The Owls ran riot against Bromley on Saturday

Bromley boss Andy Woodman blasted his team’s 7-2 hammering by Sheffield Wednesday as ‘horrific, terrible and desperate’, saying they were cut open ‘like a knife through butter.’

The Owls raced into the 3-0 lead by half-time and added four more in the second 45 before conceding twice late on. On another day, it could have been double-figures for the hosts.

Woodman, who has led Bromley from the National League to League one said: “Horrific. I thought it was terrible. I've been here five-and-a-half years, and I've never seen a team put out such bad performance. We took a team to Newcastle in the Premiership, and we didn't play as bad as that.

“There was so much wrong from the word go. It's not the shape and systems and all that stuff. It was just bravery, people doing their jobs or people not doing their jobs, and just a real lack of, I wouldn't say effort, a lack of just commitment to doing their jobs and being disciplined. And we wasn't. We was wide open. I don't know why we was wide open. That was not how we were meant to be set-up. They just came through us like a knife through butter. We was we were so bad. There's so many things that were so bad.”

Woodman made a triple change at half-time before Wednesday bagged a fourth less than 20 seconds into the second-half.

Woodman laughed: “What do you do? You know you're not going to win the game. You know you're not get back in the game. It was damage limitations, and then you can see one or two heads drop, which happens. I get that. We have just go to lick our wounds and hopefully that's a one-off performance, and hopefully just gives us a little bit of a reality check of going back to what we are. We was nowhere near what we've been and what you know what we have been in the past.”

Woodman promised there will be a reaction from his side in their next game.

“The reaction will be good,” he added. “Don't worry about that. We're in tomorrow. We'll be working tomorrow, working Monday, and the reaction has to be good. We know we're going to come to places and have tough days. I didn't quite expect as tough a day as that today, but we've got to make sure that we kind of just take care of what we're about and don't go away from what we're about. We were so far detached from what we've been last season and since I've been here that it was real desperate stuff.”