Wellens criticised his gamers for taking part in for a draw in opposition to Burton within the closing phases,within the information that relegation rivals Exeter have been dropping to Bradford, after which celebrating on the pitch after affirmation that they had stayed up.
“Clap the followers as a result of they’ve earned it,” he added. “They’ve paid their cash all season to come back and watch us residence and away, they usually need to be clapped.
“However then do not be celebrating with your loved ones. Get off the pitch, it has been an embarrassing season.”
The Orient boss, who guided the membership to promotion in 2022-23 and to the play-off closing final season, promised wholesale adjustments on the membership in the summertime.
“Those that have gotten contracts are going to be struggling to get a brand new contract after which there might be gamers which might be out of contract that we need to transfer on,” he mentioned.
“We’d like extra athleticism in our aspect and extra character.
“We should be higher in our recruitment. Final yr, we went to Spain for our pre-season. I took eight youth group gamers and about three trialists.
“Each season, we’re behind the eight ball and after 5 or 6 video games we’re all the time close to the underside. And that is one of many explanation why.”
Nonetheless he might give no ensures that main scorer and League One player of the year, Dom Ballard, who he excluded from his criticism, wouldn’t be offered on.
“Will we need to maintain him? Completely,” mentioned Wellens.
“However then if somebody is available in with a determine that’s acceptable to David (Gandler, majority shareholder) and Nigel (Travis, chairman), then we should see.”
