Preview: Walsall vs Bromley
29.11.25, 11:12 Updated 29.11.25, 11:12
Machel Hewitt
Kudos to Walsall. We’re talking about a team who led League Two for most of last season before fluffing their lines and missing out on automatic promotion by one point. Then, having made it to Wembley for the play-off final, they lost to AFC Wimbledon. It’s hard to imagine how gutting that must have been.
To put their end-of-season run in perspective, Walsall only won 3 of their last 21 league games.
Some say that such an astonishingly bad run of form should have seen Saddlers manager Mat Sadler sacked. Yet, objectively, he has been nothing short of an unqualified success at Walsall.
When Sadler was appointed in May 2023, he took the reins of a side that had finished 19th, 16th, and 16th again in the three seasons before his appointment. Since then, every season has seen an improvement, with 23/24 culminating in an 11th-place finish and last season taking them to the heady heights of 4th.
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