Have another look on Saturday evening. 
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What season.
Guessing Adomah will be given ten minutes upfront.
Very bleak for the opening day. I think people are fatigued by this division now and the lack of desire to mount a realistic challenge to get out of it the right way.
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First pay back on my 400 quid.
0-1. We dozed off at a set piece.
And missed a pen.
Sadler says that nothing is decided on the opening day of the season, there were some promising signs and the way we conceded the goal was disappointing.
Asylum seekers from the hotel given free tickets as a sign of friendship and solidarity go back to their rooms half an hour in.
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I’m going for a papering over the cracks 1-0 win.
A win here doesn’t not justify any of the recruitment criticism this summer. If we win 7 of the first 10 or something like that, I’ll hold my hat up.
But the comments I have made are based on where I think we will finish as a whole - not one game.
We really should be winning this and I hope we do.
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1-1. Very poor summer of recruitment from Boycott,Sadler,Sadler,O’Kelly and whoever else is responsible for building us a team to win promotion. I am usually very optimistic before the season kicks off but am not feeling it this year.
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Just to lift everyones spirits including my own just remember that in Graydon’s first season the pre season was not good and everyone was fearing relegation and look how that turned out!
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When you’ve heard that 24 times it starts to wear thin.
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Fancy us to win this, happy clappers will be out in force.
Then We will then get battered the following 5.
Tends to be the pattern.
Must be a bloody good drink that you’ve got there mate.
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At the moment I can’t get past the fact that if we go behind we won’t have the fire power to equalise so either 0-0 or a 1-0 loss in my eyes.
I think that Morecambe can give me sunshine.
A wise choice would be to remain patient with the team because it will be a cagey first half, I suspect.
If we start at 100mph, we’ll not sell any ice creams going at that speed!
We weren’t that bad.
We were brilliant against Sheff Wednesday actually, was quite excited by the time the season started.
On it early 
With the goal.coming in the first 15 minutes and Sadler saying ‘thats not like us’, only for him to repeat it numerous times throughout the season.
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Jesus Christ … rinse and repeat until it happens again.
Ah, the new season is upon us, and our beloved Walsall is preparing to navigate another year of footballing folly. Picture this: the squad is about as well put together as a three-legged chair in a funhouse – wobbly, unreliable, and destined to cause confusion.
Gordon and Matt, our striking duo, have graced the pre-season with a goal tally that can only be described as ‘comically tragic.’ Zero goals! It’s like having two mannequins up front – statically positioned and about as threatening as a wet paper bag. Sadler’s grand plan? Perhaps it’s a masterstroke of reverse psychology, or maybe it’s just a profound misunderstanding of what constitutes effective footballing tactics. Either way, their performance has been as invigorating as watching paint dry in a dilapidated warehouse.
And the transfer window, oh, what a spectacle. With only 48 hours remaining, we’re about to welcome a couple of under-23 loan signings. Imagine buying a 20-year-old second-hand sofa with a missing leg and hoping it’ll fit perfectly in your living room – that’s our transfer strategy. It’s a masterclass in optimism, or possibly just a tragicomedy of errors.
Losing Hutchinson, our former star player, feels like losing the last bit of sanity in a house fire. Sadler’s vision for the team might be more baffling than a Salvador Dalí painting during a blackout, but hey, every football club needs its own brand of tragic hero, and Sadler is here to play that part with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face.
Now, let’s address our defense – or, more accurately, our ‘defense.’ It’s the same backline that conceded goals with the same frequency that a vending machine dispenses snacks. Watching them last season was like watching a car crash in excruciating slow motion – every second dragging out the horror. Our possession stats? Lower than a snake’s belly in a ditch. It’s like watching someone try to perform brain surgery with a spoon – endlessly painful and deeply frustrating.
So, as we face Morecambe with a bench so thin it could be mistaken for a plank of wood, let’s put on our best faces and embrace the absurdity. Long balls and a footballing philosophy that seems to have been concocted during a particularly grim hangover? It’s all part of Sadler’s grand design, or at least that’s what I’ll tell myself while clutching onto the last shreds of hope. Here’s to another season of hilariously tragic misadventures and misplaced optimism – it’s bound to be as riveting as a documentary on the history of wallpaper.
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If needed I would throw Williams on as a No 9 if we are behind on 70 minutes to scrap it out and Harry the defence
Doom merchant.
0-2.
When do the club normally put out the pre match manager interview?
Also, why haven’t the EnS been asking what’s going on?