Ronald Koeman discussion

[Simon baker]

Barry or no Barry, Spurs are just better than us. I don't think that Koeman's initial choice was that bad. By the time they scored we had been closing them down really well. No system can prevent your keeper letting in a goal from 30 yards and at least 5 of your players having a stinker. My only complaint about Koeman today is the timing of the subs. Davies and Barry should have been subbed at least 10 mins earlier.

Yes but Barry plays we automatically sit 5 yards deeper we then have Gueye pressing like a mad man but barry is sat on the centre halves toes watching recipe for disaster he is finished plain & simple really

 

[TheBigIguana]

Or he would of given us great pace and offered a great out ball when we were under intense pressure

I am not saying he should of started but he would of offered something completely different than we had on the pitch and the bench.

The one thing we didn't do today was make the Spurs defence turn today...simply because we had no real pace in the team

Del is not and never has been an out ball. He just isn't good enough in possession to be used like that. Although I agree we do need wingers desperately I can't see Deulofeu being one going forward

 

[TheBigIguana]

Barry or no Barry, Spurs are just better than us. I don't think that Koeman's initial choice was that bad. By the time they scored we had been closing them down really well. No system can prevent your keeper letting in a goal from 30 yards and at least 5 of your players having a stinker. My only complaint about Koeman today is the timing of the subs. Davies and Barry should have been subbed at least 10 mins earlier.

Spurs are better but playing Barry just makes the gap bigger and feels like losing before it starts. That's why it is so frustrating because most of the fans see that problem

 

[ToffeeTim]

The Barry decision was a shocker.

 

[a bell maul]

he lacks cojones...today proved that
I've lost a lot of faith in him ...another Nero, fiddling whilst Rome burns

 

[Joey66]

Barcelona anyone?

 

[TheBigIguana]

It seemed like after 2 months of good form today would be a day to test how we could do going at a team of quality. He decided not to do that and that is almost more disappointing than the result

 

[a bell maul]

It seemed like after 2 months of good form today would be a day to test how we could do going at a team of quality. He decided not to do that and that is almost more disappointing than the result

yes, that is what irked me the most. We have a different ringmaster...but it's the same old Everton circus

 

[streeky]

Interesting to see how he reacts to this performance, i put this defeat squarely at his door, but I wan't to see this mistake never happen again. Put Barry out to grass, get funes mori out of the side and go 3 at the back and get someone up alongside Rom. Jags has been poor this year ,but at the minute funes mori is a complete disaster.

 

[Bourney]

I don't think we can really complain about our league position on paper 7th is probably about right improvement on the last two seasons it's the cup run that's really pissed me off!!

 

[rochdaleblue]

It's a fine line between being too attacking and being ripped apart by the attacking threat that Spurs possess and picking a defensive team that hands the initiative to the opposition. We picked the latter today with the inclusion of Barry in our team.

 

[Simon baker]

It's a fine line between being too attacking and being ripped apart by the attacking threat that Spurs possess and picking a defensive team that hands the initiative to the opposition. We picked the latter today with the inclusion of Barry in our team.

It surely must put the players into the wrong frame of mind from the off. We all know we need to change the mentality I think we have to pray he knows our defence is so bad we can't risk going at these teams away from home & that when he addresses the defensive frailties in the summer we change.

I don't want to go to anfield the emirates & old Trafford doing what we did today it's tepid & we have lost before we start.

Look at city away it was like the Alamo 2 missed pens awful don't care if we got a draw we need to show more from the outset away from home & it's doesn't start with the players it's the manager these players will most likely let him down but they do anyway when he is negative

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Interesting to see how he reacts to this performance, i put this defeat squarely at his door, but I wan't to see this mistake never happen again. Put Barry out to grass, get funes mori out of the side and go 3 at the back and get someone up alongside Rom. Jags has been poor this year ,but at the minute funes mori is a complete disaster.

I agree regards Funes Mori

Play Holgate and Pennington in a three with Williams

 

[a bell maul]

Main lesson from today Ronald?...don't be a bottler.

 

[rochdaleblue]

We do not have the defence to go at teams away from home. You only have to look at the high line Spurs played, that would have been suicide with the 'pace' of Mori and Williams. I really don't know why Koeman has abandoned 3 at the back. Holgate gives us that additional pace we so desire and the other 2 look better suited to a 3 at the back. Out of the back 5 starting today, I feel only Coleman is a certainty to start in August.