Source: Team_Talk
Nicholls backs Walsall management
After a pre-season that harboured ambitions of a play-off place, the Saddlers currently find themselves in mid-table with five games remaining - 12 points adrift of the top six and 13 clear of the drop zone.
But the club have shown a marked improvement under the guidance of Hutchings and O'Connor, who replaced Jimmy Mullen back in January. Even though results might not indicate that clearly with Mullen taking 31 points from his 23 league games in charge this season (average 1.3 per game) and Hutchings taking 24 from his 17 games (1.4 average).
Nicholls, for one, is confident there are good times ahead at the Banks's Stadium.
"The manager has got contacts in high places and that bodes well for the players he might be able to bring in during the summer," the striker told the Birmingham Mail.
"If we can get a good spine to the team in pre-season and start playing well as a group then I don't see why we can't achieve things next season."
