Walsall strikers need to back Tom Bradshaw

The 24-year-old hopes seven-goal Bradshaw can continue his blistering form but concedes he and the other Saddlers forwards need to find their shooting boots.

Heading into today's FA Cup first round tie with Shrewsbury, Romaine Sawyers was the only other player to have scored more than once this term, with two goals to his name. Cook and winger Anthony Forde had one apiece.

And Cook said: "Tom has had an unbelievable start to the season and I just hope he keeps it going.

"We are all trying to help him get on the scoresheet and at the same time we are all trying to get on it ourselves to take the pressure off him.

"I know there is a lot of pressure on him, going into games because of his record so far.

"Sometimes you see the pressure going into games when he has been scoring and the rest of us haven't been adding to the overall tally."

Bradshaw has been entwined with any Walsall success to this stage of the season. They have taken just one point from five games he missed through injury. But Cook, who missed the first part of the season himself with a fractured ankle, does believe the forward line are starting to gel.

"It's about taking chances – me Fordey and Romaine are getting shots off but at the moment we are not clicking," he said.

"But the first goal we scored last Saturday at Notts County showed that, while we are not quite on goal-scoring form, we are still creating stuff in and around the box.

"It doesn't matter who scores it, as long as it is a goal. Tom can score 40 a season and get us up there and we can score two or three.

"It doesn't matter as long as we are winning games."

Meanwhile, teenage Saddlers striker Jordan Murphy is hoping to shoot down Coventry City in the FA Cup first round tomorrow.

The 18-year-old is currently on loan at Worcester City and will be part of their side which takes on the League One Sky Blues at the Ricoh Arena.

"It's a winnable game, especially because there is no pressure on us," claimed Murphy, who signed a one-year deal with the Saddlers in September.

"All the lads know we have a chance of winning it.

"We have been looking at them and it is not a team we can't beat."