Walsall blog: Away day joy
Supporting the Saddlers away from home in recent weeks has been brilliant fun, writes Walsall blogger Ben Lowe.
Supporting the Saddlers away from home in recent weeks has been brilliant fun,
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Long journeys can be tiresome and monotonous but, as true fans of the beautiful game will tell you, every minute is worth it when your team triumphs.
Nine points from nine on your travels is tremendous form, especially when you take into account the disarray we were in less than a fortnight ago.
Our early-season woes became a distant memory when Michael Jones blew the full-time whistle on Tuesday night.
Millwall and Hartlepool will be remembered for their dramatic winners but 45 scintillating second-half minutes at Doncaster will be remembered for even longer.
We were absolutely marvellous and, in my eyes, it was the finest football we have seen under Richard Money.
Two successive victories have lifted us into mid-table and we should be determined to stay there, away from the relegation mire at the foot of the table.
Despite my initial fears we would struggle, our performances in these games have given me fresh optimism of what lies ahead.
I have been impressed by new-boy Dwayne Mattis, borrowed from Barnsley, who has filled the midfield void left by Danny Sonner with ease, while the pace of Edrissa Sonko and Ishmel Demontagnac on the wings will terrorise defenders this term if they continue to start.
But defeat to Huddersfield at the Banks's tomorrow would bring back the gloom.
As Money has rightly said, we must begin playing as well at home as we have been away.
If we can, the results will prolong and supporting the Saddlers could be "brilliant fun" every weekend.
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