Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[claret and blue blood]

after today we have managed 8 wins in 45 Premier league games, is it any wonder we are so negative and any confidence we get from a win quickly evaporates like today ? Lambert understood this culture of doom ,alluding to something similar when he took over at Norwich.The problem is in this league there isn't the time to turn it around as the next team you play will have as much or more quality/experience.   

[The Laughing Policeman]

We have four or five players adjusting to playing in the Premier League, the "old boys" are coming to terms with a new style of football and people still expect us to win every game.
Patience is a virtue (to coin a phrase) and just as long as we the fans and the board show a bit of patience I feel certain that PlL's vision will pay off. It's going to take years rather than months.
Some of our current squad won't cut the mustard and it's up to PL to weed them out and bring in players that will improve the squad, but that will take at least two or three transfer windows to show whether or not he's the man for the job.

[Apyadg]

For all of us that thought it couldn`t be any worse than the "Scottish Manager"- Is Lambert any better? He seems just as tactically inept as McLeish and with a similar stubborn streak. Fitness wise we seem to run out of steam in every game.
I have a feeling that Bent will be replaced by Holt in January  - Its all very well saying its early days and all that shit but we really do look poor and I faill to see where the improvement is gonna come from in this squad of players.

The one consolation I take from today's result is that even though the subs didn't work, TSM would have taken off Gabby and Benteke and brought extra defenders on to try to cling on to the 1-0 loss.

It won't always work, but Lambert wants to play attacking football. He has made a huge number of changes, no doubt it's going to take time for things to click. After the last couple of seasons I feel like we've been conditioned to expect the worst, but hopefully we'll all be pleasantly surprised by May.

[Risso]

I think the post-2nd goal wrist slashing has clouded the performance overall up to their first.  I thought we were equal if not slightly better, given Benteke should have given us the lead.  But AVB really has them set up as a counterattacking team and the lucky goal played exactly into their hands.

Absolutely, we were very comfortable up until that fluke of a goal, then it was only after that they looked better than us.

However, the table doesn't lie and after 7 games we have the not so grand total of 5 points.  We needed to buy some quality in the summer but we bought a load of kids instead.  That's a noble ambition if you've just had a comfortable season before, but we didn't, and we can't afford the luxury of letting so many players come to terms with Premier League football all at once.  It's a recipe for disaster.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

The result was no surprise, Spurs are a much better team and we're pretty shit with a sub-standard midfield.
Need to get some battlers in January for the relegation dogfight.

[mrfuse]

For all of us that thought it couldn`t be any worse than the "Scottish Manager"- Is Lambert any better? He seems just as tactically inept as McLeish and with a similar stubborn streak. Fitness wise we seem to run out of steam in every game.
I have a feeling that Bent will be replaced by Holt in January  - Its all very well saying its early days and all that shit but we really do look poor and I faill to see where the improvement is gonna come from in this squad of players.

Im not even going to answer this.. ...seriously?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I think the post-2nd goal wrist slashing has clouded the performance overall up to their first.  I thought we were equal if not slightly better, given Benteke should have given us the lead.  But AVB really has them set up as a counterattacking team and the lucky goal played exactly into their hands.

Absolutely, we were very comfortable up until that fluke of a goal, then it was only after that they looked better than us.

However, the table doesn't lie and after 7 games we have the not so grand total of 5 points.  We needed to buy some quality in the summer but we bought a load of kids instead.  That's a noble ambition if you've just had a comfortable season before, but we didn't, and we can't afford the luxury of letting so many players come to terms with Premier League football all at once.  It's a recipe for disaster.

It's a policy in keeping with the fuckwits who run the club, i'm afraid.

[The Situation]

I'm really pissed at how we haven't learnt from not taking our chances. Can't keep happening. When will we learn ffs.

I'm not panicing like others on here, but 1 win in 7 is poor. Need to change the habit of not winning which has torn deeply from when McLeish was manager.

[lovejoy]

Calm down. We did ok. Focus on winning the winnable games eg Norwich and Fulham

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Calm down. We did ok. Focus on winning the winnable games eg Norwich and Fulham

Norwich is winnable, not so sure about Fulham.

[PaulWinch again]

I think we'll be fine as I've seen enough from some of the players to suggest they'll be good. However we need to play our best players like Bent and bed the likes of Benteke in gradually. Learn from your mistakes Mr Lambert.

[Matt Collins]

For all of us that thought it couldn`t be any worse than the "Scottish Manager"- Is Lambert any better? He seems just as tactically inept as McLeish and with a similar stubborn streak. Fitness wise we seem to run out of steam in every game.
I have a feeling that Bent will be replaced by Holt in January  - Its all very well saying its early days and all that shit but we really do look poor and I faill to see where the improvement is gonna come from in this squad of players.

Im not even going to answer this.. ...seriously?

I was annoyed by that post too. But as you say, just not worth getting drawn into the debate!

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I think we'll be fine as I've seen enough from some of the players to suggest they'll be good. However we need to play our best players like Bent and bed the likes of Benteke in gradually. Learn from your mistakes Mr Lambert.

Lambert acting the hard man today?

[ktvillan]

For all of us that thought it couldn`t be any worse than the "Scottish Manager"- Is Lambert any better? He seems just as tactically inept as McLeish and with a similar stubborn streak. Fitness wise we seem to run out of steam in every game.
I have a feeling that Bent will be replaced by Holt in January  - Its all very well saying its early days and all that shit but we really do look poor and I faill to see where the improvement is gonna come from in this squad of players.

Did we run out of steam at home to Albion and Swansea or at Man City? How about comparing what we just saw to what was served up in the same fixture last season. Or are some people conveniently forgetting Hutton and Heskey in midfield?

Today we had 8 shots, 5 on target, and played some football, gave it a go and were a bit unlucky.  Last season we barely got out of our own half, and to be honest, didn't look interested in trying.  Just go away and watch a re-run of last season's game and then maybe you see how bad it really was.  Yes Lambert looks stubborn and may be has too much faith in inexperienced players, but at least there are some positives.   I don't think anything could be as bad as watching that TSM team last season.

[villadelph]

We didn't have a single corner..