Opening day romp for Baggies, but that was as good as it got
Season 1991-92 Part Two
ALBION’S best win came on the opening day of the season, 6-3 at home to Exeter City, while both Bournemouth and Peterborough were beaten 4-0.
The team’s two heaviest defeats were both by 3-0, away at Huddersfield and Stockport.
Not one player reached double figures in the goal charts, makeshift forward Gary Robson topping the list with nine.
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Walsall lumbered home in 15th place in Division 4 – one step higher than in the previous season. The Saddlers won only 12 games (five at home), drew 13 and lost 17, scoring 48 goals and conceding 58 for a points tally of 49.
Walsall won seven of their first 13 games but lost five of the next seven before picking up again only to have a disastrous run during the early part of 1992 when not a single victory was recorded up to mid-february.
Three crucial wins before April eased the pressure on manager Kenny Hibbitt and, in fact the Saddlers finished well, losing only one of their last five matches.
The team’s best win was 4-2 at home versus Blackpool, while the heaviest defeat was a 4-0 thumping at Gillingham. Rod Mcdonald with 18 goals was top-scorer by a mile!
In the FA Cup competition this season Wolves went out early doors, losing 1-0 at Nottingham Forest.
Albion, after beating nonleague side Marlow 6-0, went out in round 2 away at Leyton Orient, while Walsall’s exploits ended in round one when they succumbed to non-league side Yeovil in a replay.
In the Rumbelows League Cup, Wolves defeated Shrewsbury Town before crashing out 4-1 at Everton. Albion went out in the first round, losing 4-2 on aggregate to Swindon Town, while Walsall also lost in the 1st round, eliminated by Swansea
City 3-2 over two legs. Wolves also lost 1-0 at Grimsby in the first round of the Zenith Data Sytstems Cup, while both Albion and Walsall played in the Autoglass Trophy. The Baggies lost 1-0 to Exeter City in round one whereas the Saddlers went out in round 2, losing at Stoke, having defeated Birmingham City in a preliminary round. News from within the clubs … Steve Bull’s 150th goal for Wolves came in that 4-3 League defeat at Tranmere. Albion signed Bob Taylor from Bristol City – a great buy by manager and ex-player Bobby Gould. He replaced Don Goodman who, after scoring 63 in 181 games, was sold to Sunderland. And for the first time since 1925, Albion competed in round one of the FA Cup. Walsall’s two League games with Aldershot were both declared null and void and the Australian international Scott Ollerenshaw was registered with the Saddlers.
Not one Albion player reached double figures in the goals scored charts