Been up since 5.30 watching rugby this morning....knackered and frustrated with today's result.....sorry again.
Blame the Black Velvet
The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...
Been up since 5.30 watching rugby this morning....knackered and frustrated with today's result.....sorry again.
Sorry, yes forgot to say. It was beautiful with the pomegranate juice but I couldn't drink a lot of it. One pint was sufficient but good callBlame the Black Velvet
I think indeed that one of the problems is that the players aren't even afraid to underperform. Imagine if you put in a performance like Ndombele or Dele in Greece and afterwards you are in the same dressing room with Roy Keane and Sir Alex.. Or the next day in training.The best thing Pochettino could do with the boys at the moment is a bit of truth time! If I was him I'd have one on ones with eachnof the following and tell them...
I think indeed that one of the problems is that the players aren't even afraid to underperform. Imagine if you put in a performance like Ndombele or Dele in Greece and afterwards you are in the same dressing room with Roy Keane and Sir Alex.. Or the next day in training.
Nailed it IMO, however;The best thing Pochettino could do with the boys at the moment is a bit of truth time! If I was him I'd have one on ones with each of the following and tell them:
Aurier - he's let me down since putting necks on the line to get him in. No heart, no class, he's got one season left at the club no ifs, no buts he's done
Dele - lost your spark, the warrior in you has become civislised and it's made him half the player. Tell him his new target for the season is to get 5 red cards, I want to see fight or he can have a career elsewhere pissing about with clothing lines. Needs to look at himself and his career and see where it's heading and it ain't pretty. Tell him he's become a laughing stock! People are actually saying Jesse Lingard is better and leaving me without a leg to stand on. Plastic shit Del, sort it the fuck out or fuck off back to Milton Keynes you absolute chancer! Stop mugging loyal people off by acting like the milky bar kid. If you don't find that streak, we'll find you another's club simple as!
Eriksen - tell him he's a coward. Tell him to pull his head out of his arse and if I had his quality I wouldn't be able to look my family in the eye after how he's been behaving recently. No fight in him and trust you me the teams that look for fighters would have certainly taken note. A calamity of a football fighter based on the talent he's been given. Completely wasting it thinking he should better than he is, no wonder Zidane ain't interested!
Toby & Jan. My real captains. Tell them it's their last season together and they can make this their team. Where's the vocals, where's the men in the team separating themselves from their teammates so they can tell them what's what? Last season playing together boys, take the mantle and do something special with it or just watch it pass them by.
Rose - learn how to cross and you would be one of the finest fullbacks in the world. His target for the season is 10 assists I wanna see double shifts on the training ground until you get it right.
Sissoko, all heart but you need to give me 5 goals this year. Work on it or no matter how much heart you have this'll be your last season. Double shifts with Harry required but we can't carry passengers regardless of how important he's been recently.
Sonny - go get some boxing lessons. The guy oozes exceptional class but I want to see him snarl more.
Poch got some serious Bielsa treatment when he was at Espanyol,smoke real home truths one day to the point where he cried in the car home. Home truth time Poch, they ain't your friends. If they don't like it, tell the chairman you want them sold as they have reached their ceiling with us and move them on for hungry, passionate and talented footballers with a backbone! Truth time Poch, tell them all what you think of them at the moment and don't pull any punches, the get paid hundred of thousands of pounds for a reason and that isn't to pussyfoot around them!
Give them all a piece of your mind and if they don't react they don't play for the club again. I'd rather see us finish 6th with heart than 5th with prima donnas. Enough of this shit now rip into them!
Nailed it IMO, however;
Graeme Souness: Players run clubs now, not the manager
Former Liverpool, Rangers and Newcastle gaffer Graeme Souness talked to Paddy Power recently about his time on Tyneside and the modern managerial game...news.paddypower.com
"I reckon I don’t have the personality to be a manager in the modern game.
