Welcome. This site is an archived version of the previous UpTheSaddlers forum (December 2004 to May 2018). To visit the new UTS website, please click here.

Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Reports and reaction from the 2017-2018 season as Walsall finished 19th in League 1
User avatar
kshammer
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3624
Joined: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:51 pm
Location: Paradise City

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:23 pm

You're not the only one tinned. Ive got about 15 years on the clock and I am that uninterested at the moment I'm thinking of jacking it in for the first time ever. Just seems a complete waste of my time.
Last edited by kshammer on Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

User avatar
Jolly Johnny
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3796
Joined: Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:31 pm
Location: Lovely Liverpool!!

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:23 pm

So our team is basically now kids and an oap...

coop63
Glitterati
 
Posts: 1054
Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:06 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:24 pm

tinned wrote:He gets rid of O'Connor & Preston and in January we have Chambers at CH?

The bloke is a fudge moron and needs to go NOW!

The board need to go NOW as well. I wish us fans could force a vote of no confidence.


Tell you what, am I SO close to telling the club to stick their early birds. 31 years and they've pushed me to this, somewhere I NEVER thought I'd get to.

I plead with ALL fans to protest. This club needs big change now before we implode.


I hate to say it Tinned but the implosion began many months ago - The decision now is are the board prepared to let us go down or do they wanna do something abt it

User avatar
chunkster
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3612
Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:11 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:24 pm

The worrying thing tonight is the fact that Northampton are cack and they took a point, we should have lost by about 6 if it hadn't been for roberts :|

User avatar
boringteacher
UTS Legend
 
Posts: 2108
Joined: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:50 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:25 pm

tinned wrote:He gets rid of O'Connor & Preston and in January we have Chambers at CH?

The bloke is a fudge moron and needs to go NOW!

The board need to go NOW as well. I wish us fans could force a vote of no confidence.


Tell you what, am I SO close to telling the club to stick their early birds. 31 years and they've pushed me to this, somewhere I NEVER thought I'd get to.

I plead with ALL fans to protest. This club needs big change now before we implode.

Made my decision not to when bonehead failed to sack the idiot at Xmas personally. Bonser couldn't have made it more obvious that asset stripping was the only thing that mattered to him.

User avatar
chunkster
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3612
Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:11 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:26 pm

kshammer wrote:You're not the only one tinned. Ive got about 15 years on the clock and I am that uninterested at the moment I'm thinking of jacking it in for the first time ever. Just seems a complete waste of my time.
And money :|

User avatar
tinned
Site Addict
 
Posts: 10023
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:49 pm
Location: Same poo, different day!

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:30 pm

I predict many Saturday afternoons sat in The Black Country Arms or The Fountain and saving £350 in the process.

Sad, but that's what happens, Bonser, when you ignore the fans concerns. They end up stopping protesting and just stop going entirely.

You reap what you sow, you disgrace of a man.

User avatar
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD
UTS Legend
 
Posts: 2444
Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:56 pm
Location: SURROUNDED BY DINGLES

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:31 pm

Bonsers plan Sack him in the morning, get the fans talking about a new manager instead of the freehold.

User avatar
kshammer
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3624
Joined: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:51 pm
Location: Paradise City

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:32 pm

Never signed up to the Saddlers for success or lavish spending but the sheer contempt they hold fans in is disgraceful. I am merely a contributor to a pension fund and feel no bond to the club, its merry go round of players or any other part of the club at the moment.

User avatar
tinned
Site Addict
 
Posts: 10023
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:49 pm
Location: Same poo, different day!

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:33 pm

kshammer wrote:Never signed up to the Saddlers for success or lavish spending but the sheer contempt they hold fans in is disgraceful. I am merely a contributor to a pension fund and feel no bond to the club, its merry go round of players or any other part of the club at the moment.


Unfortunately I agree with every word of that.

User avatar
Exile
Jobsworth
 
Posts: 23623
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:06 pm
Location: ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:35 pm

Rot at the core spreads outwards...

