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The 2013-14 " Lawro the Twunt says..." thread
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glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
"Haha! The Twunt gotcha!"
glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Tbf to the Twunt he was fair regarding AVB on MOTD2 tonight
THFC6061
Paul Robinson
Southampton v Tottenham Hotspur (Sunday, 13:30 GMT)
Southampton seem to have come out of their sticky patch but where do we start when we talk about Tottenham?
Spurs were awful against victims last week and, defensively, they were all over the place. They looked like a bunch of strangers.
Andre Villas-Boas was sacked after that but, since then, they have lost at home to West Ham in the Capital One Cup, which surprised me because I was expecting to see a reaction from the Tottenham players.
It will be interesting to see the team that stand-in Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood picks to go to the St Mary's Stadium but, whoever plays, they need to be on their game because this Saints team is very useful.
If Spurs are at sixes and sevens at the back again, then I am looking at a Southampton win.
What next for Spurs? Well, they are still a very attractive club for whoever comes in next but they will have to organise a squad that contains a lot of similar players.
That means the new manager should make up his mind about his best team and decide how he wants them to play.
If three or four of those summer signings end up being nowhere near the team, then that is just the way it is.
Lawro's prediction: Southampton 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur
What went wrong for AVB?
What went wrong for Andre Villas-Boas? Well, Spurs signed too many players in the summer. They only sold one - albeit that was Gareth Bale - so there was no real need to bring in seven, which they did.
It is not as if they needed to completely rebuild their team. Instead, they almost look as if they were doing deals for the sake of deals. The consequences of that are that there does not seem to be a core of a side developing from the players that arrived.
Lawro's 2013-14 Predictions
Southampton seem to have come out of their sticky patch but where do we start when we talk about Tottenham?
Spurs were awful against victims last week and, defensively, they were all over the place. They looked like a bunch of strangers.
Andre Villas-Boas was sacked after that but, since then, they have lost at home to West Ham in the Capital One Cup, which surprised me because I was expecting to see a reaction from the Tottenham players.
It will be interesting to see the team that stand-in Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood picks to go to the St Mary's Stadium but, whoever plays, they need to be on their game because this Saints team is very useful.
If Spurs are at sixes and sevens at the back again, then I am looking at a Southampton win.
What next for Spurs? Well, they are still a very attractive club for whoever comes in next but they will have to organise a squad that contains a lot of similar players.
That means the new manager should make up his mind about his best team and decide how he wants them to play.
If three or four of those summer signings end up being nowhere near the team, then that is just the way it is.
Lawro's prediction: Southampton 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur
What went wrong for AVB?
What went wrong for Andre Villas-Boas? Well, Spurs signed too many players in the summer. They only sold one - albeit that was Gareth Bale - so there was no real need to bring in seven, which they did.
It is not as if they needed to completely rebuild their team. Instead, they almost look as if they were doing deals for the sake of deals. The consequences of that are that there does not seem to be a core of a side developing from the players that arrived.
Lawro's 2013-14 Predictions
THFC6061
Paul Robinson
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glorygloryeze
Tom Huddlestone
Well, they've stopped losing...
Because he saw osvaldo score a worldy on MOTD
nelto
Teemu Tainio
Tottenham v West Brom 26/12/13: 3pm
Appointing Tim Sherwood as manager is a really big call for Tottenham because they are expected to be a top six team in the Premier League and that is what Sherwood will be expected to deliver, with absolutely no managerial experience.
I get that he knows the club and knows the players and has a good relationship with the chairman Daniel Levy, but this is the biggest gamble Levy has taken for a long, long time.
It is a great opportunity for Sherwood and Levy obviously really likes him. As a coach at Spurs, Sherwood has brought kids through the ranks from the youth team to the first team so he can obviously spot a player and motivate them too.
But the bottom line is that, as the manager, Sherwood now has to work with players at a whole different level: players with massive egos who will want to know why they are not in his team.
How he deals with that will be his biggest test. It could well be that he is very good at managing men - we don't know that yet.
Spurs have their new manager, but I have not heard much about who is in the frame for the West Brom job.
I wonder if they might be waiting to see what happens with Malky Mackay at Cardiff but that is just speculation and I do not know why they were so desperate to get rid of Steve Clarke so quickly if they did not have anyone else lined up.
Were things so bad under Clarke that they are better off without him and with caretaker boss Keith Downing in charge? I do not see it myself, and I don't think the fans do either.
The decision to get rid of Clarke surprised me because I did not think West Brom did that sort of thing.
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
So their Caretaker is better than our newly appointed Manager and the Baggies haven't had a win since 2nd November! He's probably right...
Twunt away off Saggy Chops!
Appointing Tim Sherwood as manager is a really big call for Tottenham because they are expected to be a top six team in the Premier League and that is what Sherwood will be expected to deliver, with absolutely no managerial experience.
I get that he knows the club and knows the players and has a good relationship with the chairman Daniel Levy, but this is the biggest gamble Levy has taken for a long, long time.
It is a great opportunity for Sherwood and Levy obviously really likes him. As a coach at Spurs, Sherwood has brought kids through the ranks from the youth team to the first team so he can obviously spot a player and motivate them too.
But the bottom line is that, as the manager, Sherwood now has to work with players at a whole different level: players with massive egos who will want to know why they are not in his team.
How he deals with that will be his biggest test. It could well be that he is very good at managing men - we don't know that yet.
Spurs have their new manager, but I have not heard much about who is in the frame for the West Brom job.
I wonder if they might be waiting to see what happens with Malky Mackay at Cardiff but that is just speculation and I do not know why they were so desperate to get rid of Steve Clarke so quickly if they did not have anyone else lined up.
Were things so bad under Clarke that they are better off without him and with caretaker boss Keith Downing in charge? I do not see it myself, and I don't think the fans do either.
The decision to get rid of Clarke surprised me because I did not think West Brom did that sort of thing.
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
So their Caretaker is better than our newly appointed Manager and the Baggies haven't had a win since 2nd November! He's probably right...
Twunt away off Saggy Chops!
chancer
Gudni Bergsson
A significantly bigger gamble - he uses two "longs" for emphasis - than AVB, Harry or Ramos?
Twunt.
We'll beat Western Bromwich.
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
Has he really gone for a west brom win? It may happen, but surely home win is a more likely result?
Indeed, spurs are 8/15 whereas west brom are 6/1. He's a bit of twunt isn't he?
Indeed, spurs are 8/15 whereas west brom are 6/1. He's a bit of twunt isn't he?
THFC6061
Paul Robinson
If Spurs do beat West Brom, we'll have 33 points after 18 matches - exactly the same number Lawro has predicted for us...
Mark Lawrenson's Premier League Predictions 2013-14
Tottenham v West Brom
I know Tim Sherwood, having played with him at Portsmouth and he is a winner, so I'm glad he has been given a chance and I think he will do well as head coach and get a win against West Brom. Tim has put Adebayor back in the team which means Spurs can beat anybody - for three weeks! After that he will rest up, believe he is a great player and we won't see him again for three months. You can write his story every year.
PAUL PREDICTS: 2-0
I know Tim Sherwood, having played with him at Portsmouth and he is a winner, so I'm glad he has been given a chance and I think he will do well as head coach and get a win against West Brom. Tim has put Adebayor back in the team which means Spurs can beat anybody - for three weeks! After that he will rest up, believe he is a great player and we won't see him again for three months. You can write his story every year.
PAUL PREDICTS: 2-0
Finding it hard to call him a twunt. Oh wait thats not Lawro. Well twunt me down, have a twunting Christmas you twunt.