How long has it been since we just expected a Walsall team to turn up for every game?
Savouring every moment of this. To even enjoy a game in this trophy - well, this season is just hitting different!
Watched it in the BCA. Havent been for well over a year, may even be 2 years. A fab evening all round
We calibrate all our clients at work on a constantly updated ‘no dickheads allowed’ policy (amongst other things), which I suppose is a variant on the old ‘no nobheads’ policy we used to hear about. Having owners, manager, and team all walking the talk is great, and the new CEO sounds way more on song than Gamble ever did.
Took my dad last night who isn’t a Walsall fan and hadn’t seen us play this season, said Lowe was outstanding.
He’s going to be such a good player.
I thought he stood out more than Stansfield which tells you something. I just hope Sads is careful with his minutes and doesn’t burn him out. The kid looked shattered second half.
On a separate note, do their fans realise that after predicting 5-0, 10-0, even 50-0 when their team came out, that arguing they have a player worth more than our club is making them look stupid. Hilarious 
Delighted to welcome so many people to the “I can see the direction we’re heading” party ……
Myself, @Andy_Petterson and a few others were starting to wonder where everyone had got to 
Just a shame that Villa shirt was being waved about. Meant we probably shaded the tinpottedness award from Stansfield’s “shushhh”.
It was a Villa fan in the Walsall end
I’d have to look it up but I believe that’s the case…
There were a few too many songs with the words “Aston Villa” in from us for my liking. I get why, but it is still a bit cringe to me.
Our support was that good it is okay to overlook it. I wouldn’t ever join in a song singing Villa unless it was about them being shit/horrible etc, not even for bants.
Even worse. I remember being at Rochdale many years ago at the same stage of this competition (about a hundred of us there). A Bury fan rocked up in our end to wind up the locals. He lasted about 5 minutes before the stewards took him out for his own safety. A similar outcome should have happened last night.
No room for that. Wolves and Villa are our big problems in that the population of the borough tend to support one of these two teams rather than their local club. They also share rather distasteful characteristics. Give me Blues above those pair any day.
Its nice that fans can enjoy a good start to a season without lowering themselves to self praising mode.
UTS.
I got the feeling from some of your posts at a certain time, you were starting to doubt yourself a little?
Not that I am trying to take anything away, you were a keen Sadler supporter from the off.
If you really wanna play that game, I could say 95% of the changes I have been banging on about consistently for a decade have been made by Trivela to turn this around. It was undoubtedly becoming a slide into non league under Bonser and then the Bonser babes
Oh yeah, forgot to mention.
I liked the safe standing, my first time experiencing it. I think it would work well in the lower at Bescot.
Totally agree mate. Don’t know what the cost would be but it would definitely improve the atmosphere.
All for it!
I remember that safe standing was brought up in a fan forum a while back and either Mole or Gamble or a combination of both rather condescendingly told us we could have it but that us fans would have to shoulder the entire cost.
Maybe Trivela could do better than that now.
Yeah, didn’t get the “stand up if you love Villa” when most of our fans were standing, made us look a bit stupid.
Also the 20m you’re having a laugh, when he cost 10m.
I had to keep sitting down 
Isn’t the joke on the blues fans who were standing up when that was chanted? Inducing an element of cognitive dissonance in their minds?
Yeah,
The dislike for Villa with Walsall fans isn’t what it once was. When they used to read the halftime scores out at Fellows Park, the biggest cheer was always if Villa were losing.
Not because they are rivals or anything, I think PT explained it quite well in one of his posts. It also depends on what part of Walsall you grew up in.
I’m not a fan of it personally but it was such good support last night I’m not gonna let it bother me that much. One of the loudest away followings in recent times I’d say.