Despite the place booked in the League Cup Final – I think I may mow the lawn while that one plays itself out – and our Europa League campaign marching onwards, Tottenham are coming perilously close to doing not ‘a Leeds’ but doing a Juande Ramos. When we won the Carling Cup, the team at the time was in relegation form. Spurs’ current form isn’t quite on that trajectory yet, but it wouldn’t take much of a nudge to send Levy’s dream team into a state of free-fall.
Talk of us being within touching distance of the top four seems less optimistic and more wishful, and I would ask at what point does a football team with a billion-pound stadium stop relying upon luck?
A side that cannot beat the teams above it is doomed to mediocrity, that’s the way professional sports works. One might pull off the odd atypical performance, but that’s all that it will be.
It’s not as if all those Man Utd fans didn’t warn us…
The idea we are a top four side is ludicrous as explained by our results against the best performing sides in the league. Truth is without Kane and sons goals we would be in a relegation battle The three games Kane missed we were clueless. The only side to lose at Brighton
There must be somebody from the U-18s who could perform better that Doherty.
Captain Courageous…..NOT.There was certainly fear in his inability to find his own players with his distribution.
Good perspective – recruitment or player management
Aside from Kane, Sonny and PEH there are too many question marks over our players. Nearly every single other player has a question mark over their head. If they are not ageing, they are inexperienced, they are not injury prone they are prone to mistakes. The good pros have limited ability and our so called talented players have to get called out for being lazy or overweight. Roy Keane called us out for what we are last week, a bunch of chancers.
recruitment has been a mess for years now.
Our squad is no worse than West Ham/Leicester/Man U – they find a way
blame game –
off the field – enic/levy/Lewis/COVID/ nfl/beaver town.
on the field – tactics/players/Coaching.
we all know when we sit back defend/break it doesn’t work – yet we did and it didn’t go well ….
On the field – learn/adapt and move on to the next game . Utilise the players we have to win matches.
From a coaching standpoint how has Doherty become so in different from his form at wolves –
he got targeted yesterday and Bale was never going to track back and help.
Losing a game of football happens , learning is key and that’s what concerns me.
All teams we were beating under H and Mo at WHL
Stadium myth.
Lloris – “it was a match I feel that was played with a lot of fear.”
Rewind to last week at home against Crystal Palace. 1-0 up minutes before halftime. Docherty loses his man and fails to cut out a cross Palace equalise. Fast forward this weekend to Arsenal at the Emirates. 1-0 up with minutes until half time. Docherty loses his man, fails to cut out a cross and Arsenal equalise. Two identical mistakes at an identical and crucial time in the game. Firstly team selection. Docherty was toast against Tierney as soon as his name appeared on the team sheet. Terrible choice by Mourinho and his coaching team. Failure to address and eradicate identical match-changing errors within the same week. Terrible coaching by Mourinho and his team. Failure to take off Docherty at halftime was a tactical error. Replacing an offensive player in Bale with a defensive player in Sissoko when the team needed to be more offensive was a negative decision. Docherty should have been hooked then. The problem with this squad is the quality and what happens at the world-class training facilities between matches. It is a collective cluster f**k