Shrewsbury Town (A) Friday 14 Apr, 3pm

[boringteacher]

:D :D :D

[EvenFlow]

A couple of decent chances to make it two, right after the goal.

Coventry continuing to make a fist of it, but Chesterfield mathematically down, as it stands.

[Welsh_Saddler]

A couple of decent chances to make it two, right after the goal.

Coventry continuing to make a fist of it, but Chesterfield mathematically down, as it stands.

Chesterfield currently occupying bottom place in League One - and not helping themselves by only having 10 men against Southend just before half time!!

[Welsh_Saddler]

0-1 at half-time, and (dare I say it?) if things stay that way we are mathematically safe from relegation!! :D

Meanwhile Millwall are scoring for fun at home to Northampton Town - it's now 3-0 ......

Second half under way - one sub for the Sloppies, but JW leaves things as they were.

Shrewsbury Town yellow card, 54 mins ... (Deegan, for a foul on Adam Chambers)

[BarnsleySaddler]

attendance is 6,801 with 1,144 from Walsall.

C`mon the lads.

[Welsh_Saddler]

Chesterfield sinking without trace - 0-2 at home to Southend now.

Bradford City 1 Oxford Utd 0 (60 min)

Posh come-back? Peterborough 1 Fleetwood Town 2

Chesterfield 0 Southend Utd 3

Gillingham 1 Bristol Rovers 0

Sloppies make their 2nd substitution on 61 min. Still no movement from JW ... but on 65 minutes we do have a Saddlers' sub ... Makris makes way for Jackson, and a couple of minutes later Cuvelier comes on for Kieron Morris.

[SoccerHQ]

1-1.

[Welsh_Saddler]

Shrewsbury Town 1 Walsall 1 :roll:

Coventry back at the bottom as Charlton Athletic equalise. That game is also 1-1 now ...

Chesterfield 0 Southend Utd 4 ......

[Walsallone]

Listening to Radio Shropshire....they have just described the equaliser as day light robbery!!! We really need some players who can find the net on a regular basis....the Summer is going to be very important for our future.

[Welsh_Saddler]

Gillingham 1 Bristol Rovers 1 (72 min)

Shrewsbury score" on 78 minutes, but it's cancelled ..... score remains at 1-1 :wink:

[Walsallone]

Shrewsbury throwing everything at us...we will be lucky to win this now.

[BarnsleySaddler]

Shrewsbury throwing everything at us...we will be lucky to win this now.

Don`t you mean we will be lucky to get a draw!!

[Welsh_Saddler]

JW doing a Deano - Walsall's 3rd substitution is on 87 minutes ...... Mitchell Candlin replaces Amadou Bakayoko

Full time - score remains at 1-1

Goals still going in elsewhere - Gillingham 2 Bristol Rovers 1 (90 min)

Port Vale 0 Sheffield Utd 3 (90 min)

[SWS11]

Seems we can't buy a win at the moment :(
Far too many draws.

[Ancient Moaner]

Is it just me or are our set pieces a waste of space? We get a corner on 88 minutes and on 89 minutes Shrewsbury have a shot on goal!!
The season is trailing away like a damp squib, Belg and his lovely wife paid us a visit a couple of days ago and in the whole visit neither of us spoke about the lads, sad really.

[SoccerHQ]

Sounded exactly like Charlton away that.

1-0 is not enough really. You just don't trust the defence to hold on time and again with just a 1-0 goal lead.

[Welsh_Saddler]

Two "mathematically certain" outcomes from today's games.......

1. Walsall can not reach the play-off zone

2. Coventry City are relegated to League Two

[Codsall Saddler]

As I am now resident in Salop, where there are some extremely attractive sheep, I am now back and confused as to how we could be pretty comfortable in the first half and very abject in the second. Shrewsbury were poor and we could have been more than 1 up at half time. Good goal with a neat move down the left. nice cross from Edwards and great header from Morris. By then we had a couple of half chances, one of which Bakayoko should have done better with. We continued to look the better team and their keeper made a good save from Morris. Second half, first 10 minutes apart, we were under many coshes, although they didn't create that many chances. The goal was a poor one, with not much effort made to stop the cross coming in and even less to defend it in the middle.

The number of times where we seemed unable to play a simple pass, either under or overhit, or make a simple decision was hugely frustrating. Players that had been dominant in the first half, such as Osbourne, just disappeared. Morris was removed to give Flo some game time and we lost a lot of momentum.

In terms of the players, Macgillivray looked very shaky when crosses came in. He came for a couple and was nowhere near. Made a couple of good saves and no chance with the goal though. O'Connoll looked very rusty all the way through. Makris did OK first half but disappeared in the second. Baka did some good stuff and can look a real threat, but did some daft things as well. Everybody else was good in the first half and average in the second.

A word for Adam Chambers, who was very good throughout. Clearly getting on and this could be his last season, but he was MOTM today and kept going to the end. We will be the poorer without him.

[SoccerHQ]

Sounds like another cross not dealt with and another free header according to Whitney.

Let's just face facts...there's some decent players in the back line but collectively they're rubbish dealing with the crosses and corners into the box. Same as Arsenal in the premier league, it's a major Achilles heel.

Desperately need a commanding centre half in the summer but then that's been the cry ever since Butler left.

[philthesaddler]

We really need some players who can find the net on a regular basis....the Summer is going to be very important for our future.

Wo there. We've got Andreas '1 in 33' Makris.

