Match Thread: Tottenham Hotspur vs Southend United

[Neil_Vaughan]

Talk about the game in here before, during and after

[Welsh Spur]

I can't even bring myself to think about this game yet.

[Spur]

Ah bollocks, another game.

I might support Southend.

[Ginola's Son]

I'm going to this one.

Should be fine, but S-end gave it a right good go last time.

[spursmadnick06]

I hope we rest a few key players in this game in preperation for Wednesday night.

[Ginola's Son]

Nah, I think we should play our kids next weds. See what happens.

[wayne wonder]

I'll reckon he'll play cerny, roche, daws, gardner, lee, JJ, mrphy, galy, zokora with kane and mido upfront!!

I dont really care to be honest at the min im too hurt

[Ginola's Son]

Ah come on buddy. Least we didn't do a Liverpool....yet.

And they had some known faces out there. It wasn't totally children. I know it hurts, but it could have been so much worse on our own turf.

[wayne wonder]

Ah come on buddy. Least we didn't do a Liverpool....yet.

And they had some known faces out there. It wasn't totally children. I know it hurts, but it could have been so much worse on our own turf.

Mate it doesn't matter that it was arsenal it could have been bolton we were playing for all i care its just that we did all that good work and now we've got to win there and not concede and we can do it but only if we get the tactics spot on.

I'll be ok by the weekend

[Ginola's Son]

Well, we could get a 2-2 and take it to Pens....or a win...****in tall order.

[suBerb]

I think that we'll play in the FA cup final.

[RuFuS]

After weds I want Southend put to the sword. If only to give the goons something to think about.

[MaccYid]

Its very important not to **** this one up for the obvious reasons that i wont put write in case it jinks us.

I would like to see Alnwick given a go in goal (if he is not cup tied) and Rocha given his debut. Berbatov needs wrapping up in cotton wool till weds and after that it is down to the Jol lottery. Play Keane, he needs games to get his fitness up

[Welsh Spur]

And they had some known faces out there. It wasn't totally children.

For the second half in which they scored both their goals they has 9 first teamers on the field.

[Welsh Spur]

If Berbatov is out for Saturday who will MJ pick up front?

[SurreySpur]

If Berbatov is out for Saturday who will MJ pick up front?

I reckon it will be Keano and Mido.

[Billywhizz]

After weds I want Southend put to the sword. If only to give the goons something to think about.

Too right!!! Give the cardboard cockney's a hammering, i'd be inclined to give this Tarabt kid a go, we did promise him 1st team football and apparently he looked the business against the scum reserves the other night.

[gazzaG8]

I'm not sure if King is fit, but i think we should keep him for wednesday

[jrio]

Even worse than that, there are strong rumours King won't be fit for Wednesday. Jol seems to have resolved to play a lot of second-string players, a dangerous tactic as we struggled to beat Southend in the CC, only scoring 6 mins from the end of ET. Morale for Wednesday's game will be very low if we fail to beat Southend. I'd restrict the resting to Mal, Lennon, Defoe and Hudd.

[spurs4ever]

I have a good feeling about this game. Jol would have fired up the team and hopefully learnt from his tactical mistakes v the Arsenal.

Yes I am very confident that we sweep them aside... who knows maybe this is OUR year!!


C`mon you SPURS!!!

;-)

[DonJolSpurano]

god call billywhizz on taarabt. he played well for the reserves the other night and id include him on the bench at least today. if things go well, i.e cardiff replay, he'd be worth at least ten minutes at the end as a replacement for lennon or malba.

i think it would be a bad idea to drop robbo as well, considering his alarming drop in confidence since the summer but i would put alnwick on the bench as a reminder that theres a young u21 keeper at the club who is on his tails.

my team would be

robbo

chimbo, dawson, rocha, ekotto

zokora, hudds, malbranque

lennon, defoe, keane

subs: alnwick, gardner, taarabt, jenas & mido.

[shakey18]

Good to see a few changes today.I'll take 3-0.The team is Cerny, Stalteri, YP Lee, Rocha, Dawson, Lennon, Zokora, Jenas, Ghaly, Keane, and Mido all start.Subs are Alnwick, Gardner, Malbranque, Huddlestone,and Defoe.

[DonJolSpurano]

well it seems MJ doesnt agree with me over robbo, but does with alnwick.

the 16 are...

cerny; stalteri, dawson, rocha, lee; ghaly, zokora, jenas; lennon, mido, keane.

subs: alnwick, malbranque, defoe, hudds & gardner.

[RuFuS]

I dont care who plays, how well they play.

I just want them to take out my frustrations after weds on southend.:mad:

No offence to southend:o

[spurs4ever]

I agree... LETS WORK ALL THAT PENT UP SKILL OUT OF THE SYSTEM!!

[spurs4ever]

GET IN!!!!!!!!!! 1-0... this is more like it.....

[shakey18]

Get in!! Keano!

[SCIFIN17YID]

Get in!! Keano!

w00000000000t.

[\jackdaw]

Keano or own goal, only got it on radio at moment.

[shakey18]

Sky have give it to Keane, but who cares-we're in front!!

[Billywhizz]

Let the flood gates open (hopefully), get the confidence up for Wednesday night.

COYS

[spurs4ever]

We are looking VERY good going foward today!!
;-):D

[\jackdaw]

Sounds on the radio that JJ playing well

[shakey18]

Could do with a storming 2nd half now.COYS!!!!!!!

[shakey18]

Nice 1 jj!!-2-0

[\jackdaw]

Great run by Lennon .. thats two, more will be a real confidence builder

[SurreySpur]

Got to push on and try to get a few more.

[MaccYid]

been happy with Jenas today, how bloody good is Lennon... unstoppable at times

[Spur]

been happy with Jenas today, how bloody good is Lennon... unstoppable at times

Unstoppable against bottom of Division Two don't you mean?

