Off to Australia...

[MR_BEN]

Poor footballers getting flown on holiday to Australia for a week. Not sure why such a big deal is made out of it.

It’s Melbourne …. It’s late Autumn. Max of about 18° this week so its cold - it’s hardly a week in the sun on the beach.

I don’t feel sorry for them but it’s a shit flight, they’ll land sometime today - open training session tonight, play the game tomorrow and then get back on the plane and fly home.

Sounds like a pretty crap way to spend a week if you ask me.

 

[MR_BEN]

If Ange and the players said yes to this then there isn't any point in arguing it. Newcastle are doing the same as well. There are still European finals and cup finals to be played, so really they're not missing much of anything.

Tournament players will join up with their countries and the rest will go on their holidays.

Newcastle are playing two games, not just one.

Arsenal Ladies are also out here for a game.

And AC Milan are playing Inter Milan out here a week later.

It’s not like we are the only ones doing it.

 

[robotsonic]

And Newcastle are playing two games, not just one.

Arsenal Ladies are also out here.

And AC Milan are playing Inter Milan out here a week later.

It’s not like we are the only ones doing it.

Genuinely surprised the market out there is big enough to drag so many over there so often to be fair, especially if they're not touring also around Asia more generally.

Seems a waste of time to me, but if the players could bail on it then fair enough. Hopefully if nothing else a bit of a team building jolly and a good experience for the young ones. Just hope that nobody does an ACL.

 

[SpursForever71]

What a complete and utter waste of time and money and way to piss off the players and manager going into the summer.

Reaks of money and Levy.

Bang on, long hard season blah blah blah. oooh money, lets go off to the other side of the world for a couple of games. Bullshit

 

[Misfit]

If it was a preseason tour then fine. This is just BS

 

[SpursForever71]

we have only one game (Newcastle) in this trip?

so why bother

 

[SpursForever71]

I agree if we'd had a 50+ game season I'd be concerned. As it is we've played pretty much the minimum we could have. They'll be fine

although picked up a shit load of injuries along the way

 

[MR_BEN]

Genuinely surprised the market out there is big enough to drag so many over there so often to be fair, especially if they're not touring also around Asia more generally.

Seems a waste of time to me, but if the players could bail on it then fair enough. Hopefully if nothing else a bit of a team building jolly and a good experience for the young ones. Just hope that nobody does an ACL.

It’s a big sporting country - made up of a lot of immigrants, who have a big interest in football, and sport in general.

Big stadiums, and very little access to high quality live football games means these things get a lot of attention. And generate a lot of money.

Given it’s a friendly - they are still charging upwards of $185 for a ticket unless you want to sit in the top tier of the MCG and see next to nothing.

The cities also will see it as a tourism boost, and all the benefits of that as well.

 

[bradfordspur]

I have a mate who is a fellow Spurs fan and has been in Melbourne for around 10 years. He says he can't believe the coverage Spurs have received since Ange was appointed. Remember that Melbourne is Ange's home city so interest will be off the scale (hence the ticket prices)!

 

[Franc]

There's a huge following for European football, and in particular the Premier League, in Australia. Interest in Spurs has increased tenfold since Ange was appointed, and every game garners an article, which was unheard of (for Spurs) previously.

While this trip is pointless from a footballing perspective, it'd be idiotic not to exploit the current profile we enjoy here.

 

[tooey]

If it was "pointless" we wouldn't be going. In a sporting sense it's meaningless but commercially it makes tonnes of sense. If you added up all the time spent on media press conferences, social media work and other stuff it would far outweigh this trip. Premier league footballers are paid millions of pounds a year, in order to be paid these sums of money they occasionally have to do some shitty commercial things.

 

[Westmorlandspur]

Newcastle are playing two games, not just one.

Arsenal Ladies are also out here for a game.

And AC Milan are playing Inter Milan out here a week later.

It’s not like we are the only ones doing it.

Newcastle are only going to be our opposition. If Chelsea hadn’t got the the fa cup semi it would have been them.

 

[DanielJohnCosta]

this is a difficult situation, I understand this is absolute ridiculous,
though I live here in Aus and work as a primary teacher and the amount of kids going down to watch us and are genuinely so excited to see the lads play is incredible and their excitement fills me with so much joy. These kids have little to no chance to ever see them so this little glimpse to see their favourite stars is the only chance they'll get

 

[mightyspur]

The state of some posts in this thread. Why do people honestly care that much

 

[Spurs_1981]

Son & Ange.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Bang on, long hard season blah blah blah. oooh money, lets go off to the other side of the world for a couple of games. Bullshit

Players and their families and Ange must be absolutely fuming tbh. Just such a ridiculous stupid idea.

 

[bigfrooj]

My Aussie cousin came to quite a few home games with me back in the nineties, when doing the European tour they all seemed to do, and he has followed Spurs from afar ever since. He’s absolutely buzzing they‘re in his home town and his eleven year old son gets to see them too. It is a long way but I’m glad for the fans out there.

 

[littlewilly]

My Aussie cousin came to quite a few home games with me back in the nineties, when doing the European tour they all seemed to do, and he has followed Spurs from afar ever since. He’s absolutely buzzing they‘re in his home town and his eleven year old son gets to see them too. It is a long way but I’m glad for the fans out there.

It’s also a long way for some of the “fans out here”. I’m about as far from Melbourne as London is to Baghdad.

 

[spursgirls]

Anyone know why Romero didn't go?

My guess, PEH is already speaking with somebody about a move so they're letting him finalise it.

Ange said: "Cuti is more for personal reasons. He's got to fly back to Argentina. Pierre had an injury going into the last game, he was kind of touch and go and after the game, pulled up sore.

"Again, because we were getting straight on a flight, it didn't make any sense when the flight is that long to bring guys like that along. Everyone else got through unscathed, so we'll have a full compliment from the squad we took away and some young players as well who will get some game time."

 

[Bump]

Players and their families and Ange must be absolutely fuming tbh. Just such a ridiculous stupid idea.

Even though they were consulted on the decision?