A reminder to everyone that the next Fans Focus Group meeting will be in The Saddlers Club tomorrow night (Monday, February 28th at 8.00pm).

As promised at the last meeting, following long discussions on the fighting before and after the trip to Wrexham, the theme will be ‘crowd safety and spectator behaviour’, with Walsall FC Safety Officer, Gary Wilson and Police Liaison Officer, PC Pete Matthews both in attendance.

The last two meetings have been well attended in comparison with previous ones and, accordingly, Roy Whalley and the club have been taking note of the fan’s views.

As was predicted on the message board here at Upthesaddlers during the week, it appears that Southampton may be prepared to loan Walsall one of their exciting young centre backs next season, according to the Express and Star.

Message board users had already named Martin Crainie or Matthew Mills as the players likely to have been offered by Harry Redknapp during the negotiations for a season long loan for Andrew Surman.

Cranie is thought to be the most likely player to be offered by Redknapp, although Mills is a possibility.

Cranie, the England under-19s captain, can play anywhere across the back four and has returned recently from a loan spell at Bournemouth, while Mills has just joined the same club for a month, having spent time at Coventry earlier in the season.