AVB - Balanced team

[senseispab]

We're 8 points worse off than this time last year.

I'm fully behind AVB, but let's not count our chickens till they've hatched, eh boys?

 

[onthetwo]

we are more consistent than at any point in my 30-odd years watching Spurs.

 

[michaelden]

We're 8 points worse off than this time last year.

I'm fully behind AVB, but let's not count our chickens till they've hatched, eh boys?

Yeah but we're rocking the cas bar and looking upwards while doing it. Last year we spent this period looking back

 

[SteveH]

We're 8 points worse off than this time last year.

I'm fully behind AVB, but let's not count our chickens till they've hatched, eh boys?

Still hard to believe Arsenal caught us........................................

 

[Damian99]

Yeah but we're rocking the cas bar and looking upwards while doing it. Last year we spent this period looking back

Just a small point, if you're quoting the Clash it's "Casbah"

 

[senseispab]

Still hard to believe Arsenal caught us........................................

Gutting, wasn't it?

Fingers crossed for this year...

 

[gregga]

I cant remember a better run of balanced displays by any Spurs squads in last 20 years.
We have had some great attacking displays with H, but AVB has given us stickability and we can now defend!

Personally I think we were as solid in 09/10.

That season we failed to sparkle at times (with notable exceptions - Wigan and Chelsea at home, for example) but Palacios, Hudd and (to a lesser extent) Jenas gave us a solid base and we were very hard to beat.

 

[SteveH]

Personally I think we were as solid in 09/10.

That season we failed to sparkle at times (with notable exceptions - Wigan and Chelsea at home, for example) but Palacios, Hudd and Jenas gave us a solid base and we were very hard to beat.

good point..........

Think the big difference for me is Dembele

 

[michaelden]

Just a small point, if you're quoting the Clash it's "Casbah"

foreigner.. me that is

 

[Spursidol]

All the comments so far are about how the team has progressed, which I agrtee witth - which to me means that AVB's team have been effective at coaching the individual players as to how they should be playing.

IMO that is good news for the future as Spurs (Levy's) strategy to date has been to buy mostly younger players and develop them, rather than buy ready made players (with a few exceptions of course such as VDV). Whilst AVB may or may not have suggested a list to Levy of Moutinho, Willian, Hulk etc when he first arrived, I cannot see Spurs buying too many of those players, and its good to know that AVB's team has the ability to coach the younger players on (which I suspect is what he did at Porto - I do not think they buy too many ready made players - but do import from South America and polish them up).

 

[Blake Griffin]

We're 8 points worse off than this time last year.

I'm fully behind AVB, but let's not count our chickens till they've hatched, eh boys?

but 5 points better off if you compare the fixtures directly.

 

[parklane1]

I said earlier this season we were developing into a better TEAM under AVB, last season we were a team of individuals and relied on our flair players to win us games, now under AVB we have a team ethic and this will serve us better in the long term.

 

[RichieS]

Others have mentioned our extra resilience - our "bouncebackability" has been brilliant this season and at half time yesterday United were in complete control and turning in another of their "professional" performances. Spurs teams of the past would have laid down and accepted their fate, but yesterday we came out and absolutely battered them for 45 minutes. I was proud.

 

[brendanb50]

Others have mentioned our extra resilience - our "bouncebackability" has been brilliant this season and at half time yesterday United were in complete control and turning in another of their "professional" performances. Spurs teams of the past would have laid down and accepted their fate, but yesterday we came out and absolutely battered them for 45 minutes. I was proud.

Was going to post the same thing. Let's hope it means that throwing away silly points and giving away CL positions to our nearest rivals is a thing of the past.

 

[formlesswater]

some people still dont realise that we have actually improved as a team replacing vdv and modric with dembele, dempsey and sigardsson. These players are much more classy than u think, particularly dembele

Vertonghen and Lloris as well.

 

[dricha1]

Agree pretty much with this whole thread. One thing that frustrates me still with the players (and this has been evident for as long as I can remember) is not playing to the whistle. SeverEl times yesterday our players were too busy claiming to the ref instead of getting on with it. There was even one incident 2nd half when De Gea had a little fumble, if Defoe wasn't too busy claiming for something he had a chance to score.

Bale, Walker and BAE were other culprits yesterday.

 

[Pete Spur]

Still hard to believe Arsenal caught us........................................

not really, when abunch of people jump on a bandwagon they generally end up looking like twats

 

[KILLA_SIN]

Others have mentioned our extra resilience - our "bouncebackability" has been brilliant this season and at half time yesterday United were in complete control and turning in another of their "professional" performances. Spurs teams of the past would have laid down and accepted their fate, but yesterday we came out and absolutely battered them for 45 minutes. I was proud.

I have been thinking for a while that we are starting to put in more 'professional' performances and I think there was a quiet respect in the United team and management for us yesterday even before the game and by the end it had been confirmed. Ferdinand in post match interview said that a point from WHL was a good result, I got the feeling that when asked was that two points dropped or one point gained that he was veering towards one point gained where as before I think they always looked at these fixtures as six pointers. I don't doubt we will have blips who doesn't? But the tide is changing.

 

[Bulletspur]

They are certainly more physica. Dembele,paired with Sandro they are a pair of beasts and no midfielders would really fancy meeting and out battling them. Are they more classy ,I dont think so.Modric and VDV had a certain sparkle that we seem to be missing against packed defenses such as QPR last week. If we could add the star element of a player who can unpick this sort of defence, Holtby , hopefully then I would agree that this years squad is stronger despite the loss of VDV and Modric.

He didnt say they were more classy than Modric and VDV, he said they were more classy than we give them credit for. A big difference.

 

[Gedson100]

What i'm enjoying is the total lack of pressure our opponents have been able to put on us recently.
We're dominating nearly every game & our only issue related to that is finishing, but Lloris has been a bystander for long periods of most games and I can't remember us shutting down Utd like that before.

In fact, their goal was somewhat of an anomoly. As they swept forward, I looked at us and we looked all over the place, they switched the play & we were still all over the place, found Cleverley & scored. Throughout, we were all over the place.

Point being, it came as a shock & my thoughts were a surprised 'What the fuck are we doing?!'

We've been the total opposite of that these last few weeks.