That does make sense, but if this is just a long term youth rebuild then Postecoglou was blowing smoke about going for the title. And what happens when we start losing players like Romero to teams more serious about contending. There's always one more excuse not to reach for the next level.
-
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...
Manager Ange Postecoglou
- Thread starter The Fighting Cock
- Start date
Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports
You could have the worlds best ball hogs up front, but if the opposition just resort to long balls and sprinters, we're wide open.
Wolves, Fulham, Newcastle, Chelsea (vs 9 admittedly) and plenty of others exploited it mercilessly. You can't play with every man in the opposition half all the time and just rely on VDV to catch anyone that tries to break through. Without his pace, we'd have lost a lot more games last season.
Also Vicario was outstanding the first few games of the season.
If it wasn't for him and school boy finishing, that 1-4 Vs Chelsea would have been double figures.
It was so bad that Nicolas Jackson has to be the first player in the history of football to make celebrating a hat-trick look cringe.
Not true, I predicted fifth.
I think there will be more of this from what I have seen in preseason as we havent changed tactics at all.
I think we are in for a shock this season personally. We havent improved the squad or starting eleven at all really. The Werner loan set the tone for the window and set us up for the disappointment we are currently seeing in not bringing any players in the manager wants so far (in attack).
Totally agree. I think we could have some real issues. To be anywhere near successful Ange needed 3 or 4 quality players to improve the 11. As it stands we'll be lucky to add 1 of those. Add in his stubborness tactically and with set pieces then i'm not sure it bodes well. I think we'll be fortunate to match last seasons 5th unless something dramatic happens in the next 2 weeks player wise.
Flawed but finished 5th??? That’s not flawed mate,that’s not having the right players. Our front players are the biggest problem we have because they can’t keep the ball. They are the reason we get countered as much. Fix that then the so called flaws minimise. And to be fair teams that caught us at home last season we generally recovered and beat them. Forest,Palace,Brentford,Sheff Utd Luton and Brighton. Even add Liverpool into that.
The final third problem. Well it’s not the manager that fixes that. It’s better players
Last edited:
We were one of the best at grinding out wins last season especially at home when we went behind. That shows we have a bit about ourselves. Too many on here think you win every game,play great and every player plays out of their skins. Delusional. There’s so much improvement needed but we are still in a good place especially if we can get a couple of forwards in.
No-one's called this out for trolling yet?
FMD...
Probably wants Mourinho back.
hes got in johnson and werner....
No it's just an opinion.
If we had good attackers we would have raced into a 3-0 lead in most games like the Goons did when they flew out the blocks and then the games done. We dominated, didn’t score (or just scored once) and punched ourselves out and then went to shit
yep, if youre going to over commit to going forward you need the quality in the final 3rd to make it work, otherwise you're going to get punished.
lol beat me to it.
I strongly believe it. I have faith in Ange but he needs to be backed, but if we don’t sign two front players then agree his system needs to adapt and he has to create a more defensive foundation
I don’t think he will be backed, and I don’t think he will change his system and I think he’ll be gone by Nov. Hopefully I am wrong on the first guess and Solanke/Gyokeres and Neto/Eze come this week and his strategy yields beatings galore
Said before AI will influence in the future, it will be like better diets in the 90’s when people though it was a fade.
Tactics, training will all be affected and those clubs that get on first will get more benefit.
He changed against City and we looked much better even though we lost, should have won really, he'll probably change things around again in some games this season.