coalman

Eckert has come in and done brilliantly. There are flaws there though for all to see. Both of those things can be true. If he's open to the flaws and willing to learn he could go on to be a great Saints manager. If he looks at the results and thinks he's the real deal and doesn't need to grow then not so much (we've been down that road). I'm hoping for the former. At our best yesterday we broke out of defence and absolutely tore West Brom apart. At our worst we sat back and watched them hit ball after ball into our box while offering no threat at the other end. Again it's possible to enjoy the former whilst being appalled by the latter. He's made a great start as Saints boss. Long may it continue. It also shows pretty conclusively that a different manager could get a better tune out of our team than Will Still. There's still an open question about whether another manager might get a better tune out of them than Tonda Eckert but he's earned the right to have a crack at promotion.

That dribbled across the whole defence as well.

Jesus Christ how is that not 3-3?

It's going to be 10 minutes added time, isn't it?

It doesn't help that they're getting headers on target from almost every cross. At least it feels that way. Aribo and Romeu to shore things up.

Looking at the match stats, we're lucky to be leading this. If we don't start showing up to the 2nd half someone's going to hurt us.

They key thing here is to get Aribo on as soon as possible to "stabilise" things.

That may not be a downgrade on Sky's commentary team.

I get Sky via NOWTV and had to search for it. It wasn't showing up on any of the obvious channels

Oh good. The light show. Nothing like making your football pitch look like a roller disco to set the mood. COYR. Let's keep this going!

In unrelated news an un-named Championship club is in crisis after the captain contacted the owner to express their lack of confidence in the manager.

It will be interesting to see how the team reacts now they've got what they want. All the best to him. I'm hoping he's going to put together a promotion run.

Armstrong isn't going to win anything if you play long ball. Playing it into feet with him coming short or over the top / through the middle works but he's easily nullified by a big lad that stays tight. Without space to operate in he's in trouble. I'd hope we practice playing against the press but our own press is so poor these days I doubt it's good practice.

He was lucky to get wins in his first two games. Then presided over our two best games of the season. Now he's presided over just about our worst performance. Any other teams watching yesterday will have noted that if they press and deny us an out ball to midfield that we offer no threat and will keep giving them the ball back.

With that level of application he shouldn't even be training with the first team squad. Let alone in it.