The toughest time to be a Saddler?

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I think this is where it could be the end for me and Walsall FC. I kind of carried on plodding along each year toying with the idea of not renewing but I did just for that hope that when the season arrived it would be worth it. And the season arrived and it’s looking like it’ll be the worst out of the lot. So I can’t even enjoy a season where we do well, what is the point.

Unfortunately I have a season ticket for next season so we’ll see how it goes presuming we don’t get promoted this season. But I can feel it, probably the first time I’ve really thought I could not go anymore and I wouldn’t miss it.

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Never mind mate, seems like the players staff and probably owners think it has been a successful season because we are in the playoffs. Don’t worry that we are going into them without a win in 13/14 games.

No matter how bad we have been, I have always been proud to be a Walsall fan. It has pretty much defined who I am my whole life. I feel sick with it now.

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I think the problem with Trivela is that the American approach to sport is so biased towards statistics. All they will see is that since they took over, is that Walsall have improved their league position every year. Incremental improvement and all that !

What they have massively underestimated is the human factor. As a fan base we have had nothing, literally nothing to shout about for 20 years. One play off humiliation against Barnsley, a couple of close defeats to Leicester City and a 50/50 scarf from the Wrexham match is about it. We were desperate to be able to puff our chests out and remind everyone about the record breaking season Walsall were having.

Problem is, we have set a record, a very unwanted record, for throwing away such a massive lead and witnessing a slow capitulation so embarrassing that I don’t even want to talk to anyone about football. I have never seen the fans so deflated, and whatever comes next will just be an anticlimax. I think Matt Sadler is alone in ‘being where we want to be’.

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You know it’s bad when my Villa/Wolves/Blues supporting colleagues have stopped taking the piss because it’s THAT bad it’s not funny anymore.

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Maybe look at the statistic, no wins in 13 games, or two wins in 20 games. Those are quite important stats.

I get the point you are getting at, but the stats I mentioned above should have been concerning long before they got to where they are.

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Same here. My mates have reverted back to the ‘feeling sorry for little old Walsall’ mode.

Sadler OUT!

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I don’t understand this, sports fans feel the same whether your English, Canadian, American, Japanese, it’s irrelevant, ask any Boston Red Sox fan how he felt after the so called Boston massacre in 1978 or a Blue Jays fan after the 0-7 in September 1987 , ask a leafs fan how they feel about making the playoffs and losing each year when they haven’t lifted a cup since 1967. I’m sorry this self pitying bullcrap of were the worst ever has to stop , shit I’ve seen and been through worst as both a Walsall fan and Blues Jay fan , known Canada wide for years as the Blow Jays . Jesus try being a Red Wings fan before Stevie Y lead us to glory.

Yes it’s not good , it sucks but I guarantee we will all be here next year supporting this small but emotionally important club to us all (even Stretch and Thanny) no matter what division we’re in , no matter who the manager is (unless it’s Flynn or Barnwell then I’m out - only joking) , why because deep down the club is part of who we are , it defines a piece of us and you cannot turn that on and off , it’s always there deep within waking me up at 2am on a Sunday morning to listen/ watch and wish for 2hrs I was 27000 Km away on the opposite side of the world singing my heart out like a kid on the Street End again.

It’s not a problem with Trivela , BB , Jordan feel the defeats like the rest of us , it’s probably a little bit different for them as they are financially as well as emotionally connected to the events at WS1 , but what they have shown in the three years they took over is patience, this has to be recognized as a major plus , I guarantee in ten years our club will still exist at the heart of our community because of the owners we have today , they are not like Bondor , I look at some other clubs and wonder (Gillingham for example) if the same will be true.

Anyway regardless of the result Saturday or the play offs if there needed I know we will all be here next week, next season, next … This is not end of journey just a step along the way, using a quote from the other week “don’t wait for the storm to pass learn to dance in the rain” so one final time WE’VE GOT THIS

(Apologies if this offends anyone but I refuse to accept it’s over when Bradford who have shown for the last umpteen years with the biggest budgets that they are the biggest bottle jobs in the division and Crewe , bloody Crewe are what stand in our way)

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Not true. Some won’t. I know lots of “diehards” and WTID fans and people I saw at grounds up and down the country who have knocked it on the head at various times and who never come any more and haven’t been for years, and if you think this season won’t be the final straw for at least a few others then I am afraid you are wrong.

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I know quite a few who didn’t miss a game for donkey’s years. I know this cos they used to come with us. They might turn up to the odd away game now, like Chesterfield or Notts County, but they don’t go anywhere near Bescot.

I fear that this is a defining moment in time, a bit like the Dann and Fox one, for different reasons. It is just a killer. I’ve thought for some time if it is all worth it. The beginning of this season reinforced why I still bother, but as many others have said, I don’t think I have ever felt such pain as I do now, where Walsall FC are concerned.

I’m not going to say I won’t go anymore, but I will never put myself through the strain of what I have this season to get to games again. Not all fans are as invested either, some can take it or leave it, and I’d imagine if you are like that, leave it is the most likely choice.

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I’ve been through it already. I quit during the Hibbit era only to return at the Clarke/Pomlett time, 2019. Took an awful lot to convince me to come back. I think some may just do other things on Saturdays.

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This sums my feelings up exactly

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Yep my “what’s goo-in on “ messages have dried up .

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I wonder what Stan Blandford and other Saddlers die hards who are no longer with us would make of this latest catastrophic episode in Walsall’s history. No doubt they’d still be there cheering on ‘the lads’, as they always did. Once a Saddler, always a Saddler, is what Stan said to me on the train back to Walsall. The previous evening he’d witnessed a 0-0 draw up at Prenton Park, and was still buzzing about it!
That’s what being a Walsall fan’s all about! Ever onwards.

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This club is cursed big time.

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There was no curse on us at 15 points clear.

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I am so sick & tired of this football club I love! I feel sick to my absolute core. In 50 years this is the lowest I’ve felt. Don’t think I can even bring myself to watch the playoffs.

Something massively wrong at the club.

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It’s exhausting.

4 relegations I’ve seen in my time and none of them felt as bad as this.

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Agreed, recruitment is and has been massively underwhelming. Coaching, tactics and strategy is also poor. You Trivela as the owners , need to wake up and smell the coffee and go hard at the underachievers and get rid. If we manage to blag it to EFL1, we’ll bounce straight back if the management are still in place. I cant believe the level of support that continually turn out and have to put up with the same lame story, Saturday and Tuesday.

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I feel exhausted but Im glad its over now. I think this afternoon nearly killed me thinking the gods had shined upon us.

I will be far less stressed in the play offs, which is an odd feeling but whatever happens happens now.

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I’ll take the pain of this season for a promotion at wembley but I think the chances of it happening are slim. I allowed myself to believe for about 5 seconds near the end and then my watch buzzed and I didn’t even need to look to know what had happened.