E_H_Saints

Anyone expecting an easy win today is delusional. Three games in a week, they have a new manager, one of our best attackers is out. You can see the difference, fellows goes forwards today everything is backwards. They have a good keeper. Good test of resilience needed for the second half. They will get tired but our defence has a tendency to fall asleep.

I love how judgemental people are when they couldn't do any better. I have seen way worse, you see keepers miss that due to pace. Just judged exactly right, slightly lower or higher it's a goal.

Looking like we have our first test of playing well in both halves as this isn't going to be won in the first half as we have been doing. Proving Fellows might be just as important as Scienza.

My only concern and hope to be proven wrong. Is that I like a manger has a fine balance between fight, motivation and desire to improve when speaking to the media and hopefully to the players. Maybe because he thinks the players are too fragile but I need to hear his passion to get clean sheets. Desire for his players to improve these situations but ATM it's all positive and we are all working hard etc. Lampard has a team winning who still expects more even after wins. If it's not a clean sheet thats what he desires. Obviously coming back from being behind is different but leading by 2 or 3 goals means we have it in is to close the game anything else is lack of concentration or shutting off at the wrong times. Don't get me wrong, I love the direction but would like to start to see signs of his passion for more. This isn't U21, this is a team that things could get harder if we have the chance for promotion so start hitting them with high expectations as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, we don't have the depth to see games off. He subs off our scorers to save them for the next match but they track back so much that they help keep our defence in check. The ones we bring back are pace behind the other, no game awareness , no leaders and make us look fragile. Aribo must go, Romeu shouldn't play again until he is ready, Manning needs to come off with someone better defensively and the manager needs to prioritise to the players and fans that scoring more goals is great but leaking goals must improve. Otherwise, when our attackers have a dry spell and we need to win games 1-0 or settle for a draw those will be the games we get hammered.

I have been saying all along that we need a leader in defence. They need someone who can organise and lay into the lazy defending. Most teams feel good at 2-0 whereas we are all thinking we will need a third and that alone says it all.

Agreed, against a good attacking team I think we would have conceded some of these chances WBA created. I'll still take the positives but against this team we should look significant superior in defence yet we don't. Love the score line though!!

He must have a chance at manager of the month for November which would be great as he wasn't the manager technically. Azaz must have a shout at player of the month.

You can't deny what he has achieved. He has brought back the old Armstrong by playing through the middle and keeping the ball low. Azaz has shaken off the new club nerves and now is walking taller with goals behind him and so much more to like. My only thoughts currently are: - who's going to be his support staff. Be good to have some experience around him. I know he has Reeves but surely needs more. -Scienza needs competition, nobody can match him if he needs to come off. -Aribo needs to go otherwise he is going to be the downfall of Tonda. -Need a new keeper -Need a strong minded leader to teach our defence how to actually organise a defence and people can stop looking to Stephens. He's a great servant but not the leader we need on the pitch. -Need to get another striker so we have an option B. But love that we have the excitement to watch the team again .

Or the flip side, you replace him and the manger has 4 losses on the bounce then he could be back in charge before the end of the season. We need a crystal ball.

Harsh, he could have left the team as it was and said he was waiting for the club to bring someone in. Instead, he has made changes and played players we would normally be too nervous to play. I don't think he could be categorised as a yes man. I do agree it's too early to say he deserves it as managers make their statement when they need to bounce back but we shall see.

What I like most about this game is that I'm excited by it. Right or wrong for the job as least Tonda has done that. He has done it on his own way as well. It will be a test but a few weeks ago we would be dreaming for a win, hoping for a draw and annoyingly expecting a loss. He has at least instilled some pride and and excitement for this game. The players will be up for it. Either that or we lose and we all crash back down to reality. I'll hope for the win.

What I like about Tonda so far is that he is taking his chance with two hands. It would have been easy to sit back and use the same players as Still and think he's just doing a job. However, he's made bold decisions, playing u21s that he believes in, brought back Baz and Stephens, has Armstrong playing differently. To me he is staking a claim and he's either going to die by it or rise by it and that's commendable. Either way, if we offer him the job or not, he in my opinion is someone we want around our club. People are saying the three games werent tests but Charlton were above us in the league and with the emotions high it could have been different. Not sure what the answer is ATM but one thing is for sure, I am now looking forward to the next game, and whatever team he picks I'll be excited by because he's picking the team that he wants and not being a puppet on a string. It's exciting.

If miraculously the team looks good and we get wins than I'll be surprised and back him. Saints have played the roulette table so many times, surely we have to hit at some point. However, I feel bad for him if losses come our way and I hope in his early years he understands what will come will actually have nothing to do with him but something much bigger than him. And he will need to relay that message to the team because believe it or not, there are good future players in that squad who just don't have someone to lead. Look how leaders made Fonte look. Soon as he left for West Ham he got found out. Fingers crossed

In all honesty, I don't think the club know what they want to do. The fact people care how our players treat the manager is part of the mess in the first place. They haven't earned the respect to have a say, by the media covering it just allows the players to have more power than they deserve. It has nothing to do with playing experience, its a results business. Other clubs have gambled and got it right (Brighton, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth etc). A good manager and competent manager would probably want to come in and say, your squad isn't good enough for your ambition.