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3rd place is up for grabs hope the lads are up for it!
And we are 3rd. Well done lads!
Terrific result! I didn't see the game, but it seems that it was a real derby match at its best.
All valid points but lets be honest , if juskelinan or whatever he`s called hadn`t been so good it would have been a cricket score .Jussi Jääskeläinen is his name.
All valid points but lets be honest , if juskelinan or whatever he`s called hadn`t been so good it would have been a cricket score .
Terrific result! I didn't see the game, but it seems that it was a real derby match at its best.
A terrific result yes, but to be brutally honest I thought much of our play was poor. Adebayor was completely hopeless. Lennon was OK in fits and starts. Holtby was again good 1st half but faded. Parker I thought was very poor. He was slow in the tackle and gave away a bad penalty that re-ignited a West Ham side that were ready to collapse at the time. Yet again his end product was nonexistent. Dembele I thought was also poor.
Verthonghen did his best at left wing, which he clearly isn't. Caulker and Walker were good going forwards, and Caulker could have had a couple of goals on another day. But as a back 4 they were caught out a few times trying to play the offside trap. I really dont like this continual rotating of the back 4. Sigurdsson I thought looked lively, and had a great shot turned onto the post, which Ade somehow managed to miss the rebound. And lastly, Bale was Bale, yet again. He's winning tight games which is good. But in all honesty, if we are aspiring to top 3 / 4 we should be beating teams like West Ham out of sight without the need for Bale to rescue the team in injury time.
Our real test at this level will against Ars*nal, Chelsea, and Man City. We will see if what I am saying is near the mark or not. As AVB rightly said, we need to beat Ars*nal to make the gap 7 points, and that will still not be enough, it will not be over even then.
All valid points but lets be honest , if juskelinan or whatever he`s called hadn`t been so good it would have been a cricket score .Jussi Jääskeläinen is his name. Thank you sir i stand corrected :up:
Dempsey is a squad player and isn’t as bad as you make him. As for Adebayor; that is just your discriminatory view and have no actual bases in known fact. Many players go through periods of bad form. Another point; we are playing slightly different than we did last year and the system might not suit him or he is trying to adapt to it.
You are absolutely spot on RS your evalution is accurate and also fair. AVB is playing players out of position to accomadate the fact that we do not have a decent striker to play upfront !! Defoe injured Adebayor now has a contract and is in who gives a s**t mode and Dempsey just isn't good enough... so he is playing Bale through the middle to compensate !!!!
This is great while Bale is in this form and fit but what happens if he gets injured or goes off the boil ? The fact that we didn't buy a decent striker in the window is still potentially our biggest problem and could still come back to bite us big time !!!Or it might not. But you are correct about injury. But the same could be said about United and Van Persie or any top striker. United owe their current position to Van Perise; take him out of the equation and things could be different. In fact you could use many scenarios and come up with different equations; but let us live in the real world and see if Levy & AVB were right to stick with what they’ve got.
Let's make no bones about it Wet Spam are a mediocre team at best and we had to rely on a wonder goal from Mr Bale to get us 3 points, admittedly Jaskellion was MOTM but this just goes to show that we lack a cold clinical finisher up front theres a long way to go yet and we have built on shaky foundations hopefully they will take the extra weight without collapsing.West Ham are a team that beat Chelsea this season and drawn against City. The clubs near the bottom can be the most dangerous and we should never underestimate them. You could argue that all wins are because of goal scorers (which is the bleeding bloody obvious). As I said previously Bale wouldn’t be able to shine if it wasn’t for the rest of the team; which is acknowledge by Bale himself and others.
But we are 3rd and AVB is proving me wrong, which I am quite happy to admit he still hasn't won me over completely and to be honest I don't think he ever will but credit where credits due keep it going AVB....COYS !!!!!
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Thats exactly why I don't bother posting anymore
Thanks Voice for pointing out how "wrong" I am and how oh so right you are
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Terrific result! I didn't see the game, but it seems that it was a real derby match at its best.
A terrific result yes, but to be brutally honest I thought much of our play was poor. Adebayor was completely hopeless. Lennon was OK in fits and starts. Holtby was again good 1st half but faded. Parker I thought was very poor. He was slow in the tackle and gave away a bad penalty that re-ignited a West Ham side that were ready to collapse at the time. Yet again his end product was nonexistent. Dembele I thought was also poor.
