Reply To: Views and Ratings for the Walsall Match

[bartonscorpion]

A really hard earned three points from the game, our first home win since October.

Oldham over run Scunny during the first 35 minutes, but did not take advantage of their many chances in our box, Rory came to the rescue a few times, but in general it was a very poor half, Newey summed it up by saying that Scunny were not poor, but dire!!.

Overall with Walsall having 58% of posession, 5 shots on target to our 2, and that we only managed 1 corner during the full match, it was dire as Newey said, but the lads stuck in, and even with ten men, Oldham never looked a team capable of winning, even agains Scunny with only ten men.

The game was not helped by na really terrible ref that managed to get many things wrong throughout the game.

WATSON—7—Would have been 8 apart from his poor kicking.
PUGH–3–Was having a poor game till he brainlessly got sent off after he had and earlier yellow, but he does these hard fouls in many a game, isn’t this his second red??.
ONARIASE—7—King pin in defence.
DELANEY–6—Thought that he was also strong in defence.
MILLEN–6–Did ok, and great free kick for our goal.
ROWE—5—Thought that he made some good tackles, but a bit wayward with some passes.
GRANT—7–An old head which our team has been lacking.
SINCLAIR–4—Not very productive, and should have been subbed when he did not agree.
BURNS—6—Ran his arse off, he never gives in, will be a good addition.
PYKE—4–Very poor involvement and was not really involved in much.
FEENEY—4–Another player that did not do a lot, hope that these guys improve.

GALLIMORE—6—Looked good, and could be a regular later this season.

REF—3—Cannot give more than three, poor sending off with Pugh, although he often gets into trouble by his tackles Rory should have received a red, Walsall player should also been red carded, and Walsall should have had a stone walled penalty.

ATTENDANCE—3—A crowd of 2,123 including about 150 Walsall fans sums up the Scunny fans feelings after the Oldham showing, but all other teams in the bottom six apart from Oldham all lost, and what a difference the table would have looked if Scunny had taken the win last Saturday, but we are still miles behind, and did we really deserve the 3 points tonight??, it could well be that Scunny will be fighting Walsall, Carlisle and maybe Barrow / Colchester for league status, Oldham might easily escape, but where are Scunny going to get seven more wins, if we struggle when playing teams like Oldham and Walsall????

THESE ARE MY OPINIONS ONLY, AND MAY AND WILL NOT ALL BE THE SAME AS OTHERS, SO PLEASE GIVE YOUR VIEWS ON THE GAME.