Before we signed Lloris, I actually said many times I'd be happy for Brad to have been given another 1 year deal to carry on after this season. His first year he was great, brought stability and calmness back into the defence and you never had a heart-in-mouth moment when he went to claim a ball.
That said, we've signed who I'd consider to be one of the top 10 keepers in the world, whether we knew other teams were sniffing around and therefore wanted to rap it up before Jan is pretty irrelevent in my opinion, fact is we have him and I personally feel he should've been number 1 by the QPR game. Keeping what I'm sure many of us would consider the better keeper on the bench is ludicrous. As much as Brad is a fantastic keeper, when a better player signs a natural instinct would be to select the better player.
We've dropped current players for new players before; Ade signed on loan last season so Defoe was demoted, Friedel came in over Gomes and so on so I don't see why we haven't put Lloris in yet.
It's all well and good for some to say Hugo is seen as "the future" by AVB/ Spurs and he'll get a chance soon enough but Lloris isn't an 18/19 year old kid with potential that'd be delighted just to be involved with the squad to then develop as a potential first choice, he's an established top class keeper who was a major coup for us. I think the longer we leave him out, the worst it'll do for his confidence which is why currently we might not be seeing the best of him when he does play.
That is just too many cocked up QUOTE tags for me Spurf. You're fired.
), allows me to lend money to friends and family without feeling the hit myself and go on 3 or 4 holidays a year. Boring as f*ck but it allows me to be extremely happy outside of it, I'd eat sh*t (literally probably would) if the money was good!
.But Spurf if facts aren't available (which more often they're not) then surely we're going to base posts on opinions/ belief and analysis... How else can we debate and share ideas?
If all our posts had to be based on facts and therefore needed to be more reserved on opinons etc, I'm sure the forum would be dead. The whole reason this particular Spurs board is great is because we have good banter, strong opinions and a love for THFC, therefore building a platform for us all to debate and communicate on particular topics whether based on fact or opinion.



Well said SOS, though as I said elsewhere for me we definitely needed a new keeper in the summer. At 41 we couldn't rely on Brad, and he keeps on showing us why, unfortunately, this season, but still AVB persists with his stupid policy over Hugo.
Would people really play Lennon over him just because Lennon was in good form?
Ok Spurm guilty as charged. Fired from what? Do I get a severance package?
There is a lot of truth in what you say and yes if we did not have posters like yourself expressing opinions on belief in the absence of facts then it would be pretty dry.
However when you do that people like me will challenge because I don't express opinions based on belief. So keep posting I appreciate the ammunition.
You keep saying you will give AVB a chance but at the same time slag him off at every opportunity. It begins to look like you are poised for his failure waiting to cash in and say I told you so. If and when you do I will not be impressed.
The company you keep often colours others judgement and in your case that applies.
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It's all well and good saying I provide the ammunition but your posts aren't debating, more disregarding others opinions instead of challenging them with any valid reasoning bar the fact of saying "you have no facts".

just gonna put something out there...
Brad>Lloris.
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If I disregarded your opinion I would not be debating with you, would I. No valid reason? I think casting doubt on the judgment of Friedel without any facts merits somebody pointing that out. I think that is a valid reason. If you express an opinion on his goalkeeping that's fair enough but to make comments on his private life without proper information (facts) then it needs to be challenged.
Opinions without facts are pretty worthless and nothing more than an exercise in semantics, but you are still entitled to express them of course. Just don't expect to get away with it.![]()