You have to be more of a diplomat today than ever before, you have to massage egos today like you never had to before, and that wouldn’t be my style. I’d find it very hard not to just say what I felt was the truth, which might be things they don’t want to hear.
I think today in management you’re called the boss and that’s in name only. The players run the football club, because of their transfer values and the salaries they get paid. They are the ones that call the shots. "
Like I said I agree with you.With the right manager and the right players attitudes this would still work. I actually think we have good lads at the club, some have just lost their way amongst the shit that comes with it.
Truth time, tell Dele he's a tenth of what people expected him to be and if he doesn't change his ways he'll end up in Steve Frogatt territory instead of Steven Gerrard territory, tell Serge he's a conman and that he's let me down, Eriksen he's a yellowbelly etc
Like I said I agree with you.
IIRC didn't Sherwood get a load of stick for criticising players ? Ok it was in public and not behind closed doors but I agreed with his sentiments.
Like I said I agree with you.
IIRC didn't Sherwood get a load of stick for criticising players ? Ok it was in public and not behind closed doors but I agreed with his sentiments.
You're drunk. The players think he's a clown.The best thing Pochettino could do with the boys at the moment is a bit of truth time! If I was him I'd have one on ones with each of the following and tell them:
Aurier - he's let me down since putting necks on the line to get him in. No heart, no class, he's got one season left at the club no ifs, no buts he's done
Dele - lost your spark, the warrior in you has become civislised and it's made him half the player. Tell him his new target for the season is to get 5 red cards, I want to see fight or he can have a career elsewhere pissing about with clothing lines. Needs to look at himself and his career and see where it's heading and it ain't pretty. Tell him he's become a laughing stock! People are actually saying Jesse Lingard is better and leaving me without a leg to stand on. Plastic shit Del, sort it the fuck out or fuck off back to Milton Keynes you absolute chancer! Stop mugging loyal people off by acting like the milky bar kid. If you don't find that streak, we'll find you another club it's as simple as that!
Eriksen - tell him he's a coward. Tell him to pull his head out of his arse and if I had his quality I wouldn't be able to look my family in the eye after how he's been behaving recently. No fight in him and trust you me the teams that look for fighters would have certainly taken note. A calamity of a football fighter based on the talent he's been given. Completely wasting it thinking he's better than he is, no wonder Zidane ain't interested! Who'd want to sign a loser after all? Times ticking Christian, I hope that thump back down to earth don't bruise your ego too much. Recently you've been a disgrace honour your contract like a man or lose your dignity amongst the Tottenham ranks forever. An absolute shambles of a hissy fit fuck off out of my club or do something special with your final few months here!
Toby & Jan. My real captains. Tell them it's their last season together and they can make this their team. Where's the vocals, where's the men in the team separating themselves from their teammates so they can tell them what's what? Last season playing together boys, take the mantle and do something special with it or just watch it pass them by.
Rose - learn how to cross and you would be one of the finest fullbacks in the world. His target for the season is 10 assists I wanna see double shifts on the training ground until you get it right.
Sissoko, all heart but you need to give me 5 goals this year. Work on it or no matter how much heart you have this'll be your last season. Double shifts with Harry required but we can't carry passengers regardless of how important he's been recently.
Sonny - go get some boxing lessons. The guy oozes exceptional class but I want to see him snarl more.
Poch got some serious Bielsa treatment when he was at Espanyol,smoke real home truths one day to the point where he cried in the car home. Home truth time Poch, they ain't your friends. If they don't like it, tell the chairman you want them sold as they have reached their ceiling with us and move them on for hungry, passionate and talented footballers with a backbone! Truth time Poch, tell them all what you think of them at the moment and don't pull any punches, the get paid hundred of thousands of pounds for a reason and that isn't to pussyfoot around them!
Give them all a piece of your mind and if they don't react they don't play for the club again. I'd rather see us finish 6th with heart than 5th with prima donnas. Enough of this shit now rip into them!