[Walsallone]

Well PHIl football is a team game and as a team we just don't score enough goals. This isn't down to one player. Indeed the statistic you quote is somewhat misleading as he has started only 13 games and in some of the others has had very little game time. This team from midfield forward doesn't create enough or score enough. As I have posted before this has to be sorted if we are to become a real force in this division.

[hullsaddler]

Well PHIl football is a team game and as a team we just don't score enough goals. This isn't down to one player. Indeed the statistic you quote is somewhat misleading as he has started only 13 games and in some of the others has had very little game time. This team from midfield forward doesn't create enough or score enough. As I have posted before this has to be sorted if we are to become a real force in this division.

Based on commentary it sounded like he'd put in a decent stint before he was substituted. I was impressed with his efforts at Bradford. Won't be making any of the games before end of season but think he could be a pleasant surprise next season.

[Guest]

Is it just me or are our set pieces a waste of space? We get a corner on 88 minutes and on 89 minutes Shrewsbury have a shot on goal!!
The season is trailing away like a damp squib, Belg and his lovely wife paid us a visit a couple of days ago and in the whole visit neither of us spoke about the lads, sad really.

We took a short corner, then gave the ball away.

[m&m]

Once again crap substitutions by Whitney resulted in us losing momentum.
Morris was our most dangerous player and he hauls him off. Useless tactics.

I'm afraid we need to look for a new keeper next season. Mcgillivary is clearly not up to it.Hopeless on crosses.

Still an away point is ok. I couldn't quite understand Salops fans joy though. You would have thought they had won the game.

[SoccerHQ]

McGil either worse on crosses than Etheridge....that has to be seen to be believed. :shock:

Looks like Etheridge won't play again this season, injured or not.

Said before thought think it will be a massive risk just to assume McGil can handle 50 odd games next season. Plenty of second choices look o.k for the odd cameo but can't handle being number one.

Signing an experienced keeper is a must aswell as that ugly no-nonsense CB.

[Guest]

Once again crap substitutions by Whitney resulted in us losing momentum.
Morris was our most dangerous player and he hauls him off. Useless tactics.

I'm afraid we need to look for a new keeper next season. Mcgillivary is clearly not up to it.Hopeless on crosses.

Still an away point is ok. I couldn't quite understand Salops fans joy though. You would have thought they had won the game.

They should have won the game. Fortunately, Shrewsbury were not good enough to take advantage of our performance in the last 20 minutes.

[Ancient Moaner]

McGil either worse on crosses than Etheridge....that has to be seen to be believed. :shock:

Looks like Etheridge won't play again this season, injured or not.

Said before thought think it will be a massive risk just to assume McGil can handle 50 odd games next season. Plenty of second choices look o.k for the odd cameo but can't handle being number one.

Signing an experienced keeper is a must aswell as that ugly no-nonsense CB.

And someone to score some bloomin goals of course!!!! Someone earlier, or possibly on another thread had the gall to state that our strike force was decent and that no recruitment would be necessary in the close season....claptrap, our 'goals for' statistic is one of the worst in the Division (including the relegated teams) so, not only is our fragility on crosses at the back a problem, had it not been for defenders/half backs goals this season, we would have been looking at a relegation spot at the moment, our attacking options are dire at best.

[PT]

Nearly every week now we are seeing our team going out and at least matching the opposition. Then the flow is interrupted by either a goal ( to either side) or a change made by the opposition. We are then stumped. Our formulaic sub of a nine for a nine between 62 and 74 minutes happens, Whitney acts shocked when that doesn't improve things and we make a random change or two in the last ten.

Nearly every week it is the same. Whitney deserves some credit for sending the side out looking organised and motivated. But during the game he is lost and unless something freaky goes on (e.g Oztumer swinging one in from a corner or the opposition going down to ten or nine men) then the opposition dug out react to the unfolding situation far better than we do.

We lose leads more than we hold on to them and very often if the opposition score first, we're dead.

[Cowshed]

Ok so now we are officially bottom of the current form table

need

A keeper
Someone nasty at the back who won't put up with fairies defending
Someone to replace chambers engine in the middle who can win the ball AND distribute effectively
Someone nasty up front makris and Jackson should be released

Happy for the season to end now this is painful

[chriss5471]

McGil either worse on crosses than Etheridge....that has to be seen to be believed. :shock:

Looks like Etheridge won't play again this season, injured or not.

Said before thought think it will be a massive risk just to assume McGil can handle 50 odd games next season. Plenty of second choices look o.k for the odd cameo but can't handle being number one.

Signing an experienced keeper is a must aswell as that ugly no-nonsense CB.

And someone to score some bloomin goals of course!!!! Someone earlier, or possibly on another thread had the gall to state that our strike force was decent and that no recruitment would be necessary in the close season....claptrap, our 'goals for' statistic is one of the worst in the Division (including the relegated teams) so, not only is our fragility on crosses at the back a problem, had it not been for defenders/half backs goals this season, we would have been looking at a relegation spot at the moment, our attacking options are dire at best.

My view is we don't create enough chances, it's ok to blame the forwards but they spend most their time feeding off scraps. We need some flair and as much as he adds directness I don't think Morris is the answer as his I feel he loses or wastes the ball more often than not. We need at least one quality midfielder who takes the ball and makes a pass in the opposition half that puts them under pressure, too often are players are trying to salvage a poor final pass rather than trying to capitalise on a brilliant final pass.