Deflated

[Speedy]

I'm over it. Couldn't give a toss what some two bob gooner thinks

 

[Cornpattbuck]

It's ridiculous because we've just finished 3rd, our best ever Premiership finish.

And yet I STILL feel utterly deflated. I am still livid at failing to finish ahead of Arsenal. The banter and memes are still relentless even though I am simply not allowing myself to be goaded. To be honest there isn't a single one I've seen that isn't in some way justified. It's the most humiliated I've ever felt as a Spurs fan. One week we're being talked about as title contenders and four weeks later we're an absolute joke.

On my facebook feed I've seen a few interview headers from Spurs players and I don't even want to watch them. I am sick of Spurs players trying to be positive about it or saying what a great season it has been. I wish they'd show some humility, shut the fuck up and let their football do the talking at the beginning of next season. It would have been a great season. It should have been a great season. And yet somehow we still manage to conspire to fuck it up.

I have absolutely zero enthusiasm for the Euros despite this being a promising England team full of Spurs players. I really couldn't give a flying fuck about it. I have never felt as let down by a Spurs team as the team of 15/16 and it's killed my passion for football completely.

Is anyone else still sick as a parrot or am I just going mental?!

Go and get laid, FFS!

 

[whitelanefever]

There's a lesson in everything.. who can handle pressure.. where we need to improve.. I'm hungry for the new season & will say it now.. we will challenge for the title again.. the season away from WHL makes me nervous though

 

[wrd]

Seriously sort it the fuck out. You say you're not being goaded but you can't even allow yourself to enjoy what we've achieved and come here and wrote an essay...

 

[Bulletspur]

I am not over it and like the OP I am yet to watch any replays of the Newcastle match. I know it is irrational as we have outplayed most teams this season and have qualified for the group stages of the CL by finishing the highest we have ever finished in the Premier League.

But fuck it, we got only two points from last four matches including being beaten by both Southampton and Newcastle of all teams. And the hardest pill to swallow is the way we lost those two matches. No effort whatsoever, it was as the team didn't give a shit for us fans and that's what pissed me off the most.

My mood also isn't helped by every time I come on this forum I am faced with that Newcastle 1-5 Banner. We seem to have Masochists for administrators.

 

[Mr.D]

Some people need a reality check.

 

[cliff jones]

I hate Arsenal. I really hate Arsenal. Losing the title to Leicester didn't bother me much. It's been a weird season and Leicester clearly deserved the title.

But Arsenal have been poor and still finished above us and it was completely in our hands until the very last day of the season. Arsenal didn't even have to win more than 50% of their last 4 fixtures to pip us. All we needed to do was win one in four. And we didn't win a single match.

I'm sick of finishing below Arsenal and listening to their smug crap. I am also sickened by the fact the last 20 years they have become a much bigger club than us. I am bitter that we blew it. I'm furious at Poch for stating finishing above Arsenal wasn't important. As soon as I read that I just knew we were going to blow it against them.

I think what really rubs salt into the wounds is that despite finishing above us and 2nd Arsenal fans are still saying how poor they've been and what a bad season it's been for them. And yet they still finish above us in our best ever Prem season. It's just unbelievable. And the way we went down against Newcastle when we had everything still to play for? It's the most humiliated I've ever felt as a Spurs fan by a long way.

I still feel bloody traumatised.

I hate them as much as anyone but just don't buy their crap about being terrible. They weren't. They had a spell in Feb Mar in which they were, but other than that their league record speaks for itself, it was their highest finish since the Emirates went up I read. Their we were worse than ever, and our worst is still better than your best stuff is contradicted by fact. And a little childish.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

My mood also isn't helped by every time I come on this forum I am faced with that Newcastle 1-5 Banner. We seem to have well hung handsome bastards for administrators.

Why thank you!

 

[ohtottenham!]

Deflated for a couple of days, but reinflated

It's ridiculous because we've just finished 3rd, our best ever Premiership finish.

And yet I STILL feel utterly deflated. I am still livid at failing to finish ahead of Arsenal. The banter and memes are still relentless even though I am simply not allowing myself to be goaded. To be honest there isn't a single one I've seen that isn't in some way justified. It's the most humiliated I've ever felt as a Spurs fan. One week we're being talked about as title contenders and four weeks later we're an absolute joke.

On my facebook feed I've seen a few interview headers from Spurs players and I don't even want to watch them. I am sick of Spurs players trying to be positive about it or saying what a great season it has been. I wish they'd show some humility, shut the fuck up and let their football do the talking at the beginning of next season. It would have been a great season. It should have been a great season. And yet somehow we still manage to conspire to fuck it up.

I have absolutely zero enthusiasm for the Euros despite this being a promising England team full of Spurs players. I really couldn't give a flying fuck about it. I have never felt as let down by a Spurs team as the team of 15/16 and it's killed my passion for football completely.

Is anyone else still sick as a parrot or am I just going mental?!

Just perspective mate. I felt deflated for a couple of days, but reinflated pretty quick. Great season; when were we 3rd last? Club and team on the up, and this time built on solid foundations! Wouldn't swap where we are with anyone.

 

[Lou3000]

No, I'm not mental. Here's how I see it. We took a promising young team expected to finish 6th, and soared to 3rd on the back of a starting XI that really hit their stride. We had one striker play injury free through about 50 matches. We had zero midfield depth but largely avoided injury. We were aided by 5 other mid-to-top table clubs (City, United, Liverpool, Everton, Chelsea) that were so bad they all sacked their managers. We finished 3rd behind two clubs we were unable to beat in league play.

Was it shitty the way we ended in 3rd place, sure, but the table doesn't lie. We finished exactly where we were supposed to.

