Jack Hunt

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Marked for Jack Hunt

35 Edition

The Wigan Athletic Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Mar 2027

Jack Hunt is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

A promise honoured for Santiago Bueno

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Wigan Athletic told Santiago Bueno something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Wigan Athletic

Cole Simms was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Sam Tickle gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sam Tickle is on it.

Market29 Mar 2027

Callum McManaman is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Wigan Athletic has been clear about where Callum McManaman stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Joe Walsh

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joe Walsh, and the manager let it.

Market29 Mar 2027

The Sam Tickle question follows Wigan Athletic around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Sam Tickle’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead29 Mar 2027

A reunion for Jensen Weir

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Port Vale in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Finley Burns asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
26 Edition

The Wigan Athletic Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad25 Jan 2027

Sam Tickle keeps Wigan Athletic in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market25 Jan 2027

Toby Savin agrees terms with Harrogate Town

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Wigan Athletic people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market25 Jan 2027

Jack Hunt asks to leave Wigan Athletic

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Santiago Bueno due for a Wigan Athletic medical

Everything agreed with Wolverhampton, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Wigan Athletic rebuffed over Josh Dasilva

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southampton have kept their man, and Wigan Athletic go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Wigan Athletic

Lautaro Taboada and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match19 Jan 2027

Myles Peart-Harris’s goal not enough for Wigan Athletic

Myles Peart-Harris scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Stevenage, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Match23 Jan 2027

Wigan Athletic come up short against Reading

Reading left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Dara Costelloe stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dara Costelloe and Wigan Athletic agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

1 Edition

The Wigan Athletic Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Finley Burns stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Finley Burns and Wigan Athletic agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

James Carragher in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wigan Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Wigan Athletic try to borrow Lee Buchanan

Birmingham have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Wigan Athletic ask about Rio Ngumoha

A loan enquiry to Liverpool: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Joseph Hungbo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Finley Burns's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market3 Aug 2026

Wigan Athletic and Jack Hunt are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Wigan Athletic give Morgan Fox the armband

A decision that decides nothing on the pitch and everything in the room. The manager has said, without saying it, whose voice he wants heard when his own is not there.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Cole Simms knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Cole Simms trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief