It’s horrible mate. I’m back as a regular for the first time since 2015, and only because my old man had effectively run out of people to go with and he deserves better than going on his own.
I’m already joking with him about finding better things to do, but genuinely the only things I look forward to are a bit of quality time with him and a balti pie. And due to the club’s ineptitude, i’ve had one balti pie this season.
I mistakenly thought things couldn’t continue to decline as they have since I stopped going (the Smith / Whitney promotion attempt aside), but turns out I was way wrong and it makes me sad.
The one thing I am confused about and it is something that I would question Taylor about is that when he became our manager he said he wanted to give us back an identity that the fans could associate a Walsall side with and be proud of. After watching today I have no idea what that identify is meant to be??? I have felt like this over the past few games. As the season progresses we seem to be playing more and more long balls over the top. I thought that we were meant to be trying to move away from hoof ball?
Yep, to play a passing game you firstly need to have the ball, I am sure Alan Buckley said that once actually. We are pretty much always losing the possession battle every game, even at home.
That is fair enough, I actually think you can play an attractive style of football without passing the ball around for ten minutes. I think back to Graydon and we often didn’t win the possession battle then either and there were plenty of long balls up to Rammell to chase, but when we hit teams on the counter, that was fun to watch. One end to the other in about 3 passes as quick as a flash.
I agree with you, I have no idea what this identity is meant to be. I don’t see any of the passages of play he talks about working on all week. It is really horrible to be so negative but it is what it is.
We need to be careful very careful bristol Rovers were non league recently I’ll admit bigger club than us brought 1000 fans today Taylor should be told he’s got 5 games he won’t be told thst obviously if we stay up a point above the relegation zone he’ll be ok , people need to vent their anger at Pomlett
The blokes had 9 games, of course he’s shouldn’t be out, but he needs to learn quick and work out a way to grind results out of the shit he’s been given.
It’s just an invitation for you to actually provide some insight to the debate. I honestly don’t know what your point of view is, other than “it’s the fans fault” and “Walsall fans are toxic” Can you not see how that viewpoint annoys people who spend considerable sums of money supporting the team up and down the country?
It’s such a lazy generalisation that doesn’t take into account any of the bad decisions both on and off the field that are continuing to facilitate our decline towards non-league football.
If you actually went to the games (and I’m not sure you do), you would realise that inside the stadium the support for the team has been anything other than ‘toxic’ for a very long time.
In my opinion the current owners should thank.their lucky stars that they still have 4,000 odd magnificent loyal supporters (paying customers) despite the chronic under investment in players for several years and the lamentable failure to do even the basics like clean up the stadium and fix the bogs. At some clubs crowds would be south of 2,000 or worse by now. That, as others have said, apart from Jeff bonser and Roy Whalley all the old guard are still in place tell us all we need to know.
