r.bartlett

back to sq 1..

Yes we were definitely sloppy and kept playing ourselves into trouble.We seemed to lack confidence and were slightly frightened of them . I feel the half time talk settled the players and made them think and play differently , they upp'ed the tempo and Tottenham couldn't live with the extra pace..

If you want to be a 'great' then you do.. He's never a top or great goal scorer or ever will be.< IMHO>

That'll do..

He does give me the wobbles every now and again TBHbut when he's up he's up.

Boy in a mans world.. He's totally lost out there and it's glaringly obvious to all but the ardent fanboi's and ever hopefuls..

Lukaku has poor close up ball control..Its his Achilles heal. (and stops him being the next Drogba IMHO)

Werner kicking air when the ball was obviously going to be the goalies.. Seems he has absolutely no awareness of the game here.. It aint ever gonna work..

jeesus he needs to be carried to a goal..

whatever it was, it was no more than they deserved.. Need to push on and retain control

Our defence is looking a bit shaky

I used to go to Sham69 gigs often when the skins were active and fights were the norm. . Worse one was I ended up at an Oi! night with the joys of Skrewdriver etc and watching skins going mental in the middle of the floor beating the fook out of each other, (and more than a few bystanders who were in the way) as a idiot 16 year old punk it was kinda (read: very) scary . :-)

I said many pages back I felt he needed to up his work rate.. I pondered if it was just me being jaded by not being overly enthralled by his signing: the 98m just added salt to the wound.. I also said losing a player against such a strong team would help highlight the teams deficiencies in individual players and to me this was one of them The good news was the rest manned up and held the line to secure a solid team point. This is more of a win in the long run than the two points 'lost'

We spent 98m to try to beat Norwich.. Jeeze we set the bar pretty low these days..

Sorry but when he was first touted as a signing I said I felt it was a massive mistake. I've always felt he was massively over rated and nothing has changed my mind. This game proves his game is based on strength and strength alone. When he's matched with a top defender he's got nothing else in the locker. Sure he will score against bottom clubs and look great against poor defenders but he was out muscled today by a quality defence and will be again and again against the top clubs. He did very little of any real effect and never really looked like scoring I believe he will fail to shine in the very games we need him to. I also feel his work rate needs to go up a couple of notches. He may look the part but I personally don't think he has the skillset to complete at the very top. In today's climate he's a 25m striker , never a 98m one..imho