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OMT - Tottenham v Wolves

Man of the match

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galeforce said:
Gutted for you today, I hope it’s not put him off, the land of milk and honey is just over the next hill.
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Cheers mate.

Ah he’s gutted. Had been such a good day up to that. Trying to persuade him, this is the time you support your team the most. He’s adamant he wants to go to the Man U game now.
 
djp82 said:
Lots of Tourists in block I sat in today. Hate Wembley can’t wait to go home.
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I was surrounded by tourists today. Young Korean lad beside me didn’t watch any of the game, except for the odd moment when he was taking a photograph of Son. Otherwise, spent all of his time texting. Yanks on the other side didn’t join in with any singing.

GET US HOME!
 
Hotshot-Tottenham said:
But then what’s the point of the competition?

If all teams beat the teams they “should” beat then the PL can just publish the final league table in August and we can all go off and do something else instead.

They’re humans, luck and chance and good and bad decisions play a part.

If we beat Cardiff and our Christmas form is WWWLW, is that still unacceptable, or is that top 2/3 form?
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What it comes down to is not just our results but also those of our rivals. As a consequence of our loss, we are now likely to be third in the table and nine points off the top of the table.

If we can get top three, then that’s a good achievement, and I’m likely getting ahead of myself here but we have to be pushing to get as high as we can and so losing against a team like Wolves, at home, can’t be acceptable. Even if the circumstances around it can be appreciated and the contributing factors for the loss are understood. Winners don’t just fall when they have such a chance to push to achieve. Maybe we have more of a journey left to take us to winners circle than I ad appreciated.
 
galeforce said:
One of those academy graduates is the best forward in the world, had we paid current market prices for Kane, Alli, Eriksen and Lamela alone we’d have the most expensive squad in the history of the game. Kane and Alli are worth 400m on their own.
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You can apply that to most successful teams.

You’d have to pay £400m for Salah, Mané and Firmino (or thereabouts).

And Eriksen and Lamela have been around for years, so you’d have to adjust for inflation as well as taking into account their improvement.
 
I was in Row 4 today. It was possible to see the players physically falling apart from around 50 minutes. Most looked dead on their feet. Only Toby looked anywhere near his level.
 
El Guepardo said:
What it comes down to is not just our results but also those of our rivals. As a consequence of our loss, we are now likely to be third in the table and nine points off the top of the table.

If we can get top three, then that’s a good achievement, and I’m likely getting ahead of myself here but we have to be pushing to get as high as we can and so losing against a team like Wolves, at home, can’t be acceptable. Even if the circumstances around it can be appreciated and the contributing factors for the loss are understood. Winners don’t just fall when they have such a chance to push to achieve. Maybe we have more of a journey left to take us to winners circle than I ad appreciated.
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3rd and 9 points off probably about par to be honest.

I’m quite sure Poch doesn’t settle for anything less than 100%.

And the only time the word unacceptable can be used is if the team isn’t trying. It’s not unacceptable to lose: it’s part of the game.

Luckily, we’ve been spoilt under Poch. I’d bet we’re losing fewer now than we have in modern memory.
 
markysimmo said:
and yet Poch made one sub, literally ridiculous
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This, a thousand time over!

I mean, at 3-1 down and not looking like our walking dead had a glimmer of hope, would there have been any harm at all in chucking even Skipp and GKN on - if only just to rest two players for Cardiff?

And GHod knows, young fresh legs might actually have had 10% chance of doing something rather than the 1% we had on show.
 
Mikey10 said:
I was surrounded by tourists today. Young Korean lad beside me didn’t watch any of the game, except for the odd moment when he was taking a photograph of Son. Otherwise, spent all of his time texting. Yanks on the other side didn’t join in with any singing.

GET US HOME!
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Sounds like every visit to Wembley I’ve had this season... Bad enough the Korean youngsters who are Son fanatics but the middle-aged Caucasian couple who spent 60 minutes filming each other on Boxing Day before buggering off to do some shopping were the most infuriating I’ve ever had the misfortune of sitting in the vicinity of at a football match!
 
Jon said:
This, a thousand time over!

I mean, at 3-1 down and not looking like our walking dead had a glimmer of hope, would there have been any harm at all in chucking even Skipp and GKN on - if only just to rest two players for Cardiff?

And GHod knows, young fresh legs might actually have had 10% chance of doing something rather than the 1% we had on show.
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He was going to bring Skipp on when we were ahead, when they scored he decided against. Didn’t have another option on the bench other than Lucas, who did nothing. And if he did nothing, I’m not going to trust GKN to do more than Son or Eriksen.

It was a bad day, but Poch’s quotes suggest we simply lacked the energy. I think we may have to start Skipp, Lamela (if fit) and Lucas against Cardiff. Sissoko surely needs a break.
 
milo said:
Rubbish. The Christmas schedule is punishing but the issue today was that we tried to play the game out and then couldn't up the pace when we needed to. Changing the pace of your game is really difficult. It is a problem that all teams have and it can happen at any point in the season.
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Disagree. Players looked leggy. Not surprising we didn't come out for the second half.
 
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