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wrd said:

@fishhhandaricecake What is it you disagree with exactly?

He said "We do not have a choice"

Explain to me how that is in any way shape or form true?

"an act of choosing between two or more possibilities."

People have demonstrably made a different choice, so it's evidently disproven.

I just think some of you don't want to face the reality that you're making a decision, I don't think people want the responsibility and want to hide behind rhetoric but it's a choice made in discomfort that you have to stop participating with the club for the greater good. It's not an easy choice but it's a choice. I think ignoring that simply shows that people want to have it both ways but you can't. If people are still giving the club money when they know the situation then it's their decision but looking for sympathy and pointing fingers at the club is wearing thin when it's been staring us in the face for a while. If people can't deal with the discomfort of making that choice then I accept that but don't sit here and give us the spiel about how we don't have a choice, some of us made the choice. If more people did instead of hiding behind loyalty then perhaps it'd make a difference but at least we're trying.

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Hotspur88 said:

We are basically royally fucked! It is an absolute disgrace the position we find ourselves in YET AGAIN! This season has been painful, I've absolutely hated it! And it looks as though we have a few more seasons like that lined up. That is an incredibly sad place to be in!

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Stamford said:

i think when Kane leaves we will begin to realise how good he really is. Personally think we're in big trouble

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Nick-TopSpursMan said:

They had to get this summer right, Levy understanding his mistakes, changing his ways, putting structure in and letting it function.

Clearly that’s not going to happen. We will end up with a shit manager, still won’t improve our recruitment process, our club strategy or alignment and so when Kane leaves we are well and truly fucked.

Within the next 2/3 seasons, we will be in a relegation battle like Everton now.

I genuinely fear we will go down now in the near future. The toxicity around the club is the kind of thing I’ve seen before, whether that’s at Newcastle under Ashley, Villa, Everton now etc. Maybe that’s the day Levy and Co will sell up, having cost themselves billions of pounds in club value, realising they have zero football knowledge. When all they had to do was sit back and let actual football people run the show. Idiots.

Depressing times.

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fishhhandaricecake said:

It was a dislike not a disagree because I felt your reaction to Elfy was unnecessarily aggressive.

It’s not really for this thread mate but @elfy opened his heart out and was essentially saying that Tottenham is so engrained in some of us and our families etc that it’s very hard if not impossible to walk away from it and so it’s essentially sad that so many of us are feeling this way about something which should be a joy and an outlet.

Bringing back to topic the ups and downs but seemingly ominous eventual outcome of the manager search is symptomatic of how we are feeling about the football club as a whole under Levy.

Anyways there are still some decent candidates out there. Slot imo was the very best fit and option and whilst that was gutting and whilst it is frustrating that from what we are hearing Levy and the board are back to square 1, that doesn’t mean 100% there can’t be a half decent outcome at the end of all this so let’s try and wait and see because some at times are guilty of exacerbating the negativity.

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wrd said:

@fishhhandaricecake What is it you disagree with exactly?

He said "We do not have a choice"

Explain to me how that is in any way shape or form true?

"an act of choosing between two or more possibilities."

People have demonstrably made a different choice, so it's evidently disproven.

I just think some of you don't want to face the reality that you're making a decision, I don't think people want the responsibility and want to hide behind rhetoric but it's a choice made in discomfort that you have to stop participating with the club for the greater good. It's not an easy choice but it's a choice. I think ignoring that simply shows that people want to have it both ways but you can't. If people are still giving the club money when they know the situation then it's their decision but looking for sympathy and pointing fingers at the club is wearing thin when it's been staring us in the face for a while. If people can't deal with the discomfort of making that choice then I accept that but don't sit here and give us the spiel about how we don't have a choice, some of us made the choice. If more people did instead of hiding behind loyalty then perhaps it'd make a difference but at least we're trying.

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Hotspur88 said:

We are basically royally fucked! It is an absolute disgrace the position we find ourselves in YET AGAIN! This season has been painful, I've absolutely hated it! And it looks as though we have a few more seasons like that lined up. That is an incredibly sad place to be in!

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wadewill said:

Let me take a wild stab in the dark here

You do not live in London, nor England, you have not had Spurs passed down generations nor been going to WHL with family members who are no longer with you and you bare memories of them and your life at the club?

I am not an advocat for “we’re better fans than you” because others have chosen to support Spurs from a far. But your notion that we have a choice to just forget about it and support someone else is just utter bollox

Some of us can’t. Some of us have loved Spurs for longer than anything else we know, you don’t just stop.

I honestly would try to stop giving the club anything under these owers but I couldn’t ever stop caring.
I can’t even stop giving them money because no matter how much I hate this team my son absolutely loves doing to games, poor innocent fucker has no idea what he’s letting himself in for

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wrd said:

I think aggressive is an unfair word to use especially in relation to how this forum usually talks to eachother. I spoke plainly and honestly, I think it would be a mistake to consider that type of talk as aggressive and I don't appreciate the insinuation. I understand find it difficult to hear but I think that truth is far kinder than simply telling people what they wish to hear in the long run. Convincing one's self you don't have a choice when you do is far more painful in the long run. If you don't see it that way then I think in the long run, I have no desire to convince you otherwise because I'm content with knowing that what I said is based in truth.

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McFlash said:

Mate, this is a little condescending, don't you think?
As was your reply to @elfy in my opinion.

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Yantino said:

Proof will be in the pudding but I see a list of head coach names that all want to play possession based, attacking football, promoting youth and improving players. This doesn’t sound like a board with no plan to me. It’s quite clear what we are trying to do.

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dtxspurs said:

Yeah... I mean obvious gulf in quality but they didn't get a single win in their UCL group which included Shaktar Donetsk. They had the third least points in all of the UCL group stages beating only Victoria Plzen & Rangers. Even Maccabi Haifa got at least 1 win.

I think it would be a disastrous appointment. When was the last time a manager from the Scottish league came over and was successful in the top half of the Prem? Gerrard was terrible and dominated with Rangers.

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Yantino said:

Proof will be in the pudding but I see a list of head coach names that all want to play possession based, attacking football, promoting youth and improving players. This doesn’t sound like a board with no plan to me. It’s quite clear what we are trying to do.

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