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Blue tinted optimist⭐🦐
They've appointed a new manager, Kevan Broadhurst.
New Walsall manager
On paper, this should be our easiest home game left. Walsall have been in free fall for a while - even Mersons departure as manager hasn't helped their fortunes.
Their fans are disappointed a bigger name hasn't been given the job, so Broadhurst is taking over a team 3rd from bottom in League One with the fans not exactly behind him. There's not a lot of downside to the job, is there?
We, on the other hand, are 4 points clear and to be honest, if we get 3 points on Saturday and looking at everyone else's fixtures, we could easily be 7 clear come 5 o'clock.
But we are Freddy-less, probably Maher-less and maybe Bentley-less. Football, being the game it is, will surely mean a honeymoon period of 2 or 3 games for Broadhurst and we are such stonking favourites that it really is set up for an upset.
In short, we don't stand a chance of winning. The best we can hope for is a draw.
Southend will be massively odds-on for this match, and if anyone has any sense they'll back against a Southend win. You'll get good value on a draw and great value on a Walsall victory.
Of course, I don't want Blues to lose. But this is the pessimistic head talking, pretty much as I have done all season, thinking "we can't keep this form going, we've got to drop off sooner or later". I think the danger will come when we feel we can't get beaten.
Ho hum.
New Walsall manager
On paper, this should be our easiest home game left. Walsall have been in free fall for a while - even Mersons departure as manager hasn't helped their fortunes.
Their fans are disappointed a bigger name hasn't been given the job, so Broadhurst is taking over a team 3rd from bottom in League One with the fans not exactly behind him. There's not a lot of downside to the job, is there?
We, on the other hand, are 4 points clear and to be honest, if we get 3 points on Saturday and looking at everyone else's fixtures, we could easily be 7 clear come 5 o'clock.
But we are Freddy-less, probably Maher-less and maybe Bentley-less. Football, being the game it is, will surely mean a honeymoon period of 2 or 3 games for Broadhurst and we are such stonking favourites that it really is set up for an upset.
In short, we don't stand a chance of winning. The best we can hope for is a draw.
Southend will be massively odds-on for this match, and if anyone has any sense they'll back against a Southend win. You'll get good value on a draw and great value on a Walsall victory.
Of course, I don't want Blues to lose. But this is the pessimistic head talking, pretty much as I have done all season, thinking "we can't keep this form going, we've got to drop off sooner or later". I think the danger will come when we feel we can't get beaten.
Ho hum.
