The Walsall Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Priestley Farquharson out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Walsall will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match5 Sep 2026
Walsall win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Salford City will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Vincent Harper runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jake Hollman in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Walsall this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Ronan Maher
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match5 Sep 2026
Aaron Pressley the difference as Walsall beat Salford City
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aaron Pressley. 1‑0 against Salford City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Aden Flint falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Aden Flint
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market7 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Walsall and Taye Ashby-Hammond
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- Player ratings Aaron Pressley was the difference for Walsall
- Player ratings Ronan Maher changes it off the bench
- Market Walsall bring in Joel Colwill on loan