Burnley at Wembley was far too reminiscent of watching It’s A Knockout.
No matter how likely the better ‘competitor’ looked, we were always just seconds away from a moment of self inflicted daftness.
Spurs won and that’s all the counts to a good many – I am certain.
We went 3rd tonight and a mere 3 points off Liverpool and a mere 5 points of Manchester City.
Of course the goal difference numbers tell their own tale.
The Reds have nearly scored twice as many goals as us and City have already exceeded that margin.
It’s great to be in contention of course, and I damn well bet you that both of the sides above us are seriously regretting wasting so much cash on players – when they could have dropped the wrong end of a billion on property instead.
The mugs.
Burnley are 17th out of 20 sides and look every inch to fit that part.
We only succeeded in besting this Premier League colossus when Christian Eriksen was eventually deployed.
The next Test Event announcement will follow in due course.
Compare to Jose at United who has the exact same issues three years after walking through the door and is still standing there cross armed saying ‘not my fault’
Some of these obstacles were of the ‘typical Spurs’ deep rooted stuff – others were issues with the squad available, or with his own tactics.
But some, like the Wembley issue, look almost laughable now – but that’s because Poch worked round them/turned them on their head.
Until the 91st minute, a late goal against a team intent on defensive play and nothing else after dominating a similarly defensive side at the Camp Nou.
The supposedly ‘resurgent’ Woolwich laboured to a fortuitous 1-0 home win over Huddersfield in their previous match, which of course you predictably fail to reference…
I wonder if he commutes?
ENIC have used “To dare is to do” as a marketing slogan for close to two decades. When they never dare and very rarely do, unless it involves pouring concrete…
yep… lost a mouthful of whisky and tea with that post !
Yes, let’s hope that doesn’t happen because I’ve a lot of time for Poch because imo he adapts and responds to results/criticisms/weaknesses.
Since he came in the evolution of his weaknesses/obstacles would go something like:
1. Can’t win in Europe
2. Can’t win in the league after a game in Europe
3. Can’t beat teams who park the bus
4. Can’t win away from the Lane’s small pitch
5. Don’t have a big game mentality
6. Can’t beat the ‘big boys’
7. Doesn’t trust the whole squad/can’t rotate/can’t balance all competitions
8. Can’t win at Wembley
The current two are:
1. Suspect game management
2. Can’t get consistency in the way we play with rotation
I’ve no doubt he’ll be working on those weaknesses too
I always will love Spurs tappas, I just don’t see Spurs there anymore sadly.
Good post SG.
It was clear after the WC that Poch was faced with a problem so rather than employ the relentlessly demanding high press he went to a more solid and structured approach.
Not as easy on the eye but he utilised Moura well on the counter during this period and the win at Utd was a prime example.
The label of Poch being a ‘one trick pony’ was always laughable but over the last two seasons it’s become obsolete. Unless you’re a bit thick.
It’s imperative that Bald Weirdo stops attempting to don his Superman cape that the club’s PR dept have made him and get on with addressing the reality. The very real prospect of our finest manager since Bill Nic walking out…
Most of the teams that yo-yo between the Championship and Prem or manage to stay in it generally play that way.
Even if they come up playing more attacking football, they eventually get found out by a lack of depth and quality. Often their best players eventually get taken by the established Prem clubs too. This is why they mostly revert to ‘survival mode’ and any quality in their play is virtually nonexistent.
It’s no surprise that us, Liverpool, City and even Woolwich are going on unprecedented unbeaten runs and starts to the season etc. How impressive is all of that in reality?
There’s a widening gulf between the top 5-6 clubs and everyone else and it shows. We are becoming like Spain but there’s 6 clubs rather than just the two winning all the games.
Records keep getting broken and you wonder if it’s the strength of the biggest clubs or the disparity in wealth in the league becoming greater.
Not pretty to watch but why condemn lowly Burnley? when credit Dyche who clearly had a game plan which nearly worked to perfection smothering Spurs, defending for their lives they nearly got a point when not pleasing to the eye they produced a vintage Burnley away performance of old against a Spurs side who dominating possession the longer the game went on simply could not break them down and ran out of ideas.
Don’t let the w a n k e r s make you lose love for your team man. Yes they lost us a gen of fans, won nothing worth mentioning and knocked down the lane but we’re still here! Here to tell the next gen of fans the story. Lots of new fans coming. None been to the lane. We’re nostalgia 🙂 🙂
Diddling her twiddle it was a riddle why Janice in Venice looked askew when our waiter Rupert Theo Joker was afoot exposing his rather large todger to all and sundry and lacking any modesty in decorum missing from the time were were granted a spectacular Aston Martin axle under Larry’s lorry.
