Dean Smith's hint on Walsall future

Walsall caretaker manager Dean Smith has dropped a big hint over his job intentions after revealing he remains undecided whether to take the vacant hot-seat.

The head of youth confirmed he hasn't applied to succeed Chris Hutchings yet after Saturday's 4-2 defeat to Huddersfield.

Smith has drawn two and lost one of his three games in charge and had previously remained tight-lipped over his future.

He said: "I'm not sure to be honest. I will say I'm really enjoying it at the moment, I haven't got too high on the last two comebacks and I won't get too low on the defeat. I've really enjoyed being at the helm.

"My future is with Walsall. I'm the head of youth and I'll take it game by game.

"I'm the caretaker manager and my job, at the moment, is to get results."

But, despite his future being in limbo, Smith has been given the green light to bring in new players to aid the Saddlers' relegation fight.

He said: "I speak to the chairman regularly and he knows we need to strengthen the squad. We want to stay in League One and it's going to be a battle.

"We are looking to bring a couple of players in. We know we need strengthening."

The Saddlers sunk back to the bottom of League One on Saturday and sit seven points adrift of 20th placed Tranmere – who have a game in hand.

Errors from Andy Butler and David Bevan gifted Huddersfield their first and fourth goals and Smith admitted the slips cost the Saddlers the game.

He said: "We didn't get the goal when we were on top and ultimately paid the price.

"We need to score goals if we're going to stay up and you can't win games without scoring – what we've got to do is cut out the mistakes. That's the reason why we conceded four goals on Saturday.

"Andy held his hand up for the mistake and Bev's held his hand up for the fourth. Instead of putting it back in their half he tried to pick out Darryl Westlake. What cost us was two mistakes and two set pieces.

"It was an entertaining game but unfortunately we came out with nothing."