Years of neglect has bought us to where we are now thing is most of us have stood by made excuses for the club and just let it happen. It’s been coming for years and even now some defend it
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But what else can you do when to some it is a way of life 
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I don’t know if it was posted elsewhere, but here’s a snippet of the call to WM that @funk_hits_the_fan mentioned…
https://twitter.com/tommymarlow/status/1373376236089716741?s=20
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Nah, that’s just a Gary Powndland prank call
He started quite calm and got more emotional as he mentioned different members of his family. It was one of the best things Walsall-related on WM in years and years, if anyone wants to listen to the full call its here around 16 mins in;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0994s4q
How can those CEOs look themselves in the mirror right now. I would be embarrassed. They probably know they have zero chance of employment anywhere else. Like I said further up the thread, we are going to be overtaken by a local club that was founded in 2007. There is no. fucking. excuse.
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I’ve got almost 60 years in watching Walsall. Have experienced some ups and too many downs over the years. I vowed I would support this team whilst they still operated in the football league, and, if they were relegated from it I would no longer support them.
I never thought I would actually see us being a non league club. It’s now a distinct possibility, never in my lifetime did I think we would sink this low.
Should the possibility become reality it will be heartbreaking and I will, very reluctantly, sever my association with the club. I’m not watching non league football, not going to do it…full stop!
So, everyone who’s involved with the football club, do your utmost (everything you’ve got) to keep us in league status. It would mean the world to me and like-minded fans that we don’t fall into the abyss.
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Superb phone on call. Thanks for sharing.
Sums up how I and most on here feel.
Actually think we’ll scrape survival this year, but next will be different.
We desperately need external investment Wiltshire, otherwise we are going to go in the next couple of years if not this year.
It’s easy to criticise LP, but I’m not sure that any of us would have handled things any better. We need the DoF this week by the latest and Dutton does need to go before the Southend game.
That’s what I meant, next year will be different, in that we’ll go down.
Unless there is change and a lot of it.
Yep, II understood that and was agreeing with you, at the moment you are right, it’s only a matter of time
Thought we were good for the first hour, played confidently, we looked organised, we did our jobs.
Gradually started to get pushed back and it’s only natural that we start to fall back but at that point we should be making a change to give them something to think about instead of putting trust in a bunch of players that have made individual errors all season long to see it out.
White is an absolute disgrace for what he did. Such a stupid thing to do. What a moron.
Then the pen, it was a pen. Then the dive, it was a dive, embarrassing really but it proves how little confidence our side have in their own ability that our first thought is a desperate play for a foul/desperately con the ref.
Not surprised that BD again didn’t agree with the ref, nor am I surprised that he again was proven wrong with his opinion, worrying really that he always seems to be wrong. Maybe he’s just sticking up for his players like DS did but to blame the ref every single week (even for red cards that you don’t end up appealing) stinks of clueless desperation.
Not sure what we take away from that game, confidence from the first half? Or do we go into the Southend game even more nervous like we did the Barrow game in fear of making a mistake, leading to us just being ■■■■? Huge game. Seen a lot of people saying drawing those games will be enough but I think they’re the only games, along with the Colchester game, that we have a slight chance of a win. A draw will only up the tension and delay them edging ever closer to us as we run out of games to pull away.
No point talking of sacking BD now, LP has made his decision. Even if we sacked BD now we wouldn’t have a new man in for Tuesday. Two HUGE decisions by LP have turned this season into a nightmare, the decision to sell Adebayo and replace him with an untried and untested kid from Oxford despite having a top 10 budget, and the decision to stick with an inexperienced coach despite having a top 10 budget.
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Agree with what you say - I’d also add Clarke’s decision to leave us.
The sense of frustration is everywhere. We have had a couple of decent performances against good sides - Bolton probably the best in the division just now - but have not got the points. Yesterday, things just did not go our way. White’s sending off was harsh (think about what the Crawley player did) and either their man should have gone too or it was a yellow card. The penalty was 50/50.
And it seems that every team we play is on the crest of a wave.
Survival is the only thing that matters. Replacing Dutton now would do nothing - he is doing his best with the players he has. If we played as we did on Saturday, we would hammer Southend (1-0 of course) but two things worry me. One is that we have only 2 centre backs and the other is that we play worse against poor teams.
Tuesday is going to be tense.
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Back to our conversation yesterday @Belphegor about parting with a ■■■■ and hen to watch the game,I’ve got no choice Tuesday as I’ve just remembered it’s a postponed game isn’t it and I paid for it originally…can’t wait 
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There was at least a week of speculation of Ade leaving prior to his departure, presumabley an even longer period of his making it clear he wasn’t going to sign a new contract. At that point we should have established the transfer fee threshold at which we were comfortable selling Ade, with the budget for his replacement being factored in and proper replacements identified and approached. We didn’t, and ended up with two ridiculous rookie loan signings that havn’t contributed anything. Thats total mis-management.
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But how longs it going to take for the people who make these decisions to either step aside or admit they have made poorly judged decisions and correct them in the future?
Sadly that does seem factual.
Geordie IN !!!
You get the DOF gig after giving the right answer
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I’m with you there PT. Walsall lose [OK, not unexpected]. England lose cricket [and thus the series]. England lose rugby [well, stuffed actually]. And Wales lose rugby - I have to be an honorary Wales supporter as wife is Welsh, it’s therefore a matter of health and safety [mine]. And to cap it all wife drops phone down toilet, discovers it can’t swim. I’ve had better days!
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Fans are complaining we sold our best (only) striker. In fairness to the club, they didn’t have a choice.
Sell him now for a price or get zero in the summer when his contract expires. No brainer. We received a decent sum which helped keep the club afloat.
Where the club fell short, as geordiesaddler quite correctly pointed out, the club failed to implement a plan B to target Eli’s replacement. Hence the panic loan of Derik and Clarke’s rapid departure and Dutton taking the first team duties.
So where has all this left us. Scrambling for our lives, or should I say, survival, a clueless manager who has put a huge target on his back with the officials (no wonder we don’t get any calls in our favour) and a ever increasing number of very disgruntled fans who have simply had enough.
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