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That's changed my mind, you're spot on mate ,

I always thought he looked decent but I seem to remember the thinking was Tonda likes 3 tallish players in a back 4 hence why breezys return allowed the return to the back 4 and Jelert probably doesn't fit Eckerts system

Given how much Tonda has improved Manning defensively, could he do the same with sugawara? Always thought there was a player there but found himself in a failing team low on confidence and went to pieces , for me has the potential to be a much more dynamic player than roeslev as 2nd choice right back

What a season THBs had from being dropped by Still to being the best CB in the league , goals , Hollywood passes , the binoculars, the bottle post Love him to stay but I can't see it tbh , I was gutted when we sold Ronnie Edwards for relatively cheap , always thought he seemed the natural replacement, I think there's a player there with quarshie but he's a bit raw and I see him paired with a ball playing CB , not sure that Quarshie/Stephens or Wood/Stephens is up to it ? Spors needs to find someone else I guess

I expected it of talksport etc but what got me was that Blackmore , Total Saints Podcast , Football Martin and alot of people on here went big on the whole we've been betrayed by the club , we need wholesale change narrative that Gibson has managed to create , I thought the clubs response yesterday and today of sorry not sorry, we've been stitched up and we'll do everything to keep Tonda was spot on

Has Gibson got to you?

Why? Do you honestly think I'm a SR employee trying to influence the fan base , it's 150 odd people on here that have voted , you must have an inflated sense of the relevance of this forum, or do you think my post was fucking embarrassing cos I have a different choice of manager to you? I thought this thread was for people to give their choice of who they wanted as our next manager , who do you want? I've read this forum and not joined cos it seemed full of angry people more interested in arguing and trying to belittle people with different opinions !

I don't actually feel that strongly about it tbh , even though I don't vape like a c#nt I do tend to favour the idea of a young progressive coach over experience in the league and I really thought Will Still was the answer , I've never liked Gerrard , GON did my head in with his VAR conspiracy theories , I actually liked Carrick but was put off after watching the vid from boro fans posted on here , TBF I wouldn't mind Carrick , clearly has a great football brain but not sure about him as a motivator,I think Eckert has a confidence about him( the hungry eyes thing showed some bollocks to come out with the cringiest thing since Nathan Jones time!)and he knows more about the champ than Still did from his time at Barnsley,and like I said last week I enjoyed watching a game for the first time in ages

I agree in that the 3 clearly wasn't working, seemed like Still just didn't trust any 2 of our central defenders, we had that cup game when he stumbled on Quarshie Edwards and Wood and stuck with it but the shape looked all wrong to me most of the time , getting in each others way , not picking up runners etc and it did look more functional in the Wednesday game , admittedly way to small a sample size to glean much from but I'm just trying to hang on to a positive! I guess my considered wisdom comment was about that disconnect between the fans and the managers , the elynoussi factor ! , they obviously see different things to us , I'm just another know nothing fan and asking the question why managers keep playing a 5 and fans never want it , Ralph did it for a bit too and it was terrible

Ha , don't know how I can defend myself against these allegations! it's been so bad for so long I just wanted to highlight a rare positive in the shit show we've had since last season, I'm no fan of sports republic and think they've tried to be way too clever with their recruitment and have blown our chance to go straight back up to the prem and I'm pissed off they scapegoated Will Still to to deflect the criticism levelled at them and to do it with no replacement in mind is unforgivable, I wrote that post cos at the Wednesday game I was sat pitchside and I honestly saw better patterns of play and shape the other day , obviously against terrible opposition but Swansea are terrible too this season and we looked awful , I don't think Tonda is necessarily the answer but I don't think it's as simple as getting an established manager , dropping Baz, making the players try harder and playing 4 at the back which seems to be the considered wisdom on here, maybe a period of relative stability would do us good as it looks like the road back to the prem could be very long, as promotion is out of reach now maybe it's better not to rush into appointing someone that won't really bring in many of there own players til the summer, of course I'd take Rose or Lampard tomorrow but that's not gonna happen I've honestly read the forum years and I didn't expect to be ripped into for a post that was just my opinion of what I saw in a match

I didn't see the the QPR game TBF, I went to the last Will Still game and the Wednesday at home last week and just recalling what I saw of the system under Eckert

My worry with Gerrard , Carrick etc is it wouldn't be a squad thats necessarily suited them and I can't see much business being done in Jan , I went to the Preston game and to Sheff Wednesday and I thought Tonda showed an understanding of our squad , I'd add the caveat that it was against weak opposition but the shape of the the back 5 looked so much better , THB and Jack splitting way higher and wider , getting fellows into the starting 11 running at players ( roerslev is solid enough but not a wing back for me) . There a few people around me slagging Azaz but I thought it was the first time he looked like the playmaker he was at Boro , he did lose the ball a few times but he was going for the higher risk forward passes , I'd be happy for Tonda to stay for the rest of the season