Welcome to your weekend.
The boys from White Hart Lane vs the Cheatski cads it is then. The tactics board here was based upon the grocer’s maxim, ‘all the best gear at the front’ and that is 100% how we need to approach this one.
Our defence is in tatters, ribbons. I understand we are waiting to see if Mr Herriot passes Ledders as fit. My fear is that Arry will look at his options and with Kaboul crocked worry that we’re a bit challenged on the height front.
Other options include Half Nelsen, the boy Rose and Khumalo. That’s the liability list you’re looking at. Cheatski are called Cheatski for a reason and our back line needs to be clued up.
Nelsen is said in some quarters to be improved. I see him as a penalty waiting to happen. Rose is simply nowhere near good enough for a game like this. Khumalo? Please.
So you field your best, why waste a shirt by filling it with a half measure? So I’ve gone for a kinky threesome at the back.
fig.1 relentless, fast, accurate passing fig.2 Brad bowling the ball out. No pointless punting into London’d cold night air fig.3 Pathe News Boy does one of his little shielding 180°’s, turns and passes.
The pairing of a fresh Sandro and the near immortal Scotty Parker are the right job altogether for the centre mid positions. If they sit nice and deep that gives us a 5 man crew in Cheatski’s final third.
It is absolutely vital therefore that Walker is controlled and doesn’t do his ‘wandering minstrel I’ schtick up the wing. It invariably ends in not a lot and ahead of him is Aaron Lemon who believe it or not, is better than him at this sort of thing. We cannot have people out of position in a game as important as this.
Modders centrally to feed everyone. With Rafa running a horizontal channel in front of him, this paring should be able to be as creative as they need to be.
And so to Bale. With Rafa off of Ade’s shoulder, to the right of course, that leaves space for the Welsh wizard to cut in. But this must not, repeat must not be mistaken for a license to fanny about with half-witted Ronaldo impressions. The Cheats backline will not be prized open with Bale making speculative ‘flicks’ into the box with the outside of his left shoe from a right position.
Adebayor needs to get supplied. Not teeing him up effectively won’t be resolved by losing the creativity by subbing Rafa and bringing on Defoe. There needs to be a system in place to supply a man who has scored plenty of goals for us. Corners need to routinely beat the first man if they are to find him.
I say this is ours to lose. The squad available can win here if deployed and played to their strengths.
The Official FA Cup Semi Final Man Of The Match public vote, so please place your Lilywhite votes in now.
Budweiser are giving away an Umbro FA Cup football every day!
Sadly I can only conclude that Redknapp wants the tin tack from THFC getting compo saving the FA cash and boosting his own England wages.
If we face Liverpool in the final i can see Dalgleish and Redknapp having dosh filled wheelbarrow races from the stadium to their helicpters before they depart their current clubs.
Its an innovative idea but too risky for me and if I was Billy I would want just one person to keep an eye on, not two. The risk is that both PNB and Sandro will sit too deep and invite Cheatski wto swarm through our midfield.
I think there is no option but to play Nelsen. He is no more a penalty liability than King (remember Citeh)or even Sandro come to that.
The key thing is to attack them down the flanks and get ahead. I have been confident all week but the Citeh result today has knocked me a bit given our display against Norwich just five days ago.
Agreed.
But I have one word for you: Tevez…
Now, imagine if we’d signed him in January?! (and then ditched him at the end of the season: I mean, he is a total c*nt, after all…)
:D
I’ve been saying for months that the cause of he present ills is a failure to sign a decent striker in January. Had we done so I am sure we would have won at Liverpool, Chelsea and Sunderland as well as won homevgames like Man Ure and Stoke.
I am thredders with Redschnappes along the front lines of what HH has already briefed us on. A leader is needed tomorrow on the second to last phase of this OP. Captain Scott gets my vote to carry the colours, play Jay’s formation and go from conatct with the enemy for an all out spearhead attack. Once groud is made, consoloidate and reorg until the last post is played.
I dont get out much……….:(
Is it the keyboard or the vodka and lime’s kicking in royal?
Utterly depressed seeing how Man City demolished Norwich.
Dreading tomorrow. All I want is to see the back of Redknapp, for the good and pride of our club. Tired of being embarrassed and made to look like rank amateurs.
Scuse the disillusionment, it happens at some stage every season, but it’s happened once to often now under Twitchy. Hard to feel joy at the prospect of beating Chelsea, just dread at what moronic excuse he’ll come out with next. Been a long time since I’ve disliked a Spurs manager so much, and that’s saying something given our relative success of late.
It is depressing but listen up, salt is being rub in our wounds with an egotistic, self serving media drugged over hyped football pundit.
The quotes alluded to by HH gives us and his players no scope for confidence.
THFC deserves better what ever the outcome is tomorrow.
Livermore to partner Gallas at the back, the rest pick themselves……BIOYCCC!
I like Livermore but he didn’t really show a great defensive display againsy Norwich, he would get murdered at CB. I’d rather take my chances with New Zealand Nelson and hope he doesn’t give any penalties away!
Both times he has played centre half this season, we kept clean sheets…..Can’t ask for more, can you?
All down to him? Like I said I like him but not at CB in an FA Cup semi final.