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@sfcpaul100 @saints_enjoyer Carried away? We've been thrown out of the playoffs, and our reputation is in the mud. He simply has to go as a minimum. Personally, i'd also litigate against him, too, if i were Dragan Solak. The fallout for this will run for years. Get him gone.

@rickie2701 @saints_enjoyer Don’t get carried away. Spying on others is a natural thing (apart from the 72 hour rule). Tonga has achieved miracles with the 21 game unbeaten . Reputational damage will blow over after the cricket. #saintsfc

🧵TONDA TO STAY OR GO? 1/7 I think the more days that pass, the more #saintsfc fans are gonna start turning back to getting behind Tonda again. The emotion fades and people start to realise that actually he did a great job with this team and will do next year if he’s still here.

@SaintsExtra Cannot believe anyone in their right mind would want to keep Tonda?! WTAF is wrong with some of you? #Saintsfc

A topic that seems to be dividing the #SaintsFC fanbase. Pending the findings of the FA's investigation, where do you stand on Tonda Eckert's future?

@AdamBlackmore Start with refunding the Middlesbrough play-off games and a significant discount on renewing season tickets. #Saintsfc

I woke up this morning and thought “the season is over. That’s it.” #SaintsFc And it feels so unsatisfactory and hollow - all those months traipsing up and down the country by fans, players and us for what ?!? I can’t begin to imagine how let down supporters, staff and players must be feeling And I can’t begin to imagine where you start rebuilding and convincing everyone to go again in August. That will happen of course, but a lot needs to happen to make it palatable and something to look forward to - a hell of a lot of The club need Dragan Solak to dig deep again and to reset the culture by making big calls and the right calls

@JustSaints_ @TeleFootball Career over before it even began. Get rid immediately and compensate the fans who have shelled out for the playoff games and now Wembley. Disgraceful. #Saintsfc

🚨 #SaintsFC manager Tonda Eckert admitted he was responsible for the decision to spy on opponents — his key defence was that, since the practice is widespread on the continent, he had no idea he was breaking English football's rules. [via @TeleFootball]

Tonda and everyone associated with this needs to be sacked tonight. #Saintsfc

Shea Charles isn't good enough. Boys done us proud though. #Saintsfc

@Jasper_Shiner If we go up a new CB to partner THB is a must. The rest are not PL quality.

There is a huge drop off in posession when Nathan Wood plays in a back 4. Next season we should be looking to upgrade or give Quarshie a chance to develop. Stephens rightly ahead of him in the pecking order still. #SaintsFC

@AlfieHouseEcho The dip in form and recent improvement completely coincide with the formation changes. THB quite simply doesn't know how to play in a back 3. The same argument can be said for Flynn Downes's upturn in form. #Saintsfc

Absolutely the biggest leap forward is his calmness and mentality, I think. He’s always said that he plays with his heart on his sleeve, it’s no doubt taken him so far. But you have to keep your head at the top level. He looks confident now, someone others can turn to. #SaintsFC

@AlexComber_ Looks like he's stuck with the 4231 👍

@rickie2701 Tonda has changed the system around many times, the great thing about him is changing the formula to beat the opposition ahead!

My predicted XI, think Tonda needs an extra man in midfield for this one. Peretz; Bree, Harwood-Bellis, Wood, Manning, Jander, Charles, Bragg, Azaz, Edozie; Stewart #SaintsFC

@markhendy @zarahsultana Game. Set. Match.

