FANS of the glass half-full persuasion will say it’s good that Town are winning games without  playing at their best.
The half-empties will claim that after doing it against Plymouth and now Walsall, it probably can’t carry on.
But one thing is undisputed.
Lee Clark’s side have won three on the spin in League I, and four in all competitions, and are back  in the automatic promotion places.
Only Brighton, a side they deservedly beat at the Galpharm in mid-
December, have more  points.
Sure, the sides around them have games in hand, but that doesn’t always translate into  points.
And while Town certainly need to tighten up defensively, they have an in-form striker in Jordan  Rhodes, who made it 16 for the season with Saturday’s stoppage-time clincher.
And they are scoring goals from a variety of positions, with centre-backs Jamie McCombe and  Peter Clarke both weighing in after Kevin Kilbane notched his first for Town at the Banks’s  Stadium.
That came in the 19th minute, five after the home side had capped a busy start by going ahead  through Alex Nicholls, who slotted home Will Grigg’s pass left-footed from just inside the penalty  box.
Kilbane, on loan from Hull, looks a class act, and as soon as he pounced on a slip-up by former  Town defender Andy Butler just inside the home half, Walsall looked in trouble.
The Republic of Ireland ace swept past centre-back Manny Smith, drew keeper David Bevan and  shot home on the angle to provide the perfect response to Nicholls’ effort.
And there was more to come.
Town’s height advantage in most areas of the pitch was causing the West Midlanders problems, and McCombe hardly had to jump to head home Anthony Pilkington’s 24th-minute corner to put his  side 2-1 ahead.
McCombe, back in the starting XI for the first time in six games, had shown some deft footwork  to win the flag kick in the first place, and his sixth goal of the season lifted Town and shook a Walsall side desperate for a win in Dean Smith’s first home match as caretaker manager following the exit of ex-Town player Chris Hutchings.