Player Watch: Kieran Trippier

[southlondonyiddo]

I believe Tripps is becoming Poch’s weakness. I will say it here now, that I rate KWP better than him. Tripps has more experience-agreed

You can see why Poch likes Tripps. He’s obviously a model pro and is getting the absolute maximum from his ability. It’s a real shame he doesn’t have enough strengths

Rose did the same but had more to his game than Tripps

I was so impressed with KWP up at Newcastle in his first game and looks like he’s got some game. Really surprised he’s not had more game time

I’m not a Trippier fan. He cannot take this team to where we would like it to go

 

[Hercules]

With the budget that we have, we cannot be even thinking about buying another RB! As I stated previously ‘2 into 3’ don’t go! Tripps looks like he is here for eternity, and then if that is the case. And it pains me to say this; sell SA, and promote KWP.

 

[cider spurs]

I believe Tripps is becoming Poch’s weakness. I will say it here now, that I rate KWP better than him. Tripps has more experience-agreed

Agreed, and this is why Poch's recent comments declaring Trippier is one of the best English players in the Premier league has me somewhat scared.

No doubt he can play a ball in, but I believe his lack of pace reduces his performance defensively.

 

[yankspurs]

I believe Tripps is becoming Poch’s weakness. I will say it here now, that I rate KWP better than him. Tripps has more experience-agreed

I’d agree but Sissoko still plays

 

[Hercules]

I’d agree but Sissoko still plays

At least he has unproved beyond, but not my cup of tea. But I can see why Poch keeps him around, especially from a defensive (protection) point.

 

[Pellshek]

I assumed the bump for this thread was b/c people were praising him for his performance last night. Nope!

I must have been watching a different game, b/c I thought he was excellent.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

I’d agree but Sissoko still plays

If Hercs is to be believed then you better get used to much more of that too

For what it’s worth Sissoko rarely starts and only because of injuries or other players being rested etc.

Plus he does a good job for the team and squad. His price tag is not his fault

 

[Sanj]

I assumed the bump for this thread was b/c people were praising him for his performance last night. Nope!

I must have been watching a different game, b/c I thought he was excellent.

Genuine question - and not trying to dig you out !
What in your opinion made it an excellent performance by Trippier. I didn't see it that way and am interested to try and understand the other side of the discussion.

Thanks

 

[Pellshek]

Genuine question - and not trying to dig you out !
What in your opinion made it an excellent performance by Trippier. I didn't see it that way and am interested to try and understand the other side of the discussion.

Thanks

> Supplied the cross for the goal, and put in good crosses all evening,
> Got behind their LB/LW repeatedly.
> We didn't have any trouble down out right flank all game - Trippier was up and down the whole time.
> I don't recall him being caught out of position once.
> Recovered well after that early knock, which he clearly felt.
> Brave all game, including that clash of heads with Richarleson

Off the top of my head replaying it in my mind now, but I'm open to correction.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

> Supplied the cross for the goal, and put in good crosses all evening,
> Got behind their LB/LW repeatedly.
> We didn't have any trouble down out right flank all game - Trippier was up and down the whole time.
> I don't recall him being caught out of position once.
> Recovered well after that early knock, which he clearly felt.
> Brave all game, including that clash of heads with Richarleson

Off the top of my head replaying it in my mind now, but I'm open to correction.

He got skanked horribly down our right side about 4 times in the second half so I would disagree with that notion. Was good going forward and found a lot of space though.

 

[Pellshek]

He got skanked horribly down our right side about 4 times in the second half so I would disagree with that notion. Was good going forward and found a lot of space though.

Did he? Who was the Watford player? Who covered? Not being funny, just honestly don't recall that.

 

[SpursD22]

Did he? Who was the Watford player? Who covered? Not being funny, just honestly don't recall that.

Holebas & Richarlison

 

[ajspurs]

I assumed the bump for this thread was b/c people were praising him for his performance last night. Nope!

I must have been watching a different game, b/c I thought he was excellent.

