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Why does he continually appear low down or bottom of the goalkeeping stats against his peers? It can't be because he is a competent keeper. Yes, he might have bits of misfortune but why are his overall stats always so poor?

It's pretty damning and hard to argue when he keeps getting these poor stats.

You mean Tonda will be confirmed?

I wonder what is being discussed at the club regarding the manager situation. Discussions will obviously be going on and, at some stage, a decision has to be made. 4 wins on the bounce by Eckert has bought some time but today was a step backwards in terms of set up, tactics and in game management. We can't let this drag on too long - either appoint Eckert or bring in someone else but don't dither.

Just watched the first goal on highlights and for me it is a positional error that means he struggles to cut down the angles and gives the guy too much of a space to shoot into. I think Bazunu should be at least a yard further off his line and his starting position could be half a step to his right and that gives him a far better chance to make the save and also makes less of a target for the scorer. It's a common mistake he keeps making but others will have their own opinions.

Not sure which game you watched but there was no header through Manning's legs for their third goal.

Just saying how I saw it. I'm not sure his positioning in general is all that it should be and I think this major fault makes it very difficult for him to save shots - he just seems to leave large inviting gaps because he fails to get his angles right.

Source?

Agree - Aribo has done nothing each time he's been brought on.

Disagree. I think most competent keepers save that first one.

Stick him on gardening leave.

Just watched the highlights and the defending for their winning goal was horrific. Bodies have to be put on the line at that stage of a game but Manning was half hearted at best. Bazunu should do better with Millwall's first goal for me - a quality keeper does not let that in. The worldy from their centre back was just one of those things. Learn lessons, draw a line and move on to the next game.

Who'd buy him? I think if we want to sell him we're better off taking him out of the shop window.

We can't have nice things can we 🙂

As you were - he's just been removed from their radar.

I take your point about injuries but I think Millwall have had it worse than us.

Listen, he's got us 12 points out of 15 with a combination of luck, very good play, poor opponents and periods when we just looked hopeless. The points tally is great but after the setback today it's quite tricky to work out whether he's as clued up as many of us were saying (me included) just yesterday. A defeat off the back of another good performance today would have been acceptable but now I'm just totally confused. What does Spors do now because we were led to believe Tonda was going to be given 5 games including this one? He's got 4 wins which is hard to argue with. I think he'll be told to carry on and see how we do against Birmingham but he needs a bounce back after today.

The stats show Millwall were content to let us play a form of Russball which we've not been doing under Eckert. Too much pointless possession and negative passing. Their manager has done his homework and worked out how to stop our fluid play. I guess it's now a question of how Eckert reacts after his first setback and I'm sure he found today a tough lesson.

Tonda has 12 points from 15 which is a great return. However, many of us believed he'd turned us into a winning machine but it would seem today was a very sub standard performance. Ok Scienza was a big loss but Millwall have had lots of players missing. It's really disappointing - not so much the loss but the drop in performance. Be interesting to hear Tonda in his post match press conference because to date he's always been able to talk about wins.

Is this the old weaknesses resurfacing? Sounds like it. Late equaliser then can't hold on. Big learning curve here.

Doesn't sound good today so I'd settle for a point unless Tonda can work some magic.

Yes, that's not a stat we want because it is based on lots of meaningless passes between defenders and I thought we'd cut that out in favour of playing in vertical lines.

I'm not watching but the stats are mainly in our favour according to BBC. Are we really playing as badly as it sounds on here?

So, all the goals in the second half today? 🙂

Is he definitely out? If so, yes, of course he'll be a big miss but we are hardly a one man team and should cope without him.