No defence for Spurs disaster Dawson

i agree with you on dawson being at fault for a lot this season. however, i must stress, this season. i thought he was one of our most solid players last season and can only recall one or two errors he made all season. this season, however, he's just not on form and i don't think he's the right man to be commanding the defence, we just don't have anyone else who can do it. personally, i'd like to see kaboul play IN FRONT of daws and king (on his return) as a holding midfielder. bale on the left, lennon on the right - but then we're missing a solid playmaker in the middle. hudd is not it. zokora neither. steed, not really. this is where we need to invest. instead of having a lot of £6M midfielders in our squad, we need one £15M one (and I mean a realy £15M, not a Bent £15M!).

Dawson needs a mentor, like Sol Campbell had in Gary Mabbutt, and unfortunately we have nobody capable of doing the job. King is always crocked and Rocha isn't much good. I think both Kaboul and Dawson have the potential to be good, but they are too inexperienced to be the central pairing together. http://www.spurs101.com

Couldn't agree more. Gardener would have been crucified if he had committed some of Dawson's recent mistakes.

i think that your right, i can remember watching him from a couple of seasons ago and i think that having lost his partner and our captain it has hit him very hard, i think that they were a brilliant partnership and that he has been asked to build the same relationship with other players that come and go (rocha gardener kabul)... you cant come down on him like that, BUT i can not defend him for last nights woeful attempts numerouse times.... we are playing with no confidence at the moment... everyone has their heads down and only if arsen i touch little kids wanker DIEs will we even be able to see the slightest of chances to be regarded as the better team in n london... at the moment my pub team is doing better than spurs!

Agree that he hasn't exactly been at the races this season but neither has anyone else apart from Bale. We must have the slowest team in the premiership when Bale and Lennon aren't playing. It's getting embarassing.

Inept defence unable to deal with set pieces, clearances pushed out to attackers, and clowns unable to clear from dangerous opponents leads to relegation zone football.Its up to the players not just the manager if they want to stay in the premiership.

A number of previous posts make some excellent points. Mentor - rightly hilights the need for an experienced defender to help and encourage people like Dawson. It was a known problem that the squad lacked experience and that King was never going to play a large part of the season, and yet Comolli neglected this glaring problem. Pace - what pace ? Yet again Comolli ignores. Jenas, Tanio, Hudd, Zakora...need I continue? Too many central midfielders. Not enough class. No pace. Yes, Jol is tactically inept and out of his depth. But the squad he's been given is no better than average, and that is down to Mssr Comolli.

Dawson has been highly praised for ages for adequate performances. Everyone raves about Kaboul. People say Chimbonda's the best RB in the prem. Dawson gets similar plaudits. Robinson is England's number 1 - you can't call a back 5 world-class and excuse them for shipping more goals so far than Chelsea did in the whole of last season. It's terrible. Although our midfield couldn't hold on to their mum's hand let alone a football. £17 would have bought a hell of a lot of quality central midfield...

This article is another typical knee-jerk reaction that always seems to come from this site. The boy has a few bad games and all of a sudden he has never been good enough. And let him get his form back and have a few good games and the same idiot writing this article will be raving about Dawson. Cmon for once stop being fickle. And for once support your players when they off form instead of only when the on form.

[quote]This article is another typical knee-jerk reaction that always seems to come from this site. The boy has a few bad games and all of a sudden he has never been good enough. And let him get his form back and have a few good games and the same idiot writing this article will be raving about Dawson. Cmon for once stop being fickle. And for once support your players when they off form instead of only when the on form. [/quote]First off this site only gives fans their chance to speak their mind, so anything you read here really has little to do with Sportingo as a whole. Secondly this is not a knee jerk reaction, Dawson has been poor for a while now and he should be dropped, it really is as simple as that. I am not being fickle either, i am a loyal fan and have been for years, i am stating my opinion and i see that many have agreed with me.

It really is simple. The problem is the mid-field. The forwards do not score as there is no creativity--remember Arteta in the Everton match oozing class, or Scholes at his best running the show- and it is porous as hell. Joey Barton for all his sins or Graveson would have been a sensible buy compared to Bent. Three quality strikers leaving room for one of the youngsters such as Barnard and Pekhart would have been the way to go.

Come on boys have a chuckle about it all. The rest of England are. Top 4 Spurs, Arsenal on the decline. Absolute comedy genious.

HOW FICKLE OUR FANS HAVE BECOME SINCE OUR FANTASTIC 2 PREVIOUS SEASONS.YES MICHAEL DAWSON HASNT REPEATED HIS BRILLIANT FORM OF LAST SEASON BUT WITH IDIOTS LIKE JENAS, ZAKORA IN FRONT OF HIM WHAT DO YOU EXPECT. THE LAD PLAYS HIS HEART OUT EVERY GAME AND THE SECOND HE GOES THROUGH A BAD PATCH SUDDENLY HES NOT GOOD ENOUGH.BRING BACK THE DAYS EHEN WE WERE LUCKY TO FINISH IN THE TOP HALF OF THE TABLE, AT LEAST THEN OUR SO CALLED FANS KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT. AND AS FOR MARTIN JOL,DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED. DARREN BENT WAS LIKE A HEADLESS CHICKEN LAST NIGHT AND AS ALWAYS OUR ONLY RAY OF SUNSHINE WAS KEANO,WITH RESERVE STRIKERS LIKE PEKHART WHY DID WE GO AND SPENT 17MILL ON DARREN BENT, WE COULD HAV GOT BARTON, ARTETA OR ANY GOOD HARD WORKING EUROPEAN MIDFIELDER FOR LESS. I CANT SEE US RECOVERING THIS SEASON EITHER,THE FUTURE LOOKS VERY BLEAK INDEED.

It is fair to say that Dawson has not been good this season or produced the same form that he did last year but then again who has? My own personal opinnion is that Dawson is a good support and not a leader to which he has been asked to do with the defence as the senior player this year. Some guys handle the pressure of leadership and some do not and I feel that is the problem here. That is also not just down to the player but more down to the management and coaching staff to recognise and react to this. King might not be the long term answer to this problem but he sure could be the short term one If and When he comes back

if that retard arsenal fan is still on this site can he go read a dictionary and learn how to spell correctly, its genius, not genious. what more shud i expect from a gooner

Maybe when Ledley is back we have ledley and Dawson and move Kaboul into midfield as an attacking player. Let Jenas or Zakora warm the bench for a while. Play Keano and Berba every game unless injured. And time for Cerny to get a run in the team as well. Lennon looks like a shadow of his former style at the moment and looks like bale is out so lets also give boeteng and taraabt a chance too. After all can they do any worse?

Dawson plays with great heart, and will develop into a top player, but I agree that he needs a little wake up call. Along with the whole team. Last night was a joke and as for Berbatov, if he don't like playing as a team he should leave. I love the man and think he is a great talent but he also needs to realise that he is part of a team and cannot think he has the god given right to play every game. Signings in the summer should have been Barry, Craig Gordon ( to keep Robbo a little bit on his toes), Nolan, Reo Coker and an experienced centre half to lead the back line. This would have cost around £25m, but must be better than a £16m muppet. But, we must all get behind the boys and help them get through this time, getting on their back's just not gonna help.

[quote]Come on boys have a chuckle about it all. The rest of England are. Top 4 Spurs, Arsenal on the decline. Absolute comedy genious.[/quote] If you're going to make fun of Spurs, I suppose that's fair enough at the moment. But you could at least work out how to spell 'genius' first. On the main issue, I don't think Dawson is much different to how he's been in the last couple of years. The difference is that when he made mistakes in the past, whether it was charging forward to make a tackle and then being out of position or a dodgy bit of control, he usually had King mopping up for him. Kaboul looks a decent prospect, but at the moment he's not doing the covering job. Hurry back Ledley!

I think Dave makes some very good points about the way Dawson has failed to progress but a player has to maintain standards at this level. Once he marked tight and closed down the opposition. Now he is a yard off the pace - remember how he let Martins go for the first Newcastle goal at home last season let alone last night. He needs some time out to sort out his positional play and marking.

Top 4 spuds okaaaaaay. Unrealistic ambitions, worrying about doing better than arsenal. Spuds are shit.

Dawson is, and always was, terrible. He is kind of a weird blend of Carragher's persistence and positional sense, and Ferdinand's on-the-ball presence. He is kind of in the middle, meaning that he isnt really here nor there as a defender. And I still cant believe he came 4th or 5th in the rated centrebacks on this site - SHOCKING

We really need some good buy in middle of the park. at the moment its a total mess. pls sell bent and get some good midfield