Lighthouse

None of that makes any sense. We sacked Still, Tonda was going to be in charge for the first two games at least. We won them both, no obviously superior candidate was immediately forthcoming so we gave him the next three. He ended up winning four out of five, including a couple of thumpings of reasonably decent teams, so we gave him the job. None of that is stupid, it all seems fair enough to me. We could have gone out and signed someone with 'experience' of the Championship, with different players at different clubs at some point, instead we went with the guy who has experience of winning games with Southampton, right now.

What stupidity do you feel is being rewarded? They gave him the job because he won four out of five games and had us playing some of the best football we’ve played since Ralph. There are many valid criticisms of S.R. But this seems like a reasonably sensible decision based on solid evidence to me.

I swear these commentators have said ‘blues’ about 200 times this half and not once ‘Birmingham’. Am I watching the unlicensed, Pro Evo Soccer 2006 version of this match?

Charlton vs Pompey has been abandoned now due to a medical event in the crowd. Seems a bit odd.

That's very obviously not true though is it. How many times have we played well, only to fail to take our chances, lose and end up saying, "FFS! Same story every time, out play them and lose FFS!" It's one of the longest stanging cliches in football, so don't pretend you wouldn't have minded. Tonda won four games out of five. The one he lost was to a 97th minute goal, when we were missing key players away to the team in third. It's as solid an audition as you can ask for and 12 points in 5 games would be 110 played out over a full season.

Okay, so losing away to the team in third is not acceptable. If we 'should still be going there and getting a result' who are we allowed to lose to in this league?

We lost away to the team in 3rd in the last minute of injury time. It's football, it happens, there's no manager out there who was guaranteed to win all five games. If we were playing someone crap and been 3-0 down at half time, then I'd have been more concerned.

Probably looking at an innings defeat. How can we so consistently be this pathetic in test cricket.

Millwall are a decent team, who've been very strong at home and are 3rd in the table. That was always going to be a tough game, we could have lost that under Adkins, Martin, Burley or any other Championship manager you'd care to mention. Them also having injuries doesn't negate the fact that we're clearly not the same without Leo, Downes and Charles.

Seems a reasonable enough appointment to me, you can't really argue with four wins out of five and the one we lost was missing some key players. It's obviously a risk but then so would anyone else be. There was never really a stand out 'you be mad not to appoint him' candidate, so I guess we'll see how it goes.

This whole ‘why isn’t he playing instead of Aribo’ idea is a complete guess based on absolutely nothing we’ve seen on a football pitch. Sure, Aribo has looked lazy and disinterested and I can’t wait to see the back of him, but he also has nearly 100 appearances in the SPL and the same again in the PL/Champ. I’d say it was fairly obvious why he is being chosen over a man who has never done anything other than a forgettable loan in Turkey and one decent goal against Norwich reserves.

Rooooooooooooooooooooot!

Have you considered any superhero/vigilante work? Seem like it’d be your kind of thing, you’d just a catchy nickname and a tight fitting, Lycra bodysuit.

Thanks for playing along. 🙂