In need of a bounce

Not been a great week has it?

Wigan Athletic the only side without a new manager bounce.

Following the disappointing defeat to them men, we followed it up with the dullest 90 minutes of football I’ve ever witnessed in the East London sunshine.

We marginally improved on another long trip to face Gary Caldwell’s Exeter but couldn’t keep the lead we had earned and looked massively under the cosh for most of the second half.

There’s already murmurs of buyers remorse following Lowe’s arrival which is as daft as blaming Shaun Maloney and he alone for everything that went wrong this season.

These aren’t Ryan Lowe’s players and they’re now playing a completely different style of play from what they had been coached in for the majority of this season.

This season now simply has to be getting over the line and building for next August.

We’ve gone from looking not really in danger of relegation after that Huddersfield match to falling over the line and nervously looking over our shoulders at Burton.

That game on the last Tuesday before the season finishes could be absolutely key. But hopefully it doesn’t come to that.

It seems that there’s going to have to be a complete overhaul of the squad in the summer, following the overhaul that took place last summer.

Maloney has shouldered a lot of the blame for this season. But that surely must also count for the recruitment team and the director of football?

A manager of Ryan Lowe’s pedigree won’t have come to Wigan without promises of backing in the transfer market.

But I still can’t understand how cutting loose a large part of this squad, many on multi year deals to be replaced by significantly better and one would presume significantly more expensive players marries up to the sustainability rules that Maloney and the DOF preached about for the last two years.

Perhaps the hard leg work has been done in cutting costs and we can now after three seasons finally look forward but that feels a stretch.

Next up at The Brick is the visit of Wrexham, they’ll no doubt be following Birmingham back up to the Championship and it can’t come soon enough.

Get the American billionaires out of League One and back to the Championship and we may have a more stable division next season.

Wrexham was one of many sliding doors moments under Shaun Maloney for Wigan Athletic this season.

Following the Rotherham win on Boxing Day, after the fantastic win at Bolton Latics put in one of the best performances of the season at the Racecourse Ground but not only failed to leave with three points but to even gain a point.

There were plenty of occasions like that, and that’s why we’re in the situation we are now.

Shaun Maloney as I write has just given his first full interview to the BBC following his departure, I’d like to hear the Scotsman’s version of events and hope the club learn the numerous lessons that undoubtedly will come out of this season.

Sean Livesey

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