The Sports Audit - Luke

Could work yeah

Bless you

With everything going on in the world its hard to get that animated by Spurs or maybe they've turned me numb. Either way Coys coys coys, I hope Forest go done instead of us.

Sacking Big Mase working out real well for West Brom eh?

While long term you may be proven right, it's hard to agree with much conviction when we're currently in year 10 of Trump whereas Reform if they are successful won't be in power until 2029. Are we really 13 years behind or is it a different country in different circumstances only losely comparable?

When people say all fans think there is a media bias against their team, we can point to this. Many really want spurs to stay in their lane and never be ambitious.

Haven't we had this group before?

Great point, we've lived through a chaotic technological change. There is a new battle to get the attention of apolitical general public, whichever party/politician/movement which can cut through the fragmentation is going to have huge success in the next elections and into the 2030s.

If De Zerbi gets appointed things will rightly get soo toxic. I don't want Spurs to sacrifice its ethos and community standing in pursuit of success. What's ridiculous about the RDZ suggestion is I'm not even convinced he'd do a good job, so what's the point. Would be a suicidal choice by Vinnai.

Agree, strip back all the poorly communicated PR we've been fed for decades and just look at the actions and you'll see the ownerships focus was off the pitch and contentment with finishing 6th. I'm not convinced anything has changed with the Lewis Family control.

Honestly I would happily take charge as the Spurs tardiness manager for only a tiny £250,000 salary per annual, add that to the cost to Frank's pay off and I'll personally make sure they get to training on time. Problem solved.

A view from the lane podcast talking about players not being disciplined and showing up late repeatedly, representing a toxic culture? Isn't that Frank's Job? We can talk about Levy or a rotten leadership but surely the manager has to take responsibility for getting the players in line and on time?

Plus a lack of European football. "How do football clubs go bankrupt? It occurs first very slowly, then all at once."

What on earth are you on about? You seem completely deranged.

I think it's time for all those arguing for "rational" decision making last summer to reflect that sacking Ange was the emotionally led decision. "We're 17th!" Etc etc. If we'd brought in Xabi Alonso or Pep maybe I'd have understood but change for changes sake isn't logical.

Including the money paid to sack Ange it cost £10m to downgrade our manager who was loved by the players and just won us a trophy. I called it a mistake at the time but looks so clostly now considering we will likely finish 15th at best.

The media and popular discourse is always 3-4 months behind what's really happening or discussed in our silos (BlueSky) it's why Ange was so heavily ctitised and Frank not, because of the lag. The next months you'll see takes like "OMG Spurs are so bad" even though we've all known it since Nov.

#COYS

Very excited to see how Ryan Mason's team lines up against the scum. I think we will see a lot of the old Ange style. His West Brom team created loads of chances, the problems were the forwards not finishing them, unperforming xG and towards the end defensive errors.

Thank you for covering this, honestly so frustrating that this has been spun into such a fever dream of fear about nothing.

I've been negative because I think Spurs could have got a win there, is that such a crime? I'll call it a day for now though.

Tbf it's kinda his job to try and look at Spurs objectively. We don't follow him for pure emotional outpouring (I have enough of that) I follow Nathan for level headed insight. Wouldn't want to try and be him, but still value his output, unfair criticism imo.

I get what you're saying, however I more trying to articulate that I'm happy we didn't lose but I can only see that this is as good as it gets under this manager. Any top 6 game, we will be lucky to get away with a point at most. I can't see him taking us beyond that. Really like Solanke's game tho.

Very happy he's back. Please stay fit 🙏

It's small thing but it's the personification of watching Frank's decision making for 9 months.
There will be a game where we need a goal and the players want to push for it but he'll sub on a CB. That's not why I watch football, I can't enjoy watching Spurs just "Survive" in the Premier League.

Ture, Solanke and Xavi are our last hopes. If they get injured it's going to be a 15th place prem finish at best.

For me it's not that the players weren't pushing, it was the substitutions and instructions. We should've had any of Gray, Olusesi or Kyerematen pushed higher up as an outlet for attack instead of Byfeild a CB on the RW.

I appreciate we are playing city so you do have to give some credit, but I fear this leve of play will lead to a string of draws a head of further loses towards the end of feb or march, just delays the inevitable.

Frank's style won't win us back to back games.

Fair play for staying positive, I disagree, but maybe I'm not being entirely objective. Injuries are a huge factor but I'm too jaded by our performances pre this recent injury wave.

I know they got a couple goals but even in the second half I'm just not seeing enough to even call that identity. The 2nd Solanke worldie isn't exactly repeatable and we just about put together 20 mins of positive football.