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Walsall's internationals: Hinderance or a boost?
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30/10/2024
Jonny Drury and George Bennett discuss Walsall's internationals on the latest episode of the Bescot Beat
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I think it came at a really good time for Walsall. They had that 6-2 defeat at Fleetwood
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and they just had one more opportunity to prove that that was just a blip. Although
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they didn't win the game against Chesterfield, they put in a really good performance and
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just put that behind them. Then they had the opportunity to go into that international
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break, reset, and they've come back really strongly. The Grimms being Carlisle wins a
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goal with Stroud the other day. So I think the international break came at a good time
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for them. There is obviously the challenge of whether players like Liam Gordon especially
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can be overloaded. There's been times where he sort of returns to Essington on a Thursday
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and then he's playing away from home on a Saturday. So that's going to be physically
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challenging. But I mean, in the games that I've watched following his returns from internationals,
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it's not really looked like it's affected him a great deal. And I mean, the position
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that Walsall find themselves in at the minute with someone like Donovan Daniels and Brandon
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Connolly, who are really struggling for minutes with the form of the likes of Harry Williams
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and Taylor Allen, David Cagbury, and obviously Ryan Sturck and Connolly's slot, is it actually
01:13
provides those players with opportunities to get minutes that they're actually not getting
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at Walsall? I mean, I'm pretty sure both Connolly and Daniels played back-to-back 90
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minutes for Montserrat over the international break. So, you know, it keeps them fresh for
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when potentially they're going to be called upon by Matt Sadler. So that's key. But yeah,
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there is then the caveat of midweek games, a congested fixture schedule later in the
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season, which we're also going to find challenging. But you know, at times last season, Walsall
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had that anyway. I mean, I think it was during their run in February and March where they
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had that five-match winning streak. There was the Morecambe game that was in between
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there. There was a midweek game against Accrington. So Walsall has shown in the past that, you
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know, when those games come thick and fast, they've actually had good spells of form.
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