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Manager Mauricio Pochettino

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sammyspurs said:
Sherwood stopped us getting into a relegation scrap, had a better win ratio than AVB, took us to a 6th place finish and gave Kane his chance rather than persisting with Soldado as AVB (and many here preferred).

Big mouth, not good enough for the long haul etc etc etc, but he did a decent job that season and left the team in fairly healthy shape for Poch.

People might not like him and thats fine, but that doesnt run parallel with "he was shit".
Life doesnt work like that.
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We were 5th when AVB was sacked.
 
AVB v Sherwood

Fucking hell I thought all that was dead and buried last May at the finale

Yet here we are another semi final, champions league fun and top 4 finish, we dig up this shit

Why? What does it achieve?

Fuck this
 
sammyspurs said:
Also how difficult is it to apply the same tactics, not just staff, but same approach that saw us beat Chelsea away, at Brighton? Or in the semi?
Some people say our problem is he sticks too rigidly to our philosophy.

My complaint is we dont. Our game is pressing off the ball relentlessly, attacking with pace, defending from the front, bossing the middle. This should be the same regardless of formation.

We dont do it enough. Even during our good run, some games were touch and go. When he stops us pressing, we are, basically, rubbish.
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I don't think any team is physically strong enough to maintain an intense pressing game in every game over a season competing in multiple competitions.
 
Mensa said:
AVB v Sherwood

Fucking hell I thought all that was dead and buried last May at the finale

Yet here we are another semi final, champions league fun and top 4 finish, we dig up this shit

Why? What does it achieve?

Fuck this
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If we white wash our history from all the bad times, we'll never move on. None of this achieves anything, chatting on here, its just a discussion, like the window threads and match threads.
 
palmers_green_yid said:
I don't think any team is physically strong enough to maintain an intense pressing game in every game over a season competing in multiple competitions.
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Yep thats becoming painfully clear....I dont know what the answer is, other than more rotation outside the full backs.
If Poch is serious about "not being serious" regarding the domestic cups, then we really should be fielding 11 "b teamers" every round.

For me, one way to stop Harry's burn outs would have been to use Llorente more from day one and integrate him into the set up. Its too late now of course, and has been for 6 months.
Players cant come on and make a difference or be motivated playing 6 minutes every second month Im afraid.

For me our problems are the same as last summer, although the positions that need addressing have changed a bit.

Get in some quality players that you trust enough to actually use when Dele, Kane, Eriksen etc are off form or fatigued. We cannot be in a position where Harry is never rested like the last week. Its just too costly.
 
sammyspurs said:
Yep thats becoming painfully clear....I dont know what the answer is, other than more rotation outside the full backs.
If Poch is serious about "not being serious" regarding the domestic cups, then we really should be fielding 11 "b teamers" every round.

For me, one way to stop Harry's burn outs would have been to use Llorente more from day one and integrate him into the set up. Its too late now of course, and has been for 6 months.
Players cant come on and make a difference or be motivated playing 6 minutes every second month Im afraid.

For me our problems are the same as last summer, although the positions that need addressing have changed a bit.

Get in some quality players that you trust enough to actually use when Dele, Kane, Eriksen etc are off form or fatigued. We cannot be in a position where Harry is never rested like the last week. Its just too costly.
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Agree on more rotation, better strength in depth. But also perhaps having a better plan B when we can't press, which I think we have done to some extent (look at Dortmund home and Madrid away) but maybe we could improve at this.

I think the game plan against United was to bombard them from the start and try and get a lead. It was- IMO- the right plan and nearly worked. A 2-0 lead would have probably won us the game. Unfortunately Dembele made an error which led to a goal, let's not forget against most teams it would not be a goal from there, it was also an excellent cross and header.

Man United don't play the same way and therefore were much fitter in the closing stages, we had burned ourselves out in the first part of the game, but if I was manager I would do the same again as the best way to beat them, and hope that we get that second goal or hold onto the lead better.
 
sammyspurs said:
It was more the performances for me.....if ever a team was screaming "dressing room lost" it was that 5-0 at home to Liverpool. Not too long after 3-0 at home to West fucking Ham.
It didnt look good, but we'll never really agree on Tim or Harry, so no need to dig it all up I suppose.
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Even though there were worse results and performances, Chavs away was peak Timmy for me...

If you've allienated so many players that you have to play Lennon as CAM and Siggy and Chadli at CM... "Thats-a-Sherwoooood"



 
sammyspurs said:
If we white wash our history from all the bad times, we'll never move on. None of this achieves anything, chatting on here, its just a discussion, like the window threads and match threads.
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Even though I despise the transfer threads at least that is talking about something happening right now, current, topical, like the match threads

The AVB Sherwood thing has been done so much, let’s talk about options out there we can bring in to help Kane up top or how we are going to kill ourselves if Liverpool and Woolwich win European trophies, that’s forward thinking and current at least!

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