I fear for the managers ( Coach ) future. If he's not gone by June. He will be by October. I've seen this all before. It's Hoddle, it's Ramos, it's Gross. The players are not playing for him. Simple. One or two might be onside, but there is a dressing room of players who I'd bet are not and performances are showing this CLEARLY in my view. As players lost form the coaching team should have been using the full squad. But when half the squad are Internationals but have been dumped by the coach Your options are simply limited to having to keep on playing those who are letting you down.
No fear of being dropped creates the apathy in performances we are now seeing....these boys are not getting dropped no matter what they do & that is a nonsense.
How can Yedlin not be picked as he's inexperienced. He plays in the World Cup finals, the highest level of the game, yet somehow is not good enough to play at Stoke ? It is an utterly ridiculous situation to be in and to play Dier @ right back is insulting people.
I am no fan of Poch, not sure I ever have been really but I wanted him to work out. However, I beleive he's had enough time already to shape some basics, but anyone who can't get a defence sorted after 50 + games is clearly doing something badly wrong. Add in a midfield with limited creativity & no depth up front & your going to be handed your arse by Stoke & rightly question what this set of coaches are bringing to the party....
Giving a coaching team time is fine if you could see something working, but from 50 odd games...maybe 4 or so times the performane have been good / very good. The rest of the games have created more questions than answers & the positives are really, in reality, now just excuses when broken down.
Poch is no doubt a decent human being and for that I am sorry he's being made to look a fool by these players & of course the Board, but he's not helped himself by his selections and tactics either. I can't imagine he would not be doing anything less than his very best all the time, but it's not working and his best is proving to be worse than anyone expected & if he's not working now there is little reason to expect it to be working in Aug/Sep/Oct...especially given ENIC have already decided they won't spend on new players. The storm clouds are gathering.
And by work I don't mean I expect any higher than 6th.....I simply don't expect to be paying to watch a Spurs team that manage 6 shots on Target in 180 + minutes v Stoke in a whole season or fail to beat Palace at least once....struggle horribly away to Sheffield United, get dumped out of the FA Cup at home to Leicester etc etc etc....
The owners of the club should also do the decent thing & jog on along with Poch. They don't help themselves with their scape gloa approach & the end of Season statement better be a good one this May 24th as we have fuck all else to enjoy this summer, except Hugo in a United Top & Vorm being give the #1 and Brad the #13. It's pretty obvious our best player is going United, yet again we sell what should be kept !
Baldini got it wrong in appointing Poch. No doubt he's a good Coach, but he's at the wrong club. Baldini can't scout players, so why is he given a pass on appointing Poch ? We needed a coach who would get the best out of the expensive players we already had, Now 11 months on we have a coach who does not want the players we have, he wants new ones....what a fucking joke that actually is when the reality sinks in !
Benjimam Stambouli is living proof something frightening is going on in our scouting. If he was Poch's choice, which he must have been, what does that say about the black box and Mitchell ( yes he was not there but did he scout him for Southampton ???)
As a Spurs fan since I can remember & a 25 year Season ticket holder i don't expect to win the league, but I do want a 25 yard screamer from open play, I do want a flying winger, i do want to see a flick, a trick, an 80 yard pass.....a super star in white & something that makes me think, on days like this, that it's ok as we have X.....
For example, just been done at home to Villa...but fucking hell Waddle was amazing....shit game at Barnsley but wow Ginola was special again....did'nt make the Top 6, but Klinsman's goal v Southampton was amazing....etc etc....where as modem Spurs is "got absolutely raped by a limited Stoke and Ryan Mason is not anywhere near as good as Charlie Adam, but we did manage two shots on target in 93 minutes today...."
And that's what we have become under ENIC and it won't change while they are here. Till they have gone & someone who dares to dream comes in.......Danny Bkachflower was a romantic, he loved Spurs because we were a romantic team, where things.....most things....were possible...where's the romance in this current set up ? It seems to be excel spreadsheets coaching, profit margins, contracts and Spin in the board room and Donna Cullen....under the current regime this is not Tottenham Hotspur
