GrimsbyYid
Gus Poyet
Haha, you're hilarious. My only agenda is for spurs to be as good as possible!
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Haha, you're hilarious. My only agenda is for spurs to be as good as possible!
As long as we don't send any first teamers out to play away against FC Pigfarmer I don't mind.
In fact, it would probably make sense if Poch stayed home and trained with the first team whilst the youth team went out there with their own coaches.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
The top 6 clubs keep European size squads (c.23 senior players). The rest of the league have smaller squads (c.18 senior players). If we failed to get EL this season we'd have to cut our squad size even more than we are already planning to do. This is for reasons of finance (if our wages can only be 65% of turnover, and our turnover drops significantly by having 8-10 fewer live + televised games, we need to slash the wage bill) and for reasons of squad harmony (you can't say keep 4 senior fullbacks happy if you are only playing once a week etc).
So basically, if we weren't in EL, we'd have to downgrade our squad to a non European one. Liverpool did this when they dropped out of Europe for a few seasons (note how they had to spend on quantity, not quality last summer to be able to compete on 4 fronts again)
mudshark
Chris Armstrong
It's really only their away form that's been patchy (they've drawn a lot of games on their travels although they've still only lost 3). At home, their results are second only to Chelsea's. They've taken over 80% of the available points at OT, with an overall win rate close to the same figure, including 8 of the last 9 games (the loss to Southampton in January was the only time they've dropped points at home since they drew v Chelsea in October). Our away form's not bad, but it doesn't match up to that, and we'll still be up against 14 men.
Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
You are right. That is exactly what these games are for. Squad players and youth teamers. We have a big squad and no reserve team fixtures any more. So EL is the ideal chance for fringe players to get match time and stake their claim for first team consideration. Much like Harry did this year.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Does anyone think we have looked better without Lamella?
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
yeah, he kinda looks the part, but I'm not sure his production on either side of the ball is that impressive, he gives it away a lot and for all the chasing and tackling back he does how often do we actually get meaningful possession back?
Cochise
Steve Carr
My bad. I had no idea they had kept such a decent record. It's probably because they play such brick football up there that I assumed they were stuttering.
I would add in the caveat that first and foremost we should be selecting a team we think should win the match, if we think that's possible with a rotated side then sure go for it - if not i don't want to see us sending a weakened team to get beat.
Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
But if our squad players aren't good enough to beat FC Pigfarmers and get us qualified for the knockout stage, then they really aren't good enough to even be squad players imo.
Yermiyahu
Scott Parker
That is an interesting point, and one I would concur with in the main, especially if the squad players are young, hungry academy graduates as opposed to deadwood like Poorlinho and Adebayor.
I think that's a bit arrogant tbf, though im sure it wasn't meant to be 
Regardless of stature you can come up against some good sides in the group stages, sides which are used to winning and play in hostile atmospheres. to expect a team of young 'fringe' players to be able to waltz past them despite not having the week in week out game time which our opponents would have is naive IMHO
Regardless of stature you can come up against some good sides in the group stages, sides which are used to winning and play in hostile atmospheres. to expect a team of young 'fringe' players to be able to waltz past them despite not having the week in week out game time which our opponents would have is naive IMHO
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
I don't think there is much of an end product at all with Lamella personally and I think we end up losing too much less soon in vital spaces personally. I'm not a hug van of Townsend but defenders seem to dislike playing against him more from wheat I've seen due to his pace and extra variety (what little he has)
Neither are much of a goal threat really and both work reasonably hard although Lamella does work harder I'd say
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Certainly don't look any worse. Eriksen seemed to play very well earlier in the season when Poch benches Lamela.
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
would you say our best performance of the season was Arsenal at home?
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Chelsea at home I would say. 5 goals against the best defence in the league.
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
Then I could argue we look better without Mason.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
I don't think it's much of an arguement for Lamela just because he played in that Arsenal game, so did 10 others. We've not looked any worse with Lamela out of the side, the only thing I can argue we miss from about him is his work rate, certainly not end product.