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I do wonder if levy forcing the players to work on the foundations of the new stadium is tiring the lads out . No other manager has had his squad moonlighting on a building site before
I honestly don't give a fuck if we are bottom half at Christmas and finish in no mans land - it's time to stop fucking around with managerial changes and see what someone can do with an extended run.
If that's missing out on the Europa League I don't care any more, all we do is complain about being in that competition.
If that's missing out on the Europa League I don't care any more, all we do is complain about being in that competition.
He was a tactically clueless jerk who threw players and the club under the bus while showing no learning progress.
I was very glad to be rid of him.
I did not know this.
POCH OUT
POCH OUT
He was tactically incompetent, had no ability to motivate the squad and instead fostered an active rebellion by the players. He then proceeded to complain that it was everyone's fault but his and threw the club's management under the bus saying they didn't support him. He was given the chance he'd been begging for and blew it. More than one insider said he'd talked his way out of the permanent job.
In contrast, Pochettino is having to put back together an emotionally shredded squad who've been attacked by their managers, the press and their fans for the past 2 years. Unlike Sherwood, he's actually making progress as well. Sherwood initially looked very good due to having Adebayor perform at an unsustainable level, and playing his first 6 games against the weakest stretch of opposition we saw all year.
To this point, adjusted by current team strength, Spurs have arguably had the toughest schedule of any team so far:
Sherwood had 28 games. Let's see where Pochettino is after 28 games, and then we can judge what the squad looks like and what the results have been, without any short term variability.
Sherwood was in the directors box playing with his phone whilst we shipped 4 against the bin dippers. I don't care about win %, I expect the manager to be front n centre when we are on the wrong end of a hiding. setting an example to his players.
I dunno why I bothered with this. I suspect I'm on your "doesn't agree with me , gets put on ignore" list.
ahhh well.
Yes but City away, Woolwich away, Liverpool, Spammers away and Southampton at home are all tough games, only when Christmas comes around will this stat start to have some validity.
Don't be a bitch... Judge now!
Brief judgement. Liking Poch. Time to build his squad / ideas would be nice.
West Ham Boleyn Ground 0-1 - Big win.
Limassol Antonis Papadopoulos 1-2 - Nice win.
QPR White Hart Lane 4-0 - Great performance.
Limassol White Hart Lane 3-0 - Nice win.
Liverpool White Hart Lane 0-3 - Shit
Sunderland Stadium of Light 2-2 - Okay result / okay performance.
Partizan Belgrade FK Partizan Stadium 0-0 - Okay result / poor performance
West Brom White Hart Lane 0-1 - Shit
Nottingham Forest White Hart Lane 3-1 - Good win
Woolwich Emirates Stadium 1-1 - Good result / Performance
Besiktas White Hart Lane 1-1 - Poor
So'ton White Hart Lane 1-0 - Great win.
Man City Etihad Stadium 4-1 - Good performance
Pros:
Mason / Kane / Rose look tidy and Lamela is improving. Lloris is god like.
Negatives:
Strikers can't score, centre backs still dodgy.
Well, after the QPR match, Dier was on pace for 38 goals in the league.
In reality it is Dier's recent goal drought that should be making the headlines. Not Soldado's.
Should be on at least 8 by now.
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
This is basically it, nobody can post anything until next game now, nothing to discuss, our centre backs were looking ok until Poch replaced Jan with Fazio though... in fact you are totally wrong you tiny dancer
Probably with one of those fancy run up chips as well.
Dier is an accomplished finisher. A cross between Berbatov and Defoe.
