Agree with all that. They came at us from the start and made us look very ordinary indeed. Only at the death did we really trouble them and even then they came back to nearly snatch a winner at the end. Only Townsend really did his job tonight, the outfield players were abysmal I thought, thank goodness for their keeper’s fumble, though after that we should have been testing him regularly. So disappointing when our normally stand out players can’t make a simple pass but hopefully we’ll improve on that awful outing.excessbee wrote:Fair play to Walsall, they had a plan to stop us dictating the game and it worked very well. Right from the start they made us work very hard just to get to the halfway line in possession of the ball. Other teams have retreated and defended in their own half. Townsend was not able to roll the ball to a defender in space, that got Dolan in a complete muddle. I thought their plan might be run themselves into the ground and use all five subs to replace tired legs, but fair play they did it the traditional way and thoroughly deserved a point.
Some have suggested starting with Willmott and Ellison but I feel they’d be more effective used as we have recently ie as impact subs. Very disappointed with Podge recently, he’s been poor.