Tonda Eckert

[tdmickey3]

@Fabrice29

[saintwbu]

Was lucky again last night I assume

Edited 1 hour ago by saintwbu

[Willo of Whiteley]

10 hours ago, Hoggins said:

 

 

10 hours ago, maysie said:

Since Tonda took over.

We were so wasteful over Christmas, and maybe over-confident for say Charlton at the weekend.

But you can’t deny that record is excellent right now.

Shame we ballsed up the season with fifty draws under Will Still and decided to over-eat on Christmas pudding during the festive period.

[pimpin4rizeal]

1 hour ago, Midfield_General said:

The end of the poor Christmas period form and the start of the current run of great form maps pretty much directly onto two events:

- The end of Armstrong / Archer starting at centre forward, and Stewart / Larin starting instead

- Bazunu being replaced by Peretz

So it turns out that in the Championship you need a keeper who can make saves and a target man with a physical presence up top. Amazing. 

However, ditching 3 at the back, bringing Bree back in and replacing Manning with Welington as first choice left back have had a big impact as well. Tonda learnt from that period and changed it, which is the sort of trait you want to see in a manager.

Yeah I think Bree is just as important as the other two events though since we switched to a back four we have been flying and to go with that he’s also providing a massive goal threat quite regularly too The man has been sensational and probably player of the month for me 

[ally_uk]

I'm actually pleased for him, obviously has a good understanding with the players, isn't afraid to field youth players and give them a chance.

Yesterday's game I thought the performance was super. 

I'm so glad Matsuki has been given a run out, he caught my eye during preseason and I was a bit miffed at the time why he didn't play during the initial start of the season  

[trousers]

Yep, fair play to Tonda for turning things around (hopefully permanently).

He quite rightly attracted flak during his mid-season 7 match spell in the league without a win, and is now quite rightly attracting praise for a 7 match spell in the league without a defeat. 

Consistently do badly, get criticised.

Consistently do well, get praised.

Who knew...?

Edited 15 minutes ago by trousers

[whelk]

4 minutes ago, trousers said:Yep, fair play to Tonda for turning things around (hopefully permanently).

He quite rightly attracted flak during his mid-season 7 match spell in the league without a win, and is now quite rightly attracting praise for a 7 match spell in the league without a defeat. 

Consistently do badly, get criticised.

Consistently do well, get praised.

Who knew...?

Yes we all do it and there is massive recency bias when talking about football but you don’t go from clueless to being good and vice versa. 

[S-Clarke]

I want him to do well, and he has done well up to this point - but we do have one of the best teams in this league, so we had to have an uptick given our quality. However, once we've moved away from this fixed 3 at the back, shoehorning Wood and Armstrong in at 9, we've looked more comfortable. I never thought we had the CB's who are happy in a 3, they all seem much more comfortable in a pair. THB - Bednarek,  THB - Stephens etc. 

There are a few things that have shifted since that miserable Christmas -

- The Bazunu experiment being ended

- The return of Bree, so we didn't have to force a winger to play in a 5.

- The introduction of a 4 at the back as we had Bree to operate as a proper RB again. 

I think we were somewhat unlucky with Mads and Jelert having injuries pretty much all season, so our RB slot was never perfect and I think we tried too much to fill that gap, thus changing the entire team structure to fit around Fellows.

I feel there is more balance now, we play with proper 9's, we play with proper full backs and we have a pair of CB's in position to build a partnership. It's the most consistent 11 we've had all season to the point where we can actually name it most weeks, that's a huge shift from earlier days.

Credit needs to be given to Tonda who has been involved with 1) identifying the issues, and 2) suggesting and implementing the solutions which make sense.

There will be further bumps in the road, he is still very inexperienced in many aspects, but it looks like he has the backing of the group and they're all grown up and big enough to know what's right or wrong on the pitch. We just needed someone who didn't overcomplicate the plans they're asked to follow.

[trousers]

1 minute ago, S-Clarke said:

I want him to do well, and he has done well up to this point - but we do have one of the best teams in this league, so we had to have an uptick given our quality. However, once we've moved away from this fixed 3 at the back, shoehorning Wood and Armstrong in at 9, we've looked more comfortable. I never thought we had the CB's who are happy in a 3, they all seem much more comfortable in a pair. THB - Bednarek,  THB - Stephens etc. 

There are a few things that have shifted since that miserable Christmas -

- The Bazunu experiment being ended

- The return of Bree, so we didn't have to force a winger to play in a 5.

- The introduction of a 4 at the back as we had Bree to operate as a proper RB again. 

I think we were somewhat unlucky with Mads and Jelert having injuries pretty much all season, so our RB slot was never perfect and I think we tried too much to fill that gap, thus changing the entire team structure to fit around Fellows.

I feel there is more balance now, we play with proper 9's, we play with proper full backs and we have a pair of CB's in position to build a partnership. It's the most consistent 11 we've had all season to the point where we can actually name it most weeks, that's a huge shift from earlier days.

Credit needs to be given to Tonda who has been involved with 1) identifying the issues, and 2) suggesting and implementing the solutions which make sense.

There will be further bumps in the road, he is still very inexperienced in many aspects, but it looks like he has the backing of the group and they're all grown up and big enough to know what's right or wrong on the pitch. We just needed someone who didn't overcomplicate the plans they're asked to follow.

Good summary IMO 👍🏻