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Saturday 8 March 2025

Division 4

Walsall 1 Harrison (5)

Grimsby Town 3 Luker (21, 66), Rose (43, pen)

Attendance: 6,255 (757 away fans)

How can you pick a single man from the catwalk? Everyone did the bits they do well, very well, and the bits they don't do well perfectly adequately. It was a team performance, but for giving Little George wings it has to be the kitman's pre-match trip to the corner shop. So now we know how long a shot of Red Bull lasts after Charlie the Kitman legged it for the last can of performance enhancing fizz in Walsall - 70 minutes.

As coherent and down to earth as his team, Big Dave just gives you the facts, just the facts with no gloss nor humble-brag crowbarring:

"I enjoyed the result but I also enjoyed the performance. We dominated the game. They tried to bully us into submission and they didn't do that – they didn't lay a glove on us really."

The slings and arrows of hamstrings and stray Jamille Matt elbows?

"We're back to where we were at Christmas, don't make a big deal of it, we are what we are, we've got what we've got, let's go."

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Sadler the sad Saddler was feeling sad and lonely, saddled up with doubt and the laddie doth protest too much methinks:

"For me, it’s about not using words like [panic] because they don't mean anything."

Oh Matty, calm down lad, he's acting like the sort of man who'll suddenly grab you, throw you in a corner and say, "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life?"

"…there are no fractions in this, this is that moment in the sand, the fork in the road. The most important thing from my side of the fence is not to forget what we've done previously. Let's grind this out together."

In each football season there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action - what is often called ruthless - what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it. This Town are not asleep when leaving home and can see clearly now the pain has gone.

Where would we be without Danny Rose?

They stood together, stood tall despite being so small, stood their ground, resisted the aggressors' air raids and launched cunning guerrilla raids behind enemy lines. C'est magnifique, tres, tres magnifique.

Win or lose, sink or swim, one thing is certain, they'll never give in.

Alan Buckley would be turning in his allotment if he knew what Walsall had become.

For any Saddler straying here I've got something to say that might cause you pain - Matt's muddlers are gonna let you down and leave you flat. You can't do that and expect to go up. They had no tactic but hit it high and wrestle. Nothing more, nothing less than hoping to bully little lads. This was hit and hopeless on a grand scale.

Utterly dreadful, The Soufflés were no better than Fleetwood or Cheltenham. There's nothing to be scared of, but will be ridiculed if these charmless Panzers carry on like this and succeed in failing to get promoted.

Side by side, fans in stands, we all stand together.

Mr S Jackson

We can have nothing but praise for the lad. He never flinched from his path, refusing to be bullied and taking a soupcon of satisfaction in making the big boys cry. Despite one dodgy linesman. Ooh, he was very good: 8.111

Worked hard, played hard and hard to beat. What a treat.

In a word: splendiferous