPR, can get us moving in the right direction again.