Sadler: "We're Fighting for the Club" Sadler: "We're Fighting for the Club"

Sadler: "We're Fighting for the Club"

Here's how Mat Sadler saw the Saddlers' Good Friday meeting with Harrogate Town.
Walsall boss Mat Sadler insists his team are fighting to secure promotion despite seeing them register their eleventh game without a win at home to Harrogate Town on Good Friday.

Ultimately taking a share of the spoils with a two-all draw, Walsall took the lead in the first-half as Connor Barrett saw an effort deflected into the back of the net by Anthony O'Connor.

The visitors put the match back on level terms midway through the first-half when Josh March took advantage of a static Saddlers defence to put the ball beyond Tommy Simkin.

More dismal defending was capitalised upon in the second-half when Ellis Taylor saw an effort deflect into the back of the net just after the match had reached the hour mark.

Walsall began to dominate the ball and were eventually able to salvage a draw as Liam Gordon, who had struggled to make an impact for much of the match, scored with two minutes of the game to play.

Speaking to the assembled media after full-time, Sadler admitted he found the fan's boos a little difficult to take, he said: "We're fighting for the club, for everything.

"We're fighting to achieve something. I don't like hearing boos, of course I don't. I don't think that that helps us move forward, but I understand the frustration that we're not twenty points clear, but we are where we are.

"It was always going to be this way for me, but as a football club we're fighting, as a group of players we're fighting.

"Supporters are turning up in their numbers, so they're fighting. We would love to have won the last five games, and we haven't, but we're fighting.

"I've wanted to give supporters a team to be proud of, and I believe we've done that this season for the most part.

"For the remaining three games, I suppose my rallying cry is to keep going with us and keep seeing the team that are fighting for everything, and that wall of noise is what we need."

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