Nordic Saint

Dominic Ballard has been awarded the Sky Bet League One Player of the Season, Young Player of the Season, and named in the Team of the Season at the EFL Awards. He's only 21. He has a great future ahead of him. A hat-trick for Dom Ballard at the 2026 EFL Awards

“We don’t get satisfied after winning one game, we have to win the next one, the next one, the next one." WWWWWWWW We've never had a manager who's done that since we joined the Football League.

Hopefully, he'll be Manager of the Month every month. There isn't a better manager.

Poor atmosphere too. West Ham booed off at half-time. They say there are 9,000 Leeds fans there, but I haven't heard them.

Of the possible opponents, Leeds would be good. They obviously have much less experience of FA Cup semi-finals than we do, especially in recent years, and we've already beaten them at Wembley. Their current team doesn't look anything special, but I'm hoping they can get past West Ham today.

Le Tissier at Blackburn in 1994.

They recently conceded a goal set up by a long ball from the Norwich goalkeeper. I wouldn't be surprised if they've let in a few like that. "The Canaries took the lead in the first minute after some poor defending by Oxford. Norwich goalkeeper Dan Grimshaw sent a long ball over the top which Toure was able to sprint onto and slip past the onrushing Jamie Cumming before slotting into an empty net." They also concede a lot of penalties.

You're right, and as others have noted above, typically, they only have about 25% possession in the games they get results from. A very frustrating team to play against.

As I said earlier, I don't think we've ever had a manager like Eckert. He will do exactly what it takes to win games, no more, no less, always bearing in mind that he wants to win the next game and the ones after that as well. “We don’t get satisfied after winning one game, we have to win the next one, the next one, the next one." How much possession we have, how entertaining we are, even how many goals we win by, are irrelevant to him. His only objective is winning and still being ready to win again. He is ruthless and relentless.

We are 12 games unbeaten and have won away against 2 better teams, Fulham and Coventry, because we have got by far the best manager in the league. W16 D6 L5

I think it will be more a case of struggling to stop them. With the players Coventry have, you'd expect them to steamroller us.

I'd like to see Dibaga as one of the 1st team subs again. He was very impressive v Leicester.

When you see that, you realize how much stronger Coventry's squad is. They have better players than us in nearly every position. Rushworth, van Ewjck, Rudoni...Their attack is so full of goal scorers, it's ridiculous: Wright, Thomas-Assante, Mason-Clark, Simms.... We have 2 players who might get into their team: Harwood-Bellis and Scienza.

The only thing better for him would have been a Saints defeat. I bet he was gutted when Larin scored.

A big club will come in for him, but if we could keep him here for 2 more years, we have our best chance of winning another trophy. Losing him this summer would be terrible.