ihatethecorps wrote:From the Sheff Forum.....
"Seeing the young pacy walsall playeres up close, as they attacked the goal end where we were standing was frightning. The pace and movement was very good and led many blades to be asking "why can't we have one or two players that can do that"
Its ashame we did not put our chances away in the first half and we did appear to tire with 30 mins to go and this was when Smith should have acted, Deano has done wonders this season but has still failed to learn how to use his subs properly.
p.s I understand that no players deserves to be dropped and rightfully so but I do feel that WBA may get alittle peeved that Romaine Sawyers is only getting 3-4 minute run outs and will think whats the point in him being here if he's not getting any decent 1st team experience (I don't think they sent him here hoping to be a bench warmer)? Hope this does not burn any bridges as we seem to have a good connection with the Albion of late.
We spoke to a couple of Blades fans on the walk back to the car, they weren't the knock you out type :lol: The way they were talking they are really peed off with their team, the one bloke said we are better than them, which I agree with, and the other said tongue in cheek we'd finish above them, which is doubtful. Think they were relieved to get a point, and realise it is a fantastic result for them. They said they haven't looked like scoring for ages.
I also agree with King Crimson regarding the Benning sub, I'm not so critical of Benning, I am willing to give him the chance to progress, but today wasn't the time for him to come on. Smith seems so reluctant to use Holden as a full back, but given the game situation when the sub happened, it seemed a far better move to drop Holden in at full back.
That said, I am just so happy with this Walsall side, I don't really like to be critical at all, it is fantastic, and a real shame that we have run out of games, because a few more and I have no doubt we would make the play offs and win them.