Okay starting here. I am not sure why Harry should have distanced himself from the Job of his dreams. The whole world and their dog knew he wanted that job. He's a professional with aspirations. There is nothing wrong with wanting something and going for it. As long as you are prepared to deal with the consequences and fall out. Harry was prepared for both.
My problem is the way he went about it. Turning down a new contract at Spurs, constantly in the media saying he would love to manage England. Would it have been so hard to just commit himself to Spurs? If not in writing, at least make some public statement saying he's at Tottenham now and if England happens, let's deal with it then.
Now you say he flat out denied that it had any influence? what did you expect him to say? to come out there and say it ruined our season? Are you serious? EVERYONE knew it disrupted our season, there isnt any need for harry to go stoking the flames there. If honesty is trait that's against Harry then you need to look to our current manager Allegedly lieing on a few front
N.B speaking of which Milo is going to chew your ass in a bit cause you insinuated Harry to be a fibber
When the speculation was at its highest he said the players were professionals, they could handle the uncertainty. Season over and no England job, suddenly he needs a long term contract for the sake of the players, they need that certainty.
He had to move his players around cause the CL was a once in a life time experience. He had to use the squad more and he did it well.
When forced to by injuries, Redknapp would throw in someone new. If it worked he would stick with, if not he would try something different next match. My main gripe was that we let the league slide a bit because everyone were so focused on those few big matches in the CL. IMO we should have been resting players more proactively, rather than wait for an injury. Work on a system with one out an out winger (Lennon/Bale) and one wide midfielder (Pienaar/Kranjcar), at least enough to make us comfortable playing that way. Keep more players match fit and it automatically gives you more and perhaps better options.
Again if you're going to sit there and type away saying that Injuries doesnt even factor into the plus column for him then i dont want to hear anything you have to say about players getting injured for AVB (kaboul) or people getting sold or him not getting his players. These things happen..deal with it AVB . after all wenger sold all his players and replaced them with significantly less..no? AVB better start winning some games , cant be relying on injuries and lack of personell as reasons..nah nah nah...that kind of thing doesnt wash around here apparently
on a serious note..i do agree...injuries are part of the job...but you nicely mention that for AVB. why?
Not going to delve too deep in this one, but for me, dealing with injuries at the start of the season is different than getting some once everyone is up and running.
i did find this odd when he let pienaar go, but you know what....i ws okay with cause i 'thought' Niko would get more games and he did. Niko being IMO the better player. Pienaar on the other hand seemed to be the king of average and mediocrity. no idea what happened to him while he was here....he played enough games for us to show us that he could perform when called upon and pienaar didnt play well. put it mildly he appeared to be a guy that needs the team to function through him for his values to become apparent.
He wasnt going to get that here so we moved him. It was an odd one but we did it and IMO we did it for a player that was better coming off the bench in Niko
Its funny though after all Pienaars average performances that him not being here is now A BIG DEAL when he struts his stuff in a system that suits him.
This one IS one of the things that irks me abit, people are talking about this now. but why werent people suggesting us to play Niko when we were flying ...eh? who are you going to drop to play Niko ...regularly? who? bale? no...Lennon? no////VDV? no.....modric ? no...and i am telling you...no one was complaining here when we were winning...and when we were losing no one wanted our best players dropped. Human being are very similar and predictable in that they will yell murder from far away when things dont go their way. when things are on course no one complains.......hehe..the JOKER was right
I can remember many times people wanting to see more of our fringe players, if not as starters, at least give them some minutes to maintain match fitness. They COULD provide something different in matches where we're struggling. I sort of answered this further up, but I'd like to add this: What happened in training to make Kranjcar so unfit? Some of the fringies looked like complete strangers to the rest of the team whenever they played.
Oh MY GOOOOOOD!!! this bit needs challenging till Jesus returns....No one could get Pav to function. and that was down to key fundamental skills the man was missing. added to that the system didnt suit him..he would have been better to play to a 2 man strike force (in the premiership anyway)...but for that you would have to drop someone. again i ask you ..who are you dropping
Prior to Ade I found our use of strikers puzzling. There was no plan beyond Crouch. Defoe, Keane and Pav, they would appear from nowhere to be given a run, then suddenly out in the cold again. One of the things were Redknapp didn't seem to have any plan or the selections based on anything solid, like being in form or doing well in training.
who were the options? sandro and thudd were injured. Is livermore the great hope? he was the guy that would seamlessly replace parker who was our player of the season...and therefore integral to our great run AND also needed to get us out of the bad run? who were the options pray tell.
Its a shame that parker got injured but you make it sound like that scene in TRUE GRIT when John Wayne is flogging Blackie up the hill till he dies (there is a joke there somewhere but i keep getting outted as a racist so i'll leave that alone)
earlier in the same season sounds like it was back during the good run...it was only like a few weeks prior. but definately bring up his single worst game for us to prove that his tactical nous is lacking. Just say the word and i'll name TEN GAMES where his tactics and moves won us games. i'm THAT confident that people will reach for every morsel they can find to prove that he was a stupid tactician ..and morsels they are cause they arent 'that' many
and i like the way you smear our beating of Saudi Sportswashing Machine cause they missed a few players..oh yeah, if i remember correctly WE TOO didnt have a couple of players cause we started Saha and niko for that game if i remember correctly....where were lennon and VDV for instance ...ahaaaaa....but who cares when we are trying to be fair. but playing on the lack of quality being a strong factor as to why harry made mince meat of a team that despite not having said players managed to compete brilliantly with other teams and also played two strikers away to other teams as well, BEFORE and AFTER getting torn to shreds by us...and they came out looking pretty good still..playing on the factor of lower quality .. our boy AVB cant even beat norwhich at our ground. whats that about? Surely he should know that the quality being lower than his player he needs to go out there and spank these bitches...and even then he wont get enough of the credit cause he did with a strong factor of his team being miles better
Our basic setup was simple, let the match winners do their thing. What I missed was a bit more solidity in defense and the occasional Plan B if Lennon/Bale were either missing or not getting into a game. Still early days for AVB on this, but hoping for some improvement once all players have settled in. How many times have we seen United, Arsenal or Chelsea struggle, yet pop up with a late winner. Patience and stamina are the keys and of course the determination to win.
we started off with 442 then we went to 451.....cause we took off niko and saha and brought on VDV and sandro. where did you get 433 and not 451? he was trying to stem the tide, it didnt work, we got beat. but like i said...that has got to be a big jewel in the case against him. i can mention 10 games where Harry beat the other guy
yep we burnt out the previous season. And? thats not allowed to happen is it? especialy if we finished 5th that year. somewhere when i closed my eyes we must have become a true title contending team with out the title contending resources...as such it would be easy to get annoyed at getting 5th. Only us
These elements are reaches and for me they dont stick..if they do stick then they have to stick to AVB as well. its as simple as that
As for the burn out, we already saw that happen the season before. Disappointing to see the same thing happen again.
- February till the end of the season is 3 and a bit months? hell you can even use January actually as a time where he let Pienaar and Corluka leave on loan which eventually caused us problems - so yea - the poor results may have only been 2.5 months or whatever but the cracks were forming earlier. anyway the time frame isn't really the issue here is it ?
