Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

In fairness, it's been our worst season in 4 years (CL a part).
Hope fully we will get less injuries next season, strengthen the first team and the squad so we can kick on.
But that'll depend on who comes top 4.
No CL for us will seriously affect our chances of signing plsyers we need.

 

I don't think there's much risk of Spurs not getting top four.

Whether that is your on going benchmark remains to be seen.

HIAG seems to be happy with it.

 

Between us in third and you in sixth is a gulf in class and fighting spirit.

I know you don't want to accept that, Matth, but that doesn't stop it being true.

 

Strange that out of that top six excluding Spuds have all won silverware in the last 10 years.

 

To finish PL 3rd come May with > 70 pts would be Spurs 3rd best PL finish
of the past 4 seasons. The Spurs benchmark for a PL season is currently 86 pts (2016-17) .

 

It's your 3rd best season in the premier, ever, so how can it be your worst year in 4?

 

I think Graeme LeSaux is the one wumming

 

When you also finished 3rd, yes?

Irrelevant how many points you get, you get **** all extra for it. Third is third.

Well done and all by the way.

 

Not quite. Also about the gaps to those around you.

If Spurs finish on 76 pts, that is one pt worse than 2017-18. So arguably : meh.
But the gap to 2nd could be 20 odd pts rather than than the mere 4 pts of 2017-18.
That is a far bigger concern to me (if now two clubs can sustain that gap -- Citeh
evidently can - how are Spurs going to bridge that gap) .

 

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Agendas

 

That is quality

 

United are in the middle of their worst run in 30-odd years and have dropped 18 points in the league in 2019.

Spurs are having a ‘great’ season and have dropped 23 points in the league in 2019.

That’s what success looks like when you set your bar so low.

 

I must admit it took me a minute...

 

Ergo, still third so no better or worse.

Improvement is second, or even first. Nothing else matters, the record books will show what position Spurs finished in and how many points will soon be forgotten. (although not by Spurs fans, obviously, you can celebrate away to your hearts content)

This is an almost as freakish season as the one where Leicester won (they only won it because the rest were ****, right?) in that third, fourth, fifth and sixth of the 'top six' have been as counter point piss poor to City and Liverpool being excellent.

Can't see it happening again, I could be wrong of course but the gap won't be anywhere near as large next season and the top six will have bridged it to an extent, and will all beating each other again.

 

Just the circle of life

One is on the way up the other is on its way down

 

Good of you to realise mate, not you just have to tell HIAG and RDBD3DB.

 

2016-17 : 3rd - 6th = 78/76/75/69. Gap to 1st : 7 pts.
2017-18 : 3rd - 6th = 77/75/70/63. Gap to 1st : 19 pts.
2018-19 (after week 36) : 3rd - 6th = 70/68/66/65. Gap to 1st/2nd : 20 odd pts.

Not much real change after 3 consecutive seasons is there for 3rd to 6th.
Gap from 1st to the rest : some cause for concern. < YMMV >

Or perhaps you believe "next year is our year" for 3rd to 6th.

 

No, I believe the gap won't be as big.

I know as a Spurs fan you've accepted your position in the grand scheme of things, as many decades of mediocrity will do to you.

I've not.

 

Wont be around for the game

will be out watchin

 

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