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Paul Hall

Hall: Golden oldies will fire Saddlers

PAUL Hall today backed himself and fellow experienced goal-hunters Tommy Mooney and Martin Butler to start finding the net soon for Walsall. Read

Saddlers face toughest task yet

WALSALL face their toughest test so far this season when they visit high-flying Hartlepool on Saturday. Read

Money may go back into the transfer market

RICHARD Money has pledged not to be "too reactive" to his team's 3-0 defeat at home to Oldham last Saturday. Read

Tim: Bears will turn pain into gain

TIM Ambrose admits that it is "appropriate" that Warwickshire's players are "hurting" after their season ended in double relegation. Read

Saddlers boss set to turn to young guns

WALSALL manager Richard Money suggested "big changes" lie ahead after a 3-0 home defeat to Oldham dumped his team back on the bottom of League One. Read

Richard Money

Money moves puzzle Walsall fans

RICHARD Money puzzled Walsall's supporters by sending on young substitute Troy Deeney in midfield as the Saddlers declined to a 3-0 defeat to Oldham. Read

Ishmel Demontagnac gets away from Lee Hughes

Walsall 0 Oldham 3

FOOTBALL'S second hoariest old cliche behind "We'll take each game as it comes" (what's the alternative to that, by the way?) is "The first goal is important". Read

Dougie Brown

Dougie's ready for Bears talks

DOUGIE Brown will hold talks with Warwickshire on Monday about a possible role within the reshaped coaching hierachy at the club. Read

Richard Money

Money warns Saddlers not to be fooled

RICHARD Money believes the League One table disguises the threat that rock-bottom Oldham Athletic will pose to his Walsall side tomorrow. Read

Fox gutted for injury victim Boertien

DANNY Fox is ready to revert to his old left-back role tomorrow after Paul Boertien suffered a serious knee-ligament injury. Read

Boertien injury blow for Saddlers

WALSALL have suffered a big blow after Paul Boertien suffered a serious knee injury in training. Read

Mark Greatbatch

Kind words for axed Greatbatch

SO THE waters closed quickly and emphatically over Mark Greatbatch's stint as director of cricket. Read

Edrissa Sonko

Sonko's on the Money

WALSALL are hoping that Edrissa Sonko's match-winning assist at Millwall last Saturday is the first of many for the club. Read

Ashley Giles

Giles vows to stoke up the home fire

ASHLEY Giles has pledged to "involve Warwickshire people as much as possible" after his appointment as director of cricket at Edgbaston. Read

Giles to give Bears the kiss of life

ASHLEY Giles today took charge at Warwickshire and immediately started tackling his first objective - to stop the atmosphere at Edgbaston resembling a "morgue". Read

Richard Money

Saddlers are smiling once again

WALSALL'S training ground is a "much happier place" this week, following their belated first win of the season. Read

Heath Streak

Streak: Bears are lacking tigers

FIGHTERS like 2004 championship-winners Dougie Brown and Brad Hogg are needed back in Warwickshire's ranks, believes former captain Heath Streak. Read

Mark Greatbatch

Bears eye duo to replace Greatbatch

FORMER Warwickshire hero's Ashley Giles and Allan Donald are favourites to take up the challenge of rebuilding the club's on-field operations after the disastrous 2007 season. Read

Moment of truth at Edgbaston

WARWICKSHIRE'S season ended, on the field, yesterday - and behind the scenes the inquest into it immediately began. Read

Bears win so hollow

WARWICKSHIRE rounded off their season with a win, seeing off neighbours Worcestershire with comfort in the Pro40 League at Edgbaston. Read

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Brian covers Warwickshire Cricket Club and Walsall FC for the Birmingham Mail.

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