FORMER Wanderers keeper Tommy Wright reckons Neil Lennon will relish the task of transforming the club’s fortunes.

Bottom of the Championship with one win in 11, the Whites may not have appeared the logical next step for the former Celtic boss to take.

But Wright, now in charge of SPL side St Johnstone, believes his former Northern Ireland international colleague is the right man for the job.

He told the Dundee Courier: “I don’t know if he was panicking or not about whether he would get back into the game or not, but I think he’s been patient and he’s waited.

“And I think he’ll look at the challenge of it, the fact that Bolton are bottom of the league.

“He’s got a different set of problems to deal with and I think that will be the main attraction of the job.

“If he takes somebody in the middle of the Championship and keeps them there, where do you go?

“But the potential is there at Bolton to progress, and – because they’ve proved it in the past – that they can be a good Premier League club.”

Wright, who made four appearances for Bolton in 2001, thinks Lennon is the right character to lift the gloom that has weighed Wanderers down in recent weeks.

“He’s a huge personality as well as a very good manager, so I think his personality alone will give the place a lift,” he said.

“Bolton is a club I finished at and they’ve done tremendously well in the years they were in the Premier League.

“They have the potential if they get everything right on and off the pitch to get back there.”