I was a bit disappointed with their chosen tactic as well. Burnley has given Spurs the opportunity for a real match in the past.
he’s suffering depressing, enough to make him join Burnley….
May I take this opportunity of wishing HH plus fellow posters a merry Xmas and a happy and health new year. Once again special praise to HH for his input behind the scenes delivering this excellent forum.
Poch has responded to his greatest weakness each season with a change the following one.
Early on he couldn’t get balancing Europe right and then improved on that greatly.
Rotation/utilising the squad was his biggest issue last season – and whether his hand has been forced thanks to injuries/WC fatigue or he just knew he needed to improve in this area – the fact is he’s started embracing rotation wholeheartedly and it seems to be working in terms of results if not always in terms of style consistency/enjoyable football.
Maybe this will be the season where we reverse it and with the finish line in sight we can then thrash one 11 best performers into the dirt – rather than knackering them by the time we reach February.
A very different approach to working the squad this year anyway – and signs of change again from Poch. Another string to his bow maybe. He’s still learning.
Azza looked like a bloke who made some unwise investments when things were financially good for him…
Listening to the match on Radio 5 Live with Joyce in Stratford Upon Avon elated hearing the injury time winning goal grinding out this victory when match summariser Nigel Reo Coker was astute exposing our rather pedestrian slow build up approach play plus lack of creativity in midfield missing since we were blessed with that impressive Parker Modric axis under Arry’s regime.
After that display, I hope Burnley get relegated. At least Fulham and even the Terriers give it a go, and Wolves are playing some genuinely attractive and enjoyable football. Dyche has jumped the shark, he’s just Tony Pulis V2.0.
Ill be going to the test event but not inside the stadium! 🙂 walked past yesterday with all the fencing down. Can really see what the designers set out to do regarding the lines and the flow now. Its brilliant I think.
It’s weird because seasons past we’d of drew here probably playing better football yet somehow this season we’re finding a way to get over the line.
But it’s like watching paint dry for the most part, people can point to stats and dominance but our play is so predictable, slow and uninventive.
Hence why City and Pool etc have vastly superior goal tally’s because their football is based around attacking the other side and beating them, where as we play a brand that can only be described as boring the the other side into submission.
We’re in touching distance of the top , through in the Champions League by the skin of our teeth yet we all know deep down that when buisness end comes wel be just short and it’ll all of been in vain.
That game was dreadful. Perfect example why 0-0 should have no points. 11 men at the back is just crap. We didn’t deserve to win but they definitely didn’t deserve to even draw. We had 17 shots against one of the worst England no1s ever and yet only 4 or 5 tested him!
Maurice-eeohh is working with bits and bobs chucked his way by multi billionaire uncle Joe and Daniel (I live to ‘deliver’ for the client numbers) Levy.
The fresh academy meat which is basically just making up the club-reared quota for the C.L squad is being lauded as some kind of master plan. The fact is that the likes of Skipp and KWP would probably never get a kick at another top half side or bottom half team fighting to stay in the division.
Lots of young academy players can do a job when used sparingly or thrown in the deep end because they have zero to lose. A top flight career as a player rarely follows being used as polystyrene packing in a frugally assembled Premier League parcel.
Johnnie Jackson fans take note..,
We need to step it up and our owners who are NOT skint need to stop taking the Michael out of the faithful and back the manager…
There’s always following ya team through thick and thin. I don’t support a team in a conventional sense anymore, I would have followed them through multiple relegations….anything…. Its not a choice, yet, I don’t know what this is now, its neither thick nor thin, its an absense of what I held dear, I don’t understand it. West Ham fans might feel similar, even though we are awaiting a home coming. It feels its gone for good though. What’s left is watching a patchwork tired unapreciated bunch of players desperately cling on to the 4th place business model while the owners neglect them. Eriksen bailed us out today…. How’s he? Oh yes, struggling to wake the chairman up long enough to get a contract halfway what he’s worth. The Premier League is diabolical. That’s about all Levy can bank on.
rest assured I can rest assure now with 3 points…
3 points is 4 points after all
Sexy last min winner! YIDSAH
a game of no halves..
desperately need another midfield playmaker..we have enough sideways makers…
We’re TOTTENHAM
Super TOTTENHAM
We’re TOTTENHAM
Winning games. I never saw or heard the game. But apparently our enthusiasm wasn’t there like it was in Spain. Raining. Burnley! Ill let’em off. Cmon u spurs, pick it back up. We will.
