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Blog: Mark Jones' Walsall FC review of 2012

npower League One - Walsall vs. Swindon Town - 10/11/12

Out With the Old... Four wins out of five...16 without a win...then another four wins out of five...this turn of the year has typified pretty much the whole of 2012. This is how it was for me …

Blog: Recipe is going stale for Walsall FC

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If ever there was a team you could trust to go from getting a decent point away at a top six team to getting another with a clean sheet at the league leaders to then flopping miserably at home to the league’s whipping boys, it is Walsall Football Club, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.

Walsall FC blog: Credit where it’s due

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This time last week Walsall Manor’s A+E  department would have been providing extensive treatment for the snapped-off arm of anyone willing to offer two draws from the visits to Crawley and Tranmere, writes Walsall FC blogger Mark Jones.

Walsall blog: Where exactly do we go from here?

Lincoln City vs. Walsall - F.A. Cup 1st rd

In the wake of what will now forever be known as ‘the abysmal Lincoln performance’ three online Saddlers-related features that I‘ve read in the last week have a particular resonance to them, writes Walsall blogger Mark Jones.

We've got Plan A - let's stick with it

Lincoln City vs. Walsall - F.A. Cup 1st rd

At the final whistle I left Sincil Bank without a backward glance. I wanted to get in the car and make a quick getaway, mainly because I was hoping no-one from Lincoln would notice that we’d somehow stolen a draw from them, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.

Reality is worlds apart for Saddlers

SOCCER - nPower Football League One - Shrewsbury Town v Walsall

Science Fiction writers often use the notion of parallel universes, so why not the rest of us? writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.  Somewhere there must be a reality where the Saddlers Sunday afternoon out in Shropshire turned out differently …

Let down and bitter after Trophy exit

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Port Vale missed five (FIVE!!!) penalties against us in Tuesday’s JPT shoot out … and still went through. I’m sorry to say that is inadequacy bordering on incompetence, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.

Saddlers hand out a lesson in football reality

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It is so typically Walsall that we only got three short days to savour our place in the top five before being brought back down to ninth with Tuesday’s defeat at Stevenage, writes Walsall blogger Mark Jones.