A last-minute equaliser by Ian Roper rescued a point for the Saddlers at Bescot on Monday - these were the match views of WFC Rob given on the message board:

The fact that we needed a 93rd minute Ian Roper header from a corner to salvage a point at home against a side who I don’t think have been out of the bottom 6 all season speaks for itself.

To be fair, their goalkeeper had a very good game and we could have been 2 up by half time. That would have been papering over the cracks however (much like the result may well have done) as we looked completely lost for ideas. Holmes is our only outlet going forward who ever looks like delivering anything with any quality. I think some of the comments on Betsy have been a little over the top, but it has to be said that when he goes forward, you just hope we get a corner or a throw in as a result, because he gives little end product.

Mooney looks a shadow of his former self. He can get the fans going all he likes, but fans don’t win games, goals do.
Whether his ineptitude in front of goal has anything to do with his contract situation doesn’t matter - he’s not doing the business and should be replaced with someone with the balls to join a club with an outside chance of playing at Wembley and making a real name for themselves. Ideally, we’d go out and get 2 strikers, but we’ve already wasted money on Moore, so I won’t hold my breath.

I actually thought Dobson had a decent game today. I’d even go as far as saying he’d have been my man of the match. Laugh all you like but without him, they’d have trampled all over our midfield for fun. As has been said by myself along with others on here before, what you see is what you get with Dobson. Play him in midfield with someone with any attacking nouse about them and it’ll work well as he’ll be allowed that hole in front of the defence to sweep up. Ask him to do anything else however, and you’ll begin to see his flaws. Wrack might as well have not bothered getting out of bed today, and that’s coming from a Wrack fan. Dobson was generally neat and tidy, only being made to look wasteful by the lack of movement around him and an increasing oweness on him as the game went on to do more than just his defensive duties.

The back four played as we’ve come to expect. Gerrard was generally solid and won everything in the air, Boertein was alright if not a little shakey, Weston was excellent defensively and got forward to good effect at times too. Roper was Roper - did the bare minimum when required to clear the ball and make the odd block, but was incapable of offering anything more. Deserved his first booking and we have to thank the fact that we had a reasonably sensible referee who gave him the ‘one more and you’re off’ talk before half time, for not giving him his marching orders before he popped up with the goal.

Other than echoing the point which has constantly been made since January, that we need at least 2 new players, there isn’t really anything else to say. Nicky Maynard is a prime example of how keeping your best players will pay off. He took his goal really well today, to go along with the goals he’s been scoring for fun recently. We don’t have a player in our squad capable of doing what he did for the goal. And as much as it’s done and dusted now, had we not sold Scott Dann, I’d like to think Maynard wouldn’t have had that opportunity.