Saddlers up, we're off to Walsall (A) 17/8

[HMX]

I'm going to this and still waiting for my first away win in, what feels like, my lifetime. So, sorry, again.

[HMX]

Anyone remember a Mr Trevor Kettle? He's the ref on Saturday.

His Charlton match was one of the worst ref performances I've ever seen. He likes sending Bolton players off (3 in our last 3 games, I believe - though that includes 2 in the Charlton game).

[Bruce Rioja]

I wonder what Tony Caldwell's doing now?!

[Devon White]

Did get a ticket, BTW. #youuuuuuuuwhiiiiiites

Must be who you know DSB, I will wait in the q patiently !

I know a bloke who rang the ticket office before it sold out

Got 3 today, , which pub ? time ?

[TonyDomingos]

Walsall drew 1-1 at Bristol Rovers this evening (no doubt, PP was in attendance). Helpful to us that they've had to play midweek.

[Devon White]

Walsall drew 1-1 at Bristol Rovers this evening (no doubt, PP was in attendance). Helpful to us that they've had to play midweek.

Are you going to Walsall ?

[TonyDomingos]

Walsall drew 1-1 at Bristol Rovers this evening (no doubt, PP was in attendance). Helpful to us that they've had to play midweek.

Are you going to Walsall ?

'Fraid not. I'm taking my 5 year old to the cinema to see The Jungle Book instead. The original, obvs.

[TonyDomingos]

Anyone else remember when we beat Walsall 8-1 in the early '80s?

[Burnden Paddock]

Anyone else remember when we beat Walsall 8-1 in the early '80s?

Yes. I was standing, unsurprisingly on the Burnden Paddock and was genuinely gutted that we conceded a late goal. Bloody typical!

[malcd1]

Anyone else remember when we beat Walsall 8-1 in the early '80s?

Yes I was there in the Manchester Road End. I'm not sure why I was in that stand as I was normally in the Burnden Paddock.

TC bagging 5 goals sticks in my mind rather than the score.

[TonyDomingos]

I was in the Lever End that day. No idea why as I too usually went in the BP. I also went to the return fixture hoping for another goalfest: lost 1-0, IIRC.

[Harry Genshaw]

Anyone else remember when we beat Walsall 8-1 in the early '80s?

Yes. I was standing, unsurprisingly on the Burnden Paddock and was genuinely gutted that we conceded a late goal. Bloody typical!

I was in the paddock that day too. The other 3 scorers iirc were Deakin, Rudge and Valentine. The latter being a real screamer. Simon Garner scored 5 for Rovers the same day

[jetsetwilly]

Looks like we have asked for and been given extra tickets, so should be 2000+ away fans. Looking forward to this

[Bruce Rioja]

A mate of mine turned up about 15 minutes late. He thought we were taking the piss when we told him that we were three up already.

So, that season me and a different mate decided to make the trip to Fellows Park hoping for more of the same - it were a fecking disaster. Memory may well have had its way with me here but as I recall we lost 2-0 and had two players sent off (Cross and Oghani). What definitely happened was that a sheet of the corrugated asbestos from the roof above our terrace became detatched and smashed to smithereens on the floor in front of us, leading to a chorus of "Walsall's ground is falling down, falling down, falling down....."

[Hoboh]

A mate of mine turned up about 15 minutes late. He thought we were taking the piss when we told him that we were three up already.

So, that season me and a different mate decided to make the trip to Fellows Park hoping for more of the same - it were a fecking disaster. Memory may well have had its way with me here but as I recall we lost 2-0 and had two players sent off (Cross and Oghani). What definitely happened was that a sheet of the corrugated asbestos from the roof above our terrace became detatched and smashed to smithereens on the floor in front of us, leading to a chorus of "Walsall's ground is falling down, falling down, falling down....."

I hope you have mentioned that to your Doctor?

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Walsall return game was 1-0, on 28 Jan 84 in front of 7,812 (there were 4,375 at BP). Walsall were top and have won five of their last six games; we were ninth but on a bad run – we'd lost 5-0 at Sheff U, then beat Millwall 2-0 at home but lost 3-0 at home to Sunderland in the FA Cup and 4-0 at Wimbledon in the league before a home 0-0 with Scunthorpe. It was Walsall's seventh 1-0 win of the season, their most common result to that point, but only our second 1-0 loss.

End of the season we finished 10th - we only won one away game at a team above us (Bradford, 2-0) but beat six of the nine at BP.

[Bruce Rioja]

Walsall return game was 1-0, on 28 Jan 84 in front of 7,812 (there were 4,375 at BP). Walsall were top and have won five of their last six games; we were ninth but on a bad run – we'd lost 5-0 at Sheff U, then beat Millwall 2-0 at home but lost 3-0 at home to Sunderland in the FA Cup and 4-0 at Wimbledon in the league before a home 0-0 with Scunthorpe. It was Walsall's seventh 1-0 win of the season, their most common result to that point, but only our second 1-0 loss.

End of the season we finished 10th - we only won one away game at a team above us (Bradford, 2-0) but beat six of the nine at BP.

That Bradford game I remember. Me and my mates had been on the piss and arrived there with about 15 minutes to go. Just in time to get in for nowt and to see both goals. Result .
Sheff U was on New Years eve (the one and only time I've been there), the Millwall game - the violent, thuggish, loutish c*nts fetched about 10 who treated us to a rain-soaked conga. Didn't Lee Chapman (or was it Ashcroft) score all three for Sunderland in the cup game? A decent turn out as I recall, if only because they filled the Embankment.

Who got sent off at Walsall, Barnetto?

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Who got sent off at Walsall, Barnetto?

Couldn't find info on that, but might have a further dive this afternoon.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

"Saddlers boss Alan Buckley ensured Wanderers had no luxuries in their visit to the Bescot, giving them deflated balls for the warm-up."

[LeverEnd]

"Saddlers boss Alan Buckley ensured Wanderers had no luxuries in their visit to the Bescot, giving them deflated balls for the warm-up."

Ah. Before his move to the NFL.