Holmes_and_Watson

We are poor and a much better Spurs team aren;t having to work to hard to look that much better than us. And as I type, that's another one...

correction...only 2 goals in it...

It will ahve been a worry a lot of us ahd: that the repalcement fro Ralphball would rob of of that dynamism when it was going well, but not be able to shore us up or be creative enough either. Still, only a goal in it...

It's our new false no 10...false no 8...false no 6...false hope approach. 🙂

Whew!

A Suprs team with Royal, Davies and Højbjerg in it, wasn't filling me with dread. Two goals that were a bit soft to concede, particularly the second. A lot of errors created by trying to do too much, from Valery and Djenepo without the nbenefit of any of that approach creating anything. AA shows the big gap in our team. While Broja's form dived along with everyone else's, he offered that combination of physical threat and pace. AA doesn;t have either, and is far too deep to be able to play to any of his strengths. We're just giving the ball away, by trying to get it to him. Glad we got in at just 2-1 for half time. We still have a chance, and hopefulyl Spurs will regret not punishing us more in the first 45.

Now out of our price range. We don;t sign experienced premier league players. 🙂

valery giving it away again.... results in another save.

Poor distribution form keeper and Valery givign it away, just inviting pressure. >sigh<

Valery did well there as Spurs looked to brak from that corner.

Yeah, he's the guy who is offering no ability to hold up anything to generate an attack.

Ralph's reason for dropping him was lack of defensive ability, wasn't it?

That was a soft one to concede

Fooo...

McCarthy should have stopped that! ooops...habit. 🙂

Bah!

early sighter from AA.

Not a yellow for a total cheating dive?

YEEEEES! That Valery Djenepo partnership to set up JWP! 😀

Spontaneous

That's how quick it was. Too fast for our eyes to follow. 🙂

Ignite

I went with 14th last season. Overall, I'm more optimistic for this season. More strength in depth has been added. The new faces will all be pushing strongly for, or getting first team minutes. Hopefully, we'll have another striker on the way. I'm less concerned about the inexperience of the new signings, than I am about Ralph's tactics. The playbook got found out, and the back up went badly wrong. When RalphBall did work, it was great to watch. My concern is that the new approach won't enable us to reach those levels, while still conceding enough to lose games. But trusting Ralph as he's got a lot out of an underinvested side for good spells. Exhaustive research of seconds looking at each team means I'm going with 13th. Nearly went 12th but caught myself before getting carried away. 🙂

Champion

There definitely something in the Airdrie. 🙂