‘Right (insert name of new manager here) it’s simple: all you need to do is bring in two forwards (preferably with some pace and the ability to get more than 10 goals per season); two midfielders who can pass, tackle and maybe even get forward and grab a few goals; a creative, attacking wide player (one who can score regularly would be good); a decent centre half and possibly a couple of versatile squad players, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.
If you can, try and get some lads who are ‘good for the dressing room’ and make sure you’ve got yourself the right blend of youth and experience … oh and by the way you’ve got one of the smaller budgets in the Division to work with. Welcome to Walsall.’
Now how could anyone resist that?
Four weeks after Richard Money’s shock resignation we still await the appointment of a new manager.Apparently there are some ‘very good’ candidates with the ‘right credentials’ and we’re just waiting for the last of them to have that little chat with Jeff.
Whoever it turns out to be, they’ve got a right job on their hands rebuilding the team almost from scratch. We certainly need to have a better summer than last year – of the seven players brought into our first team squad in the last close season, only two remain.
Weston and Mooney were the only signings who made any real impact, Boertien was unfortunate with injuries and it’s doubtful that he’d even have got his place back if Fox hadn’t left.
Predictably the owner has taken his usual scattergun stance of blaming everyone else for the club’s current predicament. The retained list was down to the last manager, the players that left in January weren’t actually as good as everyone makes out and the fans are all ‘divorced from financial reality’. Yawn.
We’ve heard it all before Mr. Bonser and as you never bother to talk openly to fans, even through the Supporters Liaison Committee or the Forum Meetings, then it’s hard to see how you’re qualified to tell us what we do or don’t know.
Interestingly enough at the last such meeting on February 4th, both Roy Whalley and Nigel Bond, probably the two members of the board with the highest public profile, were bullish about our promotion/play-off chances. How come they hadn’t been made aware that twelfth place was going to be viewed as an achievement? Why weren’t they on message?
(Incidentally, if Hartlepool hadn’t got that injury time equaliser we’d have finished ninth, would that have been an over-achievement?)
At the moment nearly every fan you talk to is apprehensive about the future. The appointment of a new manager and the addition of about eight new faces might just about begin to alleviate this. Let’s just hope some good decision making goes on in the next week or so.
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I think we have all been bored into submission now! We will settle for whoever comes in now, because we just want a manager…….great!
May be that was Jeff’s tactics all along, leave until as late as I possibly can, so the fans are happy whoever I bring in………….sceptical? Yes!
Jeff, I think there are probably only about 3000 of us who will turn up come what may, so if you want bigger gates you need to encourage support, not bore us into submission!
Reading between the lines, you haven’t found the right man yet, otherwise this mystery man wouldn’t be getting a look in…..after all you made it quite clear that anyone who wants the job, must apply.
WE AWAIT THE APPOINTMENT…………!
As a outsider looking in, i think the Walsall fans have been treated disgracefully. It must be soul destroying, going from the high of getting promoted and staying up to this. I’m gutted the way things went from a Wolves fan point of view last season but whats happening to you guys puts that into perspective.
BONSER DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH WFC AS A WOLVES FAN I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THE FANS. NO ONE WILL COME TO WFC BECASUE THERE IS NO MONEY TO SPEND AND LITTLE HOPE OF PROMOTION.
Hey Wolfie lets put things realy into perspective. Fourth division champions and top half of the third in our first season back. Loads of kids coming through and every chance that we will push on next season with a new manager in charge.
Wolves stuck with Mr Personality as manager, spent millions yet again, have a chairman that doesent even support the club, and still continue to produce dross
UTS
So, DD leaves the club 2 weeks before the end of the season to give us that little extra time to find his replacement. Yet here we are dragging our feet. Good work Jeff, whoever you get had better be worth the fannying.
4, you are a cretin!
Years ago, it was always Crewe or Torquay that were the last stop for old footballers.
I can’t help thinking that the job at Walsall is a similar final stop for football managers.
Hibbert, Nicholl, Sorensen, Graydon, Lee, Merson, Broadhurst, Money.
Despite some being hailed as “Legends” by Saddlers fans they have all to a man completely dissapeared as football managers.
Whoever gets the job, I fear that pretty soon oblivion waits…..!
yes chad it better be worth his dilly dallying. Although i am going to be a bit controversial amd suggest that we know who the manager is and we knew the day money left why else did we release all those players just hope the ones we get are half decent.
As expected Wolfie ran out of vocabulary so results to insults lol
Mattsaddler, If you are controversially correct about Bonser knowing who the new manager was when Money left then it could only be the man that was in charge the final 2 games.
BONSER OUT
Martin Allen for boss!
I have a feeling Holloway has put his name in the hat late on, hes meeting with the Leicester Chairman discussing his future and are maybe coming to the decision for Holloway to go, thats why hes entered the race so late on!
BONSER OUT
The supprise applicant for the managers job i have been told is Steve Staunton. Apparently he wants to be 1st team manager and has asked to be considered but no meeting until Leeds playoff final.
WFCNIL,can’t you read or summat?! I was being sympathetic with what i put saying how the Walsall fans had been teated badly with what was going on. I wasn’t gloating or taking the mick out of your situation. Its you who replied with the crap that was totally uncalled for.
It is obvious that all the caustic comments come from people who care. I personally would not be sorry if Mullen had the job. I think Money started making too many promises to leave. Hethought he was bigger than the club. In which case he did the right thing in bringing Mullin on board
Paul Lambert may be the new man having left following play-off failure.
bring someone who knows how to play quality football like Richard Money. Bring in Martin Allen or Ian Holloway. We await our new manager again
11 - What Martin Allen for manager, I really hope you are having a laugh. The bloke well known for the worst ever footballing sides. Games against his Brentford side some of the worst ever games at Bescot.
Not the right guy
Steve Morrow, sacked by Dallas yesterday, fits Bonser’s bill.