DAVID Wheater reckons one spark could yet ignite Wanderers’ season.

Eight games in and Phil Parkinson’s side are still searching for their first league victory but the big defender is confident the club’s fortunes will change.

Only twice before in their history have the Whites waited longer for a victory at the start of a campaign but much-improved performances against Sheffield United and Ipswich Town have convinced Wheater better times are just around the corner.

“This team is full of great lads, we’ll go back into training and work hard,” he said. “No-one will sulk because it isn’t the right way to go about it.

“Everyone will listen to the manager and his coaches, try and take that into the games and once we get those first few points, hopefully we can get on a run.

“We were like that last year, going on little runs where we didn’t win, but then you get one game – like Fleetwood – and we were off on a run to promotion.

“We just need that one win, or even a draw, and go from there.”

Wanderers had 16 attempts on goal at Ipswich but put just four on target.

They paid for their profligacy as Cole Skuse’s deflected shot and David McGoldrick’s late goal on the counter consigned the Whites to a sixth defeat of the season and extended their winless run at Portman Road to 16 years in the league.

“We created more chances than we had in the other games but didn’t put them away,” reasoned Wheater. “It’s been said before, we’ve just got to keep going and the goals will come.

“I had one great chance and they blocked it on the line nearly. We know we’ll keep creating those chances and one of them will go away.”

Wanderers have little respite before their next away game, in the Carabao Cup against top flight West Ham United.

And while the chance to lock horns with Slaven Bilic’s struggling side does appeal to the centre-half, the long coach journey back south does not.

“I think a few of the lads who haven’t been playing will come in and get a chance to impress,” said Wheater. “It’s always nice to play in the big grounds like that and you should want to play against the Premier League teams as well.”

“It’s the journey we didn’t want – going all the way back to London – but it’s where we’ve been drawn and we’ll look forward to the game.”