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Match Woolwich Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspur FC @ The Dome of Silence, 8PM KO Wed 15 Jan 2025

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Talking to a gooner this morning didnt even slag me off. He thought like us the only diff between the teams was coaching. Theyre well drilled we are not.he wasnt highly impressed with them. And is accepting that they are stoke part 2. He thinks theyre one of the worst teams in the league from open play
 

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Separate issue but from the moment Sterling dived in FK range in the first minute, it was clear Hooper was going to give them as many set pieces as he could.

That corner he was looking right at it and you could hear 2 noises so clearly on the TV so he definitely heard it.

And woolwich game plan was so clear, try to get a lead in the first half from set pieces and their press, use all their energy on that and then survive the second half with time-wasting and 10 men behind the ball. It wins but it's utter dirge. I get the PL think they need a Liverpool vs woolwich title race for ratings but the sacrifices they are prepared to make on the product to get it are risky IMO.

I doubt there is a neutral in the world who is going to spend their time watching any of the 3 teams at the top of the table right now.

The ref didn't lose us that game. Even with Pierluigi Collina in the middle, we still get humiliated and don't lay a glove on them.

Entirely possible he didn't even hear that double tap. TV ain't a good judge, you hear things different irl.

Hooper is a bent incompetent cunt, but 1/ they all are 2/ it was men who understand what a NLD is all about vs scared little pussies who don't give a shit about anything other than their wages, wardrobe and social media following.

Our chairman is a joke. As is our coaching & playing staff. That's your starting point. Wouldn't even need to worry about refs if we had our ducks in a row to begin with. You know, like the 8th richest club in the world should.
 
The ref didn't lose us that game. Even with Pierluigi Collina in the middle, we still get humiliated and don't lay a glove on them.

Entirely possible he didn't even hear that double tap. TV ain't a good judge, you hear things different irl.

Hooper is a bent incompetent cunt, but 1/ they all are 2/ it was men who understand what a NLD is all about vs scared little pussies who don't give a shit about anything other than their wages, wardrobe and social media following.

Our chairman is a joke. As is our coaching & playing staff. That's your starting point. Wouldn't even need to worry about refs if we had our ducks in a row to begin with. You know, like the 8th richest club in the world should.
Never said the ref lost us the game, we lost the game but he was whistling the game to perfection for their game plan.
 
Having slept on it the only tenous positives to take from that game;

Bergvall and Gray are top talents and will be great players if the mediocrity of the club and attitude of the senior players doesn't rub off on them. Big if.

Secondly we have prolonged Lego Heads tenure by a good few months I reckon. Their deluded fanbase think they are back in a title race.

But they won't win shit. They struggled to put us away and we were wank.
 
But we weren’t shipping goals when we had our best defenders in the game? Until they both went out we had conceded some of the least goals in the league!
The problem is, that GS and Goals conceded stat, whilst on the face of it was impressive, it was also totally skewed results-wise...

Because of the few goals we did concede often led to slender 1-goal defeats...

Whereas when we won they were 3-4 goal margins (Villa, Evertom, West Ham, Man Utd/City) which whilst it boosted our GD yes, it didn't lead to any more points on the board than the 3 on offer.

HAD we been spreading the goals around a little more, the table would look VERY different!

I for one would've taken 2-0 wins against City, Villa and Everton if it meant we saved those additional goals to put past Palace, Leicester, Ipswich and Wolves...
Wee be 10 points better off immediately...
And those are just the games we SHOULD have been winning!!!!
 
Walking back home after drop off, saw a kid with his Spurs scarf proudly around his shoulders. Little hero. Probably around 11 years’ old. School will not be fun for all the young loyal lilywhites today. My eldest included.

The bubble of the TC will never understand what the fans live and breathe every day. They have their 5* catering, luxury spa, Mr. Mediocrity Uncle Dan to cuddle up to, a strange fat wizard with crazy ideas who has somehow landed the manager job to keep everyone entertained with his hilarious wacky ways of playing kicky ball.

It’s grim in North London.

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The ref didn't lose us that game. Even with Pierluigi Collina in the middle, we still get humiliated and don't lay a glove on them.

Entirely possible he didn't even hear that double tap. TV ain't a good judge, you hear things different irl.

Hooper is a bent incompetent cunt, but 1/ they all are 2/ it was men who understand what a NLD is all about vs scared little pussies who don't give a shit about anything other than their wages, wardrobe and social media following.

Our chairman is a joke. As is our coaching & playing staff. That's your starting point. Wouldn't even need to worry about refs if we had our ducks in a row to begin with. You know, like the 8th richest club in the world should.
Agree, the way we wilt and fold makes it easy for referees to give decisions against us. We have nothing about us at all.
 
Walking back home after drop off, saw a kid with his Spurs scarf proudly around his shoulders. Little hero. Probably around 11 years’ old. School will not be fun for all the young loyal lilywhites today. My eldest included.

The bubble of the TC will never understand what the fans live and breathe every day. They have their 5* catering, luxury spa, Mr. Mediocrity Uncle Dan to cuddle up to, a strange fat wizard with crazy ideas who has somehow landed the manager job to keep everyone entertained with his hilarious wacky ways of playing kicky ball.

It’s grim in North London.

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What is the TC?
 
So for everyone who was not going to be surprised by a win or actively expecting us to win last night were you even a little surprised we lost??

It’s a genuine question.

I’ve been pummelled into the ground by this fixture. I expect absolutely fuck all from it.

So never surprised when we lose. Or just play shit.
Nope I see what I expected to see. Still didn't like watching it though.
 
Solanke is considered a problematic purchase for us? He's the best big money we've spent in years.
I like big Dom, I respect his attitude and he'd 100% score more goals if he had proper players next to him.

But when you're up against Ndombele, Richy, BJ or Lo Celso, it ain't hard to look a good signing. If we were a proper serious big club and were genuine about wanting to win stuff, he wouldn't start but deputise for an elite CF. But that's where we're at as a club now, we're a B-list entity and not even near the top end.
 
Walking back home after drop off, saw a kid with his Spurs scarf proudly around his shoulders. Little hero. Probably around 11 years’ old. School will not be fun for all the young loyal lilywhites today. My eldest included.

The bubble of the TC will never understand what the fans live and breathe every day. They have their 5* catering, luxury spa, Mr. Mediocrity Uncle Dan to cuddle up to, a strange fat wizard with crazy ideas who has somehow landed the manager job to keep everyone entertained with his hilarious wacky ways of playing kicky ball.

It’s grim in North London.

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Spurs-players-lodge-3.jpg


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13-restaurant-newtrainingcentre.jpg
Well put!

Bergvall emerges with credit. We can rebuild under a new coach around him, Gray, Spence, Solanke and VdV

I can get optimistic again. But not under this coach
 
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