Tottenham Hotspur - v - Leeds United *** Matchday Thread ***

[Monaco_Totty]

I know I could still do a better job at LB 😎

My technical ball skills are also known to express gratitude & delight.

My defensive repotoire includes extensive detailing of mobility around either box plus a consistent* concentrated 90 minutes of guaranteed stamina that can if necessary 'go that extra mile' if required.

Just saying.
Awaiting your match report.😊

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Hehe - sounds like you were talking about more ‘transferable skills’

[Monaco_Totty]

Hehe - sounds like you were talking about more ‘transferable skills’

Strangely enough me Mum sent me an earlier 'finger-wagging' text.
🤣
Interesting month football comments wise as someone quoted me of late as JM's 'Lord Altrincham'.🤔😊

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Can’t listen. He hurts my head.

Agreed - he speaks fluently but after a while when you analyse what he is saying it is the same old same old that bears little resemblance to what is happening on the pitch.

The blaming of the young players for being naive just has no basis from what happened in the game. The key problems being no left back, Cooper, JMs own tactical naivety and making ludicrous changes bring off Roca, weakening the midfield and not refreshing up too earlier when Rodrigo was clearly knackered and Aaronson having run two marathons in the game was also flagging.

If he actually believes half of what he says that is even more troubling.
He is also undermining our pitch to young players as a gateway to first team football and they just don’t get the minutes they deserve or expect.

Some may point to Summerville and Gnonto but they only got game time through injuries to others and not through inspired tactical substitutions and in case of Summerville even the blinkered JM couldn’t drop him after how he performed.

He is in danger of ruining Joffy as Joffy looks to be becoming more and more disillusioned.

WTF with Hjelde too - he plays LB for the u21 and did so well for us in the nightmare Jan 2022. Whilst he is not an all out LB he is more suited there than Struijk who is such a good CB.

Ayling was hopeless when he can on too, deflected their third goal and was running away from play for the fourth.
NFGE

[Monaco_Totty]

Agreed - he speaks fluently but after a while when you analyse what he is saying it is the same old same old that bears little resemblance to what is happening on the pitch.

The blaming of the young players for being naive just has no basis from what happened in the game. The key problems being no left back, Cooper, JMs own tactical naivety and making ludicrous changes bring off Roca, weakening the midfield and not refreshing up too earlier when Rodrigo was clearly knackered and Aaronson having run two marathons in the game was also flagging.

If he actually believes half of what he says that is even more troubling.
He is also undermining our pitch to young players as a gateway to first team football and they just don’t get the minutes they deserve or expect.

Some may point to Summerville and Gnonto but they only got game time through injuries to others and not through inspired tactical substitutions and in case of Summerville even the blinkered JM couldn’t drop him after how he performed.

He is in danger of ruining Joffy as Joffy looks to be becoming more and more disillusioned.

WTF with Hjelde too - he plays LB for the u21 and did so well for us in the nightmare Jan 2022. Whilst he is not an all out LB he is more suited there than Struijk who is such a good CB.

Ayling was hopeless when he can on too, deflected their third goal and was running away from play for the fourth.
NFGE

However, I do appreciate your absolute & thorough commitment to not liking our current Coach but taking away all Jessie's PR 'mental-floss' - tactically we still are a big time canvas of pure 'Monet' with our ludicrous defending strategies, if you get me drift.

Surely JM can now see that amongst our Rubik cube squad possibilities it's just a simple matter of picking the correct players (as we actually DO have them). So still frustrating as presently his various concoctions resemble one of those double-sided jigsaws for no logical apparent reason.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

However, I do appreciate your absolute & thorough commitment to not liking our current Coach but taking away all Jessie's PR 'mental-floss' - tactically we still are a big time canvas of pure 'Monet' with our ludicrous defending strategies, if you get me drift.

Surely JM can now see that amongst our Rubik cube squad possibilities it's just a simple matter of picking the correct players (as we actually DO have them). So still frustrating as presently his various concoctions resemble one of those double-sided jigsaws for no logical apparent reason.

I don’t dislike him I just don’t think he is good enough and that words need to backed up by actions or reflect the reality.
To use your artist’s metaphor, he has good materials and a blank canvas but doesn’t not how to complete certain parts of the picture and not sure he ever will.
He is also not that young so should be entering his prime.

To be fair he is a lot better than some of the dross we have had in the last 20 years but a Wilkinson, Bielsa or O’Leary he most definitely not.

[Billyni]

However, I do appreciate your absolute & thorough commitment to not liking our current Coach but taking away all Jessie's PR 'mental-floss' - tactically we still are a big time canvas of pure 'Monet' with our ludicrous defending strategies, if you get me drift.

Surely JM can now see that amongst our Rubik cube squad possibilities it's just a simple matter of picking the correct players (as we actually DO have them). So still frustrating as presently his various concoctions resemble one of those double-sided jigsaws for no logical apparent reason.

“Surely JM can now see”
He can’t fkin see. He’s had plenty time to see.
Everyone else can see except the man that matters.
P45 time again. He’ll get a job with Levi or Wrangler.

[norfolk white]

Bring back Cresswell from Millwall, play him and struik central, let rasmus and ayling fight it out for right back (preferably ayling) buy a half decent left back, and let Cooper, Koch and llorente warm the bench.

[Monaco_Totty]

“Surely JM can now see”
He can’t fkin see. He’s had plenty time to see.
Everyone else can see except the man that matters.
P45 time again. He’ll get a job with Levi or Wrangler.

Don't have nightmares Billy but it's City, Pep & Haaland next up then a couple of days to swatting up on Newcastle before a trip to the Geordie wonderland.

Gotta admire his commitment & his self-belief in those favoured stone-wash grey jeans we've seen him wearing for Leeds televised matches beamed across the world this season - just wish he'd ditch those boxers shorts underneath, not great seeing JM's visible 'under-crackers outline' is it folks !



Dunno why his Black Adidas Sambas trainers got ditched for his recent Blue Adidas Swift Runners either - unless he's planning a quick/swift getaway if Radz don't give a wedge to spend in January.



Oh, for any watch nerds - he's now got the same 'grail' as Klopp & Belfast Andy, an IWC Perpetual Calendar Digitate Date-Month Edition ‘50 Years Aqua timer.

*Grail: A watch, usually rare or significantly out of financial reach, which one aspires to own. Used by collectors of other items but very common among watch enthusiasts. Example: An A-series Royal Oak is Jim’s grail, but he’s gonna have to settle for a G-Shock since he’s only 17.