What are the fans supposed to do when watching crap?At least it shows the fans care if the players don't. It's time the whole club locked themselves in a room or somewhere and talked all this out. Can you imagine what our players would do if Cloughie was manager,or Shankly,or Bill? Wet their pants!!!!!!!
OS, I sit in block 30 on the shelf, all around there people were booing him, with quite a few from the park lane joining in when he came on in the 2nd half.
Exactly. All most of us said was let's give the guy a chance. What we're debating now is whether he's had that chance, or not.
What he's saying doesn't surprise me one bit but it's not all down to the fans because we were s**t last week at Villa too. I think part of it is the pressure in general but frankly you can't put nerves down to it everytime. Our players are making bad decisions that put themselves under pressure too and that's why we're in this mess. We had a positive start to the season winning away at West Ha,, then battering QPR and that should've given them confidence. Against Forest, City, Arsenal and Villa we showed fight and belief. Against Newcastle, Sunderland and Southampton we were over confident if anything. I don't understand it. They all arrived at Spurs being able to pass the ball but some of the passes yesterday would've made me question if they'd played the game before. Clearly there must be something going on to make them play so badly, yet I don't buy the confidence thing for the reasons I've said and I don't buy it being the manager because by all accounts Pochettino improved the quality of football at both Espanyol and Southampton, it was an inability to break teams down at times which was their problem, not passing it to the opposition in your own half. Whatever it is, the team and management need to sort it out amongst themselves. We've known for awhile the atmosphere has been declining at the Lane but the crowd need encouragement just as the players do and nothing will change whilst we're all pointing fingers at eachother, and going on past record the crowd aren't going to magically get behind the team win or lose.
I'm really not in a position to criticize cos I live half a world away from WHL and as such offer nothing as a match-going fan. But the atmosphere at WHL has been pretty poor for a while. Most of the noise seems to come from the away supporters. Last game I went to in the UK was Brighton v Bristol City and the support and the singing didn't have to wait til either team was playing well or winning. Mind you the beer was local real ale at a decent price too. I think maybe Spurs have been a victim of our own success over the last few years? A lot of non-commuted fans turning up to be entertained rather than support the team? Of course huge ticket prices will always be a problem for atmosphere. Ade has a point though the wisdom of saying it is very questionable.
Adebayor certainly does have a point, but I think we'd all be happy to get behind them and try to lift them if we saw them putting in 100% for the duration of the match. Right now I'm not seeing their commitment and drive to play their way out of this rut so I can understand why the fans are turning against those who are, for want of a better word, lazy. Commentators will usually refer to the home fans acting as the twelth man (I.e. the extra boost on top of the 11 players commitment) - I think it's unreasonable to expect us to be the first man.
If the players could put in an 80 minute performance at least,those same fans could show that they can be the best.Lazy devils will bring out the worst in a Spurs fan.Lucky they don't play at Millwall......
Agree with everything he said to be honest. When you're on top and someone skies it from 5 yards, the fans laugh, cheer the name and pick the player's confidence back up. If it happens on the weekend now... Yeah, they're overpaid softies, but most of them at most clubs are.
So explain how Newcastle have turned it around. Do we need to set up a website Levyout.com or sackpoch. com I hate booing but the dross my team served up was diabolical. The players need to prove they don't deserve being booed by putting in a shift. Players actually say that when they are jeered by opposing fans , it helps them as they want to prove a point. Why should that not also be true with your own fans? Ade's first touch was to give the ball away.
in my opinion ade does have a point, I dont get to a lot of games but watch every single game and I can feel the atmosphere has declined over the last few years what i feel is wrong is ade doesnt have the right to say what he has as he isnt someone who gives his all, if someone like kane or past players such as sandro or parker had said this i wouldnt be as pissed off as they fight for our club the fans have a right to expect effort as a bare minimum and if we dont see the effort being applied then we are going to be annoyed. 3-4 years ago we were so close to becoming a regular top 4 challenger and had built a very strong team and now i feel we are as far away as we ever have been.
Parker. He was the perfect signing for us when we got him, he's the perfect signing for us now, well, the one we signed back then is, imo. Gives his all, gives and ****, drags others up.
So if you had your time again and could choose the club to support based on its set-up - who would it be? Which club in England ticks all the boxes for you?
I know this wasn't directed at me, but i'd probably go with Swansea. Until this summer (despite coming out of it flying), Southampton also.
EXACTLY one of my most satisfying spurs wins of the redknapp era was the 0-1 win at ac milan, on that day we had sandro and palcious in centre mid, neither of them gifted footballers on a skill level but had the qualities parker had i remember them bossing both legs in the middle of the park, imagine trying to pull them performances off with our current crop
We had plenty of experienced players in the team at that time: Parker, King, Gallas, VDV, Friedel, Cudicini, Defoe a motivated Adebayor. Now what do we have? An unmotivated Adebayor, an injury-ravaged Kaboul, and a ruined Soldado. The same thing happened during Comolli's reign of error as he signed whoever had four star potential on Football Manager that year, but no experienced heads to steady the ship.
