Back to it

Back to it then, and by god do we need something positive to get our teeth in to.

After the last Saturday match on the road, things seemed roundly positive (by this season’s standards anyway) Latics really did push Birmingham all the way at St Andrews.

Shaun Maloney’s side should have come away with at least a point if Steven Sessegnon hadn’t gone off injured it could have been even more.

Any positivity was quickly extinguished though as the horror show against Morecambe came in to full view.

But it’s time to look forward, we’ve another month now until the next international break and it looks like a clear bill of health from our returning internationals. Including Sam Tickle who despite returning early from international duty has been declared fit and taken part in training over the last few days.

Latics have been miles off in some games, and a lot better in others.

We need the latter to become the rule, rather than the exception over this upcoming run of matches. Joe Hugill is off the mark (of-sorts) and will be eager to get his first league goal, with Dale Taylor looking impressive in his cameo at Birmingham.

Jensen Weir will have had the benefit of a full international break to bed back in to familiar surroundings whilst those who were below par against Morecambe will have hopefully had the best part of a fortnight to work out what went wrong.

Thelo Aasgaard, so crucial to the start of our season is also back, despite many deriding a supposed Blackburn bid last month he’s quickly becoming the talisman of this side.

Yes we are short, as a squad as a whole, yes there are still long term injuries and question marks over the glaring lack of experience in the squad but nothing is going to change now, this is what we’ve got and we have to look on the positive side.

The positives are that we have a young and exciting squad, we’ve a young manager who is fully vested in our club and we have an ownership group that will ensure bills are paid. That may not be enough for a sustained promotion push this season but for now it’s a base for us to work from.

We can argue that there are discrepancies in the accounts of this summer. The chairman in a welcome communication stated that it was a successful transfer window, whereas the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

Latics were clearly frustrated in a transfer market that saw Birmingham spend more than both Manchester City and Barcelona, whilst other League One sides such as Charlton and Rotherham spent more than in previous seasons.

The indifferent start to the season needs to be left behind in August and as we head in to Autumn we need to pick up as many points as we can. Starting this Saturday at the Memorial Ground.

Sean Livesey

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