So by my reckoning there are only FIVE games remaining of the 2010/11 season and it's fair to say it hasn't been a glamourous one for the Saddlers.
Post-Hutchings Walsall have been playing to a standard worthy of a mid-table League 1 club but is it too late to salvage survival?
As it stands, we are clear of relegation on goal difference and by the looks of it, things are going down to the wire. The big question on everyones lips is do the Saddlers have the determination and complacency to see the job through. With the likes of Plymouth and Notts County also fighting for survival, the fight to stay in League One will make it all that bit harder for the Saddlers.
That's why we shouldn't dwell on the negatives.
Walsall have a nasty habit of 'yo-yo mentality' wherein they tend to change the way they act with regards to who they play. However, that mentality could come into good use over the next few games. Brighton at home swings in our favour. Could the hangover carry on till Saturdays match? And could Walsall use their mentality issue to knock them off their high horse and do what we do best...prove the skeptics wrong.
Then we've got the likes of Southampton and Sheffield Wednesday to contend with.
Walsall have a track record of doing well against the big clubs that sink into the abyss that is League One so take this, plus our increase in good form and you have a decent chance of survival my friends :).
I now call upon all you stay away fans to get your sorry backsides down to the Bescot and be that 12th man...as a club, we can do it!
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