Notts County 1 - 5 Walsall

Can things get worse?The question should be can things get better?Well,if Notts are to survive in Div 1 they have to get better-much better.If SD's post match interview is anything to go by they will.I will be very interested to see what happens this week transfer/loanwise and also what reaction there is from the players next week.

Back to the dark days!

This doesn't make pleasant reading, it seems we are back to square one, I felt that Walsall could easily have got into double figures and I said it at the time and I'll say it again, why did we let Westcarr go? He was at his brilliant best against us.

These games in hand are worrying me.  We could easily be back at the bottom of the table 6 or 7 points from safety if the worst happens and other relegation threatened teams win these games.

However, there is absolutely nothing we can do about that.  We have to get our own performances up and some more points on the board.  If we win more than we lose and pick up a few draws from teams we would expect to lose to, then hopefully things will be ok.

We'll just have to hope that Saturdays performance was a one off.  I'm pretty sure it was.  Maybe a bit of fatigue from Tuesday (remember they don't seem to have had a pre season where they got their fitness levels up, and so Derry is playing catch up with them) and too many having an off day at once.  Shaun and Greg simply won't take that sort of display.  I hope we can offload Haynes and get a decent combative midfielder in.  We sure need one.

Well that was an amazing Walsall performance. I thought Saddlers may have come away with a single goal victory but never expected that. Westcarr and Brandy grabbed the headlines but the whole team did well. Thought your keeper played a blinder with several blocks and saves to keep the score down. I expected a close game tbh. Maybe Walsall played the conditions a bit better too. So a setback for Notts but perhaps a game to forget....

Taking nothing from Walsall, we made them. Our lack of defending and our in ability to be structured at the back left us vunreable. I don't believe Walsall would have hit us so hard if Smith was more central, if Leacock had been given more support and Sheehan/Freeman had a bit more focus, however Sheehan's performance was acceptable.

Majority of the goals were 'gifted' and it made someone look far more impressive than he was, Brandy really didn't do much apart from school.

Now, I do accept Walsall played well and they sensed our trouble but if it wasn't for Bart we might have perhaps sunk further. It's a result which doesn't really bother me, we will have games like this and it's for Derry to demand better focus. He perhaps should have tried to address the space we left open before the 2nd goal, though he's learning and I am sure a postive response will follow. Fair play to Walsall and their fans, the few I spoke to were very friendly.

Shame Brandy doesn't realize this.