I think in the first four seasons we had several gates of below 3,000, I’d guess a few each season. 90-91 started OK, I suppose the novelty of the new ground and the hope of a promotion campaign, but gates dropped away. Then 94-95 was better, about 3,500 was probably the low level. I know for the Scunny game there was only 4,500, and yet five days later we clinched automatic promotion. Our crowds now are very good, all things considered.
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Boycott needs to understand very quickly that this club may be owned by his clients but it always has been and always will belong to the fans. If we are not happy he’s going to know about it. The club will be here long after he’s gone.
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I wouldn’t take that one to the bank. I get your overall point though.
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The fans need to understand that Boycott shares the same frustration has fans but needs fans to understand that patience is needed due to the club being a complete mess when Trivela took over. 
The complete and utter horrorshow of the first 5 minutes yesterday which completely set the tone as our players completely bricked it in the face of a confident team actually properly on the front foot was not caused by fan frustration. The atmosphere seemed quite positive before the game.
We are simple folk really us Walsall fans. Just get the odd tackle in early doors and clear the lines and heaven forbid make the opposition goalie make a save. Also if Liam Gordon fancied chucking his body at a cross and got within 5 yards of the bloke crossing it he might find we didn’t turn so easily.
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He’s more Mo Fail than Mo Faal at the moment. I hope he can turn it around but he has missed a couple of gilt-edged chances, one against Sutton and yesterday’s. We need to get behind him and big him up. As for Josh Gordon, he was never an instinctive finisher like DJ, who has the God-given knack of being in the right place at the right time. I don’t see why we signed Flash - Oteh can do what Flash does. I hope DJ is back soon - Matt Sadler is probably regretting treading on DJ’s foot now!!
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He does understand I have no doubt he looked incredibly frustrated after the game, he was having a sensible conversation with supporters and it sounded like a heated but sensible debate was being had but some supporters took it too far jeering and swearing at him. He didn’t have to come out to speak to supporters and listen to their concerns. Pomlett was long gone but he knows he’d have got dogs abuse if he tried to engage like Boycott did.
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That’s exactly the point. Lots of fans make a lot of sacrifices, both in terms of time and money to support Walsall FC. It’s a 50-mile round trip for me, which is nothing compared to what others do, and I do pick and choose my games. If I had gone yesterday, I would have been well pissed off at the players apparently not being overly bothered at conceding poor goals. The two reasons that we are16th in Division 4 are that we have let in so many soft, avoidable goals this season and we don’t score enough. I’m not even sure what our best formation is: 3-5-2 or 4-3-3. I’d probably err on the side of 4-3-3 given that we don’t have the wing backs to make 3-5-2 work effectively.
It’s not good enough again. That’s 7 straight seasons of mediocrity, where we have been overtaken by the likes of Barrow, Stevenage, Accrington Stanley and Harrogate! FFS - enough!
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All clubs pursuing a policy of stability and not changing manager
Perhaps their managers know what they are doing!
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Good point.
Anyone looking for a correlation between clubs having success and their keeping the manager for a long time, should ask themselves which way round the causation works.
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I see we conceded from a long throw yet again yesterday, as at Gillingham the previous game.
Looks like after that away game at Alfreton, when we consistently struggled to deal with their long throws, teams are targeting us.
Flynn and Clarke should have known what they were doing with the amount of experience they have in the game but look what happened there mucka.I am beginning to think the Bezzla is cursed tbh.
Or perhaps they have chairmen who know what they are doing
We don’t focus on defending those in training because we are to busy concentrating on our own shortest long throws delivered by Knowles that have made a huge impact to our attacking capabilities 
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All well and good, we also apparently did the same with Stirk, his reels showed him to be a box to box midfielder with an added ability to score wonder goals…what did we get? An average 4th division journeyman that added very little to our squad.
‘Cats’ also very eloquently stated much further up this thread that Faal & Flash are this years Matt & Stevens…once more January proves to have been a complete shambles of poor recruitment.
I have moaned constantly that the club needs an overhaul from top to bottom when it comes to the football side of the equation. Sadler has to go, he just doesn’t get it that we are inconsistent, easy to score against, easy to beat and now have a forward line that is as cack as it has been for the past 7 seasons, so we play with fear, we come on to the pitch thinking how many will we lose by today…totally unacceptable, and then for Sadler to say “that’s not like us” is tantermount to hypocrisy, of course it’s like us, it’s what we do, how many goals have we let in during the first fifteen minutes or so? Our opposition know it’s our weakness and they go for the jugglar, the easy way to kill a circus…which is what our team is at the moment.
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Barrow and Stevenage changed managers frequently until they got the right one. Phil Brown saved them from relegation but they discarded him and got Wild. Accringtons manager has had years of proven improvement on his CV. Harrogate the same essentially.
I want stability and I was all for Sadler being given a chance but where is the tangible improvement? Have we a style of play we can hang our hat on? Are individual players improving under his coaching?
Albeit with obvious shortcomings we do have a better set of players this season. It is looking to me more and more that any improvements we may have shown this year are entirely down to the better quality of player rather than anything the coach is extracting from them.
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I thought we were a well run club and would come of the Covid crisis stronger?
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Look how much of the goal is open and he tries to put it in the near side, and still didn’t hit the target, that is a bad one. It looked bad at the game but I didn’t realise until seeing it back just how bad it was.
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