Chris Hutchings set to get a player in, and could be Manchester City Defender
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Yearly Archives: 2009
The ‘Darlo Saddler’ Blogs – Issue No. 51
A point gained, or two points lost?
I’d just about taken my seat for the Orient game when we went a goal down. It seems that the bone-numbing cold had failed to awaken our back four as the Londoners waltzed through straight from kick-off to open their account with Weston and company seemingly unaware that we’d started and thanks, in part, to a butter-fingered moment from Clayton.
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Memory Lane – The Long Road To Bescot Part 5
December 1988 and January 1989 were bleak months for Walsall Football Club with Manager Tommy Coakley sacked after the shambles of the 1-5 home defeat to Oxford United on Boxing Day following ten successive defeats.Then caretaker Ray Train and new manager John Barnwell lost another five matches between them and the fans badly wanted a lift.It came on February 21st 1989.
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Christmas wish comes true for Walsall fans
Ask a Walsall fan what they’d like for Christmas from a footballing point of view and high on the list would be the contract extension of Darren Byfield.
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It takes a ‘Man of the Round’ to knock Walsall out of cup
Brentford defender, Leon Legge, has been voted the E.ON Player of the Round for his performance for the Bees against Walsall in the FA Cp Second Round.
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Southampton fans set to flock to new ground
Southampton fans will be coming up to the Banks’s Stadium in numbers on Saturday as their fans look to tick off a new ground.
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The Production Line – Lee Sinnott
Lee Sinnott was born 12th July 1965 in Aldridge. He joined Walsall as an apprentice in March 1982 and made his debut, aged just 16. The tall defender went on to play 47 times for The Saddlers, before inevitably catching the eye of big-spending sides. It was Graham Taylor who tempted Sinnott away from Fellows Park in September 1983, paying Walsall £100,000 for his services.
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The ‘Darlo Saddler’ Blogs – Issue No. 50
The Customer Is Nearly Always Right!
Walsall FC is often criticised for its’ ham-fistedness in its’ approach toward fans, the recent comments by Roy Whalley being a very good case in point. This now seems to have spread to the souvenir shop, although the apparent casual approach to customer satisfaction isn’t exactly new.
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Memory Lane – The Long Road To Bescot Part 4
The summer of 1988 saw the inevitable sale of its star player David Kelly to West Ham United for a fee of £600,000. Despite Walsall gaining promotion to the old Second Division via the play offs thanks to those memorable games with Bristol City, the club were not prepared to wreck their wage structure to keep the player, it was reported. Walsall FC’s plan to to sell Fellows Park for development and build a new stadium at Bescot Crescent was opposed by some shareholders who were not slow to voice their concerns.
The ‘Darlo Saddler’ Blogs – Issue No. 49
Outclassed
As A Saddlers fan of many years standing remarked to me as we entered the final few minutes, what we saw in the Southampton game was only what many of us suspected we’d see. We began the game just a place below the play-off zone and had recently acquired the useful habit of winning games against lowly opponents, even though we’d not always played particularly well.
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Evans returns home from Canada for League Two youth job
Ex-Saddler Wayne Evans has been appointed as Shrewsbury Town’s Youth Centre of Excellence Manager.Evans, who also had spells with Rochdale, Kidderminster and Welshpool in his playing career will work alongside Head of Youth David Hughes.
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Ropes puts in Man of the Match performance to scare Leeds
Ian Roper and his Kettering side, player managed by ex-Saddlers goalie Lee Harper nearly secured the shock of the FA Cup 2nd Round Vs Leeds United.Walsall Legend Roper opened the scoring on 63 minutes for ‘The Poppies’ as the likeable centre back rose to header the non-leaguers in front from Ritchie Partridge’s free-kick into the area.
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The ‘Darlo Saddler’ Blogs – Issue No. 48
A Penney for the blind
On Wednesday morning Oldham manager David Penney was quoted as saying that he’d need to see THAT tackle again before making up his mind about it. He would have been no more than five yards away when the challenge was made but seems to have decided to adopt the oft-used Arsene Wenger stance when asked about it.
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The Foreign Legion – Robert Steiner
Born in Finspång, Steiner joined the town’s football club as an 8 year old. A few years later he moved on to local rivals Simonstorp, where he stayed throughout his teenage years. As a 19 year old he moved to Norrköping and signed for IF Sylvia, a move which proved to be very successful. He was a regular starter in the team that won the Division 3 title and who also topped the 2nd division the much following season before just being piped to the title by Assyriska. IF Sylvia failed to win a double promotion and lost the play-off against Visby.
Benfica sign young ex-Saddler
Benfica the signing of former Walsall youngster Evandro Brandao.Now 18, the youngster spent two-years at Old Trafford, after being snapped up by United from Walsall’s youth team in 2007, a year after joining the Saddlers
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Manchester City defender doesn’t rule out signing for good
On-loan Manchester City defender Clayton McDonald has told BBC Radio WM he is not ruling out the possibility of following in his father’s footsteps by signing a permanent deal at the Banks’s Stadium.
Smith linked with move away from bescot
he Sunday Mercury is linking two Championship clubs to Walsall defender Mannie Smith.
Memory Lane – The Long Road To Bescot Part 3
Over the last few weeks we have been, and over the next few weeks will continue to review the long, long process of Walsall leaving Fellows park and relocating at Bescot Stadium. All the plans, all the twists all the turns!
Terry Ramsden finally signed a deal making him the new owner of Walsall Football Club on August 1st, 1986. It would have been sooner had it not been for an oversight by Chairman Jack Harris regarding houses in Wallows Lane but at least the deal was now done.
The ‘Darlo Saddler’ Blogs – Issue No. 47
Slow Improvement Being Maintained
On entering Bescot Stadium on Saturday It seemed an age had passed since the visit of Exeter City. Trips to Colchester, Wycombe and Stourbridge had come and gone, largely successfully and one particular aspect of our play seems to have improved greatly in that shortish space of time. Think of the three goals in the Exeter game, then about the three at Wycombe, then the one at Stourbridge and then try to picture the two we netted against Stockport.
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Bradley training at United’s Carrington
Walsall’s mark Bradley has been called-up for Wednesday’s UEFA Under-21 Championship qualifier against Bosnia-Herzegovina.