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Etherington Slags Hoddle Era Spurs

C0YS

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surprised that no one has mentioned dean Richards yet, or did he come later?
 

antthe

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surprised that no one has mentioned dean Richards yet, or did he come later?

Richards signed for £8m in summer 2001. Scored on his debut aganst Mank U & retired in March 2005.
 

General Levy

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etherington's match was decided inside the first 10 mins; if he didn't beat his man, or if he received a strong tackle, he'd shy away and pussy about for the rest of the game. inconsistent? err, yes. top moment? equalizer at everton in the 2-2 opening day draw in 02/03

Unfortunately for Etherington, the above post summed up his career at Spurs. Whether he had a lack of confidence, far enough, but ultimately; he was shit.
 

C0YS

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Richards signed for £8m in summer 2001. Scored on his debut aganst Mank U & retired in March 2005.
Cheers mate!:wink:

yeah so I gess are 3 CD would have been,

Richards,King and Perry, no?
 

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Etherington is at best a Championship winger.

He moved to West Ham and then said they were better than us. Obviously he then enjoyed his football in the Championship. First class twat - always the tag-along to Simon Davies. I will roundly boo him at every opportunity.
 

DJS

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Cheers mate!:wink:

yeah so I gess are 3 CD would have been,

Richards,King and Perry, no?


Think Hoddle once said in after one of his last games in charge, a 0-0 draw with Liverpool, that King, Gardner and Richards were his main 3 centre backs and wished he'd been able to pick them more as a combo.
 

nuttynoah

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wasn't acimovic's miss against fulham, could be wrong, but the ball did "bobble up" just beforehand, he was never given a proper run in his favoured position, looked ok at times tho. again with bunji, not played in favoured position, dependable player just not spectacular, but thats ok, every team needs those players, they become the backbone given time.
etherington was nicknamed "blind alley" for obvious reasons, didn't he give the wnaker sign to the fans one time or am i mixing him up with another, tho he did slag us off as soon as he signed for the spam.
hoddle, greatest player i've seen in a spurs shirt, sheer poetry in motion, but terrible manager, especially his man management, brought rebrov on from the bench once and then subbed him a little later on, tho he was a good england manager and bar beckhams inexperience could possibly have done it
 

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wasn't acimovic's miss against fulham, could be wrong, but the ball did "bobble up" just beforehand, he was never given a proper run in his favoured position, looked ok at times tho. again with bunji, not played in favoured position, dependable player just not spectacular, but thats ok, every team needs those players, they become the backbone given time.
etherington was nicknamed "blind alley" for obvious reasons, didn't he give the wnaker sign to the fans one time or am i mixing him up with another, tho he did slag us off as soon as he signed for the spam.
hoddle, greatest player i've seen in a spurs shirt, sheer poetry in motion, but terrible manager, especially his man management, brought rebrov on from the bench once and then subbed him a little later on, tho he was a good england manager and bar beckhams inexperience could possibly have done it

I think that was Calderwood in an away game against Coventry, although I wouldn't swear Etherington didn't do the same. Anyway, he (Etherington, that is) really wasn't all that, and still isn't. Probably a bit better than most of the options we've had on the left since he left, but how much is that saying?

Allegedly, Hoddle massaged Beckham's confidence in the same way he did his Spurs players', by showing him how to do it properly.
 

nuttynoah

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with his favourite "keep me uppes" training seasons which would leave everyone bewildered
 

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His days at Spurs were numbered when he decided to have a go back at the Park Lane when he was getting a bit of stick for under performing at the Blackburn game when we got thrashed 4-1 (i think it was) at home. Wanker!!

Edit "you're not fit to wear the shirt" was the chant at the time.
 

Darrkespur

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Richards was actually fairly decent, but then he had some life/career threatening injury like ziege and we lost them both.
 

jimtheyid

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They were truly horrid times. Looking back, I cannot for the life of me understand how I thought we had a decent team. Just shows how far we came under Jol and Levy.

But as for Etherington. He can't cross...He is like Downing... Just shitter.
 

eddiebailey

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They were truly horrid times. Looking back, I cannot for the life of me understand how I thought we had a decent team. Just shows how far we came under Jol and Levy.

But as for Etherington. He can't cross...

Unlike, say, Lennon?

In fact, the forward line apart, it is difficult to identify any area of the team where we self-evidently stronger. (And even then we had Keane and Kanoute, and a little later Defoe.)

Is Robinson on current form any better than Keller?

Is Chimbonda any more up for it than Carr?

Is a right-footed Lee much of an improvement on a right-footed Tano?

Bale is a fantastic prospect, but he is not yet in the class of Zeige (and just as injury prone).

King and Gardner are even more injury prone than they were then, while Dawson is dissappointing without Richards excuse of being at death's door.

Jeans, Zokora and Malbranque may have a few years on Rednapp, Anderton and Poyet, but none of them will ever be half the players those were in their prime; while Huddlestone is no more living up to his potential than Davies. Tainio is Freund with injury problems.

I know this is all sounding very negative, but I just don't buy into this crap about what a great squad we have. Frankie did a fantastic job in making over the squad when he replaced Pleat, but we have completely failed to build on that.

Maybe Ramos is the man t turn us around, but I do not believe he is going to do it purely on the training ground.
 

jimtheyid

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Sorry Eddie,
The squad we have now is light years ahead of the one we had under Hoddle. Bunjy, Richards, Rebrov,acimovic, jackson, zamora Would get nowhere near the first 16 these days. The few classy players we had (King aside) were all past their prime. (redknapp, Poyet, Sheringham, Ziege)

Carr was injury prone and thougt he was better than he was. And Im sorry but I would take King, Dawson, Kaboul, Rocha And Gardner over King, Richards, Perry, Bunjy every day of every year. Keller And Sully were good keepers in their time I will give you that. But I think Robbo shades it.
 

eddiebailey

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Bunjy, Richards, Rebrov,acimovic, jackson, zamora Would get nowhere near the first 16 these days.

Richards certainly would if fit. As for the others they did not get near the first 16 that often then. (Jackson made his debut under Pleat). Rebrov and Acimovic are by no means bad footballers, perhaps they were not suited to the Premiership but we never really found out. Zamora makes the first 16 of West Ham, and they are above us in the table.

As for Jackson, well I am going to get slated for this, but he is one player I am sorry we let go. He was never a left winger, and we should never have played him as such, but compared to our current central midfield, okay he does not have the athleticism of Zokora, Tainio or Jenas, but he is a lot more mobile than Huddlestone; he is a better reader of the game any of them; he has a much better range of passing than any but Huddlestone; he has a better dead ball delivery than any of them; and he is more likely to get on the scoresheet than any other than Jenas.

I think he is too good for the Championship; I am not saying he is a top Premiership player, he isn't. But he would shore up what is currently a weak area of our team.
 

C0YS

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sorry Eddie we have a way better team then hoddle era spurs,

Robinson is way better then Keller, Lee in my book is better then taricco.
In-fact we are in a totally different level from hoddles team.

........Or are you just trying to credit Jol as being the best manager we have had in a long, long time (as good as Wenger (because even they will struggle to get "Hoddles" team to 2 top 5 finishes)) and to add to this we have way more depth then any other team to come from spurs in the 90s and early 2000s.
 
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