Tottenham Vs Leicester: FA Cup Match Thread

[prawnsandwich]

At this point I'm almost beyond caring about how Adebayor feels, but booing him certainly isn't going to help, and is also likely to make a lot of our players wonder what sort of club they're playing for.

Cheer the whole team on. If Adebayor continues to play poorly and Pochettino continues to play him...well we'll probably have a new manager to deal with Ade sooner rather than later.

He is not playing poorly.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Absolutely disagree. Ade has proven that he is a great goal scorer by scoring a load of goals for this club. Our top goal scorer in 2 of the last 3 seasons. He has been unfit (mental illness is just as debilitating as physical.)
He has scored twice as many goals as Soldado in the EPL this season. The haters will always hate him but I have disliked Spurs players but NEVER booed them.

He is not playing poorly.

How do you know he has mental illness?

When you say he's scored twice as many as Soldado, that still means he's scored 2 goals. That's still shit. He's playing poorly. Soldado's playing poorly. Half our squad (if not more) is playing poorly.

 

[Spurger King]

He is not playing poorly.

I genuinely don't know how to reply to that.

 

[stemark44]

Absolutely disagree. Ade has proven that he is a great goal scorer by scoring a load of goals for this club. Our top goal scorer in 2 of the last 3 seasons. He has been unfit (mental illness is just as debilitating as physical.)
He has scored twice as many goals as Soldado in the EPL this season. The haters will always hate him but I have disliked Spurs players but NEVER booed them.

That means diddly squat............my grandmother could score more goals than fucking Soldado and she has been dead for over 10 years.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

I genuinely don't know how to reply to that.

Well you just did

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

I don't know about you, but I saw many signs of improvement when we beat Chelsea 5-3. You know, Chelsea, the team that shipped four goals against Bradford.

One win followed up by what? Defeat to the mighty Palace. That's progress i guess.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Let's not downplay our win over Chelsea. That wasn't the team that got beaten by Bradford, and obviously it wasn't the same Spurs team that got beaten by Leicester.

On the subject of improvement, I personally measure it by whether or not it is sustained. A great performance once in a blue moon isn't improvement - it's an anomaly. Improvement would be identifying and replicating the strongest parts of our performance against Chelsea in subsequent games, which we haven't done at all. Instead we've slipped back into ponderous and often sloppy football. There's no apparent ethos to how we play - something that should be at least partly apparent even after big changes to the starting line-up.

I want Pochettino to be a success, but there's nothing about his time at the club so far that makes his approach stand out from AVB, or even Sherwood. Kane is to Pochettino what Adebayor was to Sherwood - a striker in great form that papers over the proverbial cracks. We've not played well in the vast majority of our games, and apart from occasional performances against Southampton, Everton, and Chelsea, our typical way of playing has shown no signs of developing.

The most well balanced post of the day.

Give a gold medal and a pint of Guinness to Spurger.

 

[Spurger King]

The most well balanced post of the day.

Give a gold medal and a pint of Guinness to Spurger.

I do like a Guinness.

 

[dannythomas]

I just want to make this point as hopefully my last contribution to this thread. Mass rotation is in my opinion completely wrong strategy. 9 changes plus keeping our number 2 keeper was not the way to go. 3 or 4 changes to keep players fresh yes , but 9 changes ? ?
Nothing will convince me that this made sense . Are we so scared of playing a League 1 team on Wednesday that we can write off the FA Cup ? If we had chosen our best team in the first leg the second one might even be academic. But without Kane up front nobody can say that was our best team.

All week people on here have been demanding we play our reserves against Leicester. Were those people seriously expecting us to win ??
Whether it was right or wrong Poch's decision was to save our first team players until Wednesday . That showed the FA Cup was low priority. And we got what that decision deserved.

 

[parj]

I just want to make this point as hopefully my last contribution to this thread. Mass rotation is in my opinion completely wrong strategy. 9 changes plus keeping our number 2 keeper was not the way to go. 3 or 4 changes to keep players fresh yes , but 9 changes ? ?
Nothing will convince me that this made sense . Are we so scared of playing a League 1 team on Wednesday that we can write off the FA Cup ? If we had chosen our best team in the first leg the second one might even be academic. But without Kane up front nobody can say that was our best team.

All week people on here have been demanding we play our reserves against Leicester. Were those people seriously expecting us to win ??
Whether it was right or wrong Poch's decision was to save our first team players until Wednesday . That showed the FA Cup was low priority. And we got what that decision deserved.

In all honesty, we all know Poch played a weaker team, but this team on reputation should have won.

