But it’s not like the effort put into the cup games doesn’t affect the players and their susceptibility to injury.
Anyway I’m not complaining, just observing there is a cost.
Nah, you’re right, it’s been class 
We still changed the team, almost completely against Exeter where we had the personnel too. You seemed to claim doing that in previous season wasn’t “giving it a go”?
Again, nah, you’re right, we literally didn’t put effort in until Trivela Never mind that the thing you whinged about most under Flynn was a lack of finesse rather than bags of effort, or that Darrell Clarke, for all his faults, never seemed to put a team together that lacked effort. We can pretend that literally has only happened this season if you like PS we haven’t lost to Rochdale 2-0 since 2017 … and that was at home 
I guess you mean the 1-0 dead rubber under Flynn after he’d taken over the Matt Taylor disaster and kept us up. Daft to pick one game, and especially in that context. Wimbledon away last season could be used to make that point about most of this squad and manager, but that would be just as silly.
I can see we have a more rounded squad this year, and I also think it fits together better than previous ones. Banging on about effort is just silly though.
We did play a rotated team in all the cup games, I am struggling to remember who played in them now, not sure Farq or McEntee did but they are both pretty injury prone. Liam Gordon’s was an impact injury. I guess J. Gordon, well the amount of running he does and the age he is at now it could be a problem playing more games.
The momentum gained by doing well in the cups should also be a positive, I’m sure even with the decent start we have had in the league it wouldn’t feel so good right now if we had flunked out the league cup and got battered at Blues.
Just a shame we never really get any luck in the cup draws, next round though.
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First time this season to get a good hiding 1-3
In the style of el-nombre…
Nah, he’s still a fat c#!t. 
Other than that, I couldn’t agree more. I don’t mind a player who has a bit of edge to their personality, if it’s conducive to a positive output on the pitch; and it’s difficult to criticise his output in what wasn’t the best of teams here.
Always makes me smile when fans give it the big 'un to players and then whine when they give some back.
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Absolutely, 100 percent agree. Nobody clutches their pearls quicker than your average football fan.
The Adebayor celebration is still the funniest celebration in history.
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Yes it is! How can you forget 5 yrs of mind numbing football? And the people who stopped coming in those 5yrs ( some of them never to return) will want more than a good start to the season to start attending on a regular basis again. There are about 8-10 of my close family who still go home and away on a fairly regular basis. There are a lot more family and people I know well who will either never go again because they’ve got out of the habit over the past 5yrs or take some persuasion to start going again.
I agree that the last five years have been awful, and I reject the idea that we should be satisfied with steady progress in this terrible division, or that finishing 10th last year was a good result.
But, having said all that, the start to this season really has given me some cause for optimism. We played some good football in every match before MK Dons, as good as a start as I could have wanted, even though we lost to Tranmere. Only super teams like Man City play really well week after week. We would be strong contenders for automatic promotion if we can continue this start, and the fans should not lose heart because of one bad defeat.
However it could be that the start we have had turns out to be untypical of how we play over the season. MK Dons might just be a return to normal, so I am not getting over-optimistic.
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I think it is the away form which will decide where we finish. I expect us to be strong at home, our record at home was alright last season.
We had the nice day at Swindon and played well at Blues. We probably shouldn’t have lost at Tranmere but even so, the last two away games in the league were a bit familiar.
If it’s mind numbing it’s surely easy to forget?
Well that’s their choice. Sound a bit entitled to me.
Good to hear it
What do they want?
Pomlett whipped whilst begging forgiveness for the last 5 years at half time?
Walsall challenging Liverpool and Man City for the premier league?
Walsall put out a team that competes for the division they are in, not sure what more they can reasonably do without cheating in some way? (Which surely no one wants)
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Thats I great idea you should have come up with that a few years ago .
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I just wish some of our fans stop trying to wind Cook up. He doesn’t need any more motivation against us. I shouldn’t have thought he’s forgot the abuse he got at Accrington from some knobs. He’s human and personal abuse is out of order. Say what you want about Cook but he always gave 100% for us. Shame the boo boys made his mind up to leave and apart from
Mansfeild (and he still scored against us) he’s done ok since leaving .
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I mean if you were at Accrington, you would know that statement is not true.
It’s in the past now so it doesn’t really matter but some people really do want to rewrite history.
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You do know I’m not the one in charge?
Didn’t he react badly to fans being annoyed at the loss and booing the team? Then tried to offer fans out before hiding in the dressing room after stirring things up?
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We have to take into account that at times in recent years it’s been a bit of a pantomime watching Walsall and although I have never attended one of these festive occasions I do understand the audience is allowed to boo and jeer enthusiastically.
He’s human, bless his cotton socks.
A large congregation of Walsall fans headed to the front at the end of the game singing “Your not fit to wear the shirt” to all the team, which was true for almost all of the players that day and plenty of them building up to it.
Cook came over with his chest puffed out arms gesturing and saying “come on then” he had an exchange with one fan and said “Don’t blame me blame slippy fingers” (Roberts) This isn’t second hand, I saw and heard all of this myself.
At this point I left, I was with my wife and it looked like it was going to kick off, but apparently he walked away then, that bit I don’t know for sure though.
Cook is a good striker, no doubt at all. To say he always gave 100% for Walsall simply isn’t true. He wasn’t alone mind I’ll say that.
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To be honest (forgive me if I’m repeating myself) I would have Cookie back in a heartbeat…proper CF that man is.
He’s great in the air and scores goals. If had still been with us we would be out of this league by now (imho).
IF we can keep him quiet tomorrow we have enough talent to win the game, if not, then we all know he loves scoring against us, he seems to do it on a regular basis whenever we play them.
We don’t need to fear any side in this division, we’ve gone toe-to-toe with three L1 teams so far this season and sent them home packing.
The lads have to shake off the loss the MK Dons and get back to winnings ways.
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Again I saw that, and can verify everything you have said there is true, he did indeed react that way (and can also verify some of the things that were being said to him by fans, and had been most of the season), but that simply is true. In fact that reaction tells me he was giving everything. Surely, if he didn’t give a shit, he’d be walking past not arsed and moving on in the summer regardless? You could lay a lot of things at him, maybe not the most technically gifted player in the world, maybe some of the weight jibes weren’t without a grain of truth, but a lack of effort is unfair. I think it is of 99 percent of footballers and manager. Fans often mistake a lack of cohesion, or tactical nous, or quality, for simple effort
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