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Typical Saints, work yourself into a decent position and then bottle it. Knowing us we'll beat Coventry at their place in a month's time to balance this one out. What a downer.

Looking at the fixtures this w\e... Derby away to Watford Wrexham home to Ipswich Preston away to Blackburn Bristol away to Swansea Birmingham away to Norwich. 4 aways and a tough home. No doubt about it, this w\e is a great opportunity to leapfrog our rivals, maybe even sneak into playoffs?

Good stuff, always good to be in the cup, some of my best memories are from cup games. We're not going to win it but hopefully we'll at least get a tie with a decent prem team and a memorable day out. Also keeps the momentum up, never a bad thing to be winning whatever the competition.

Tonda is a funny one isn't he? Looks like a deer in the headlights but back in November he was the first manager in ages who got my pulse working, Granted he stopped it again either side of Xmas but now he seems to have restarted it. I don't know what the secret is - Hypnosis? Voodoo? Maybe just a jammy sod? Either way his teams have at least provided some much needed entertainment in what was shaping up to be a depressing season. Sometimes a manager just fits at a club. This was a big big game, next 5 are Charlton (h), QPR (h), Sheff Wed (a), Norwich(h), West Brom(a) - all winnable fixtures as long as the players don't go back to sleep. Amazingly the playoffs are seriously opening up. Keep it up Mr Jammy, I've stopped caring what your secret sauce is, I'm just enjoying the highs.

A good time to get them I'd say. They are still not a bad team though so a draw would be good IMO.

Smart move by Wolves to get a good champ striker before they go down, we should be asking for more than 7M though.

Right now I'm more interested NFL playoffs and how the 6 nations is going to go. SR have destroyed any interest in this club.

Wins a win but looks like we made very hard work of it. We should have put them to the sword but we stumbled over the line.

Tonda looks like a rabbit in the headlights and the players don't seem to give a toss but they are the symptoms, not the cause. Ultimately the buck stops with SR. Ever since they have been at the club it's been downhill, the brief upturn with promotion just papered over the cracks. Maybe we'll escape relegation this season but their utter incompetence will see us slide down the leagues. If they are telling the mgr how to set up the team then that says it all for me. How far down is their level? L1\L2? Even lower? Can't see a turnaround while they are here.

I don't know what's happened, back in November the clouds seem to have finally lifted and the team was playing fast attacking football with huge success, we looked odds on for playoffs and even a tilt at top 2. Now they have gone back to stodge ball. Some people on here are saying it's SR but if it is then why were they happy to allow the November form to continue? As incompetent as I think they are I don't think it's them - they want us to win like anyone else. Looks to me like a combination of a manager that has lost his balls and a bunch of players who are comfortable playing under performing stodge ball. 4-4-2 please and show some fight! I'd rather lose playing attacking football that dying of Russball boredom.

Get back to the flowing football of November and we can win. Tonda actually saw the results for himself so why have we regressed back to stodgy Russball?

Crazy, a month ago we were playing some really good stuff and now we are all over the place. Have we been sussed? Mgr has changed tack? Players gone back to sleep? We have all seen that the team has the ability so Tonda it's time to earn your salary.

I don't know why he gets picked over McCarthy, IMO AM is clearly the better GK. If the club don't fancy AM the we need someone new. If GB's not replaced he's going to seriously cost us.

GK would be my priority, can't help wondering if Baz will cost us when we get to the business and of the season.

Another exciting game and 1 point from playoffs now. WBA are a decent outfit so a win is welcome. Stoke are away to Ipswich tonight so we may even move up a place after that game. QPR are away to Boro on Sat so win at Norwich and we could be a playoff team on Sat. Would scarcely have believed it 4 weeks ago.

Loving the Tonda era so far, at the start of November we were all slitting our wrists and now football is fun again. 5 wins out of 6 and only 60 seconds from a draw at a strong Millwall. Lots of great goals and some fantastic attacking football. Brilliant stuff. For once SR may have stumbled on a gem here. I'm hoping he's another Ralph.

Dissappointing but Millwall are a decent outfit and Scienza was missing. What a player he is. It's not the end of the world. Must get back on track for Birmingham.

If he's achieved a new manager bounce he's the only one that has out of Selles, Martin, Juric and Still. I think the upturn is more than a new manager bounce, his time at Bayern and Genova has given him the ability.

Tonda has gotten us playing better football than the previous 3 managers. If a new guy achieved this level of performance we'd be hailing them as a fantastic manager. If Tonda doesn't get the job SR will have dropped their biggest clanger.

We look like a different team. Begs the question what the hell was Still doing for all those weeks, clearly he had the players to do a job.

What team was I watching today? Fast incisive attacking movement and clinical finishing? Seriously where the hell has this team been all season? After such a crap start playoffs must be the minimum target. We know what you can do so no excuses now.

It's all about confidence and even if it wasn't pretty these 2 wins will have done us the world of good. Another 4 points from the next 2 games should hopefully see us back on our way. Despite our overall crapiness amazingly we are only 7 points off playoffs with 23 games to go, everything is still to play for.

Mowbray might not excite but he knows his way around, wouldn't take crap from the players and should stop the rot. No more 'up and coming' managers please, just give me someone who knows what he is doing. Long shot but would Martin O'Neill be interested? Probably not.

Yes this is the table.... https://footballrates.com/lastfiveyears We are 89th out of 100 teams and as you say that includes a promotion season. Add to that the fact that we have 1 home win in a year. It's an abusive relationship. I don't have bad feelings towards WS but he needs to go. Sorry fella - you tried but you failed. Get someone who understands the basics and builds from the ground up. Much more importantly SR need to throw the towel in and accept that they haven't got a clue. While they stay we will keep on going downhill.

Oh go on, you know you want to....