Sadders Social: Walsall fans have their say

Richard Kendrick

Lately, credit’s been dished out rarely at the Banks’s, but credit is due as Saturday’s win produced some of the best football we have played this season.

Maybe Scunthorpe weren’t at the races, but let’s be positive about ourselves for a change.

Everything worked on the day, from team selection and tactics through to the team performance.

Dropping our best defender lulled the opposition into a false sense of security and having Flo back in the middle of the park made a huge difference.

He added energy and some much needed forward-thinking to the team, someone who thinks on the same plain as Ozzy.

No-one will get too carried away – we are as likely to play poorly and lose the next three games as we are to win them, but let’s continue being positive for a change!

Nick Etheridge

Having looked at the team selection on Saturday, it seemed like a frosty reception would greet the manager at full-time, but more performances like that will go some way to thawing the relationship between Whitney and the fans.

Credit where it’s due, we enforced our own game on to the opposition and made a good Scunthorpe side look distinctly average.

Amadou Bakayoko put in a performance that showed he does have the ability to lead the line on his own and the decision to bring Flo Cuvelier out of (or into) the cold, gave us a more attacking edge to the midfield, something we’ve lacked for a long time.

If we can keep him fit, then we could continue to climb the table.

Hopefully this performance will have a snowball effect.

Dan Gilbert

Three straight league wins and at last some positivity from me as it’s a win we absolutely deserved.

The performance was the best this season so far and I think the result was too, stopping a Scunthorpe side who were on a fantastic league run themselves.

The highlight for me had to be the link-up play from Oztumer and Bakayoko, I thought the pair of them were excellent together.

It was so refreshing to come away from the Banks’s feeling like a proper side again.

Whitney praised the players and staff, I’d like to extend that to the fans too, we liked what we saw and the songs came back out.

Proof that all is never lost – give us something to shout about and we’ll back you to the end. Long may it continue.

Kevin Paddock

Well, well, well. league wins are coming faster than the snow – three wins on the bounce and we now find ourselves at the dizzy heights of 11th! If someone had said this a month ago I would have recommended a strait jacket...

Let’s not forget the mess at the club currently, but let’s not be too stubborn and not give Jon and his team some credit for the three previous wins and performances. It seems yet again he has fallen on a formation and team that works...

January is key for us.

It seems we will lose Tyler Roberts (who is a class act) and Zeli Ismail, who has had a major influence on our run – replacing them won’t be easy and will undoubtedly see our good run end.