My god I feel sorry for Aaron Lennon, he was never prolific for us, but I always liked him as a player, even if he could be very frustrating at times, but to see him playing for that team today is just depressing. He looked nothing g like the player that used to fly up and down the right wing for us.
Anyway happy with the 3 points, but we was shit, Levy needs to get the credit card out and spend some bloody money.
I always will love Spurs tappas, I just don’t see Spurs there anymore sadly.
Compare to Jose at United who has the exact same issues three years after walking through the door and is still standing there cross armed saying ‘not my fault’
Some of these obstacles were of the ‘typical Spurs’ deep rooted stuff – others were issues with the squad available, or with his own tactics.
But some, like the Wembley issue, look almost laughable now – but that’s because Poch worked round them/turned them on their head.
Yes, let’s hope that doesn’t happen because I’ve a lot of time for Poch because imo he adapts and responds to results/criticisms/weaknesses.
Since he came in the evolution of his weaknesses/obstacles would go something like:
1. Can’t win in Europe
2. Can’t win in the league after a game in Europe
3. Can’t beat teams who park the bus
4. Can’t win away from the Lane’s small pitch
5. Don’t have a big game mentality
6. Can’t beat the ‘big boys’
7. Doesn’t trust the whole squad/can’t rotate/can’t balance all competitions
8. Can’t win at Wembley
The current two are:
1. Suspect game management
2. Can’t get consistency in the way we play with rotation
I’ve no doubt he’ll be working on those weaknesses too
Good post SG.
It was clear after the WC that Poch was faced with a problem so rather than employ the relentlessly demanding high press he went to a more solid and structured approach.
Not as easy on the eye but he utilised Moura well on the counter during this period and the win at Utd was a prime example.
The label of Poch being a ‘one trick pony’ was always laughable but over the last two seasons it’s become obsolete. Unless you’re a bit thick.
It’s imperative that Bald Weirdo stops attempting to don his Superman cape that the club’s PR dept have made him and get on with addressing the reality. The very real prospect of our finest manager since Bill Nic walking out…
Until the 91st minute, a late goal against a team intent on defensive play and nothing else after dominating a similarly defensive side at the Camp Nou.
The supposedly ‘resurgent’ Woolwich laboured to a fortuitous 1-0 home win over Huddersfield in their previous match, which of course you predictably fail to reference…
Most of the teams that yo-yo between the Championship and Prem or manage to stay in it generally play that way.
Even if they come up playing more attacking football, they eventually get found out by a lack of depth and quality. Often their best players eventually get taken by the established Prem clubs too. This is why they mostly revert to ‘survival mode’ and any quality in their play is virtually nonexistent.
It’s no surprise that us, Liverpool, City and even Woolwich are going on unprecedented unbeaten runs and starts to the season etc. How impressive is all of that in reality?
There’s a widening gulf between the top 5-6 clubs and everyone else and it shows. We are becoming like Spain but there’s 6 clubs rather than just the two winning all the games.
Records keep getting broken and you wonder if it’s the strength of the biggest clubs or the disparity in wealth in the league becoming greater.
Poch has responded to his greatest weakness each season with a change the following one.
Early on he couldn’t get balancing Europe right and then improved on that greatly.
Rotation/utilising the squad was his biggest issue last season – and whether his hand has been forced thanks to injuries/WC fatigue or he just knew he needed to improve in this area – the fact is he’s started embracing rotation wholeheartedly and it seems to be working in terms of results if not always in terms of style consistency/enjoyable football.
Maybe this will be the season where we reverse it and with the finish line in sight we can then thrash one 11 best performers into the dirt – rather than knackering them by the time we reach February.
A very different approach to working the squad this year anyway – and signs of change again from Poch. Another string to his bow maybe. He’s still learning.
May I take this opportunity of wishing HH plus fellow posters a merry Xmas and a happy and health new year. Once again special praise to HH for his input behind the scenes delivering this excellent forum.
It’s weird because seasons past we’d of drew here probably playing better football yet somehow this season we’re finding a way to get over the line.
But it’s like watching paint dry for the most part, people can point to stats and dominance but our play is so predictable, slow and uninventive.
Hence why City and Pool etc have vastly superior goal tally’s because their football is based around attacking the other side and beating them, where as we play a brand that can only be described as boring the the other side into submission.
We’re in touching distance of the top , through in the Champions League by the skin of our teeth yet we all know deep down that when buisness end comes wel be just short and it’ll all of been in vain.
