I think it was being misread as goals that we scored, rather than in total.
Reported attendance against M K Dons today was 6,144
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Although we started alright, I donât think we were quite ourselves until they scored and the ref started to go to shit. We were losing out on second balls in midfield which isnât like us but once we got going there was only one winner.
Onto the next one!
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Stirk truly excellent, didnât miss a tackle, always available to receive the ball and constantly looking to get us moving on the front foot.
Again, a player who has developed a profile under Sadlerâs management that can only benefit his career.
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Our midfield, including Lakin when he plays are top class. I think they will be good enough for League one if we can keep them all.
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Superb win that.
As always had to earn it by doing the ugly things well. Really well. Supplemented by some touches of class along the way. Especially from the wing backs who were outstanding going forward. Gordon could have had a hat-trick.
Bit disappointed with the attendance. Around 5,400 Walsall fans. But weâve discussed that ad nauseum elsewhere. Letâs hope it builds as the season goes on.
Think we can finish 669 and still go up. Wonât count any chickens until weâre there but it would take some collapse to blow it from here.
I love this team. Today was potentially awkward. Especially going a goal down. But to man they stood up and gave it everything.
Now gonna stare at the table for an hour.
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I said this to someone after last weeks game. I have never seen a Walsall team so much better than every other team in the division. We are streets ahead.
Was a bit crazy on the train on the way back today. I said to the kids, drink it up boys, these are your days.
Brilliant it is.
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He doesnât mind the losing. Strange bloke. Celebrates a jolly good game !
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As they were singing in the Lower - 4-2 to the one-man team!
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Not one consistently better, like this team, and not against different playing styles. Buckleyâs team could murder opponents on their day, and like this one, outplay higher division teams. But they were prone to off days , especially against physical long-ball teams. I canât ever remember a team being this reliably superior.
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Yeah, I started going when Buck was manager, could smash any team on any given day. We were often poor away from home, in the league though.
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Fantastic character shown today. Thought weâd lose when they scored. Felt like the officials were there to give MK a helping hand.
But no, we were all over them. Looked like we could create chances at will.
Special mention for Jamma and Albert. I was sceptical they could do the necessary work, but they did.
EIEIO Up the football league we goâŚ
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I make that 16 games unbeaten now? the record on wiki states 21 but not sure if that is all comps or just league only. Still another record to aim towards.
The league 2record is 99 points , 100 points never broken since the league rebranded as league 2
Only 3 teams have broke 90
Can we make a new record ?
No. I was gutted. But still in awe of what the team, this club are doing this season.
Itâs a miracle and they are all saints 
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UTS
I agree. Stirk in particular is amazing.
Player for player you could go through the âbest of the restâ of the sides weâve had since we came down to this level and this side would beat them comfortably.
In fact I think thereâs only Rushworth and Elija that would get in this team. Scar maybe.
But for this team to be so demonstrably better than everything thatâs gone before, not just as a team but man for man too is phenomenal.
Sadler doing quite a job.
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Indeed he is. I am more than happy to be proved wrong. I canât believe what he has done here. We hardly have any possession, but you wouldnât notice it watching us play, we are so entertaining to watch, create loads of chances.
I love the way we crank it up in the second half and blow teams away.
I think Sadler should be given an extra D to add to his name after winning promotion. And we will win promotion.
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To me personally that was the biggest statement victory in recent history at this football club.The vultures were circling,waiting for that scrap of meat that indicated we couldnât cope without Nathan Lowe.Just imagine us losing 2-0 today and Crewe won like they did in reality, it wouldnât have taken long for the vultures to start saying things like âa one man teamâ or âyour going to throw this away now Loweâs gone backâ. but no this bunch of players werenât going to subscribe to any of that.We go 1-0 down and they could have folded but they did the exact opposite of that and kicked on to win that game 4-2 and letâs not beat about the bush it could have been more.Mat Sadler and his backroom team deserve huge credit for that victory because letâs be honest itâs been a bit of a week when your top scorer gets called back to his parent club,but we have managed to score 9 goals in the last two home games and Lowe has scored only one of them.Thatâs not taking anything away from his 17 goals that he scored for us during his spell but it does show we have goals from absolutely anywhere on that pitch.This is a special side and that today with all the surrounding ingredients involved with it was dealt with absolutely unbelievably.
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This team just keeps surprising me.
I thought this would be a tough challenge today, and it turned out to be another cake walk. Donât want to sound disparaging to MK dons, but f*ck it, itâs MK dons so Iâm gonna.
They were half decent in the first half, tried to pass it nicely but really only had a direct ball up to Hogan as a tactic. You can see why theyâve brought in Crowley, to give them something more in between the lines.
We were under the cosh a bit, but like we do time and time again, we stick in there, keep it tight and keep the opposition within reach, then, the second half. Wow. MK dons wonât have known what hit them, like County a couple of weeks ago, like Harrogate before themâŚ
We just completely suffocated them, like the footballing equivalent of a Boa Constrictor, we take hold and squeeze the life out of teams. We seem to start the 2nd half 20 yards higher, and teams just donât know what to do. Itâs a shift of gear that seems to throw opposition teams in to disarray, perhaps because theyâre not expecting it, but itâs becoming a trait of our season, and yet it keeps working.
Donât think there was a performance from a Walsall player below an 8 today - but Liam Gordon would be my pick. He dealt with their right wing back really well, took his goal brilliantly, couldâve had another, and was a constant threat.
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