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Match Tottenham Hotspur vs. Manchester City, 20:15 GMT, Wednesday 30th October. League Cup Round of 16
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Because in our domestic cups it’s less games, and a lot of the clubs field weakened teams. We could also get lucky and have our games all at home .
The team and manager isn’t good enough to go to to these European clubs away from home and get results.
Yep Romero defintely deserves another start.
We rested our team in the EL only for our regulars not to turn up yesterday. Far as I am concerned our regulars can play both City and Villa, they should easily have enough energy.
I think this pretty much sums up my feelings
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That could be an excuse for City, Liverpool, Woolwich and Villa who have to play their best XI twice a week (only City have ridiculous depth).
We've played dross, winning at a canter, whilst making 8-9 changes. There is no reason the first XI should be tired especially this early in the season.
The point I was making is they don't get a chance to finish sub 5th. When it's heading that way, they get sacked.
I personally don't believe we will struggle to get in the conference league this season. We have every chance of finishing in the top 6.
I see villa as a big rival of ours and i don't want them turning us over on our own patch. We are more than capable of beating them at home. We beat them 4-0 away and had we taken our chances at home we couldve beaten them quite convincingly then too.
So you think there's no way Ange would survived last season if he'd finished 6th?
Technically, Sherwood was sacked after finishing 6th but he only had the job on an interim basis and he was expected to be replaced in the summer of 2014.
He was given an 18 month contract to cover the following season but I think that was just Levy's way of saying "This is the manager. Get behind him".
City, Woolwich, Liverpool nailed on top 3.
Chelsea and Villa will make up the 5.
It's a shootout between us Newcastle, Brighton and United (with new manager bounce) for 6th. Not sure I fancy our chances.
Indeed. That's why I didn't bother mentioning him.
He was heading for a top 4 finish and fell short.
Had he got the same results in a different order, many orders I think yes he gets sacked before finishing 6th.
In a way it was fortunate for him to have a lump of hard games at the end of the season. We didn't really win any big games last season, other than Liverpool at home with obvious circumstances.
How many wins did we get from Woolwich, Chelsea, United, City, West Ham, Liverpool? Was in 1 in 12?
Not heard that argument before and cannot recall the team for the previous match but it makes much more sense than Levy just not wanting to p[ay a bonus. I recall Mourinho actually said there was no bonus in his contract for a cup win.
Then we are truly fucked under Ange.
9 league games. 3 European. 1 carabao. Since august. 13 ganes.
We are due to play 10 matches from 23rd November to 29th December. Including City away, Roma, chelsea, rangers and Liverpool.
Ange is done if that’s what’s holding us back.
If i see werner and davies starting wednesday then i will be pissed off. Need to go for it wedmesday.
I don’t trust us either but I do think at our best, we are a good side just not consistent enough to finish in the top 6. I’m looking forward to the jeopardy of the cups
100%. Could be a tipping point either way
That's not what I asked... I simply asked if he'd have finished 6th (i.e. after all 38 games) you think he def. would have been sacked?
Fact is there's no precedent for your original claim.
This is a bit off-topic I know, but surely Jose's sacking was in some way linked to the 'proposed then immediately collapsed' super-league wasn't it?
IIRC (and maybe I don't), the super-league was announced on the Thursday or Friday, then by Sunday night several teams had pulled out of it. Levy had made it clear previously that he wanted it, whereas I thought Jose was vocal that weekend about not wanting it (?) ; Jose was then sacked on the Monday morning, and we announced that we'd pulled out of the super-league on the Tueday morning. Not sure how much of that is actually what happened, versus how much was just hearsay (and apologies if it's more the former than the latter - I've not looked any of that up, I'm just going by memory). But either way, with Jose being sacked within a day of us withdrawing from the super-league and apologising for 'making a mistake', I find it hard to believe that the two weren't at least partially connected...