Walsall
Bottom of the leagueTop
- League position 4th
- Goal difference +9
- Home Record
- Away Record
- Getting Away With It
- Holding Leads
- Comebacks
- Dark Arts Index
- Foul Magnet
- Home & Away Home Well above average Away Above average This season
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Comebacks
Well above average
0.73 pts/game
avg 0.47 · 2nd of 24 · Last 3 seasonsavg
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Getting Away With It
Above average
+3.6 pts
avg −0.6 · 6th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Holding Leads
Above average
2.50 pts/game
avg 2.15 · 5th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Foul Magnet
Above average
13.1 fouls/game
avg 12.0 · 7th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Dark Arts Index
Average
2.18 cards/game
avg 2.09 · 10th of 24 · This seasonavg
This season's numbers
- Goals scored 16 =8th highest of 24
- Goals conceded 7 2nd lowest of 24
- Clean sheets 6 2nd highest of 24
- Shots 165 =8th highest of 24
- Shots on target 47 =9th highest of 24
- Share of the shots in their games 49% 14th highest of 24
- Corners won 71 5th highest of 24
- Fouls committed 130 17th highest of 24
- Fouls suffered 144 10th highest of 24
- Yellow cards 23 11th highest of 24
- Red cards 1 =8th highest of 24
- Points dropped from half-time leads 2 =11th highest of 24
Walsall and each referee
League games since 2021-22, referees with 3 or more. Records like these are mostly chance: across five seasons, a club's record with a referee in one half of their games tells you nothing about the other half. Which refs are card-happy?
| Referee | P | W-D-L | Pts/g | Cards/g | Ref's usual | Fouls net/g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L Swabey | 8 | 4-0-4 | 1.50 | 1.3 | 1.9 | +1.6 |
| S Oldham | 8 | 4-1-3 | 1.63 | 1.5 | 1.7 | +0.9 |
| B Speedie | 7 | 2-0-5 | 0.86 | 2.4 | 1.7 | +1.4 |
| D Bourne | 6 | 1-3-2 | 1.00 | 2.3 | 2.1 | +0.7 |
| J Oldham | 6 | 3-1-2 | 1.67 | 2.3 | 2.1 | +2.0 |
| M Corlett | 6 | 2-1-3 | 1.17 | 1.2 | 2.3 | +1.3 |
| S Mather | 6 | 3-1-2 | 1.67 | 1.5 | 2.1 | +1.0 |
| S Purkiss | 6 | 1-3-2 | 1.00 | 1.2 | 2.1 | +2.2 |
| C Breakspear | 5 | 2-3-0 | 1.80 | 1.8 | 2.2 | +3.4 |
| C Brook | 5 | 2-1-2 | 1.40 | 2.0 | 2.1 | +4.0 |
| D Rock | 5 | 2-2-1 | 1.60 | 1.8 | 2.0 | +2.2 |
| M Woods | 5 | 1-2-2 | 1.00 | 1.8 | 1.9 | +1.0 |
| P Howard | 5 | 2-2-1 | 1.60 | 1.6 | 1.7 | −0.8 |
| P Wright | 5 | 0-2-3 | 0.40 | 1.2 | 1.8 | −6.0 |
| R Joyce | 5 | 3-1-1 | 2.00 | 2.2 | 1.9 | +0.4 |
| S Jackson | 5 | 3-0-2 | 1.80 | 2.4 | 2.1 | +0.8 |
| T Parsons | 5 | 1-3-1 | 1.20 | 3.0 | 2.2 | −2.4 |
| A Chilowicz | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 1.5 | 1.7 | +1.0 |
| A Haines | 4 | 0-1-3 | 0.25 | 1.5 | 1.6 | +1.8 |
| A Young | 4 | 3-1-0 | 2.50 | 3.0 | 2.2 | +4.5 |
| E Duckworth | 4 | 2-0-2 | 1.50 | 0.8 | 2.1 | +0.8 |
| F Hallam | 4 | 4-0-0 | 3.00 | 1.0 | 1.8 | +2.0 |
| L Smith | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 2.3 | 1.9 | −1.0 |
| O Mackey | 4 | 2-1-1 | 1.75 | 2.3 | 2.0 | −1.8 |
| O Yates | 4 | 1-2-1 | 1.25 | 1.0 | 2.1 | −0.3 |
| S Parkinson | 4 | 2-2-0 | 2.00 | 3.0 | 1.8 | +0.5 |
| S Stockbridge | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 1.5 | 2.1 | +4.5 |
| A Herczeg | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 2.7 | 1.8 | −1.0 |
| A Kitchen | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 2.3 | 1.5 | +4.7 |
| B Atkinson | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 2.0 | 2.4 | +2.0 |
| C Boyeson | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 2.3 | 2.1 | +0.7 |
| D Drysdale | 3 | 2-1-0 | 2.33 | 1.3 | 1.7 | +1.7 |
| J Durkin | 3 | 2-0-1 | 2.00 | 3.0 | 2.3 | +0.7 |
| M Barlow | 3 | 1-2-0 | 1.67 | 1.0 | 1.7 | +2.7 |
| P Marsden | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 3.0 | 2.4 | +4.0 |
| S Allison | 3 | 1-2-0 | 1.67 | 1.3 | 1.9 | +1.3 |
| S Gill | 3 | 2-1-0 | 2.33 | 2.0 | 1.9 | +1.7 |
| T Nield | 3 | 2-0-1 | 2.00 | 1.7 | 1.8 | −0.7 |
Manager changes
Points per game in the 10 league games before and after. If kept: what clubs on the same run of form averaged when they kept their manager. Does sacking the manager work?
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Mat Sadler out · Darren Byfield (interim) in 11 Mar 2026 · 11th at the time
- Before
- 0.60
- After
- 1.20
- If kept
- 1.09
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Michael Flynn out · Mat Sadler (interim) in 19 Apr 2023 · 15th at the time
- Before
- 0.70
- After
- 1.33
- If kept
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Matthew Taylor out · Michael Flynn in 9 Feb 2022 · 21st at the time
- Before
- 0.50
- After
- 1.80
- If kept
- 1.11