Morning all, I trust you’ve all got the coffee on and are all ready for the Longest Day in the footballing calender.
The name in the frame virtually every day these days is that of Arry’s. In the a past few days we’ve seen why. He tells the post match press at The Lane on Sunday that transfer rumours about ‘Crouchy’ are causing discontent and a sense on unease amongst his jittery show ponies.
Wot a shocker, this was Arry squealing uncomfortably knowing full well a striker he likes despite an abysmal strike rate was edging out the door. For the love of God, he’s quick enough to bench Gomes, but what would 3MP have to do to feel Arry’s wrath, get caught propositioning Louise?
Anyway – the results of the Survey are in and make for good reading as the bulk of you appear to be balanced, well meaning types. So well done.
Achievements.
Nigh on three quarters of you agreed that Arry done good, but is now wallowing in excuses and might well be getting out of his depth.
Tactics.
You were spit over this. Just over half of you acknowledged that few managers are tactically brilliant. The just less than half of you remaining are quite angry about the old hoof it to Crouchy, he offers something different sketch.
Comms.
An emphatic 50% have seen through Arry and realise his ability to communicate with foreign players is woeful. A third still believe his arm around the shoulder makes for a safe, comforting and happy place to be.
Press
No surprises here. the majority simply want him to talk far less to the press and focus on managing. Calling some fans ‘idiots’ was a PR disaster that still stings. Only 13% of those who responded feel that the daily calls to talkSPORT are refreshing and fab.
Transfers
Over half of you ticked the box relating to the answer containing the words, ‘dross’, ‘English’, ‘clapped out’, ‘moth’ and ‘flame.’ But you’re not completely unsympathetic and the bulk of the remainder answering understand that genuinely ‘top top top’ players cost a small fortune in wages.
Who’s On First Base?
Landslide. Seventy five percent believe that Levy is pulling the strings in relation to transfer dealing and when Arry says the Chairman’s dealing with it, he isn’t lying. This is good news, as the next most popular response was that Arry had flushed millions since his arrival. Only 3% called him a good buyer.
Blame Game.
This question essentially confirmed that most people get the picture when it comes to Chairmen and managers. They begrudgingly coexist as best they can. Arry is frustrated, Levy views most of what Arry gets up to with suspicion. Itchy & Scratchy with less arterial spray.
Long term.
Arry’s clearly got a few backs up. Nearly half who voted have ‘273 reasons’ to replace him with what they obviously perceive as a safer pair of hands in the shape of a Moyes or a Coyle type character. A third recognised Arry as a good crisis manager, but the jury yet to come back on him as a safe bet long term.
Christmas.
Optomistic lot aren’t we? About 80% of you anticipate a mid table position on the cards come Crimbo. You think that with the scalps of a few teams who aren’t Manchester United or Manchester City under our belt, things will naturally pick up. The remaining 20% are more mindful of how rotten we were against ‘lesser’ sides last season and are less cheerful.
£40M in cash.
I was surprised by this one. When asked what you would do – in theory – with a few carrier bags full of used notes in exchange for Modric over half of you wanted to go back in and spend, spend, spend. Only a third bought into my hair brained scheme to pretty much guarantee the NDP. Oh well.
So there you ‘ave it. My sincere thanks to all of you who participated.
heard a rumour we’re in for Anelka
Truly hope not,he,s well past it and if this is a marquee signing we as a club have become very Lidl in quality to the Harrods and Harvey Nicks elsewhere in the league.
Not Marquee but surely better than we already have?
But surely most responses are reading harry’s words from the perspective of a fan. With a fan’s views. 95% of what he says to the media is for a gain in a relationship or point to a player. We are not privileged to see results.
Sad to say Kane was pretty woeful against Hearts – not sure he’ll ever set the footballing world alight
I beg to disagree.
Me too. I thought he looked good for his age and experience.
