StrangelyBrown

What are these "wild conclusions" you are talking about? When are people allowed to have an opinion?

This is horseshit I'm afraid. There was no reason not to play a back 4. If Baz was incapable of playing with a 4 then McCarthy has played with a four for most of his career. If it was about height then play Stephens at right back - he's filled in there plenty. Playing 4 at the back doesn't necessitate a target man. Tonda has done well, but let's not reinvent history - he should have switched to a four way sooner.

Do you think he identified the problems quickly enough? For me they were so blatantly obviously only someone with deceitful eyes would claim otherwise and frankly I didn't buy into the "height" bullshit. Don't get me wrong I think he's doing well and I do wonder if he's getting less interference now we're getting results??

Imagine if he'd also switched to a back 4 a bit quicker... The most promising thing for me is that a number of players actually seem to have improved. When was the last time we had a manager who made players better?

Glad to see an Azaz masterclass. Wonderful passer of the ball. Yes he's inconsistent, but if he was any better he wouldn't be playing for us! Big shouts out for Larin for leading the line so well, Leo for a much better 2nd half, Harwood Bellis for another very composed game and Matsuki for 2 very nicely taken goals. I'm starting to like this team again!

7 wins from 12 needed. The hope is going to kill me

I'm not sure that's true. We're on course to get 69 points - Tonda is on 1.75 points per game.

8 wins needed now from 13. Still doable but we love to make things hard for ourselves.

I don't disagree, watching his presser yesterday was comedy gold, but like you very glad he's not out manager.

The criticism of Jones is about him being a twitchy mentalist. You can't go around making claims about being the fittest man in the world and the best manager statistically and say bizarre things about staying in Wales with a girl from the valley and not expect a bit of criticism. The man is a walking box of frogs.

Interesting post that backs up what a lot of us were saying without analysing the stats - i.e. a back four gives us an extra body in midfield and therefore control. It also highlights a weakness of our over reliance on stats/data - you have to have data to see trends and therefore react whereas using your "deceitful" eyes you can fix problems as they happen.

The fact that we've only had 2 managers who've managed more than 50 games since Claude Puel is pretty damning. Yes he's doing well so far, but the comparison is against a whole load of dross.

Based on needing 10 wins from the last 16; we're well on track with 2 wins out of 10 and 8 wins needed from the remaining 14. We've only gone and given ourself some hope... We all know how this goes 😂

Blimey amazing turnaround. Hats off to the manager and players for turning that around. Not sure what he was thinking to begin with though!

So very Saintsy. We give ourselves a chance in the league and then our dickhead manager fucks it up. 3 at the back incoming and us stuck in the championship forever...