Match Day Thread Spurs v Leeds

[Spurlock]

Relegation to me will feel like the club has died. It’s something we never expected to see yet the club has slept walked into it the last few years with bad decisions and incompetence everywhere.

Nothing about being in the championship interests or excites me.

It's true

I don't think none of us are wishing it but most of us are tired of the **** show that is Spurs so getting relegated is like going in the bin and I guess some of us want that break...I think I do anyway.

Sick of the Premier league dream and season in season out same old **** energy of talking like a top tier club claiming to fight for top tier honours, when us long in the tooth fans know otherwise.

I think a big part of me won't miss that circus. I think we are a set of pansies as far as a club goes and the Championship is Boot camp to get some tough in us.

Would also welcome relegation, not celebrate it but welcome it and find some peace by telling myself that this will expose the owners more than anything else since they purchased us...it would be damn embarrassing for them.

Ideally we survive and the owners learn all their lessons at once but I doubt it very much.

 

[SarrMan]

Chelsea fan on the radio said he’d stop Roman taking over and give back all the trophies if it meant spurs go down.

Level of hate we’re dealing with across the football world. We have no chance!

If West Ham beat Newcastle then I think we’re done. It’s their last home game though and with Howe under pressure and the fact they can finish above Sunderland gives me hope we can then squeeze a point out of the last two. Leeds are 100% going to roll over so forget that one.

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

Definitely looking forward to a season of no VAR. But you've got to get into it if we're in the Championship. Pick a team damnit!

Isn't the issue that we don't have VAR this season?

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

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[LeedsRover1]

Don’t think my team will roll over against West Ham, at their place. It’s not in their DNA. That’s not to say we’ll win, but they’ll give it everything. Reckon West Ham are more likely going down.

 

[Left on the Shelf]

Despite Chelsea being a very average side

That's half the problem. If they were just a very average side it wouldn't be too bad, but they do have a few Mercurial players who can quite easily turn games.
So, even regardless for the general enmity between us as clubs, they will probably be looking to finish their season on a high, with a FAC victory and a decent PL finish, if only to put those players in the shop window.

I am even more of the opinion that we will get a max 1 point from these two games, leaving the Spanners in need of 4 points for safety - which they will easily achieve.

"We're Doomed, I tell you!"

 

[Dier Hard]

The sum of Richarlison, Solanke and Muani together don't make one decent PL striker. That's the nub of it.

The loss of Kudus was massively significant, but I do think that Odobert was starting to show some maturity and consistency when he got crocked.

The clubs failure to bring in cover mid-season will likely prove catastrophic.

I think he’s even worse than Tel tbh. Just seems to run into opposition defences 99% of the time. I miss the days of a Lennon or Bale just looking to knock it past a defender and out pace them. Now we’ve got guys who just drop a shoulder then think the defender can be ran through instead of being ran past.

Agree on the winter window debacle. I put about 70% of the blame for us going down on Lange, can’t stand the prick. Hope he slips on a banana skin at the stadium when going to his seat.

 

[Citizen Kane.]

Don’t think my team will roll over against West Ham, at their place. It’s not in their DNA. That’s not to say we’ll win, but they’ll give it everything. Reckon West Ham are more likely going down.

As I mentioned earlier, you've quietly had a superb second half of the season, so much so that from where we sit you haven't looked in any real danger of going down for ages.

Your fitness levels and intensity are very impressive - reminiscent of the Bielsa years but without the kamikaze defending that went with it. It's nice to see how far Rodon has come since leaving us. He should never have been signed and the club treated him appallingly imo.

You lack quality up front. Calvert Lewin just isn't the answer, although I'd take him every day of the week over Richarlison.

With a couple of smart additions, you'll be pushing for mid table next season quite comfortably.

 

[Roo]

Relegation to me will feel like the club has died. It’s something we never expected to see yet the club has slept walked into it the last few years with bad decisions and incompetence everywhere.

Nothing about being in the championship interests or excites me.

I’m actually a fan of the Championship. And leagues 1&2. It feels like watching proper football, as it used to be. And Sky sports having half a dozen or so matches from each league to choose from live at the weekend, has meant I’ve really started following those leagues in the last couple of years.

But from a Tottenham perspective, I completely agree with you. No club is too big to go down, as we’ve seen it with others like Newcastle, Villa, West Ham in recent years. But a club with the commercial value and clout that spurs has, with a £1b stadium, should be no where near the drop in the first place. We’re constantly reminded on here that our revenue = “we should be finishing in 6th place” blah blah blah, so if that’s true, then 18th is an absolute disgrace and is the clearest of indicators that something has monumentally gone wrong with the footballing side of the club. For that reason alone, it can only be described as incompetence and neglect. And for that to have happened to Tottenham, is simply unacceptable. It’s the manner in which we’ll have been relegated that I can’t accept, and for that reason the owners won’t be getting a penny of my money.

 

[Dier Hard]

I’m actually a fan of the Championship. And leagues 1&2. It feels like watching proper football, as it used to be. And Sky sports having half a dozen or so matches from each league to choose from live at the weekend, has meant I’ve really started following those leagues in the last couple of years.

