John Sheridan has been summing up the Latics start to the season in his first year as manager of the team Sheridan said, "In the first four games we were beaten 1-0 three times and won 1-0 in the other, and played well in all of them. There was never a suggestion that heads might drop. I have a good dressing room, and the players stayed positive even though they were as disappointed as I was. The old maxim of finding out more about your players in defeat held good at that time. You could see the lads were not at all happy about getting beaten, and I was telling them to stay positive. The only thing we lacked in those games was someone to put the ball in the net, because we were making chances. We lost three of the first four games but still had the most crosses and corners of anyone in the division.""We tried 4-3-1-2 in the first couple of games and, though we played some good football attacking-wise, we weren't quite right. Then I remembered a little bit of advice Paul Jewell had given me over the summer, and how he had done well in this division with 4-4-2. Players understand 4-4-2, and we have created a lot more chances and look happier."