Jump to content

VanDerVaart

Full Member
  • Posts

    27
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by VanDerVaart

  1. 1 minute ago, VillaChris said:

    Hello, are you a Spurs fan? (Odd as I've just mentioned Van Der Vaart in the Barkley thread 10 minutes ago!😲) Europa league is certainly competition that has endless rounds but unless Spurs get to final I'd assume there's one midweek at least where you could play a prem game before end of season? And I doubt you'll get to FA Cup later stages either so I think there will be a couple of midweeks to play with in April and May.

    Still think Man. City of all the teams will have biggest fixture congestion in last few weeks of the season as they've got the sort of squad that can get to FA and league cup final as they proved all of two seasons ago and will be in later stages of CL.

    Wouldn't you be o.k with us just calling off the game on Friday-Saturday and having time to fit the Fulham game in this week on the Tuesday and getting that one out of the way? Then it's just our game and also the one you lose on league cup final weekend which I presume will be slotted in sometime in May?

    Yeah I'm a Spurs fan.

    As it stands we don't have any free dates left to play a rearranged game unless/until we go out of the FA Cup or Europa League but as you say it's unlikely we'll get to the final in both, though it's not impossible. I am actually on the side of Villa fans here, if other games have been called off for similar reasons then you can't go and make Villa play. Ironically though I think that by you cooperating and going ahead with the Liverpool game the other day that has given other teams/fans and maybe even those in power ammunition to say well you played that game, so you can play this one as well. I wouldn't want Spurs to be made to fulfil this fixture if the shoe was on the other foot though so I can't sit here and say that you should play it. If we could play Fulham instead then that would be ideal but then we'd probably want it on the Wednesday(as scheduled) whilst Fulham will argue that they can't because they then have a game on Friday. If we were to go all the way in both comps though I don't know what would happen as our fixture would have to come after the season has finished but I can't see the PL going for that.

    • Like 3
  2. 37 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

    One thing I don't get from all this....Man. City are also in league cup final and still have to play us and Everton. Surely they're going to have even more fixture congestion than Spurs in the run in as you'd expect them to get further in europe and probably FA cup aswell so why wasn't Everton-Man. City being played when it should've or at least re-arranged for this week (cancel Wolves-Everton instead).

    Spurs are in the Europa which has an extra round compared to the CL so as it stands Spurs would have two additional games compared to City(if Villa gets called off).

  3. 2 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

    He is a midfielder who doesn't tackle and just stands there as his opposite number wins a header, a winger who doesn't want to run forward with the ball and cross or a no.10 who doesn't want to get on the ball, and makes sure he stands stationery next to his marker, when JT or Jedi look forward for a pass. What does he do? Doesn't even work hard and get up with Scott, just hangs him out to dry with or without the ball.

    Scapegoat my arse.

    He actually made more tackles and completed more successful dribbles than any other player on the pitch tonight.

  4. 9 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

    This, and where the argument may come he is being played out of position; If so, why is he not being playing IN his most natural position which is ACM?

    Put him there Tuesday night if Jack is not back and let's see if he is any better.

    Depending on injuries and as it stands at this moment in time based on what we know I would go with:

                     Johnstone

    Elmo*  Chester   Terry  Hutton

          Tuanzebe   Bjarnason

    Snodgrass   Onomah   Grabban

                           Hogan

    Bunn, Taylor, Samba, Hourihane, Lansbury, Jeninak, Davis.

     

    If he cannot show any improvement in his so called natural attacking position then we really should be dropping him and only keeping him as a last resort.

     

    His natural position is where you have Bjarnason/where Hourihane usually plays. Anywhere else and you're just going to get one good game in four from him.

  5. 1 hour ago, av1 said:

    So you buy a relatively limited footballer whose main attributes suit an attacking midfield role, and then shoehorn the kid in as deep lying midfielder next to the even more limited Glen Whelan.

    Is it any wonder the kid isn't showing the kind of form he showed at Barnsley?

     

    Somewhat ironically you also have Onomah, whose main attributes actually do suit a deep-lying midfield role, being shoehorned into attacking positions. 

    • Like 2
  6. I would be surprised if we sold him, he's rated very highly by the club.

    There was a story going around that Pochettino wasn't impressed with his attitude upon returning from the U20 World Cup(where he was one of the standout performers), apparently Onomah came back a little too confident and that was one of the deciding factors in allowing him to go on loan. Pochettino also seemed narked at constantly hearing people suggest he hadn't been playing him in his best position which all throughout his youth career is central midfield, I think there was a case of him saying to Onomah to go and prove him wrong but as we know, so far Bruce has pretty much used him the same way - in fact he's playing even further forward with you.

