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  1. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Though it's obviously not all going to happen this summer, I think there's probably only five or six players in the entire club Ange has on the 'definitely keep, no question' list. Vic, Romero, VDV, Udogie, Bentancur, Sarr. We have to completely clear the decks of those out on loan (not the...
  2. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Not just any two players, but their centre-backs - the two tallest, and most capable headers of the ball on the pitch. The man closest to them on the off chance that he could get across, was Porro - a relatively small chap without a particularly strong reputation in aerial combat.
  3. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    That's fair. Though I do feel that during the last three or four years teams did at least have to sweat a little to get through that low block (which I'm absolutely not advocating we re-introduce). Right now they just need a couple of corners or free kicks somewhere near our box and the ball...
  4. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    The thing that worries me about this at the moment is even if we do put in a good performance we're still on the hook for at least one, and probably two goals conceded. That's our baseline before you even take into account how well the opposition are actually playing. We will most likely need...
  5. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    This is it for me at set pieces. I mentioned in the Match-thread that the director had told one of the cameras to focus in on the two unmarked players at the back post. It was so bloody obvious what was going to happen. Defending set-pieces is a fight. It is at every level of the game. If you...
  6. PCozzie

    Player Watch Player Watch: Son Heung-min

    The thing that most worries me about Son is that he isn't developing alternative ways to be effective now that his pace is waning and he no longer has Kane supplying him with inch perfect through balls. The best forwards find a way after 30. They change something, add strings to their bow. I'm...
  7. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I understand that. It's why I said '...gradually but erratically improve...' I didn't expect a constant improvement, just that by this point we could point to what is happening on the pitch and saying 'that's definitely better than this point last year'. But it's a bit of a struggle to do so...
  8. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    That's not my idea of a difficult rebuild, and I'm not bailing out on Ange or what he's trying to do either. Honestly, I'd be amazed if we were challenging for the title in even three or four years time. My point was more that we were expecting that we were going to have have a very difficult...
  9. PCozzie

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    This really has the feel of a wasted season now. Yes, we knew we weren't winning the league in year 1. We couldn't really have even expected to have a shout at a CL position. But we needed to have seen progression and I can't honestly say that we are any better at all than this point last...
  10. PCozzie

    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    Hasenhuttl. Yeh, I can see what you mean. Every intention of playing football the way it should be played. Theoretically fits the club. Gets beat a lot.
  11. PCozzie

    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    Fuck me, the director even has a camera trained on the two unmarked players at the far post because he knows they're going to be scoring.
  12. PCozzie

    Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs

    *Caicedo will make several yellow card fouls and Bissouma will get booked on the last one. Guarantee that.
  13. PCozzie

    Premier League 2023/2024

    On first glance I thought you'd posted the clip from the Wolves game early in the season. Exact same thing. Should have been a pen back then too.
  14. PCozzie

    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    Better surely for that to be a separate competition? I'm not sure that there is much development value in asking young lads to play in a season long league format, win that format, and then base success or failure on how they then do in a much more random knockout cup. By all means have the...
  15. PCozzie

    Football League Championship, League One and League Two 2023/24

    Huge for them, my second team. I live in between Ipswich and Norwich and Ipswich is one of only two away grounds at which I've seen Spurs play (excluding Wembley). Never felt anything for Norwich but would love to see Ipswich back in the top division.
  16. PCozzie

    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    That pass has KDB all over it. The barest of glimpses and bends it in behind.
  17. PCozzie

    Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

  18. PCozzie

    Premier League 2023/2024

    Yes
  19. PCozzie

    Premier League 2023/2024

    "Jose Mourinho, on his return to Chelsea as manager and against his old club Tottenham inspires the West Londoners to an incredible 7-0 victory, with Nicolas Jackson scoring a perfect hat-trick, before Cole Palmer, on his return from being clinically dead for two weeks, fires in FOUR penalties."
  20. PCozzie

    Arsenal

    Absolute peak Arsenal 2024 if Cole Palmer misses the game tomorrow.
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