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	<title>Express &#38; StarMark Jones&#8217; Walsall FC Blog &#187; Express &amp; Star</title>
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		<title>Dreaming of some fantasy football</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/05/03/dreaming-of-some-fantasy-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Saddlers have secured their place in League One for 2012/13 with one whole game to go, just imagine if this was the conversation going on with Dean Smith right now . . . writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>Saddlers not following the script</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/26/saddlers-not-following-the-script/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/26/saddlers-not-following-the-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be no Great Escape for the Saddlers this season; it simply doesn’t feel the same as it did last year when we had come back from a seemingly hopeless situation and Project Ginger Mourinho had brought everyone closer together, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>Bert Williams comes home</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/19/bert-williams-comes-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/19/bert-williams-comes-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once a Saddler always a Saddler. It was a pleasure to see a sprightly Bert Williams MBE at Bescot last Saturday, writes Walsall blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blog &#8211; Bert Williams comes home to Walsall FC</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/saddlers-blog/2012/04/18/blog-bert-williams-comes-home-to-walsall-fc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/saddlers-blog/2012/04/18/blog-bert-williams-comes-home-to-walsall-fc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a Saddler always a Saddler. It was a pleasure to see a sprightly Bert Williams MBE at Bescot last Saturday, writes Walsall FC blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>Saddlers still need to finish the job</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/12/saddlers-still-need-to-finish-the-job/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/12/saddlers-still-need-to-finish-the-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saddlers Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a team that’s specialised in draws this season, there’s a certain irony that Walsall managed to end up with nothing at Charlton from a game where we were well worth a point, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>Only a game &#8211; or more than a game?</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/05/only-a-game-or-more-than-a-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/04/05/only-a-game-or-more-than-a-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saddlers Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Football has had a bit of a reality check in the last few weeks. Both Fabrice Muamba and Stiliyan Petrov remain in critical conditions and our thoughts and best wishes go out to them and their families, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Playing the right way</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/29/playing-the-right-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/29/playing-the-right-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saddlers Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Isn’t it amazing what football teams can achieve when they actually try and play a bit of football? writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>A real sickener for Saddlers</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/23/a-real-sickener-for-saddlers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/23/a-real-sickener-for-saddlers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Walsall Football Club was founded in 1888. The NHS came along 60 years later. Unfortunately Tuesday 20th March 2012 will not go down as a great day for either of these fine institutions, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Saddlers &#8211; the state of play</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/15/saddlers-the-state-of-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/15/saddlers-the-state-of-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I filled in an online survey posted on one of the Walsall message boards by a fellow Saddler, writes Walsall blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Life on the Walsall rollercoaster</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/08/life-on-the-walsall-rollercoaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/08/life-on-the-walsall-rollercoaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watching Walsall has always been a bit like riding a rollercoaster, albeit one with plenty more troughs than peaks, writes Walsall blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time to look into the Saddlers crystal ball</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/01/time-to-look-into-the-saddlers-crystal-ball/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/03/01/time-to-look-into-the-saddlers-crystal-ball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent timely upturn in form for the Saddlers has led to fairly obvious comparisons with last season’s successful run-in, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>A week is a long time in football</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/23/a-week-is-a-long-time-in-football/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/23/a-week-is-a-long-time-in-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This time last week we were staring down the barrel, third from bottom with a worse record than at the same stage last year, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The difficult question &#8211; to renew or not to renew?</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/16/the-difficult-question-to-renew-or-not-to-renew/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/16/the-difficult-question-to-renew-or-not-to-renew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t just Alex Nicholls’s second big penalty miss of the season, nor was it yet another clueless performance, it wasn’t the feeling that all of our relegation rivals seem to be upping their game, it wasn’t even the fact that we now have fewer points than at the same stage last season; it is much much more that has cast the doubts in my mind, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>A place for supporters on the Saddlers board?</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/09/a-place-for-supporters-on-the-saddlers-board/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/09/a-place-for-supporters-on-the-saddlers-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the uncertain futures of Portsmouth, Darlington and Kettering very much in the spotlight at the moment, it’s only natural that the running and ownership of football clubs should come under scrutiny once more, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Walsall FC blog: Accounts and accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/02/accounts-and-accountability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/02/02/accounts-and-accountability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The football club’s AGM takes place next Monday at 9 a.m. The annual report and accounts for 2010/11 came out last month. They threw up a few interesting statistics, here are some numbers that stood out: writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>There’s only one Ray Graydon</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/01/19/there%e2%80%99s-only-one-ray-graydon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/01/19/there%e2%80%99s-only-one-ray-graydon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday represents the anniversary of one of the worst decisions in the football club’s history, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Super Jimmy Walker: 530 not out</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/01/16/super-jimmy-walker-530-not-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/01/16/super-jimmy-walker-530-not-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saddlers Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Playing 530 games for one club in the modern era takes some doing. Especially when you play for a club that has great difficulty managing to hang on to its better players, writes Walsall blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>2012 &#8211; it needs to be a year of change</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/01/05/2012-it-needs-to-be-a-year-of-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2012/01/05/2012-it-needs-to-be-a-year-of-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walsall FC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the anniversary of the overdue sacking of Chris Hutchings, Walsall F.C. enter 2012 still battling against relegation, still lacking a great deal of quality on the pitch, still with the same regime off it, still broke and paying rent. Happy new year, eh? writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Saddlers Annual Review Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2011/12/20/the-saddlers-annual-review-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2011/12/20/the-saddlers-annual-review-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Birch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walsall blogger Mark Jones brings you Part Two of his annual review of  12 months following the Saddlers’ adventures up and down the country.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Walsall&#8217;s FA Cup exit was a new low</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2011/12/15/walsalls-fa-cup-exit-was-a-new-low/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/walsall-fc/2011/12/15/walsalls-fa-cup-exit-was-a-new-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Leggett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After something approaching four gruelling hours Walsall were knocked out of the F.A.Cup by Dagenham and Redbridge, statistically the worst team in the entire Football League, in front of less than 1800 home fans, writes Saddlers blogger Mark Jones.]]></description>
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