Promising signs are there as Dan Scarr plots Walsall promotion tilt
Dan Scarr believes Walsall are showing similar signs to the Wycombe Wanderers team that he earned League Two promotion with three seasons ago.
The 25-year-old was on loan at the Buckinghamshire club as they earned automatic promotion from the fourth tier in the 2017/18 season.
Now, with the Saddlers on a four-game winning run and outside the play-offs on goal difference, Scarr insists this side are showing the right attributes to achieve the same feat.
“The togetherness is really good at the moment, it’s strong with the lads,” he said.
“From the back end of last season we began to pick up as a team and really gel together. Everyone is mates.
“We’ve brought it into this season.
“We should be a few more points up the table but those draws aren’t looking too bad if we keep getting wins.
“We’ll take each game as it comes and not get carried away.
“We have good players that are gelling together and we never know when we’re beaten and we definitely had that at Wycombe.
“I remember we’d go down and come back and win games. They were crazy games.
“I’d rather not have it like that and not so kamikaze but we’ve done well.
“We are a good side in the league this year. It took us some time to get going.”
Walsall came back from 2-0 down to beat Port Vale 4-3 on Saturday.
Scarr netted a brace, including the 82nd-minute winner, and has credited the team’s never-say-die attitude.
“This season we’ve had a bit more about us,” Scarr added.
“We know if we go a goal down we have that character and the quality to bring it back.
“We never feel that we’re beaten until it’s done. I’d like to go 1-0 up and stay there but it’s great character from the boys who dug in.
“It can be disheartening, especially going in 2-0 down at half-time, but we got in and regrouped.
“He (Darrell Clarke) had a big job when he came in to change it all around after we got relegated from League One.
“He’s got a group of lads that took a bit of time to get going.
“It’s hard to get momentum in football and we have it, so now we need to keep hold of it.
“We had confidence anyway when we weren’t getting wins.
“Winning gives us more confidence but the confidence was high in the squad anyway.
“We know what quality we’ve got it’s just implementing it on the games.”
