Tottenham Hotspur 2011-2012 Official Thread

[chieftain]

Why has Sandro normalized his barnet? No fun is it!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

No fun is it!

It came as a relief here. Now all we need is for BAE to adopt a sober grade 4.

 

[London_Calling]

I'd suggest Modric could do with a touch of the Brad Freidals but I fear it might just make matters worse for the 'impish' one.

 

[Corax]

Carrol's coming along nicely. Rose still looking a very decent understudy to Benny.

 

[London_Calling]

and so..... Blackburn.

Do they still want to play for Kean - as best they can, and what mood will Adebeyor be in? In that sense he's reminding me of Freddie Kanoute all be on a higher level. Never mind, we have Bale, Modric, Parker and a semi-fit Lennon, Friedal, Kaboul and Walker, VdV .... things have been worse.

 

[Corax]

Do they still want to play for Kean - as best they can, and what mood will Adebeyor be in?

Which matches has he not performed for us in so far?

 

[London_Calling]

Imo, how he got away with those shenanigans vs. the goons I'll never know - absolutely as per Sherringham for Wet Sham when they played us, but that's another thing. He may or may not have had a slight hamstring vs. Newcastle, but I'm actually talking more about his career MO - the reason Wenger let him go and the reason he's on loan now.

 

[Corax]

Career wise I agree. He's er... 'sensitive'.

For us though, he's been faultless IMO. Newcastle was a draw because Harry got his formation wrong.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Newcastle was a draw because Harry got his formation wrong.

 

[Corax]

What's wrong with that? Harry played 4 in midfield against your 5, Livermore was completely overwhelmed, and we couldn't find the space and time to pick our passes. It's not an 'excuse', it's not an insult against Newcastle, tactics are a legitimate part of football!

 

[Refused as fuck]

Yeah, we were playing 4-4-2 and you were playing 4-5-1, but whatever.

 

[Corax]

VDV and Ade up front, 4 in the middle. You had 4 in midfield too though now I've checked... Whatever, you over-ran us in midfield, and the performances of the Spurs midfield players themselves were okay, so something was wrong tactically.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Bale and Modric disappeared on either wing. The tactics were wrong, yes, but their shit performances were a factor as well. Parker did a lot of running around in circles as well, tbf. And like fuck was Van der Vaart up front. Oh yeah, he was also shit.

 

[Corax]

We'll still finish above you though.

 

[London_Calling]

Apropos of not a lot, we have nineteen Prem games from August to the end of the year of which five are on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[London_Calling]

Tottenham: Friedel, Walker, Kaboul, Bassong, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Parker, Modric, Bale, Van der Vaart, Adebayor.

Subs: Cudicini, Pavlyuchenko, Defoe, Rose, Livermore, Sandro, Townsend.

With the exception of Bassong, apologies to Sandro and a question mark over VdV (in pref to Defoe - given Adebeyor), I'd say we have the A team out today. The formation we'll have to wait for....

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Kaboul's all very well but are you saying you prefer him to King or Gallas? Either of them might have closed down that wretched melamine composite who equalised.

 

[xes]

1-2 to spurs!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Looks like we have Van de Vaart back.

 

[London_Calling]

Kaboul's all very well but are you saying you prefer him to King or Gallas? Either of them might have closed down that wretched melamine composite who equalised.

Kaboul and King seem to have a terrific understanding. I commiserate with anyone who partners Bassong atm. Age-wise, Gallas is close to the cliff edge, but who knows how close…

Will Blackburn now throw the kitchen worktop surfaces at us....

 

[London_Calling]

Looks like we have Van de Vaart back.

Not for the full 90, I suspect.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

If he gets another one I won't begrudge him a tubful of Radox and yellow ducks at 70 mins.

 

[London_Calling]

At this point I'd quite like to cash in and have Bassong spear tackle Samba.

 

[xes]

I'd like the final whistle to blow, they're not letting us have much on the ball.

 

[London_Calling]

No Sandro for VdV yet, 'arry?

 

[xes]

defoe came on for vdv

 

[London_Calling]

Huzzah! Up to 5th, and a game in hand.

 

[xes]

Result! Bit of a nervy last half, but we held onto the lead for once.

 

[London_Calling]

Christ: 33% possession - against mill town monkeys....

The good news is, we've reached the Holy Grail of a two-point game average. Just the 30 games to go.

 

[London_Calling]

10 games undefeated it appears - 7 Prem, 3 Thursday Cup; 18 for, 6 against.

I hesitate to say this but.... Stoke away might be awkward and not long after that Chelsea - both not until December. I suppose you might include the kids playing somewhere in God forsaken central Asia next week. Or not. Generally, we don't have a bad run of fixtures ahead.

I can't see that the postponed game (vs. Everton) has found a date yet.