Good evening job seekers.
5-2 eh? That wasn’t very nice, was it? Well, that agreed I had asked the boss yesterday for a 442 away and bless his strawberry blondeness …he obliged. That tactic undoubtedly gave us something of an initiative – because we scored. Also we looked at that stage as if our frailties might stand more than half a chance if we took that approach.
So to the Adebayor thing. I know many of you were not watching on Sky so it may not bore everyone to share that Gary Neville said that he felt that Togo’s finest was ‘too pumped’ prior to the kick off. The bottom line with that challenge is that had it been executed on Bale or Azza then you me and even the woman next door who only heard it on the radio while she was doing some ironing would have been up in arms.
The bring back Arry mob have of course raised their Troglodyte heads. Idiots crowing, ‘I told you so’ are achieving what exactly? If they could summon up a coherent argument that even vaguely touched upon us throwing away a 2 goal lead with 11 men and a far far superior squad under that schmuck then perhaps they might care to expand.
As I said to a pal earlier, I’m emotional as a fan; yet I now no longer invest too heavily in personnel. So me backing AVB isn’t a Villas-Boas centric campaign, rather wishing the current guy managing Spurs well. If the boss behaves like Arry did when Arry became ‘distracted’ from the pass then I’ll be the first to suggest we bin him.
Where the gaffer did the business for me was in his substitutions. We’ll do some analysis in the am, but whilst I’m fed up, I’m not angry. January will be pivotal. This side urgently needs reinforcements.
AVB OUT
Your mum burn your Kellogg’s again LoL…plastic fan
ok you avb supporters can take your rose-tinted spectacles off now. I said I’d give avb till xmas, well I’ve seen enough already; he’s a championship manager at best. We’ve won just 2 games by 2 clear goals; lowly maribor and villa, and even villa should have scored first when benteki missed a sitter. we’ve looked pedestrian and great players have looked confused and well below par – and now the ultimate joke; he’s goes back to playing a spurs team like martin jol would have!!! The win against mu was a fluke and they should have flattened us after fergie put his tactical errors right in the second half.
We’ve scraped past the likes of southampton and qpr,looked rubbish against west brom, norwich ect, bulldozed by a chelsea side that aint the best and should have been twonked by man city. Don’t even start me on the europa league fiascos.
What’s been worse than results though has been performances; dour would be an understatement.
If you think the return of dembele will change everything, well it might if avb learns from his gross mistakes so far; until dembele gets injured again…. Forget willian and moutinho too, we’re simply not good enough under this manager for the likes of them.
So if avb stops his dumb tinkering (he’s also come close to fooking up the confidence of lloris)and takes us back to the way we played under hr or even martin jol then he might just turn it around. If not then its curtains and I believe levy should follow him out the door for lack of judgement, because to the outsider with half a brain this is starting to look like ramos all over again.
Avb needs to drop down a league if he’s going to manage in england. Because at the moment its looking like his team selections are becoming more and more reactionary to external criticism.
Dont keep knocking the players as its obvious they’re confused and out of their depth. At this rate we will lose the good players we’ve got left.
Its a real shame as avb comes across as a nice bloke, but for me he just doesn’t cut it in the epl.
Bring back the spurs I know and love, the team that was once frightened of nobody. “Its all about glory” not trying to turn us into some boring continetal side.
Under levy we’re committing suicide, but who cares as long as the books are balanced?
He’s recently changed the system, maybe he isn’t as arrogant as the press make out. We have to be patient with him but i also agree the football has been turgid at times under AVB. He must play more attacking football at the right times, i don’t mind the 4231 away against the kind of teams that will struggle against it but please, no more at home thank you!! Also not away against relegation fodder either. We are Spurs, we don’t play like we’re crapping ourselves, the fans won’t tolerate such bollocks anyway.
We must be patient, at least until January, if we look like a clueless rabble by then, he’ll be under real pressure and something will have to give.
Well, ouch, that hurt. I suppose the same could be said about the last four EPL games.
There is no question the team is going through a sticky patch, and that the frailties that have plagued Tottenham’s recent rise to prominence are still very much apparent in the DNA of this side.
Dropping points to lesser opposition at home. Squandering goal leads. Giving away cheap goals. Self-imploding in the face of adversity. These are all things, that those of us who have been supporting Spurs for the last decade ( at least) have become use to.
