Good morning.
First up, good to see Gazza on the road to Wellville. He’s been there before, but I understand he’s making great progress and the more daft characters football has, the better.
The game itself was tough viewing at times as our formation creaked uneasily as many new players and an unedifying injury list took it’s toll. Add to this the Bar Codes aren’t where they are in the table by luck. They might not quite be ‘The Entertainers’ again, but Pardew has them organised and their desire was impressive enough.
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Highlight of the game was his attempt to smuggle the ball back over the line after their equalizer. If I had to describe that move in word, that word would be ambitious.
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It was all a bit of a struggle. In his defense Toon were at him and this is hardly a settled, cohesive back four, so no calls for his retirement just yet.
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Many are called, some fail to turn up, a few say in a thick French accent, ‘let’s ave it my old son.’ He was well and truly put to the test and by golly I think he just about passed.
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The poor old girl’s legs went and so back to the Guvnor’s swimming pool with our best wishes.
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A hectic day at the office. Considering his last two run outs were worse I’m taking this as gradual improvement and again not calling for him to be chased out the borough by an angry mob with lit torches.
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What I would do is play him in the middle and fit everyone else around him. This is on the basis that he’s apparently worth loads more than any of the others and is really good at playing football.
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Looking every bit like a decent first team player. I particularly liked his show of grit when having a barney with one of their lot. We need more chaps like this who are ‘up for it’ and Jake certainly is that.
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Probably his toughest shift with us yet. What I particularly like is watching him win a ball, tap it forward, look up, forward again and pass. A fantastic signing and without him we’d be in schtuck.
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Another distinctly average performance. I’m bored with this whole crazy right wing business. It’s like the Amstrad vertical record player. I understand it, I just don’t want it.
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So let me just check I have this right. Our most consistent goalscorer and one of our most talented players is a nuisance to accommodate when drawing up the team sheet. Arry, grow a brain and get back to me when you have.
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He’s rock and roll. They were three up on him at stage. Whoever plays with him will score goals and whoever plays against him will have their hands full. Classy, smiley, destroyer.
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A lethal strike followed by an infuriatingly selfish botch job.
Well said LosLorenzo. We draw away against a tough well organised Newcastle and all of a sudden Harry is considered to be inept.
This current Spurs side is exciting to watch and they win games. I cannot say this of many Spurs sides that I have been watching over the past 45 years.
COYS!
I don’t think it’s fair to say “all of a sudden” Harry is considered to be inept, some of us have been saying that since before he arrived at WHL….
Bale on the right……hmmmm :hae:
Agreed, it’s not “all of a sudden”. Since you’ve held this opinion for so long I’m guessing that when Crouch headed home up at Man City you were complaining about the management, eh?
Bale on the right is not ideal in the long run (at least unless he learns how to use his right foot a little bit [I thought his coach as a kid used to make him play with that foot all the time!?!?]). But keep in mind that when he has played opposite Lennon, they have tended to switch for periods during the games. We’ve created lots of goals with inverted wingers, even if they usually play most of the game on their natural side (as Bale did on Sunday).
Modric on the right or VdV on the right is also a case of square peg, round hole. We didn’t have a fit right midfielder for this tie or the Arsenal tie, so someone has to play out of position. It was Bale for the first 25 minutes and Modric for the rest of the game.
Also, Bale regularly plays on the right for Wales, and is usually their best performer from that position.
So I don’t really think that is very strong evidence of ‘Arry being pants, no matter how long you have thought that. Definitely not Justified
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Jol switched Lennon to the left for long periods and 1. It clearly did not work and 2. It affected the players confidence, which so far is still way lower than it was before that ridiculous experiment. Redknapp playing Bale on the right is having the same effect. When Bale starts on the right, even when switched back to his correct side he tends to be a passenger fr the rest of the game.
Yes, he switches Bale and Lennon from time to time and yes, this has created one or two goals but in the main it gives the opposition a chance. When you watch both players off the ball when they have been switched they are clearly not happy, both looking towards Redknapp waiting to be switched back. I suggest that next time you are at the Lane and Twitchy does the switchy, watch them both….heads go down, opposition gain confidence, we become inferior…..it does not work and any fool can see this.
That’s is just one of the many silly decisions he has made/will continue to make but the biggest mistake was signing Crouch, and worryingly he has done it more than once, which is why Daniel Levy doesn’t let him loose with the finances……I could go on……I will concede that when we do play under HR the football is very, very good and overall the results have been better than before, but with this squad under a more technical, tactical manager with a winning mentality we could
be so much better…..do we want to be succesful or not? I am 46 years old and have never seen my team win the league, I would like to before I die…..we are not going to win the league under a manager who has won one major honour in 30 years of management…..he doesn’t have it in him …
Which is where the real problem lies for us. Let’s assume for a moment that HR takes the England job.
Many out there will call for the appointment of Ancelotti, but as a club are we able to afford the type of player he’d look for? Secondly would that also mean a dismantling of our English backbone and set up, which has unquestionably increased our effectiveness and suits our limitations financially?