Not pretty to watch but why condemn lowly Burnley? when credit Dyche who clearly had a game plan which nearly worked to perfection smothering Spurs, defending for their lives they nearly got a point when not pleasing to the eye they produced a vintage Burnley away performance of old against a Spurs side who dominating possession the longer the game went on simply could not break them down and ran out of ideas.
I was a bit disappointed with their chosen tactic as well. Burnley has given Spurs the opportunity for a real match in the past.
yep… lost a mouthful of whisky and tea with that post !
After that display, I hope Burnley get relegated. At least Fulham and even the Terriers give it a go, and Wolves are playing some genuinely attractive and enjoyable football. Dyche has jumped the shark, he’s just Tony Pulis V2.0.
Diddling her twiddle it was a riddle why Janice in Venice looked askew when our waiter Rupert Theo Joker was afoot exposing his rather large todger to all and sundry and lacking any modesty in decorum missing from the time were were granted a spectacular Aston Martin axle under Larry’s lorry.
Listening to the match on Radio 5 Live with Joyce in Stratford Upon Avon elated hearing the injury time winning goal grinding out this victory when match summariser Nigel Reo Coker was astute exposing our rather pedestrian slow build up approach play plus lack of creativity in midfield missing since we were blessed with that impressive Parker Modric axis under Arry’s regime.
Ill be going to the test event but not inside the stadium! 🙂 walked past yesterday with all the fencing down. Can really see what the designers set out to do regarding the lines and the flow now. Its brilliant I think.
ENIC have used “To dare is to do” as a marketing slogan for close to two decades. When they never dare and very rarely do, unless it involves pouring concrete…
Maurice-eeohh is working with bits and bobs chucked his way by multi billionaire uncle Joe and Daniel (I live to ‘deliver’ for the client numbers) Levy.
The fresh academy meat which is basically just making up the club-reared quota for the C.L squad is being lauded as some kind of master plan. The fact is that the likes of Skipp and KWP would probably never get a kick at another top half side or bottom half team fighting to stay in the division.
Lots of young academy players can do a job when used sparingly or thrown in the deep end because they have zero to lose. A top flight career as a player rarely follows being used as polystyrene packing in a frugally assembled Premier League parcel.
Johnnie Jackson fans take note..,
We need to step it up and our owners who are NOT skint need to stop taking the Michael out of the faithful and back the manager…
Don’t let the w a n k e r s make you lose love for your team man. Yes they lost us a gen of fans, won nothing worth mentioning and knocked down the lane but we’re still here! Here to tell the next gen of fans the story. Lots of new fans coming. None been to the lane. We’re nostalgia 🙂 🙂
There’s always following ya team through thick and thin. I don’t support a team in a conventional sense anymore, I would have followed them through multiple relegations….anything…. Its not a choice, yet, I don’t know what this is now, its neither thick nor thin, its an absense of what I held dear, I don’t understand it. West Ham fans might feel similar, even though we are awaiting a home coming. It feels its gone for good though. What’s left is watching a patchwork tired unapreciated bunch of players desperately cling on to the 4th place business model while the owners neglect them. Eriksen bailed us out today…. How’s he? Oh yes, struggling to wake the chairman up long enough to get a contract halfway what he’s worth. The Premier League is diabolical. That’s about all Levy can bank on.
I wonder if he commutes?
Sexy last min winner! YIDSAH
We’re TOTTENHAM
Super TOTTENHAM
We’re TOTTENHAM
Winning games. I never saw or heard the game. But apparently our enthusiasm wasn’t there like it was in Spain. Raining. Burnley! Ill let’em off. Cmon u spurs, pick it back up. We will.
he’s suffering depressing, enough to make him join Burnley….
rest assured I can rest assure now with 3 points…
a game of no halves..
desperately need another midfield playmaker..we have enough sideways makers…
Azza looked like a bloke who made some unwise investments when things were financially good for him…
That game was dreadful. Perfect example why 0-0 should have no points. 11 men at the back is just crap. We didn’t deserve to win but they definitely didn’t deserve to even draw. We had 17 shots against one of the worst England no1s ever and yet only 4 or 5 tested him!
My god I feel sorry for Aaron Lennon, he was never prolific for us, but I always liked him as a player, even if he could be very frustrating at times, but to see him playing for that team today is just depressing. He looked nothing g like the player that used to fly up and down the right wing for us.
Anyway happy with the 3 points, but we was shit, Levy needs to get the credit card out and spend some bloody money.
3 points is 4 points after all