Welsh_Saddler
Site Addict
 
Posts: 9804
Joined: Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:44 pm
Location: The beautiful Afan Valley

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:38 pm

Full time 3-1. The last attempt of the game was Blackburn rattling our woodwork in the 93rd minute. The corner count was 10 v 0, which says quite a lot about the attacking capability of both sides.

coop63
Glitterati
 
Posts: 1054
Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:06 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:39 pm

So that’s that and although in reality we couldn’t realistically of expected to get much up there - that’s one of our so called games in hand gone...

Wouldn’t be surprised if Ozzie wasnt gone tomorrow and frankly that’s then game over

User avatar
hullsaddler
Glitterati
 
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:08 am
Location: hull

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:40 pm

Mick Kearns "men against boys"

User avatar
kshammer
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3624
Joined: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:51 pm
Location: Paradise City

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:41 pm

I'll probably change my mind ten times before renewing season ticket but ill certainly be pricing up a few local non league teams in the meantime.

Its not about tonight in isolation either.

saddlertd
UTS Veteran
 
Posts: 571
Joined: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:51 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:42 pm

The situation we are in now all dates back to the summer when we failed to sign any decent, PERMANENT signings. Are we so skint that all we can afford to bring in now in January, when we have lost FIVEof our 1st team squad, are two 20-year olds. Unless Whitney brings in 2 or 3 decent League 1-standard players TOMORROW then we are down!

Thank you Mr Bonser for killing the dream. No hope, no excitement, no anticipation of better times ahead, no future. Walsall FC RIP.

User avatar
SaigonSaddler
Site Addict
 
Posts: 10825
Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:23 pm
Location: In Bonser's Grotto

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:44 pm

tinned wrote:Bonser ... You reap what you sow, you disgrace of a man.


Walsall's number one fan.

Saviour.

Guardian angel.

The list goes on and on and on. :|

User avatar
tinned
Site Addict
 
Posts: 10023
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:49 pm
Location: Same poo, different day!

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:45 pm

kshammer wrote:Its not about tonight in isolation either.


Wait for the usual suspects (we can all guess who) to come on here with "all this negativity after a match we never expected to win".

Walsallone
UTS Legend
 
Posts: 1901
Joined: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:43 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:45 pm

The result could have been much worse and at least it hasn't damaged the goal difference too much but the team we had to put out was weak and the events of the past few weeks have made me angry. It takes a lot to get me upset but this January has been very depressing for all our fans. Lets hope we can get some players in tomorrow who can add some muscle and experience to this team. A CH and another forward are the bare minimum required.

coop63
Glitterati
 
Posts: 1054
Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:06 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:46 pm

saddlertd wrote:The situation we are in now all dates back to the summer when we failed to sign any decent, PERMANENT signings. Are we so skint that all we can afford to bring in now in January, when we have lost FIVEof our 1st team squad, are two 20-year olds. Unless Whitney brings in 2 or 3 decent League 1-standard players TOMORROW then we are down!

Thank you Mr Bonser for killing the dream. No hope, no excitement, no anticipation of better times ahead, no future. Walsall FC RIP.


There’s the killer point - no we ain’t broke... we are a well ran, profitable football club. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean we can spend any money because it all gets used elsewhere - I’m sorry folks but now is the time to really protest with your only real voice which is boycot the game on Saturday - let it be in front of 500 and let’s see what reaction that gets - much bigger than standing outside the ground singing Bonser out....

philthesaddler
Site Addict
 
Posts: 5371
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:13 pm
Location: Bescot Stadium, 'the stadium that never closes'. Opening hours Mon-Fri 10am-4pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:48 pm

boringteacher wrote:
tinned wrote:He gets rid of O'Connor & Preston and in January we have Chambers at CH?

The bloke is a fudge moron and needs to go NOW!

The board need to go NOW as well. I wish us fans could force a vote of no confidence.


