Sean O'Driscoll in pictures and video: My turn to finish the job

New Walsall head coach insists he wants to finish the job his friends Dean Smith and Richard O'Kelly started.

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The former Liverpool assistant manager has signed an 18-month deal at the Banks's Stadium with the club third in Sky Bet League One.

O'Driscoll replaces Smith, who joined Brentford earlier this month along with assistant O'Kelly, ahead of Sunday's televised visit of Port Vale.

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Walsall have not been in the Championship for 11 years and O'Driscoll, who worked with O'Kelly at Bournemouth and Doncaster and is friends with Smith, is eager to return and build on the former managerial duo's work.

"That's the attraction, you're not fighting to change the culture and instil something that's already here," he said, with Walsall only out of the top two on goals scored.

"You can add things and tweak it. That's going to be the balancing act for me. Pressure brings out the best in people.

"I was here about six weeks ago on Richard's invitation to look. It wasn't such a change because what they have built up is so strong it's not going to fall away overnight. I'm not here to rip everything up, it's pointless."

O'Driscoll was No.2 at Liverpool for four months but left after Brendan Rodgers' sacking in October having previously managed England Under-19s.

He has previously managed Bournemouth, Doncaster and Nottingham Forest.