This is a masterclass in sounding righteous while saying nothing that survives contact with arithmetic. Let’s start with the £4 billion figure you’re throwing around. That’s not an annual tax bill Ratcliffe dodged. It’s a one-off estimated saving on a capital restructuring — the potential capital gains and income tax on extracting his equity from INEOS. You’re presenting it as though HMRC is missing £4 billion a year from its budget because Ratcliffe moved to Monaco. It isn’t. When Ratcliffe was UK tax resident in 2019, he paid £110 million in income tax in a single year. How much income tax did you pay that year, Zara? Now let’s test your central thesis: that if “parasitic billionaires paid what they owe,” our public services would be fine. The entire UK billionaire class — every single one of them — holds combined wealth estimated at around £650 billion. If you confiscated every penny — not taxed, confiscated — it would fund the NHS for approximately three years. Then it’s gone. No more billionaires. No more money. And of course you’d also have destroyed the companies they own, the hundreds of thousands of jobs those companies support, and the tax revenue those employees generate. INEOS alone employs 26,000 people globally and turns over £45 billion annually, generating enormous tax receipts through corporation tax, employer NICs, and income tax from its workforce. The NHS costs approximately £190 billion a year. Schools another £115 billion. The welfare bill runs to over £300 billion. Total government spending exceeds £1.2 trillion annually. You cannot fund this by squeezing billionaires, because there simply aren’t enough of them and they don’t have enough money — even collectively — to cover more than a rounding error on the annual budget. This is not an opinion. It is mathematics. The bulk of UK tax revenue comes from ordinary working people through income tax, NICs, VAT, and council tax, and it always The working class are perfectly capable of holding more than one thought simultaneously. They can recognise that tax avoidance by the wealthy is a problem and that unprecedented levels of net migration — 900,000 in a single year under this government’s watch — place genuine pressure on housing, GP appointments, school places, and wages at the lower end of the labour market. These are not “far-right talking points.” These are the lived daily experiences of the people you claim to represent. You know who doesn’t struggle to get a GP appointment? You, Zara. You know who isn’t competing for social housing? You. You know whose children aren’t in a classroom with 35 kids and a supply teacher? Yours aren’t. The people on the housing waiting list in Coventry — my neighbours — aren’t angry because Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco. They’re angry because they’ve been waiting four years for a two-bedroom flat while the population has grown by three million in half a decade and nobody built the infrastructure to absorb it. And speaking of parasites — your word, not mine — you’ve been a member of the party that has been in government since July 2024. Labour has had every lever of power available to it. What has your government done about billionaire tax avoidance? Nothing. What has it done about non-dom status? Watered down its own proposals. What has it done about net migration? Presided over the highest figures in British history. You don’t get to tweet like you’re in opposition when you are the government. You’re not “speaking truth to power.” You are power. And you’re failing. Ratcliffe’s language was clumsy and his population figures were wrong. But your response isn’t an argument — it’s a slogan dressed up as analysis, designed to harvest likes from people who mistake moral indignation for economic literacy. The working class don’t need you to identify their enemies for them. They need houses, functioning public services, and an honest conversation about trade-offs. You’re offering none of these.

A billionaire worth £17,000,000,000 who moved to Monaco to dodge £4,000,000,000 in tax is now blaming immigrants for Britain’s problems. If parasitic billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe paid what they owe — and politicians weren’t in their pockets — our NHS, schools and public services wouldn’t be on their knees. It is textbook divide and rule. The real enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

@stevomansfc Agree mate, he got it horribly wrong then made up for it! Seen that happen to us a few times, so lovely to be on the other end this time round! Playoffs are on 😁

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@aaronjamesf1 He tries his best but, unfortunately, is incredibly error-prone, which has been a big issue for us over the years. I do think he did well yesterday but was sloppy on a few occasions, which would cost us against better opposition. How can he be loyal if nobody wants to buy him?

Does he have an error in him? Yes, from time to time. Is he a world beater? No. But we always cry out for players to be loyal and give their all and Jack Stephens has always done that. I seem to remember Yoshida once getting the stick Jack gets now... #saintsfc

Don't see the fascination with JWP, was always bang average for us and was a major part of the squad that got us relegated. Wish him well at Burnley but we certainly don't need him back at #Saintsfc

@danhunt82 Too easy, mate. We only sign players who are either struggling in European lower divisions and are available on the cheap or are young and have "potential" but 9 times out of 10 end up being sold at a loss. The SR way...

Talking of strikers that coils be available on loan, what about William Osula from Newcastle? Not getting game time, experienced in championship football and is target man type striker? Surely a loan deal could be feasible for remainder of season?? #SaintsFC

@TheSaintCentre Its just another God awful decision to give this bloke a long term deal given his experience. Should have been a temporary deal till the end of the season with an agreed modest lump sum due for compensation if it didnt work out. He's not up to it and never will be. Selles 2.0.

One win in the last nine games Plenty of fans are wanting Tonda Eckert sacked Are you among them? 🤔 #saintsfc

@timosullivan81 @TheSaintCentre True but you just sell them and build a squad like Sunderland have done? Probably way too simple for our hipster owners though...

@TheSaintCentre What’s the point. We aren’t going up and even if we did these players would be destroyed in the PL

@AlfieHouseEcho Let's not beat around the bush, Tonda bottled it. They were there for the taking at 1-0 with a makeshift back 3 but we decided to sit off them and play for the 1-0. Tonda's in game management is probably the worst ive seen from a manager. Very very poor tactician. #Saintsfc

Saints battled hard at Fratton Park when many suspected they mightn't, so I was really pleased to see that. But limitations were clearly on show again. Another set-piece goal, subs not really impacting. Good effort, but not quite good enough? #SaintsFC dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/o…