Good morning.
Presumably the Daily Mail are busy padding this one out into 250 words that at an absolute bare minimum will all be spelled correctly. Benoit Assou-Ekotto aka A&E Tweeted earlier this morning:
Clearly he was deluged with, ‘Oh Benny, has it all gone wrong? Please tell us it has!’ type responses and felt compelled to issue a second Tweet to clarify. It just goes to show the mindset of our ‘support’ in these dark autumnal days.
We’ve too many of our first choice picks missing, did you hear about that? Speaking of which I note from the usually reliable PhysioRoom.com that Sandro is down as TBC which doesn’t bode well at all. Not at all. Scotty Parker is two weeks away which points to him missing City and realistically, Arsenal too. Benny and Moussa are also both TBC so it wouldn’t be too previous to add them to the list. Raging Kaboul is supposedly 7 weeks away. What joy.
But of course, all this is completely irrelevant. It’s down to the manager. Jake Livermore is back in 5 days so there is no need to fuss or flap. Arry had injuries and you never heard him complain. We should have brought in Rodgers. Ah, scratch that. Liverpool in 12th. Martinez wouldn’t have crashed our plane so early on in the season. Mmmn scratch that, they’re in 13th.
The important thing to do at this stage is remain determined and focused upon apportioning blame. And those who never wanted Villas-Boas appointed must ensure they are lightening quick in self aggrandize themselves. 5th and a speeding like a freight train into a relegation scrap.
Here we go again…It’s all the fans fault blah blah blah! For the record I’m ashamed to say I never shed a tear when Harry was sacked but I’ll admit that I was wrong. We have made a massive mistake. Like all of you on here I’ve supported spurs my whole life (32 years) and lets be honest it’s bloody hard work being a spurs fan. We’ve been ridiculed by most as the ‘this time next year club’ etc. Finally we become a force to be reckoned with and guess what we sack our manager and now all I hear is ‘project…give the guy a chance…he needs time…’ What a load of rubbish! Nothing would make me happier if AVB won us loads of trophys and got us playing great football again but lets look at facts, his decisions are beyond bizarre! Two holding midfielders, Defoe up front, love affair with Jake Livermore, plays Jenas in every pre season game ahead of Huddlestone and then lets Jenas go and plays a half fit Huddlestone….I could go on and on! I’m sorry but this guy will never cut it! I guarantee Tim Sherwood will be our next manager and we will have to rebuild all over again!
TWITCHY OUT :ninja:
Plenty of criticism but no solutions. perhaps you could suggest alternatives to A) two holding mid fielders at times when there aren’t any other choices, and B) Defoe up front when our only other striker was either unfit or injured.
He had plenty of chances to get another striker in but constantly stated that Defoe was very important to us this season. Why sign Dempsey? Look at the games where we have dropped points…leading but instead of going for the jugguler, take off an attacking midfielder and bring on Livermore and subsequently lose the lead and points. Harry had plenty of faults but he never told us to take our foot off the gas and try to hang on, it’s not our way.
Well you haven’t given solutions to either of my questions which indicates that your criticisms are just mindless and done for the sake of criticising. Dempsey was a last minute Levy panic buy, and how was AVB to know Ade would not be available for the first two Months. He also needed time to assess the players to find out what each is capable of. Us as fans have been watching the players for years, we know their capabilities, he didn’t. Before you start to criticise, try putting some thought into it in at least a token attempt to decide whether it’s justified or just mindless verbal diarrhia.
“Harry had plenty of faults but he never told us to take our foot off the gas and try to hang on, it’s not our way.”
Um, Aston Villa away last year?
