However this is a ‘new dawn’, things will be done differently we’re told, so will the Americans be as stoic and as accepting of failure when things go wrong as the existing board would have done? We’ll see if they are as patient.
Also seems beating Salford wasn’t all it was cracked up to be eh?
If there’s no signs of improvement by December then he has to go.
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He should never have been in. Only Walsall could get an American takeover and get worse. Robdogs
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Out
Anyone have Neil Warnock’s phone number? 
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Get rid so he can go back to what he enjoys. Renting flats in Birmingham…
Does the fact he’s a rookie manager buy him time or mean he gets less time cos the board will want to cut their losses?
Personally I’m not sure - are this board too proud to admit a mistake? They’ve invested a lot of good-will capital in appointing Sadler - but equally they’ll know the longer they let it fester, the worse it’ll get. I think we will not want a repeat of the Taylor fiasco, so I think / hope we’ll be a bit more ruthless this time.
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We needed to hit the ground running
Whilst I understand the sentiments of give him time.
Flip that and reflect on how he currently uses the time he has. How much organisation, logic, preparation, patterns of play, set plays, idea of what we want to do …. Do you see in the games we play
I posted on the Morecambe thread - we look like chaos on a football pitch and blew up after 60/70 minutes had no legs left. It continues.
I saw more signs of an impact in Brian Duttons time in charge and that was awful.
I get he needs time - but throw us some signs he deserves it
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Today was a world away from what we saw when Sadler was caretaker manager at the end of last season. Clearly O"Kelly was the brains of that operation!
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A few of us pointed out that you shouldn’t judge a manager based on a few dead rubbers at the end of a season. Those games are totally different from games like today - but it’s games like today that matter.
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Not totally but can’t help.
Should never have got the job. Disaster waiting to happen. Let’s hope he is on a contract where we can swing the axe without it costing the club alot of money.
It’s actually been better than I thought it would be so far.
However nowadays it’s a low bar for what is acceptable when watching Walsall.
I thought after the opening day it was going to be a struggle to win many games at all but Sadler has won 3.
Problem this season is you’ll need more points to stay up so that’s the danger for any poor run like 1 win in 7. Sutton currently having it and they’re bottom of the table. With teams like Doncaster and Tranmere now picking up after poor starts this to me is the last season where a rookie manager should’ve been employed.
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Reckon Everton might have something to say about that…
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No doubt we have lost our way in the last couple of games but how desperately depressing there are ‘fans’ calling for the head of a manager with 9 (nine) league games gone, and where actually in a decent amount of those games we’ve shown plenty of encouraging signs. There is no way Trivela are sacking him and rightly so, I say that as someone who personally wouldn’t have sacked Flynn and Sadler wouldn’t have been near my first choice as replacement.
Playing devil’s advocate and we did sack him, a new manager comes in and gets 11 points or thereabouts from his next 9 games, are we sacking him too?? And the next one, and the next one…
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Agree with you about Flynn never called for his head he should have had another pre season.
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I think the point is he shouldn’t have been appointed in the first place.
I don’t think Sadler is going anywhere by the way. Only if we end up in the bottom 2 and the fans turn.
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Agreed, Flynn is history. The present is giving very serious cause for concern. Over to you Mr Boycott!!!
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He wasn’t my choice, but do we agree the club took a thorough process to try and identify the replacement?? It took them long enough which suggests to me they did, he obviously sold the board a vision but he’s a rookie and he’s going to make mistakes, he needs to learn quickly.
Fans will turn before we get to the bottom two, that was another reason not to appoint Sadler because he was always going to be under pressure quickly if things didn’t go well.
Looking at the next 4 fixtures. Bradford away tricky and we never really do that well there. MK Dons at home another tricky game but winnable. Then Sutton away Forest Green at home. Anything less than 6 points from those games and he will start to feel the heat I think.
I really hope it doesn’t happen and he pulls some results out of the bag, no one really wants to keep sacking managers right? It just means you are constantly failing. We can’t afford to mess about if we start getting sucked in though.
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