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Player Djed Spence

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Love Spence, but I’ll never take any disrespect to a manager. I hope Thomas Frank benches him, because this is the first manager giving him an opportunity at Spurs, and this is how he repays him, because of a loss. Bench him.
I hated his reaction on Saturday. Stank of Billy big balls. I hate this lap of the pitch applauding fans anyway from players but managers don’t need to be doing that shit. I don’t need players and staff clapping us at games. Fuck that,do your job which is to give everything in the game and create and score goals. Sometimes it won’t end well but new age clappy pish can do one.
 
Totally agree. He’s a brilliant 1v1 full back but a poor attacking one. That’s probably because he’s playing on the left but I still do t think even if he played on the right he’d off much in an attacking sense. Udogie hasn’t proved he can stay fit so a first choice left back is a must in January along with a left winger and centre forward. We have absolutely nothing on our left and it makes us so predictable and unbalanced.
I'm less certain about this, partly because I think we have a lot of bodies there and I don't see the club being willing to stockpile more unless we get some shifted, which will be difficult to do whilst they are not showing anything of value for us. Partly because I don't trust the club to identify and go out and actually get players that are definitely of a higher calibre than those we currently have, however easy we might suggest it should be.

Mainly though, because as it stands, I don't think it matters all that much if we do go out and get unquestionable upgrades, the way we are playing there's every chance those players would come in and also provide F-all, as they simply won't see the ball or any opportunities to capitalise on.

It's really easy to look at the current bunch and write them of as hopeless, but the reality is they aren't fluffing situation after situation or chance after chance. We're so passive, slow, and disjointed looking that they're feeding off scraps. I'm not kidding myself into thinking that they're all great, but I don't think they're near as bad as they are being made to look by whatever it is that the team is stepping onto the pitch trying to achieve.

Any player coming into the side to change things around would have to be an absolute superstar to actually manage it.
 
I'm less certain about this, partly because I think we have a lot of bodies there and I don't see the club being willing to stockpile more unless we get some shifted, which will be difficult to do whilst they are not showing anything of value for us. Partly because I don't trust the club to identify and go out and actually get players that are definitely of a higher calibre than those we currently have, however easy we might suggest it should be.

Mainly though, because as it stands, I don't think it matters all that much if we do go out and get unquestionable upgrades, the way we are playing there's every chance those players would come in and also provide F-all, as they simply won't see the ball or any opportunities to capitalise on.

It's really easy to look at the current bunch and write them of as hopeless, but the reality is they aren't fluffing situation after situation or chance after chance. We're so passive, slow, and disjointed looking that they're feeding off scraps. I'm not kidding myself into thinking that they're all great, but I don't think they're near as bad as they are being made to look by whatever it is that the team is stepping onto the pitch trying to achieve.

Any player coming into the side to change things around would have to be an absolute superstar to actually manage it.
Players must take responsibility. When they go over that white line they have to do more to create and win a game of football. Nobody including the manager will have a go at them for trying to do that so for me that tells me that the players are not good enough or don’t have a set of balls to go and make things happen.
 
The Spence at lb experiment needs to be consigned to the bin ASAP, he can play there, but it should only be in a pinch, he is not a viable option to rotate with Udogie on the regular.

Even in matches where he doesn't put a foot wrong technically, him playing there absolutely kills our left flank. And even on the rare occasion where he does carry the ball on the outside, everyone knows a cross isn't coming. I don't care how weak his left foot may be, a shit cross is more dangerous than faffing about dummying and eventually just turning back and playing a safe pass back to the midfield.

A viable left back needs to be high on the shopping list for the next TW.
We was desperate for another LB, and upgrade to Udogie, not because I dislike him, but because that is what you should be looking for.
 
I hated his reaction on Saturday. Stank of Billy big balls. I hate this lap of the pitch applauding fans anyway from players but managers don’t need to be doing that shit. I don’t need players and staff clapping us at games. Fuck that,do your job which is to give everything in the game and create and score goals. Sometimes it won’t end well but new age clappy pish can do one.

Agree. It has got fucking silly now. Just get down the tunnel so we can get home. If it is a big game sure or a wonderful result then sure. But if not, lets not bother.
 
It still amazes me how a professional football whos job it is to kick the ball can’t use their weaker foot. Not just him but all of them. Too fucking lazy to train it.
I've been saying this for eons.

This is Xavi's biggest problem too.

We've got Xavi and Spence on the left who are totally right footed. There's no balance and attacks come to die on our left side.

Its an absolute dereliction of duty we didn't get a left footed LB in the summer.
 
I've been saying this for eons.

This is Xavi's biggest problem too.

We've got Xavi and Spence on the left who are totally right footed. There's no balance and attacks come to die on our left side.

Its an absolute dereliction of duty we didn't get a left footed LB in the summer.

Yeah it’s no surprise we’ve looked better when udogie plays. It’s on the club though, we all knew in the summer he gets injured a lot, they should have bought another left footed full back.
 
Lip reading rumour suggesting Spence told Frank to go away, hence the look from the manager....if true one of them is on borrowed time.
In the press conference Frank did a good job of calming things down, pretty much saying that Djed & Micky had come to him and apologised. Time will tell if he's really as understanding of their behaviour as he professes to be.
 
In the press conference Frank did a good job of calming things down, pretty much saying that Djed & Micky had come to him and apologised. Time will tell if he's really as understanding of their behaviour as he professes to be.
He deflected the incident fairly well agreed and whether or not his words resemble the fly on the wall version we shall have to wait and see.

His explanation though might backfire if the fans take umbrage at the players having a strop over the booing.

I save my booing for the opposition and officials not because I think those who do it don't have the right to vent as they see fit, more to do with I have never been convinced it has a positive effect on eliciting better efforts from the players.

One thing that has to change is the nonsensical lap of thanks after a shit performance which is imo asking for trouble.
 
Agree. It has got fucking silly now. Just get down the tunnel so we can get home. If it is a big game sure or a wonderful result then sure. But if not, lets not bother.

What about making them do the walk of shame in a dress or tutu?

I reckon there are some on here who would turn up hoping we lose if this became reality.

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