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tomw24 said:
Those stats are obviously excellent, but one thing I did agree with Hendrie on tonight is that there is still more to come from this squad. Now the likes of Matsuki and Edozie are contributing, our depth is even greater than it was a couple of months ago. Also, is anyone missing Armstrong because I'm not?
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Not missing Armstrong but used to like his honest approach to having to play in a system which didn't play to his strengths.......always thought it may have been a language difficulty with him....
 
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oldstocktonsaint said:
Here we go again. Players and managers with potential out the door soon as.
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Can’t see it happening tbh, huge risk for another club. Maybe if he does well next season, but if he does & we get promoted then he’ll be a Premier League manager and won’t want to swap out to the Bundesliga. The club have showed huge faith in promoting him to first team head coach so I like to think he’ll repay that faith. Also, still a chance he gets us promoted this year yet too!
 
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All depends on what his rep was prior to this. Clearly Spors liked him so if Bundesliga clubs were contemplating giving him a chance with zero experience then even this small sample size with Saints might be enough for them to say that their opinion of him has been vindicated and try and get him.
 
I think if he gets us promoted from the state we were in some clubs in the UK will be looking at him too. Despite his "inexperience" there must be something about him so I'm kind of hoping he stays put for a while as we seem to be moving the right way with him in charge and if Spors can continue to fix the squad in the summer I think we'd be confident next season whichever league we are in.
 
RedandWhiteManofKent said:
So WDWWWWDWW

He has taken us from 20th to 7th

Likely to get manager of the month for February.

Mods, can you change the Tonda out title of this thread as quite frankly it's embarrassing.
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What he has done has been superb, given the state we were in under Still. I liked him early days and wanted him to get the job after Leicester (at home). By the Hull loss I was as pissed off as everyone else. Really glad he's turned it round and I really hope he is the real deal. But...

While everyone who was calling for him to be sacked at any point now has a bit of egg on their face, the real moral of the story is to not jump the gun. And that applies both ways. I'm a big fan of Tonda these days, but I'm not gonna praise him too much, because I know it can all go tits up at any moment. Think the sensible thing for all of us to do, is to just ignore the manager question for the remainder of the season.

I also have to say, while results have been excellent, I won't be fully convinced until Tonda proves himself against some of the top 6 teams. So far we've failed to beat Millwall (twice), Hull, and Coventry. That has to change. The upcoming Coventry and Norwich games will tell us a lot about whether Tonda is the right man for next season imo.
 
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Che’s Godlike Thighs said:
What he has done has been superb, given the state we were in under Still. I liked him early days and wanted him to get the job after Leicester (at home). By the Hull loss I was as pissed off as everyone else. Really glad he's turned it round and I really hope he is the real deal. But...

While everyone who was calling for him to be sacked at any point now has a bit of egg on their face, the real moral of the story is to not jump the gun. And that applies both ways. I'm a big fan of Tonda these days, but I'm not gonna praise him too much, because I know it can all go tits up at any moment. Think the sensible thing for all of us to do, is to just ignore the manager question for the remainder of the season.

I also have to say, while results have been excellent, I won't be fully convinced until Tonda proves himself against some of the top 6 teams. So far we've failed to beat Millwall (twice), Hull, and Coventry. That has to change. The upcoming Coventry and Norwich games will tell us a lot about whether Tonda is the right man for next season imo.
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Absolutely agree

We haven't achieved anything of note yet but after the dross we have had for ages now, I am just enjoying the moment and Tonda should receive alot of credit for that, not have a thread to boot him out.
 
Che’s Godlike Thighs said:
What he has done has been superb, given the state we were in under Still. I liked him early days and wanted him to get the job after Leicester (at home). By the Hull loss I was as pissed off as everyone else. Really glad he's turned it round and I really hope he is the real deal. But...

While everyone who was calling for him to be sacked at any point now has a bit of egg on their face, the real moral of the story is to not jump the gun. And that applies both ways. I'm a big fan of Tonda these days, but I'm not gonna praise him too much, because I know it can all go tits up at any moment. Think the sensible thing for all of us to do, is to just ignore the manager question for the remainder of the season.

I also have to say, while results have been excellent, I won't be fully convinced until Tonda proves himself against some of the top 6 teams. So far we've failed to beat Millwall (twice), Hull, and Coventry. That has to change. The upcoming Coventry and Norwich games will tell us a lot about whether Tonda is the right man for next season imo.
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Great post, agree with all of it.

Made a similar point to Tom on the drive up about lack of wins against the better sides. Both Ipswich and Wrexham coming up in about 5 weeks too.

He's done an excellent job in turning the season round and in particular the morale of the players but it's still too soon to make a major judgement.

I think for a lot it depends on how highly you rate our squad, I remember there was a fair few people saying it wasn't good enough to challenge for promotion but personally I always thought it was one of the best in the league.
 
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We've had the majority of the players needed to get promoted since the end of the transfer window in the summer - we just didn't have the right person in charge of them. Still think we can get playoffs but the games against wrexham, ipswich and coventry are key games
 
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metalmonkey80 said:
I think if he gets us promoted from the state we were in some clubs in the UK will be looking at him too. Despite his "inexperience" there must be something about him so I'm kind of hoping he stays put for a while as we seem to be moving the right way with him in charge and if Spors can continue to fix the squad in the summer I think we'd be confident next season whichever league we are in.
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I agree, I would like him to be here a while. seems a very calm personable guy. He is doing things well..................mind you the comparison bar for us is pretty dire
 
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tomw24 said:
Need to tie him down to a longer deal.

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Feels like, but let's wait to May and so how the season has finished. If we have continued a spirited cup run and put a worthy play offs performance in, then i agree. If the season Peters out then stay with current deal
 
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