Norwich indoors it is.
The tactics board is common sense but of course we are trapped in 1986 tinnitus nightmare where the only song playing is Genesis’ Land Of naffin’ Confusion.
The facts of the matter are that Bale drifting diagonally in just clogs up space that Rafa and Modders could be using to far better effect.
fig.1=Bale crosses from the left, fig.2=Pathe News Boy feeds the hungry with neat through balls, fig.3=Lennon crosses from the left.
I’d bin Arry and install Pleat. Millions and millions of pounds worth of players and a manager that either doesn’t know what he’s doing or he doesn’t care. The crowd yet again had to instruct Arry and after a few rounds for Azza he came on.
Arry fans point to the mid table mediocrity we’ve endured in the past. I remember those years and have no desire to return to them. But let’s try and do at least a passable impression of intelligent people here. Yes we’re doing well, but despite ourselves. And what have we to fear by wanting to upgrade the tactician? A child could tell you what’s wrong, yet brain surgeons are telling us we must not unsettle the squad. I guess losing a 10 point lead didn’t unsettle them at all…
Bale is bugging the hell out of me (had you noticed?) and so I ask you this. Look back at his best moments and tell me where he was. He was on the bloody left.
Walker needs to focus on being a good defender. I don’t care how fast he is. What the hell has that got to do with the price of fish? Benny’s useful going forward, but his crosses haven’t had Barca or Real clucking.
Norwich are no fools and I sincerely hope Arry engages his brain before sending out the troops.
So nice to have my Spurs back. They only punch me because they love me. They’ll change for good some day…
so Jake ( our 3rd choice holding ) was expected to hold ON HIS OWN !!! … a job Scottie PLUS Sandro were doing… tactical error big time… we made Norwich look so good today just because of that.
That we have to play two holding mids is quite telling about how far off we are now. There was a time when we were so good at attacking and recovering lost possession, that we could play without a holding mid against relegation fodder.
I fully believe that our issues are way beyond tactical right now. I believe it is a lot more than being low on confidence too. We are currently the worst team in the PL at pressuring our opponents and trying to retrieve possession. This is complete lack of desire and absolutely no work ethic. Something a lame duck manager is helpless to correct.
That’s not really true about possession – can’t be as we had 71% of it against Sunderland. What is true is that our attacking play has gone very blunt indeed. Couple of reasons for that – Lennon’s injuries and Bale clogging up the middle of the park instead of flying down the wing are key. Couple this with a clearly jaded Modric playing every single game but obviously no longer enjoying it, and a system which guarantees Adebayor a starting role with no real competition and thus leads to complacency on his part and I think that gets a bit closer.
Other big factor is the fact that our central defence dept is over-subscribed with elderly invalids. Another one is that Redknapp plays the same players week in, week out, driving them into the ground. Many of them are knackered. Some are jaded. Today they were all starting to argue with each other, which is always a nice touch.
Right as ever LLL :-D
TMWNN is banned from Tottenham and the surrounding area by decree
It was Twitchy humping the FA what donit guv.He’s off and the players know it,simples.
I agree,but what I don’t get is why players would lower their own standards if they think they can get away with it.Most people don’t need a boss standing over them to do a decent shift.
They do it at manu,they go,at chelski the manager goes,at the ars they get dropped,at our drum twitchy is in a long river in africa talking s**t(per usual). :daumen:
I wish the Dagenham spamhead had got porridge now!
What a sad indictment of the judicial system in this country.