The local press is reporting that Wolverhampton born former Port Vale Manager and Sjoke City Director of Football John Rudge has emerged as one of the favourites for the job.

The club have called a press conference for 10.30 this morning to announce the new manager’s name and the papers say that Rudge has been at recent Walsall games.

If the reports are accurate, he would seem, with his credentials of having worked this Division successfully on a low budget, to be an ideal candidate to bring on a younger man.

Of course, it could also be the papers whistling in the dark.