He admits that he is disappointed that the momentum of the win over Blackburn could not be sustained, and says of the 3-0 home reverse by Liverpool:
"I was surprised the way we started the game and gave two goals away; when you play a quality team like Liverpool you can't do that.
"Once it happened we found it difficult to get back into the game and get a rhythm going; the frustrating thing is you look to get a good start at home - and we had a disastrous start.
"Really, it just killed the game though I thought Liverpool played well - allied to the fact that we probably helped them do that.
"We couldn't get the ball back easily, but when we did, we were offside too much - which creates pressure.
"The worst thing was to give two goals away - and we didn't get out of our half for 30 minutes or so."
All three goals were as the result of corners, and Nigel adds:
"Usually, when you concede at a set play, it is about individual errors; occasionally it might be great free kick against you but not often, and we have to stop it happening quickly to give us a chance.
"That is the disappointing part but we have got to keep working at it and put the mistakes right - but it does make it hard.
"When you lose like we did it takes away all the good work of Wednesday; you don't just need one good result, you need four or five on the trot to give yourselves any chance of getting out of it.
"There is a lot of disappointment, and we are going to have to work hard on all aspects of the game to put things right.
"You have to keep believing that we are going to do that and we now need a concerted effort to the end of the season to try and get the results we need to keep us in the Premier League, because that is the most important thing."
With personnel likely to be shuffled once more, Nigel says:
"It doesn't make any difference; whoever comes in has still got a responsibility to try and make it right.
"No one means to make a mistake - it is part of life - but it is how you react to it afterwards.
"That is what we have got to do; react to the next game, which is Leeds away.
"I think there will be work on all aspects of our game this week."
As for that impending layoff - and his replacement, new signing Rufus Brevett, Nigel says:
"I am having an operation on Thursday, Glenn knows I am retiring at the end of the season, and Scott Minto's contract is up at the end of the season.
"So I think he really needed to bring someone in, and I am sure Rufus will do a great job; to be fair, I haven't seen a lot of him, but he is an experienced player.
"It looks like he is going to get a run in the team and I just hope he can help us get the results."
Rufus replaced Nigel in the second half against Liverpool, and Nigel admits:
"I never want to go off and it is frustration, but I accept what the manager says and what he does because I am part of the team.
"At the end of the day it is all about us trying to stay up, I haven't got any problem with that, and I will be fine again tomorrow!
"It is unclear at the moment how long I will be out; I think it will be between three to eight weeks, but hopefully nearer three.
"I have got to have it done now because it has been twelve weeks and it has not been healing, so from that point of view if I left it until the end of the season the surgeon is saying there could be complications.
"While I would like to keep playing the risk is too much; I would like to carry on but I have hopefully got a long life ahead of me after football and I certainly don't want to be having any problems with the wrist.
"I have played with it now for twelve weeks but it is obviously not healing, I need a pin inserting - and then hopefully if there are no complications I can get back to fitness as quickly as possible to get back into the team.
"But it is not about what is happening to me, but about the team, and I just hope they can put a run together.
"If they do that, helping us get enough points to keep us up, then I probably won't get in the team anyway - but I will keep trying.
"Four points is not a massive gap but we wouldn't want it to get any bigger; it is four points to Bolton and six to Birmingham.
"Six points is not too large a gap but it needs a concerted effort.
"We have still got to believe, because if we don't, we might as well pack the game in - and we have got to get on and look at the next game."