Mrdollabill wrote:How long does cook have left on his deal???
6 month's or around 30 more appearance's 25 of those as substitute,
Mrdollabill wrote:How long does cook have left on his deal???
Mrdollabill wrote:How long does cook have left on his deal???
Mrdollabill wrote:How long does cook have left on his deal???
chestersaddler wrote:Sadders wrote:Walsall do attract some funny onions.
1) The aim from this position, regardless of the start to the season is to scrape 6th place on the final day.
2) With that in mind, a team finishing 6th can actually have periods in the season of 1 win in 8, or 3 wins in 12 - especially with our start.
3) Swindon were always going to have an answer tonight after the Fleetwood result and winning their last home game.
4) Anyone that expected or still expects us to get automatically promoted is insane, it was obvious after slow starts that Wigan, Coventry and Posh would have the budgets to go and sign X players in January or loan players in between - to a degree, finishing in the top 2 is out of our hands.
The teams with good budgets and valid expectations are coming on strongly now - with a tough run ahead of us, lets see if we are within touching distance of 8th after January with Tom, Romaine and Rico intact.
6th would represent a brillant achievement all being said and done....
Especially when half of you had Smith down for the sack by this point in the season...
Enjoy the ride and GET BEHIND THEM. Poor/awful results will happen.
We are as good as anyone in this league.
Bonser needs to stick his ond in his pocket and get a couple of quality players in key positions , that is all.
Sadders wrote:chestersaddler wrote:Sadders wrote:Walsall do attract some funny onions.
1) The aim from this position, regardless of the start to the season is to scrape 6th place on the final day.
2) With that in mind, a team finishing 6th can actually have periods in the season of 1 win in 8, or 3 wins in 12 - especially with our start.
3) Swindon were always going to have an answer tonight after the Fleetwood result and winning their last home game.
4) Anyone that expected or still expects us to get automatically promoted is insane, it was obvious after slow starts that Wigan, Coventry and Posh would have the budgets to go and sign X players in January or loan players in between - to a degree, finishing in the top 2 is out of our hands.
The teams with good budgets and valid expectations are coming on strongly now - with a tough run ahead of us, lets see if we are within touching distance of 8th after January with Tom, Romaine and Rico intact.
6th would represent a brillant achievement all being said and done....
Especially when half of you had Smith down for the sack by this point in the season...
Enjoy the ride and GET BEHIND THEM. Poor/awful results will happen.
We are as good as anyone in this league.
Bonser needs to stick his ond in his pocket and get a couple of quality players in key positions , that is all.
If we are as good as anyone then why do we need another couple of quality players? We need them because our team is currently doing well and is very good, but not good enough to fulfil the hopes of excited fans with heightened expectations.
Will Jeff get the players in? - No.
Will we get automatically promoted? - No, never ^ because of the above.
And there you have just answered your own question, unfortunately.
We are as good as anyone in the league on our day, fortunately we are what we are as a club and over a 46 game season, other teams will have 'days' more consistently. Such is life with a club of this fan base and a chairman that isn't a foreign oil merchant who will happily lose £20m on a project like us.
Walsallone wrote:You don't always get what you deserve in football....I know how Southampton must have felt when they left Bescot a few years back after losing 1-0 after dominating the game!! As for the team selection Dean must have felt the 11 chosen would do the job and he could have been right looking at the stats. 60% possession,19 shots and 11 corners!! Listening to the commentary I got the impression that two of our better chances fell to Evans who missed the target...now he is a very good player so I suppose all we can say is that it happens to the best of players sometimes. I do hope we can bounce back against Bradford and the Shrews...UTS .]
sallian wrote:We keep on blowing it when there are chances to climb or consolidate...I didn't think we would win after the failure to win the Sheff Utd. game, but there is much less excuse against relegation zone sides.
Still we are struggling in most games and struggling to score and defence isn't as good as it was earlier on....all the other teams now have caught up and we are fading away.
Dean Smith said we need to stay at the top, but still looks like the attacking formation is wrong and leaving the attack all on the bench...
Regardless of bigger budgets, crowds and stronger teams on paper.....still think with better decision making and strategy we would have been on top by a few points, but now I think we will do well to make 5th or 6th position.
Makes me laugh when people say we can't win them all etc... We are nowhere near winning them all! We've only won half our games and only won 1 of the last 4, we are leaking goals and not scoring many and are struggling against all teams.
Possession isn't worth two dead flies if we are only scoring one or two goals at most and often conceding the same.
How much do the manager and players want it? If they really want it they need to be ruthless and concentrate and be determined like psychos. Finishing outside of the play-offs will be a big failure when could have finished in top 2.
Baxendale wasted big time, just like Grimes wasted last season.....but why leave Lalkovic and Morris out when we are struggling to score goals? Seems we are determined to undo what we build all the time.
Aldridge_saddler wrote:Starting to think if Milan and Morris don't play we should revert to 3-5-2.
I am told that Scunthorpe away Cook played very well, why not utilise this again?
Delighted that Bradshaw scored again.
Can someone explain to me the tactical advantage of bringing Flanagan on was?
NortonSaddler wrote:One of our biggest downfalls that has been consistent over Dean Smiths reign is our inability to be dangerous from set-pieces. This plays into the hands of the opposition and swindon plus many teams such as sheff utd, chesterfield and bury have all utilised this season. With our neat passing play that sometimes is unstoppable, teams realise the best way to contain us it to simply kick lumps into us, complete 100s of niggly fouls and to climb all over bradshaw knowing that we'll do absolutely nothing from the resulting set-piece. Therefore, a common tactic of many teams, such as swindon, is to foul and foul with the knowledge that the ref wont book em until theyve either snapped our players leg or its that players 10th foul.