Verthonghen did his best at left wing, which he clearly isn't. Caulker and Walker were good going forwards, and Caulker could have had a couple of goals on another day. But as a back 4 they were caught out a few times trying to play the offside trap. I really dont like this continual rotating of the back 4. Sigurdsson I thought looked lively, and had a great shot turned onto the post, which Ade somehow managed to miss the rebound. And lastly, Bale was Bale, yet again. He's winning tight games which is good. But in all honesty, if we are aspiring to top 3 / 4 we should be beating teams like West Ham out of sight without the need for Bale to rescue the team in injury time.
Our real test at this level will against Ars*nal, Chelsea, and Man City. We will see if what I am saying is near the mark or not. As AVB rightly said, we need to beat Ars*nal to make the gap 7 points, and that will still not be enough, it will not be over even then.
You are absolutely spot on RS your evalution is accurate and also fair. AVB is playing players out of position to accomadate the fact that we do not have a decent striker to play upfront !! Defoe injured Adebayor now has a contract and is in who gives a s**t mode and Dempsey just isn't good enough... so he is playing Bale through the middle to compensate !!!!
This is great while Bale is in this form and fit but what happens if he gets injured or goes off the boil ? The fact that we didn't buy a decent striker in the window is still potentially our biggest problem and could still come back to bite us big time !!!
Let's make no bones about it Wet Spam are a mediocre team at best and we had to rely on a wonder goal from Mr Bale to get us 3 points, admittedly Jaskellion was MOTM but this just goes to show that we lack a cold clinical finisher up front theres a long way to go yet and we have built on shaky foundations hopefully they will take the extra weight without collapsing.
But we are 3rd and AVB is proving me wrong, which I am quite happy to admit he still hasn't won me over completely and to be honest I don't think he ever will but credit where credits due keep it going AVB....COYS !!!!!
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This is a forum not a debating society, if you want to debate join a debating society, you, Voice are the reason I WILL NOT BE POSTING ON THIS SITE AGAIN. I thought this was the SPURS NETWORK, not the VOICE Network, and judging by the amount of regular posters that are now not posting it would appear that others share my opinion.
Thanks to the rest of you, whose comments I have enjoyed reading and whose opinions whilst, I may not have agreed with, never-the-less have been entertaining.
C O Y S :spurs: :SN: :coys:
Know where you and Ugs are coming from.
Feel the same but as its not my posts being torn apart
generally don't mind reading another viewpoint.
However I wouldn't want my posts dismantled paragraph by paragraph.
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Whilst I agree that if you post on a forum then be prepared to have your comments discussed /disagreed with/ supported/ criticized etc.
What I don't agree with is that is a 'brilliant Spurs forum'.
It was once a few years ago. There were a large number of posters and the discussion was wide and varied and international. It is no longer such a shining star. The old hands are quiet and the forums are dominated by a few. To be honest the depth of discussion has also slipped and personally I find many of the posts quite superficial.
That is life, all things change. I don't really care though because my team is 3rd in the league and still in Europe. I don't care because Bale is pure poetry to watch and i don't care because I have followed the Spurs for about 45 years and most of those seasons have been pretty hard work but the last few have been a dream. I'm just enjoying the ride.
Whilst I agree that if you post on a forum then be prepared to have your comments discussed /disagreed with/ supported/ criticized etc.
What I don't agree with is that is a 'brilliant Spurs forum'.
It was once a few years ago. There were a large number of posters and the discussion was wide and varied and international. It is no longer such a shining star. The old hands are quiet and the forums are dominated by a few. To be honest the depth of discussion has also slipped and personally I find many of the posts quite superficial.
That is life, all things change. I don't really care though because my team is 3rd in the league and still in Europe. I don't care because Bale is pure poetry to watch and i don't care because I have followed the Spurs for about 45 years and most of those seasons have been pretty hard work but the last few have been a dream. I'm just enjoying the ride.
Whilst I agree that if you post on a forum then be prepared to have your comments discussed /disagreed with/ supported/ criticized etc.
What I don't agree with is that is a 'brilliant Spurs forum'.
It was once a few years ago. There were a large number of posters and the discussion was wide and varied and international. It is no longer such a shining star. The old hands are quiet and the forums are dominated by a few. To be honest the depth of discussion has also slipped and personally I find many of the posts quite superficial.
That is life, all things change. I don't really care though because my team is 3rd in the league and still in Europe. I don't care because Bale is pure poetry to watch and i don't care because I have followed the Spurs for about 45 years and most of those seasons have been pretty hard work but the last few have been a dream. I'm just enjoying the ride.
Whilst I agree with you that some of the topics can be a bit superficial, it would be improved if more of the "old hands" did participate. I like this forum and I will continue to post and hopefully, not only the regulars will do likewise but the "old hands" will return especially now that our beloved club are in 3rd place and still with a shout in Europe.