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I didn't want to get too serious in my post.
Playing like poo poo
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Gb160
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Up until a couple of weeks ago, i dont think anyone was giving Ben Davies the shit thats been posted here, he hasn't exactly covered himself in glory recently, but lets face it the whole team has looked shit for the last few matches...now all of a sudden Davies is shit and needs replacing.
Stinks of scapegoating to me.
Metalhead
But that's a debate for another thread.....
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Certainly there's no point in having a meltdown after an individual result, I do agree there. I would say that we SHOULD be in a better position to get at them on the Wembley pitch. It would be embarrassing to think that it's all over after a 1-0 defeat to a side that we really should be easing past.
he is capable of playing on the left aswell
Gb160
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Harry Kane is capable of playing in goal...
JerryGarcia
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We've been superb this season, I refuse to lose my shit over 2 losses. Every team will lose games now and then. Liverpool were better than us on the day and away games in Europe always have the potential to be difficult.
The manner of our performances has been disappointing of late but we're hardly in crisis mode ffs.
Bring on Fulham!
The manner of our performances has been disappointing of late but we're hardly in crisis mode ffs.
Bring on Fulham!
Clearly there are not.
There very few around and if we find one
we couldn't afford the fee or the wages.
So we appraise Davies for the role
and if he's not able enough for the way we want to play
we go to what I thought was Plan A.
Youth and/ or the Academy.
Rose will have been an inspiration to some of our own
for a number of reasons.
They won't be anywhere near the finished article
and neither are we
but Pochettino needs to live up to his various reputations
and get someone trained up and`ready, pronto.
We seem t be stuck between stations at the moment.
We want to play a certain way but are thrown when injuries occur.
Great team,moderate squad.
But who's fault is that?.
Don't look at me.
Gb160
Well done boys. Good process
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Its all your fucking fault Jimmy, its unacceptable so sort it...and sort it NOW!!!
am_yisrael_chai
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Not scapegoating him, he is a good player but it is also fairly obvious that he isn't an attacking LB and that is now what our system requires.
Gb160
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We're u saying this 2 weeks ago?
Or u just decided that it's obvious after the last few games?
hughy
I'm SUPER cereal.
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Kyle Walker-Peters
Why are people banding about names like Walker-Peters and Edwards like they're going to saunter in to our team and turn our season around?
It's doing my nut in.
am_yisrael_chai
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Not that I see the relevance but I've felt Davies is a different LB to Rose for a while. It has become more relevant after the recent move to 3-4-3 which only happened recently.
No we haven't. We have been solid for a couple of months. For the most part we have struggled to score, were terrible in the CL, terrible in the league cup and almost lost to Wycombe in the FA Cup. Now a 2nd string, 8th placed side in the Belgian league beat us.
Fulham away will be a hard cup tie and then we have the decision whether to put out a strong side against Gent with the Prem fixture shortly after.
There was a telling quote from Dembele: "Generally I think they wanted it more than us, they were sharper, more motivated than us.”
We had a team packed full of internationals last night, terrible performance!
Doctor Dinkey
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So you don't want to win a trophy then?
Hence the 'smiley' face, I was being ironic.
both would do better than sissoko
shelfboy68
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Can play left back too I believe from some academy games I've seen but stand to be corrected.
shelfboy68
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Regardless of who is willing to sit on a bench etc any team with aspirations of being successful has to have quality cover within the squad.
I think what levy and Poch have tried to do is concern themselves with not upsetting the harmony of the squad maybe a bit too much rather then identify and recruit a better standard of player.
Despite those reservations overall the team club has more than punched above its weight considering the restraints that the club works with.
I think what levy and Poch have tried to do is concern themselves with not upsetting the harmony of the squad maybe a bit too much rather then identify and recruit a better standard of player.
Despite those reservations overall the team club has more than punched above its weight considering the restraints that the club works with.
Bowlesinho
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So....the thread is a bit kneejerk, we were always going to have a downturn in form, it happens to every team at some point.
The frustrations are that it seems to link into injuries to key players - Kane and Alderweireld earlier this season and now Rose and Vertonghen, this is worrisome as you would hope the players would rally round when injuries occur.
My own personal frustrations are that when we do get injuries we seem to try and accommodate our strongest 11 players rather than keeping the same shape. Dier and Alderweireld both prefer RCB, whereas Wimmer is a LCB, so when Vertonghen goes down, it should be a simple swap out for Wimmer. Similar for Davies, we've seen him as LB, and LCB (for Wales) so asking him to play as our attacking LWB isn't going to suit him.
If we had decided to stick with the 3 at the back, we could have brought in Wimmer/Davies for Vertonghen and utilised someone like N'Koudou as LWB (granted he doesn't play the position naturally but is closer to Rose's attacking skill-set than Davies).
I think keeping that system would have yielded different results. Furthermore if Poch wanted to revert to 4-2-3-1 to try and get results or because he felt it was our best chance at winning, I fully get it, but when it wasn't working against Liverpool or Gent why not try the 3-4-3 again?
The frustrations are that it seems to link into injuries to key players - Kane and Alderweireld earlier this season and now Rose and Vertonghen, this is worrisome as you would hope the players would rally round when injuries occur.
My own personal frustrations are that when we do get injuries we seem to try and accommodate our strongest 11 players rather than keeping the same shape. Dier and Alderweireld both prefer RCB, whereas Wimmer is a LCB, so when Vertonghen goes down, it should be a simple swap out for Wimmer. Similar for Davies, we've seen him as LB, and LCB (for Wales) so asking him to play as our attacking LWB isn't going to suit him.
If we had decided to stick with the 3 at the back, we could have brought in Wimmer/Davies for Vertonghen and utilised someone like N'Koudou as LWB (granted he doesn't play the position naturally but is closer to Rose's attacking skill-set than Davies).
I think keeping that system would have yielded different results. Furthermore if Poch wanted to revert to 4-2-3-1 to try and get results or because he felt it was our best chance at winning, I fully get it, but when it wasn't working against Liverpool or Gent why not try the 3-4-3 again?
