Good morning.
Our players won’t have been looking forward this. I’m not looking forward to this and the full extent of my involvement will be nudging the volume up and liberating something ice cold and imported from the Frigidaire.
QPR have made a mess of things. The chilling words of Neil Warnock, ‘I’ll remember where I left QPR …in the Premiership.’ may become indelibly tattooed on Tony Fernandez’s mind come the last day of the season.
Warnock may not be to everyone’s taste, but I still rate him and if left to manage with half decent resources he’d probably be a better than good Premiership manager.
Mark Hughes has his gang delicately poised 3 points above the burn outs that are Bolton, Blackburn and Wolves. My point being that this is wounded beast territory. Never more so than with QPR. Their form has fallen into a very simple pattern. They lose away and win at home. Their last 3 scalps being Swansea, Arsenal and Liverpool.
I chatting to a Spurs fan on Sunday about this and we both agreed that psychologically the pitch at Loftus Road appears narrower. It isn’t of course, but the way the ground is laid out it just feels that way.
So the board then.
fig.1=like a limiter in a car, the rear guard must stay in position. Parker, Walker and Benny aren’t the best men to play forward balls. fig.2=Modric mustn’t get bogged down playing ‘rush defensive mid’ his role must be forward distribution. fig.3&4=go wide and stay wide.
The plan here simple. Try to create space in the final third and take the initiative. This game could deteriorate rapidly into school playground game of punt and run with nobody having either control or a plan. With the ‘wing backs’ muzzled because they simply aren’t good enough at delivery, they can sit deeper and five defensive players ought to be enough.
It’s completely pointless playing into QPR’s hands and letting Azza & Bale ‘drift’ centrally in what will feel like a tight pitch anyway must be stopped. Adebayor and Saha need service and if it is supplied they have got more than enough to beat Paddy Kenny.
QPR are where they are because they do not play great football. Not because of bad luck or because they upset the gods. Spurs need to step up with a plan and stick to it. A casual approach with some ropy 442 or fielding players who either lack ability or class (hello Ledders and Half Nelsen) is guaranteed to be a waste of everyone’s time.
Eye-catcher bets from Boylesports.com 1-3 Correct score is 12/1, Last goalscorer Saha 11/2 and Spurs to win by 2 goals 11/1.
I full expect a win tomorrow. there isnt one player on the pitch who hasnt played or is still very much currently playing for their respective country. If we dont win tomorrow we can throw third away. If the other teams do well fourth is unlikely.
i mean, im stating the obvious here.
We have to win. Stupid as it sounds but its as simple as that.
Friedel, Ekotto,King/Gallas/Nelson/ Kaboul( any 2 from these 4 CB, preffered is Gallas and Kaboul ),Walker. MF : Sandro , Modric , Parker. Forward : Bale Ade and VDV. 4-3-3. Bring on Lennon after 60 mins ( depends if we need him for Sandro if we are losing). Then Defoe for VDV in the 65min ( again if we need to ). Finish the game with a classic 4-4-2. I could also swap Sandro for Livermore but I prefer Sandro.
If Arry puts out a 4-4-2 with Livermore as DFMF then he deserves to be shot. If we win this game it puts us back in the driving seat for 3rd.
Kaboom is definitely out so two from three old men will play. Gallas and one other but none of the three inspire any confidence I’m afraid. In view of that weakness in the centre of defence we surely need to partner Sandro with PNB in midfield. That would mean a 4-2-3-1 set up and that we leave one of Modders/DvD or Lennon out. On current form And effort Modders should be left out but we also have the problem that DvD is not fit enough to last more than an hour, so maybe start with DvD on the bench. Hence we would line up ……
Friedal
Walker. Gallas. Nelsen. AnE
PNB. Sandro
Lennon. Modders. Bale
Ade
QPR are not a great side but with our lack of form and the fact that they are in desperate straights themselves this is a tough fixture for us. What with so many of our lot either lacking form, injured, sulking and also that the manager is on his way out I just cannot predict what we will do. Either we will completely collapse or perhaps just perhaps some of our top top players might show up and produce.
I would throw sandro in as gallas’ pairing at cb and have modders and pnb as the 2 dm’s and VDV as the central mid attacking outlet.. Neither Nelson or king are capable of keeping up with the pace of the game…. King is the reason we have lost most of our games since march…..as painful as it is writing that we can’t hide or deny what we have seen out of king from the arse match COYS
What a disgraceful cnut
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/sport/football/harry-redknapp-cheering-for-chelsea-7665160.html?
supposed to be referring to this link – which didn’t appear – as opposed to just being a random bad-tempered outburst
He really is a piece of work.
anyone fancy emailing this to levy and demanding he is relieved of his post? Sackable comments in my eyes
I’d like to relieve him of his life using a CFC scarf and a lamppost.
I don’t give a toss if he has tattoo of Ian Wright on his bottom, as long as he doesn’t tell us (the people paying his salary) about it.
He’s an imbecile.
i am furious. He is a disgrace. How can anyone have any respect for this sewer rat
Why can’t he just concentrate on the actual job he is being handsomely to do. It does not require constantly giving opinions on everything and anything from Paul Scholes whether there is life on Mars. Just cannot wait until the season is over. The trouble is that once the season is over then the real silly season begins with endless speculation about all our best players, who is coming in as manager etc etc… Whatever happens , it will as usual be lively being a Spurs fan. On a Managerial front, would still like Ancelloti (I know he is under contract at PSG but contracts don’t mean much these days).
Well has he said anything wrong? If he wishes they lost and chelsea focused more on the league and we lost out to fourth place to them, then what? His logic is potentially 100percent as positive as saying he wishes they were knocked out.
He said:”I will be rooting for Chelsea on Tuesday. I have not even thought about the consequences for Tottenham if they win it.’
He’s had media training and plays it well, politician speak, so to speak. Say one thing and mean another…..that comes through in his interviews. He is out of his depth now.
Yes, he could be mp for erehwon.
Maybe. He does say he has not thought of the consequences to spurs but then goes on to describe the potential consequence of them(chelsea) then focusing less on the league, giving us a chance.
Has everyone missed the point where he has basically said we can afford to lose against qpr, four wins should do it! I see that as we can lose 1 & bet players do to
Well there are many discussion’s on THFC social media groups and on HH about the consequences to our beloved club if in the unlikely event that the toe rags from Second Hand Fridge win the CL and 4th is snapped up by our boys resulting in the non qualification. If this is a possibilty then 3rd is the top priority until the maths say so. We have thought about the consequences…..why hasn’t he?
he also hasnt thought about the england job either and is only focussed on tottenham.
he talks about us as if we are another club that he doesnt work for.
Perhaps he hasn’t thought too much about the consequences for Tottenham as he won’t be here next season and doesn’t really care?
Except he didn’t say that, he said this:
“I’ll be rooting for Chelsea [against Barcelona],” said Redknapp. “From our point of view, if we keep Chelsea in it and they’ve got a Champions League final to prepare for as well [as the Premier League and the FA Cup final], then they’ve got a lot on their plate, haven’t they?
“I think they can beat Barcelona. They were fortunate the other night and defended with their lives but you wouldn’t put it past Chelsea scoring in Barcelona. Barça are open to concede. If Chelsea get an away goal, then it’s game on. But if they beat Barcelona, I still couldn’t see them beating Real Madrid.
“I think Real will beat Bayern but even if they [Chelsea] were to play Bayern, that would be a difficult game with Bayern being at home in Munich. So I still couldn’t see them winning it. But I’d like them to be in it because they’d surely have to have one eye on the final.”