Four days later - should Saints still sack Tonda?

[Cuddles]

Four days have passed since the last poll, how do you feel now?

[Saint86]

Now you've done it...

[markr27]

Does this topic represent an appeal to the original thread's poll results? 🤔 

Edited 1 hour ago by markr27

[Cuddles]

3 minutes ago, markr27 said:

Does this topic represent an appeal to the original thread's poll results? 🤔 

Absloutely, but unlike the EFL, you get more than 24 hours to appeal 😂

[SNSUN]

I'm undecided. Ask again in 4 days.

[Golac's Iron Gonads]

Nothing has changed in my mind, we keep the best manager we've had in a decade. As long as the players are happy to continue playing for him and the club. I'm sure some of them will use our rule breaking sins as a reason to get a move, but I'm also sure they would have been making the same decision had we failed to get promoted. Had we got promoted a couple would still have been fancying their chances at a bigger club. Regardless, who stays, how we strengthen is another conversation. We need a good manager and the appointments SR have made have been shockers, even Russell Martin only managed 27 wins and he got us promoted!

[Wade Garrett]

Yes, he fucked us over by wanting to unfairly know who would be lining up against us.

Can’t be bothered to write any more reasons.  There are many though.

[USaintA]

He cheats, he spies, he keeps his interns in disguise...

Er, anyway, no. Keep him and invest in much better surveillance equipment.

[Cuddles]

5 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Yes, he fucked us over by wanting to unfairly know who would be lining up against us.

Can’t be bothered to write any more reasons.  There are many though.

That's cool, understood. I think everyone has had their say on the other thread anyway, this is more an updated visual representation.

[Turkish]

Keep him as a big 🖕🏼 to everyone 

[Pamplemousse]

I just think it would be best for everyone to move on and for us to make a fresh start

[WinglessWonder]

Well, there are rumours that several Italian clubs (including Milan & Juve) are keeping tabs so maybe it's worth holding onto him and maybe getting a wedge if compo. Every little helps and all that! 

[SNSUN]

We could get a fake manager in (a placebo manager if you will) that pretends to be our manager, but really we keep Tonda on, stick him in the Sammy Saint costume and have him linger around the fake manager on match days dishing out the advice. Nobody will ever know.

[Football Special]

7 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Keep him as a big 🖕🏼 to everyone 

This. 

TIFO first game of the season , Tonda giving the finger towards Gibson, EFL , Mr Neutral David Winnie , Henry Winter and Troy Deeney 

Edited 34 minutes ago by Football Special

[trousers]

3 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

We could get a fake manager in (a placebo manager if you will) that pretends to be our manager, but really we keep Tonda on, stick him in the Sammy Saint costume and have him linger around the fake manager on match days dishing out the advice. Nobody will ever know.

Ha... Great minds and all that.... When this first kicked off I did ponder if any FA sanction ends up just applying to first team activities, then chuck him back in the U21s and surreptitiously wire him up for training and match days... Not that I'm condoning cheating of course....

Edited 33 minutes ago by trousers

[Football Special]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

Ha... Great minds and all that.... When this first kicked off I did ponder if any FA sanction ends up just applying to first team activities, then chuck him back in the U21s and wire him up for training and match days....

Remember Jose Mourinho  on a ban got into the changing room being wheeled in in a laundry basket covered by training kit 

[Mk1J]

5 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

We could get a fake manager in (a placebo manager if you will) that pretends to be our manager, but really we keep Tonda on, stick him in the Sammy Saint costume and have him linger around the fake manager on match days dishing out the advice. Nobody will ever know.

“Daddy, why is Sammy Saint staring at me?”

[Harry_SFC]

Still no, if the players want to play for him that is (and he isn't banned).

If the above happens and he makes a genuine apology then let's crack on and prepare for next season. 

[lambtiss]

He's a good manager, keep him.

[SNSUN]

18 minutes ago, trousers said:

Ha... Great minds and all that.... When this first kicked off I did ponder if any FA sanction ends up just applying to first team activities, then chuck him back in the U21s and surreptitiously wire him up for training and match days... Not that I'm condoning cheating of course....

Tonda watching the game covertly after we go 3 down against QPR...

[Sheaf Saint]

There seems to be a lot of heart over head going on with this topic (who'd have guessed football fans could be passionate and irrational, eh!)

As much as I would like to keep him on for his ability, his position is simply untenable given everything that came out of the hearing. 

It's not so much the fact that he was breaking rules. It's more that he wasn't clever enough to do it without getting caught, and that cost the club the chance of promotion. 

There's no way he could possibly survive that in any other industry.

Edited 5 minutes ago by Sheaf Saint

[saintwbu]

2 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

There seems to be a lot of heart over head going on with this topic (who'd have guessed football fans could be passionate and irrational, eh!)

As much as I would like to keep him on for his ability, his position is simply untenable given everything that came out of the hearing. 

It's not so much the fact that he was breaking rules. It's more that he wasn't clever enough to do it without getting caught, and that cost the club the chance of promotion. 

There's no way he could possibly survive that in any other industry.

That’s the thing though, this isn’t any other industry - Football is probably the industry to be in if you want previous transgressions to be forgotten 

[trousers]

3 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

There seems to be a lot of heart over head going on with this topic (who'd have guessed football fans could be passionate and irrational, eh!)

As much as I would like to keep him on for his ability, his position is simply untenable given everything that came out of the hearing. 

It's not so much the fact that he was breaking rules. It's more that he wasn't clever enough to do it without getting caught, and that cost the club the chance of promotion. 

There's no way he could possibly survive that in any other industry.

Yep, definitely heart v head for me.... I started off listening to my head, but now my heart has taken over.... Or is it the other way around....?!

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, saintwbu said:

That’s the thing though, this isn’t any other industry - Football is probably the industry to be in if you want previous transgressions to be forgotten 

Yeah I suppose. That or politics.