comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 22 minutes ago
Those same player have played a hell of a lot of football in the last 2 months or so. They're all exhausted. Eriksen is, according to Poch and Son has said the same thing. The reason we're in this mess with injuries is because too many of those top tier lads have played too many minutes, now you're suggesting we keep doing it and deplete the squad further. Sorry but the buck still stops with Levy for not injecting the finances to build a more competent, deeper squad. How you can blame the best manager we've had for decades when he's working miracles with one hand tied behind his back.
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to be honest, the World Cup is massively to blame too. we had so many players there until the end. typical spurs really. then son has been here there and everywhere playing international tournaments, and there has been an injury crisis too.
There were less games then. No champions league
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Just how old are you 10?
Less games
Try the 80's where Perryman played 66 games in one season.
Try the fact that cup replays went on and on sometimes 3 or 4 replays before a tie was settled. The season was 42 games not 38 and teams were still in Europe and entered the league cup and FA Cup earlier rather than now when they enter later if they are in European competitions.
You really dont have a damned clue what you are on about
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 29 seconds ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
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No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
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Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
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I don't like age being a factor in these discussions but you two sound like a right couple of dinosaurs. Did you not consider the intensity of the games, the training, the global travel, 3 games a week. The game is now unrecognisable from the times you're talking about so the comparison is unfair.
You claim they're not tired but muscle injuries are the body's way of telling you it's tired so sorry, you're arguing against science. I know who I'd rather trust.
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Spurs in the 1961/62 season played 58 games, 42 league games, 15 cup games, and one charity shield game without the use of subs. Several players played every minute in over 50 of those matches. They won the FA Cup, finished 3rd in the league, semi-final of the European Cup. So don`t give me rubbish about players playing 3 games a week, they were doing that nearly 60 years ago, and coped without any excuses.
In 1971/72 they played even more 67 matches in four competitions, same the following season. No excuses they just went out and did it.
And having watched both those eras, I can absolutely certify that they gave 100 per cent in nearly every match.
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
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No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
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Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
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there is nothing wrong with rotation, but it has to be sensible rotation.
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 5 minutes ago
Did you not consider the intensity of the games, the training, the global travel, 3 games a week
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And have you not considered that in those days the pitches were 4 times heavier, that all travel was by train and took hours, that there were more games to be played and that your opponents were allowed to kick lumps out of you with no free kicks being given? That the boots were nowhere near as light and easy to wear and that the ball weighed about 4 ton more.
That most clubs had a squad of 15 and that you had to play half the time injured or not.
Thats without the fact that half of them had part time jobs as taxi drivers etc because the wages were average at best.
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Grandspur talking to the modern fan, they think it was an absolute doddle playing 50/60 years ago compared to today. You are wasting your time. Like some of the players need a kick up the backside. Not a sports fecking scientist.
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
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No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
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Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
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there is nothing wrong with rotation, but it has to be sensible rotation.
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Even I agree Chronic I don`t mind a bit of rotation, but you cannot simply keep changing 7 players at a time, and expect to get results. I mean up until a week or ago N`Koudou and Llorente had all but vanished off the planet, suddenly they turn up as first picks in a difficult away cup match. I don`t get Poch sometimes.
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 5 minutes ago
Did you not consider the intensity of the games, the training, the global travel, 3 games a week
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And have you not considered that in those days the pitches were 4 times heavier, that all travel was by train and took hours, that there were more games to be played and that your opponents were allowed to kick lumps out of you with no free kicks being given? That the boots were nowhere near as light and easy to wear and that the ball weighed about 4 ton more.
That most clubs had a squad of 15 and that you had to play half the time injured or not.
Thats without the fact that half of them had part time jobs as taxi drivers etc because the wages were average at best.
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Grandspur talking to the modern fan, they think it was an absolute doddle playing 50/60 years ago compared to today. You are wasting your time. Like some of the players need a kick up the backside. Not a sports fecking scientist.
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none of us younger ones can really comment because we don't know how it was. the game is definitely faster now, based on footage of how it was, but the pitches / science / facilities are a lot better too, which could be argued to offset it
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 34 seconds ago
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
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No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
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Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
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there is nothing wrong with rotation, but it has to be sensible rotation.
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Even I agree Chronic I don`t mind a bit of rotation, but you cannot simply keep changing 7 players at a time, and expect to get results. I mean up until a week or ago N`Koudou and Llorente had all but vanished off the planet, suddenly they turn up as first picks in a difficult away cup match. I don`t get Poch sometimes.
