- Dec 28, 2004
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There are many moments and games that define a season but this feels like a defining moment for the Poch era.
We’ve made incredible progress over the last 10 years and nobody can argue that Poch has lifted us to a whole new level during the last four where we’re now ‘competing’ for trophies rather than simply ‘hoping’ for them.
Fans and players are all down after yesterday’s semi final defeat but listening to the post match interviews it’s the first time I’ve ever heard Poch himself talking about Spurs in the third person. This worries me more than the knee jerk fan reactions as I believe Poch is key to seeing us make that next step.
The next few months could define our future... Do we treat this as the end of the Poch era; say he’s taken us as far as he can and replace him with a ‘proven winner’ (memories of Jol/Ramos) and start a whole new transition into the new stadium or do we throw everything behind Poch and push on to see where he can take us.
I’m firmly in the second camp. Not out of some blinkered Poch tinted glasses but from a longer term desire of seeing us firmly embedded as a Champions League club over a longer period rather than seeing us drop back into being the ‘best of the rest’.
So where is everybody else on this:
We’ve made incredible progress over the last 10 years and nobody can argue that Poch has lifted us to a whole new level during the last four where we’re now ‘competing’ for trophies rather than simply ‘hoping’ for them.
Fans and players are all down after yesterday’s semi final defeat but listening to the post match interviews it’s the first time I’ve ever heard Poch himself talking about Spurs in the third person. This worries me more than the knee jerk fan reactions as I believe Poch is key to seeing us make that next step.
The next few months could define our future... Do we treat this as the end of the Poch era; say he’s taken us as far as he can and replace him with a ‘proven winner’ (memories of Jol/Ramos) and start a whole new transition into the new stadium or do we throw everything behind Poch and push on to see where he can take us.
I’m firmly in the second camp. Not out of some blinkered Poch tinted glasses but from a longer term desire of seeing us firmly embedded as a Champions League club over a longer period rather than seeing us drop back into being the ‘best of the rest’.
So where is everybody else on this:
- Should we throw everything behind Poch
- Has Poch taken us as far as he can