Lads

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

Why all the knee jerk? We knew 4th was gone, We went to the COM stadium and played them off the park......ok so we lost 1-0 but how can you be disapointed with that performance?

“Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom”

 

[Stoof]

I'm not at all disappointed. In fact, I thought recently we've played some really good stuff. At home against Arsenal second half (and patches in the first half) - at Chelsea too. We had Blackpool in our pockets and then contrived to lose that. We battered Stoke and only came away with a one goal margin win. Today we destroyed City aside from the scoreline.

My, I think I've got a touch of the Wengers! But we've played some great football this season. We're so close. We really are.

 

[StartingPrice]

The wider ramifications are disappointing.

If we had qualified for CL again this season I honestly think we could have established ourselves as CL regulars for years to come.

We have played Citeh, our main rivals, off the park home and away, and got one point - the only goal we conceded to them was an own goal.

They have everything in place to consolidate in a way that we would have had to qualify for the CL again to do.

Ignoring 'Arry's rhetoric, it really is going to be harder than ever to get back in CL.

I'm certainly not casting wild blame at anyone, wanting massive disruptions in coaching and playing staff, or going into knee-jerk overdrive - but I am bluddy disappointed:bang:

 

[Legend10]

We've continued to make the same mistakes over and over, like not protecting our back 4!

The moment that pissed me off most this season was when we were 2-1 up against WBA, and the game turned into a you have a shot we have a shot affair and nothing was done to shore the game up!

Really really fucked me off!

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

I'm not at all disappointed. In fact, I thought recently we've played some really good stuff. At home against Arsenal second half (and patches in the first half) - at Chelsea too. We had Blackpool in our pockets and then contrived to lose that. We battered Stoke and only came away with a one goal margin win. Today we destroyed City aside from the scoreline.

My, I think I've got a touch of the Wengers! But we've played some great football this season. We're so close. We really are.

:clap:. A top top triffic top triffic top top triffic Striker or two, a goalie and a season with no injuries is all we need.

If thing went a little different in the games against the W teams we could be 1st/2nd

 

[TheChosenOne]

I'm not at all disappointed. In fact, I thought recently we've played some really good stuff. At home against Arsenal second half (and patches in the first half) - at Chelsea too. We had Blackpool in our pockets and then contrived to lose that. We battered Stoke and only came away with a one goal margin win. Today we destroyed City aside from the scoreline.

My, I think I've got a touch of the Wengers! But we've played some great football this season. We're so close. We really are.

Young Stoof - I ain't got a lot of time left unlike you "buckos"

I'll hang on as long as I can but that grim reaper ain't too far away.

 

[Azrael]

I'm a realist and I can only watch so many games where we play well but lose.

It's time we put the ghost of Bill Nick to bed. Bill, god bless him, lived a different football from the game that exists today. It doesn't matter how many "played well" matches we have if we don't get three points. Three points means progress and money. That's all there is to it.

 

[Jack]

I'm glad it's not just me. We've never had it so good, City have spent £100m to be above us, and they are. Start again next year.

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

Would you guys honestly like seeing us play with 3 defending mids at home to grind out a 1-0 win? Parking the bus at home? Can you guys remember our football under graham?

Again........
“Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom”

 

[Azrael]

Would you guys honestly like seeing us play with 3 defending mids at home to grind out a 1-0 win? Parking the bus at home? Can you guys remember our football under graham?

If it got us enough points to see us qualify for the Champions League again then you are damned right that's what I would rather see.

You can shove Bill Nick quotes where the sun doesn't shine. This is not the 1960s.

 

[kaz Hirai]

we looked like arsenal tonight, all the possession, superior play and football, but looking like the only way we would score would be by passing it into the net

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

If it got us enough points to see us qualify for the Champions League again then you are damned right that's what I would rather see.

You can shove Bill Nick quotes where the sun doesn't shine. This is not the 1960s.

You mean Danny Blanchflower?

We are Tottenham Hotspur....That is what we are about. Entertainers.
We play football not strangle the life out of it

 

[StartingPrice]

we looked like arsenal tonight, all the possession, superior play and football, but looking like the only way we would score would be by passing it into the net

BC will be pleased:hump:

 

[Azrael]

You mean Danny Blanchflower?

We are Tottenham Hotspur....That is what we are about. Entertainers.
We play football not strangle the life out of it

Blanchflower wasn't the manager during those days and if those days must be romanticised then it's Bill Nick you look to.

As for entertaining football.,,what a load of old shit. Will you be happy in League Two as long as we are still playing entertaining football?

 

[Mr Pink]

The wider ramifications are disappointing.

If we had qualified for CL again this season I honestly think we could have established ourselves as CL regulars for years to come.

We have played Citeh, our main rivals, off the park home and away, and got one point - the only goal we conceded to them was an own goal.

They have everything in place to consolidate in a way that we would have had to qualify for the CL again to do.

Ignoring 'Arry's rhetoric, it really is going to be harder than ever to get back in CL.

I'm certainly not casting wild blame at anyone, wanting massive disruptions in coaching and playing staff, or going into knee-jerk overdrive - but I am bluddy disappointed:bang:

totally agree, we live in hope but in all honesty would it surprise anyone if we dont taste it again for a long time.

 

[faulks]

totally agree, we live in hope but in all honesty would it surprise anyone if we dont taste it again for a long time.

It will be hard, but we certianly will not be the only ones missing out. You'd argue two from either us, Liverpool or City will miss out in the coming seasons. Hell, even Arsenal could miss out as they have nearly done in recent years.

 

[Mr Pink]

another interesting point is that we only ever look at own performances - thats natural for all fans. we played well tonight but not in the month of sundays did i think that city would play that poorly - and negayively given their position...but I guess they defend well and put the onus on us to break them down, they didn't need to take risks, and we couldn't capitalise.

 

[Mr Pink]

It will be hard, but we certianly will not be the only ones missing out. You'd argue two from either us, Liverpool or City will miss out in the coming seasons. Hell, even Arsenal could miss out as they have nearly done in recent years.

too true.

 

[Wellspurs]

If,when they bring in this you can only pay what you get in policy....thats when we will be back!!

 

[rez9000]

I'm not disappointed at the outcome of this season. I'm disappointed in the manner in which we reached it.

Some of you may know that I'm generally an optimist, and I do believe, like Stoof, that next season we can mount a serious challenge. The upset for me is that we could have done that this season too.

Instead we're finishing the season at a limp, with a whimper, and that's amplified by the fact that we've often played well yet still lost games. Because we treat the game with too much respect. We don't seem to want to dirty the lilywhite.

And that's led us to drop far too many points unnecessarily. And we've been humiliated while doing so. Yes, we've entertained, we've thrilled, and played some beautiful football along the way. However, we've refused to get down and dirty when we needed to. We've failed to hurt, and I mean really hurt, teams (metaphorically speaking of course), because we wanted to play pretty football above all else. But what sets the others apart is that they have the will to win in spades, in bucketfuls. They think of winning, not just playing well. Instill that - the will to win and then one can think about pretty football.

We've showed certain teams too much respect, instead of treating them as enemies to be crushed on the pitch (apologies for the rather purple prose)

You may disagree with me on this point, but I utterly refuse to pay lip-service to the concept that we should respect the likes of Blackpool or West Brom or West Ham. Far from it, we should scorn them, deride them and then force their submission with our will to win.

Sometimes that means dancing around the opposition, dazzling them with skill and flair. But other times it means standing toe-to-toe with them and slugging it out, like against Milan, for instance. To continue the boxing metaphor, we fought that night in the San Siro. We took smack after smack after smack, until they'd punched themselves out and then we struck the knockout blow.

We've danced too often this season and fought too rarely. Yes at the beginning of the season, we refused to lie down. But that's not quite the same thing, and it was only temporary too. Real winners want to win all the time, not just for a while.

There were games that we should have truly treated as wars, where we should have gone out to hurt the opposition and hurt them badly (again, metaphorically, not literally). We should have been looking to batter teams, maul them, make them submit, turn tail and run. Instead we invited them to dance with us.

And how did they respond? They went to war. And we lost too many times.

Next season, along with a few signings, what Spurs need is for every player who pulls on the shirt to be ravening for a win. Every game. And if they fail to win, they should be chewing the carpet, furious that they dropped points, instead of treating it with a wry smile and a philosophical musing on the vagaries of the game.

Get that engrained, and next season we truly can be winners.