Walsall midfielder Adam Chambers spoke to his club's official website ahead of his side's League One clash against Carlisle at Brunton Park tomorrow afternoon, Chambers looking for more goals from the Saddlers:
“The games that we have lost have been really tight, it is not like we are getting beat three or four, but at the same time we obviously need to start putting the ball into the box and into the back of the net basically. It is a team thing, we defend and attack together so from a team point of view it is something that we need to get better at. So, it’s frustrating that we haven’t quite performed to our potential, but that being said we have performed well for the majority of the season.
“The motivation for myself for the last four games now is the frustration of this season. I would hate for us to finish lower than I expected us to when we were sitting in sixth. So, I feel we need to finish in a relative position to what we have achieved this season with our performances. I would hate for us to finish 10th, 11th or 12th, I would prefer us to finish just outside the play-offs. So, that is my motivation and the group one as well to prove that although we have fallen short we have had a good season and been there or thereabouts for most of it.
“If you said in our dressing room that we are punching above our weight then I think there would be fighting. But, I really don’t think that, budgets, whether you are getting paid £10 a game or £100,000 a game it doesn’t matter, it is eleven v eleven. Our squad on the whole is strong enough to compete, we have played certain teams off the park this season who have got bigger budgets.
“So, for me it is not an excuse, it is not a reason why we haven’t achieved. There have been other things, obviously sometimes the way the ball just falls for you, little things like that. But, throughout the season I think we have just fallen a little bit short on quality and decision making and it has put us in this situation. But, for me budgets don’t really matter on who is getting paid what as it is eleven v eleven.”
In team news for the visitors tomorrow they will be without 15-goal top scorer Craig Westcarr who serves the final match of a three game ban for a red card picked up in a 1-0 win over Shrewsbury in late March. Meanwhile, 21-year old Chelsea-loanee striker Milan Lalkovic missed last weekend’s 1-0 defeat at home to Bristol City with a hamstring strain, and after returning today from treatment at his parent club his fitness will be assessed ahead of the game at Brunton Park.
The referee for tomorrow's match is RAF Sergeant Darren Drysdale who is based at Waddington in Lincolnshireand he will be assisted down the lines by Nick Greenhalgh from Bury and Peter Wright from Southport. Meanwhile, the fourth official is Gary Beswick from Newton Aycliffe in County Durham.