Including corners, we had 28 set pieces last night. Teams like preston last year would have scored 5 with that many set-pieces. Yet we didnt look like scoring one. It generally does feel like the attacks over when we have a set piece. Often our set-pieces result in a dangerous break away for the opposing team.
If we are to make the play-offs this year, we need to improve massively on set-pieces.
Would also just like to have a quick word on the dire refereeing last night. What does it take for us to get any sort of protection from the ref? We should of had a peno, looked blatant from where i was. They should have had two sent off. One for takin down bradshaw on the edge of the box when he last man (the same defender who fouled tom for the penalty shout first half). The other player was already on a yellow and then kicked the ball at rico after rico had being fouled. Could of sworn kicking the ball away after the red has stopped play is a yellow, especially when its kicked in anger at an opposition player whos on the floor. I havent seen cooks "goal" but ive heard it was onside. And lost but not least the anount of niggly fouls that the team as a whole committed. They basically took it inturns to take out one our players every time we broke with the ref not lettin us take it quickly, therefore breakin up any sort of momentum we gain. Absolute rubbish from the ref and a dirty performance from swindon.
Rant over. Onwards and upwards
belgiansaddler wrote:On a more important note it was first away match I have been to in last 4 decades that Kev leach wasn't there. Heard he is unwell in hospital. I don't think he reads UTS but would just like to say all the best fella hope you get well soon. Walsall legend
Sadders wrote:chestersaddler wrote:Sadders wrote:Walsall do attract some funny onions.
1) The aim from this position, regardless of the start to the season is to scrape 6th place on the final day.
2) With that in mind, a team finishing 6th can actually have periods in the season of 1 win in 8, or 3 wins in 12 - especially with our start.
3) Swindon were always going to have an answer tonight after the Fleetwood result and winning their last home game.
4) Anyone that expected or still expects us to get automatically promoted is insane, it was obvious after slow starts that Wigan, Coventry and Posh would have the budgets to go and sign X players in January or loan players in between - to a degree, finishing in the top 2 is out of our hands.
The teams with good budgets and valid expectations are coming on strongly now - with a tough run ahead of us, lets see if we are within touching distance of 8th after January with Tom, Romaine and Rico intact.
6th would represent a brillant achievement all being said and done....
Especially when half of you had Smith down for the sack by this point in the season...
Enjoy the ride and GET BEHIND THEM. Poor/awful results will happen.
We are as good as anyone in this league.
Bonser needs to stick his ond in his pocket and get a couple of quality players in key positions , that is all.
If we are as good as anyone then why do we need another couple of quality players? We need them because our team is currently doing well and is very good, but not good enough to fulfil the hopes of excited fans with heightened expectations.
Two reasons. 1. As Moaning replied, because others will strengthen and 2. because in order to go up automatically, we need to be better than the others, not just as good as. We have a very good squad which just needs a couple of additions - a better position than we have been in for many years at this level. I do not think it is about expectations, more about taking what is a realistic opportunity in the current circumstances
Will Jeff get the players in? - No.
Why wouldn't Uncle Jeef put his ond in his pocket given the rewards that await for what would be a modest outlay (compared to what he will eventually receive for Bradshaw and Henry)?
Will we get automatically promoted? - No, never ^ because of the above.
I refer you to my post on the other thread - we split Fulham and Manchester City a few years back - what's the difference now?
And there you have just answered your own question, unfortunately.
I didn't ask a question :wink: :?
We are as good as anyone in the league on our day, fortunately we are what we are as a club and over a 46 game season, other teams will have 'days' more consistently. Such is life with a club of this fan base and a chairman that isn't a foreign oil merchant who will happily lose £20m on a project like us.
maximus wrote:sallian wrote:We keep on blowing it when there are chances to climb or consolidate...I didn't think we would win after the failure to win the Sheff Utd. game, but there is much less excuse against relegation zone sides.
Still we are struggling in most games and struggling to score and defence isn't as good as it was earlier on....all the other teams now have caught up and we are fading away.
Dean Smith said we need to stay at the top, but still looks like the attacking formation is wrong and leaving the attack all on the bench...
Regardless of bigger budgets, crowds and stronger teams on paper.....still think with better decision making and strategy we would have been on top by a few points, but now I think we will do well to make 5th or 6th position.
Makes me laugh when people say we can't win them all etc... We are nowhere near winning them all! We've only won half our games and only won 1 of the last 4, we are leaking goals and not scoring many and are struggling against all teams.
Possession isn't worth two dead flies if we are only scoring one or two goals at most and often conceding the same.
How much do the manager and players want it? If they really want it they need to be ruthless and concentrate and be determined like psychos. Finishing outside of the play-offs will be a big failure when could have finished in top 2.
Baxendale wasted big time, just like Grimes wasted last season.....but why leave Lalkovic and Morris out when we are struggling to score goals? Seems we are determined to undo what we build all the time.
Morning Sound-Out !
Bee_Leevers wrote:Feeling very deflated like a lot of fellow Saddlers today but one thing we can't do is let negativity creep in. We need to stick by the team regardless and put all our efforts into supporting the lads against Bradford. We are still 3rd with a game in hand so let's not be too rash with our comments.
How many did we take does anyone know?
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