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David Ginola
- Oct 25, 2004
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I know that this season, as was the case at the beginning of the previous one, people's posts are being dictated by the teams poor form. There has been lots of negativity and in all honesty who can blame us fans for feeling a bit down?
What I have found astonishing is the fact that there are people already questioning the tactics of Ramos? He has played 2 games and had the players for training for 1 week, he is not a miracle worker. But still there are those who are moaning already.
I was a Jol fan and I could understand if the people questioning Ramos were doing so out of loyalty to the big fella, but they are not, they are seemingly just ignorant and disgruntled "fans".
I say ignorant because much of what I have seen written indicates people who wouldn't know their arse from their elbow never mind the finer points of football management.
Why did he play Defoe and Bent they say? These are probably the same people who have been calling for it all season. Why did he bring on Zokora for Boateng when Jenas is shit? Well, it may be that Boateng has just started his first league game for us and is not yet match fit. It may also be that Ramos always does that with his centre mids so that he can keep them competitive for the whole 90 mins.
We should be beating Boro, they are crap? Why did he bring on all 3 subs with half an hour to go? Why were we playing long ball? etc etc etc
It honestly just gives me the right hump that because I love my team and this site that I have to put up with reading mindless nonsense. Where do these people come from? Is there a special training camp with links to the club? I don't know!
What I do know is that Ramos is a top manager, probably too good for the state of our team at the moment, and that we are lucky to have him. He is trying new things, something that we all wish Jol would have done form time to time, he is giving players a chance who previously were not getting one. He has got Bent playing with some confidence and actually scoring a goal. He has tried to break up the horrendous Jenas/Hudd/Zokora triumverate, which can only be good news.
It will all take time, as he said, he just wants to grind out some results, build confidence and gradually introduce his ideas to the players. He is doing that.
Those who expected himto come in and instantly have us playing like Seville are just plain unrealistic, or stupid. I fully expect that once we have Bale, King and Rocha back that we will stop conceding so many goals and begin to express ourselves going forward.
The players are playing more in fear of losing at the moment than they are trying to win, but that will change. The problem with us fans is that we only get to see a small part of what makes a team tick. We do not see what goes on in training nor can we tell why a player who has previously played wel is playing badly. We don't recognise the importance of confidence in these highly paid young men, but it is a key ingredient.
At the beginning of the season we had a squad ready to challenge the top four yet now we are relegation fodder.
What has changed?
The results have changed. The squad is the same. Dawson is still a promising young centre back and Defoe is still a very talented young striker. Berbo is still world class and Lennon is still devestating. But they are all low on confidence.
I said to a friend the other day that if we signed Messi, Ronaldinho and Kaka in time for the Boro game we would still be crap. Good teams don't need good players, they need players good enough to play in the team. That is why Flamini is playing very well for the scum and O'shea still plays regularly for man u. They can incorporate lesser players into a great team system.
We need to give Ramos time to do that, it is what he did at Seville, he got lesser players to outperform better ones by making them work harder as part of a superior team system.
I hope that he is given that time and that if we are not playing wonderful attacking football by xmas that the home support does not turn on him. This is the last chance saloon for this current resurgence at spurs, if we are not careful it will all have been another false dawn and we will end up back at square one.
Then we really would have something to complain about.
What I have found astonishing is the fact that there are people already questioning the tactics of Ramos? He has played 2 games and had the players for training for 1 week, he is not a miracle worker. But still there are those who are moaning already.
I was a Jol fan and I could understand if the people questioning Ramos were doing so out of loyalty to the big fella, but they are not, they are seemingly just ignorant and disgruntled "fans".
I say ignorant because much of what I have seen written indicates people who wouldn't know their arse from their elbow never mind the finer points of football management.
Why did he play Defoe and Bent they say? These are probably the same people who have been calling for it all season. Why did he bring on Zokora for Boateng when Jenas is shit? Well, it may be that Boateng has just started his first league game for us and is not yet match fit. It may also be that Ramos always does that with his centre mids so that he can keep them competitive for the whole 90 mins.
We should be beating Boro, they are crap? Why did he bring on all 3 subs with half an hour to go? Why were we playing long ball? etc etc etc
It honestly just gives me the right hump that because I love my team and this site that I have to put up with reading mindless nonsense. Where do these people come from? Is there a special training camp with links to the club? I don't know!
What I do know is that Ramos is a top manager, probably too good for the state of our team at the moment, and that we are lucky to have him. He is trying new things, something that we all wish Jol would have done form time to time, he is giving players a chance who previously were not getting one. He has got Bent playing with some confidence and actually scoring a goal. He has tried to break up the horrendous Jenas/Hudd/Zokora triumverate, which can only be good news.
It will all take time, as he said, he just wants to grind out some results, build confidence and gradually introduce his ideas to the players. He is doing that.
Those who expected himto come in and instantly have us playing like Seville are just plain unrealistic, or stupid. I fully expect that once we have Bale, King and Rocha back that we will stop conceding so many goals and begin to express ourselves going forward.
The players are playing more in fear of losing at the moment than they are trying to win, but that will change. The problem with us fans is that we only get to see a small part of what makes a team tick. We do not see what goes on in training nor can we tell why a player who has previously played wel is playing badly. We don't recognise the importance of confidence in these highly paid young men, but it is a key ingredient.
At the beginning of the season we had a squad ready to challenge the top four yet now we are relegation fodder.
What has changed?
The results have changed. The squad is the same. Dawson is still a promising young centre back and Defoe is still a very talented young striker. Berbo is still world class and Lennon is still devestating. But they are all low on confidence.
I said to a friend the other day that if we signed Messi, Ronaldinho and Kaka in time for the Boro game we would still be crap. Good teams don't need good players, they need players good enough to play in the team. That is why Flamini is playing very well for the scum and O'shea still plays regularly for man u. They can incorporate lesser players into a great team system.
We need to give Ramos time to do that, it is what he did at Seville, he got lesser players to outperform better ones by making them work harder as part of a superior team system.
I hope that he is given that time and that if we are not playing wonderful attacking football by xmas that the home support does not turn on him. This is the last chance saloon for this current resurgence at spurs, if we are not careful it will all have been another false dawn and we will end up back at square one.
Then we really would have something to complain about.
