Looking forward to it, even if it is only for a day on the piss.
It's got to the stage that I go to away games knowing we will play shit, so i try and enjoy the day before and after!
Shakespeare in Brum seems a good meeting place. Plenty of choice for pre match beer in Birmingham but not sure about Walsall??
http://www.upthesaddlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=45853
Walsall forum - seems they like taking the piss out of us.
Made me laugh that some of them couldn't quite grasp the intent of irony with the ad. Conversely, top marks to them for a lack of typo's. What with possessing six digits on each hand I'm sure it can get a bit tricky, like.
Laugh all they want with their poxy shit dump of a stadium and being the smallest club in the Midlands.
Walsall fan here. I think most on that forum get the irony with caps suitably doffed for a good piece of work. Others inevitably don't get it.
As I posted on here a couple of years ago when we re-locked horns for the first time in a while, try as people/press might, I don't think there's any great feel of a local derby in terms of rivalry. The West Midlands isn't even a proper county. We'd like to be hated by one of the other two "Black Country" (inverted commas due to the fact that neither of them actually play in the Black Country) but can never really be anything more than an occasional irritant (like when we beat the Orange clad biggest team in the world -ever, on their own patch last year). Our traditional rivalries where there's some good old mutual contempt are with Shrewsbury and Vale.
The game at your place was quite tight. Contrasting styles but on the day yours was more effective and by the end we were happy to get out with a point. We brought around 1,100 which in the run-up to Christmas wasn't bad and whilst I get that we're "the smallest club in the Midlands" we always take a good proportion of our home attendance away. Similar proportions would see you bringing around 2,000 on Saturday. Which I hope you do - we need the money ( the rent doesn't pay itself as you know) and sadly these days we need a decent away following to create anything like an atmosphere.
We're on a decent run right now and due to cup games if we win by more than Fleetwood win, we'd jump six or seven places into 6th. It'll be tight again but I reckon we'll shade it.
Me and the boy. Straight to the supporters club by the ground they let away fans in.
Pusb
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