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Thread | Fellows...
at 15:26 5 Nov 2026
What have we done to him?
When he got here he was coming off a season where he was the most effective winger in the Championship. A really exciting signing. But he has simply never got going and finds himself on the bench constantly.
Is it the way we play that doesn't suit him him? I would have thought we would have had a clear plan of how we would use him before we bought him. He is clearly talented and I expected him to be a starter. Now he just comes on, to little effect and sooner or later he will just leave for half the price we bought him for.
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Reply | Bree's head injury
at 09:56 4 Nov 2026
Backfired slightly as he was forced to go off for a period due to concussion protocols. |
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Thread | Bree's head injury
at 09:23 4 Nov 2026
Classic football incident. He went down holding his head then jumped up when play was stopped.
I guess if it stopped them being able to score then im glad, but i also have to acknowledge that it is blatant cheating and if they did it to us id be furious. |
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Reply | Nuno tinned
at 09:23 3 Nov 2026
They thought they'd walk the league. You have to look at the players attitude, but as usual the manager carries the can. |
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Reply | Bondage in General
at 11:47 2 Nov 2026
Was big through the punk days, you could get the tartan trousers with the straps etc. Then it went a bit new romantic and they sold a lot of double breasted frilly shirts! |
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Reply | Jason Wilcox
at 10:51 26 Oct 2026
He also bought Bazunu....
(Dons tin hat and backs away...). |
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Reply | The Eckert Effect?
at 10:09 25 Oct 2026
I like him but hes not the best manager we've ever had. Let's keep some perspective.
For a start u cant compare Premier league managers we had with those that only managed in the EFL. Its clearly a much harder job.
Let's also not forget that Tonda also cost us out chance at the PL last season. We cant just gloss over that.
Also he is yet to put in these performances every week. After the Bolton game I dont recall any glowing references.
But... he definitely has something about him the players respond to. He seems distant but clearly gets his message across well.
It will be fascinating to see what he can do if we get to the Premier and i hope we back him. I also think hes unlikely to jump ship the moment a bigger club comes calling.
Hes doing a fine job, but he still has plenty to prove. |
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Reply | Bolton Play Boro Tonight
at 14:05 24 Oct 2026
I did think about him, but i don't think he was fit most of the time was he? |
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Reply | Bolton Play Boro Tonight
at 12:13 24 Oct 2026
We don't seem to have had a robust striker since Beattie. There a time that a target man centre forward was the toughest guy on the pitch along with centre halves.
Stewart was made of glass and every second on the pitch seemed like a risk.
Larin is not much better. Hes had a bad back and now a hamstring yet even when fit he never completes 90 minutes. He even has his hand permanently strapped, does this man never heal?
I don't dislike him, hes decent when hes fit and firing, but its frustrating we are always trying to work around fragile strikers. It makes the whole team inconsistent.
As someone else said, I fear we'll come up short due to our lack of goals. |
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Reply | Salisbury v Sholing FA Cup
at 13:46 20 Oct 2026
Yeah i was in the Archers with the Millwall fans and spent the entire game next to some bloke in a donkey jacket and shaved head. He never spoke or sang. He just stood there and was the most scary bloke I've ever seen at a football match. He literally looked like he was going to kill everyone at any moment. |
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Reply | Floodlight Pylons
at 13:43 20 Oct 2026
I had four of them for my subbuteo until I accidentally crushed one.
Other than that I remember being at the Goldstone in the late 80;s and they had them. I remember Saints fans were watching the game from half way up which looked distinctly precarious but the cops couldn't get them down. |
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Reply | The Adam Blackmore Interview
at 14:13 16 Oct 2026
That just sounds like you have your own agenda against "main stream media". It really isn't that deep. I doubt the director General of the BBC said "get word to our man Blackmore down there in Southampton to give that German guy a good kicking. It will be good for us at the BEEB if he gets the sack at some point".
Football fans are so fickle and Tonda is going ok at the moment so he cannot be questioned which is frankly ridiculous.
From a tactics point of view he took a big risk with his line up and fiar play he just about got over the line. However had it not paid off then we would have lost out of 3 points at a time that everyone else is beating Norwich. So questioning his thinking is fine, we're not there to kiss his arse all the time.
Secondly let's not forget there would have been no witch hunt by anyone if he hadn't cheated. I'll never be convinced he "didn't know the rules". There are certainly people at the club who would have said "Er we don't and cant actually do this".
So if I were Tonda I'd still be on a bit of a charm offensive at least for a while. He kept his job and gets support so snapping at local journos the moment you think you're in the clear is yet another bad look.
Some will say he went to Norwich and cleverly used the bare minimum of his assets to get the three points. Or you might think that he tinkered and very nearly blew the game by picking square pegs in round holes and was lucky to get away with it. Either way, people are entitled to ask questions. |
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Reply | Abbott
at 16:26 15 Oct 2026
yeah definitely a game where the result was better than the performance.
In my opinion Tonda took quite a risk resting those he did for the game. Our line up looked very compromised and it was hard to see where a goal would come from. I don't know why he decided to take quite such drastic action but some would say it paid off, but certainly not by much.
Norwich are a team that many thought would be competing at the top end and they may well still get there, so those three points could look extremely valuable. It can be a very tricky place to go.
I though Azaz was excellent again. He's a level above most on the pitch and can change a game with one pass.
Despite the line up tonda did the right thing by subbing Manning and Abbott at half time. I don't know if Abbott was trying too hard but he looked like a red card waiting to happen.
I didn't like Tonda's attitude after the game when questioned by Adam Blackmore. He was asked about the line up and whether he understood the sense of surprise before the game. He basically replied that the didn't like the question and he didn't like the fact he was being doubted.
Tonda it's your job and it was a legitimate question. After what you've done, you need to remain humble for a while and take the applause where you get it with good grace. But also understand that you still have to answer questions - particularly after a squeaky one nil win.
You win seven nil and no one is asking that question.
But on to Bolton, another winnable game and hopefully a stronger starting line up. |
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