New boss David Unsworth has pledged to do “everything I can” to help Latics get back to winning ways.

Unsworth’s first game in charge didn’t go to plan over the weekend following a 3-0 defeat against an in-form Bromley side.

Omar Sowunmi and Reece Hannam were on target for the hosts, as well as a Mike Fondop own goal, as Latics suffered a fifth defeat of the campaign.

But Unsworth is prepared for “a big job” and hopes he can achieve progress as quickly as possible as the club aims to bounce back from last season’s relegation out of the Football League.

The Latics chief said: "I wouldn't be standing here if I wasn't in a big job, if I hadn't been asked to do what is a big job.

"I hope that over a period, as short a period as we can, that [the fans] see the progress that we're going to make and they see what I'm trying to instil in the fact that we're not a soft touch and we come away from home and expect to win, and I want them to expect that as well.

"They just want a winning football team and they haven't had one for a long time. I will do everything I can to give them that.”

He added: “Rome wasn't built in a day and as disappointed as I am for all those fans, they're going to have to be patient and trust me and decisions that we make and get a team that comes here and wins.

"If we are coming here and hoping to win instead of expecting to win, it just shows you we've got a lot of work to do. The work will be done, I can guarantee the fans that these boys will work and work and work, and anyone who we bring in will add quality and be better than what we've got.

"There are lots of things to do, it is still early in the season.”

Things aren’t about to get any easier for Unsowrth’s men, with Wrexham coming to Boundary Park this weekend.

The Welsh outfit are currently second in the table, having lost just one game since the start of the new campaign.

Unsworth added: "Wrexham have had a great win [against Torquay]. They'll be coming with a lot of fans.

"I said to the players that turning up at Boundary Park and playing in front of our fans is the easy bit. They get behind you and you've got their support and their will to win. For a footballer that's the easy bit.

“The hard bit is coming away from home and digging out and grinding out a result and doing the real ugly things away from home against a very physical, big team. But that's what we've got to do, and believe me we will do it.”