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Match ***Bournemouth v Spurs - 8.15pm Thurs 5th December (Amazon Prime)***

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Porro is knackered. He plays every game and runs relentlessly up and down the pitch. He started Fulham brightly but anyone with any nous could see he gassed out half way through but Ange was forced to keep him on the pitch.
What? Spence has barely played a minute. If it's issues with personality and/or application, then why is he taking a place on the bench?

We're ravaged with injury, sure, but Ange's in-game management is absolutely woeful. Today was another prime example of that - it honestly seems like he doesn't know what he's doing.
 
Anyone who watches football can see Dragusin is not a footballer.... but thats how easy it is to sell players to Spurs..... this is our problem....why cant we have Glenn Hoddle as our recruitment guru....
Thought for a long time we need experienced tottenham people in boardroom or involved. Hoddle, redknapp, roberts. Vertonghen, van der vaart, ginola, eriksen, alderweireld involved in academy or development of players.
 
How can you blame the most loyal fans that go week in week out?
Looks like he's asking for a reaction from that clip
Calling someone a fat cunt? Real fucking classy.

How fucking loyal are they to turn on a manager after barely a season?

I can't get near a fucking away ticket for 90% games. Let me have it if they want to be cunts about it.
 
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Yes he could have put Spence on but when we're chasing Fulham and you're taking a senior player on for a junior, being fitter doesn't automatically mean he'll improve the game.

Porro was visibly totally gassed out by the 50min mark.......... Splitting hairs about experience is wafer thin at that point.... It's not like he'd have been asked to man-mark Mbappe for 90mins.......

We needed energy and attacking impetus. 2 things that Spence has.
 
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I think tonight we have had a better look at our soon to be new manager Andoni iraola
What a great coach he is.

Bournemouth totally outclassed us in every department and deserved the 3 points
Would Iraola do any better here? He's plays a similar high pressing style no? It'd be difficult to do that every week with our current squad.
 
Since when we have a fully fit squad? The first couple of weeks?

And if you actually read my post you'll see I apportioned blame to Ange for half of our team's problems. Try reading my post next time and maybe try watching the game the game too.

I didn't watch tonight's game, that is what Ange has done to me. I knew we were going to be utter dogshit.

We had a fully fit squad at Palace. Our Ipswich side the other week was near enough fully fit.

Injuries or no injuries Ange is a fraud and we are absolute shite under him.
 
I normally do one liners for a laugh but...

Gray is not a full bsck, Johnson is not a left winger, fuck me he's not even a winger and that's just a start. Dom is not getting any service. Forster was solid apart from that brainfart near the end. No way you take Madders off. Sonny is fucked. Very little positive.
With 10 to go it really felt the players gave up.

Think I'll go for a nice long walk Sunday
 
I think all this "The manager has lost the players" is all bollocks.

The squad is running on empty. A busy schedule + endless injury list + agressive, energetic style of play + poor squad management has drained everything out of the players.

I suppose to you can blame Ange for the last 2. But I don't really know where we go from here with no let up in the first 2. He can't rest anyone.

But surely Ange ( or any manager) is paid the big bucks to deal with these sorts of adversities and adjust accordingly ?

I know next to nothing about modern football tactics etc ; but that just seemed so weak , chaotic and ineffectual. We were lucky not to be battered ( score-line wise ) .

Surely a highly rated manager would do what’s necessary to prevent that sort of mess from occurring live on TV , injury crisis or not .

It worries me .
 
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Anyone who watches football can see Dragusin is not a footballer.... but thats how easy it is to sell players to Spurs..... this is our problem....why cant we have Glenn Hoddle as our recruitment guru....
hes not a ball playing CB. i bet if you put him in a more balanced system and he wasnt forced to be on the halfway line hed look a hell of a lot better tho. i dont think hes great but hes certainly being exposed, hes a squre peg in a round hole in this system. then again its the worst system in the league employed by the worst manager in the league.

has there actually been a more tactically inept manager in the premier league than postecoglou? what makes him a good manager? a video online of him telling a bunch of B rate players to go out and play for their families? what a football savant he must be.
 
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