Spurs 3 Aston Villa 1 post match thread.

[PeterWithesShin]

World will be a brighter place after we stick 5 past Bournemouth.

[Damo70]

Anwar, Wesley and Jota seemed somewhat off premier league pace. But that was no surprise I guess.
Seen enough to be optimistic about our season. Fingers crossed Wesley can have an impact against lesser opposition and build up some confidence.

Certainly Jota failed to make an impact. Although watching SKY's post match interviews Van Der Vaart, Jamie Redknapp* and Reo-Coker are all speaking very positively about Villa.

*Jamie dropped the 'F' word (Fulham) once but to be fair he was pointing out that despite the comparisons he thought we were a very different proposition.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Disappointed that Dean didn't allow for Spurs well known last ten minute splurge.
Hey ho, on to the next

[cdbearsfan]

Douglas looked good for his cameo

He did. And he has really cool hair.

Does he bollocks.  He looks like an intern at the Abel Xavier Hair Academy.

Sorry, mate. I can only assume you're not cool like me and Snoop Doug.

[Smithy]

Redknapp saying Wesley played well and easily looks a £22m forward. I'm wondering if I watched a different game?  Much better second half compared to first, and few touches that showed potential, but on that performance not sure how you can definitely say "well worth the money"?

[Kimaster1976]

6 months ago we were 13th in the Championship.

Here we are disappointed we have just lost to Tottenham.

Look how far we have come. We got tons of talent and looked mega dangerous in that first half. We are much better than most of the mid table sides.

Still plenty to be happy about tonight.

[PeterWithesShin]

On the plus side, we've shown we're not doing a Fulham as they lost 3-1 away to Spurs in August last season, and we're definitely better than last time we were in the PL as we lost 3-1 away to Spurs.

[hilts_coolerking]

Douglas looked good for his cameo

He did. And he has really cool hair.

Does he bollocks.  He looks like an intern at the Abel Xavier Hair Academy.

Sorry, mate. I can only assume you're not cool like me and Snoop Doug.

And Wes Brown.

[Damo70]

Douglas looked good for his cameo

He did. And he has really cool hair.

Does he bollocks.  He looks like an intern at the Abel Xavier Hair Academy.

Sorry, mate. I can only assume you're not cool like me and Snoop Doug.

It is all about the snizzle and the dizzle.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm concentrating on the positive. Most of the time lately when we go to London it seems like we are being battered by Brentford. Losing to Spurs is a definite improvement.

[Rudy65]

Redknapp saying Wesley played well and easily looks a £22m forward. I'm wondering if I watched a different game?  Much better second half compared to first, and few touches that showed potential, but on that performance not sure how you can definitely say "well worth the money"?

Redknapp isn’t known for his detailed analysis, but well knownfor hyperbole

[PeterWithesShin]

And David James.

[SoccerHQ]

As per the question in 2015 who is going to score the goals?

With the way he finished today McGinn will get 10 + in the league imo so that's already better than the 2-3 our CMs provided in 15-16 if it indeed was that many.

[cdbearsfan]

Douglas looked good for his cameo

He did. And he has really cool hair.

Does he bollocks.  He looks like an intern at the Abel Xavier Hair Academy.

Sorry, mate. I can only assume you're not cool like me and Snoop Doug.

And Wes Brown.

Wes "Side" Brown, you mean.

[SoccerHQ]

The scoreline reflects the possession. What am I disappointed about is that Dean says he wants to attack and win every game. I didn’t see any real desire to do that. It was entirely a back to the walls approach. Anyway let’s hope we see a much more progressive and attacking set up next weekend.

We did it first half.

Sometimes you just face opponents you are just too quick and sharp. And of course losing meant Spurs were throwing on attacking subs and more men forward so we were just getting outnumbered.

It's a good lesson today. Considering there were predictions of 2 and 3-0 wins floating around this week today showed the gulf. Playing like that we eased to many 1-0 wins on the road in the championship, standard is a little higher at the top end of premier league.

Will take 3-4 years of solid squad building to even challenge for 6th again imo, that's how far behind we are. Small steps.