Some of you definitely need to go back on the meds, the bipolar is coming out strong. It’s a better season than 99% expected yet 50% aren't happy with the season even though 98.9% will be happy to get top 4 and 80% with top 5. A further 75% can now see why BJ was bought and is value for money yet 66% think we overpaid for him. Strangely 33% are looking back on the Conte times with fondness whilst 80% think his name has a silent u. 2% believe the league can be won whilst 10% are fearful of relegation. 50% believe every stat they read has relevance whilst 51% don’t. I will 100% enjoy the next 8 games whatever the results, knowing that next year will be at least 5% better.
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We're not!Then why do we get the feeling we are to easy to score against?
There are frustrations:
a) Goals we have conceded from open play (very, very, very few) are sometimes the oppo's first shot!
b) That this first shot has been the first goal scored in the game so we are 1-0 behind
c) That the goal scored was caused by an individual error (fans hate errors and will march with torches to that player's house and shout "bum" at them - love a scapegoat to blame too).
d) Or was a corner where the ball goes in off a player's back!
But our Achilles heel is set pieces, we are very bad at defending them, like very bad.
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It's set pieces, we are very bad (like 3rd worst record in the league) at defending set pieces.
People aren't happy because Woolwich are doing well and no one wants to say it, anxiety is going through the roof every time they win and their projecting they're insecurities back onto Spurs.
If Woolwich were 6th this would be a much more enjoyable season in many people's eyes.
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We are still going to smash them at home!
Because we can't mark set pieces for toffee. Other teams are allowed under the new rules, to body our goalkeeper and we are short a big strong fearless bastard who can head it and thinks dementia are a Heavy metal act.Then why do we get the feeling we are to easy to score against?
As expected then! And we don't actually have that many towering players either.
We have Micky and Dragu, but they don't play at the same time do they.
Set pieces would then fall on the defensive coaches ie Jedinak?
Think we really need a Marshall at CB(no not Ian, you bastards).Because we can't mark set pieces for toffee. Other teams are allowed under the new rules, to body our goalkeeper and we are short a big strong fearless bastard who can head it and thinks dementia are a Heavy metal act.
Arsenle - 28 April
Chelsea - 2 May
Liverpool - 5 May
Chelsea - 2 May
Liverpool - 5 May
Whilst there is room for HUGE improvement it shouldn't stop us from winning most games as we tend to score goals in most games.
But still, the frustration lingers and magnifies feelings e.g. against West Ham, in simplistic terms we win that game if we defended the corner they scored from (we defended well the other 9 corners they had in that game.
We just need to get structurally better (I'm crap in knowing what should or shouldn't be done at corners, zonal, man marking or both etc So I don't have any specific answers other than we need to be paying specific attention to this obvious weakness).
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Looking at the positives. We get 15 days preparation following the Newcastle game before those fixtures start.
Woolwich will have 4 games before they play us. And may have a CL semi final a few days after our game.
Chelsea will have 4 games within that same period.
And Liverpool will also potentially play 6 games (Inc a EL semi final on the Thursday we play Chelsea)
I also think having a run of games would be good for team chemistry. We could be cherry ripe for Liverpool
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Frustrating that Dan Kilpatrick didn't try to romance this piece with links to Puskas and Arthur Rowe, who was influential in making Hungary the best International team on the planet (whom Puskas was very much part of at the time), and those who watched them back then maintain they were one of the best international sides of all time with his push and run tactics that was revolutionary in the game (first introduced by Peter McWilliam when Rowe was a player at Spurs).Tottenham: How icon Ferenc Puskas shaped Ange Postecoglou's coaching philosophy
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There were a couple of corners that were conceded really weakly, Werner and Udogie gave away one each that I remember thinking wtf, was it the Werner one that they scored from? Doesn't really matter to be fair as the defending for that goal was woeful, you can blame coaching for sure but I don’t think an u12s coach would have been happy with 1) the marking of one of their main aerial threats and 2) the lack of effort to meet the ball
I’d still like to see us create more chances. I’m hoping we are just putting the building blocks together now to unleash on the rest of the season. Live in hope and all that.
He’s doing just fine so far, my 2 beefs are the set-pieces (at both ends) and the apparent lack of interest in utilising the academy.
The combination of Mourinho + Conte has left a significant portion of our fanbase brain damaged.
People wont believe it but in open play, we’ve tightened up significantly defensively since the turn of the year. 3rd least shots allowed I believe.
The combination of Mourinho + Conte has left a significant portion of our fanbase brain damaged.
People wont believe it but in open play, we’ve tightened up significantly defensively since the turn of the year. 3rd least shots allowed I believe.