You are in denial that we weren’t outplayed then.
Either that or we justvhave different healthy opinions. I am happy to accept that. Give it a try sometime.
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It felt like we were in with a chance at various points yesterday , but stupid errors at the back and some poor finishing cost us in the end. Ultimately, those will be the reasons why we won’t make the play-offs this season.
I actually thought we looked decent going forward and the quality of the chances we created were good enough to at least score another. The goal we scored with ten men on the pitch was a cracker and exactly the type of fast, passing football that I’m sure we all want to see more of.
As others have mentioned, MK away was a proper mullering. Yesterday, not so much imo.
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This is one of my biggest fears for next season to be honest. When the dust has settled on this season there’s no doubt we’ve made decent progress on the last 3 or 4 seasons and in theory have a lot smaller gap now to make up to the top 7 or indeed top 3. Allied with the fact we also have a significant amount of our key players (and a young squad with potential to further improve next season) already signed up for next season and I expect Trivela will ensure there are funds to further improve the squad, I think we find ourselves in a real position of strength and opportunity. However it seems a minority, a vocal minority of our fans just won’t accept Sadler. They were underwhelmed when he got the job and he could solve the Middle East crisis and they would still pick faults in him. The toxicity, booing of players, sarcastic jeering of his subs, helps nobody. We, the supporters can be our own worst enemies and I think there will be a demand amongst these fans of bear perfection in what will again be a very competitive league. Any sort of a slow start next season and I can see these morons turning on him and the team and we may become overburdened by expectation.
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If we don’t finish in the top 7 next season then it’s a failure.
We still might this season 
but the pressure is on next season.
And rightly so.
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I do agree again there Thanatos. I think top 7 should be the goal next season.
Will be interesting to see who signs in the summer. Think its too early to say things like ‘failure’ until we know what the squad is.
Beaten 3-1 at home, collecting a bunch of bookings out of frustration including a second yellow and a coach, less possession despite only being on level terms for a minute of the 90 and I’m in denial we were outplayed. Good one.
Called it earlier:
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Don’t believe that Sadler gets until the end of next season to get us top 7. He has to have us in there or very close from the off. Or the nouse around his tenure becomes loud enough to make it untenable.
noise not nouse!
Ridiculous point. I totally accept the criticism of yesterday’s performance. We were poor at best front to back. And I have acknowledged that we have been outplayed several times this season both when winning and losing. Just don’t think yesterday was one of them.
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Agree also. Trivela’s aim is to get us promoted. They will have seen enough progress this season to expect a good run at it next season. I think that playoffs will be the minimum expectation. We will of course get evidence of this in the summer as the squad needs a few additions.
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Given all the reasons you stated in that post, the expectations will be raised next season, and therefore the pressure to deliver also.
In the 5 years we have been in this league we have averaged 2.8 wins from the opening 10 fixtures. Sadler actually has 4 wins from the first 10 games which is the highest. I’d be expecting improvement on that if we are to give promotion a real tilt next season. I always think we tend to have poor October/November, my numbers say we have won 12 games out of 48 in this league during that period since relegation, and then have regularly followed this with poor second halves of the season where following the transfer window we bizarrely come out of it weaker. This season has bucked that trend, but given a slow start and poor October/November we are likely to fall short.
It is therefore clear to me where we need to improve, and that is the 1st half of the season. Having a number of players signed up will hopefully help that, but if there is a poor start then questions will be raised, and legitimately so.
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I wouldn’t disagree, we will expect improvement and given we’re going to finish very close to the play offs next season it should very much be the aim. However being 12th at the end of August, 10th when the clocks go back doesn’t necessarily mean the season ends in failure. Those that have had and continue to have the knives out for Sadler will no doubt make it so and keep undue and unnecessary pressure in him and could make for a toxic atmosphere if they continue their booing of individuals and team performances and jeering of subs made.
I don’t think we should be booking individual players during the game to be honest - but I do believe fans have the right to boo the team off if we have been appalling at half time or full time.
I think a lot of it is just frustration and hope. Years of mind numbing awful football does that to a fan base - so I kinda get why folk are impatient.
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How is it, it’s factual 
all of those things happened in the game.
I agree fans pay there money so are entitled to vent there frustrations but in all honestly while we are in a promotion push i really don’t see the benefit to booing the team off. Its clear the team respond better to encouragement as shown in a couple of games this season when we have gone behind.
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I’ve got a great idea for the club, silent discos seem to be an established thing nowadays, how about introducing it to football. The club can sell branded noise cancelling headphones that fans can purchase with an app that has two playlists, one with all your Walsall classics, could get Becky Hill to record them, and one with booing on it.
Fans can then choose whichever playlist suits their mood, whilst protecting themselves from getting butt hurt by a view that opposes their own. Great for the club as well as they can receive data on the playlists chosen to judge the mood of the fan base and when to chuck in a Meet the Manager evening.
Might be a bit weird for away fans, but who cares about them anyway.
You can have that one for free Walsall FC 
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The same fans happily patting themselves on the back for the positive influence they had in games recently where their reaction to going a goal behind seemingly galvanized and lifted the group to push on and perform better….are probably the same ones saying that booing or jeering them is their right (it may well be) and it shouldn’t affect them because “it’s their job”.
Like it or not, the crowd are a valuable and powerful influence on performance (hence home form being so important and influential) and if you agree they have lifted the team you also have to by definition accept that they can hamper them also.
To what degree is of course arbitrary.
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