Austin and Whitman will not see a second of game time. At least use the free hits as way to reward players like Hall and some of the k8ds for how good they have been. Anyway with Odebert out suspect he will add Spence. Actually can he mate?
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Player Djed Spence
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The kids can play, regardless. The likes of Hall, Lankshear Moore, Black etc. Don't need registering.
Unfortunately cannot add Spence now until Feb when registration opens back up annoyingly.
Use him more in League games, simple, he is good enough.
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He should get minutes ahead of Werner on the wing too, if he doesn't get minutes in the full back positions.
I'd 100% try this. He is braver bigger and stronger than Werner. I'd rather play against the straight line pace and clueless movement of the German.
With 38 PL games, a minimum of 8 games in EL before knock out stages plus a couple of domestic cup games, it seems likely Spurs will play a minimum of 50 games - and maximum if go deep in all competitions is 69 games. So 60 ish games is perfectly possible
I doubt if any player is going to play 90 mins in each of 50 games or hopefully 60+ games, Porro and Udogie are more likely to plat more like 40 .odd games.
So Spence has every chance of playing at RB and LB where Porro and Udogie don't play (and I'd guess they play in almost EL games due to limited options of covert) for circa 20-40 games this season at RB/LB.
Sure Gray may play some games at RB (and even CB too) but with the CM's also having a game load of 50-60 games this season, I think Gray will have his game time largely filled in CM (and maybe CB) so limited opportunities to play RB.
But ultimately if Spence performs as he did v Coventry, its likely he'll play a decent number of games at RB/LB plus ad hoc appearances in other positions where we are short due to injuries etc.
It does look strange, but I think Starks has explained it better than I could.
It's a relief that the kids Moore etc can play anyway and don't have to be registered, I did not know about that
Spence looks to be the kind of FB that Ange actually wants making inside runs. Great game for him overall, great goal, and looking forward to seeing more of him. I agree with Tommo he could even be a good candidate for minutes at winger with his pace, power and willingness to run at his man. He really is a tier 1 athlete.
I'm sure we could play this lad on the wing
From what I've seen he loves to cut inside.
He's not a Walker-style touchline hugger.
I’d like to see how he and Johnson link up too given I assume they played in Forest’s academy together
should probably go to Moore
So Forest loaned Spence to play in their academy?
Played for the first team together during the promotion season. Excellent duo at the time.
How come so many of our players are struggling after injury? Maddison, udogie, bentancur, richy... maybe there's others.
Udogie is literally just back and had virtually no pre-season.
Bentancur & Richy were re-injured.
It's pretty typical for players to struggle after injury tho'; partly due to the fact that it's momentum that got them to the level we wish to see them return to in the first place.
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For sure, players will usually struggle a bit after injury. Some of our guys seem to still be way off their best even months later. Maddison should be plenty fresh by this stage. Maybe we're just a bit crap at the moment and that's exacerbating their sub optimal performances
From what I saw this guy played well the other night. Don't think the goal was an easy finish at all.
Perhaps more of a role going forward?
Perhaps more of a role going forward?
Heard from a source Maddison was carrying a minor knock for some months last season.For sure, players will usually struggle a bit after injury. Some of our guys seem to still be way off their best even months later. Maddison should be plenty fresh by this stage. Maybe we're just a bit crap at the moment and that's exacerbating their sub optimal performances
For sure, players will usually struggle a bit after injury. Some of our guys seem to still be way off their best even months later. Maddison should be plenty fresh by this stage. Maybe we're just a bit crap at the moment and that's exacerbating their sub optimal performances
The severity of injury will also play a part.... Van Dyke was pretty shit for a year after his injury...... And realistically you wouldn't have expected Bentancur to be much different...... And that was before that dirty cunt Cash took him out a week after his return.
I'd focus on Maddison cos the other's mentioned speak for themselves tbh.... On the whole I'd say Maddison has looked better this season; but yeh he was crap agains the scum.