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Angry Hutchings blasts his players
Monday 15th February 2010, 1:20PM GMT.
Angry Walsall manager Chris Hutchings has blasted his under-performing players and insisted they cannot afford to repeat their Oldham no-show again this season.
The Saddlers, who failed to register a shot on target, went down 1-0 at Boundary Park thanks to Pawel Abbott’s 78th minute header on Saturday.
They slipped to 12th in League One as boss Hutchings ripped into his men and demanded immediate improvement.
He said: “You can’t repeat that anywhere, simple as that, if you play like that you’re going to get beaten. We didn’t come out with any credit, there weren’t too many positives at all.
“We said a few home truths and we’ve got massive game at Leeds tomorrow, so we’ll see if we bounce back and what the application is like.
“We watched the video on the way back and were in yesterday to fix things we need to improve on – basically passing to another red shirt.”
The Saddlers failed to impose themselves on an Oldham side who had only scored 11 league goals at Boundary Park this season prior to the clash.
Hutchings admitted his team’s failure to perform the basics led to their undoing.
He said: “We started well for five minutes but it went downhill from there. We didn’t retain the ball, pass it well, we got caught on it and the decision making was wrong.
“It was a very disappointing performance after we played so well on Tuesday at Bristol Rovers. Talk about chalk and cheese, it couldn’t have been any different.
“It was a major disappointment, decision making, passing – call it what you want it was very poor from us.”
The Saddlers travel to second-placed Leeds tomorrow and Hutchings admits they will need to up their game to stand any chance.
He said: “It’s a big game, they don’t need any geeing up for it but it’s going to be tough. We didn’t come up to the levels we expect from our lads.”
To add to their woes, Clayton McDonald sustained an ankle injury in the north west, making the defender a doubt for the Elland Road trip.
Hutchings added: “Clayton has rolled his ankle and we picked up a few other niggles, so we’ll have to assess them.”
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Why dont walsall just sack this tavtically inept manager!!!!!
His win percentage as a manger is so poor, he cant get the players playing for the shirt, we cant even muster a shot on target in 90 minutes!!!
I know the board and gJeff bonser have a lot to answer for, but does Chris Hutchings, the football is shocking and his abilty to pick a team to win a game is very poor,
Hutchings out!!!!!!!!
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And which miracle-maker are we going to replace him with, Dave?
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I think the idea is to keep sacking managers until we find one that gets lucky. Then he’ll leave us and we start the process again. Support him to the hilt until the end of the season, and judge him then would be my thought – although I acknowledge things are not exactly inspiring at the moment.
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Inpet! isn’t that the new sticker hutchings want to sign.
The kids on our local park wouldn’t want him as a manager.
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all i can say is if netan sansara can play in your team,that says it all!!!!!!!!!!
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I live in Arizona,6000 miles from Walsall and from all the match reports it’s been blatantly obvious since the word go that he does not have the ability to motivate his team. The results have been mediocre since he took over and this is the first I can recall that he has critised anyone.You can go on blaming the higherarchy. However, if the manager cannot motivate the players, which is obvious, he cannot, we are once again resigned to a another season in this division.I personally think we have no chance at Leeds and I am sure he feels the same. Unless of course he can breathe fire and brimstone into the team and we all know that is beyond him!!!! I have always hoped that David Kelly would return to manager the club he served so well. We do not want a miracle worker we want a motivator. David has been in management for sometime now and I think he is the man to give us something to be proud of and bring back the missing fans.
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To be a true Walsall supporter you have to throw logic and good reason out of the window!
We sit within 10 miles of 3 Premiership teams, a high profile Championship club which woos away many supporters who live in the catchment area. No major investment has ever come into the club and non is on the horizon. With TV money polarised toward the top 40 odd clubs it would take a brave investor to build up the team to a point where we pull in a decent crowd every week. Back in the heady days of Gary O’Neil, Samways, Merson and alike sitting 7th in the Championship in late Autumn the crowd only made 7500! Look at Leeds they struggle to hang onto players with 14000 home gates, we have no chance. The only other route is home grown talent, the likes of Dann, Fryatt and the buy ins Fox and Gerrard go as soon as 6 figures are mentioned. I have supported the Saddlers all of my life,no other club promotes any emotion. We all have to be realists, football is a business, we are still in exsistance and surviving is something we do well. There is no manager that can change any of that, we just want to see a fighting spirit and the effort to play passing football.
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Totally agree with these comments. Walsall is a smallish town and crowds are never going to be huge. So we have to cut our cloth accordingly! League One is Walsall’s league. The odd skirmish to the Championship would be good or even a good attempt at a bit of excitement in the play-offs. But let’s face it Walsall will never make the Premiership! So what do we supporters want? We want to see good entertaining football where players, who earn so much more than we do, earn their money! I feel proud that Walsall is a well run club financially and it is also a club which is friendly. It really is time the FA took serious action against clubs who are financially in dire straits due to bad management. Wind them up, put them out of business and teach them a lesson. However, I am sure Portsmouth will still be playing top flight football again next year but Chester will be out of business. The FA will make an example of a little club but they are frightened to do it to a bigger club! Comments please!
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Walsall is one of the biggest catchment areas going, im afraid most people in walsall support villa, baggies, blues or wolves and why shoudnt they?? back in the day people would go and watch walsall when the other teams were away, would you do this at £20 odd quid to watch whats on offer?
nothing to go to walsall for, they are everyones second team and always will be.
the fact remains that as long as the on field stagnation remains, and the boards pathetic attempts to pretend they care (recent board members sitting with fans, which seems to have fooled some??) they will go nowhere
mr b has dug the hole, nobody ever wanted europe in 5 seasons, just a little effort
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I have supported the reds most of my life and am as usual dissapointed in the performances. We have too much dead wood in the squad. Hutchings keeps moaning about the squad we have and all of the games we have been playing but from what I can see he has not really done anything about it. What has happend to some of these supposedly super kids we have like Grigg, Geddes etc, why not give them a shot against a big team like leads, wont hurt will it, you never know we may even produce a shot on goal!! We have been lucky in the past with managers especially in the likes of Graydon and Money but will as always settle for half cock former assistant managers.
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Lets face it, even graydon was a risk that paid off, I still have memories of him refusing to change a formation when it was needed and not taking a risk.
Only a matter of time before MOC gets the job and lets hope that he does not ruin his respect when the oppertunity comes along
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If “just surviving” is the limit of some Walsall fans’ ambitions then it’s no wonder the crowds are falling.
Now, I’m not demanding spending money we don’t have but if there is absolutely no ambition other than merely survive then it’s a sorry state of affairs. Football is all about having a dream.
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Totally agree , i’m affraid some of our supporter’s except the lack of ambition , as do our chairman and his side kick’s , and with that mindset how can you expect any ambitious support ! No one has ever taken Walsall seriously as we have alway’s sold our best player’s , and took everyone’s out cast’s , or player’s looking for one more pay packet , before being put out to graze ! please don’t except this poor standard of football , and to think for the price i have been paying for my season ticket , i could of got a cheaper one at the Villa to watch premiership team’s , shocking ! why not reduce admission price’s , better to have a half full stadium with an atmosphere player,s might perform to rather than an almost empty one with the atmosphere of a morgue !!
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Agree with the price cuts for tickets. Will be interesting to see what Walsall want to charge for a season ticket for 2010/11. They said they had reduced the prices for the 2009/10 season but in reality they only reduced by the amount the VAT went down! didn’t pull the wool over my eyes!!!!!!
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