Spurs Banter Archive February 23 2014

 

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23 Feb 2014 23:34:41
Sherwood is a legend ha. Arsenal fan, and it shows.

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Nice to see so many gooners outside your library, celebrating the unvailing of a bronze statue of a spurs fan.
You got to walk past that smiling yido every home game.

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23 Feb 2014 23:08:26
I just can't wait for next season to start because this season is a flipping joke.
30 mil Lamela no show
2 managers who r as shyt as each other
A captain who is all washed up
I can go on and on.
Baldini to piss of back to Italy too.

Levy if you want spurs to be a success
Get a world beater manager with pedigree
Give him the budget and let him choose the players he wants and let him get rid of out shyt

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23 Feb 2014 22:01:59
Well, as expected by many of us who thought we wouldn't get 6pts from the previous two games, we go and drop some in a very winnable must-win (most of them are) match.
Norwich were average at best, that's how flat and generally inept we were.
It sounds flimsy but Europa Thursday away games followed by Sunday Premier League away games see a small percentage of victories because it does disrupt clubs, always has.
Bentaleb - what the ****. Promising yes, capable yes but, outstanding no, week-in-week-out starter no. Ridiculous.
Rose - ok at best when at his best, not got much choice but to play him
Naughton - average at best
Paulinho - when he was walking off to be subbed it was as at the same pace he does everything; PLOD
Dawson - finished, sorry but just isn't a consistent top 6 player
Capoue - may come good but a very dis-jointed season and alongside Bentaleb and Paulinho = boring

Soldado - really feel sorry for this bloke, we have not played to his strengths so the curse of misses and some real bad luck will last longer than it should/could of. He is a good player, we may just never see it.

Might as well go all out for Europa League, winning a trophy is worth celebrating, finishing 5th again when we had another huge opportunity of 4th and blow it is becoming tedious.

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23 Feb 2014 20:54:08
What an absolute shower of SH*T!

Tim Sherwood has no idea of how to manage our club, he is so consumed with Bentalab its unreal, yes the boy looks ok but he is no world beater and certainly would not be a regular in any of the top 8 teams in the PL. To play him over Eriksen and then sub Paulinho for chadli is unbelievable.

The team today consisted of at least 5 players IMO who wouldn't play regular at any team in the top 8 of the PL and 3 of those players wouldn't even get into the top 10 of any PL team. Dawson, Naughton, Rose, Bentalab and Townsend are extremely poor and the first 3 are medicore at best. Townsend has been found out and shown that he is overrated, Dawson is so far beyond his best he practically prehistoric, Naughton is so poor that not even Harry Redknapp wanted to take him to QPR, Rose showed last year at sunderland he is a capable player but at that level mid to lower PL level, Bentalab is still young but hasn't done anything I feel makes him a first choice and when you look at the players he is playing in front of, Eriksen, Holtby and even Dembele in his natural position.

Tim Sherwood worries me also, not just because of his love affair with Bentalab, but also his tactical choices, team selection, general man managment and transfer talk also had me concerned, to state we don't need another when Jermaine leaves is strange, because Soldaldo isn't scoring and Kane isn't good enough.

Since he has been in charge TS has played 4 different formation 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 and 4-1-3-2, he hasn't stuck we any of them for longer than a couple of games and IMO has played the wrong formation in the wrong games, like today against a Norwich team in decline only won once in 11 and haven't scored a goal in over 5 hours of football IMO a perfect game to go 2 or 3 up top with quick attack mind players behind them, but no TS plays 4-2-3-1 and a very slow build up game, against ManC he played 4-4-2 and no defensive midfielders and we were over run. he has no clue whatsoever. Also like AVB he doesn't seems to be able to change a game mid flow, strange subs are just as baffling as AVB' were and since he has been in charge he has had problems with a few players most notable Capoue and now Eriksen.

The sooner this season finishes the better, IMO get Sherwood out and my choice of LVG in if not him then De Boer, With Sherwood also ship out Dawson, Naughton, Rose and even Paulinho, Now I like Paulinho and he looks a good player the only problem is he slows down our play so much he isn't suited to the PL, then let the new manager bring a few new faces and start again.

I know some will disagree and others will agree with some or all of what I say but this is a site for debate.

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No disagreement on any of that at all!!

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Your post is spot on.

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23 Feb 2014 20:24:05
Banter please Ed,

Message to Spurski,

And I intend no disrespect to any of you other guys.

Mate, you come on our page and large it up because Sczezny got sent off the other night.

Still laughing now are we mate?

You lost in Mickey Mouse cup and now against Norwich.

you pop up and disappear more than dynamo mate.

