Tottenham Vs Newcastle: Match Thread

[felmani26]

Based on?? Our solid defence?? Or in form strikers?? Or Hugo Lloris saving our arses?? Massive job on his hands Mo Po imo

Mate, a week is a loooonngg time in football let alone another 6 and half months.

 

[Steve742671]

I think we have it all wrong at the moment, system is being dictated by player who aren't performing. With 4231 we have no width. Just watch swansea play,2 wingers have chalk on their boots all game. Play 4411, sell lamela in jan, buy 2 fast wingers and go from there. Start playing exciting football again full of pace and attack

 

[tiger666]

Maybe that is the answer then. Switch him inside for kaboul and bring in..shudder..naughton. but I have tbh. Despite his flying start he is still very raw.

I wonder if Davies could do a job on the right?

Naughton is perfectly fine at RB.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Naughton is perfectly fine at RB.

Exactly. Some people refuse to see it.

 

[topper]

People going on about giving Pochettino time, I certainly agree that he's not to blame. The players are just not good, as I've been saying for months. But I'm not sure the hierarchy will be able to be as patient as has been suggested when we are near the bottom three. There's a relegation battle on here, absolutely no question.

Think we'll win enough away games to be nowhere near a relegation battle. Said at the start of the season we'll finish anywhere from 6th to 8th and haven't changed my mind ( yet! )

 

[Damian99]

Mate, a week is a loooonngg time in football let alone another 6 and half months.

Our forwards have been out of form for a long long time, we have struggled to break teams down that allow us possession and have done for a long time and our defence has hardly been solid.......... you guessed it, for a long time.

I don't understand Ade's inclusion and unless Poch goes with Soldado and/or Kane...... we are going nowhere fast.

Even then Soldado isn't going to just start banging goals in left, right and centre. We then rely heavily on Kane and that's a big ask. Not sure where goals from other areas are going to come from, chadli has all ready weighed in with a few, but right now there is a hell of a lot more wrong than there is right.

The whole thing needs time no doubt about it, but Poch needs a quick fix and a few wins whilst still trying to build things.

Also had we just lost at home to a top side i could understand but we just lost to a fucking piss poor team struggling in the bottom three.

 

[Mustard]

Naughton is perfectly fine at RB.

he's certainly worth a go and he'll be more comfortable at rb than lb.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

I think we have it all wrong at the moment, system is being dictated by player who aren't performing. With 4231 we have no width. Just watch swansea play,2 wingers have chalk on their boots all game. Play 4411, sell lamela in jan, buy 2 fast wingers and go from there. Start playing exciting football again full of pace and attack

Thankfully we won't sell Lamela.

 

[scottlag10]

It might be a horrible thing to admit, but West Ham have actually been very savvy in the transfer market this summer and are proof that you don't need to spend millions to get players who can fit this league and make a difference.

We on the other hand spent the Bale money like a chav with a lottery win.

There is no cohesion or strategy to our transfer policy. It's the obvious targets (whi we inevitably can't get as they want too much money and we have too many competitors) or players who are cheap or alternatively don't suit the PL or the system the current manager wants to play.

We end up with a bloated and unbalanced squad.

We can't keep blaming the managers.

Scary to think that West Ham have the potential , with new stadium on the horizon as ours seems to be a more distant prospect as each day passes, to become Londons third club as we move further down the pecking order. I hate being in Arsenals shadow and realise Chelseas money has put them where they are. But I will struggle to tolerate West Ham becoming better than us.

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

I think we have it all wrong at the moment, system is being dictated by player who aren't performing. With 4231 we have no width. Just watch swansea play,2 wingers have chalk on their boots all game. Play 4411, sell lamela in jan, buy 2 fast wingers and go from there. Start playing exciting football again full of pace and attack

Why would we sell Lamela? Seems a slightly stupid thing to do, given he has shown the potential in patches that he could develop into our most exciting Attacker.

 

[Bobbins]

The trouble is the squad needs a massive overhaul - more personality and character, more experience at the top level, more specialisation etc.

But the last thing we need is the usual massive squad disruption. It's one of the factors that's got us into the shitbox we're in now.

Very difficult situation to get out of this one. We're probably better off generally sticking rather than twisting. Try and grab one or two experienced characters in January, give the players a kick up the arse. Premier League experience would be preferable by far. In the summer, the same, plus a couple of specialised players. Fed up with all these utility guys that can't hold down one position. Get rid of some of the faceless robots and spineless cheque-cashers.

