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  1. 17 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    of course he's complained before. every manager has. and frankly anyone who follows the EPL knows that the running joke about Arsenal constantly getting shafted by officiating isn't some meme, it's a fact. anyway, while arteta has complained about poor officiating before, he's never refused to actually comment while saying, "if i say what i believe i will be suspended for six months." i don't know a single person who watched that game who thinks it wasn't horribly officiated. 

    i watched the game. seemed pretty fair to me.

    and holding didn’t get carded because he made a tactical foul. he got carded because he put his shoulder into son’s earhole while doing it.

  2. 54 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    he's not wrong, and he's never spoken like this before. that officiating was particularly egregious considering the stakes. 

    “Arteta is a really good coach but he has just started this job and he has to be more focused on his team and not to keep complaining,” Conte said. “In six months here [at Spurs], I have listened to him complaining a lot. He needs to be more calm. But if he doesn’t want to accept my advice, I don’t care.“

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/12/antonio-conte-mikel-arteta-to-stop-complaining-after-holding-red-in-arsenal-defeat-tottenham

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  3. 1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

    This was specifically compared against Arsenal (which I agree is kind of foolish). As a whole our GD is +19 (theirs is +9).

    the immediate nov/dec reversal and acceleration post-new year just reinforces the impact conte could have had on the whole season had we not messed around with NES last summer/fall. and i say that after being on record here as to not wanting conte when his name was first being floated last spring.

    hopefully a strong finish to the season and conte’s vision keeps kane here another year.

  4. 1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

    Spurs certainly have picked a good time to get their offense rolling. When GD might be important in the race for 4th ..

    The is the 4 wins since then:
    0-2 @Brighton
    3-1 West Ham
    5-1 Newcastle
    0-4 @Villa

    But going back you have 3 more games and 2 more huge wins

    3-2 Loss @ Man U
    5-0 Win Everton
    0-4 Win @ Leeds

    Our last 7 EPL games: 6 W 1L, Aggregate 25-4

    That's how you get back into the race for the top 4.

     

    when nuno was sacked the differential was -7. 

  5. 14 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    I might say not much changes. This team wasn’t built to compete for the EPL title. At best maybe they are competing for 3rd place and the UCL spot is all but locked up right now. But that’s it. 

    they’ve been the second best team in the league since jan 1 and if they had taken just half of the points they dropped while playing NES’ turtle style they’d be six off the top of the table today. so i might say a lot changes.

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  6. 53 minutes ago, yoladu said:

    more Wolves.. last 8 matches:

    3Won  3Draw  2Loss  3GF  2GA  12 points

     

    3 goals in 8 matches and get 12 points - crazy.

    nuno left and somehow they play an even less exciting style of futbol.

  7. 2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

    Fans are stupid. If players can make an impact and the coach believes in them, then they should stay. I don't know what Conte's bigger picture plan is, but if Ndombele is part of that plan, screw the fans.

    so, trust the corches? what have you seen from n’dombele over the course of his time with spurs to warrant any coach or fan believing in him at this point? 

  8. 3 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

    Well clearly it's not something I'd be saying if he was doing a great job. But there are different flavors of HC - hands off CEOs like Mack, Coordinator types like Lincoln, do-everything guys like Saban, etc. There's no one set of responsibilities that every HC has to handle. Sark needs to realize that at this point, he isn't a "do-everything" guy. He needs to hire good people to take shit off his plate, then spend time on the offense. That's still calling the shots as a head coach, just a different flavor of it.  

    he’s been a head coach before at multiple stops. he should have figured this out by now.

    1 hour ago, Tex-19 said:

    We're still in on some big names but sure, who knows where we'll end up this class. Regardless, I will stand by my position that Sark's recruiting ability is not his problem. He's got a strong track record in that department both as HC and OC. Win 8-9 games, play the game even moderately, and we'd have a top 5 class with him at the helm.

    you know who else won 8-9 games and pulled top 5 classes? mensa. sark’s problem is that he is not a good coach.

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

    Sorta. That's maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Basically just saying he needs to hand off some of his other duties so he can spend more time on the offense. That's the highest-value use of his time.

    is it? he was hired to be the head coach at the university of texas. the highest-value use of his time would be to figure out how to be good at that job. if that path includes abdicating some of his head coaching responsibilities, it’s a tacit admission that he should never have been hired for the role in the first place. 

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