The College Dropout

If you look at his passing statistics for a CB or as a FB. It’s very average. He’s not a particularly accurate passer. Not a progressive passer. Not tremendous at carrying it. Eye test. He looks ok on the ball.

I’m happy we won. That doesn’t make it a good performance. someone said they think our game plan this season is to nick a goal in the first half and defend deep and bravely in the second half. That is a Brucey game plan. I don’t for a second think that’s Howe’s plan for the season. that’s what we ended up doing against Bournemouth, against Forest and today. But I don’t think that’s the plan. When we get Schar back, Tonali playing, I expect us to go back to aggressive pressing.

I’m taking this for a lacklustre performance and 3 points. We’ll aim to play better with Schar back and some time on the training pitch. We sat in against them last season. But we also pressed them really aggressively in deeper areas. Won our duels. Incisive on the ball. Today we defended bravely in our box. But we lost a lot of duels in midfield. Sloppy on the ball. Plenty of individual mistakes. Taking too many touches. In short we weren’t at it today. We were the last time. Too many individual mistakes. Not cohesive as a team. But we hung on in there. Determined. Thought Spurs were bad in the final third. Too many touches. Not making the right runs. We were like this against Bournemouth and Forest too. We look at our best with all our ballers on and aggressive.

For a Bournemouth player aye. A Bournemouth CB. We have Trippier, Schar, Botman, Hall at his best. He’s nowhere near.

That plan is a recipe for disaster. That’s ultimately the Pardew and Bruce plan. Nick it with a bit of magic. Defend deep and hope teamwork and desire gets us through. We need to get back to fucking pressing.

Aye but not for a fullback. Agreed. Complexity and breadth of the sport has grown. Howe shouldn’t be managing our FFP situation.

Agreed. He was a warrior. But those mistake were so bad. Not MOTM for me.

Agreed on the first point. Kelly did great for the opening goal. But he doesn’t look particularly impressive on the ball.

Aye. Harsh sub. Should get the LW spot for now.

Murphy did great for the goal. And that got us the points. He was largely awful though. Super bad.

Lads don’t have the ability. Schar return and Tonali back will help. But Joe, Kelly, Burn aren’t possession based players in the pl

Aye Barnes played better.

Don’t know the reasons but he’s been bad. lucky to get so many minutes recently.

Then how do we regularly win football games? Sit deep and hit teams on the counter? Build from the back in a possession based system? Im happy we won. and the points return.

I don’t blame him for the goal. Not a great save in the lead up. Blocked the shot that was going wide or out and Burn blasted it into the net. Poor on the ball as usual. That’s a given.

Poor OG to concede. Not under a lot of pressure and had loads of space to avoid it. Then almost gave another goal away. Buck up lad.

Then we need another identity.

I don’t think he did. We rode our luck at times. Last season he played Ange. This time he was a bit Moyes-esque.

Spurs, Ange and their £300m spend is on fraud watch though. Very predictable in attack. Vulnerable defensively.

7 points is an excellent return. We’ve been bad though. Press is poor. Slow predictable subs. Men behind the ball and inshallah defending.

Solid. poor on the ball though.

Cmon lads. It’s Spurs.

Nearly everyone is bad. You can tell morale isn’t there.

This is a common Eddie tactic.

Agreed. There’s no footballing ability at the back either. Not seen Tino on it yet this season either.