sammyspurs
in the "positive" thread.. hahaha i've seen it all now..
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sammyspurs in the "positive" thread.. hahaha i've seen it all now..
Well most people are talking about the positives from yesterday and one person is trying to ruin the thread.
Positives come when we play a more traditional game that the players seem to understand and respond to much better.
Yesterday there was no "high group press" (vomit) and "zonal counter attack" (lolz).
Just players marking their man, the breaking down of Stokes play, and cohesive, swift movement. Oh and we tried to go forward when we could. Good signs, and 11 of the 13 players used can really pat themselves on the back.
We need some big improvement from the top table though too. IF our constant capitulation and weak mentality is down to Poch having his hands cut off in the transfer market, the only way too really tell is to give him the players he wants.
Personally, I dont think its that simple, and he still has a lot to learn. He has shown some adaptability in our starting 11 (Kane, Dier, Dembele, Davies) and that has been a strong step in the right direction.
But he needs to realise what his current crop are capable of and deal with the fact he wrote off 2 DMs this window.
You dont compensate that by bringing on Lamela.
While it concerns me a lot, we have to stick, and give him a chance with his squad, and I think Levy will, eventually get there over the next few years.
I wonder if its possible to participate in a "positives" thread and then continue in your crusade against the perceived tactical inabilities of yet another (Spurs) manager - in a more massively arrogant and cock like manner?
"Personally, I dont think its that simple, and he still has a lot to learn. He has shown some adaptability in our starting 11 (Kane, Dier, Dembele, Davies) and that has been a strong step in the right direction.
But he needs to realise what his current crop are capable of and deal with the fact he wrote off 2 DMs this window.
You dont compensate that by bringing on Lamela. "
Remind us mere mortals about your trophy winning experience as a premier league manager once more - that allows you to speak in these imperious and patronising tones................
- why don't you?
Fuck me sideways.
...yet you keep hounding me around various threads about my problem with Poch bringing him on.Lamela is really not a very good footballer, like Taarabt he has some amazing skills, but seems to have no idea how to apply them. I'm not sure if there is any significance to the fact that if you add his name to that other Spurs misfit - Bent, you can make the word lamentable.
You are an arrogant man Sammy - and if you are notIts quite disturbing that you think...
...yet you keep hounding me around various threads about my problem with Poch bringing him on.
You like the fact our manager brings on shit players, and we go from playing well to playing shit?
You did not know that he would play as badly as he did - and you use the fact that MP cant see the future as a method of (yawn) beating him (yawn) over it.
I have watched you post for the last 6 or 7 years, and you have consistently denigrated all of the managers (in that time) for the "obvious" mistakes that they make - that you can see clearly.
If you were anywhere as gifted with the prescient knowledge that you consistently claim to have, you would be managing professional teams to glory.
I wouldn't mind, but there is no suggestion that Lamela was (directly, or indirectly) responsible for either of the goals - both of which seem to lie on the shoulders of the two central defenders.
Its really not that big of a strange thing to accept professional managers get it wrong. The game yesterday was a good indicator of that. Lamela failed in his role.You just needed another excuse to show your superior tactical acumen to yet another underachieving Spurs manager.
You are a joyless, miserable and boringly repetitive poster. I am at a loss to see what the fuck you get out of supporting any team, why the fuck did it have to be the one I'm passionate about?
Oh dear.Shit players play shit football. Yes I knew he would be shit. Because he is shit.
Yet chosen to ignore where I give them credit for the positives
A lifetime in the army has clearly told you that authority should never be challenged and is always right and know your place- So go ahead and be a good little sheep.
Then you dont know what indirectly means
Its really not that big of a strange thing to accept professional managers get it wrong. The game yesterday was a good indicator of that. Lamela failed in his role.
He failed because he is a terrible footballer. You may have forgotten, but you also think hes terrible.
Yet here you are, backing the manager for using him. Fucking weirdo.
I got joy, a lot of it from the first hour or so of yesterdays game. Then the inevitable happened and Im man enough to recognise it rather than pretend it was all in the hands of the football gods because we are too great to be shit.
You lost your passion when you fell on your sword and decided that this club is where it should be.
I can't say I felt positive when I left the ground yesterday, but having read through this, has made me feel a wee bit better. Think that it was the way the game went that made me feel crap, more than the actual performance, as it felt like a loss. Ah well, onwards and upwards.
The main positive I took when leaving the ground was that it wasn't a loss. The game was there for Stoke to win and for some reason they backed off and accepted a point.
I hope if we are in a similar position in a game that we have the guts to go for the win.
It's always the way. If we were 2-0 or 2-1 down and it was 2-2 it would almost have felt like a win.I can't say I felt positive when I left the ground yesterday, but having read through this, has made me feel a wee bit better. Think that it was the way the game went that made me feel crap, more than the actual performance, as it felt like a loss. Ah well, onwards and upwards.