Another Ashes Saturday rolls round with the mad dash from the pub to the ground at ten to three adding an extra competitive edge to the afternoon.

Hopefully our first league game against Yeovil will prove more fruitful than our cup ties against them over the years, which yielded just one victory in six attempts and that courtesy of a last minute Bulger goal back in 1936.

Lots of little, (and probably meaningless) sequences involved here. Yeovil looking for their first home win at this level, Saddlers undefeated away in the league since last Easter but this is a journey into unknown territory.

I am always inclined to think if we pick our best team and play well we should avoid defeat, and certainly a defence bolstered by the return of Daniel Fox should prove a considerable barrier to the side currently bottom of the league. Kris Taylor will line up in midfield with Merson on the bench in either a 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 with Jorge drifting out wide.

As for Yeovil, they suffered a huge blow pre-season when Chris Kamara tipped them as promotion dark horses They should however be respected having already defeated both Ipswich and Hartlepool on their travels, although it remains to be seen whether speculation linking their manager to Plymouth proves as unsettling as it did to us under Lee’s tenure.

I reckon another tight game on the cards, hedging my bets at either 1-1 or 1-0 to the Saddlers.