Right or wrong in terms of team setup. I said pre match Remys pace would be a problem, Sandro should be first name on the team sheet and brads lack of pace would be found out. All that shows is I viewed the situation and can say I was right. That doesn't mean I should be manager, but fans are entitled to criticise a manager who they believe are making mistakes in team setup. Tottenham is our club, and it's up to the manager to prove he's the right man, when he does then everyone will be happy.
Yeah I know what you mean, I was just saying it's something to keep in mind. As I said it's fun expressing our opinions and there's no reason not to, it's just worth bearing in mind that it's easy for us to be backseat drivers and have the solutions but it's harder to actually prove it. With Sandro I assumed as he got injured the other week the medical staff and AVB decided not to risk him starting.
In my original post I ended it by writing that I hope I am wrong and I genuinely do hope I am talking cack. I don't care that we lose some games, I don't care that some decisions are wrong (this happens under all managers) and I have never thought a spurs manager should be sacked before, but I find myself being bored ****less watching a team that has been built at huge cost. I know we have self financed the buys by selling other players etc. but the truth is we have bought many exciting players and have not played one WHOLE good game this season...and by good game I mean expansive exciting football. We were very good in the first half v chelsea and the first half v Everton and the last 30 mins v Newcastle. We played well in the main v Norwich, Villa and Cardiff. We played ok v palace, hull, Arsenal and were dire v west ham. I think that is a poor return from such an exciting squad and honestly think that we are predictable to play against and boring to watch and it is doing my head in....and the truth is that for the second half of last season most of the excitement came from Bale rather than from the whole team playing exciting football. I just want to be excited watching my team and that no longer is the case
Footballers all seem to play Fifa, use twitter, go clubbing, use big shopping centres, so it stands to reason they would also log onto web forums when at home, they are no different from most fans! Managers I doubt it, they would start getting angry in interviews, insulting the fans, jumping up and down on the touchline, ........hang on a minute
There'll be a day where a manager will explode in an interview and be like "Well if Boss off the not606 forum thinks he can do a better job, why don't he come down and prove it!"
That pretty much happened on the BBC 606 when the Gillingham chairman, Paul Scully, logged on and invited "know it all" Gills fans to do better than the then manager.
I couldn't...I give it the biggun about time to get rid of AVB on this thread and my daughter who turns 16 next week hears me out and then slaps me into line with " so who replaces him then " and I say "ummmmmmmm.......eerrrrrrrrr" and she says sweet fa and throws me a pity look!!! That's me well and truly put in my place
LOL..... '' AVB, you just take a seat and I'll show you how it's done ''...... Of course I would keep him on the payroll as a scout!
I've also been disappointed all year by the slow buildup, feel it needs to change, and hope it did in the second half vs. Newcastle. There's a place for a slow buildup, and that place is when the other team has been controlling the game. I used to hate when we never took our time and faffed around when it works remarkably well in breaking the other team's momentum. Now I regret we do nothing but. Whatever skill your players have, they're going to create more goals in 3 vs. 3 five vs. five or even three vs. four than they will 11 vs. 11 in the box. They don't need to get through a wall of bodies, simple as that. I've certainly been an armchair critic along with everyone else, and not a particularly good one for that matter. But I'd rather hope we start using faster and slower buildups when appropriate, not pick one and stick to it.
Someone has calculated what the table looks like over the last 38 games, with the promoted side's average points per game used to work out their places: please log in to view this image
That is interesting as at the start of the season I said 3rd to 6th could be separated by a mere 3 points and I was starting to think that was a poor prediction but its obviously possible and shows how tight the race for top four is,
We did have a very good Christmas period last season so it doesn't surprise me to see that we're high up on that our worst period must've been the start of last season.
Can you really compare a manager with another when one has been with us a lot longer than the other? If they were both here the same length of time then possibly you could but as it stands now I think we can't.