Don't believe any of those things will happen for one minute.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Scary to think that West Ham have the potential , with new stadium on the horizon as ours seems to be a more distant prospect as each day passes, to become Londons third club as we move further down the pecking order. I hate being in Arsenals shadow and realise Chelseas money has put them where they are. But I will struggle to tolerate West Ham becoming better than us.

Sorry to repeat this for the umpteenth time but Wet Spam won't get a revenue boost from the Olympic Stadium. The reason is that capacity doesn't matter as much as the amount of corporate boxes and seats and the OS won't have any. This is why Levy wanted to knock it down.

 

[chris_theo]

Is it fair to say that to sum up everyone's thoughts/comments......we are shit?!

 

[Kaboul'sForehead]

"Ade has really turned things around last few years"

"Ade is and always has been a lazy ****"

"Poch is brilliant and should be given time"

"Poch is shit and has no experience and we should have appointed X"

"Poch wheels out the same team every time and he needs a plan B"

"Poch should play a consistent starting 11 so they get used to eachother"

"Soldado is shit"

"Soldado is class"

"Let's just accept this is a transitional season and try and enjoy it"

"There are no signs of things getting better which is a disgrace. I'm not going to games anymore"



Don't you realise we as the fan base are part of the problem?! We are fragmented, irrational and impatient. Both collectively and individually. Its getting so embarrassing. Sort it.

 

[g_harry]

The reason this joke is playing becaue the manager is afraid of the trouble it will cause if he doesn't play. Joke. AVB was not backed when wanted rid. Levy back your f++king managers.

Ade scored one goal when the ball was planted on his head. The guys a disgrace. there must be something going on behind the scenes for poch to keep playing him. Everyone can see his lack of interest. Surley no one can defend him anymore. (btw second half the whole team were crap also )

 

[THFCSPURS19]

"Ade has really turned things around last few years"

"Ade is and always has been a lazy ****"

"Poch is brilliant and should be given time"

"Poch is shit and has no experience and we should have appointed X"

"Poch wheels out the same team every time and he needs a plan B"

"Poch should play a consistent starting 11 so they get used to eachother"

"Soldado is shit"

"Soldado is class"

"Let's just accept this is a transitional season and try and enjoy it"

"There are no signs of things getting better which is a disgrace. I'm not going to games anymore"



Don't you realise we as the fan base are part of the problem?! We are fragmented, irrational and impatient. Both collectively and individually. Its getting so embarrassing. Sort it.

Post of the day. So true.

 

[scottlag10]

Director of football?
Soldado sub
Lamela jury out
Eriksen Where has the end of last seasons form gone?
Capoue ok
Chiriches not featuring
Chadli ok
Paulinho not featuring
Vorm don't know
Davies sub
Stanbouli not featuring
Dier playing, out of position
Fazio sub
So out of the 12 how many have paid off so far? And how many were Managers picks and not just DOF's?

 

[slartibartfast]

The thing is it did look like we were making some progress with Arsenal, Southampton and even the Man City game. Only baby steps granted but even so.
Today we went backwards.
Still think playing one striker, at home, against a team that leak goals is plain fucking stupid.

 

[Nebby]

Why would we sell Lamela? Seems a slightly stupid thing to do, given he has shown the potential in patches that he could develop into our most exciting Attacker.

Because he has been inefectual in all of those other patches?

 

[spurs9]

How the hell can the team be tired with no travel, a relatively straight forward win on Thursday evening and this early in the season.

Its not like it was an identical eleven either. Energy levels should be fine.

Its how we start games, it how we always start. Softly, softly. And its not just now, it been like this for ages. We never start fast and aggressive and let the team know they're we're bang up for it. We did against QPR and then shat ourselves when Liverpool came the following week for some inexplicable reason.

How you start games invariably set the tone, definitely at home anyway. Will keep saying it until I'm blue in the face and we rarely every do it.

I know we had superior quality, but look when we hammered Liverpool 4-0 a few seasons back and Modric scored the worldy and Ade got a brace. That was an aggressive performance.

It is not the travel it is only having 2 days rest. They did research a couple of years ago and proved that only having 2 days rest between games effects athletic performance. Several countries FA's actually schedule games on a Monday for teams that have played in the Europa.