New Walsall manager Richard Money has been outlining what he expects to get out of the club’s pre-season programme, while the official web site has the current definitive list of fixtures.

“We will start pre-season training by spending time at Lilleshall where we will do some team bonding and set team goals for the year ahead,” Money told the site. “I am hoping for us to be able to play a couple of practise games whilst we are there before taking the whole squad to Halesowen for our first public friendly fixture.

After that we have three great home games to look forward to against West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United and Aston Villa which will be nice for the fans to see and for the players to be involved in.

We will then follow those matches up with a couple of games against Rushden & Diamonds and Stafford Rangers where we will field our potential starting line-up for the first League match on August 5th.

For me, the early pre-season friendlies will be about getting our philosophy across to the players before we start to concentrate on was is likely to be the team that starts the season in the later games.”

The fixtures are, (so far):

Wednesday, July 12th v Halesowen Town (away) (kick-off 7.30pm)

Saturday, July 15th v West Bromwich Albion (home - Ian Roper Testimonial) (kick-off 3.00pm),

Tuesday, July 18th v Manchester United XI (home) (kick-off 7.45pm),

Wednesday, July 19th v Hednesford Town (away) (kick-off 7.45pm),

Friday, July 21st v Aston Villa (home) (kick-off 7.45pm),

Saturday, July 22nd v Rushall Olympic (away) (kick-off 3.00pm),

Tuesday, July 25th v Rushden & Diamonds (away) (kick-off 7.45pm),

Saturday, July 29th v Stafford Rangers (away) (kick-off 3.00pm),

Monday, July 31st v Willenhall Town (away) (kick-off 7.30pm).