Therein lies the problem, you’ve got some on here saying that he’s ready, I don’t think so, especially after watching him against a 2nd string really poor Hearts side, but you pay’s your money I guess?
That wasn’t a second string Hearts. I know i live here and watch them from time to time. They aren’t as bad a spurs made them look.
OK a really poor Hearts side.Kane was OK at best, but could you trust them to deliver, any of them? not for a few season’s on that showing.
fucking groundhog day :hae:
no plan, no strategy, simply making it up as they go along
‘arry & levy are a good mix, neither of them actually want to win anything
They have once again left it too late to try to get deals done.
However to say they dont want to win things is the comment of an ignoramus.
don’t you think if they were serious the deals would have been done & dusted
Ignoramus no realist yes
they may want to win things but wanting and taking action to enable the club do so are two different things
I want a threesome with elle mcpherson but doesn’t mean I’m going to get it
She’s not all that, Kathy Burke’s much more attainable anyway
I must admit to being completely baffled as to why we havent signed Parker and Cahill already (if thats who we are definiately getting) considering they have been available all summer. However to suggest they dont want to win things is surely a ridiculous statement.
Its clear we are leaving it late once again because we have so much shite on our books (Bentley, J****, Crouch, Hutton to name a few) that no one wants (or wont pay the money for)so we have to do the deals late to save money.
Football is business, Its shit but thats the facts.
BTW Have you approached Elle? She’s keen. I dabbled with her once with Dawn French. Awesome.
For me, its not that Harry is a motor mouth that is the problem, its the fact that he puts virtually no thought into what he is saying….its a deadly combination.
He says so much with so little consideration for the words/language he is using that he will 100% offend/annoy every type of fan, whether its the ‘Arry-haters or the pro-‘Arry fans, no one is left untouched by his uncontrolable verbal diarrhea.
Even me who is happy to give him the benefit gets angry when he makes excuses about the spending of others. Last season he banged on about Chelsea spending £50m in Jan, City spending £27m on Dzeko, LFC spending £58m on Suarez & Carroll and when uyou look at it, those players made very little difference to the outcome of their respective seasons. Mean time, we may have spent nothing but we have a squad bigger than all of them and went of a dreadful run of form!
He does not know the difference bewteen dumbing down the often lofty expectations of fans and making excuses in advance and in retrospect for failure. Spurs didn’t go on a dreadful run last Jan/Feb/March because of the spending of others. With a bigger & better squad than 1 year earlier, our progress stalled. These things happen. It happened to Chelsea,it happened to Arsenal & LFC. All had some dreadful form at times, we were the only ones making pathetic excuses about it.
I think that if Harry kept it shut, many more would give him the benefit of the doubt in hard times. They’d understand and probably tolerate problems of injuries, poor form & tough competition. Some (the few) are never happy and harry feels the need to have to respond to these people (idiots) and thats where his problem lies!
Sensible words. For a happier spurs! :daumen:
Spot on.
True up to a point, it’s stops being true when you consider why he talks to the press so much – because he’s a dream for the 24 hour a day Sky-ruination of football in this country.
One day Rupert Murdoch said to the banks ‘lend me a fortune; I’ll set up a satellite channel’. They said ‘you’ve got no content’. He said ‘I’ll bung football clubs half my advertising income for exclusives’. And it worked [though I doubt the Premier league gets even half]. And the ‘exclusives’ didn’t stop at games – it’s cameras in the tunnel; ‘reports from the bench’ during the game; and all those after-match interviews. And of all the managers HR is the perfect Murdoch-Sun-lad culture icon for modern footy – Del Boy with a bit of a track record [two wins at Old Trafford]. We’ve got the manager we have because we’ve got the football we want. 24 hours a day; no need to think about anything else; bread and circuses – except that those with more bread have bigger circuses.
we have the best clowns though
boom boom
I’m here all week
Tremendous stuff.
Isn’t Arry trying to sign Verbal Diarrhea?
lasagne diarrhoea