sid swifty wrote:Geordiesaddler wrote:Well hypothetically Sid, if we changed our principles and went back to the moronic ethos of the Merson era whereby we set out to entertain (usually the opposition supporters) rather than win in some mad-cap scheme to try and attract 500-700 miserable Walsonians who can't be bothered to go when the team's winning week in week out then we might as well concrete over the pitch and turn Bescot into an entertainment complex.
Those of us that want to watch Walsall play football will no doubt form our own club and get on with it.
Lower division football is what it has always been, and our crowd level this season is on the uppward side of typical of what it has been for the best part of 40 years. Should Walsall have a cup run, or a promotion run-in, or gain promotion - then of course the crowds will increase - as they have always done. This largest average attendance we have had in recent years was during the Colin Lee era, was that due to entertaining football or the results that sustained our membership of what is now The Championship?
I would rather have DD than PM Geordie....PM shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a football club ever again (apart from wolves that is... :lol: )....at least DD knows the difference between tactics and Tic-tacs....but there just has to be a happy medium....thats what I am hoping for anyway...because I do miss matchdays...but not the style of football.
Well as I said to you on a PM a couple of months back Sid, IMO that "happy medium" as you describe it is well and truely here. I know exactly where you'e coming from, the Merson era was painful, and last season ie.division 4 was typically err division 4.
This is'nt last season, and if like me and many others you had been going to games you would see that for yourself. Some of the football this season has been very good indeed. Also some of it has been average, some dour and some very poor - that's what you get watching Walsall in the 3rd division. The problem is if you stay away yet come on here reading the tripe that the likes of Phil posts you'll be none the wiser.
As for your "I miss the matchday" bit. Heaven's above, you'll have me filling up in a minute. Remind me again who you support? Wimbledon??
Bradford Park Avenue???? Aldershot????????
Even all the above have managed to re-invent themselves because of the very appetite that people have for "the matchday thing" irrespective of the standard of football. You have it on your doorstep, at a decent level, during a successful era, at competitive prices etc. etc. and you still choose not to go!!!!
I go because love watching Walsall, if the game's good and the team win then so much the better. If it isn't or they lose there's always next week.
That's what supporting your team was about when I grew up, and I stick to that unashamedly without the slightest pang to pander to the 21st century's voyeuristic commercialism as directed by Rupert Murdoch et al.
Don't let the B and Q zombies get you Sid, because when you do it won't matter how much extra spare time and money you have. A lifetime watching 0-0 draws at Rotherham away will seem like an orgasm after 5 minutes in that world. But then I think deep down you are starting to realise that already.