The Fat Controller reporting in from Bloomfield Road.

The home side had much the better of the possession in the first half, but without troubling a solid looking Saddlers defence too much.

The dry pitch and the wind are conspiring to make this a very scrappy game, with neither side able to put together any real moves of consequence.

Blackpool started brightly and have had well over 50% of the possession, playing with the wind behind them, but looked unlikely to break down the Walsall defence. There were only two real chances for the home side, both of which came from defensive errors, by Westwood and Roper, plus one long range shot towards the end, while, at the other end, Devlin and Claridge have failed so far to find an understanding. All the same, Devlin should have possibly done better with a chance from a Keates corner.

The biggest disappointment so far, for the Fat Controller, is the fact that Mark Wright has not been taking on his marker, the former England midfielder Jason Wilcox. There may well be scope for advancement there.