Football: Familiarity Breeding Contentment for Trio ; As Walsall Push for Promotion Again, the Memories of Previous Successes Are Standing a Trio of Old Heads in Good Stead. Ged Scott Reports.

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In any promotion-winning team, one of the essential requirements are a few men who have been there before. One or two who, as they say, know the ropes.

And that's what sets this current promotion-seeking Walsall side apart from the rest. It is now six years ago since Ray Graydon led the Saddlers to two promotions in three years, either side of the one blot on his CV, an instant relegation back to Division Two.

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Football: Familiarity Breeding Contentment for Trio ; As Walsall Push for Promotion Again, the Memories of Previous Successes Are Standing a Trio of Old Heads in Good Stead. Ged Scott Reports.

In each of those two promotion-winning sides were a trio of honest, hardworking triers, who came in various shapes and sizes. And, fully eight years on from their original promotion under Graydon, Ian Roper, Dean Keates and Darren Wrack are still ther...

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