Jon Whitney: Clean Sheet is a monkey off Walsall's back
Walsall boss Jon Whitney believes his side keeping a clean sheet at Doncaster Rovers is ‘a monkey off the back’ of his players.
The shut-out at the Keepmoat Stadium was the Saddlers’ first this season and the under-fire Saddlers boss believes his side are building momentum to take into Saturday’s home clash with Southend United – the side sitting one point and one place above 14th placed Walsall in the League One table.
“The lads are pleased with that,” Whitney said of the clean sheet. “It’s that monkey off their back. It’s now four unbeaten. We have lost one in eight.
“You wouldn’t think it because of some of the negative press but that is the way of the world.
“We stay positive as a group. I stay positive as a manager. We have lost one in eight, that is quite good momentum.
“And if you turn those draws into wins like we did at Doncaster, suddenly you will start to climb the table.
“You can make statistics any way you want. I love the club, I love the players, we have got a special group that can go on and do really good things if we are consistent.
“And they have been. Our discipline has been a lot better inside our own box. We stay on our feet a lot more.
What we do on the training pitch is starting to come into games.”
