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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 54m

He’s still a young human being. Players like Son, Modric and Berbatov would all have flopped if they hadn’t been given patience.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 1h

Can we please give Simons a bit of patience and belief?

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 2d

I mean some of them are still leftover injuries from last season so…

Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 6d

It’s definitely better than where we were. But block and counter is not how we want to play every game. Again it’ll do for now.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 6d

I just worry a bit that it’s the old block and counter again, which does tend to work well away but it’s not an approach that Spurs fans tolerate for long. Again if it’s a means to and end ‘for now’ then fine and we should all be patient. But yeah, hopefully that’s not it from now on.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 6d

Yeah definitely. It wasn’t an assured defensive performance by any means.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 6d

I don’t think we were 3-0 good, but that’s an excellent tactical performance. Frank has yet to work out how to best set up at home, but these kind of games are clearly his sweet spot.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 6d

Incredible save. But can we please not?

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 10d

In addiction I get particularly annoyed by non match going fans who criticise those who make huge financial and time sacrifices to go to games only to see cold shit served up. We’re only human. It’s fair to get a bit quiet sometimes and easy to criticise that from a warm comfy sofa.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 10d

In cold simple terms, one group is paid to be there, and the other pays to be there.

I do think fans have a responsibility to support the team but I hate any suggestion that fans take blame for poor performances. Not long ago teams were playing in empty stadiums and there was still good football.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 12d

I do too, I’m not writing Frank off. I am slightly disappointed that we still seem a little one dimension (score then defend!) but you’re right there’s probably lots of reasons for that.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 12d

Even using the expectation of a long throw to do a short one would be good sometimes. Variety is important because it stops predictability. This was Ange’s undoing really and the whole point of Frank (I thought) was that he was more adaptive.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 12d

Don’t mind the long throws. I do mind us being absolutely terrible at short ones.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 12d

Of course my take is extremely one-dimensional and you’re right there was more too it. But the intensity of the high press was killing them and led directly to our goal, and the disallowed one. As soon as we relaxed that, Villa were able to play out and around us. It changed the whole game.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 12d

On this (rare) occasion I am blaming the manager. We had the game by the scruff of the neck and Villa were in absolute disarray. It was ours but we took our foot off, they gained confidence, we lost ours and the game turned completely. It was a tactical failure. He has to own that.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 12d

We are missing our two most creative midfielders and our best striker. I think that’s a big part of the reason we look bad up front. That and signing four seemingly extremely limited wide players.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 13d

I mean he’s clearly not an absolute idiot so no surprise here really.

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Cockonball @cockonball.coys.social · 13d

It just shouldn’t even be a conversation yet, agreed.

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