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Bobbins

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Sherwood is in a win, win situation. No one was expecting him to do well and until last night we were undefeated in the Prem since he took over. At the end of the season we have the World Cup and after that will be the best time to appoint a new manager. That is when Levy and Co. can look at what Tim has done and if he doesn't deliver then he will be sacked and probably no one will care.

Yay then we can have another squad rebuild and another season of transition! Woop Woop!

Though in truth the arrival of LVG is probably the only thing that's going to keep players like Lloris and Vertonghen. They must be wondering what they fuck they signed up for at the moment.
 

Tomdon

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Sherwood is in a win, win situation. No one was expecting him to do well and until last night we were undefeated in the Prem since he took over. At the end of the season we have the World Cup and after that will be the best time to appoint a new manager. That is when Levy and Co. can look at what Tim has done and if he doesn't deliver then he will be sacked and probably no one will care.

Even with our strongest 11 and good form it was always going to be hard to beat City. I wasn't so sure at first but Pellegrini has made City a stronger side than Mancini ever could.

The sending off just made the score line higher. Had this not have happened then perhaps it might have ended up 2-0 or 2-1. Either way, losing to City the way they are currently playing is no bad thing.

Enough with excuses....we have had the players and we have had the manager but we have not made it.
Except for Soldado transfer which was a mistake from the beginning we have a great squad...we should have had perform better !!!
 

MaccSpurs

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Enough with excuses....we have had the players and we have had the manager but we have not made it.
Except for Soldado transfer which was a mistake from the beginning we have a great squad...we should have had perform better !!!

Yeah, like lose 2-0 instead of 5-1 to a, as it stands currently, far better team.
 

Dannyspur

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I don't agree that Soldado was a mistake - he needs the correct formation around him. Sure his confidence is shot and he has missed a shed load of chances recently, but we spent the first half of the season playing a game that is alien to him. Only when he was given support up front has he had chances, he will never get back to scoring ways sat on the bench.

If TS wanted to go at Citeh he should have played Ade and Soldado and with Capoue or Sandro to break up man city's rhythm, we maybe things would have been different. Lennon and Siggy haven't created much all season even against crap teams, so to think that they would against the best team in the league is optimistic at best and stupid at worst.
 

Tomdon

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Well we used to be able to beat them before because they didn't have about 300 million worth of the best talent in the world on the pitch. And if I understand your point, it's high time ENIC sold the club to some rich oil Sheikh/Russian so that we can compete - well at least until they get bored, realize profit margins on football clubs are low, any expenditure in effect is for marketing and decide to invest elsewhere.

I started supporting Spurs in 91. Having watched the dross that I have, I am grateful that we now seem to have a good team that can give most teams in the league a decent game, a young tough manager who encourages attacking play and knows the league (I personally do not want a foreign coach - hoping for that 1 in 100 chance that they turn out to be another Mourinho - and giving them 2 years of time for their "project"), have a financially stable club with one of the toughest and most financially astute chairmen in Europe (even that prick Fergie was fed up of him after being squeezed for every penny for Berbatov), a decent scouting network with a majority of players being bought and sold for a profit and active plans underway to expand capacity in the stadium. We have learnt lessons from Arsenal in our development model and while the stadium plans could have been faster, the local council have not been very supportive at all.

Rome wasn't built in a day and we have been progressing well over the last 5/6 years. One bad result does not change that. COYS!

Our infra-structure might have progressed during the last 5/6 years but our squad seems to be more or less at the same level. Great players like Vert or Lloris have joined but other good players have left and for god sake we still don't have a decent striker.
 

Tomdon

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I don't agree that Soldado was a mistake - he needs the correct formation around him. Sure his confidence is shot and he has missed a shed load of chances recently, but we spent the first half of the season playing a game that is alien to him. Only when he was given support up front has he had chances, he will never get back to scoring ways sat on the bench.

If TS wanted to go at Citeh he should have played Ade and Soldado and with Capoue or Sandro to break up man city's rhythm, we maybe things would have been different. Lennon and Siggy haven't created much all season even against crap teams, so to think that they would against the best team in the league is optimistic at best and stupid at worst.
How many poachers that succeed in the EPL do you see ? (except for VPS) Most of the scorers creat their own chances.
But I agree that in our current status that we can hardly connect 3 passes, our strikers are quite limited
 

HappySpur

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So has anybody pointed out that statistical analysis has proven that a new manager is good for a six game change in performance before regression to the mean takes over.

Dec 15: we lose 5-0 to Liverpool at home
Jan 29: We lose 5-1 to City at home

Anybody care to guess the number of league games between those two dates? I might have mentioned it in my opening statement. Rhymes with fix and mix.

I mean fucking hell. Way to back up a stereotype lads.

So it's about to get interesting for Tim Sherwood since we will float back to about 1.68 PPG. Meaning 27 points in these last 15. We will most likely end with 70 if the statistics are absolute. Which typically is enough for UCL but wasn't last year when we had 72.

All this means that.....*groans* we will have to go down to the last second to see if we make it. And last second and UCL are not something that works for us. Because the improbable likes to bite us in the ass or spill itself into our lasagna. :(
 

SlickMongoose

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So has anybody pointed out that statistical analysis has proven that a new manager is good for a six game change in performance before regression to the mean takes over.

Dec 15: we lose 5-0 to Liverpool at home
Jan 29: We lose 5-1 to City at home

Anybody care to guess the number of league games between those two dates? I might have mentioned it in my opening statement. Rhymes with fix and mix.

I mean fucking hell. Way to back up a stereotype lads.

So it's about to get interesting for Tim Sherwood since we will float back to about 1.68 PPG. Meaning 27 points in these last 15. We will most likely end with 70 if the statistics are absolute. Which typically is enough for UCL but wasn't last year when we had 72.

All this means that.....*groans* we will have to go down to the last second to see if we make it. And last second and UCL are not something that works for us. Because the improbable likes to bite us in the ass or spill itself into our lasagna. :(

So you're saying we should appoint a new manager every 6 games? :unsure:
 

THFC 1882

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