And many more if you include those who moan about people moaning 
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And many many more if you add those moaning about people not moaning enough
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Very commendable he’s obviously trying his best with limited resources and a board of incompetents, which he should have sorted at the outset of his introduction, however, did you read his latest musings? Praising the academy!
Surely this has to be the worst drain on funds of the entire set up at Bescot.
Admitted they are mostly very young but they have contrived to win one match is it? Losing the rest, mostly to very heavy defeats, including a 6-1 drubbing to Grimsby’s non league reserves!
Surely money would be better spent dropping a few quid now and again to a feeder club lower down the leagues and picking up their best players, instead of spending huge amounts of the ‘infrastructure’ that might threaten the certainty of the bosses rent demands, on kids who are obviously not good enough for the rough and tumble of pro football
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I agree our academy has been a waste of time for a while now. Only kinsella has come through recently with leak perry and Bates not near being first team and will all most likely be released. We’d do better saving the money and recruiting ready to go players
Beware! Mike Ashley is looking to buy a football club. Fortunately it looks like it’s Derby County he has his eyes on.
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Or just expect him to keep to the things he does say. That would be nice.
I’d start with “giving it a right good go” and not settling to be an absolutely bang average league two side for the third year running to be honest. Or fixing toilets. Or buying free holds.
But mostly the football thing.
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Well, if that 60 minutes of football doesn’t show a few of our dreamers that we are nothing more than a bang average bottom division side, then I don’t know what will.
Personally I accepted this fact 10 games into the season; I don’t get carried away with a win at Port Vale, I won’t be wringing my wrists at today. I find accepting where we are removes all of this upset.
We don’t have the resource or the nouse at boardroom level to turn this around. I find talk of the play offs after a couple of half decent results absolutely ludicrous, just as I do all of these excuses for a set up that have all been involved with the club for 15+ years.
Fans kidding themselves. I echo the sentiments that LP seems a guy that is trying, but that doesn’t make any of it good enough I’m afraid. Every time he should have made a decisive, cutting business centric decision, he has failed. And no amount of waffle into social media can change that there has been no tangible change for the better at Walsall FC in his time (lowest league position ever, too).
At a footnote; I find the way this organisation celebrates a few wins or ‘okay’ results in the bottom division of English Football, sickening.
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With a cost of living crisis looming, I think many people will be looking at the value a Walsall season ticket represents and thinking they can spend that money more wisely elsewhere next season.
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Zero chance of me having a season ticket next season if this continues.
Sod believing in this lot any more.
I want tangible changes now.
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Am we allowed to have little tiny moan now?
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NO!! They are trying their best - it all takes time!!!
Over 15 years it seems 
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Back off people! Back off!!!
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Pomlett out.
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Leigh deserves some plaudits for at least talking to us. I also think the one and only change of any significance in the appointment of a DoG makes sense.
But this is ostensibly the same Board that has resided over a managed decline of the football club for around 15 years. It is so stale it is painful.
Last season was our worst since a fourth tier was invented. We are probably just better than 50/50 to beat that this season even though at at equivalent time I think we were higher in the league this time last year. There’s no celebration in that as it feels like we are inextricably headed towards a non league status the amateur hour operation deserves. Whilst that might sound like a contradiction, our slightly better season this year is built upon loan and short term signings. That’s not a huge laying of foundations. It is another Walsall FC false economy.
We could have been playing Man City this weekend taking in near half a million quid. Instead we were at Stevenage scoring literal and metaphoric own goals. The reason is that despite being the basket case it is, the perennial financial circus that is Swindon Town can still field a better football team than we can. I guess that’s because they don’t obsess about making a small operating profit every year. They are a football club that takes punts. They give themselves a sporting chance.
If it is all about the balance sheet then selling a £7m forward for around 5% of his value as well as constantly weakening the side so that even with favourable draws a third round tie in the cup is near impossible doesn’t make financial sense as well as being sporting acts of self harm.
15th, but in reality 16th or 17th (once games in hand been played) in a year where we are giving it a good go. Just as well otherwise our non league destiny may have arrived a season or two quicker than it might.
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We dont own a striker completely clueless recruitment.
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Last season we had 4 3 of ours and one loan.
I just hope the cough investors cough that Pomlett has on the back burner weren’t watching that.
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This is a very apt statement. This sentence was taken from a post 1 day ago, backing LP and his board room. Now, after 1 result the very same poster is posting across the match thread, knocking everything from the manager to the tea lady.
As a Walsall fan, this kind of inconsistency drives me up the wall, and although it’s quite harsh to say it, this is partly the reason we can never be taken seriously and struggle to enact change as a fanbase.
Too many people judge very important deep-rooted issues wholly on what happens after we kick off at 3pm on a Saturday. For me, we could have won 4-0 today and I would still be wholly dissatisfied with what is going on at board room level at Walsall FC. Today’s result and performance changes absolutely nothing. More of us need to stop allowing hearts to rule heads and look at what is happening at the club, we have to stop crossing fingers and hoping for the best.
Indeed people do need to ‘get real’.
Anybody that thinks we are making any progress is kidding themselves.
For me, bar a few successful loanees (that will go back to their parent clubs), we are still heading in the wrong direction from top to bottom as a football club - with a board of directors that have consistently proven, week in week out, that they do not have the first clue how to turn this rotten sinking ship around - both off the pitch and on it - while taking a salary out of the club many of us would probably find very agreeable indeed.
Where is the 5 year plan where we can judge this organisation against its own targets for each quarter? Honestly, enough is enough…
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It’s pretty galling to see how Port Vale’s change of ownership has seen them fly up the table and get more fans in the ground (and with our ex-manager too!).
I guess thats what we were all hoping from Pomlett, but it just hasn’t materialised. The communication is a plus and I think the director of football model is a move in the right direction, although wether we got the right man for the job is questionable.
I’d really like to know how our playing budget stands up in this league. Are we still penny pinching like in League One?
Pomlett seems well intentioned, but I don’t think he can deliver the root and branch change this club really needs. Apart from lucking out for a few seasons by accidently appointing a Premier League manager in waiting, we’ve been in what feels like a managed decline for 15 years.
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Pomlett has made this club completely uncompetitive.
We are now a joke and fast becoming the forgotten club, it’s so sad to be part of it.
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