That why blaming AVB for the recent slump in form is TOO simplistic.
Has AVB made ‘mistakes’? Yes. The most notable being his refusal to play two out and out strikers against opposition we should be steamrollering over (especially at home). And (to a lesser degree, some might say) his reluctance to install the ‘world class’ Lloris as the clubs first choice goalkeeper.
Has AVB Learnt from these ‘mistakes’, or showed any signs of doing so? Well, apparently so. The starting line-ups against Maribor and more recently Arsenal suggest that our new manager IS flexible in his approach, and IS willing to consider different alternatives as he aims to bring success to the club. Regarding the Goalkeeping situation, AVB was doomed if he did and doomed if he didn’t. Whilst the vast majority of us will be of the opinion that Lloris should have been installed as the no1 from day one, it is easy (up to a point) to see why this has not been the case. However, AVBs reluctance to show his faith in a keeper many will see as the long-term future of the club, over another who is in the twilight of his career has to be readdressed quickly in order to install confidence to a player ,who at the moment, is not playing with his managers complete trust, and as a result, may be guilty of trying too hard to impress.
That being said, IF BLAME IS TO BE ISSUED, then some so-called supporters should look no further than the 11 men on the field.
The fact that we have taken the lead in 3 of the last 4 league games and looked relatively comfortable in doing so suggests that tactics, nor motivation are primary causes for the slump we currently find ourselves in. At the end of the day, it is the 11 men on the pitch that play the game, not the manager. And as I have said before the problems the team are currently experiencing are NOT new issues.
Last season, we were beaten at home by Wigan, gave away cheap goals, surrendered a 2 goal lead to Arsenal ( with 11 players)and capitulated when faced with adversity.
For all the friendly games in this summers pre-season, IT IS ONLY NOW THAT AVB IS TRULY LEARNING ABOUT HIS PLAYERS. And in the opening 12 games of this EPL season, Villas-Boas will have learn’t all that he needs to know.
Whilst the squad at his disposal is undoubtedly a talented one, it is also a squad with glaring mental deficiencies.
Has anyone else noticed that:
1. When a couple of players out of sorts, the whole team seems to play badly.
2. When we concede goals to the bigger sides, alarm bells seem to ring to the point of distraction. Causing the team to lose composure not only in their passing, but in their defending as well.
3. When faced with adversity/ injustice heads seem to go down particularly quickly, which usually results with us being on the end of a thumping.
4. Gareth Bale often fails to track-back with any sort of enthusiasm any more, leaving our left-back frequently exposed.
5. When thing are going badly on the pitch, the team is an extremely quiet one. And if any talking is done, it usually comes in the form of them moaning at one another, rather than Geeing each other up.
There is clearly a lack of any real leaders in the squad at the moment (excluding those injured), bar Gallas and Sandro, which is why, until results pick up again and we get one or two of our more influential players back, I would seriously consider replacing Caulker with Dawson.
Lloris
Naugton Dawson Gallas Vertonghen
Sandro Dembele
Lennon Siggurdson/Dempsey Bale
Defoe
Vs West Ham
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what pissed me off the most was the moment we went to 10 we completely folded. Did we even have a shot in the first half after the sending off?
2nd half was better, but we know the Arse took the foot off the gas. They’ve got a Champions Lge game on Tuesday. We only started playing again at 4-1 – and they had stopped. They brough on Santos for fuck’s sake! He looks like a retired bouncer.
Lazio & West Ham. 2 wins please.
So you think 4 loses on the trot isn’t in anyway
indicative of ginger nut being out of his league?
Harry at 50% consistently
got us top 4. I hope you have the balls to admit
we’ve gone backwards under Mr notebook when we end up 6th! We are becoming a laughing stock!!
SDARWKCAB GNIOG ERA EW FI SA SLEEF TI. What to do..More signings or off with his head, January will see us lament in our winter of discontent. Cannot see any buzz which surrounded our club of late. We seem to be a laughing stock again, a club which people relish in mocking. This had subsided somewhat but I feel Levy has not siezed on the growth spurt that we had found. Not sure about Levy, he could be a liability. Someone should watch him, he looks shifty, he has small eyes and hands, like the circus folk