comment by Citizen Smeg. Hope anyone but City win it (U6574)
posted 15 minutes ago
Should have listened to Poch and got on with the painful rebuild

Instead it’s been a painful three years
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I actually think these players will never be warriors...best to treat them like kids and tell them to go out and have fun till end of the season (Redknapp tactics). In summer we can get rid of the carp players.

Too many nices guys for a battle
Kane
Son
Sess
Winks
Royal
Kulu
Lucas
Bergwijn
Davies


Not one of them would I want to have my back in a fight.

comment by Ioavirgo (U10470)
posted 2 minutes ago
Too many nices guys for a battle
Kane
Son
Sess
Winks
Royal
Kulu
Lucas
Bergwijn
Davies


Not one of them would I want to have my back in a fight.
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I reckon Kulu can get stuck in and Kane definitely has a bit of an aggressive streak

Agree on the rest

We have virtually no fighters

comment by Ioavirgo (U10470)
posted 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 6 minutes ago
ENIC out debate is so tedious. especially when the protests have 15 spurs fans, 2 local dog walkers, and a camera fan filming on their phone. 3 banners and those twaaaaats from wearetottenhamtv on the loudspeaker.

pathetic and pointless protests
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Enic out is such a Simplistic view of our issues. But some fans like this.

The whole ship needs cleansing..fans, player mentality, recruitment process, management decisions and tactics , academy strategy and loan system.

Many factors have contributed to where we are now, not just Levy and Enic.
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Most of that is on Levy thou...

the loser mentality weak bottling spursyness attitude and vibe that seeps through the club was here before ENIC though. its just in our DNA to the point where no fan is surprised at a scenario like beating the best team away and then immediately losing to one of the worst. we are conditioned this way, by supporting spurs, and this probably rubs off on the players and its a viscious cycle.

there is something rotten engrained deep deep into the DNA of this club, and no one can convince me otherwise. I have observed this over multiple owners, managers, stadiums and players.

the one constant is actually the fans, which is concerning.

like why the fack, in my approaching 30 years supporting spurs, have we barely ever had a team capable of defending a bit of aeriel pressure from a set piece? from the 10 foot anthony gardener to the cultured romero to the aggresive dier to the rolls royce ledley, to the classy vertoghen, we still cant. its in our DNA to continually concede soft, stupid, avoidable goals, which are replicas of one an another season in season out.

honestly its just so pathetic

Although it is hard to ignore the fact that we have had many 'Spursy' moments (lasagna-gate, Chelsea winning the CL when we finish 4th, and many, many more), I do think that sometimes we possibly over-egg it, and refer to certain things that happen as if we are the only club that it happens to.

We finished below Arsenal like 20+ seasons in a row, it had got to the point where I didn't think I'd ever see us finish above them in my entire lifetime, especially after 15/16. But we've now finished above them 5 years in a row, but no one seems to mention that.

We;ve had moments such as the Crouch winner at Man City, the 4-3 at City in the CL, the 2-3 at Ajax, the 4-4 at Arsenal. Proper instances where we looked dead and buried and showed real resilience, the complete opposite of 'Spursy'. You have good days and bad days, it doesn't mean every bad day is us being 'Spursy', IMO.

Take this weekend in isolation as an example. Utd were 2-0 up and cruising at Leeds and within 60 seconds it was 2-2. If that happens to us this coming weekend it'll be labelled as 'Spursy'. Getting what looked like an injury time equaliser only to throw it away to lose 3-2, as City did against us, would be labelled the same. Even Norwich scoring a deflected goal, as they did at Anfield, some fans would probably comment that that 'only happens to a team like us' if it did.

We finished below Arsenal like 20+ seasons in a row,

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this in itself was spursy though.

our record at SB. we still werent winning there when they were finishing 13th ffs

Levy is probably trying to rent out the stadium for the champions league final as we speak

I love this cretinous idea that it's about mentality and mentality alone. That basically drops us into the same stupid thinking that made us believe that the right manager can change things. They can't. The drop off in player quality in terms of recruitment has seen firing of Poch, Jose, Nuno and will most probably be the reason for Conte either leaving or coming to some sort of mutual departure.

This is not about player mentality. It's about player quality. It's that simple. We're in 8th probably because we've got the 8th best squad, we're probably 8th in terms of spending and 8th in terms of wages. There or thereabouts anyway.

To believe one coach can turn the tide against a total lack of ambition from the owners is just a joke.

I'm not blaming Conte. He has average players. I'm not blaming the players either. It's not their fault they're limited. It IS however the fault of the ownership that the recruitment has been as woeful as it has been both in terms of scouting and budgets. We're getting outspent by the likes of Villa and Everton now.

This is on Levy and Lewis. Don't blame the players.

i do blame the players for not being able to do basics, and making the same mistakes over and over. that is not technical ability because every player can master basics. that is just lack of application or intensity / professionalism to actually be consistent

Trouble is...mediocrity & failure is now ingrained into the club mentality

They aint invented a potion that'll get that stench out any time soon

i have said for ages now that to dare is to do is some rogue slogan for us. its up there with how the players used to come out every time and say we need to learn from mistakes we need to do better, after every single stinky result, and then proceed to just carry on with the same.

Conte is a winner who is not used to losing. He comes to a club like Spurs and suddenly he has to rationalise being a loser, by association with the club, and he's finding it difficult to compute, hence the weird comments.

comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 23 minutes ago
i do blame the players for not being able to do basics, and making the same mistakes over and over. that is not technical ability because every player can master basics. that is just lack of application or intensity / professionalism to actually be consistent
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Players not being able to do the basics goes hand in hand with a lack of quality. Poor to average players make mistakes, some more than often. Top players rarely do. THAT'S the difference. You think that every player should be able to do the basics but that's why there's a football pyramid. The lower the player quality, the more these mistakes happen.

What separates the truly elite players from the average ones is that ability to focus, determination to succeed and eliminate mistakes. Players make mistakes when they switch off. The best don't do that and you have to pay top dollar for those.

Losing to Wolves, Southampton and Burnley in a couple of weeks, shows how bad Spurs really are.

comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
Losing to Wolves, Southampton and Burnley in a couple of weeks, shows how bad Spurs really are.
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To be compounded at Leeds on Saturday