Good evening job seekers.
5-2 eh? That wasn’t very nice, was it? Well, that agreed I had asked the boss yesterday for a 442 away and bless his strawberry blondeness …he obliged. That tactic undoubtedly gave us something of an initiative – because we scored. Also we looked at that stage as if our frailties might stand more than half a chance if we took that approach.
So to the Adebayor thing. I know many of you were not watching on Sky so it may not bore everyone to share that Gary Neville said that he felt that Togo’s finest was ‘too pumped’ prior to the kick off. The bottom line with that challenge is that had it been executed on Bale or Azza then you me and even the woman next door who only heard it on the radio while she was doing some ironing would have been up in arms.
The bring back Arry mob have of course raised their Troglodyte heads. Idiots crowing, ‘I told you so’ are achieving what exactly? If they could summon up a coherent argument that even vaguely touched upon us throwing away a 2 goal lead with 11 men and a far far superior squad under that schmuck then perhaps they might care to expand.
As I said to a pal earlier, I’m emotional as a fan; yet I now no longer invest too heavily in personnel. So me backing AVB isn’t a Villas-Boas centric campaign, rather wishing the current guy managing Spurs well. If the boss behaves like Arry did when Arry became ‘distracted’ from the pass then I’ll be the first to suggest we bin him.
Where the gaffer did the business for me was in his substitutions. We’ll do some analysis in the am, but whilst I’m fed up, I’m not angry. January will be pivotal. This side urgently needs reinforcements.
From the start I was very pleased well crafted goal, the sending off unfortunate, unecessary unlucky.
Huddlestone for the equaliser pathetic, him Gallas and Walker please take a break!
Substitutions positive, he tried and it was a brave attempt.
We need the lads back and we will be beating teams like this, plus a little boost in January.
BTW I assume Caulker injured?
Yup. Sustained whilst scoring his goal against Sweden, apparently.
Remember Walker last season? Is this down to the player or the management style? we shall see.
I really think there are positives from this game despite the score. We started with a team a lot of people wanted and we bossed them whilst we had 11 on the field and I think with that formation with Ade linking midfield and attack then we will win matches. Going in 3-1 down at half time I was getting depressed but really pleased with the substitutions afterall what had we to lose. AVB took a chance and it could have paid off. Huddlestone needs to practice taking corners so it was good to see Caroll get a chance. I think we glimpsed a bit of the future today and it doesn’t look too shabby.
I thought that Spurs’ play up until Adebayor got himself sent off by the referee, the one who didn’t send off match-winning Balotelli for stamping on Parker’s head at Manchester City last season, had purpose and style. After that, it was just a matter of how many goals Arsenal would win by. Spurs had a go in difficult circumstances, using some good substitutions and shrewd tactics that with a bit more luck could have pulled the score to 4-3, because even when it turned 4-2 Arsenal looked rocky and possibly fearful of a 4-4 result. Take heart, fellow Spuds, still up there and anticipating the return of star players, but it’ll mean a few weeks of hit and miss results in the meantime. So let’s think and behave like grown-ups, eh?
ok you can take your rose-tinted spectacles off now. I said I’d give avb till xmas, well I’ve seen enough already; he’s a championship manager at best. We’ve won just 2 games by 2 clear goals; lowly maribor and villa, and even villa should have scored first when benteki missed a sitter. we’ve looked pedestrian and great players have looked confused and well below par – and now the ultimate joke; he’s goes back to playing a spurs team like martin jol would have!!! The win against mu was a fluke and they should have flattened us after fergie put his tactical errors right in the second half.
We’ve scraped past the likes of southampton and qpr,looked rubbish against west brom, norwich ect, bulldozed by a chelsea side that aint the best and should have been twonked by man city. Don’t even start me on the europa league fiascos.
What’s been worse than results though has been performances; dour would be an understatement.
If you think the return of dembele will change everything, well it might if avb learns from his gross mistakes so far; until dembele gets injured again…. Forget willian and moutinho too, we’re simply not good enough under this manager for the likes of them.
So if avb stops his dumb tinkering and takes us back to the way we played under hr or even martin jol then he might just turn it around. If not then its curtains and I believe levy should follow him out the door for lack of judgement, because to the outsider with half a brain this is starting to looking like ramos all over again.
Avb needs to drop down a league if he’s going to manage in england. Because at the moment its looking like his team selections are becoming more and more reactionary to external criticism.
Dont keep knocking the players as its obvious they’re confused and out of their depth. At this rate we will lose the good players we’ve got left.
Its a real shame as avb comes across as a nice bloke, but for me he just doesn’t cut it in the epl.
Bring back the spurs I know and love, the team that was once frightened of nobody. “Its all about glory” not trying to turn us into some boring continetal side.
Its short-termism such as “I’ll give him ’til chirstmas” that ruins football clubs.
I for one would like to see him give 5, or even 10 years to learn his trade and perfect it at our club. We’ve been waiting long enough, what’s a couple more years?
