That team should have easily been good enough to win this game. Key decisions that cost us: 1. Picking Llorente 2. Going too light in the midfield 3. Subbing Moura who surely can’t be in contention for our next game 4. Thinking turning up would be enough alone
Would have rathered we went out tbh. Players out there again not good enough, piss-arseing around in the final minutes. Credit to Rochdale for a good performance but I don't like the attitude of a lot of our players out there, they learned nothing from the Newport game.
And the summary word is : professionalism. For all the money they are on, facilities they have, most of the players today should be giving this weeks' wages to Rochdale. They ran themselves into the ground with cramp, while some Spurs players could hardly be arsed to raise a sweat. And the Alli penalty : yet again far too theatrical in the contact (Pochettino : SORT IT) .
Most of those players need the game time and I'll get Club Wembley for £10, so I'm just glad we haven't lost.
It’s the FA cup mate. It happens. One team playing like their lives depend on it, against another with all the pressure of failure. We aren’t the first, and won’t be the last team to have lower league sides pull off a decent result against a bigger team. But we do need to take note of those who simply are not up to first team standard, and the commitment of certain individuals. Luckily, we potentially won’t have to see much of them this season for much longer.
This is exactly why I said on page one we should've made minimal changes. We don't have another fixture immediately after, there's a week's break, **** giving the **** players game time for no other reason other than just giving them a chance against lower opposition. We know what the FA Cup does in games like this. Winks as I said is a glorified Tom Carroll, we never play to Nando's strengths so it makes him useless and redundant, Sissoko should be nowhere near a first XI and if you're going to play a conservative Winks, then he HAS to play with Dembele, otherwise it results in having a DM alongside a guy who passes backwards, meaning no drive from midfield. Absolute credit to Rochdale though, they played brilliant in spells.
Subject to injuries, the replay and FA Cup QFs at best (the SFs will require a very strong team - IF Spurs survive) .
I could forgive them if it weren’t fir the fact we had EXACTLY the same situation in the previous round. If you don’t learn from mistakes then there’s clearly a problem!
Exactly. And many of these are not gonna get a look in in the CL if they can’t even turn up against Rochdale.
Yep. But that’s down to Poch on the personnel he chooses. Some just don’t offer enough to benefit the team. Put them all together in the same line up, and it’s a massive struggle.
agree apart from the going out bit. we need to win a trophy...as a fan I want to see us win a trophy. We have only won 3 trophies in the past 34 years. 1991, 1999 and 2008. Foyth, Rose and Llorente were shocking beyond belief. Wanyama, Toby, Son and Winks look a yard off the pace. Only Trippier, Moura, Vorm, Sissoko and the subs did well.
Oh I agree. Why Llorente is still a Spurs players is beyond me and why Poch picked an out of form lightweight centre midfield partnership against a team that set out to bully us is equally baffling.
Every cup tie this season against non-PL opposition (and even then with the Spanners) . Obviously once again no hairdryer treatment from Pochettino.
Agree with the first parts but disagree with comments about Dele. That wasn’t a dive. But we had Rose keeping up that particular standard.
Totally agree. I’m desperate for us to win some silverware. This group needs some badly. With us seemingly having home advantage at Wembley this year so to speak, I feel an opportunity is there for us. Only the “gods” of fixtures has denied us a home tie so far but if we make the semis, it could be massive psychologically.
I've seen a few people comparing Llorente to Soldado, which I don't understand at all. Soldado actually put in some effort no matter how poor his form, while the only effort Llorente gives is complaining that he's two yards slower than every single ball that's played to him (at least that's my take on it...) One thing that annoyed me all game was how poor our throw-ins were, as they all went one of three ways i.) To a player who had two Rochdale players on them, so whoever received the ball had to pass it back or lose possession ii.) Thrown long to a Llorente header...which invariably got headed towards a Rochdale player iii.) We decided to take out the middleman and just chuck it to whichever Rochdale player was ten yards away More than anything else, though, why is it we play cup games in a manner where we need the other team to kick us in the bollocks to motivate the team? It seems that every season for as long as I can remember our approach to the FA Cup or Europa League consists of only giving a **** when the other team go 1-0 up, and it's been that way since at least the Jol era and never seems to go away.
