I don't see this. Spurs are fine when the opposition gives us space to play...and do badly faced with an energetic opposition roughing us up and pressing.In my opinion is a mentality thing born out of the culture of the club itself as we've been doing this for years- players and managers come and go, but this maddening inconsistency is always a constant.
I think as with many football fans we are too quick to pass opinions. Look at Santos with Forrest this season, he is doing wonders with what he has. Yet a lot of fans never have him the chance here.Ha ha it’s a funny old game. I actually think we have more youngsters and a newish manager, it feels like second year Poch.
I genuinely think we are a midges away from being top drawer. And as Ange has more time and our younger players mature, we become a serious team…. Title winning stuff.
Consistent quality is an age thing. Just my onions![]()
We are at the moment but it’s the narrative even when we aren’t. The peak Poch teams weren’t inconsistent (we beat promoted teams something like 15 times in a row from memory), we also consistently led the league in points from losing positions. But one bad result and we were mentally weak and spursy, because everyone is looking for it from spurs. All teams lose to teams they shouldn’t sometimes (look at city’s surprisingly bad record against us or them losing a few to palace) but when we do it it’s immediately pounced on. The only way to change that is to win either several trophies or the league.We are consistently inconsistent![]()
We are at the moment but it’s the narrative even when we aren’t. The peak Poch teams weren’t inconsistent (we beat promoted teams something like 15 times in a row from memory), we also consistently led the league in points from losing positions. But one bad result and we were mentally weak and spursy, because everyone is looking for it from spurs. All teams lose to teams they shouldn’t sometimes (look at city’s surprisingly bad record against us or them losing a few to palace) but when we do it it’s immediately pounced on. The only way to change that is to win either several trophies or the league.
To be honest if you just said spurs are good at home and bad away that was pretty consistent for most of this season. We lost a tight game at home to one of the title favourites (Arsenal) and beat an ETH shambles away but otherwise that rule held for the first 10 games. It’s only the last two games that blew that up - if we had beaten Ipswich 4-0 and lost 2-1 to City I’d be arguing we were the most predictable team in the league!
I watched this earlier and thought it was decent.
Recognised that we were very good, but also that City brought some of it upon themselves. Particularly us outworking City, something we haven't done in the poor games we've had. The stuff about overloading one wing was interesting also.
You’re right of course that our performance variation is too high, but I think the main culprit is tactical rather than complacency. We struggle to break down teams that sit deep, and we’ve seen that against teams like Arsenal and Newcastle not just the likes of palace.I'd say it's the gulf between our performances v Ipswich/Palace and City that's most frustrating. We struggle against teams that will scrap for everything which points to complacency (which has dogged us for years). We are capable of extraordinary results at both ends of the spectrum.
It's true. If the other team can't beat us, we help themCarragher SPITTING facts today…
‘ people talk about the top 6. The other 5 teams usually find a way to win, no matter what. Spurs though, always find a way to lose’.
this has been spurs in a nutshell for the three decades i have known them.
Deeney’s teams generally tend to be darts thrown at a board. If you read what he says about each player it pretty much confirms it.Spence, Gray and Sarr all in Troy Deeney's BBC team of the week. Not saying I don't agree in terms of Sarr's performance, but surprised he got picked ahead of Maddison.
Source: BBC Team of the week
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And speakingJamie Redknapp really needs to stop with the sun beds. That is all.
I really like this channel, she talks a lot of sense and seems to have a soft spot for Ange's Spurs