I'd go the other way. I was adamantly against the likes of Potter or Southgate until Ange. He's made me warm to them. That's how bad we are now. They'd be comfortable mid table managers with this squad. Maybe even get us as high us 8th.
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I'd go the other way. I was adamantly against the likes of Potter or Southgate until Ange. He's made me warm to them. That's how bad we are now. They'd be comfortable mid table managers with this squad. Maybe even get us as high us 8th.
I think lumping those two together is incredibly harsh on Potter.
Southgate has never shown at any level that he provides anything in the way of coaching/tactics.
International football suits him as it's just about picking a squad and choosing the best team, and he wasn't even good at that really. Entrust him to try and coach a bunch of players and you'd see the same clueless shit on the pitch that we're seeing now, just minus the intent to attack.
Rumour is Levy has ordered 1000 Spurs “winter” waistcoats for the clubshop.
These are going to be all the rage soon. All the cool kids will be wearing it once they see Sir Gareth rocking it.
Essential Spurs drip.
Imagine my shock!
Geoff Scott left in the summer and is very highly thought of Phsio. Also known for standing his ground when it comes to injuries you can see him in the all or nothing documentary challenging Mourinho when he wanted Son to play with a broken arm. Not perfect because Kane believed he had to get his own physio.
The fact is it was a myth that our Medical Department are incompetent even the biggest indictment was the Skipp infection and that was during an Op not our medical team.
That it’s nonsense and the only one Scott got on well with was Poch.
Keeping VDV on was stupid in hindsight. Ange prides himself on sticking to his principals and not getting emotional during games, but he clearly threw all that out the window when he decided to leave VDV on against medical advice.
And he hasn't learnt his lesson either because he did the exact same thing with Ben Davies at the weekend but got away with it!
And he hasn't learnt his lesson either because he did the exact same thing with Ben Davies at the weekend but got away with it!
Imagine how many players play through injuries in every Championship team, in every sport.
The NBA has an 82 game Regular Season, then the Play-Offs after that. Every single member of both teams in the final, EVERY YEAR, will be playing through soft-tissue and likely ligament/tendon discomfort.
It's just a normal part of elite sport. The best players manage themselves better but are also tougher to handle the discomfort and physically more durable to recover faster.
Can you be more specific ? What nonsense. With this club you could be speaking about a variety of things.
American sport is whole different thing. Playing on injections with torn up muscles was normalised for years. The NFL injury rate this year was absolutely insane. ACLs all over the place seemingly every week . Would love to see some data comparing the injury rates in the different sports.
I've just never been a fan of Potter. Everyone he left seemed to suddenly start scoring for fun after he left. Which is mad considering apparently the reason he wasn't the next Pep was because his strikers couldn't score.
Until he left.
But compared to the shit show we have now, his level of organization would at least sort out the injuries and chaos.
Think we have to expect that the PL is headed in the direction of American sports now. The owners of the clubs are American or from countries outside the UK and the business will always come before player welfare now. There will be more games and players will just have to hack it. Most will likely turn to PEDs of some kind of they haven't already.
Anyone who thinks we are going for Southgate next hasn't a clue. It'll be an attacking manager. They'll stick to the project and hope that Ange laid some good attacking foundations.
Moving to a totally defensive coach like Southgate would be clueless and show we have no direction and are just making it up as we go a long. I'd totally give up on Tottenham if we went for Southgate. I'd be left with no choice but to wash my hands of it all
Moving to a totally defensive coach like Southgate would be clueless and show we have no direction and are just making it up as we go a long. I'd totally give up on Tottenham if we went for Southgate. I'd be left with no choice but to wash my hands of it all
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his Brighton team were scoring for fun for the last few months. 5 in his last game, 3 up at LFC before de Z came in. Top 4'ish pts and loads of goals.
I've pointed this out several times but maybe you just don't like him?
I get it.
You’re more of a Frank Lampard of Wayne Rooney type of guy.
Young forward thinking attacking minded coach.
it's ridiculous.
Potter took over one a Brighton who survived because there were 3 crap clubs keeping them up. Stayed up by 2 pts. Potter first season were 7 pts clear and better GF and GA. After that set records for PL pts there. Last 12-15 matches or so they were on fire.
Southgate? Got 'Boro relegated and then failed to get back up. Fired by probbly the most loyal Chirman in the country (refused to fire Bryan Robson but got El Tel in beside him to keep them up).
Anyway it's academic now. Levy had loads of chances to get him in and I expect him to do well at Spam.
Is it a big enough selection of games?
What about Swansea? What about Chelsea?