He’s working hard and doing things the right way. He could do with being less miserable, but you can’t have everything :-)
Let’s see what he can do when Levy hands him £50m and says “go buy no more than 2 players”. Then does the same the following year.
Can’t argue with the Red, deserved by Ade. The jury is currently our for me on AVB until he gets to manage a team with Kaboul, Benny, Scott and Mousa all fit in the team. Results needed soon thoug or we are sliding.
We will never have the luxury of having an injury-free squad, same as any other team. Best thing would be to get on with what we have available instead of waiting for something which will never happen.
I’m not asking for an injury free squad but we have been affected more than most this season. 2 of your first choice back 4 and your 2 (one would assume) first choice central midfielders as well. That’s more than most squads have suffered.
Preseason and early on this season, that trio of Sandro, Dembele and Siggy was ripping up opponents. At some point soon, let’s hope, all three are available for combined use in competitive games.
Tottenham played with 10 men from the start, because Tom Hudlestone was watching another Premiership game for free. The poor midfielder had 3 touches and two of them went to an Arsenal player, including the corner he take. After the sending off we were reduced to practically nine men. Gallas time is definitely up for most of us, but for AVB. Young Tom Carroll was superb in the middle of the park, with his first touch good and exellent movement, he deserves to start and looks good for the future.
Really fed up, not the performance-seen it all before-many times-actually too many times, what pisses me off are people on here saying I told you so-3 months ago!, Well 3 months was August, so what they’re saying is-they knew we’d have over a 3rd of the side out long term injured?-really!. I’m not an AVB fan, but I’m a Spurs fan-and I want nothing but the best for my side-after that I can do is get behind them. It’s nothing to do with amition, WTF has ambition to do with supporting your side? You can hope-you can cheer or boo, and you can support or not-but really that’s about it.
I said much the same when HR was in charge-but he had his 4 seasons, and then shot himself-with his own gun- in his own hand-right in his own head, with bullets he himself purchased.
I saw more about AVB today, than I have all season-and I’m far more supportive of him now than I was this morning.
Of course Gallas is knackered-but who else is there? and please don’t say Dawson-enthusiasm’s all well and good-but there’s also a need for an experienced head as well-perhaps Verts and Daws could form a partnership-but Kaboul and Verts would make a better one. Dembele’s almost there and BAE’s not far off, all of those mentioned are vital to the sides balance-so lay off AVB and judge him if and when he gets a full squad to choose from!
And most of us real fans are fed up with muppets like you and Harry saying we have to accept this shit and be quiet.. If someone is shit now why wait??? If I start a new job and fuck everything up do you think I can say give me time I might get better!? No I’d get the sack. But you and muppet features Harry will be happy when we get relagated and then say we should have got rid of him after we lost 7 games in a row (wait and see) the blokes out his depth and you and Harry are muppets for slagging off real fans who don’t accept a team that can be top 4 being lucky to be top 10!
Completely agree. We swapped Mr Trappy for Mr Dossier and out of the two I’d have the former any day. At least he did something with us in the PL.
It’s not all AVB though. We are paying the price for not investing heavily in the forward line in Jan 2012. Who do we have for next week now other than Defoe?
The root cause is Levy and the immediate risk is that he will not invest in the team this coming January either because he must know he has signed a pup with no hope of ever doing anything in the PL.
Let’s start the rebuild now. Send hin packing and give Sherwood a go.
Uh oh.
Let’s start the rebuild now. Send hin packing and give Sherwood a go.
Yikes. Are you Clive Thomas in disguise?
Ummm, swap a pup with managerial experience for one without………..I think not.
Start the rebuild?? This is the rebuild, you halfwit!
Sherwood Forest?!………are we after Robin fuckin’ Hood now?
Don’t call me a muppet, you lightweight cop out merchant-I’m a supporter of the club-do you understand the term and what it entails?
As for investing? Do you think A-We’ve got limitless money to burn? B players and agents just roll over at the very mention of our clubs interest?
What I don’t do is use hindsight-unlike fidgety little plebs such as you whose elbow quivers at the first sign of a problem-you bugger off, over to the I told you so merchants and we the proper supporters will just carry on being supportive.
What planet are you actually from-because in all the years I’ve supported the club-I can’t recall us being anything other than the occasional cup side who played good football-now apart from HR and Pleat who actually hit the ground running, most managers had to rebuild and shape their sides before any challenge could be mounted-but idiots like you recall bygone days that are simply mythical, unless you’re over 70-in which case I’d blame a touch of senile dementia or delusional traits creeping-muppet!
Essexian, he’s like this because he’s waiting for a knock at the door. Think ‘BBC’. Ignore the prat.
Where’s my goat?
well said Essexian, what a cop out mug he is. I am sickened by these neo-yids. Fuck off to the Boleyn or Stamford Bridge, you lot are embarassing
I’m with you bud. This nob slagged Arry and was so pro avb that he can’t now slag avb without making a bigger nob of himself