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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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We also had 4 FBs playing in a back 4 half the time and Royal having to play LB pretty often.
That’s before you ignore the excuse not taken of 3 of the back 5 playing their first prem season and Porro converting to a new position
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Maybe the guy likes football
So Ange has to take 6 weeks off to reflect and relax?
He will have his holidays and take time off. And to be honest these guys won’t switch off. Tottenham will consume Ange’s thoughts whether he’s on a beach or doing punditry.
Spurs fans when he's having banter with Roy Keane in the ITV studio
Why isn't he working on tactics with Mile and the crew #Angeout
It wasn't half the time, was it? Did we have 4 full backs when Fulham, Newcastle, Woolwich and Liverpool popped 14 goals in against us? We were near full strength then.
We were full strength until Maddsion, VDV and Bentancur had long-term injuries.
We had players available but that wasn't full strength.
Anyway, I'm not here to make excuses just pointing out that your excuse for last season was no more valid than any we could make this season when we conceded less despite playing much better and more attacking football.
I think we conceded as many as we did because we played wide open football with little regard for defense.
It's as simple as that. Park our players in the opposition half and we invite teams to play a quick ball behind and catch us out. Which they did. A lot. And then expose our inability to defend set plays.
So why did we concede more the season before when we parked everyone in front of the goal and never even tried to play football?
But then haven't you answered your own question?
In theory, and ignoring other factors, our defenders should be (and are) miles better players than those we had last year.
However if you look at the style of football we are playing now, we are taking a lot more risks, and consequenty scoring a lot more goals. If we played this style of football last year with the defenders that we had available then, we'd probably have conceded 20 more goals last season than we did this season.
For me that dynamic is perfect - we've changed from defensive to attacking football, which is what most fans wanted, but we've also improved our defenders massively, so now we can score more goals without conceding a lot more than we did last year (give or take).
Perhaps I'm missing your point. :/
EDIT: And btw, the previous poster mentioned our "totally risk averse, reactive bus park strategy" - not our "totally risk averse defense" (sic) which you then mentioned - the former is about strategy, the latter is a (perfectly valid) criticism of the personnel, but they are two very different things.
Because the bus we parked in front of goal was a rusty old wreck full of holes.
Yeah that's a possibility, but then why not grab a few Castlemaine XXXX's, throw a few shrimp on the barbie, and watch it from the comfort of his own home?Financial
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Maybe the guy likes football
So Ange has to take 6 weeks off to reflect and relax?
He will have his holidays and take time off. And to be honest these guys won’t switch off. Tottenham will consume Ange’s thoughts whether he’s on a beach or doing punditry.
the bus consisted of 4 donkeys and romero. not much of a bus. awful tactics from cunte. its as stupid as getting johnson in for 50m and expecting him to play possession based football.
does stink of attention seeking. hes got serious work to do! shouldnt be wasting time waffling shit about comps that have nothing to do with spurs.
The flipside is also true, there are people devoted to defending every single word uttered/action made, any criticism or questioning is dismissed as "you just don't like him".
Couldn't be further from the truth for me, I like him, I like the game he talks, I wan't him to succeed, but as the season went on and particularly the latter weeks, there's been a few instances where he's rubbed me the wrong way, and I'm very much on the fence with regards to his tactical "masterplan".
I guess this is no different to Son getting his kit off for Gucci or whoever in his spare time, it just seems out of the ordinary, as it's usually out of work managers taking on these roles.
Sorry but this is completely ignoring the context, in particular the style of football played last season and this season.
We are playing much more attacking football now, scoring more goals (well, getting in positions to score more goals at least!), and consequently giving up more / better chances to the opposition. However we've not conceded lots more goals than last year, as our defenders and keeper are much better players.
Isn't this what everyone wanted? More attacking football, more chances for us to score goals, but without conceding lots more goals? I'm certainly happy with that. :/
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yep. it could actually expose him.
im actually intrigued to listen to his analysis now
More excuses. Remixed excuses