Money wants Walsall style

Walsall boss Richard Money today urged his players to turn on the style at home after extending their winning away run to three straight matches.

Last night's victory at Doncaster followed successes at Millwall and Hartlepool, but they were punctuated by a dismal showing in the 3-0 home defeat by Oldham.

Now Money has challenged his team to reward their home faithful by replicating their away form at the Banks's Stadium.

Money said: "We have won three away games in a row, starting with Millwall, and that is three wins from four games and nine very good points.

"That is a good run whether you are at the top or the bottom and to do it from a situation where you have two points from the first four games is really commendable.

"What we've got to do now is put on a performance at home. Up until now we have gone back to the Banks's Stadium under a bit of pressure with not many points on the board.

"That meant we have had to try to grind out one or two results but this week maybe we can go and play with a bit more freedom, flair and quality and give the home supporters a performance like last night's because they deserve it."

Money agreed with suggestions that last night's second-half display was the best since he took charge of the Saddlers.

He said: "I thought we had some good performances in the early part of last season but in terms of tempo and quality this was probably better. It was a very eventful match.

"We said at half-time that although we were 2-1 down it was a great game. We were right it and we hadn't done too much wrong.

"In the first 20 minutes they came out of the blocks and really played well and we were at full stretch.

"But sometimes you have to do that away from home and we stayed in contention. They scored, then we scored and we might have gone in front.

"They then scored a good goal for them but a bad one for us just before half time but I still felt we were in it.

"In the second half we were outstanding for 20 or 30 minutes, we got 3-2 in front and it might have been more."

Money was adamant ref Michael Jones was right to award the disputed penalty against Doncaster keeper Neil Sullivan for a foul on Ishmel Demontagnac.

"I think he was lucky to stay on the pitch," said Money.