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Of course Doris gets the job if she wins four on the trot. It's not results over logic, it's results and logic. All the so-called experienced managers available to us are out of work because they failed at their last club. How is it logical to hire a failed manager?

Isn’t double pivot just two central midfielders?

Trust me, I’m in agreement with you! I avoid all tactico YouTube berks as best I can. ’Transitions’ ‘Game management’ etc

Yes but he rarely contributes to them. He has got this mythical aura about him as someone alluded to above; somehow, it’s always a worldie when it goes in. He makes a couple of half decent stops in a game and it’s talked about as if he’s the only keeper in the world to have saved a shot. And you can bet your bottom dollar we wouldn’t have gone up with Baz in the playoffs. He’s not saving any of those Leeds shots at Wembley. Actually, he’d still be mid dive for one of them now. Mccarthy, without doubt, has most the absolute fundamentals for being a goalkeeper. Bazunu does not, and never will have. He’ll still be at exactly the same level in 10 years time. He’s not getting any better. He’s not guaranteed to improve. And he’s most definitely not some sort of lucky charm.

So just read the post match thread & not one positive comment form yourself... just this post about Baz - you are a weird fan fella!

Only on Saintsweb do we get clowns still moaning about the keeper that had ZERO chance of saving the one goal we conceded

You must really enjoy watching us lose games. With McCarthy in goal, we have won just 1 regular season game at St Mary's in the last FOUR YEARS, and that was 1½ years ago. That's how bad he is. When Bazunu plays we usually win.

Yep, agreed. No one would be commenting about this if Ramsdale had been in goal. As for comparing Grays shot to Scienza's effort which was saved .. they were chalk and cheese. Gray's was hit with so much more pace. If I dare fault Scienza i'd say his shots lack pace.

Absolutely not - Manning can’t help himself…no positional sense and no defensive intent when faced with a player about to cross a ball. Fellows to be fair is not really a defender - not in his DNA - but does a marginally better job stopping crosses. My belief is that a defensive line is weakened by the full-backs being unbalanced - that is what Fellows and Manning bring to the team, however Fellows is far more of a threat going forwards as he’s braver on the ball.

Pony. I’m no fan of crisp packet hands but you’re completely wrong on this one. I was sat looking inline and at the angle Gray scored it from. Nobody’s stopping that and Baz wasn’t exactly slow to move either. It curved from outside the post back in.

None of that makes any sense. We sacked Still, Tonda was going to be in charge for the first two games at least. We won them both, no obviously superior candidate was immediately forthcoming so we gave him the next three. He ended up winning four out of five, including a couple of thumpings of reasonably decent teams, so we gave him the job. None of that is stupid, it all seems fair enough to me. We could have gone out and signed someone with 'experience' of the Championship, with different players at different clubs at some point, instead we went with the guy who has experience of winning games with Southampton, right now.

I said this to my son today, on current standings it is light years ahead, especially over Still and his throwing 15 attackers on to get a goal back subs ...

Justin Langer for the next three tests might be an option, understands Oz conditions and will get some fight out of the players. England’s red ball record vs Aus, India and SA under McCullum is mixed at best. Flat track bullies. They won’t sack Brendon though, only just signed a white ball contract.

Feels weird to be picking holes in what was a very good goal. Not sure many goals are truly ‘unsaveable’, keepers would probably find fault in almost all goals they concede - today was a brilliant goal, no one would look for any fault if it wasn’t Bazunu in goal. We’re in this weird zone now of desperately trying to find issue in literally every goal he concedes - reality is he’s pulled off great save(s) in almost every game under Eckert, which is improvement.

It probably made TE’s job a bit easier saying to SR ‘he’s struggling a bit’ after that alleged incident, ‘take him out of the firing line’. Will be off on loan in January to the MLS somewhere.

Here we go again. Baz beaten by an absolute un saveable shot. He truly is the unlikeliest keeper to ever don the gloves.

Sorry, couldn't resist nitpicking. 😉

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Horrible the Charlton fan passing away at today’s game. One of their long-time faces from the sounds. I know there’s mixed views about stopping matches due to emergencies in the crowd but sections (hopefully very small) of the skates away support not emerging with huge credit, if true Page 5 of the Charlton forum indicating this too https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/101011/club-statement-fan-sadly-passed-rip/p5 and page 8 is very difficult to read about their fans trying to save him. I know plenty of decent Pompey fellas, a lovely tribute on page 10 by one of their fans but they really have a vile element at times.

Especially when you consider that when we signed him Scienza was the only player from Europe's big five leagues to score three direct free kick goals in 2025!

It would be another tick for Tonda if he gets a tune out of Archer and judged on Archer’s cameo yesterday he just might. The resting of Scienza and AA in favour of Robinson and Archer worked well enough, as did the introduction of Romeu and Edwards. Eckert’s game management (early days) is several notches higher than Still, Juric and Martin. Like to see him experiment with a back four and abandon the idea of Manning as a wing back. Good left foot though he’s got, he is just too slack defensively (even if played as a LB) which results in a barrage of unchallenged crosses and runs which will eventually be converted by the better sides. Give Wellington a run of games at LB to see if he can regain that early promise…… one of his first appearances v Palace comes to mind as eye catching. Play THB and one other at CB, and have a three man central midfield with Jander, Downes and Charles with Downes sat behind the other two as defensive cover. Downes was very good today and would shore up our defence in a way that Stephens and Wood consistently don’t. That leaves Scienza, Azaz and Armstrong as the attacking three with help from Fellows, Charles and Jander. Come on Tonda, give it a go!

You are just another one of those pesky results based thinkers. Just like presumably Sport Republic who at the same time are being rewarded for their own stupidity having appointed a manager who has won 5 from 6. Desperate times, would have an extra two points with <insert generic experienced manager who must not be named>

I only saw it in the telly, it looked like a decent shot to me, but Baz got nowhere near it and their keeper saved a very similar one from Leo. Jo Tessem was massively scathing about the performance of Bazunu for the shot. He said a decent keeper saves it. I’d probably take his opinion a little bit higher than others.

He’s still diving four seconds after the ball has whistled past him. He has zero command over his penalty area which leaves the centre halves having to clear anything and everything catchable for a normal goalkeeper. He will cost us a lot more points this season. Yes, today he didn’t do a lot wrong today but if you’ve been watching him this season you’ll have seen today his reactions are so slow and the pressure on CBs to mop up anything on the air will tell at further points in the season. Please, please… just play McCarthy. Or put Aribo in goal - at least he moves a little faster.

I think fans of every team in the world would say the same, but the fact is that we have scored 18 in 6 since Still was sacked and outperformed our xG in every one of those games. I think the defence is a bigger concern TBH. We still look fragile at the back and give up chances too easily, and we've only managed 3 clean sheets all season.