Tottenham vs Aston Villa Post-match thread

[Matt C]

Remi - or Remy as our social media geniuses like to call you - my man; I hope you're bloody good at your job because you're going to need to be to save this lot.

[IFWaters]

We need to win 9, draw 9, lose 9 to get to 40. Put another way, 4 points every 3 games... Starting right now. The Watford game looks massively important right now

[VillaAlways]

Just read from KMAcs post match conference Gana wasn't injured he was dropped. Not that sparkly in training apparently

[OzVilla]

MacDonald's assertion that we need to show Champions League form was both bollocks and needless too.

Yep, even under the most basic scrutiny that statement simply doesn't add up - heaven knows with our record we should be cut adrift but truth is we're not, not by a long shot - does makes you wonder why he even said it.

Is he just dumb or being mischievous? 

[OzVilla]

Just read from KMAcs post match conference Gana wasn't injured he was dropped. Not that sparkly in training apparently

It's only dawned on me in the last week how much Kmac is part of the problem.  Dumbass team selections and comments.  We've had enough of this garbage, we really need these numpties out of the club

[Shrek]

KMac has lost my respect after last night, like Tim, he through away any chance of winning with pathetic team selections.

[mr underhill]

I want Remi's first managerial act to be handing that twat his P45.

[Dave]

To clarify, I'm talking about the spine of the team, Guzan, Hutton, lescott, Richardson, Westwood, Agbonlahor particularly. Bacuna.

That's not the spine of the team. There is no reason that at least four of those players shouldn't be seeing more than the early round of future cup competitions.

[Proposition Joe]

At least Garde knows Gil should start above Grealish. He also must be wondering why the international footballer Sanchez is totally done on 75 mins. He will probably also be wondering why Gabby is anywhere near the team sheet amongst several other things.

With Sanchez, i often think it is because he's doing Westwood's work for him, too, while he stands around doing fuck all and watching the game pass him by

As I wrote in the match thread, he does twice the work not because of Westwood but because he always has to win it back twice: the first time, then immediately after he passes straight to the opposition.  If he won it then made absolutely sure we kept possession, he'd find himself with much more energy left in reserve.

[Clampy]

Maybe I’m insane but I’m not too despondent after that. 

I agree. There were encouraging signs in the second half and we could have got something. I don't think it's a lost cause just yet.

As for the team selection, yes it was poor. Having 6 new players sat on the bench was ridiculous, but some of the abuse Kmac is getting on here is way over the top.

[brian green]

Having slept on it I am more than ever convinced that the team selection by McDonald for both the games he has managed indicate firstly a premeditated and deliberate insult to his superiors and secondly it shows in stark clarity the split between the established players and the newcomers.  All the evidence indicates that Sherwood and McDonald and Wilkins if he could muster any kind of view, took the side of the predominantly British clique against the predominantly French group.

McDonald knew he was toast once Fox and the board were clearly going to bring in a French team. His reaction was like the employee who knows he is about to be justifiably sacked and uses what time he has left to be destructive.

He is banking on being able to spread his hands, shrug his shoulders and claim that he acted in good faith citing stuff like Gana not being in the squad because he did not impress in training and Agbonlahor getting the hook due to injury.  Under military law that is termed "dumb insolence", the showing of disrespect for superiors and dereliction of duties by default.

That is precisely what McDonald did last night and a measure of whether or not the club can recover will be able to be made by the board's reaction to it. They should have him on the carpet this morning and shout at him until his ears fall off. He made the club look bereft and ridiculous and moreover he did it premeditatedly.  If the whole insulting farago goes unpunished and the spelling of the manager's name in social media is regarded as more serious, the plotting and disruption will simply get buried and return at some future time of crisis.

Under Garde the new players, and hopefully the likes of  Gil, Kozak and Bunn will get proper consideration and the English speaking clique put firmly in their place.  The sun should have set on one or two careers last night.

[russon]

Too many players receive the ball as if it were a ticking time bomb. Only when Gil came on did we have someone who appeared happy to have a football at his feet. Most of them appear as if the last place they want to be is on a football pitch. They look scared.

As for Gabby, the camera on him in the tunnel before the game said it all. There he stood, our team captain about to lead his boyhood team out into battle but wearing a gormless unfocused expression of disinterest and a pair of gloves to keep his little handys cosy. He pulled his tracksuit top collar over his chin to keep warm then witheringly wobbled his way out to the pitch. And what followed? 6 touches in open play, the halftime hook and national lampooning on Sky Sports. That ladies and gentlemen is our captain. I could weep.

[Morten]

Too many players receive the ball as if it were a ticking time bomb. Only when Gil came on did we have someone who appeared happy to have a football at his feet. Most of them appear as if the last place they want to be is on a football pitch. They look scared.

As for Gabby, the camera on him in the tunnel before the game said it all. There he stood, our team captain about to lead his boyhood team out into battle but wearing a gormless unfocused expression of disinterest and a pair of gloves to keep his little handys cosy. He pulled his tracksuit top collar over his chin to keep warm then witheringly wobbled his way out to the pitch. And what followed? 6 touches in open play, the halftime hook and national lampooning on Sky Sports. That ladies and gentlemen is our captain. I could weep.

Depressing. And yet he plays. EVEN though he carried an injury. But Gana was looking tired and rested... Cannot wait for Remi to start.

[Ads]

I am tired and angry this morning. Tired of seeing us play utter shite football in a team that has had utter bilge forced into it, because they "know the league". I am also tired of being told we are certainties to be relegated because we are four points off Bournemouth on the 3rd November, when half of our team, the good half with players who can actually contribute, like Gil, Amavi, Gana, Ayew etc, don't actually start or play at all.

As with every good revolution, there is a purge where the decay of what went before is liquidated. Our kulaks epitomised by Gabby should never see the starting line up again. There can be no other member of our species that believes Richardson is any better than Amavi.

[Clampy]

One thing that did annoy me about Gabby last night. About 3 mins in, a Spurs player had his arms all over him but he didn't protest to the ref at all, he just accepted it. I think he's time may be up.