If a foreign manager isn’t the answer, then who of the British managers available could step in a do a better job, again looking our our limitations and do a better job than HR is right now? I’m not a Harry fan as well you know, but I am realistic and looking at all the angles, really cannot see anyone coming and doing a better job, at least without a massive increase in revenue and transfer expenditure.
We have the squad already. Yes, we could do with another centre half but any manager in the world can see that we are a side going places with little need for major changes to the current squad. Saying that if a new man came in and wanted to change some players, then there are players who would generate massive income who haven’t been performing well such as Lennon, Defoe, Bassong, Huddlestone and Gomes….
We will never gain the success we desire without taking the gamble….
I sort of agree, but-as they say be careful what you wish for-you may just get it. Personally I like the fact that we’re building a side that’s attractive to watch and can compete at long last, but ultimately whether Harry’s up to taking onto another level is a matter of conjecture. In 1987 I saw the delight in many fellow Spurs fans when Pleat was fired and Venables was appointed as he was ‘The Man’, but reality and circumstances are another thing entirely. What happens if Harry confounds his critics and manages the side to a successful season and then leaves?
Who says that Essexian? And why do they say it? They say it because they are scared of change when things are going OK….they also say ‘Why fix something if it’s not broken’ and ‘Better the Devil you know’.
If I thought for one solitary minute that Harry Redknapp could bring back the Glory days back to Spurs then much as I dislike him as a human being and almighty gobshite, I would be right behind him and defend him to the hilt. But I don’t and therefore will keep moaning and groaning until he has been replaced with a better model….but I ain’t going to fall out with any fellow Spurs fans over it as let’s face it, life’s too short and I’m now a peace loving Yiddo…. :angel:
Totally agree, I find football a pleasure not a chore, it’s something that evokes passion and differing opinions, as you know I’m fine with that, when I get a little pissed is when some bang on about their hobby horses,instead of supporting the side. There a thousand things I dislike about our current regime,but the simple fact is, we’re playing well, scoring goals and in the mix-so no problems right now other than Ledders absence, which I think is huge as both a player, captain and x factor when he plays. But the peace thing? meh! ;-)
:daumen: As a car salesman once said to me…”I like your style”. COYS whoever is in feckin charge…
Hello all
Been a while… Delighted to announce the arrival of our new ‘junior client number’, a little girl, healthily delivered last week. Been sitting in a happy bubble of incredible happiness since.
MS, Tummers, prepare for me being even more jolly, chipper, forgiving and loving to the world than ever.
COY (junior) S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations Astro, hope both mother and baby are well and Best Wishes for the future…. :-)
Hearty congratulations
Can’t wait. :dizzy2:
Good work fella!
Congratulations! Best of luck to you all.
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I hope you made the most of sleeping back when you still enjoyed that luxury. It’s not too bad, though. Eighteen years goes quickly, and then things will be back to normal :-p
I assume you convinced the missus to go with my suggested name, Linnea’ker?
Pollyanna would probably be more fitting if she turns out anything like her old man.
My two are twenty one and eighteen, silly names I know but the wife was on gas and air when she chose them. I wanted the girl to have Lineker as her middle name and the boy Greavsie….
Congratulations and best wishes to you all. The world could do with more Astro minors. We need as many happy, cheerful and positive people as we can get. There are far too many of the miserable, negative kind, especially on here.
Congrats and best wishes, Astro, good to see there is life in the old dog!
Congratulations, Astro – let’s hope that she turns out to be as positive, intelligent & cordial a Spurs fan as her father…
…just wait a while before you introduce her to this mottley lot (especially the “doom is nigh” merchants, hahahaha…)
Our first is 15 months, now & we’ve got another daughter due in January… is it your first?
Get her on the season tick waiting list pronto astro
Good man. Your balls work
COYBS
Best wishes to all Astro. We’ll expect bad, one-handed typing as you feed the baby on one arm and spout your witticisms with the other. :daumen:
The mum will be doing the feeding, Astro will be doing something else with the other hand from now on.
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Genius.
Thanks guys. Mum & baby doing very nicely. Life is a very happy place. I’ll be back to drive you mad with optimism by the weekend!!!
For the record my kid (season ticket holder) is now 31.Having an only daughter, I assumed that football was never going to be a major talking point, but she loved the game, and actually played. At 14 she turned out for Basildon Ladies on her debut against Tottenham Hotspur..How bloody great was that, so you never know!
As I have said earlier I have a boy and a girl, the boy hates football and lives for Moto-cross which is my other love. The girl is Spurs through and through and comes to most games with me, she has been a mascot at West Brom away and had a kick about with the likes of Davids, Keano, King amongst others before the game, Robbie Keane gave her his warm up top which is one of her most prized possession’s….Funny as I presumed it would be the other way round….
“presumed it would be the other way round”
For a second I thought you meant you presumed that she would have given er warm up top to Keano. Which wouldn’t make any sense…
But yes, the cildren. Their interests. Gotcha!
Poor Little Astro :ninja:
If it get’s to you, there’s no hope-having converted all my nephews, to a point where they’d phone up after a disaster and moan about me ‘making’ them Spurs boys instead of Goons, but my reply is and will always be “Listen, it’ll come good and anyway just thank you lucky stars I hate West Ham”