Tell you what, am I SO close to telling the club to stick their early birds. 31 years and they've pushed me to this, somewhere I NEVER thought I'd get to.

I plead with ALL fans to protest. This club needs big change now before we implode.

Made my decision not to when bonehead failed to sack the idiot at Xmas personally. Bonser couldn't have made it more obvious that asset stripping was the only thing that mattered to him.


Yup, I’ve been saying it for a while, but ever since he and his brother got back involved with the club after Jeffs hiatus, they’ve been running the club in to the ground.

Just look at the standard and age of the players we are signing - poor and young. And all the loans, so many loans - short term, no commitment and cheap...and no management team to speak of - it all points to one thing, cut cut cut, and take take take.

User avatar
chunkster
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3612
Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:11 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:49 pm

Apart from the blind does anyone really care anymore :|

philthesaddler
Site Addict
 
Posts: 5371
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:13 pm
Location: Bescot Stadium, 'the stadium that never closes'. Opening hours Mon-Fri 10am-4pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:50 pm

God knows who we’ll sign tomorrow - can’t see it being anyone permanent, I imagine we’d have got that done by now - so prepare yourself for more loans.

Personally I think we are down. There’s nothing in this squad. If Liam Roberts or Ozzy have an off day we are basically a bog standard conference side

User avatar
kshammer
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3624
Joined: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:51 pm
Location: Paradise City

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:50 pm

tinned wrote:
kshammer wrote:Its not about tonight in isolation either.


Wait for the usual suspects (we can all guess who) to come on here with "all this negativity after a match we never expected to win".


Couldn't give a toss who says what. Ive stuck with Walsall through everything in recent years, and may still do, but the older I get the less I like being treated like a mug. The contempt for fans is not even hidden anymore and so its time to consider whether I can be bothered anymore. That's not me judging, sniping or anything similar its just genuine weariness of it now.

saddlertd
UTS Veteran
 
Posts: 571
Joined: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:51 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:52 pm

kshammer wrote:Never signed up to the Saddlers for success or lavish spending but the sheer contempt they hold fans in is disgraceful. I am merely a contributor to a pension fund and feel no bond to the club, its merry go round of players or any other part of the club at the moment.


This! I have supported the club for over 50 years - most of this time we have been cack but there was the occasional cup run to keep the spirits up. Now it’s just one pointless season after another. We are just in existence to support one man and his pension fund. Bonser is killing our club. BONSER OUT!!

Walsallone
UTS Legend
 
Posts: 1901
Joined: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:43 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:53 pm

yes of course we care....nobody should boycott the game but get down there and support the team...the young lads we are playing need our support. Forget about Bonser for 90 minutes then protest as much as you like.

User avatar
funk_hits_the_fan
UTS Legend
 
Posts: 1405
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:27 pm
Location: Birmingham

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:53 pm

Absolute shambles of a 'professional' football club

User avatar
kshammer
Site Addict
 
Posts: 3624
Joined: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:51 pm
Location: Paradise City

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:54 pm

Ozzy should leave ASAP... he's wasting his time here.

coop63
Glitterati
 
Posts: 1054
Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2015 10:06 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:57 pm

Walsallone wrote:yes of course we care....nobody should boycott the game but get down there and support the team...the young lads we are playing need our support. Forget about Bonser for 90 minutes then protest as much as you like.


How CAN you say that - it’s fine to convince yourself that you are supporting these young lads etc but you have to get REAL ABOUT THINGS - we need change and how do we bring that about if we simply drift along in an apathetic dream state based on misplaced loyalty

Let’s bloody do something useful not useless

Walsallone
UTS Legend
 
Posts: 1901
Joined: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:43 pm

Re: Blackburn Rovers (A) Tue Jan 30th, 7.45pm

Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:01 pm

It is not useful to desert the team...sorry but I don't agree with you on this. Thursday's meeting should be interesting!!!!

PreviousNext
Return to 2017-18 Season

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests