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Listed below are comments made by mtrenners between Friday, 13th November 2009 and Wednesday, 2nd December 2009.

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Ferguson's kids are all right 3:11pm on 02 Dec 2009 Phil, it's been pointed out in here numerous times, but you haven't answered yet - why have you written a blog entitled 'Ferguson's kins are all right' when the vast majority of the team that played last night were not kids and that the average age of the teams was lower for Spurs than Man U.

Oh and to redress the balance, as a Spurs fan I'd have Fletcher in my team if i was offered it.
Ferguson's kids are all right 1:32pm on 02 Dec 2009 11_Giggsy_11

Any Spurs fan will tell you that King and Woodgate would be the first choice partnership at Spurs if they were fit. That is true. I think those of us who watch Spurs reguarly are more able to comment on this than someone who doesn't. Last night was only the second time that Bassong and Dawson played together.

From your posts will ferdinand be replaced pretty soon then?

And someone accused me of being biased to arsenal earlier in this blog, er I'm a tottenham fan!
Ferguson's kids are all right 11:24am on 02 Dec 2009 A couple of Man U fans seem to think that King is not a first teamer as he's injury prone? Well is Torres not a first teamer for Liverpool??
Ferguson's kids are all right 10:44am on 02 Dec 2009 49. At 10:36am on 02 Dec 2009, ScottishScouser says "send more Bees!" wrote:
I also see you got your obligatory dig at Rafa in. Keane has been back at Spurs for just on a year for goodness sake. How can you insinuate his time at Liverpool has 'damaged' his career. It was only a few weeks back you journos were lauding him.
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Er think if you speak to any Spurs fan you'll find that Keane hasn't been the same player in this spell as the previous one....the 6 months at liverpool has not been good for his career
Ferguson's kids are all right 10:38am on 02 Dec 2009 46. At 10:27am on 02 Dec 2009, devilinhell wrote:
And thats why he aint won nothing in all this time. You have to, as a manager, have the right balance of youth (both bought and academy) plus experience and top of your game players....

Yeh fair enough, I agree that you have to have a mix, but the point I was making was that Phil has written a blog praising United's amazing youth, yet there was little youth in the team last night and rather a large part of experienced premiership winners. Which kind of makes the blog completely misguided!
Ferguson's kids are all right 10:11am on 02 Dec 2009 29. At 09:53am on 02 Dec 2009, Tim Hawkins wrote:
man what's all the whinning and whingging from the spurs brigade - you played what is close to being your first 11 whereas in the United team only Vidic played who you would at this moment in time put in the first 11 and apart from Anderson there wasn't much else in the way of true 1st team experience.
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What so your saying that Neville, Brown, Park and Berbatov don't have any experience? And that none of those and Anderson wouldn't be in the first team!
Ferguson's kids are all right 10:03am on 02 Dec 2009 Spurs fan here, but who was unable to watch the match as I was at a division 2 match.

Couple of points though, sounds like Jenas had another poor game and Huddlestone too once he came on. Further proof that neither is good enough and both lack the mental toughness, desire, discipline and concentration necessary to win trophies. As I put in your previous blog about Spurs, Huddlestone is very good against lesser opposition who give him room but put him up against opponents who press him and he's a passenger. So new midfielders needed, Scott Parker springs to mind. Or in fact I'd rather see Jamie O'Hara recalled from Portsmouth and playing over these two.

However, to pick up on some quotes from the article "It makes you wonder if Ferguson might just be a bit miffed that his devotion to home-grown players is often over-shadowed by the excessive praise lavished on Wenger's charges" and "At the risk of causing further consternation, however, this current batch of United rookies has a long way to go before they can even be spoken of in the same breath as the golden generation of the early 90s"

Have I missed something, or was Man Utd's team last night not:
Man Utd: Kuszczak, Neville, Brown, Vidic, De Laet, Park, Gibson, Anderson, Obertan, Welbeck, Berbatov. Subs: Amos, Owen, Giggs, Tosic, Carrick, Fletcher, Macheda.

Kuszczak (£4million from West Brom 3-4 years ago, 26)
Neville (Youth team, 34)
Brown (Youth team, 29)
Vidic (£8-£10million, 28)
De Laet (19, signed last summer)
Park (27, £6 million?)
Gibson (22, youth)
Anderson (£16m, 20)
Obertan (£3million this summer, 19)
Wellbeck (youth, 18)
Berbatov (28, £30 million)

There's what, 3 teenagers, 2 of which were signed this summer. At least 6 of that side has got 1 or more Premiership medals and 6 are over the age of 25. How does that make them a young and youthful side? The reason it's not getting the praise that a Wenger team would is that Wenger's cup teams seem to be entirely under the age of 22, and certainly don't contain any players costing well over £5 million.
Spurs show top four style 11:22am on 01 Dec 2009 Interesting blog

Villa fans, I think the reason the article is in praising Spurs so much is that a. they played very well and were the better team, particuarly in the second half
b. villa are a very good team, and despite spurs being away against them and going a goal behind actually showed some fight to take a point - something that was missing in previous seasons.

A lot has been made over Liverpool's injuries to star players - well Spurs have now not had their own star player for the last 10 league games. When Modric does come back, I expect him to return to the team with Huddlestone being the one replaced. Huddlestone is a good player against weaker teams, and at home, but if he's up against a midfielder that presses him and puts him under pressure he's a passenger.

As for potential new signings in January, well a combatitive dominating central midfielder alongside Palacios is most likely, seems the Brazilian Sandro has been heavily linked, but I've no idea about him. Scott Parker is one I'd be quite keen on. I think if we can keep everyone fit and the players can concentrate for the whole 95 minutes we should be in the mix - those are the big IFs
Howe does Eddie do it at Bournemouth? 12:07pm on 19 Nov 2009 I'm a fan of a division 2 football club (Shrewsbury), and good to hear of some coverage to division 2 that isn't about notts county.

Firstly, I agree with the points deductions that are handed out to teams that go into administration, it maybe harsh but at the end of the day if a team is spending money they haven't got, they should get some sort of punishment - fining them obviously wouldn't be an option as they can't pay their debts as it is, so it has to be points - as of course there is little reason for other clubs to run themselves properly otherwise.

However, there's some very good points in here about how some players are having to play on with niggles and playing when they'd normally be rested, and it is indeed possible that someone could get seriously injured when it could be prevented, which would certainly be a health and safety and PFA concern. Seems strange that they can't even bring in a retired player who would play for free! My other club is Tottenham, and I'm quite sure that Harry would like to help Bournemouth out with some youngsters if he could.

The other point that this article doesn't really explain is why Bournemouth still have an embargo? When they had their initial points deduction, both Luton and Rotherham also had points deductions, yet Rotherham spent over £100,000 on one player in the summer.
England understudies can shine in Qatar 10:58am on 13 Nov 2009 I agree with the point about taking Robinson instead of Foster. One plays for his club the other one sits on the bench (or reserves).

Warnock could be in with a shout, as noted by Alan Hansen on MOTD, Wayne Bridge didn't excel.

I think Joe Cole, injury besides, will definately be in the squad when it comes to the crunch.

On the subject of Darren Bent, and also speaking as a Spurs fan, I'd be inclined to give him a chance and show what he can do. He's certainly playing well enough at the moment and personally I'd prefer we took five strikers to the World Cup - we've seen in the past how injuries / suspensions have hurt us. So that's Rooney, Defoe, Crouch, Bent and heskey (well not my choice but he's going to go it seems).

On the subject of Jenas and Huddlestone being called up, well I simply can't believe that Huddlestone was. He doesn't have the pace, aggression, effort nor the desire for me. In fact I wanted him dropped for Spurs after his absolutely awful display in the North London derby (worst player on the pitch).

I'd like to see Cahill in action, as I have serious doubts about Ferdinand's fitness, and as we know what Terry, Upson and Lescott can do, lets give Cahill the same benefit.

I do think Capello should clear up this comment about how people need to play regular first team football in order to go, as neither Foster nor Heskey do, but continue to get picked.

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