 

[Mehstg13]

Ok ok everyone knows that being offered third before the season would have been snapped up by any Spirs fan! We all know it was a great season with many hopes for the future emerging! But finishing above Ar***al is important and we will hardly have a better chance of doing that than the one presented to us this time. It's important because its two years away from being 25 years! A quarter of a fucking centuary ffs!
It must take the gloss away to a certain degree, I think Poch saying it wasn't important was the excuse the players needed to go on the beach once automatic CL qualification was assured. 2 points from 12 would suggest there wasn't that real hunger that was felt by the supporters to get 2nd tbh
Rivalry is a fan thing, I get that! to the club manager and playing squad objectives were met and exceeding but to be truly together as all the Spurs propaganda suggests I just wish they showed up at St James park and gave back bragging rights to our fantastic support (away fans in particular)
It would have been the sweetest cherry to top off a fantastic season

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Yes, I agree. Failing to finish above the scum was a bit irritating.

 

[Dokta-D]

I think deep down we all knew this would happen. It's how we roll.
Should be used to the catastrophic shitness we can serve up by now but that 5-1 still smarts. Yep, im still deflated.

I think the reason we couldn't win any of our last 4 games was due to the poch double training methods.
The players were knackered and it showed, especially second half.
Hope Poch has learnt from this but I doubt it because the same happened at Southampton.

We finished third, hurrah! Means nothing to me.
The only saving grace is CL. Due to qualifying by default cos the usual suspects were shite this season.
We have a long way to go.
Stats show we usually finish between 4-6 place, 70 points-ish and I can't see that changing next season or the one after that, or the one after that . . .(rolls finger in a circular motion)

Can't even win a fucking cup which would go a long way to appease me.
We got our ass handed to us by dortmand yet bin dippers make the final. That should have been us.
You can forget the fa and league cups too. We're just not good enough.
I keep having to pretend to my lad
"Don't worry son, we'll come good you wait and see"
Don't even think I believe that myself anymore.

Woe is me

Ffs I've just wrote an essay.
Fuck you spurs.
Fucking love you spurs.





Bastards.

 

[Vwbottom]

 

[spursfan77]

To be honest it was really deflating to finish the season in such a way. I haven't even watched the Newcastle highlights yet and the embarrassing thing was others just said typical Spurs. It was hard to argue with.

But then when you think of it in a wider perspective it's hard not to get really excited. And the other clubs know we're changing and this is why they took so much pleasure in our poor finish to the season.
Focus on where we're going as opposed to a poor final four or five games which was clearly affected by the pressure of a title race, always chasing and the demands of a long hard season, not to mention their relative inexperience.
Hopefully no slow start this time round with the benefit of more experience amongst the group.

Why the hell would you watch the Newcastle highlights?!?!

 

[JimmyG2]

Yes it all hurts
but it's not fatal.
Looking forward to watch our boys in the Euros,
and the challenges of CL.
hoping for a good start to the season,
even without Dembele. the only hangover from the Chelsea fiasco.
which will teach us and Mauricio about priorities.
Hoping that Zlatan is happy being back up to Harry.
Still able to dream and fantasise
The future is so bright I'm looking at it
with sunglasses on.

 

[DaSpurs]

It's ridiculous because we've just finished 3rd, our best ever Premiership finish.

And yet I STILL feel utterly deflated. I am still livid at failing to finish ahead of Arsenal. The banter and memes are still relentless even though I am simply not allowing myself to be goaded. To be honest there isn't a single one I've seen that isn't in some way justified. It's the most humiliated I've ever felt as a Spurs fan. One week we're being talked about as title contenders and four weeks later we're an absolute joke.

On my facebook feed I've seen a few interview headers from Spurs players and I don't even want to watch them. I am sick of Spurs players trying to be positive about it or saying what a great season it has been. I wish they'd show some humility, shut the fuck up and let their football do the talking at the beginning of next season. It would have been a great season. It should have been a great season. And yet somehow we still manage to conspire to fuck it up.

I have absolutely zero enthusiasm for the Euros despite this being a promising England team full of Spurs players. I really couldn't give a flying fuck about it. I have never felt as let down by a Spurs team as the team of 15/16 and it's killed my passion for football completely.

Is anyone else still sick as a parrot or am I just going mental?!

I'm absolutely the same. I can barely even drag myself here to check the transfer news because I'm so repulsed by all things Spurs atm. Colossal, inexcusable wankery which deflates much hope for the future if I'm honest. It is very difficult to deny the "culture of failure" jests after such an epic collapse, and to even have any hope of it ending any time soon, even with Poch at the helm.

I appreciate those who have tried to remain positive and celebrated the accolades of the season, but there is just no denying the hideous beast which was exposed under the carpet with this collapse. The weak mentality is inherent at this club, regardless of the specific players involved, and it is going to take some serious luck for this club to ever shake it. The sad, and utterly deflating thing is, this season really should have been that very bit of luck when you see how shite the other big clubs were this term. Only Spurs could have fucked it up like the players did.

 

[DEFchenkOE]

Although the insults keep coming at work from the gooners, Im pretty much over it now.

For me the more worry is how we actually collapsed in those last 4 games, makes me have major doubts that we'd be able to see anything through should we be in a decent position in April next year.

 

[King of Otters]

I'm in the same boat. We let ourselves believe that this team was different, but when it came down to it we choked in a way even previous Spurs teams would have blushed at.

The only consolation is, and it's quite a big one, that we have CL football to look forward to.

I'm still mad though.

 

[Mullers]

The OPs reaction is a bit OTT by it can't be be anything but deflating and disappointing to be thrashed 5-1 by a relegated club and overtaken by Arsenal on the last day of the season.