I do agree with the changes because we are in the league cup semi final. We need a trophy. In also want us not distracted cos we need 100% in the Europa. The FA cup will be extra fixtures to clash. Europa would be good PR if we get to the Semi's.

 

[Sweetsman]

One win followed up by what? Defeat to the mighty Palace. That's progress i guess.

Would that be the Palace who beat Southampton and appear to be on a winning run?

 

[Sweetsman]

The most well balanced post of the day.

Give a gold medal and a pint of Guinness to Spurger.

The post contradicted its latter part with the statements in the first. Also, changing the frame of your argument when you've been shown up with your previous one is pathetic. I'm not surprised you thought it was good.

 

[Sweetsman]

Glad to hear it, and anyone is welcome to come and sit in on it. We are explaining a new technique where you enter the brain via the eyeball. Fascinating stuff...

As I said, you're clearly self-taught and no doubt performed one on Piedpiper.

 

[BK007]

We need shot of him asap.

Adebayor needs to bloody go.

His style of play doesn't fit. Can we just please freaking get rid of all the pretenders and wage-wasters? Levy FFS. We have a positive net spend, we always do, just get rid of some of these clunkers before the window closes.

 

[prawnsandwich]

I just want to make this point as hopefully my last contribution to this thread. Mass rotation is in my opinion completely wrong strategy. 9 changes plus keeping our number 2 keeper was not the way to go. 3 or 4 changes to keep players fresh yes , but 9 changes ? ?
Nothing will convince me that this made sense . Are we so scared of playing a League 1 team on Wednesday that we can write off the FA Cup ? If we had chosen our best team in the first leg the second one might even be academic. But without Kane up front nobody can say that was our best team.

All week people on here have been demanding we play our reserves against Leicester. Were those people seriously expecting us to win ??
Whether it was right or wrong Poch's decision was to save our first team players until Wednesday . That showed the FA Cup was low priority. And we got what that decision deserved.

Best post in this thread. MoPo was disrespectful to the competition and fans by starting a team of reserves after making 9 changes. I said before the game this was a shop window side featuring at least 5 who will not be at Spurs next season including the most expensive flop in Spurs history.

 

[Lukasz]

Lol at this tweet from Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist) :

Flea @flea333 · 14 godz. 14 godzin temu
Tottenham is going down. UP THE BLADES!!!

 

[Styopa]

Yes Pochettino made 9 changes but I don't subscribe to the view that he played the reserves. In fact, one could argue that at least 6 of yesterday's starting 11 would be in contention for inclusion in our strongest team: Fazio, Rose, Dembele, Lamela, Townsend. Others such as Soldado and Capoue have also been lauded at various points this season and last and Vorm, although second choice, is a very highly rated keeper and perhaps our future no.1. Certainly, when I heard our team yesterday I expected it to be good enough to beat Leicester - not least because an FA Cup run must rank pretty low in their list of priorities for the rest of the season. With so many games this month and a semi-final coming up in a few days, I think it was inevitable and necessary that we made so many changes.

However, the performance one again highlighted our dependence on Kane and Eriksen. Without this two, or if they are not playing well, we look toothless and almost incapable of scoring a goal in open play. Bearing that in mind, it is even more perplexing to me when our own fans boo Adebayor. Love him or loathe him, he is a proven goal scorer and game changer and an 'on song' happy Adebayor could make a massive contribution to the rest of our season. With the exception of Eriksen and Kane, he is the one player who can really make a difference in a game.

 

[nasescoba1985]

For me keeping adebayor could potentially ruin our season more than help it. The crowd will eventually become more viscous in regards to the situation the more piss poor performances the guy conjures up. I'm afraid for all the Adebayor sympathisers on here the fact of the matter is the guy has no drive and no ambition. I personally don't want him anywhere near our 1st team and although I didn't participate in the booing I certainly think the guy is a disaster waiting to happen both on the field and off it. Just please get rid of him before we ruin what potentially could be a good season and please get a striker FFS

 

[Spurger King]

The post contradicted its latter part with the statements in the first. Also, changing the frame of your argument when you've been shown up with your previous one is pathetic. I'm not surprised you thought it was good.

You could always try quoting my post directly if you want to make poorly constructed observations about supposed contradictions and changing frames of arguments.

 

[dannythomas]

Best post in this thread. MoPo was disrespectful to the competition and fans by starting a team of reserves after making 9 changes. I said before the game this was a shop window side featuring at least 5 who will not be at Spurs next season including the most expensive flop in Spurs history.

In fact including the 3 most expensive flops in our history. Has £ 73m ever been worst spent ?