Walsall blogger Mark Jones talks about the need to be an underdog, facing the moneybags clubs and has a song for Barry Fry as the Sadders host Peterborough.

For the best part of an hour on Tuesday, it looked as though the famous Walsall curse of the strugglers was going to strike again.

Fortunately Jabo Ibehre and Michael Ricketts came to the rescue, ironically at a time when we looked as if we were running out of steam. Those Area Quarter Finals beckon.

A quick look at the league table illustrates the problem, all the teams we’ve already played at the bottom have taken points off us. Last season was no better, with a mere two wins in nine games against the relegated sides.

Anyone who endured the 90 minute slog at Hereford will agree Jimmy Mullen’s theory that we prefer to be the underdogs is spot on.

Unfortunately we can’t go through the rest of the season trying to stay in a play-off spot in secret, so the patience and persistence shown against Cheltenham will need to be repeated many times over the next seven months.

Today we have the different problem of facing in-form Peterborough, yet another club climbing the table with a combination of determination, courage, talent and a moneybags owner (although not necessarily in that order).

Allegedly the Posh were subject to a boardroom takeover, after that TV documentary showed the nation the slapstick way the club was being run. Wonder if they’ve ever considered doing a follow-up series anywhere?

Depending on whether his dodgy knee plays up or not, Saddlers legend Dean Keates could be back at the Banks’s at the weekend. Deano’s one of those former players who surely deserves the acclaim of the fans.

He got a good reception when he came back for Darren Wrack’s testimonial and we’re clearly in a collectively magnanimous mood at the moment .

Well, judging by the applause Kris Taylor, a player whose Saddlers’ career never really seemed to get going, received at Edgar Street.

Hopefully it can be a repeat of the fixture in 1996, when another former midfield general who’d left for the Posh in controversial circumstances returned and was on the receiving end of a 4-0 drubbing.

As an added bonus, Posh boss Barry Fry got a shed load of abuse.

How does it go again? Barry Fry is due a?