    I do still think that you're not even seeing half the player when he's asked to play in the final third, he would show a far higher and more consistent level if he was played deeper but as long as he's playing and contributing positively then that's the most important thing.

     

  7. 4 hours ago, HeyAnty said:

    What way do loans work for a player like this?  Does he have to play a majority of games else we get fines from loan club.  I'm sure there is something that clubs do to protect their assets and make sure they continue to develop (at the expense of our own player development such as O'Hare)

    I don't know how it works but it's a shame that it appears to be one or the other as they're nothing alike as players, the two of them could quite easily play in the same side.

  8. 30 minutes ago, dn1982 said:

    Did he come on as sub? He plays deeper for England than he does for us and I don't like to see him subbing on for Whelan at times a season he wants to be a CM not just an AM. if he can play a team a high tempo in CM he'll be some player but at the minute he's quite ponderous and reminds me of Tom Huddleston. Loads of ability but a bit slow in doing everything and that separates the decent players to the top players. 

    No, he played 90 minutes. Think I accidentally left the time-stamp on but the video should play from the start now rather than from near the end.

    I'm a big fan of his, as a (deeper-lying)central midfielder. Anywhere else and he's not worth the bother.

     

    • Like 1
  9. Is an Onomah/Hourihane CM2 completely out of the question? Those two seemed to dovetail nicely against Colchester(not the greatest of opposition admittedly) and it would allow you to get another attacking player in the side which I think you desperately need right now.

  10. Hmmm, best buddies with Marcus Edwards Tottenham youth player, who Sherwood must have coached.

     

    Yep, he's a massive fan of Edwards. I'm glad Tim is doing well and it's great to see RHM get on the pitch today, if there were more managers like Tim at the top level then I believe England's national team would be in a much better state.

    • Like 2
  11.  

    So why is he hated by many Spurs fans? You seemed to do OK under him after a shambolic start to the season, why is he derided? 

     

    Edit - at a minimum you were exciting to watch.

     

     

     

    A combination of reasons. For one I think fans were just disappointed in general at how the season was going by the time AVB was fired and Sherwood took over, Spurs fans have always been a bit precious and just saw it as us giving up on the season instead of giving him a chance. Some believe that Sherwood was poisonous behind the scenes and helped AVB get sacked - personally I think he did that all by himself. Tim's personaility will rub a lot of people up the wrong way, he says everything as it is, some fans will like that and others would rather he were just like most other managers regurgitating stock answers.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    He lost 10 matches during his short tenure at Spurs with a much better team, quite an achievement.

    Pochettino has lost 8 in 25 so far in the premier league. Fairly similar records.

    Sherwood's record was worse than the bloke he replaced. He got found out very quickly and ditched by Spurs. An egotistical idiot and a tacticial dunce

    His total management career stretches 4 months and some are creaming themselves over him - beggars belief!

    Easily a bigger mistake than McLeish if he turns up which looks increasingly likely

    We have turned a respected, historic club into a complete laughing stock

    Sherwoods record was worse than avb?

    Not from what I've seen.

     

     

    AVB W17 D4 L5  Dim Sherwood W14 D4 L10

     

     

    That record(AVB's) is heavily padded by 8 games against sunday league opposition in the early rounds of the Europa whilst Tim's [cup] record includes games against the likes of Arsenal, Dnipro and Benfica - slightly tougher opposition. League only Tim took 42 points from 22 games, AVB took 27 from 16.

    • Like 4
  12.  

    Hi Villatalk, Spurs fan here. Ask me anything about Tim :P

    Will he keep his salute for when Benteke scores?

     

     

    When? ;)

     

     

    Hi Villatalk, Spurs fan here. Ask me anything about Tim :P

     

    Is he really a word removed?

     

     

    In short - probably. He's certainly no shrinking violet but is that really such a bad thing for a football manager? He has total confidence(or some would say arrogance) in what he's doing, he certainly won't be fazed by the job at hand. As an outsider, Lambert to me always came across as a bit of a wet lettuce, almost as though he was just thankful to be there. Tim's certainly not there to make friends, he'll back himself against anyone. He riles opposition fans but his personality is much easier to get behind when it's your club he's in charge of.

    • Like 4
×
×
  • Create New...
Â