Well it seems Conte goes from risk averse (except the way we drop deep is fucking risky) to going all guns blazing and leaving gaps everywhere and still not playing quality football just hoofball
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Disagree, nothing to show for it is not true.
Pochettino regularly qualifying for the CL on a shoestring budget enabled us to help fund the best stadium in Europe.
Fans might not like it, but qualifying for the CL is more important than winning the Carabao Cup or FA Cup. Football has moved on from the 70s and 80s.
Mc, MU, Newcastle & Liverpool still in it.
I agree - but Conte appears to have a self destructive stubborn streak - so Royal will get the nod again - Groundhog Day incoming.
another year with no trophies it would seem
going on 15 years now
going on 15 years now
No Biggie he says
This club have won two trophies in 24 years , both league cups btw
Last time we won a trophy that wasn't the League cup was over 30 years ago
I will never understand this fanbase
If that's true then fuck the league and let's resurrect the superleague if the only thing that matters is qualifying for the CL for its own sake is the only objective.
Going into this match, I predicted a boring, lazy affair, simply because it's an early-round LC game right before a World Cup. Gotta be hard to get most of the Spurs first-team players hyped up for this. Even if only subconsciously, a lot of them are going to be thinking about their stamina and fitness for the WC. Forest didn't have that problem, have a much weaker squad, and even played a weak XI. So, for Spurs, playing the second team, of whom none would be going to the WC, would've been a better shout (especially instead of the sort of half measures Conte chose).
But the game was disappointingly boring and lazy even with my low expectations. I'm not sure what the plan was.. Hope that the superiority of Spurs' first XI would overpower Forest despite a defensive setup and all of the aforementioned problems? Kane's been clearly in need of a rest for weeks and if Conte won't rest him tonight, when will he? We saw how taking him off made absolutely no difference, for better or worse, so evidently he wasn't capable of running the game in his current state (nor could his replacement do better with the same setup and backbone). A Kane substitution when the team isn't winning comfortably is a collector's item and the implication is obviously that he should've been rested from the start.
(Although it's only an extension of the same thing we've seen for most of the season: the rest of the team struggling to get the ball into Kane and Son. And not for lack of trying on their part. I see Kane making runs and signalling for the ball all the time and with a feasible lane open, but nobody's sufficiently brave, adventurous, and confident in their ability to try the pass to set him away. It's much the same with Son, who also suffers tremendously from Kane not getting enough of the ball.)
But the game was disappointingly boring and lazy even with my low expectations. I'm not sure what the plan was.. Hope that the superiority of Spurs' first XI would overpower Forest despite a defensive setup and all of the aforementioned problems? Kane's been clearly in need of a rest for weeks and if Conte won't rest him tonight, when will he? We saw how taking him off made absolutely no difference, for better or worse, so evidently he wasn't capable of running the game in his current state (nor could his replacement do better with the same setup and backbone). A Kane substitution when the team isn't winning comfortably is a collector's item and the implication is obviously that he should've been rested from the start.
(Although it's only an extension of the same thing we've seen for most of the season: the rest of the team struggling to get the ball into Kane and Son. And not for lack of trying on their part. I see Kane making runs and signalling for the ball all the time and with a feasible lane open, but nobody's sufficiently brave, adventurous, and confident in their ability to try the pass to set him away. It's much the same with Son, who also suffers tremendously from Kane not getting enough of the ball.)
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only thing we would be good for in that is being the fodder
Yes apparently Levy is trying to sign up Jedward for a concert who are making a comeback. Will make a change for the stadium to have only a couple of jokers performing on the pitch instead of the usual 11!
Yeah but you can qualify for CL AND win this poxy cup
Have we really put out a near enough full strength team in the milk cup and still managed to get dumped out?
Yes was very embarrassing.
But the food at the stadium though, and the beer that fills from the bottom wowzors!
And those glory glory NFL nights.
Fury v Chisora
Guns N Roses
Isn't the corporate cock up your arse wonderful?
Even today he brings on Gil kulu and rich but leaves 3 CBs on so we only have bent and Biss in cm. Got over run a bit. We didn’t need 5 defenders in the first place not to mention the in midfield with no creativity in any. Skipp playing right side as well!
What’s with the blanket abuse of your fellow Spurs fans? You are clearly a Conte fan. What is it that you think he is doing so well at the moment that puts him above criticism?
Nah fuck off, I'll take 8 at the back any day, all it needs is a few more £60m players to be effective...