The Official Tottenham Hotspur thread [Vol 14]

[Terry Winks]

Yesterday? What a st day.

Us, I think you’re right Matt, you need a lot less fitness to sit in like a Conte team, or a different type of fitness. Reminds me of the first season under Poch and demanding the high press, just didn’t have stamina to do it at the start and towards the end of that season we were dead on our feet. Looks the same here to be honest. Even with Elite athletes it can still take years of conditioning to play a certain way.

Another win scraped though without being convincing, Villa don’t look ready to drop off yet. Apart from it obviously being difficult fixtures, I am quite enjoying the fact we have to play all of the top 3 now, we could have a serious say in the title race. I hate to say it though the only ones that look totally convincing are the Arse.

[TEKNOPUG]

Teams know how we play now, so don't get caught out early on, like in the first half of the season. But they don't have to work that hard countering other teams, so they tire early, which is why we look better as the game progresses.

So the opposite of the start of the season, when we would blow teams away and then we'd tire and concede late on.

The main takeaway from yesterday is our lack of quality in front of goal - it's what's killing us in games.

[Guvernator]

I've been saying this for ages. we need better forwards.

BJ seems to be improving so juries still out on him.
Kulu has about 1 good game in 3 these days, he was awful on Saturday and was rightly subbed off.
Wenger is a stop gap at best
Son is our best finisher but he's getting old and isn't really a number 9 anyway, he has zero hold up play.
Richie isn't good enough

We MUST prioritise a proper number 9 in the summer.

Edited by Guvernator on Monday 1st April 10:46

[Terry Winks]

If only we had one last season

[TEKNOPUG]

Terry Winks said:

If only we had one last season

They cost £100m though, where would we get that sort of money?

[48k]

TEKNOPUG said:

Teams know how we play now, so don't get caught out early on, like in the first half of the season.

I hate this phrase. It's the same kind of bks as when fans say "we've been found out" as if their team is playing some magical mystical never heard of never before seen system in a naive world where no one has access to analytics and data and video. It's utter bobbins, sorry.

[dmulally]

TEKNOPUG said:

Ascayman said:

48k said:

Doesn't get much closer than that.

Here’s a better pic

I'd like a real image of the ball on the line, rather than a CGI representation to be honest. The screen shot looks like the ball is well over the line and Doughty's foot is ever so slightly over. I guess we'll never know what Hawkeye actually registers as they never release the footage.

There must be a margin of error that they don't advertise. More VAR fairy required.

So a quick google suggests:

"The electrical current that runs through the cables generates a magnetic field. A sensor suspended in the ball measures the magnetic fields as soon as the ball comes into contact with them and transmits data about the ball's location to receivers located behind the goal that relay the data to a central computer."

I wonder if the player being so close to the ball played around with the sensors. One of those things that in real time clearly looked in the net.

[Byker28i]

Guvernator said:

I've been saying this for ages. we need better forwards.

BJ seems to be improving so juries still out on him.
Kulu has about 1 good game in 3 these days, he was awful on Saturday and was rightly subbed off.
Wenger is a stop gap at best
Son is our best finisher but he's getting old and isn't really a number 9 anyway, he has zero hold up play.
Richie isn't good enough

We MUST prioritise a proper number 9 in the summer.

Edited by Guvernator on Monday 1st April 10:46

I've said all along I like Johnson, seems a great player who will only improve.
Kulu is a worry, been right off since he came back from injury
Wenger might be a stop gap but he's proving useful in going forward, attacking, putting in dangerous balls.



Zero hold up play - did you watch the city/Arse game? Halland has zero hold up play and has been terrible since Christmas. Missing most of the game, wasn't running in front of the defenders so balls were easily cut out. Shocking game to watch.


West Ham tonight - again depends which Spurs/West Ham team turn up, then we've got Forest, Newcastle, the Arse and at some point City to play.

We do seem to play as though we're hanging on... Can't see us going above Villa

[TEKNOPUG]

Have you seen Villa's fixture list?

[Blib]

TEKNOPUG said:

Have you seen Villa's fixture list?

Chelsea, Arsenal, Citeh & Liverpool amongst others, plus Lille in Europe.

[dobbo_]

Guvernator said:

We MUST prioritise a proper number 9 in the summer.

Has Kane won the Budesliga yet? I'd say he might want to come back next season but he's clearly cursed would we even want him?

[Byker28i]

dobbo_ said:

Guvernator said:

We MUST prioritise a proper number 9 in the summer.

Has Kane won the Budesliga yet? I'd say he might want to come back next season but he's clearly cursed would we even want him?

Levy's probably got a cheeky £40m offer in for him maybe plus Richie

[TEKNOPUG]

Blib said:

TEKNOPUG said:

Have you seen Villa's fixture list?

Chelsea, Arsenal, Citeh & Liverpool amongst others, plus Lille in Europe.

And we have 3 of the bottom 4, who have managed 1 win in their last 20 matches. 2 of which will already be relegated when we play them.

[Ascayman]

Blib said:

TEKNOPUG said:

Have you seen Villa's fixture list?

Chelsea, Arsenal, Citeh & Liverpool amongst others, plus Lille in Europe.

Bar Lille we have to play all those too.

[Guvernator]

TEKNOPUG said:

And we have 3 of the bottom 4, who have managed 1 win in their last 20 matches. 2 of which will already be relegated when we play them.

Lol how long have you been supporting Spurs? Just because we are playing relegation fodder, doesn't mean we'll win. In fact normal Spurs form is to get a decent result against a top team, you know to get your hopes up, immediately followed by a 3-0 loss to a poor one.

[martinbiz]

Byker28i said:

We do seem to play as though we're hanging on... Can't see us going above Villa

Ehhhh......... Is this ref the Luton game or another you were watching? At 1-1 there was only one team trying to hang on

XG of 3.46 v 0.42 the only stat amongst a load bo**ocks that means anything

[48k]

martinbiz said:

Byker28i said:

We do seem to play as though we're hanging on... Can't see us going above Villa

Ehhhh......... Is this ref the Luton game or another you were watching? At 1-1 there was only one team trying to hang on

XG of 3.46 v 0.42 the only stat amongst a load bo**ocks that means anything

[juice]

martinbiz said:

Ehhhh......... Is this ref the Luton game or another you were watching? At 1-1 there was only one team trying to hang on

XG of 3.46 v 0.42 the only stat amongst a load bo**ocks that means anything

You can't be a Spurs supporter and expect goals....that way lies madness !

[carlo996]

Byker28i said:

Levy's probably got a cheeky £40m offer in for him maybe plus Richie

If it includes Richie it would be £140m

[Guvernator]

martinbiz said:

Ehhhh......... Is this ref the Luton game or another you were watching? At 1-1 there was only one team trying to hang on

XG of 3.46 v 0.42 the only stat amongst a load bo**ocks that means anything

Lol XG is the most made up stat there is. We literally laugh at the ridiculousness of it all the time.