Saint Pete

Piroe on loan seems like the obvious best striker choice to me if he will agree to come. Proven track record at this level and low risk option with Downs having gone out on loan freeing up a spot. Good chance that Leeds will be open to loaning him out. Fully expect us to go for an unknown "prospect" with a dubious record in a substandard league though.

They should recruit that linesman for VAR now if he's still alive, he would fit in well, exactly the right mindset!! What a team we had then, great football.

"Clearly offside, clearly interfering"? Well, that's one view I guess. Another is that VAR has broken the game if that is considered to be offside and no goal now. One thing that makes me glad we are shit enough to be in the Championship. And to add, if that occurred in the Championship, how many people do you think would have queried that the goal should be disallowed for offside? Absolutely no one and rightly so! If that's the case, VAR is far exceeding what it was intended for when it was brought in, which was to eliminate clear errors/howlers by the officials.

Always looked bang average when I've seen him and not a particularly impressive record.... So, probably a good shout for us in our current state , yes 😌

Well, he can't probably believe his luck that he has landed a manager's job at a supposedly top level Championship club! He's gonna say what his bosses wanna hear, right?!

Totally agree. These words are from a manager who is not a man who knows how to win or has enough desire to win. It's why you should employ people on the basis of evidence that they can perform the role you are employing them for, not just blind faith/hope based on players talking them up or a few games short term results. My feeling is that SR's main fault is their arrogance that they are more important than any manager/employee appointments, they think their philosophy is so good it will do the job and managers and players can come and go with no consequences!

Yes, can see your argument there! I actually think this summers recruitment wasn't too bad with Scienza, Jander, Azaz and Fellows all being players you would expect to do very well at this level. It's just SR have fucked our chances by skimping on managerial appointments and seemingly imposing playing style/formation on the manager. And also ignoring obvious deficiencies in goalkeeper and striker positions.

No way. Must be online so people can respond with loads of hearts and thumbs up! That's the only way to get a response and achieve anythimg! ❤️👍

It's just another indicator of the complacency that runs this club now, it's OK to have a keeper with these weaknesses as he may get better, it's OK to have a 32 year old guy in charge with zero experience as he may be a gem in the future and the players love him!!

With all the (justifiable) doom and gloom today, that was great to see Harry Reed smash it in top corner v Liverpool, great goal he will remember that one! 👍

Wow, we are truly fucked aren't we? Maybe a manager with some sort of experience would have been sensible, who knew?!!!

Well, it's there in Tonda's own words in terms of recruitment. He's saying he is not the man to ask about incoming players as he has no input to that. But he's OK with it. Not a huge leap to assume it's similar with the formation of the players on pitch as well?

And here is why Tonda was appointed. So inexperienced he is OK with having zero input to recruitment decisions with no complaints. The perfect man for SR! 👍

Formation being imposed by the club is inherently wrong, the manager/head coach should always have the power to decide what tactical plan is best in any given game. So if SR are imposing this as seems the case if its being employed in all Saints teams, then that is harming us. When Martin was in charge, it seemed like his philosophy was driving everything but maybe not? 3 at the back has its place, it certainly seemed to be suiting our attacking players in Tonda's first few games but there has to be flexibility and a willingness to adapt to availability of players and the opposition you are facing if you are gonna be successful?

Wow, genius. Maybe appointing a manager with more than 5 games experience in the first place may have been more sensible?