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Cyle larin
at 14:18 9 Feb 2026

Cyle Larin
Our Canadian king
From this moment
We'll win evvvv-ry thing
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One swallow does not a summer make.
at 15:54 8 Feb 2026

We've won 9 out of the last 18 in the league and drawn 4 of the other 9.

That's hardly 'one swallow' and we are now only 4 points from 6th with 15 games and 45 points still to play.

Getting into that 3rd or 4th play off spot is ALL about end of season form.

Of course we can make the play-offs.

Whether we will or not is another matter.
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Football Is Gone
at 00:00 5 Feb 2026

If you qualify for a European competition you shouldn't be in the League Cup.

That would liven up the League Cup no end.

Anything connected with Man City kills me. A team made up of some of the best footballers in the world playing the most soulless, boring version of the game imaginable.

I futilely told my son tonight that they were the Anatoly Karpov of football teams.
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Ask The Audience
at 16:51 3 Feb 2026

My first thought was who's let Gao loose on the site, but then I remembered how much you love him!

In terms of logo, maybe blue, capital U and I surrounding a football with some Chinese Characters underneath?
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Tonda Eckert Stats
at 11:53 3 Feb 2026

The abrupt loss in form shortly after he was appointed, suggested that the early wins might have been a flash in the pan.

But he's done well again in the last few games and that to me demonstrates a bit of steel.

Others before him have simply been unable to turn the ship out of a run of bad results. He's now done that twice as far as I'm concerned. And this represents a massive improvement.
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J W P to Burnley on loan until season end.
at 16:40 28 Jan 2026

That would be another story. Why would any team not have him taking free kick?!
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J W P to Burnley on loan until season end.
at 11:54 28 Jan 2026

What amazes me is that in two and half seasons and 66 games played since he left, he still hasn't scored another free kick!

Must be karma.
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We have more chance of going up now than next season
at 10:11 27 Jan 2026

Watching the game on TV on Sunday, it crossed my mind that Tonda might turn out to be a 'steadying the ship' type manager.

We didn't look like world beaters but I felt that we were doing the right things and I didn't have the same sense of hopelessness as when watching the Jones or Still teams.

Let's see if we can make some king of useful/sensible signing this month and then see how the next 19 games go.

57 points to play for and getting into that final play off slot is all about momentum /form in the final part of a season and winning on the final day.

And let's worry about next season when it comes. We are where we are.
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Danny Rohl
at 14:33 26 Jan 2026

Every time you mention Gao you add the excuse about Chinese exchange controls.

Was he not able to secure funds elsewhere? Could he not have tried to sell up as soon as he knew that his business plan was f*cked.

It's odd that you are so keen to excuse him. The sale to him was a disaster. It's when everything started to go very wrong.

I don't feel the need to sympathise with the restraints behind his terrible ownership.

Also can't forget that he got us sponsored by some made up company.
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Shocking
at 11:22 26 Jan 2026

I've probably shared this before on here but late 90s I was at Leighton Orient watching Darlington.

Blind Darlington fan was at the front of the terrace shouting racist abuse at the black players. His mate was telling him who to shout at.
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AA
at 10:40 26 Jan 2026

I agree with this. I thought both chances weren't goals because of great goalkeeping.

The first one was exactly the sort of low nearpost shot that would have beaten Bazunu and McCarthy both.
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Danny Rohl
at 22:59 25 Jan 2026

He didn't, but neither did he leave us in a great position.

And didn't he give Djneppo a contract extension? One of the most useless players I have ever seen.
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Danny Rohl
at 17:29 25 Jan 2026

Working miracles at Rangers, after the absolute car crash of Russel M.

Only 4 points of the top now and great chance to win it. Can't help but have my fingers crossed for the guy. Not least because it makes Martin look like such a chump.

And I've always liked the theory that it is all started to go wrong for Saints when Rohl left.

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Predictions for tonight
at 15:02 21 Jan 2026

I'd take a draw.

We looked really poor last time out. I think we've lost the plot big time in terms of knowing how to win.

We had it for a few amazing games but now it's gone again.
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Tonda is doing a great job
at 16:04 20 Jan 2026

I was A Tonda happy clapper. Winning 4 out of 5 and then 6 out of 7 was absolute dreamland in terms of recent Saints managers.

On that basis I was very happy to see him appointed, and how things have gone in the last 7 games has been disappointing and surprising.

However, I'm happy to stick with him for a bit longer now. Give him a chance to re-find his magic touch, because magic it certainly was. People were talking about automatic promotion ffs!
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Tonda says he's NOT worried about being sacked.
at 15:55 20 Jan 2026

I meant it more generally.

We've got to to hope that he is a positive, unifying influence behind the scenes and that he's getting the prima donnas in line.
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Tonda says he's NOT worried about being sacked.
at 11:58 20 Jan 2026

if he's doing else, you would hope that Romeu is sorting out the dressing room.
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Sadio Mane
at 12:54 19 Jan 2026

Interesting background story. He's a good lad.

Becoming independent from parents (emotionally and financially) is a major life step. Some people never achieve it their whole lives. Others can only achieve it by severing all ties.

I wonder what stories people on here have?
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Make it make sense?
at 10:31 19 Jan 2026

Sounds like you're not taken by our new goalkeeper?
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Make it make sense?
at 22:57 18 Jan 2026

I have to say I have some sympathy with Solak in relation to Tonda. I thought his record in those first games was so good that it would have been mad not to appoint him.

Just as a reminder, he was appointed after 5 games having won 4 and lost 1, but he then went to on to win the next 2 as well making it 6 wins from 7. Moreover, in those seven games we scored 21 goals and conceded 9.

In the following 7 games, we've won none and lost 4. We've conceded 12 and scored only 5.

Can someone please explain to me how this is possible?? Fair enough, it was perhaps unrealistic to expect the winning streak to continue indefinitely but to collapse so spectacularly makes no sense to me at all.

Was someone giving the players magic beans during that first set of 7 games?

Or is it just that other teams simply worked out what we were doing to succeed, stopped us doing it and Tonda is too inexperienced to have a plan B?







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