Lowly Luton run up score

Manager John Sheridan told Latics World, "The result was very disappointing as we'd got ourselves in a good position and there was an opportunity there today. What you could see most is the fact that we've got no strength in depth. People know they're going to play. We just didn't turn up. We couldn't string two passes together, the whole team was off the pace and there was nothing good about our game. It's a shame we didn't have players like Mark Crossley, Mark Allott and one or two others. We just weren't strong enough. The opportunity is still there but our performance today was nowhere near good enough for a play-off side."

"They were picking every ball up and getting to everything, while we didn't play forward when we should have. The last few performances before today have been good and that's the frustrating thing. We had too many key players missing and it showed. I felt sorry for Robert O'Donnell because he's a young keeper who's come in and done well today. He made three excellent saves. But I've never known a team give so many backpasses to a young goalkeeper on his debut and I raised that at half time."