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Walsall FC 23 Feb 11
Darren Byfield returned to full training this week for the first time since September.
The Saddlers’ skipper has been laid-low with a knee injury for five months but, after completing a course of sugar injections recently, can finally see light at the end of a very long tunnel…
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Express & Star 23 Feb 11
Jimmy Walker today warned Walsall to forget survival talk until they have saved their season.
The stopper still fears the drop despite a stunning sequence of events which have pushed the Saddlers to the brink of the League One safety line.
Plymouth’s 10-point deduction on Monday moved Walsall up to fourth bottom, where they stayed after Dagenham’s 1-1 draw with Huddersfield last night…
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Express & Star 23 Feb 11
Walsall’s young guns are set to go Dutch after the Saddlers revealed today they will tour Holland in the summer.
The youth team beat off record entries to land one of four Football League spots for the trip which is run by the League Football Education…
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Robyn Richards Vital Walsall 22 Feb 11
Walsall are now within 1 point of climbing out of the relegation zone, as sadly, Plymouth Argyle has been put into administration and docked 10 points.
Any team that goes into administration is immediately docked ten points by the Football League and thus, Plymouth have gone from 2 places above the relegation zone to bottom, 8 points off safety…
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Paul Castles B'ham Mail 22 Feb 11
Walsall manager Dean Smith has challenged Paul Marshall and Richard Taundry to save him the trouble and expense of bringing in another loan midfielder to replace the departed Mat Gill.
Gill has returned to Norwich after an effective month with the Saddlers where he formed a strong central-midfield pairing with Matt Richards.
Now Smith must find another partner for Richards in there and the top candidates are 21-year-old Marshall and Taundry who has been deployed in a right-wing role of late…
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Express & Star 22 Feb 11
Walsall manager Dean Smith has targeted another loan raid as he bids to plug the midfield gap left by Matt Gill.
The Saddlers boss is keen to boost his armoury ahead of the relegation run-in and the final 14 games of the season.
Norwich recalled the midfielder after his loan spell ended following Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at Colchester…
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Express & Star 21 Feb 11
Walsall manager Dean Smith has refused to blame refereeing blunders for defeat at Colchester but insisted the officials should be embarrassed.
The Saddlers missed their chance to escape the League One drop zone after a controversial 2-0 defeat in Essex on Saturday.
Referee Mick Russell awarded a second-half penalty when Aaron Lescott clearly won the ball from Ian Henderson. Smith also insisted Jon Macken was fouled in the build-up to David Perkins’ 17th minute opener and questioned Russell’s calls…
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Brian Halford Mercury 20 Feb 11
Andy Butler is determined to keep chipping in with goals for Walsall – even if it means going in right where it hurts.
Centre-half Butler arrived at The Banks’s Stadium in November with a brief to beef up an alarmingly accident-prone defence.
He has done that and is forming an increasingly impressive alliance with Oliver Lancashire at the heart of the back line…
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B'ham Mail 19 Feb 11
Walsall have decided against the introduction of a ‘singing section’ at The Banks’s Stadium after the idea received a thumbs-down from a survey of supporters.
Following a Fans’ Forum last month, at which the notion was mooted, the club carried out further research into the supporters’ appetite for a singing section within the lower tier of the Floors-2-Go Stand, the area where traditionally the noisiest section of the home support is gathered…