***OMT: Mighty Spurs vs Sheffield***

[Grays_1890]

I agree it was too many changes. We needed not only to offer Sheffield the respect they deserve by playing them with the best team we had avaliable on the day given there was a quarter final at stake, but needed to keep momentum going to help us with our other objectives as well.

Agreed, You know the fight your gonna get, away, midweek in the FA Cup....if you don't you aint been paying attention in the past.

 

[Seedy Ron]

Also what’s the point of signing Danjuma and then starting Lucas?

It is rather odd. Doesn't Lucas normally play for the U21 these days, as we wait for him to leave in the summer?

 

[Bedfordspurs]

that increases the risk though, the only upside to domestic cup games is giving minutes to those who need them

Yet those players were brick… again

 

[Baleforce]

Compete for what???
6000 fans went tonight to see team not turn up
Again….

I hope they enjoyed themselves overall.

I question the logic of anyone going to Sheffield at night in early March though.

 

[spurspinter1]

I'm not happy we lost, never am, but its the financial reality, if we want to compete we need to be in the CL, the FA Cup does nothing to get us there, 3 points on Saturday and its a good week

I'm not really one for your view of "financial reality" taking precedence over daring to dream / do. The game is not about spreadsheets, it's about glory and the supposed miracle of reaching the CL just for the sake of doing the same thing next season but with a healthier looking spreadsheet is total purgatory flimflam. It's an endeavor of passion, not a fudging accountancy course.

Even just calling it a "little game" because it's the FA cup - Embarrassing stuff.

 

[Baleforce]

Half the team wasn't weakened though, Kane, Kulu & Romero only nailed on starters missing - rotation to some degree is to be expected in cup games

agree, I'd add Royal though

 

[Finney Is Back]

Compete for what???
6000 fans went tonight to see team not turn up
Again….

Yep…. I’ve now got a lovely journey back to London to negotiate.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Forster is brick as ive said all along.
On a free , low wages , hone grown, Levy's eyes lit up. I'm sick of this cheapskating.
This has happened for decades and will continue to happen. Our squad depth and quality is laughable. It's pathetic.
City change the whole team and ease through these sort of games.

City didn’t make as many changes as us against a weaker side than Sheffield
City made ( form what I can see

 

[Baleforce]

So by that reckoning we should also just throw the game against AC Milan next weds?

there may be a point where being in it next year, is more important than staying in it this year, financially speaking

 

[Finney Is Back]

Half the team wasn't weakened though, Kane, Kulu & Romero only nailed on starters missing - rotation to some degree is to be expected in cup games

Porro instead of Royal as well. And Sarr instead of Skipp. And Perisic in the team.

 

[DubSpur]

Half the team wasn't weakened though, Kane, Kulu & Romero only nailed on starters missing - rotation to some degree is to be expected in cup games

There was 8 changes from the team that has played the last two games. That's too many changes. Yes, make some, but not that many.
The changes made didn't even make sense. PEH has been run into the ground, he's not rested, same for Dier.
Davies, Lenglet and Romero have been rotated or missing throughout the season play them and rest Dier.
Skipp and Sarr haven't played much, play them and rest PEH. They've played together and played well.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

It is rather odd. Doesn't Lucas normally play for the U21 these days, as we wait for him to leave in the summer?

It was a horrendous decision

 

[Baleforce]

Yet those players were brick… again

shows why we need to be so careful with minutes of others

 

[Glenda's Legs]

You can do both you know

Well we clearly can’t.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Porro instead of Royal as well. And Sarr instead of Skipp. And Perisic in the team.

Perisic….
That’s a signing that looks worse and worse each game

 

[Finney Is Back]

Pep won the CL in his first season as manager didn't he?

Not at fcuking Spurs he wouldn’t!

 

[seaside spur]

Why?
It’s a cup game
Away
Against a team in great form
I agree on paper
But the game isn’t played on paper

There in lies the rub.
ANY of the top six could have used a few squad players and got through this tie.
Our squad is pathetic , through a combination of tinkle poor recruitment and lack of investment.
Chelsea rested HAZARD , yes Hazard at his peak in that fa cup semi final a few years ago.
We are never going to be able to compete on multiple fronts unless we massively improve the squad.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

shows why we need to be so careful with minutes of others

Not really
It shows that throwing in fringe players in key games doesn’t work as they can barely hit the ground

 

[Finney Is Back]

I hope they enjoyed themselves overall.

I question the logic of anyone going to Sheffield at night in early March though.

I question your logic constantly….

 

[Baleforce]

Not really
It shows that throwing in fringe players in key games doesn’t work as they can barely hit the ground

good job we don't do that then isn't it