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I was so disappointed with the defence. Vertonghen and Sanchez were shown up by Foyth, who is the most inexperienced of all of them.
no leadership whatsoever on the pitch all game.
chronic
Tell me you would not swap places with any Spurs player on half whatever wage they are on and not consider yourself the luckiest person on the planet.
You would and so would I, as for tiredness you like me would complain when the season ended and we had to wait 6 weeks for another game.
Imagine Chopper Harris and Dave Mackay getting stuck into this lot
Imagine Chopper Harris and Dave Mackay getting stuck into this lot
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Imagine Danny Blanchflower
"The game is about glory"
Maybe it was in your time Danny now its about money and nothing else
Away from actual match days Modern day footballers priorities ;
1 tattoos
2 hairstyles
3 twatter/selfies
4 facebook/selfies
5 getting their leg over
6 extra training
Park Lane
I think some of them are actually thinking about your top 5 points on match days as well
Wouldn’t be surprised grand
To answer the original post by Sandy ......
I agree with Sandy 100% .....and
Toby wasn't even on the bench ...
and subbing Vertonghen at half-time for an attacker... what was that all about?
Somehow I don't think ManU are going tocome calling for Poch anytime soon!
No it’s not, Sandy!
We have a ridiculous injury crisis going on at the moment.
We had just played a cup semi final.. with an fa cup match 3 days later.. then a league matching coming up 3 days after that..
The players are not robots... they will pick up more injuries if too tired.. then where will we be?
It’s paramount that we finish in the top 4.. that is far more important... to attract better players & generate more money to pay off the stadium.
We are not like Man City with a huge talented squad costing millions!!
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 5 days, 2 hours ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 36 minutes ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 3 hours, 57 minutes ago
"Still in every cup competition" isn't that big a thing to crow about when Spurs have only played once in the FA Cup. Against League Two opposition, too. There's every chance they'll lose to Palace at the weekend and then the boast will look a bit daft in retrospect, won't it.
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Why is there every chance they will lose at Palace, Spurs have an excellent record against Palace. Oh and you forgot to mention Spurs are about to play their fifth game in the Carabou Cup all against Premiership sides.
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They might win, of course they might. I'm just saying that "still in all cup competitions" isn't worth all that much when they've only played one easy game in one of those cup competitions.
That said, after a tough game on Thursday and with a threadbare squad... I'd imagine the team will be heavily rotated against Palace, so I wouldn't bet on a win.
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Yeh like one easy cup game in one competition, as opposed to Prem sides in Four rounds of another cup competition, Barcelona twice, Inter Milan twice in another cup competion. So what part of not being involved in every cup competition are you trying to argue against.
Spurs heavily rotate for the Palace game. The team that plays against Chelsea will more than likely have to start against Palace. You do know we have a severe injury crisis?
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The part where you're celebrating Spurs still being in four competitions, when being in the FA Cup at this point isn't exactly a massive achievement.
I'm not saying Spurs haven't had a good season, I'm just saying that celebrating still being the FA Cup is a bit daft. I feel like this isn't that difficult a concept.
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Who said I am celebrating, I merely said Spurs are still involved in every cup competition. How is that celebrating, it is a FACT.
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I just feel like this chain of posts is oddly pertinent.
comment by Park Lane Geezer (U10205)
posted 49 minutes ago
Away from actual match days Modern day footballers priorities ;
1 tattoos
2 hairstyles
3 twatter/selfies
4 facebook/selfies
5 getting their leg over
6 extra training
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Although to be fair most men I know, including myself, when I was a young lad always opted for 5 as a priority.
comment by Conn & Duncan..Scottish Legends (U15636)
posted 19 minutes ago
No it’s not, Sandy!
We have a ridiculous injury crisis going on at the moment.
We had just played a cup semi final.. with an fa cup match 3 days later.. then a league matching coming up 3 days after that..
The players are not robots... they will pick up more injuries if too tired.. then where will we be?
It’s paramount that we finish in the top 4.. that is far more important... to attract better players & generate more money to pay off the stadium.
We are not like Man City with a huge talented squad costing millions!!
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We have players missing agreed, Son, Kane and Dele, so although we have three of our best players missing, there were still plenty of players Poch could have picked over what he actually started with. He is getting such an easy ride.
Although to be fair most men I know, including myself, when I was a young lad always opted for 5 as a priority.