[nuttyhotspurs]

2-1. really doesnt surprise me. wudnt be spurs if a game was easy

[Thfc4Life]

Why the **** can't we ever keep a clean sheet these days! :(

[MaccYid]

Unstoppable against bottom of Division Two don't you mean?

True, but class is class against any opposition.

Anyway its twitchy bum time now!!!

[Thfc4Life]

Unstoppable against bottom of Division Two don't you mean?

Championship mate ;)

[nuttyhotspurs]

our inability to kill teams off or even control a game for 90mins is shocking and seriously beginning to piss me off now

[nuttyhotspurs]

Championship mate ;)

div 2, bottom of championship. same crock of shit that we cant beat convincingly

[shakey18]

Geddin Mido-Lennon is on fire!!

[Spur]

Championship mate ;)

Still the second teir of English football, you can call it what you want, but it will never be anymore, or anyless, than Division Two.

[Spur]

How's Ricardo doing?

[nuttyhotspurs]

can someone confirm who assisted for our goals. ive got radio on and keeps breaking up. im asking because i have lennon in my fantasy team.

cheers

[JJ]

How's Ricardo doing?

From the parts i've seen he's looked solid.

[Spur]

Even more important, how's JJ doing? Or have I done a wrongun in asking?

[JJ]

Even more important, how's JJ doing? Or have I done a wrongun in asking?

From what i've seen he's looked good. He's getting stuck in, putting alot of pressure on the opposition and he's getting up the pitch.

But that's just the lag free patches i've managed to catch.

[nuttyhotspurs]

zokora better get used to sitting on the bench because i can't see jol keep jj out if hes fit, same goes for the hudd

[Shuggie13]

LOL.......

Hammers 0 - Watford 1
Bristol City 2 - Boro 2 after Boro being 2-0 up

[shakey18]

3-1- Well we're through-Now for Wednesday

[nuttyhotspurs]

3-1- Well we're through-Now for Wednesday

im surprised jol played lennon for 90mins with wed in mind

[shakey18]

Well Lennon's young enough, and i reckon Jol thought 90 mins would mean he is in tip-top shape for Wed-God knows we all hope he is.

[nuttyhotspurs]

Well Lennon's young enough, and i reckon Jol thought 90 mins would mean he is in tip-top shape for Wed-God knows we all hope he is.

i hope he is too and berby

[spurs4ever]

Get in..... I knew we would win this.. a great game and fatastic foward play. Jenas was awesome...

We looked a completely dif team to last Wed I knew Jol would get us firing on again....

GET IN!!!!!!!!

[nuttyhotspurs]

We looked a completely dif team to last Wed GET IN!!!!!!!!

we played a completely different team. i for one would of thought we would of been more up for the arsenal game but seemed more up for this one.

dont get me wrong im happy with the win but im very worried about our lack of clean sheets this season and our inability to kill teams off without that scary last 20/25mins or so

[shakey18]

i hope he is too and berby

I hope Berby is back too-My god we NEED him.

[matthius23]

Yes, it was only Southend (the team that knocked Man Utd out of the Carling Cup,) but I cannot fault one player in a white shirt today (or 90s rave green in Cernys case.) Lee YP was fantastic going forward, Lennon was just mindblowing, Midos goal was well deserved, Ghaly and Zokoras work rate was top notch... I could go on.

Well done the Spurs.:D

[JJ]

Good performance, did what we had to do. Just can't get too carried away because it was against Southend, after all.

A good result as far as confidence is concerned though, and will hopefully carry us through to Wednesday.

[hastingsyid]

Good performance,that was much needed lets take the positives into the filth game

[Danishspurs]

Lennon was breathtaking and my MOM but I gotta say that we've missed JJ so much. He's enigine, technique and work rate is faboulus. Rocha had a fine debut too. He wasn't tested too much but did fine.

[singapore spur]

i didnt actually think we looked too good , agaainst a team that has score 5 goals in 15 games away from home . jj played well especially since it was his comeback game .
saying that i passed out at 2.15 am in the mng so missed most of the second half

[Ginola's Son]

I was setead in row 5, north stand, behind the goal. I personally thought we didn't play all that well.

We looked very lazy and casual, and if Southend were as up-for-it as they were in the CC, we could have slipped up. That said, Lennon exceeded God status with yet another virtuoso performance, holding on this guy will be very difficult. He is a world beater, I knew from the first time I saw him.

Zokora had a better game as did Lee. Mido still looks very lax, I'm not happy with him despite the goal. Jenas - welcome back, I've missed his workrate. Hopefully, he'll help to keep the deficit down on weds. Rocha looked ok at the back, he gets up well and isn't afraid to get stuck in, with King out further, he is going to get the starts and must settle in quickly. He'll of course face far tougher tests then that of Southend. Cerny looked ok in goal with one fine save...I'd actually be up for giving him a run in the team, Robbo needs something to kick him in the ass.

The wins the most important thing, but we didn't play great football by any stretch of the imagination.

[Welsh Spur]

Cerny looked ok in goal with one fine save...I'd actually be up for giving him a run in the team, Robbo needs something to kick him in the ass.
.

I was going to suggest this, Cerny actually did something Robbo finds impossible on Saturday (I know it was Southend) but he didn't concede a goal from open play. Robbo should learn how to do that.

[JJ]

I was going to suggest this, Cerny actually did something Robbo finds impossible on Saturday (I know it was Southend) but he didn't concede a goal from open play. Robbo should learn how to do that.

You won't catch Robbo trying to turn a striker in his own 6 yard box then playing it right across the face of the goal putting Dawson in the shit though.

But i agree, Robbo could probably do with a bit of a slap in the face.