No win for Forest in something like 10 games now against us and the Saddlers came away from the City Ground with a well-earned point. Plastic Hawk offered his thoughts on the message board:

Good performance today and a good result. 1-1 was probably a fair reflection, but it could have been more too as we had an effort cleared off the line and Bradley hit the bar - both at 1-1 - and we had a 4-on-3 break in stoppage time that I thought Gerrard rather wasted by shooting from range (in fairness, I guess Ormerod missed a sitter at 1-0 so Forest probably felt they could’ve won too, but they barely tested Ince). Basically a classic Walsall away performance, soaking up pressure and then hitting them on the break. Can’t ask much more than we got today.

I think it’s very, very harsh to blame Roper for the goal. There wasn’t much wrong with his clearance - it went into the Forest half and they had a lot of ground to cover to get to the goal. Personally, I thought that the guy who put the cross in was offside when he was played in beyond Weston, so I’ll be interested to see that again.

Anyway, a vastly improved performance from everyone and we did well to peg them back after going behind. Bradley, while maybe not back to his best, looked much better in midfield. Having Dobson alongside him making tackles and playing it simple looked to be a big help to him (although I think Wrack was unlucky to miss out on the bench). Mooney was much better up front too and Sonko made a difference coming back. I still think we look very laboured going forwards a lot of the time though. I’d like to see us running at men and driving on towards the goal a lot more - especially Betsy who looks like he has the ability to be a very good player, but for one reason or another (and it could just be confidence) doesn’t seem to want to beat his man.

DD waved at us too. As always with an away game, that was the most important thing!!