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Szesney is a complete muppet and wind up fool. I admit we are crap at the moment and I will have a good chuckle when you win absolutely nothing yet again.

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Sczezny is a muppet?

21 goals conceded compared to Spurs 33 goals?

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Its Sceszney's gob that irratates me, he is constantly trying to kiss your gooner @rses by mocking us. Lloris is much better anyway, it's Dawson, Rose and Sherwood costing us goals and not Lloris.

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23 Feb 2014 20:10:13
get rid of rose and naughton and bring back the brilliant stephen carr probably still better than them now

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23 Feb 2014 20:09:44
Sherwood has to go he is unbelievably out of his depth. To carry on picking Bentaleb who for me is a nothing player is beyond belief. To leave Eriksen on the bench is beyond belief. To bring on the useless Chadli is beyond belief he is soo soo bad.

There is no structure to our play the gap between defence and midfield is personic especially when donkey Dawson gets exposed time after time and yet Sherwood carries on with his same pathetic tactics whatever they are. We have been lucky in almost every win we have had this season.

Sherwood keeps saying that we start slow so why doesn't he get them to start quick. There is no passion or commitment whatsoever so that shows that Sherwood is useless as that's supposed to be his strength as a coach. What is Levy playing at he should sack this joker now. I would rather have Paolo Tremmezani in charge than Sherwood.

Sherwood out.

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*personic - personic. Ed did I really type personic?

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{Ed001's Note - it is the swear filter mate, it changes it before it reaches our end, so I don't even know what you tried to say originally to change it back.}

Ed001 It wasn't a swear word! Lol. It was a five letter word beginning with I and ending in t with a d, I, o inbetween! Are the filters really that fussy?

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{Ed001's Note - yes, it is because people tend to start off with words like idiot, then the person they are talking to replies with a stronger word and so on. So they were set up to stop those kind of silly tit for tat arguments starting. It doesn't always work, but nothing is perfect.}

23 Feb 2014 20:01:26
saturday night I watched the brilliant gareth bale score another screamer and then sunday I watched poor spurs struggle is it me or does anybody else miss bale

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No its just you!!!!!

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23 Feb 2014 18:37:49
Well todays dismal result settled a few issues. Most obviously we aren't getting CL this year. The realists among us have known this for a while but today it became crystal clear and to be honest it would be a travesty if we did, Liverpool are a far better team than us right now. Secondly Soldado has to go at the end of the season, whether he is a good player who just hasn't clicked at Spurs or a bad player he is contributing nothing to us at the moment. Thirdly Baldini and Levy have to go, our Summer transfer policy was a disaster, the stupidity of spending 100m on players without a single minute of PL experience between them has been exposed repeatedly, NONE of the signings have been a real success and Lamella and Soldado, the two most expensive have been truly disastrous (btw, don't believe this guff about Lamella being injured, it's a face saving move by club and player to say so, he has played his last game in a Spurs shirt and will be moved on in the summer for a substantial loss). Also the jury is still very much out on Sherwood as manager, things have improved under him but failing to win at places like Dnipro and Norwich don't fill me with confidence, also his tactics and team selection seem odd to say the least. Why play only 1 striker against a team like Norwich who have won 1 in 11, haven't scored for over 5 hours and who are shot on confidence? We should have got at them, an early goal would have been the beginning of a rout but instead we played a slow and listless game until we went behind. Also, why was our most creative player left on the bench for the entire duration of a game that was an absolute must win? 2 other big question marks against Tim are 1, His inability to consistently instill a sense of urgency in the team and his personic claim that despite Jermains departure, we didn't need to bring another striker in during the January transfer window, really Tim? because if Ade isn't scoring I don't see Soldado or Kane banging them in. All in all this season will go down as the lost opportunity in Spurs history, 100m spent well could have transformed us and cemented us as CL regulars but the Levy/Balsini transfer policy of buying young foreign players in the hope they will bloom and be sold on at big profits has blown up in our faces and set us back immeasurably. Sad but true.

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My only hope now is that we fail to qualify for the Europa next season . the number of games and amount of travel is not advantageous.

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23 Feb 2014 18:05:53
Tim cost us the game today.

His persistence of playing Bentaleb is annoying. We have a world class player like Eriksen warming the bench.

Secondly, he played Dembele on the left? Ummm Tim, he's a CM!

Thirdly, if he plays the 4-2-3-1 formation. he MUST play natural wingers to supply our single frontman. And they MUST play on their natural sides, why he didn't play Townsend on the left and Lennon on the right bemuses me.

My team today in the 4-2-3-1 would have been.

