George Bennett previews Walsall's huge Accrington Stanley clash

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George Bennett brings you the latest ahead of Walsall's huge clash against Accrington Stanley. The Saddlers sit fourth with two games to go ahead of a big weekend - with a handful of sides at the top of the division all playing each other.

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00:00Hi folks, I was at Bescott earlier today ahead of Walsall's crucial penultimate game against

00:09Accrington Stanley and Walsall opened the stadium up for the supporters to watch an

00:17open training session and after that I headed upstairs to talk to Matt Sadler and Jamie

00:24Jealous, also obviously now entering a crucial juncture in the season and I posed the question

00:29to both Jamie and Matt Sadler regarding how they will approach Saturday with the fact

00:36that two massive games in the promotion race kicking off at 12.30 with Bradford travelling

00:43to leaders Doncaster Rovers and Port Vale travelling to Wimbledon and Jamie Jealous said there will

00:51be no focus paid to matters elsewhere, they can only control what they can control, that

00:59was very much the talk from him, Matt Sadler talked about it being an exciting opportunity,

01:04the sort of occasions Walsall want to be involved in, obviously Walsall's promotion bid, title

01:12bid originally, has been derailed by a dismal run of two wins in 19 games, winless now in

01:1812. One of the topics of discussion was of course Danny Johnson as has been the case a number

01:25of times since he rejoined the club two seasons ago and obviously left out of the squad for

01:31the two games over the Easter weekend and posted on social media his trip to the zoo and Matt

01:38Sadler was asked whether he was aware of that, said he wasn't but said it's within the players'

01:43rights to post what they want on social media and said that the decision was made on Sunday

01:48and that he didn't travel with the squad, only so many players can travel to away games,

01:54it's different with home games. So that was his explanation on that situation and I talked

01:58to him about kind of how he approaches the difficult conversations and he said that he always tries

02:04to be transparent and give a level of honesty, says that he doesn't get it right every time

02:10but that's kind of his approach on those conversations. In terms of team news, Priestley,

02:17Farkerson, Jack Earing and Josh Gordon were all out on the grass during the open training session.

02:23Priestley and Josh Gordon will be available for selection on the weekend, however that's not

02:29the case for Jack Earing. Still not quite ready, Sadler was unwilling to put a time frame on it

02:36but says he hopes he will be pushing for the final game against Crew Alexandra.

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