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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    Tudor has officially been charged by the FA for implying home bias in the Fulham game. If he gets a ban or anything more than a fine we have to seriously call into question what is the point of anything anymore. A clear as day call goes against us, a refusal for anyone in the refereeing side to...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    I genuinely think a lot of what Frank did was in response to what Ange did. Like he saw his role as unwinding it. And this isn’t a comment one way or the other, but I think it’s what was going on in Frank’s mind. So he sees the team being very open, it’s his job to close us up. He sees the team...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    The Chelsea game should have had alarm bells ringing at the club, even if many of us fans were trying to still be optimistic about it. Because for a team of our quality to turn in a performance like that, in a game of that magnitude, it’s just a complete disgrace. To serve up so few actual...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    This sums it up really well. In literally every conceivable way, Frank was bad. The fact that we didn’t counter despite not trying to make the game in possession was frankly just odd. Nothingness was baked into his plan and then he’d gaslight us in press conferences talking about how he would be...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    I can only assume that Frank thought we were fit enough for the kind of Brentford ball, lower mid table nothingness he had us playing. But maybe he was just completely oblivious to how bad the levels were. Again, trying to be balanced, maybe there was something in him thinking the squad was run...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    Yeah…I’d been defending Frank’s approach because I was trying to see the logic in it, because I was thinking surely the decision makers at the club couldn’t be so wrong. Boy was I wrong! A team with our quality should not be geared to only attacking in like 30 minutes of a game maximum. We...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Atletico Madrid ***

    So true on all counts. Today was a bit unusual in that we obviously needed to throw caution to the wind and won’t play every game like that. But equally, we just need to beat Forest, Everton and Leeds at home. We should surely manage it playing like this. Hopefully a confidence boost for the...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Atletico Madrid ***

    I’m genuinely like…so close to being a proper anti VAR nut job. I never have been until this season but the lack of consistency is just insane. It is ruining football and renders so many of the games pointless. And it’s not all about us but, we showed up, we prepared, we were willing to bring...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Atletico Madrid ***

    Ruining the sport, it’s a clear as day foul. This brick has to end.
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Micky van de Ven

    There were plenty of games where we looked very comfortable with the high line. Conceding is probably somewhat expected under a manager that plans to score at least 3 in response but I watched those games too, and there were plenty where we looked quite cohesive when we had a reasonably fit...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Micky van de Ven

    I think when we played Romero and VDV together and actually tried to play a proper version of Ange ball, not in the middle of an injury crisis, we were actually pretty good defensively. The ball stayed away from our goal largely, and we played the game in the opposition half. I don’t disagree...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    +++OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool+++

    Totally agreed. Also, with the technology available today, it shouldn’t be hard at all to categorize contentious incidents and have them be immediately searchable in the VAR room in order to drive more consistency. Eg ‘goal denied for two hands on the back, let’s quickly search for other two...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Micky van de Ven

    Agreed wholeheartedly. And on a separate point to your own, I think it does make the decision to appoint Frank worse on the basis that our best players (Romero and VDV) were wholly unsuited to the kind of football he wanted to play. So even if we were in a ‘good moment’, he probably still...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    +++OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool+++

    I really agree with you. I’m glad we get stuff like this https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/a32zpZAZsh after the fact now. At least it’s something. But how are there 18 VAR errors already in this season? How is that even possible? How does it happen unless you make it so hard for the VAR to go...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    +++OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool+++

    Genuinely, as much as I punched furniture when Richy scored because I was so happy we equalised and it proved to myself that I very much do care if we get relegated, stuff like this is ruining the game. The blatant lack of consistency where we get punished for something one week and then our...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    He did, but I wonder if that then was the call to put Souza on the right rather than Gallagher, rather than tearing up the entire plan. I think having Romero and VDV out probably did the most to dictate how we set up yesterday.
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    Yes. Indeed. I’m curious as to whether he goes back to what he thought he was originally going to have to do, eg the 3 at the back. Or whether he says ‘hey, we found something at Anfield that works, let’s build on it.’ There’s a chance that his own willingness to adapt and get outside his...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Igor the Departed

    What was most interesting and impressive about Tudor is that he did something yesterday which is out of keeping with how he’s usually gotten to success in his other firefighting roles. It seems like for him, the ‘keep it simple’ was to get teams already used to playing a 3 at the back to have a...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    +++OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool+++

    Same. The result is almost incidental. The fact that we showed fight, the fact that we did the simple things, we communicated, we worked hard, we didn’t overplay in silly situations. We played with some actual fudging belief. We will be ok if we keep that up. We just literally haven’t seen...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    +++OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool+++

    And really simply…why is it not a booking on Rio? What’s the justification?
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