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Don't get me wrong Pinky, we most certainly deserved the win as we had better quality in every area of the pitch. I'm not denigrating the performance, more pointing out that there are areas where improvement can and will be made. Like I said, I believe we are moving in the right direction and, IMO, will be scarily good when we get there, or even when we get close to the finished article. It's a critique rather than a criticism.
I'm sure you remember one of my posts in the Sherwood out thread where I stated that I felt we were moving in the right direction and reinforced this when I started the 'Tactically inept?' thread. I still hold to this as I really do see some true fluidity coming into our play.
I'm liking Sherwood more and more as we progress under him, and I really mean 'progress' as we do seem to be evolving slowly but surely.
Unlike some, I don't expect us to become World beaters overnight, 40 years of following Tottenham has taught me patience if nothing else. What I do expect, especially with the talent we have at our disposal, is progressive improvement and I believe I'm seeing this. What is truly encouraging for me though is that Sherwood seems to be recognizing the improvement areas and is working on them progressively. He's not going to fix everything overnight and nor should he try, as that would just lead to a ball of confusion, leading to regression.
Like I said earlier, there are areas of concern, but these are outweighed by the areas of improvement and the observation that he recognises the concerns himself and is addressing them in a measured manner.
I'm very impressed with Sherwood to date and truly believe that, should he continue in the same vein, we have a Head Coach who will be a force in the fullness of time.
Yes mate, agree fully with that.
I remember the post of course, it was a cracker!
Wasn't disagreeing with your initial post here at all, more just adding to it whilst offering my take which wasn't a world away from yours either