But from a Tottenham perspective, I completely agree with you. No club is too big to go down, as we’ve seen it with others like Newcastle, Villa, West Ham in recent years. But a club with the commercial value and clout that spurs has, with a £1b stadium, should be no where near the drop in the first place. We’re constantly reminded on here that our revenue = “we should be finishing in 6th place” blah blah blah, so if that’s true, then 18th is an absolute disgrace and is the clearest of indicators that something has monumentally gone wrong with the footballing side of the club. For that reason alone, it can only be described as incompetence and neglect. And for that to have happened to Tottenham, is simply unacceptable. It’s the manner in which we’ll have been relegated that I can’t accept, and for that reason the owners won’t be getting a penny of my money.

The hierarchy in charge of being responsible of seeing us relegated will have to go down as one of, if not the greatest sporting embarrassment going.

How they’re even still in jobs right now is a joke but should relegation be confirmed, I’m hoping they all lose their jobs and never get hired again in similar roles.

Utter incompetence from people who know nothing about football, just figures. And the irony is that the figures will be awful for a while now too, even if we survive we’ll no doubt be losing sponsors or potential sponsors, they’re not paying big money for a club that can barely win a game of football.

 

[The RDBD]

Relegation to me will feel like the club has died. It’s something we never expected to see yet the club has slept walked into it the last few years with bad decisions and incompetence everywhere.

Nothing about being in the championship interests or excites me.

The club never died in 1977.
Nor will it die if in the same position in 2077.

 

[SpursDisciple]

Relegation to me will feel like the club has died. It’s something we never expected to see yet the club has slept walked into it the last few years with bad decisions and incompetence everywhere.

Nothing about being in the championship interests or excites me.

Winning the odd home game?

 

[SpursDisciple]

Chelsea fan on the radio said he’d stop Roman taking over and give back all the trophies if it meant spurs go down.

Level of hate we’re dealing with across the football world. We have no chance!

If West Ham beat Newcastle then I think we’re done. It’s their last home game though and with Howe under pressure and the fact they can finish above Sunderland gives me hope we can then squeeze a point out of the last two. Leeds are 100% going to roll over so forget that one.

The fans don't kick the ball. The players have no knowledge of Chelsea Spurs rivalry. We'll give Chelsea a good game, just need to take more chances.

 

[Dier Hard]

Winning the odd home game?

You’re optimistic!

 

[KingHotspur]

Winning the odd home game?

Every away team will see away to Spurs and the stadium as a great day out.

The stadium that was supposed to take Spurs to the next level has become a huge disadvantage imo.

 

[Spurlock]

The fans don't kick the ball. The players have no knowledge of Chelsea Spurs rivalry. We'll give Chelsea a good game, just need to take more chances.

Yeah I believe that it's up to us

If we want it we can win, we can beat a team who have lost 6 out of their last 7 because they are not in a good place mentally with the football. They might be playing for a cup final starting position at best but we are fighting for our lives so we should have that fire in us.

I think these set of mercenaries are the weakest at Chelsea for a long time and our desire to stay up should be enough, with De Zerbis tactics as well, to win this game. They got a few players that might pull a rabbit out of the hat but any player can do that if all the stars align...just like Tel's blockbuster last night.

This really is down to our mentality

 

[Munson.]

Don't worry guys, I want to lose to West Ham, which means the Toon will have their best performance of the entire season and win basically.

 

[SpursDisciple]

Yeah I believe that it's up to us

If we want it we can win, we can beat a team who have lost 6 out of their last 7 because they are not in a good place mentally with the football. They might be playing for a cup final starting position at best but we are fighting for our lives so we should have that fire in us.

I think these set of mercenaries are the weakest at Chelsea for a long time and our desire to stay up should be enough, with De Zerbis tactics as well, to win this game. They got a few players that might pull a rabbit out of the hat but any player can do that if all the stats align...just like Tel's blockbuster last night.

This really is down to our mentality

Cup final is before our game, no playing for places. Hopefully they win and haven't sobered up in time.

 

[Left on the Shelf]

The club never died in 1977.
Nor will it die if in the same position in 2077.

Division 1 and 2 compared to PL and Championship is a case of apples and oranges. Both are infinitely stronger than they were back then.

And in 77/78 we came within a point of not getting back up. Who knows what the effect of another year would have had back then? We wouldn't have got the Argentinians for sure and I doubt whether Keith B would have been given another chance.

If we do go down, the financial pressure alone to come straight back up is immense when you factor in the loss of parachute payments and the ever-increasing loss of commercial and attendance revenues.

I don't think anyone should underestimate the potential damage to the club that relegation will bring.

 

[SpursDisciple]

Every away team will see away to Spurs and the stadium as a great day out.

The stadium that was supposed to take Spurs to the next level has become a huge disadvantage imo.

You're saying we can't beat a group of tourists? A lot depends on who we buy/keep. A team of Kinsky/Danso/Phillips/Gray/Bergval/Odobert/ Maddison/Lankshear should be too good for most