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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Ipswich Town FC ***

    For what it's worth total xG against of 1.15 (understat.com). That and the eye test... Not bad, not diabolical. A bit too vulnerable at times. As you say, no Romero, VdV and Solanke. Another improved performance imo, but still some way off our best. But the small breaks, players back and...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Ipswich Town FC ***

    Bit of rotation, not sure if forced or by choice. Either way good to see. Strong bench. Let's go.
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Ipswich Town FC ***

    Need to keep improving our performances. Another week off, some time and game time into players who have been back. Still missing some key players of course, any team missing both their starting CBs and striker would notice that, but we should heve a team capable of a good performance against...
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    Jamie Donley

    Great to see him both getting a lot of game time and doing so well. Will be interesting to see what happens with him come the summer.
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    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Still holes and weaknesses there as has been much discussed. But it's a squad that should be good enough and big enough to make his system work to at the very least a reasonable degree most of the time. Barring another ridiculous injury situation. Almost all managers do.
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    Ange in or out?

    We need a manager willing and able to work with younger players and develop them. Ange is that. I don't think the "system manager" thing is a problem, unless the expectation was for relatively short term success. I think Porro is a fine full back when not exhausted and playing in an exhausted...
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    Archie Gray

    For a very small number of league games that's probably true. I think it's clear that he's been an emergency CB. The way we typically use our full backs a significant part of their role is quite similar to that of a midfielder. Sometimes the full backs are given even more licence to get...
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    Archie Gray

    What allergy? He's been very much needed at full back and then CB because of the lack of other options. Been saying for a while that when we have other defenders back/available perhaps a good idea to give the 18 year old who started 15+ games (?) in a row with two games a week a bit of a...
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    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    For me the second half of last season was disappointing, we never clicked back into gear. But it was also pretty obvious that there were real shortcomings in the squad. Since then we've added quite a few players. Solanke, Bergvall, Gray, Odobert, Kinsky, Tel and Danso. The squad is looking...
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    James Maddison

    Lamela is an interesting comparison in this case. For me Lamela was always one who tried to take responsibility, but too often failed to execute. When that team was flying there were multiple players who took responsibility and creative responsibility. Eriksen and Kane of course, but also Alli...
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    Tactics Thread

    I think there's some room for development on when to switch from a high press to a lower or mid block for sure. Doing that cohesively as a team. The way I see it those phases (or for worse performances longer stretches of games) where we really struggle are when we consistently fail to play out...
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    Tactics Thread

    Yeah, this is probably what our disagreement boils down to. There's imo room for a Son, a Johnson. But more difficult with both, and even more so when there are multiple others with similar/related weaknesses..
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    Ange in or out?

    Absolutely needs to be a hard working player. And I'm not talking about a great goalscorer necessarily. But someone you can rely on to show up and fairly consistently be a class act. Someone you can pretty much always give the ball to and he will create headaches for the opposition. Obviously a...
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    Ange in or out?

    Yeah. Definitely missing that Kane, prime Son, player. The one opposition will really worry about, the one you can trust to show up with a moment of magic no matter how the game goes. Really could do with one or two of those...
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    Djed Spence

    He was both. Was it just a rumour or actually happened that he ran less than the goalkeeper for one game? One of very few players that could be true for. Some similarities with Berbarov and Spence, languid chill style, never stressed, finds time when others get rushed, slick technique. Luckily...
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    Djed Spence

    I think that makes sense. Overall I want a more holistic approach, DoF, manager, scouts, board etc all with a more aligned approach. But I also think that where we were, if we were going down the Conte route not supplementing that with some "club signings" like Spence, Sarr and Udogie would be...
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    ENIC

    Very good posts and I'm in full agreement. Whenever Levy leaves the club I will have some gratitude for the good things he's done with the club and probably some frustration with some of the things he's imo done wrong. I guess I'm one of the more vocal "pro Levy" people on this board, but...
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    Djed Spence

    Very good and imo important points. Think Ange said it well when he said Spence needed to mature a bit (IIRC). Most of us can identify with not always being mature enough at that kind of age, and no amount of wages, attention or fame changes that. I think most of the time that's a better way...
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    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Man United ** 16/2/25 - KO at 4.30pm.

    Thought we were the better team. That's better than most of our performances during our injury crisis. That to me is improvement. Not massively so, but a step in the right direction. Imo as should be expected when being (hopefully) on the way out of one of the worst injury crisis situations I...
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    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Goals against was around 1 per game before the injuries struck IIRC. And IIRC the difference our goals against with and without Romero and VdV is rather massive. Assuming we have a mostly fit squad (normal levels of injuries) for the rest of the season I think around a goal against per game is...
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