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  1. skiba

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    We play high risk football. If we’re not at it then unfortunately results like yesterday are on the cards. This is the most I’ve been engaged in football since the Poch days as I know I’m gonna watch a team that’s gonna try and impose themselves and take risks to score goals and win. And so far...
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    Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

    Surely they’re fucked from a PSR perspective. They’re £210m in the hole for the last two years and that’s with them having CL. 22/23 they played CL, reported a £121m profit on player sales and still made a loss of £90m. Will be interesting to see how long Clearlake continue to fund such...
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    New Champions League format

    It’s just a way to get the top seeds playing each other before the knock outs. If you want to liven up the group stages then introduce more jeopardy. Unless spurs are involved I want be tuning in to see which 24 teams manage to qualify out of a league if 32 where fixtures are still seeded
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    EFL Carabao Cup 2023/2024

    And there’s the problem in a nutshell. These guys have been ruining the game for years.
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    The Formula 1 Thread

    The new regs were and are all about aero and not everyone has an Adrian Newey. The guy is an aero wizard and also the only person on the grid who was around when F1 was utilising ground effect downforce. So they got the concept right from day one and then went over the budget cap developing...
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    Match Threads Spurs vs Wolves

    We get it mate. Your a Conte fan and didn’t want him to leave. But it’s been 10 months now and you bringing him up every single post is beyond tedious.
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Guglielmo Vicario

    I just feel the reason he is being targeted is because he doesn’t punch or catch the ball and regularly ends up palming it back into the six yard box. I’m just asking myself why teams are doing this to us and being successful whilst pretty much every other goalkeeper seems to be able to cope...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Guglielmo Vicario

    Easiest way to combat this shit is to start catching the ball. Teams will soon stop putting it under the bar if it becomes routine catching practice for Vic. It’s also about optics, if a keeper goes up for a ball and flaps at it as Vic keeps doing it looks ‘weak’. Hopefully the penny dropped as...
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    Team vs Everton

    Don’t want to see Sarr in the 6 role. Don’t think his attributes suit the position that well and more importantly we lose his key attributes which is hunting space and eating up ground. We need to release him not anchor him down in the pivot. Kulu and Sarr should be the 10 and 8 and then it’s...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Yves Bissouma

    He’s proved how good he is at both Brighton and at the start of the season where he was MOM pretty much every game. Since that Luton game he has really struggled though and has given the ball away in dangerous situations a number of times now, costing us a goal at City and leading to the red...
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    What the pundits & media are saying about us

    I remember a journalist on VFL said that this would happen. We would lose a few games and his approach and tactics would be criticised. Klopp came under fire for repeatedly being sucker punched in games and the media banged on about how Peps tactics don’t work here in the PL during his first...
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    2023/24 - The Race For..................

    We’re doing the same now with the VDV, Udogie, Sarr and Johnson. All those players you mentioned from the Poch era had a decent amount of men’s football under their belt. Donley and Dorrington haven’t made a single appearance between them and Phillips has 18 championship appearances and wasn’t...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think this is maybe why he went for PEH instead of Lo Celso. Lo Celso has barely kicked a ball whereas PEH has had plenty of minutes and Wolves strength is their ball carrying in the middle. We lost the battle in midfield and maybe Lo Celso would have been better in there but I sort of...
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    Match Threads Spurs vs Chelsea - Day 11

    Still feel totally deflated tbh. We played some great stuff in the first 20 mins and I honestly thought we were going to lay down a massive marker when it appeared Son had put us two up. Those 9 players can walk off the pitch with their heads held high but to put ourselves in that position...
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    The ousting of Daniel (COYS)

    The figure of £500m is correct but it is somewhat of a red herring. our record profits were accumulated over a period when we were constructing the stadium and that expenditure doesn’t hit the profit and loss account or count towards FFP. Essentially the £500m was never there in cash terms for...
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    Mauricio Pochettino

    We were ahead of the curve with his high press suffocating football. When he joined Spurs you had managers like Bruce, Allardyce, Monk, Pearson and Pulis all managing in the PL with the likes of LVG, Peleggrini, Jose and Wenger managing the top clubs. The game has moved on a lot since then and...
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    Lets all laugh at Newcastle

    They’re a real high energy team. Could catch up with them with CL and a thin squad. Botman injury didn’t look great as well which will be a big blow if they lose him for an extended period
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    UEFA Champions League 2022-23

    It was nauseating 🤢
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    UEFA Champions League 2022-23

    Of course, but it wouldn’t go down as some monumental history altering achievement that the broadcasters seem to be peddling
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    UEFA Champions League 2022-23

    Tuned in for the last 15 and the commentary was embarrassing. What an amazing underdog and history making achievement it is for the richest club in Europe to finally get the champions league. Fuck off! 😂
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