Completely agree. He got skinned twice on that side from mistiming a lunge and then all of a sudden he had an awful game. He actually made quite a few good tackles when defending one on one in that same position too which people have seemingly forgotten and up until that point where he was skinned, had defended excellently. He got an assist and put a handful of good crosses into the box also. Definitely thought he had a good game.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Did he? Who was the Watford player? Who covered? Not being funny, just honestly don't recall that.

Me neither mate, have tried my hardest to forget the entire game since the second the final whistle blew.

 

[yido_number1]

He's just not good enough defensively, I would go as far as to say he's actually a lialbity.

If Aurier isn't good enough to displace him then we need to buy another right back this summer.

Trippier is nothing like a liability. Aurier has showed what a liability is but he is settling in still so we can cut him some slack.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Trippier has become a bit of scapegoat. The first thing anyone seems to point out any bad result or performance is our FB's and Trippier in particular.

I think Holebas just went past him and once and there was another time when he tried to tackle Richarleson and the ball ricocheted back into Richarleson's path. There were probably two other occasions when he was less than great defending situations out there.

But why does everyone pretend Walker (and Rose for that matter) never got skanked by anyone or didn't defend badly at times? Walker frequently came unstuck when clever or tricky players ran at him, even the shit ones like Bolasie turned him nots. And there were times when he would just walk off the man with the ball because someone else ran past him. Are we just pretending he didn't frequently do daft stuff or defend badly?

I categorically think that Walker is a quicker stronger defender than Trippier, but it's not like it's vast. It's margins. And then Trippier never does the mind fuckingly stupid stuff that Walker did/does - which ManC fans are already moaning about (see the "what opponents fans are saying" thread). Trippier is also cleverer than Walker (even Pochettino references this in his book) and plays our offside trap really intelligently, which is also a plus people completely ignore, it's one of our strengths (Neville highlighted it a couple of months ago).

Trippier played when we beat Liverpool, Arsenal, ManU, Chelsea away. He was also fine against Sané in the City home game we lost (Sane ends up getting subbed). He's clearly no liability, and he absolutely pisses Walker (and every other RB in the league) for attacking productivity (assists etc) which is vital in the system we play with FB's providing attacking width. Hell, he even ran past the LB yesterday.

He's not perfect, for sure, but we've got much, much bigger issues than Trippier.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

It was weak and ill thought out by Poch to demand we buy another RB, when we had KWP and Trippier here already. We could have added footballing and financial value to the club by sticking with KWP, instead of spending 25m and wages on a player who came with inherent problems and would also need to settle into the country and league.

Of all the players to have come through in the last few seasons, KWP should have been one of the easiest to integrate, there was almost no down side to him and we already had a RB here so he wouldn't have to be over exposed.

Stupid decision, and this isn't hindsight.

 

[Timberwolf]

I love getting skanked.

 

[WiganSpur]

It was weak and ill thought out by Poch to demand we buy another RB, when we had KWP and Trippier here already. We could have added footballing and financial value to the club by sticking with KWP, instead of spending 25m and wages on a player who came with inherent problems and would also need to settle into the country and league.

Of all the players to have come through in the last few seasons, KWP should have been one of the easiest to integrate, there was almost no down side to him and we already had a RB here so he wouldn't have to be over exposed.

Stupid decision, and this isn't hindsight.

I don't think anyone here thinks he's a poor player. But he does have limitations. Aurier does too.

The question now should be which one of those two should make way for KWP. Trippier is Trippier and will always be Trippier if you get what I mean, but Aurier, although looking worse now, could conceivably return next season as a better RB than Trippier.

 

[lukespurs7]

I assumed the bump for this thread was b/c people were praising him for his performance last night. Nope!

I must have been watching a different game, b/c I thought he was excellent.

He did play well going forward but Richarlison and others beat him a number of times far too easily, luckily this was Watford players and not Sane,Salah,Hazard or top CL wingers as otherwise we’d have been punished.