?It was excuse making
If we are not expected to win, why not just go out and play with Bale, Ndombele, Lamela, Dele, Bergwijn. Give it a fucking go. Losing 1-0 today in such a flacid manner is worse than us playing with some hope going forward with our attacking talents and lost 5-0. Makes no difference in a cup game. This is what pissed me so much.They’re an exceptional team, incredible players and squad because of all their millions and one of if not the greatest managers of all time who is an absolute genius.
We had very little chance.
That being said bit disappointed that we only had 2 shots and that bale didn’t start. I know he’s very inexperienced etc but think Mason got that line-up/tactics a bit wrong as I’ve never seen us quite so dominated. Don’t think it would’ve been much better under Jose tbh but we will never know.
We are a mess of a club right now.
I thought our defence was absolutely outstanding(minus reggi who had a shocker), Hugo toby Dier aurier absolutely brilliant.
Need to give yourself a good talking to.Loser
Winks starting (good lad Spurs through and through) bringing sissoko on (good hard worker), just for 2.
The cliche book on how to be a manager
He did but it was only to pick up this morning's scorecard that blew out his hand while showing it to Joe Hart.Did Bale even come on in the end?
Can't wait for the same line of reasoning after we sack the next manager and blame it all on him.Still disagree. The squad is a way down on poch’s teams but a decent manager would have us in the top 4 this season. We’ve thrown away so many points through Jose’s negativity - if we were even just bad with a lead this year instead of historically awful we’d be top 4 now
Jon Champion is decent.Martin Tyler makes me want to weep...
3 to 4 years late. Mopo said it. JM said it. we saw it except DL!We need, guess what, a PAINFUL REBUILD
We just didn't turn up...... end of
So you'll be happy when Kane and Son leave in the summer then?Son crying. Crying at his performance I hope. Absoutely dreadful. Not one player in this squad is beyond replacing now. Loser mentality engrained in this squad and club.
The game wasn't stretched. Man City rarely let games get stretched.Those last 30 minutes were absolutely made for Ndombele to come on and make an impact. With the game more stretched he'd have been turning the City defenders inside out, potentially getting off a counter attack or two and winning free kicks in dangerous areas (always our best hope). A part of me was actually thinking Ryan might have pulled off a mini-masterstroke in waiting to unleash Bale and Tanguy late on....but then came Sissoko
Honestly think that cowardly choice of sub killed it for us. Ended what little hope we had of the nicking the game. At the time of game most ripe for counters, just how are you expecting us to transition quickly from defence to attack with a midfield of PEH, Winks and Sissoko?? Utterly bemusing and disappointing.
HahahahaHe did nothing wrong
We need leaders. A few people can make a big difference, most of any squad are followers and will take on the group personality. They don’t even have to be the best players in the team, just characters who will demand more.Any potential manager looking at our players would run a mile. Not one winner amongst them. JN, BR etc would have no interest in managing this lot.
I'm not going to put this on Mason. FFS it's probably only the second game he's managed in an actual stadium. This is on the players. When you get picked to start in a final, whether you are Harry Kane or Harry fucking Winks, you leave nothing on the pitch. Nothing. I've seen players more pumped for the McMullen League Junior cup final at Ware Town than Spurs were today.
What the fuck has happened to this team? At the end of November we were comfortably beating City and Arsenal 2-0 and top of the league playing some of the best football in the least three years. And it ends like this?