Brian Laws is ready to lead his troops into a war at the Walkers Stadium this weekend as the fight for survival reaches the final rounds. Both the Owls and Leicester are desperate for a win to preserve Championship status and Laws is confident his men are capable of getting a positive result.

The SWFC boss said: "This game is going to be a fight - it's a war. Leicester are in a war and we are too because we are both fighting for the same thing and that's to stay in the division. We'll have to win our individual battles, they're going to be trying to physically fight us, manipulate us and if they watched us at Blackpool last Saturday, they'll be thinking, can they be taunted and hold their nerve?"

The 2-1 defeat to the Tangerines dumped Wednesday back in the drop zone but Laws has issued a warning to Leicester that his side will respond in the right manner.

He continued: "We're talking of the disappointment of losing last week but that was our first defeat in ten games. But because we drew seven on the bounce prior to that, that's hurt us more. We just have to bounce back at Leicester and I'm confident that we will."

This season the Championship has been wide open, with any team capable of beating another, but the main factor for Wednesday's lowly position has been a lack of consistency says Laws:

"Over 44 games, we haven't been consistent enough and the same can be said of the five or six other clubs around us who could still go down. This division was anyone's at the beginning of the season and it has showed that consistency was always going to be the key."

He went on to add: "There's always going to be other factors and we can say that this has happened and that has happened. It would be easy to blame different things. But I'm not going to make excuses for the players because they are good enough. I stand by my belief that the players I have available are good enough to stay in this division."

The manager has been impressed with the attitude of his players despite the position they find themselves in and insists that with the help of the fans, safety can be achieved.

Laws said: "I've got to be honest, the atmosphere at the training camp and in the dressing room has been absolutely brilliant and that's why I have great belief that we'll be fine.

"The fans? They are the life and soul of this club and they will be the ones to give us that lift on Saturday. I've said to the players 'if you give the fans everything you can give, they will give you that little bit more'."

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