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Even when I was young that was still 2nd priority to playing a game of football.
But then the football game did last 90 minutes
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 18 seconds ago
comment by Conn & Duncan..Scottish Legends (U15636)
posted 19 minutes ago
No it’s not, Sandy!
We have a ridiculous injury crisis going on at the moment.
We had just played a cup semi final.. with an fa cup match 3 days later.. then a league matching coming up 3 days after that..
The players are not robots... they will pick up more injuries if too tired.. then where will we be?
It’s paramount that we finish in the top 4.. that is far more important... to attract better players & generate more money to pay off the stadium.
We are not like Man City with a huge talented squad costing millions!!
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We have players missing agreed, Son, Kane and Dele, so although we have three of our best players missing, there were still plenty of players Poch could have picked over what he actually started with. He is getting such an easy ride.
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I will repeat .....
Pochettino is not a stupid as today's team selection might indicate.
I conclude therefore that he is making a point to Levy.
And I say to you ... stay tuned!
Pochettino is not a stupid
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No he is not stupid at all therefore he did it on purpose because as he has proved time and time again he does not give a crap abut the FA Cup
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 57 seconds ago
Pochettino is not a stupid
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No he is not stupid at all therefore he did it on purpose because as he has proved time and time again he does not give a crap abut the FA Cup
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I think there's more to today's team selection than that.
I do think he did it on purpose......
but to what ends?
He may not give a fig about the FA Tin Pot (see Roy Hodgson's recent remarks on that subject) but does Levy want to lose an opportunity to bring sliverware to his shiney new stadium?
Unlikely.
So perhaps there's something more going on, don't you think?
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This cup defeat is all on Poch`s
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posted on 27/1/19
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 22 minutes ago
Those same player have played a hell of a lot of football in the last 2 months or so. They're all exhausted. Eriksen is, according to Poch and Son has said the same thing. The reason we're in this mess with injuries is because too many of those top tier lads have played too many minutes, now you're suggesting we keep doing it and deplete the squad further. Sorry but the buck still stops with Levy for not injecting the finances to build a more competent, deeper squad. How you can blame the best manager we've had for decades when he's working miracles with one hand tied behind his back.
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to be honest, the World Cup is massively to blame too. we had so many players there until the end. typical spurs really. then son has been here there and everywhere playing international tournaments, and there has been an injury crisis too.
posted on 27/1/19
There were less games then. No champions league
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Just how old are you 10?
Less games
Try the 80's where Perryman played 66 games in one season.
Try the fact that cup replays went on and on sometimes 3 or 4 replays before a tie was settled. The season was 42 games not 38 and teams were still in Europe and entered the league cup and FA Cup earlier rather than now when they enter later if they are in European competitions.
You really dont have a damned clue what you are on about
posted on 27/1/19
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 29 seconds ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
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No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't like age being a factor in these discussions but you two sound like a right couple of dinosaurs. Did you not consider the intensity of the games, the training, the global travel, 3 games a week. The game is now unrecognisable from the times you're talking about so the comparison is unfair.
You claim they're not tired but muscle injuries are the body's way of telling you it's tired so sorry, you're arguing against science. I know who I'd rather trust.
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Spurs in the 1961/62 season played 58 games, 42 league games, 15 cup games, and one charity shield game without the use of subs. Several players played every minute in over 50 of those matches. They won the FA Cup, finished 3rd in the league, semi-final of the European Cup. So don`t give me rubbish about players playing 3 games a week, they were doing that nearly 60 years ago, and coped without any excuses.
In 1971/72 they played even more 67 matches in four competitions, same the following season. No excuses they just went out and did it.
And having watched both those eras, I can absolutely certify that they gave 100 per cent in nearly every match.
posted on 27/1/19
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
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No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
there is nothing wrong with rotation, but it has to be sensible rotation.
posted on 27/1/19
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 5 minutes ago
Did you not consider the intensity of the games, the training, the global travel, 3 games a week
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And have you not considered that in those days the pitches were 4 times heavier, that all travel was by train and took hours, that there were more games to be played and that your opponents were allowed to kick lumps out of you with no free kicks being given? That the boots were nowhere near as light and easy to wear and that the ball weighed about 4 ton more.
That most clubs had a squad of 15 and that you had to play half the time injured or not.
Thats without the fact that half of them had part time jobs as taxi drivers etc because the wages were average at best.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Grandspur talking to the modern fan, they think it was an absolute doddle playing 50/60 years ago compared to today. You are wasting your time. Like some of the players need a kick up the backside. Not a sports fecking scientist.
posted on 27/1/19
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
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No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
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Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
there is nothing wrong with rotation, but it has to be sensible rotation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Even I agree Chronic I don`t mind a bit of rotation, but you cannot simply keep changing 7 players at a time, and expect to get results. I mean up until a week or ago N`Koudou and Llorente had all but vanished off the planet, suddenly they turn up as first picks in a difficult away cup match. I don`t get Poch sometimes.
posted on 27/1/19
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 5 minutes ago
Did you not consider the intensity of the games, the training, the global travel, 3 games a week
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And have you not considered that in those days the pitches were 4 times heavier, that all travel was by train and took hours, that there were more games to be played and that your opponents were allowed to kick lumps out of you with no free kicks being given? That the boots were nowhere near as light and easy to wear and that the ball weighed about 4 ton more.
That most clubs had a squad of 15 and that you had to play half the time injured or not.
Thats without the fact that half of them had part time jobs as taxi drivers etc because the wages were average at best.
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Grandspur talking to the modern fan, they think it was an absolute doddle playing 50/60 years ago compared to today. You are wasting your time. Like some of the players need a kick up the backside. Not a sports fecking scientist.
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none of us younger ones can really comment because we don't know how it was. the game is definitely faster now, based on footage of how it was, but the pitches / science / facilities are a lot better too, which could be argued to offset it
posted on 27/1/19
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 34 seconds ago
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 12 seconds ago
If Levy has hoodwinked you lot into shifting the blame onto Poch then he's pulled off the greatest illusion ever seen.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
No the greatest illusion ever is players needed to be "rested" and you lot fall for it time and time again.
How about those poor players from the conference or non league who work 10 hours a day as say a plasterer then rush off to meet the team bus to take a trup across London to Grays Athletic or somewhere giving it their all only to get home at about 2am needing to be up for work again at 6am.
Jesus the world of the football fan is so damned wimpy now its unreal
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Players used to play every minute of every game before substitutions. Some played over 50 full games a season on pitches that resembled ploughed fields.
Modern players are wimpy. No two questions about that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
there is nothing wrong with rotation, but it has to be sensible rotation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Even I agree Chronic I don`t mind a bit of rotation, but you cannot simply keep changing 7 players at a time, and expect to get results. I mean up until a week or ago N`Koudou and Llorente had all but vanished off the planet, suddenly they turn up as first picks in a difficult away cup match. I don`t get Poch sometimes.
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I was so disappointed with the defence. Vertonghen and Sanchez were shown up by Foyth, who is the most inexperienced of all of them.
no leadership whatsoever on the pitch all game.
posted on 27/1/19
chronic
Tell me you would not swap places with any Spurs player on half whatever wage they are on and not consider yourself the luckiest person on the planet.
You would and so would I, as for tiredness you like me would complain when the season ended and we had to wait 6 weeks for another game.
posted on 27/1/19
Imagine Chopper Harris and Dave Mackay getting stuck into this lot
posted on 27/1/19
Imagine Chopper Harris and Dave Mackay getting stuck into this lot
----------------------------------------------------------------
Imagine Danny Blanchflower
"The game is about glory"
Maybe it was in your time Danny now its about money and nothing else
posted on 27/1/19
Away from actual match days Modern day footballers priorities ;
1 tattoos
2 hairstyles
3 twatter/selfies
4 facebook/selfies
5 getting their leg over
6 extra training
posted on 27/1/19
Park Lane
I think some of them are actually thinking about your top 5 points on match days as well
posted on 27/1/19
Wouldn’t be surprised grand
posted on 27/1/19
To answer the original post by Sandy ......
I agree with Sandy 100% .....and
Toby wasn't even on the bench ...
and subbing Vertonghen at half-time for an attacker... what was that all about?
Somehow I don't think ManU are going tocome calling for Poch anytime soon!
posted on 27/1/19
No it’s not, Sandy!
We have a ridiculous injury crisis going on at the moment.
We had just played a cup semi final.. with an fa cup match 3 days later.. then a league matching coming up 3 days after that..
The players are not robots... they will pick up more injuries if too tired.. then where will we be?
It’s paramount that we finish in the top 4.. that is far more important... to attract better players & generate more money to pay off the stadium.
We are not like Man City with a huge talented squad costing millions!!
posted on 27/1/19
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 5 days, 2 hours ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 36 minutes ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 3 hours, 57 minutes ago
"Still in every cup competition" isn't that big a thing to crow about when Spurs have only played once in the FA Cup. Against League Two opposition, too. There's every chance they'll lose to Palace at the weekend and then the boast will look a bit daft in retrospect, won't it.
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Why is there every chance they will lose at Palace, Spurs have an excellent record against Palace. Oh and you forgot to mention Spurs are about to play their fifth game in the Carabou Cup all against Premiership sides.
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They might win, of course they might. I'm just saying that "still in all cup competitions" isn't worth all that much when they've only played one easy game in one of those cup competitions.
That said, after a tough game on Thursday and with a threadbare squad... I'd imagine the team will be heavily rotated against Palace, so I wouldn't bet on a win.
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Yeh like one easy cup game in one competition, as opposed to Prem sides in Four rounds of another cup competition, Barcelona twice, Inter Milan twice in another cup competion. So what part of not being involved in every cup competition are you trying to argue against.
Spurs heavily rotate for the Palace game. The team that plays against Chelsea will more than likely have to start against Palace. You do know we have a severe injury crisis?
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The part where you're celebrating Spurs still being in four competitions, when being in the FA Cup at this point isn't exactly a massive achievement.
I'm not saying Spurs haven't had a good season, I'm just saying that celebrating still being the FA Cup is a bit daft. I feel like this isn't that difficult a concept.
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Who said I am celebrating, I merely said Spurs are still involved in every cup competition. How is that celebrating, it is a FACT.
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I just feel like this chain of posts is oddly pertinent.
posted on 27/1/19
comment by Park Lane Geezer (U10205)
posted 49 minutes ago
Away from actual match days Modern day footballers priorities ;
1 tattoos
2 hairstyles
3 twatter/selfies
4 facebook/selfies
5 getting their leg over
6 extra training
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Although to be fair most men I know, including myself, when I was a young lad always opted for 5 as a priority.
posted on 27/1/19
comment by Conn & Duncan..Scottish Legends (U15636)
posted 19 minutes ago
No it’s not, Sandy!
We have a ridiculous injury crisis going on at the moment.
We had just played a cup semi final.. with an fa cup match 3 days later.. then a league matching coming up 3 days after that..
The players are not robots... they will pick up more injuries if too tired.. then where will we be?
It’s paramount that we finish in the top 4.. that is far more important... to attract better players & generate more money to pay off the stadium.
We are not like Man City with a huge talented squad costing millions!!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We have players missing agreed, Son, Kane and Dele, so although we have three of our best players missing, there were still plenty of players Poch could have picked over what he actually started with. He is getting such an easy ride.
posted on 27/1/19
Although to be fair most men I know, including myself, when I was a young lad always opted for 5 as a priority.
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Even when I was young that was still 2nd priority to playing a game of football.
But then the football game did last 90 minutes
posted on 27/1/19
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 18 seconds ago
comment by Conn & Duncan..Scottish Legends (U15636)
posted 19 minutes ago
No it’s not, Sandy!
We have a ridiculous injury crisis going on at the moment.
We had just played a cup semi final.. with an fa cup match 3 days later.. then a league matching coming up 3 days after that..
The players are not robots... they will pick up more injuries if too tired.. then where will we be?
It’s paramount that we finish in the top 4.. that is far more important... to attract better players & generate more money to pay off the stadium.
We are not like Man City with a huge talented squad costing millions!!
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We have players missing agreed, Son, Kane and Dele, so although we have three of our best players missing, there were still plenty of players Poch could have picked over what he actually started with. He is getting such an easy ride.
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I will repeat .....
Pochettino is not a stupid as today's team selection might indicate.
I conclude therefore that he is making a point to Levy.
And I say to you ... stay tuned!
posted on 27/1/19
Pochettino is not a stupid
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No he is not stupid at all therefore he did it on purpose because as he has proved time and time again he does not give a crap abut the FA Cup
posted on 27/1/19
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 57 seconds ago
Pochettino is not a stupid
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No he is not stupid at all therefore he did it on purpose because as he has proved time and time again he does not give a crap abut the FA Cup
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I think there's more to today's team selection than that.
I do think he did it on purpose......
but to what ends?
He may not give a fig about the FA Tin Pot (see Roy Hodgson's recent remarks on that subject) but does Levy want to lose an opportunity to bring sliverware to his shiney new stadium?
Unlikely.
So perhaps there's something more going on, don't you think?
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