Are you watching Jeff Bonser?

Walsall blogger Mark Jones wonders what Jeff Bonser makes of the current plight at the Banks's Stadium after a lifeless home defeat to Bury in League One.

To Jeff Bonser, I know you don't get down to the Banks's Stadium much these days, so I thought I would give you an update.

We've just lost 4-2 at home to Bury, a defeat that drops us back into the bottom four of League One, but you probably knew that anyway Jeff. It was Bury who inflicted the rout on Saturday.

You remember Bury, who have just spent the last decade in the bottom division and nearly went out of the Football League a few years back.

They get crowds similar to ours and that's our current crowds Jeff, not the ones we used to get before Richard Money went.

So it's obviously a teeny-weeny bit worrying that they were so much better than us and seemed to have more quality.

They kept the ball better, they were better going forward, were better organised at the back - despite having Efe Sodje in defence - and had a better team spirit.

It wasn't a complete annihilation, however, and in the first-half we had a go, for 20 odd minutes at least.

Mark Wilson began to run the show and we got back in the game. You probably won't have seen much of Wilson, Jeff, he's on a month's loan from Doncaster.

There's another club who over the last decade have caught up with us, then gone past us before disappearing over the horizon.

Wilson is an experienced player who could do a good job for us, but nobody expects him to be at the club for much longer.

Unfortunately for us, Bury worked out how to shut down Wilson, we couldn't score when we were on top and paid the price in a woeful second-half.

Our Plan B option is pretty much limited to bringing on young players from the reserves, which is always a big ask isn't it Jeff? That said, at least we've got reserves this season.

So the big question is how do we stop the rot Jeff? How do we improve the squad? Good as it was to see the family stand full again last Saturday, how do we get the crowds coming back for more than just a one-off ticket offer?

How can Walsall FC become competitive again in the third tier, arguably our natural home, let alone think about anything more? OK, that's more than one big question but you get the point, don't you?

Some predictably are calling for manager Dean Smith's head and it would be easy to make him the scapegoat.

I mean we are not far off a significant anniversary of that happening to our most successful manager, but surely that's not an option is it? Deckchairs and Titanic spring to mind.

Surely the buck has to stop with the man in charge at the very top - the chairman, the owner, the majority shareholder.

So what are you gonna do then Jeff? Are you listening? Jeff? Can you hear? Jeff? Jeff?