HT Cheltenham 0-1 Walsall, Devlin
Egerts having a shocker and Brewits on the bench, quick get the Rowett order in⌠" Hello Gary its Deano at Walsall, thanks for the offer of helpâŚwe need two centre halves, a right back, centre mid, a striker, and a right winger. Cheers Gary, oh and by the way, all for nowt, cheers again, Kory sends his love".
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The board have got to back dean and let him sign 3 or 4 decent proven league 1 players
âŚpigs will fly firstâŚ
Itâs looking like we need to sign half a team of decent league one footballers before next week? i just canât see it myself so now i AM worried.
Who, though?
Realistically, which particular proven L1 players are either going to jump at that chance to join Walsall above their other options, or arenât going to be of interest to any other (and letâs be honest here- bigger) clubs in L1, even if money were no object (which it is).
Not having a go, by the way⌠Itâs just that the phrase proven League One players crops up so often, but the identity of such players is never quantified, & that should tell itâs own story.
Keates has left all this far too late and has to shoulder some of the responsibility.
You donât have to be Christiano Ronaldo to be a bog standard league one defender. You just have to be able to head and kick the ball away, position yourself so that bog standard league one strikers dont get the better of you too often, and lop up and score the occasional header from corners and free kicks. Bucket loads of these players were available on free transfers this summer, as they always are. They cost about 1500-2000 a week I reckon, but they are an essential part of a league one club that wantâs to stay in league one. Thatâs why all the other fair to middling league one clubs have signed some. We used to do that, Green, Tillson, Viveash, Barras, some of them became legends but they were just journeymen players who knew their trade. I used to love watching Andy Tillsonâs warm up for a few minutes every game because I found it funny after a few pre-match beers. All the other players running around, stretching, doing fancy stuff or whatever. He used to stand on the half-way line and have one of the staff lob 75 yard punts at him for half an hour, each one he would head as far back to the sender as he could. Them wert days.
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Meh doesnât matter how much time you have if you donât have the moolah
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Nathan Pond was/is one such player, but heâs gone to Salford; and that in itself is no knock on Walsall, because theyâve also prized 13 goals from midfield Danny Lloyd out of none-too-stingy Posh because ÂŁÂŁÂŁÂŁ. It just demonstrates how cut & dry the market for competent L1 footballers isnât, these days.
0-2 now - Cook!
Doesnât matter anything if you have an owner whoâs primary focus is how many more hundreds of thousands/millions of pounds he can make for his pension fund out of a little football club to go with the many millions heâs already managed to stockpile for his retirement. Hope heâs happy, what a great guy.
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GS - youâve summed it up perfectly. How has the club let us get into this position?
Surely not?! Letâs face it, we were in a better position this time last season but thatâs an inconvenient truth. I hope Keates pulls some rabbits out of the hat this week and we go on to have a very successful season but thus far, it hasnât looked very impressive.
The club = Bonser = The Bonser family Pension Fund, Oh and a pesky football team that want to play at his entertainment venue as regularly as TWICE a month, even more on occasions, how inconsiderate.
FT Cheltenham 1-2 Walsall
According to the clubâs twitter, trialist A (presumably Egert) gave away two penalties. Not a great job interview, unless it was deliberate sabotage having seen the contract offer.
And trialist b an unused sub, odd
Well Iâm trying to save up some money for the season starting, havnât had a day off work for 9 weeks.
Going to drink some cheap lager in the house whilst listening to Bogshed on youtube. Wake me up when we sign someone.
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At this rate i would take an old unfit roper back 
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