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Well, you fucking picked them - it's your job to motivate them, push them on and get the best out of them.
I saw so many different systems today, looked like the players had no idea what they were doing most of the time.
He's had a pre-season to sort this out, yes it's been affected by covid but so has everyone else's? Everton looked well organised, structured and actually had a functioning midfield.
Everton showing the benefit of not being obsessed with muh-young-prospect and signing the finished articles in their peak at 29-or-so?
Thats all he's got, be nastier, buy 'charachters' in their mid to late 20's, moan more. We wont be watching an energtic, tactical side with him in charge. He is a man out of his time. Said before we've got late 80's/early 90's Clough not the mid to late 70's version.
I wonder how much of that is due to tactics and how much is due to the fact we have a LB that is useless going forward and only positive that he has is that he can play CB as well.
Because he hasn't worked well for us at all, it makes little sense from a theoretical perspective and limits what is already a limited team.
This "too nice" stuff is just total bullshit. Our players are well known for going ballistic and injuring opponents when we are losing and making nasty tackles.
The truth is that their mentality is poor. Their level of effort is poor. Their work rate is poor. That's how it is. They are far from "nice guys".
But Mou really brought his A game with excuses today.
Not like he hasn’t had half a season before to “judge”.
Why mention bias? I made a call based on what I thought based on what I have seen. Nothing, not a single game I've seen has my opinion changed. It's for him to have us play in a way that changes my mind, he didn't even have to achieve this last year by winning a game, all he had to do was show green shoots of a modern progressive style of football (why this style? Because I see it as a)entertaining b) more likely to have us win). Now he's been here TEN MONTHS that holiday is over.
If he thinks our team is "lazy at pressing" then he just dug himself into an even deeper hole. a) This was once one of the most highest pressing teams in Europe b) Just saying "pressing" doesn't mean a team will if there is no plan on how to do it. This isn't an u10's game, it's not about closing your oppo down, it's doing it cohesively, as a unit, with triggers and belief. This takes hours and hours of work on the training pitch. There has to be a purpose behind it, what are the traps? What areas of the pitch do you want to win it in? Who are we targeting? He is beginning to show that he doesn't know how to get a team to press, other than say "press".
It's painfully obvious we are heading into games just playing for a cleansheet.
If we happen to get a goal, fine, we continue to play for a cleansheet and either nick another due to open space or we keep a cleansheet and we win.
However, if a team then manages to open the scoring - we are fucked. Because we don't have the creativity to turn it around and our predictability makes it very easy to actually defend against.
Something needs to change. Sadly, we haven't truly seen change in 10 months.
If we happen to get a goal, fine, we continue to play for a cleansheet and either nick another due to open space or we keep a cleansheet and we win.
However, if a team then manages to open the scoring - we are fucked. Because we don't have the creativity to turn it around and our predictability makes it very easy to actually defend against.
Something needs to change. Sadly, we haven't truly seen change in 10 months.
I'm going to lay out my pentagram and candles on the floor and chant Reguilón for the rest of the evening. Night, all.
How long do you wait before you begin to judge Levy / The owners?
I don’t think it has anything to with Davies who can go forward.
It feels like variation of the long ball to the target man/striker tactic. It’s almost as if he has read some statistics that right backs contribute to a large percentage of goals and placed huge significance on this. It’s extremely one dimensional and not actually effective
On our post-lockdown performance I judged him as doing very well, considering.
New season, a few new additions, new vibe, new evaluation.
Irrelevant. They ain't going anywhere.
I must admit that watching the Amazon documentary started making me feel some respect for him as a person (I have always despised him before he joined us) , even if to me it's not quite clear what is so special about him in terms of the motivation he brings ... I would be surprised if other managers don't use the same words he uses in the dressing room, but let's assume (and hope) that a lot of his"secrets" have been kept secret and not shown in the documentary
Even before this game, I realised that I have developed a different way of "feeling" a Spurs game with thin new regime. A kind of low risk low reward sensation. When we lose , I often end up thinking "yes, ok, we were shite, so we deserved to lose" . When we win , I often feel like " oh, we didn't look great but at least we won" . Definitely a more desensitised feeling about all this. So no, I don't feel too depressed about today's defeat
Yes, maybe we will win some cup, and I would be very happy if we do, but ultimately I hope we will see some stuff that makes me feel proud and excited, some stuff that gives me "that" match dat feeling. If not, oh well, nobody lasts for ever... we will just move on...
Even before this game, I realised that I have developed a different way of "feeling" a Spurs game with thin new regime. A kind of low risk low reward sensation. When we lose , I often end up thinking "yes, ok, we were shite, so we deserved to lose" . When we win , I often feel like " oh, we didn't look great but at least we won" . Definitely a more desensitised feeling about all this. So no, I don't feel too depressed about today's defeat
Yes, maybe we will win some cup, and I would be very happy if we do, but ultimately I hope we will see some stuff that makes me feel proud and excited, some stuff that gives me "that" match dat feeling. If not, oh well, nobody lasts for ever... we will just move on...
It's very relevant. They keep appointing the managers you keep judging.
And they decide how much backing those managers get
Write a letter to Joe and Levy, maybe they'll listen tot you and leave.
I don’t recall us playing well in any of those games post-lockdown, can you? A few good spells against Newcastle and that’s it. Awful against Sheff Utd, awful against Bournemouth and so on. When we won, we were still fucking shit. Sure, points wise it was a good return but the signs weren’t encouraging. Today it just confirmed it.
The problem is a fundamental one. He actually thought that the first half was good!!!