Hull City Vs Tottenham Hotspur: Match thread

[raf18]

Any news on Gomes?

groin injury.

prob a couple of weeks? will be VERY nervous if cudicini gets any knocks because we dont have much else after carlo

 

[$hoguN]

Anyone see them joke we are nailed on to win the Premier league on Match of the Day...

 

[tony_parkes]

Anyone see them joke we are nailed on to win the Premier league on Match of the Day...

they weren't fuckin joking. come on you spurs.

 

[jonnyrotten]

We're playing like a side who think they can beat anyone. There's a real sense of "we're the business" oozing out of us at present.

The last minute of the match was the most arrogant (in a good way), assertive, fuck-you bit of football I can recall from Tottenham since we beat Southampton 6-2 (Ronnie's hat trick) after being 0-2 behind. It was blatantly obvious that Lennon, Palacios, Modric, the whole lot of them were saying "let's set one up for Jermain's hat trick". And they did it. Thank you very much.

I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but these two performances have been a different kind of football from what we've seen over the past 5 years, since Arnesen arrived and we started to reform the club and we started to be a serious football club again. In both cases, we went ahead, then conceded, then didn't panic. In both cases, we looked like a team of thoroughbreds for most of the 90 minutes.

Basically, we are playing in the style of a top 4 team. I'm not saying we're going to finish there - I don't make predictions. I'm saying that there is a steely quality to our play, a determination, a sense of teamwork. When someone makes a mistake, someone covers for him. Last year, we would have had heads dropping and people slowing to a trot whilst the opposition breaks. This year, we look like a team that expects to win.

We outclassed Liverpool at home and we thrashed Hull away. On a weeknight. In the North. They're pretty bad. But they were pretty bad last season and they beat us at WHL. That's the difference.

I'll post more on the individual and team performances in a little while. But I've been banging on about mental strength for two years now. At last, this lot look like they're finding some.

I love DM when he's excited! :grin:

 

[spurs mental]

Excellent performance. All round excellent. Back to front, excellent. Few dodgy moments but we got through them.

Hutton was excellent, Charlie was his usual self, Bassong, another good game, Benny was good, Lennon was better than he was on Sunday, got more of the ball, Wilson is a hero, Hudd was very good, Modric is just class, Keano, thank God there's only one of him, what a player, and JD excellent.

Now, onto Sunday, massive game, keep the momentum. COYS

 

[Dibby]

A win on Sunday will result in jism being plastered all over my boxers.

 

[SpurSince57]

That could upset the RSPCA.

 

[Dibby]

That could upset the RSPCA.

Sod 'em. They'll love it. :up:

 

[speccy_spur]

Another great performance. Who has taught Robbie to head the ball? Amazing! And the penny seems to have dropped with Hudd as to how to work off the ball. Is this all Tim Sherwood & Sir Les's coaching?

 

[CosmicHotspur]

My glass isn't half full, it's brimming over and I can't help smiling and I keep watching the highlights and looking at us perched at the top of the table, savouring the moment. Early days yet but I haven't seen a Spurs side play this well for decades and we have more talent waiting on the sidelines for an opportunity to get onto the pitch.

My only real concern is Gomez. I wish we had a keeper who holds the ball more, rather than punching out. He seems to have such fragile confidence and that presents a worrying problem. I think Harry has to address this and if we keep playing at this level, it will help to attract a world class keeper to the Lane. I actually feel Cudicini has safer hands but he isn't the long-term answer. I hope he can rise to it for now, as it looks as though Gomez's torn thigh muscle will keep him out for a while.

 

[Coyboy]

Another point: all Summer, we've had the press yammering on about "Harry's clear-out", "all but three players for sale, "major overhaul of the squad".

Quite a few people here have been going on about us needing the perennial, mythical "two more star players to take us to the next level".

And I've been muttering "just keep the players we have and work on the teamwork and the mental strength". We didn't need anyone. There was exactly one player whom we signed this Summer in the starting line-up tonight - and he wouldn't have been there except for injuries.

Make a list of players whom posters here have slagged off, month after month. It would include: Huddlestone, Defoe, Keane, Assou-Ekotto and Lennon. There has never been anything wrong with these players. They're all superbly talented footballers. There was just something wrong with the team.

To be fair you were never alone.

 

[Kendall]

I think the vast majority of the forum suggested at the end of last season that all we needed were 1 or two additions to give us a different option. Crouch was one of those.

The team really did gel last year and they're all young. Keep them together and they will get stronger.

The average age of our starting lineup last night was 24.5.

 

[spurslenny]

'i suppose it's going to be difficult to look past Spurs for the Title now' - Gary Lineker on MOTD


...or words to that effect :grin:

 

[Michey]

Watched it delayed yesterday and it was a good performance. Started off totally awsome and we lost the pace after the game was disrupted with early subs. Nice to see that we could take charge again with a psychological goal in the end of first half.
Biggest problem must have been that it could be seen that our CB's never had played a game together.


The pundit most have been the worst i've ever heard. Was it Dave Basset or did i hear wrong.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Watched it delayed yesterday and it was a good performance. Started off totally awsome and we lost the pace after the game was disrupted with early subs. Nice to see that we could take charge again with a psychological goal in the end of first half.
Biggest problem must have been that it could be seen that our CB's never had played a game together.


The pundit most have been the worst i've ever heard. Was it Dave Basset or did i hear wrong.

Yes it was Bassett, and you're right....I have never heard such nonsense come from a "commentator".

 

[Michey]

Yes it was Bassett, and you're right....I have never heard such nonsense come from a "commentator".

The Hutton diving.....what was that about :duh:

and it was handball when a spursplayer did it but not when a player from Hull used his hands etc...

Oh well, good to hear that i wasn't the only one :up:

 

[leffe186]

I think the vast majority of the forum suggested at the end of last season that all we needed were 1 or two additions to give us a different option. Crouch was one of those.

The team really did gel last year and they're all young. Keep them together and they will get stronger.

The average age of our starting lineup last night was 24.5.

That's just it, they will get stronger, knit well together and the team spirit will get better and better (if we keep winning). I don't think they mentioned the age of the starting line-up on MOTD, it should be rammed down the throat of every Arsenal and Villa fan who plies their tired line.

 

[chrissivad]

The Hutton diving.....what was that about :duh:

and it was handball when a spursplayer did it but not when a player from Hull used his hands etc...

Oh well, good to hear that i wasn't the only one :up:

and that it should have been a Red Card for Keane when he got a yellow.

he did my nut in, so bad and ended up turning the volume right down

 

[hughy]

I think he said '9 out of 10' 3 times, too.

 

[midspur]

its big of Phil Brown to say that tbh, wenger would have said they were unlucky not to have won

Wenger wouldn't have seen it