Spurs (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[youngbob]

We will need two central mids in January, not just one, as well as a dedicated right-back and a striker. These needs are urgent and cannot wait until the summer.

It's all well and good saying this but:

1) What players in these positions are good enough for us and will want to come in January?
2) Which current players will give up their places in the team, or be sold, to accommodate them?

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

The problem is that while we could conceivably win the league from being eleven points adrift there is absolutely nothing in our displays this season so far to indicate we are capable of it.
We've shown some spirit with last minute goals against Arsenal and Wolves, but we can't keep a clean sheet and have struggled against too many sides. Southampton are bottom with four points from eleven yet people on here were bigging them up after we only beat them 1-0. You can't fix a problem if you don't believe it exists.
CL and FA Cup double will do for me.

I would be absolutely amazed if we won a double of any kind

 

[Eccles Blue]

I wrote a bit of a hissy fit post in the match thread at 3-0…so taken a few deep breaths since then.

It took us 7+ hours to drive there today. It usually takes 4/4.5hrs. With 4 kids. As we do every home game (to be fair, kids don’t do weekdays, though I do). My boys are 15 and 12 and had to push the car a couple of times in the borders as the snow hit and the A702 was hit with the blizzard. It probably wasn’t good parenting to put us all at risk to be honest, the roads were lethal.

We’re now at Carlisle on the way back, if the roads are halfway decent it’s another couple of hours out to East Lothian.

But that was dogshit. Utter dogshit.

Like I said in my other post, I’ve barely missed a home game in 40 years. I was there at Lincoln when we let in 4. And Anfield for both games when we let in 10 in the space of 5 days. But tonight was dogshit.

What annoys me is the players we had our tonight have won everything. I’m not hacked off at Craig Russell, Ged Brannan, Martyn Margetson or (showing my age) Gary Fleming. They’d not won a thing, they had nothing to prove, they did their best.

Tonight, I didn’t feel that team did their best and that’s unforgivable.

Anyway, rant over. Back to the M6 and M74 and getting home wired from the coffee whilst the players have been asleep for hours and I carry an 8 year old to her bed.

Melodramatic I know and I’ll be there midweek as always but I’m royally f*cked off tonight, more than I should be.

Stay safe. Take care. You’ve done the hard yards as they say. Just get home safely with your youngsters. :-)

 

[Dewey6]

If Peps team doesn't have the right parts it's a mess. I assume Gvardiols defensive confidence is shot having to cover so much ground. He wouldn't have been in this position in other other side so I can excuse it. This is like trying to watch his first season here, with one of our best defenders in Zab trying to keep up.

Clearly the best manager in the world but surely now he needs to change it and drop the stubbornness. This squad can't do it.

 

[Gorbachev]

6 EPL titles in the last 7 season and you guys are complaining the players are dog whites and the club is mismanaging and Pep’s time at the club is up? You are worse than the worst Arsenal fans in terms of supporting the team.

Not disputing the fantastic, unbelievable and unforgettable last few years, but it is plain as daylight that the last 5 performances are a build up of poor squad and recruitment mismanagement over the last couple of years, the chasing of the net spend trophy over quality additions and over sentimentality of legend players leading to an ageing, uninspired and slow team.

 

[Stelea]

All gone tits up since we binned off the groundsman and changed the way the pitch is mowed. (Now Squares rather than lines)

 

[East Level 2]

6 EPL titles in the last 7 season and you guys are complaining the players are dog whites and the club is mismanaging and Pep’s time at the club is up? You are worse than the worst Arsenal fans in terms of supporting the team.

The concept of a post-match thread is lost on so many.

 

[Asa's left peg]

Walkers done.

 

[wythenshaweblue£££]

Been on the sauce?

Full tilt

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

This wasn't the 5 in a row I hoped for this season!

We were bobbins today.

There has been a massive drop off from last season.

The only positive from today was the traffic getting away from the ground wasn't as bad as normal as quite a few left early!