IT’S a photo finish! Walsall completed an impressive double over Charlton at the Banks’s Stadium with goals from their G-Men and if they beat high-flying Southampton at St Mary’s on Saturday they will avoid the dreaded drop into League Two.Read
WALSALL were left poised on the trap door to League Two after a brave battle against powerful opposition at the Banks’s Stadium yielded only a point which may prove insufficient to save them from relegation.Read
TWO goals from Jon Macken and a lovely strike by Jordan Cook earned Walsall three huge points which puts them right back on the front foot in their survival battle. Read
SADDLERS boss Dean Smith expects his side to bounce back at home to Brentford tomorrow night following a disappointing defeat at basement club Plymouth.Read
RELEGATION jumped a whole lot closer to Walsall last night after they were beaten by well-drilled Leyton Orient while other League One strugglers picked up vital points elsewhere. Read
JIMMY Walker and Jon Macken shared the starring roles but the whole team took a bow as Walsall gave their survival hopes a giant boost with victory over high-flying Southampton.Read
CONCERNS that Walsall’s bid to beat the drop could be undermined by a lack of depth to the squad were magnified by a mundane clash with equally scrappy opposition.Read
DARRYL Westlake’s first senior goal – and another bright team performance – was not enough to engineer Dean Smith’s first win as Walsall manager from a highly entertaining tussle with Oldham.Read
IT MIGHT sound silly after a match in which a team conceded four goals and suffered their tenth home defeat in 13 games but a word applied to this fixture which had become largely obsolete at Walsall – ‘enjoyable’.Read
WHETHER it was a touch of irony, a flash of Black Country black humour or a genuine felicitation it’s hard to say but the message on the front of Walsall’s programme was upbeat: “Here’s to a successful 2011...”Read
THEY say it’s not the despair that kills you but the hope – and in those terms, Walsall’s 114 travelling fans had an emotion-churning afternoon in south London.Read
WALSALL’S mini-revival suffered a jolt with a predictable, if plucky, defeat to in-form Sheffield Wednesday, courtesy of goals from Darren Potter, Mark Beevers and former Blues striker Clinton Morrison.Read
IT WASN’T comfortable and it wasn’t pretty but Walsall avoided the indignity of a cup exit to non-league opposition courtesy of Reuben Reid’s second-half double the Banks’s Stadium.Read
THE good news for Walsall fans is that it’s the nature of things that fortunes of small Football League clubs go in cycles – all clubs have good eras and bad eras.Read
