Tonda Eckert

[AlexLaw76]

He is nothing special at all.

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

It’s not difficult to work out his tactics or this team.

- Wait for Saints to needlessly dominate in the opposition half and then counter quickly when there is only two defenders back.

- Show players out wide to stop the crosses and encourage backwards or sideways passes.

- Pump forward long balls that can’t be dealt with by our weak defenders.

- Await the continuous predictable subs on the hour.

I always imagine opposition defenders being like the Mr Bean meme waiting in the field for us to attack because of the controls sideways passing.
Millwall last weekend, weirdly, was the first time when I’d seen us turn and run at a team - look how effective it was.

One other thing worth mentioning, in all the times we have either played five at the back or reverted to a five at the back mid game, how often have we not conceded anymore? That would be an interesting stat, we concede more with five at the back than four.

Edited 1 hour ago by Willo of Whiteley

[Harry_SFC]

1 hour ago, bpsaint said:

It was like Tonda had the same mentality of some on here that they would tire after an hour and he’d make changes and put them to the sword. What followed was quite the opposite and was so embarrassingly predictable.

Tonda has done a great job so far but his in game substitutions are ridiculous. He admitted that he changes players based on data telling him when they should come off to keep them as fresh as possible for the next game. 

How about doing it based on how the CURRENT match is going?

[Saint Pete]

13 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

Tonda has done a great job so far but his in game substitutions are ridiculous. He admitted that he changes players based on data telling him when they should come off to keep them as fresh as possible for the next game. 

How about doing it based on how the CURRENT match is going?

I don't think there's anything wrong with assessing the condition of the players when deciding if and when players need to be subbed, he does need to think about the bigger picture of the whole season rather than just 90 minutes. But agree it should certainly not be so rigid as to ignore what is happening in the match.

Today, I felt it was fair for Larin to come off early given he's started every league game and his form has dipped a bit in the last 2 (the merits of his replacement and how we are playing to him is another debate). But Scienza should have stayed on for longer as he was the danger man at the point he took him off and may well have scored or created the vital 2nd goal. Tonda was too rigid in sticking to his pre game plan with that one if that's what he was doing. 

We need to remember sometimes that Tonda is still a very young and inexperienced manager and still learning. If you go for such a young manager, you need to accept they won't get everything spot on, but of course they do need to be humble enough to learn their lessons.