I only go back to 79-80 which was a pretty special one as we got promoted from Div 4 but I was only 6 so memories are sketchy .
As this is shaping up to be potentially special , which is yours and why ?
It’s amazing how you want to devour every detail coming out the club / match report when you are doing well , the whole thing becomes intoxicating . I am sure much more so than for the likes of Man City / Liverpool etc ; this sort of thing only happens to us every 10 years or so on average .
My Top 3 would be
83/84 - the cup run , Arsenal , Liverpool etc and the quality of football- absolutely mesmerising .
87/88 Promotion under Coakley - Kelly , Christie ,Cross , Shakespeare , 100 goals scored and finally getting up to the 2nd tier after many attempts - very exciting
98/98 - Graydons team against all the odds . Just pure sheer bloody mindedness organised teamwork , the pinnacle of what a team can do when everyone works incredibly hard and is organised .
Probably age has a lot to do with it - I had the time and energy to follow all 3 above seasons religiously .
Will we be talking about 24/25 in this vein in 30 years time ?
Dickie dosh season, it was almost funny how boring we made it but we won every week. Culminating in Notts county and Swindon away. I was around for the Graydon season but perhaps a bit young to fully appreciate it for what it was.
Have to say the season Dean Smith left was incredible fun for me personally, up until fookin Barnsley, shame we couldnt go all the way but it is what it is. Best football we have played in my lifetime though.
Special mention for the great escape in league one year too. Well the second half of it anyway.
Probably the 94-95 season when Nicholl took over from Kenny Hibbitt early into that season had some fantastic players and never forget Bury away that clinched it.
What made it better was we’d been shit for about 7 years and almost went bust at one point.
2003/04 was fun. I know we got relegated but lots of memories. Signing Merson. Beating Albion 4-1 beating Forest 4-1 watching Vinny Samways Watching Andy Petterson Colin Lee getting sacked. Beating Rotherham in a sold out Bescot the last day of the season
A real rollercoaster, way more interesting than the wildest Soap Opera
That was one of my worst ! Such hope , almost exhilaration at the start …Almost top 6 at Xmas , daring to think of top flight … turning into a nightmare and relegation
Sir Ray’s first promotion with us. Being as we were relegation favourites, to end up being promoted and finishing above Man.City was something really really special. I also loved the play off promotion at the Millenium and Dickie Dosh’s title winning season.
As a supporter of your own team you always try and see positives and rose tinted specs always leave room for a little hope and quite often far too much hope based on reality. But having followed the club home and away for a number of years prior, it really did seem totally hopeless that preseason.
My favourite was 79/80 as it was when I first started supporting Walsall. I loved matches at Fellows Park but I was a lot younger then.
I must admit I’m enjoying this season so far though.
74/75 for me.
After years of struggling to stay up in Division 3, we finally found a team and a hero (Alan Buckley) to give us some pride again.
Those wins against Man Utd and Newcastle in front of the packed Fellows Park terraces were something else.
Nearly 20,000 at both games (probably more than that with Ken Wheldon as chairman having a liking for cash)
In those days the FA Cup was a highly regarded competition, no resting first team players by the top sides then.
I am not old enough to remember them, but I would guess the back to back promotions in the late 50’s/early 60’s were something else.
Winning what was for many years our only trophy after spending most of the 1950’s struggling (We had to apply for re-election several times) must have been special.
98/99
00/01
and if this ends how it could do it will go above Dicky Dosh’s league win for me because of the way we are doing it and above all because as good as that was I feel a much closure connection to the players in this team which feels much closure to the sort of connection I had with Graydon’s teams.
98/99 - bookies had us down as relegation fodder - but then we finish second. Above Man City! - Loved Ray Graydon as manager - don’t think he’ll ever be topped.
1959/60 and 60/61. Back to back promotions and what was truly a golden age in the history of Walsall fc. I was a young lad and thought it would always be like that, Christ was I wrong .
Did you go to the away game at Shrewsbury that clinched promotion?
I think that would’ve been some occasion.
I saw a photo of the front page of the Express and Star for the night of that match.
It was headlined ‘Everything on wheels’ to describe the Saddlers support.
I was told we took over 10,000 supporters, helping to set the record attendance at Shrewsbury,'s Gay Meadow ground.
This season would be up there as we’ve done nothing since 2014-15 and we haven’t been promoted in almost 18 years which is as long as I can remember in my lifetime.
I was there with my dad and older brother. I’m not sure how many we took but the gate was over 16,000 and we won 2 1.
The run in that year resulted in a loss at QPR (I think) followed by six straight wins, Shrewsbury being number six and our penultimate game. The final game that season ended in a draw.
For me that was truly our golden age but in fairness many of the (ahem) younger generations would think of Sir Ray and what he helped accomplish.
This season feels special too at the moment.
Watching Andy Petterson 
Colin Lee getting sacked. Beating Rotherham in a sold out Bescot the last day of the season
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