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I do fear for our season now though. That injury list is beyond anything anyone could imagine. We all knew the squad was bare, but no one would have thought that we'd have 11 out for 1 game.
Romero got a Red for his follow through after playing the ball. Pretty much everyone on here agreed that a Red was justifiable.When you look back at the soft as anything penalties that have been given against us, it's hard not to get frothy.
If the Brentford one they gave against us was a penalty, then that there should be a penalty and a red.
And those saying....."unintentional, unintentional"....... Bullshit...... You know exactly what you're doing and you know exactly where it's going to connect.
But do you not think that, the football he wants to play a draw isn't an option.
It's risk and reward football, we either win or lose, there seems to be little middle ground.
In Scotland he could get away with that, because the quality of the opposition is sub standard.
I'm not sure, he is going to get similar success down south, because apart from three teams the league is competitive.
There is no doubt that, it's entertaining, exhilarating to watch, time will tell how far we can go with it.
Romero got a Red for his follow through after playing the ball. Pretty much everyone on here agreed that a Red was justifiable.
Carlos has no intention of playing the ball, only the man, and there's those on here saying it's not a Red!
Both are classed as violent conduct by the laws of the game. Romero wasn't carded by the ref initially, VAR had to intervene to get him sent off, yet they didn't bother to review the elbow, even though Carlos wasn't anywhere near challenging for the ball.
If this sort of thing was happening in isolation,then we could take it on the chin (pun intended), but it's happening in every single game now.
Referees are giving license to ANY team playing Spurs to effectively assault our players. If they're penalised it's after multiple infractions, and it's the mildest punishment possible.
The evidence is as clear as crystal, since we beat the dippers. It appears hunting season is open on Spurs players.
Romero got a Red for his follow through after playing the ball. Pretty much everyone on here agreed that a Red was justifiable.
Carlos has no intention of playing the ball, only the man, and there's those on here saying it's not a Red!
Both are classed as violent conduct by the laws of the game. Romero wasn't carded by the ref initially, VAR had to intervene to get him sent off, yet they didn't bother to review the elbow, even though Carlos wasn't anywhere near challenging for the ball.
If this sort of thing was happening in isolation,then we could take it on the chin (pun intended), but it's happening in every single game now.
Referees are giving license to ANY team playing Spurs to effectively assault our players. If they're penalised it's after multiple infractions, and it's the mildest punishment possible.
The evidence is as clear as crystal, since we beat the dippers. It appears hunting season is open on Spurs players.
Deki at 10 is the way forward whilst Maddison is out.I'm happy to admit I was wrong about LoCelso. He had a good game and contributed well. Gil was also less lightweight and flakey than I expected him to be. They stepped up well, I thought.
Kulu had a great game.
Whatever the cause, it needs to stop soon.Not sure on its either win or lose. Bottom line is that we too often fail to secure a point.
That's anAchilles Heel that pre-dated Postecoglou, so encompasses various managers, most of whom were far more cautious.
It's funny you should say that.
If your history is anything to go by, you'll be one of the first at the front of the lynch mob on Ange's case in a desperate attempt to shield Daniel Levy from any criticism .
This is one of those "welcome to Tottenham" moments.I do fear for our season now though. That injury list is beyond anything anyone could imagine. We all knew the squad was bare, but no one would have thought that we'd have 11 out for 1 game.
This is one of those "welcome to Tottenham" moments.
I agree that the season could drift now, could easily see finishing 9th or 10th.
Unfortunately west ham treat us as their cup final, I have had it already this morning, that they are going to beat us.No chance. We will be fine once we get a few players back. Against west ham it could be Vicario, Porro, Romero, Davies, Udogie, Bissouma, Sarr, Lo Celso, Kulusevski, Son, Johnson. If we cant beat them with that team then we need to look at ourselves. Richarlison is meant to be back fairly soon too and let's see how Bentacur is.
December will be a hard month. Towards the end as we have to rotate and dont have many options but we will need to get a couple of wins. Then January Maddison, VDV, Solomon will hopefully be back and we have 2 PL games. After that the fixtures are fairly kind to us until April. Also, we will hopefully add a couple in the window. The next month might be hard, but there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
It feels a bit like the season Mourinho lost Kane and Son and had an awful defence, midfield and had to play Dele upfront for a month or so. We dropped points but it wasnt that bad (obviously the football was shit but that's a different point).
Agree totally - can’t bring myself to go through this thread but at least 9 times out of 10 we win this gameHonestly I thought we were fucking brilliant today. How we didn't win is beyond me.
Apart from a lack of a finisher, and bad defending for one of their goals, i can't be too disappointed.
Whilst i didnt have a ticket ,i was over their yesterday,and even after two defeats on the bounce(as it was) , the mood is still good.
Nutter-Naylor was in the Coach,had a quick look round but couldnt see you.To be honest it wasn't just football i was there yesterday,my friends Mark and Sue were out and it was Sue's first trip to the lane since her fight and treatment against Cancer,so was there for them really.
Difference in prices for 2 pints.
The Bluecoats £12 40
Coach&horses £ 7.60
Thats some effing difference there
Mate, you gotta stop letting JT get to you.Take your lies and fuck off.
Mate, you gotta stop letting JT get to you.
It would be nice but, as we've already seen, we get Yellows for the mildest infractions and Reds when we do bring the aggression.Time to start being cunts to play against.
play our game with the ball and pressing but look to bring some malice and cunning to it. Pressure officials and try to get in players heads. No holds barred because we are just getting hacked out of the league with zero protection for our best players.