The best thing Pochettino could do with the boys at the moment is a bit of truth time! If I was him I'd have one on ones with each of the following and tell them:
Aurier - he's let me down since putting necks on the line to get him in. No heart, no class, he's got one season left at the club no ifs, no buts he's done
Dele - lost your spark, the warrior in you has become civislised and it's made him half the player. Tell him his new target for the season is to get 5 red cards, I want to see fight or he can have a career elsewhere pissing about with clothing lines. Needs to look at himself and his career and see where it's heading and it ain't pretty. Tell him he's become a laughing stock! People are actually saying Jesse Lingard is better and leaving me without a leg to stand on. Plastic shit Del, sort it the fuck out or fuck off back to Milton Keynes you absolute chancer! Stop mugging loyal people off by acting like the milky bar kid. If you don't find that streak, we'll find you another club it's as simple as that!
Eriksen - tell him he's a coward. Tell him to pull his head out of his arse and if I had his quality I wouldn't be able to look my family in the eye after how he's been behaving recently. No fight in him and trust you me the teams that look for fighters would have certainly taken note. A calamity of a football fighter based on the talent he's been given. Completely wasting it thinking he's better than he is, no wonder Zidane ain't interested! Who'd want to sign a loser after all? Times ticking Christian, I hope that thump back down to earth don't bruise your ego too much. Recently you've been a disgrace honour your contract like a man or lose your dignity amongst the Tottenham ranks forever. An absolute shambles of a hissy fit fuck off out of my club or do something special with your final few months here!
Toby & Jan. My real captains. Tell them it's their last season together and they can make this their team. Where's the vocals, where's the men in the team separating themselves from their teammates so they can tell them what's what? Last season playing together boys, take the mantle and do something special with it or just watch it pass them by.
Rose - learn how to cross and you would be one of the finest fullbacks in the world. His target for the season is 10 assists I wanna see double shifts on the training ground until you get it right.
Sissoko, all heart but you need to give me 5 goals this year. Work on it or no matter how much heart you have this'll be your last season. Double shifts with Harry required but we can't carry passengers regardless of how important he's been recently.
Sonny - go get some boxing lessons. The guy oozes exceptional class but I want to see him snarl more.
Poch got some serious Bielsa treatment when he was at Espanyol,smoke real home truths one day to the point where he cried in the car home. Home truth time Poch, they ain't your friends. If they don't like it, tell the chairman you want them sold as they have reached their ceiling with us and move them on for hungry, passionate and talented footballers with a backbone! Truth time Poch, tell them all what you think of them at the moment and don't pull any punches, the get paid hundred of thousands of pounds for a reason and that isn't to pussyfoot around them!
Give them all a piece of your mind and if they don't react they don't play for the club again. I'd rather see us finish 6th with heart than 5th with prima donnas. Enough of this shit now rip into them!
You're drunk. The players think he's a clown.
They don't have confidence in his methods now.The players need to be giving him more. What's happened to our press? Our guts? I haven't even had a drink mate I'm just furious with these prancy little fuckers trying to pass themselves off as Tottenham players at the moment, very few are truly worthy of that accolade as it stands, one away win this calendar year? Pathetic!
The problem is we don't have two things;
1) A real leader on the pitch, by that I mean someone who will bollock someone else when they fuck up
and
2) A niggly, strong, capable DM that will get in the oppositions faces and fuck them over.
All good teams need those 2
They don't have confidence in his methods now.
Probably should've bought Idrissa Gueye for £7m (!) when Villa got relegated, was a very good signing by Everton at the time.2) A niggly, strong, capable DM that will get in the oppositions faces and fuck them over.
Probably should've bought Idrissa Gueye for £7m (!) when Villa got relegated, was a very good signing by Everton at the time.
That's another problem in him, apparently he misjudge talent very often, that's what happen when you judge a player based on the size of his shins.Barrios was there for the taking as well.