The Fat Controller (and his compatriots in the car) had no hesitation in describing this as the best Walsall performance they have seen in many a long year.

Manager Richard Money, ever one to pick a team for the occasion, surprisingly went for a change in the side that had won at Hartlepool on Saturday, bringing in Bradley for Deeney and playing a 4 5 1 formation.

The Saddlers found Donnie a match for them in the first half, especially having conceded an early goal, one that the Fat Controller thought Ince should have done better with.

The character of the side, however, was shown when they fought back and Danny Fox smashed home an equaliser from a free kick for his third of the season.

The dangerous Lewis Guy put Rovers back in front shortly before half time, however, always a bad time to concede.

Money’s half time team talk did the trick, however, as, for the first 30 minutes, Doncaster were hardly able to get out of their own penalty area, let alone their own half. Some scintillating football from the Saddlers mean they were pegged further and further back, until the impressive Bradley got his first game for the club for the second equaliser.

Then came goalkeeper Neil Sullivan’s complete moment of madness. He collected the ball under a challenge from Ishmel Demontagnac and then, for some completely inexpicable reason, took a kick at the young left winger. The superb Tommy Mooney gratefully tucked away the spot kick.

Right at the end, Rhys Weston, on for the injured Darren Wrack, gave away a penalty, which the Doncaster player dragged ten yards wide of the post and their young striker Lewis Guy was also given a straight red card for something he said, or an incident off the ball, the Fat Controller wasn’t sure which, as play wasn’t under way at the time.

Man of the Match was a unanimous decision from the Fat Controller and friends – the wonderfully composed and hard working Tommy Mooney.

Mid table respectability reached – now let’s do something about that home form.