HootersHotspur
Vital Reserves Team
Arsenal game has the look of a One Nil to Villa. Superbly coached team showing you don’t need a three year rebuilding “project” before you can compete. Just be good at what you do.
MATCH THREAD v Newcastle 12-30 kick off 13/4 away
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Vital Reserves Team
TQ2Spurs
Vital Champions League
Looks like you called that well HH!
HootersHotspur
Vital Reserves Team
Well I got the actual score wrong but not the result. Could see it coming a mile off - as clearly as the Spurs collapse to the season which has been coming for month.
With Emery as our coach we would have strolled into the top four. Unfortunately we have a deluded dreamer as our coach
TQ2Spurs
Vital Champions League
I didn't expect Villa to score another but what a great goal by Watkins.
Gary Onedaysoon
*Prediction Champion 20/21 & 21/22*
Emery also has Villa playing a high line and they've conceded 49 goals this season - the same as us. Different system but same end result.
Emery lasted less than 18 months at Arsenal. He was absolutely pilloried for his tactical naivety and tinkering even though he had been a serial winner previously. I didn't agree the with the Gooner fans then but it shows the futilty of making such quick judgements.
I'll bet if Emery had been available to us when we signed Ange not too many Spurs fans would have been impressed.
Eddie Howe has won endless plaudits for his coaching and tactical skiils at Newcastle yet they've conceded 53 goals this season. In fact, every team below us other than Everton has conceded the same or more goals than us. And that includes respected and courted coaches such as EtH, de zerbi, Moyes, Poch etc.
Let's give our 'deluded dreamer' time to reflect on this season and find solutions to the problems. And maybe even be appreciative that we're still in with a strong shout of a Champions League place at this late stage in the season. Very few predicted we would be at the start of the season.
steveperryman
Vital Football Legend
I remain unconvinced we can kick on from where we are but i believe he should be given the season. He's earned himself that much.
Spursex
Alert Team
Fortunately, I believe we'll stick with him, so the proof will be in the pudding, and of course the transfer market..
TQ2Spurs
Vital Champions League
So, are we hoping to sign some players with the intelligence to figure out their own tactics?
Spursex
Alert Team
Well any new signings will know what to expect that's for sure...So, are we hoping to sign some players with the intelligence to figure out their own tactics?
steveperryman
Vital Football Legend
I'm going to have to bite my tongue. I'll begin by going to bed tonight & repeating "I must back Ach."
muttley
Alert Team
That brought a smile to my face
Niall D
Vital Squad Member
I must admit that I disagree with your last paragraph Sock.
I've watched us play quite a lot this season, and whilst we haven't been as incisive, as we need to be, fro me the passing, possession and movement is pretty good to watch.
As Spex said there have been and will be days where we get a bit of a doing, and yesterday was one of them, for me the first 20 mins or so yesterday, up until 'the mistakes' we were all over Newcastle.
My worry is, that we concede from too few efforts and our own efforts on goal are too few for the possession we have.
I still argue that even though it doesn't happen, we look like we could score on every attack, and the build up play is usually slick, fast paced, and skill full, much better than the last few seasons anyway, for me so far it's, enough for now and IMO performances(by and large) are a more enjoyable watch, than the backs to the wall and 'Charge' tactics of Conte.
Yup there is work to do, am I happy with yesterday's result 'No"' we got our respective Arses kicked, now it remains to be seen if AP can learn and progress from it
thelaughingcock
Vital Reserves Team
I don't recall him achieving anything at all with Espanyol or Southampton?
thelaughingcock
Vital Reserves Team
Only time will tell, the squad is very young and we're still a few players short of what's required for his system to work.
Like it or not, I have a feeling Ange is here to stay!
Like it or not, I have a feeling Ange is here to stay!
Gary Onedaysoon
*Prediction Champion 20/21 & 21/22*
The players are supposed to be doing that right now, TQ. Ange made it very clear early on that his role (and his team) was to provide the players with the tools and it was for them to use them on the pitch. I think he used the analogy of a teacher preparing pupils for an exam but once they were in the exam it was up to the pupils to answer the questions.So, are we hoping to sign some players with the intelligence to figure out their own tactics?
After the excruciating micromanagement of Conte it was quite refreshing to hear.
Comparison with past seasons (first 32 matches)
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| GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts * | Comparison |
2023-2024 | 32 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 65 | 49 | 60 | - |
2022-2023 | 32 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 58 | 51 | 53 | +7 pts |
2021-2022 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 56 | 38 | 57 | +3 pts |
2020-2021 | 32 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 54 | 37 | 50 | +10 pts |
2019-2020 | 32 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 51 | 44 | 45 | +15 pts |
Also , this is the first season in the last five that we have had a coach for a complete season .
We are in desperate need of a No6 to take pressure off the back , pressure off the midfield and and get the ball moving forward,
We cannot rely on Madds to do it all.
Biss and Bents are still struggling .
It will come , it will happen .
Too many people are new to the PL.
They won’t be next season .
We cannot rely on Madds to do it all.
Biss and Bents are still struggling .
It will come , it will happen .
Too many people are new to the PL.
They won’t be next season .
total spurs
Predictor Champion 2022/23
Personally I find it hard if not impossible to share the positivity for next season IF Ange is never going to have a plan B and UNLESS we get a capt on the pitch that is actually going to direct & bollock the players in tactics, failings & workrate during each game.
I don't believe for one minute we are going to buy 3-4 world class players that are going to take us up a level, so given every man and his dog knows what we are going to do each game....it needs Ange to look at our opposition play and tweak tactics accordingly, especially v top 8 clubs.
If he won't do that then IMO he won't last a second season, which would be a pity cos the fecking manager merry go round would have to start again!
I don't believe for one minute we are going to buy 3-4 world class players that are going to take us up a level, so given every man and his dog knows what we are going to do each game....it needs Ange to look at our opposition play and tweak tactics accordingly, especially v top 8 clubs.
If he won't do that then IMO he won't last a second season, which would be a pity cos the fecking manager merry go round would have to start again!
vinniecopenhagen
Vital Football Hero
Well if our Deluded Dreamer wins his game in hand HH mate,then we are level on points with Emery's Villa so what's the difference.
