There are games that make you think that you might just be going to do something this season. A cold, wet, windy evening in Chester leading to a point is one of those.

The Saddlers never managed to get the same amount of control in the second half, with the advantage of the conditions, that Chester had shown in the first and this was, really, a fairly poor performance from the Saddlers, according to the Fat Controller.

Dicky Dosh mixed the personnel and the tactics up, bringing on Pead for Wright, then Demontagnac for Taylor and, finally, goals scoring talisman Dann, all to no avail, as the game ran out to the almost inevitable draw, given our defensive record.

There was time for Bossu to produce a couple of good saves and one superb one to protect yet another clean sheet and for Keates to go very close with a free kick, but the draw began to look more and more inevitable, yet the Saddlers were still grateful for the ball hitting the woodwork twice.

In the end, most Walsall fans would have taken a point before the game and that’s exactly what we got, as the march to the top goes on. but his will go down as one of the poorer away performances of the season. The ball, when it did go forward, just didn’t stick and it shows how much we tend to miss Hector Sam when he’s not there.

Opinion on the mesaage board is mainly in agreement with the Fat Controller’s asessmemt, although Cully has gone so far as to call it “appalling”. It seems that, whent eh central midfeild decide to have an off day, they do it big style, as Keates and, especially, Dobson, were never really in the game.