Lloris

Naughton
Capoue
Vertonghen
Rose

Paulinho
Dembele

Townsend
Eriksen
Lennon

Adebayor

Lastly.Dawson is absolutely awful.

I'm done.

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I have an exclusive for you. Once Timmy boy is released in the summer, he has a new job lined up.
He is setting up as a football agent and his first client is nabil bentaleb.
His love affair with him is getting embarrassing. Yea he is a good player but him as a constant starter, or never subbed is getting mind boggling. Paulinho off, instead of bentaleb, was madness today. I'm for Timmy supporting youth. That's great. 2 words for Timmy boy. Erikson. Holtby. Young, internationals that will grace the best teams in the world in the future.
Enough said.
Thx Timmy, but roll on summer. LVG (my preferred choice). Prandelli or FDB.
Like I've said before, I think it was set in stone before Timmy got his 18 month contract

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Not going to mention Dawson again, still crap! But let's add rose and Naughton to that, they are bloody awful! Sherwood says that Paulinho is a box to box player, what's that a shoe box? Every game that he plays in, he slows us down so much that the opposition has a cup of coffee before we get the ball into their half! We have one of the most creative midfielders sat on the bench, and he brings Chadli on! We were playing Norwich for f**ks sake, why didn't we play two up front? And Sherwood persistence with Bentaleb is getting a joke! Yes he is a good young player, but so was Holtby! It's got to the stage that I wish the bloody season ended tomorrow but then we would end up in the Thursday night cup again so we would have even more excuses!
Still roll on Thursday, can pay to watch Donkey Dawson and co plodding around again earning their huge wages! Problem is, if they win even more cracks will be papered over! Come on Daniel, time for the pub players and manager to be replaced!

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23 Feb 2014 18:02:45
this is one of the worst spurs teams I have seen we have the 3 worst defenders in rose naughton dawson then midfield there is no creativity in chadli bentaleb townsend then we have soldado plus a pub manager in sherwood when arsenal and chelsea play rubbish they always find a way to win I hope liverpool qualify they are much better than us

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23 Feb 2014 17:56:17
80 minutes brought our first attempt on target. This says it all. Boring/ dreadful / slow motion football. Ade's goals have paper over how poor we are just like Bale did last year. Bring in a new top manager and let him build his own team. Disgusted and disappointed long time Spurs fan.

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Im not even disappointed.

that display was terrible and the more it went on, the more resigned I was that we would lose.

considering the scousers result earlier I wouldn't have thought they needed motivating but boy was I wrong.
slow, unadventurous, ponderous tip tap passing with a final hoof up to adebayor.
pretty pathetic.
hangover from Thursday?not sure about that but if that's the case, make sure we don't qualify for it next season, os top 4 is gone now unless attitudes change drastically, and the teams above us drop points.

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23 Feb 2014 17:19:57
I don't even care if we go on to win this game.

Team selection is poor again. we look lost out there like dnipro. no creativity . just an ability to either play a backwards ball or hoof it.

Final ball is aweful and the one player we have who can open defences is sat on the bench

We have rose, dawson and naughton who are all prone to an error - and it will happen

Worst 2 performances I've seen in years this game and dnipro

Roll on summer a decent manager and some balance in the team

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Fully agree. Liverpool and other clubs play at pace and score goals. We are slow and lack creativity. I believe if Soldado was playing with Liverpool he would have a hat of goals scored. By the time we get the ball to him the opposition have the whole team behind the ball. Tim can't motivate the team so he must go. I thought our performance against the Ukrainians was awful but this one was worse. Probably finish fifth or sixth.

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23 Feb 2014 17:03:46
if any of my fellow spurs fans have any trouble sleeping at night just watch a few spurs games will cure you we are boring I also think tim has to go at the end of season the job is to big for him

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23 Feb 2014 17:00:15
Y have we got so poor since this season

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23 Feb 2014 16:50:32
That first half was dreadful. Not one effort on goal. We are lethargic and with one or two exceptions look uninterested? Hard to believe watching this poor performance, how important this match is to possible top four qualification. If this is the result of our trip to the Ukrain ( and I find it hard to believe that professionals can not get over a bit of travelling in four days) then we should have ditched this competition at the qualifiers stage.

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Given the level of talent in the squad, the general overall apparent lack of desire is concerning. It's not just this game but repeatedly throughout the season. When we put it together it can be impressive, but that seems to happen less and less this season. Makes one wonder what the atmosphere is in dressing room.

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23 Feb 2014 16:49:38
Slightly strange decision there Tim! Why not put Eriksen on for Capoue, Chadli, do us a favour!

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