Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and the millions reading across the world, WELCOME TO LEAGUE TWO 2021/22!
The first stop of this ride will be at the home of Tranmere Rovers as Prenton Park hosts The Saddlers in game one of the new season.
Our hosts go into the game having re-appointed Mickey Mellon as their manager following the departure of Keith Hill just before their play-off failure last season.
Walsall head to Merseyside with a new-look coaching team and also a near new squad of players, with the promise of a better season than last hopefully.
Tranmere Rovers have acquired 13 new players over the summer, with perhaps the most high-profile of those being Callum McManaman, once of Wigan and West Brom, who joins them following a stint with Melbourne Victory in .
No form guide for this game as pre-season doesn’t indicate anything.
@TheBostedSlab can do the honours this season of players to play for both clubs.
Who is going to the game? Who is confident ahead of the season? Does anyone on here think we need another striker (can’t seem to see it mentioned anywhere )?
Predictions for starting XI welcome, but I’d suggest it will be as close to the team that started vs Cheltenham as possible, with Carl Rushworth to establish himself as the number one from the start of the season.
A win would be excellent for what looks likely to be a big saddlers following . But I would take a draw before a ball is kicked which would be a solid start against a decent Tranmere team who I expect to be there or there abouts come the end of the season
First game away draw.
No Holden or proven striker , no attacking options off bench and kinsella will play alongside labadie so we will lack attacking threat but be solid imo so for me a solid 1-1 to start the season and get us ticking along
Keiron Morris, Corey Blackett-Taylor, Andy Cook, Morgan Ferrier, Chris Shuker, Paul Hall, Bobby Hutchinson, David Kelly, John Manning, Pedro Matias, Derek Mountfield, Simon Osborn, Ray Train, Joe Murphy, Sam Mantom, Michael Ricketts, Kevin Cooper, Gavin Ward, Andy Taylor, Matt Gill, Marvin Robinson, Marc Laird, Josh Ginnelly, Clayton McDonald, Mark Wilson, John Kelly, Kane Wilson, Nick Henry, Tom Curtis, Matthew Pennington, Neil Davis, Jason Price, Martin Devaney and Edrissa Sonko have played for both clubs as we recalled last season.
There may well be others before my time, or I have forgotten.
There is potential for another three names to be added to the list on Saturday, should Ash Taylor, Manny Monthe and Joss Labadie make their competitive debuts for the Saddlers.
I’d take a point in the opening away fixture 1-1 will do nicely looks like we are going to take over 1000 from the amount of tickets sold on the other thread,excellent support don’t shut up all game and sing your hearts out it’s been a while UTS
With the same sort of buzz around the club, new management, new owner new era, etc back in 2019, Northampton away we took about 1400, so I’d imagine about the probaly slightly less with slightly further to travel
That’s a nice £837.50 donation to Ticketmaster by Walsall fans. I think a lot will be waiting to buy via the ticket office this week so we should easily match the Northampton figure.
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