How long does a so called top quality professional need to assess the qualities (or lack of) in someone like Livermore for example. As you will see from my original post I stated that we brought this on ourselves by getting rid of Harry. AVB has done nothing to indicate that he deserved such a high profile job. I’m not a professional football manager like all of you, and do not claim to have the answers but his decisions worry me so hows this for solutions…at home why not play 442 with Sandro and Sigurddson as the middle 2, Bale and Lennon on the wings with Ade and Defoe up top. When Ade was injured no choice but to play Dempsey further forward. Away from home the 4231 works as the opposition comes onto you more leaving space for the counter attack hence why our away form is better than home (not because of the crowd as some suggest!), however at home we need to dictate the tempo. AVB was here from the start of the window and it doesn’t require a genius to know that we are short of strikers. UnKle Kev…I was at Villa and we actually performed much better when we were down to ten men. Yes we could have gone for it a bit more but we still finished in the top four and that is one game in 3 and a half years.
I’ve been looking back on the many blog’s around late August and can’t find any you’ve posted saying that any of our summer buys were rubbish-or are you just using hindsight?
Well on your own admission you don’t have the answers. How can you criticise if you yourself don’t have the answers???? Clearly you just want to criticise for the sake of it without any better suggestions. You also ignore facts in order to suit your own criticisms.
Sorry I thought AVB was employed to solve the problems. It’s up to the fans now is it? Look I’m trying to be patient and give the guy a chance. I want him to succeed and I still think its too early to start calling for his head but so far the signs are not great. We all know about the injuries/transfer failings and that these things take time yada, yada. Hopefully in a couple of weeks, after spectacular wins at City and Arsenal you can have a nice old gloat. I would love it – honestly. However, the problem that so many of us seem to have is that on this blog in particular the knives were well and truly out for HR but AVB is beyond question. In fact every excuse imaginable seems to be being wheeled out in his defence. If I didn’t know better, I’d say some of you were so vehement in your dislike for Harry that to avoid looking like you might have got it wrong you’ve become entrenched in your AVB is the saviour position. Surely its not wrong to question things now is it? We don’t have to provide the answers because its not like anyone at the club would pay a blind bit of notice to us anyway. Answers are obviously welcome if you have them though. We as fans can see where things are not right but on here its getting almost Orwellian; War is Peace, Hate is Love, Freedom is Slavery, Strange decisions is Tactical genius, Not adaptable with no plan B to break teams down is injuries or failure in transfer market, Slagging off Kyle Walker constantly on here is If you boo at games you make baby Jesus cry ect. And I don’t condone the booing or getting on anyone’s back. On matchday we should support the team and the manager, but we should be allowed to question things, even in the church of AVB.
Should not have let Parker play for England with an injury.
Should not have let Kane go on loan.
Should have played Hud in all preseason games.
Should not have sold Van.
Bought early in the season.
Play Carroll all preseason.
I could go on.
To be fair to AVB whoever he played in the midfield in pre-season wasn’t going to be a genuine starter I think we all expected Moutinho to be that man. Levy messed it up, simple. As for letting Van go, well he never played more than 60 mins, I’d happily have traded his last season’s form for Dempsey’s. Clint isn’t firing yet but that’s something no one could’ve predicted. Finally, did anyone notice but prior to Dembele getting injured we were awesome.
This was the plan though my friend. We were a force, too much of one, so action was taken.
Given our current midfield predicament I’m not sure which worries me more — the thought that Livermore won’t be available for the City game or the thought that he will.
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A few goals tomorrow night will lift the mood.
As long as they’re for us that is.
Footballers Should have to pass a test to have a twitter account,Benny’s a silly lad,how else could his comments be taken?
Benny’s twitter is the best of any footballer in the world. Fact! lol
Yep, of course people would take it to refer to himself and AVB. I think it probably does but that doesn’t mean they all feel the same.
Hey Harry, what about a new poll: If you were to bump into AVB in your local
boozerStarbucks, what would be the one bit of advice you’d give him?Dont open a Twitter account !
Give him advice?? If you think you are more knowledgeable that you can give advice then you should apply for his job.
Harry would be too busy getting AVB to sign his bottom for him to give him any advice.
God your good :-D
LLL. The last 2 weeks your comments are funny . Especially when it comes to HH, you bring him down a peg or two.keep it up :daumen: