Tottenham Hotspur 2011-2012 Official Thread

[Maurice Picarda]

Missing Sandro?

 

[Corax]

Missing Sandro?

Yes. Livermore's come on leaps and bounds, but he was a bit anonymous today IMO.

 

[tommers]

You had 2 pts from 8 games when Harry took over iirc.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Are you going to carry on indefinitely using banter from when you were in the Premiership? Very few people will understand, after a few years.

 

[mattie]

If there's an expiry date on it we'd better use it up fast.

Bare bones, and the police have to arrest you to speak to you.

 

[Corax]

You had 2 pts from 8 games when Harry took over iirc.

That can't be true, otherwise he would have mentioned it as some point surely.

 

[mattie]

That can't be true, otherwise he would have mentioned it as some point surely.

He did hint once or twice

 

[Corax]

Rubbish. He's never mentioned it. He's too classy to do something like that. This is a man of unimpeachable integrity we're talking about.

 

[mattie]

Perhaps I misheard when he was not talking about players contracted to other teams.

 

[Corax]

Perhaps I misheard when he was not talking about players contracted to other teams.

He's such a smashing fella, the way he so readily compliments players he admires that are contracted to other teams and so not in his thoughts regarding transfers.

 

[mattie]

He's such a smashing fella, the way he so readily compliments players he admires that are contracted to other teams and so not in his thoughts regarding transfers.

He's so loved, people just keep giving him gifts. Slightly unimaginative wrapping paper, the brown envelope, but bungpuss doesn't like to make a fuss about it.

 

[Refused as fuck]

we're 6/4 favourites (away against the drab, comedy geordies)

 

[London_Calling]

We're really struggling in central defence now with Dawson out until the new year, ditto Caulker at Swansea, Ledley crocked today, Gallas a couple of weeks away - and Levy let Woodgate go.

So, we appear to be down to the BFG and... God help us Bassong, with nothing in reserve, the nothing includes the emergency Corluka who's also banjaxed. Maybe Ledley isn't too bad and/or Gallas could be hurried along ....

I suppose we've only got some two-bob Russians on Thursday and Blackburn at the weekend, which helps.

 

[Corax]

Bassong/Dawson was the pairing that we qualified for the CL with. It's been hiding for a while, but Seb's got it in him somewhere.

 

[London_Calling]

Bassong is lucky to be 4th choice now, esp. as he would now be at QPR if Levy had paid the asking price for Cahill.

 

[Corax]

I'm not disputing that he's been crap on plenty of occasions more recently, but he has done very well in the past. A run of games may see the best of him again.

Kaboom will need to take charge of him if that's to happen, direct his play as Daws did with their partnership. Hopefully Younes has matured and developed enough to be able to do so.

 

[Refused as fuck]

We're really struggling in central defence now with Dawson out until the new year, ditto Caulker at Swansea, Ledley crocked today, Gallas a couple of weeks away - and Levy let Woodgate go.

So, we appear to be down to the BFG and... God help us Bassong, with nothing in reserve, the nothing includes the emergency Corluka who's also banjaxed. Maybe Ledley isn't too bad and/or Gallas could be hurried along ....

I suppose we've only got some two-bob Russians on Thursday and Blackburn at the weekend, which helps.

Bare bones? WE HAVE NO LEFT BACK. GARETH BALE WAS UP AGAINST A RIGHT WINGER PLAYING AT LEFT BACK TODAY. Theoretically, anyway, I didn't actually spot him during the 90 minutes even though he was on the teamsheet.

 

[chieftain]

Radio coverage 2 kids and a Sunday dinner for me but 2-2 sounded a fair result. Bloody missed MOTD highlights as well.

 

[London_Calling]

Not for me to question the great leader but it was one of those rare occasions when I would have liked to ask 'arry what his thinking was, this time in relation to starting with Livermore and not Defoe. I'm not exactly overwhelmed by Livermore (yet!) anyway.

Whatever, the team shape, esp.but not only in the first half just didn't work.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Was Modric playing today?

 

[chieftain]

I'm not convinced Modders is a happy bunny

 

[Corax]

He was stuck out wide.

 

[Refused as fuck]

"Tactics".

 

[London_Calling]

Spurs were reported to have dropped out of the battle on Monday night, something which would have come as no surprise to Hearn.

'They got what I call a bung to withdraw,' he said, referring to Johnson's offer of £17m to help
Tottenham with new transport costs at White Hart Lane.

'I would take a bung if it helped us. But what I really want is a level playing field.'

Outrageous!

 

[London_Calling]

Early doors but The Guardian reckons it knows the team:

Tottenham Hotspur 4-4-1-1 Cudicini; Walker, Livermore, Bassong, Rose; Lennon, Sandro, Carroll, Townsend; Dos Santos; Pavlyuchenko. Subs from Gomes, Assoit-Ekoto, Waller-Lassen, Stewart, Pienaar, Kranjcar Defoe, Adebayor, Kane, Falque.

I wonder if this might be a little tricky....

C5 from 7.30pm.

 

[chieftain]

Early doors but The Guardian reckons it knows the team:

I wonder if this might be a little tricky....

C5 from 7.30pm.

Very tricky, I'll be watching with mini chieftain.

I wonder if Super Pav will pull his finger out to impress his homies?

COYS

 

[London_Calling]

At least Pienaar and Kranjcar are back from injury, which is terribly useful given the centre back situation.

 

[London_Calling]

Tottenham: Gomes, Walker, Livermore, Bassong, Rose, Lennon, Sandro, Carroll, Giovani, Pavlyuchenko, Defoe.

Subs: Cudicini, Kaboul, Modric, Falque, Townsend, Assou-Ekotto, Kane

The Guardian were not correct. Looks like arry's going to 'give it a go' - with one centre back and ... several forwards.

 

[chieftain]

I'd say Super Pavs finger is now out of his Harris, but will it stay out. Cracking strike that!

 

[London_Calling]

It's a shocking tournament at this group stage... goodness me; part geography lesson, part car boot sale.

Still, that was a handy three points in the end: onwards...