Is it safe to post on here yet?
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Spurger King
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- Jul 22, 2008
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I've been thinking about the age thing. I started supporting Spurs in 1990, so apart from the FA Cup win when I was 11 it has been pretty much dire.
Of course, I didn't really know any better, so it's been a case of wanting us to gradually improve. Under Harry we finally looked like stepping up to the next level, so slipping back into having an average squad with little to be optimistic about is extremely hard to take.
Trying to work out if that's the worst age-range for supporting Spurs. Prior to 1990 Spurs fans at least had our 80s teams to enjoy. More recent fans would have enjoyed the CL football and star players, so wouldn't necessarily know the horrible suffering of knowing each season is going to be pure disappointment.
All in all, it feels like living in a bedsit...winning the lottery...moving into a nice mansion...then spunking the money on dross and having to move back in with your parents. Better than the bedsit, but still pretty darn hard to take.
Of course, I didn't really know any better, so it's been a case of wanting us to gradually improve. Under Harry we finally looked like stepping up to the next level, so slipping back into having an average squad with little to be optimistic about is extremely hard to take.
Trying to work out if that's the worst age-range for supporting Spurs. Prior to 1990 Spurs fans at least had our 80s teams to enjoy. More recent fans would have enjoyed the CL football and star players, so wouldn't necessarily know the horrible suffering of knowing each season is going to be pure disappointment.
All in all, it feels like living in a bedsit...winning the lottery...moving into a nice mansion...then spunking the money on dross and having to move back in with your parents. Better than the bedsit, but still pretty darn hard to take.
CheeseGromit
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Look I am pretty disappointed with the results so far, I had hoped and probably believed they would be better
I expected there would be problems especially as Poch 's style was not radically different from AVB's And most of all you don't take high calibre players out of a team and expect things to stay the same
However patience is not easy and I want better.
The club seems to playing hard ball about spending money so there is little chance of change in the near future whilst the ghost of the new stadium hangs over everything. I expect signings to be potential rather than established big money stars.
I hope for a better 2nd half of the season
So I don't know which option to select
I expected there would be problems especially as Poch 's style was not radically different from AVB's And most of all you don't take high calibre players out of a team and expect things to stay the same
However patience is not easy and I want better.
The club seems to playing hard ball about spending money so there is little chance of change in the near future whilst the ghost of the new stadium hangs over everything. I expect signings to be potential rather than established big money stars.
I hope for a better 2nd half of the season
So I don't know which option to select
mattyspurs
It is what it is
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It will only be safe after we've won again. Come on Alamo you know that.
Montasura
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- Mar 15, 2008
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It'll all be good again tomorrow night then after another stonking midweek win..... Followed by the inevitable hangover at the weekend ffs.
Pat Rice Spurs fan
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- Feb 22, 2007
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It does feel a bit "Meh. Same old same old." But I think we expect a lot more than we used to.
Losing to Newcastle was classic Spurs.
We always lose at least one game, that beforehand we all expect to win. It's just part of who we are. Even a couple of years back when we had King, Bale, Modric, VdV etc we still managed it.
Maybe we've not spent the Bale money correctly, but Liverpool are showing us this season that it's not as easy as it first seems.
A couple of seasons ago, people were saying that we were one or two players short of being a great team. It may seem bizarre but we could be the same now.
Losing to Newcastle was classic Spurs.
We always lose at least one game, that beforehand we all expect to win. It's just part of who we are. Even a couple of years back when we had King, Bale, Modric, VdV etc we still managed it.
Maybe we've not spent the Bale money correctly, but Liverpool are showing us this season that it's not as easy as it first seems.
A couple of seasons ago, people were saying that we were one or two players short of being a great team. It may seem bizarre but we could be the same now.
VoteMe4Prez
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- Oct 6, 2013
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I think some of the doom merchants took their own lives 
Sunday for me was literally a game of two halves. We should have finished the Toon off in the first half but missed chances and wasted possession. After six seconds of the 2nd half, Eric still fast asleep from the break and its all square. After playing in third gear for the first half we decide to slip into reverse for the remainder of the match. They get an opportunity,take it, our shit defending means they f off back to Geordieland with the points.
I just don't want to see it happen again
Realistically it probably will though
Sunday for me was literally a game of two halves. We should have finished the Toon off in the first half but missed chances and wasted possession. After six seconds of the 2nd half, Eric still fast asleep from the break and its all square. After playing in third gear for the first half we decide to slip into reverse for the remainder of the match. They get an opportunity,take it, our shit defending means they f off back to Geordieland with the points.
I just don't want to see it happen again
Realistically it probably will though
midspur
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- Jan 28, 2005
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"Losing to Newcastle was classic Spurs.
We always lose at least one game, that beforehand we all expect to win. It'sjust part of who we are. Even a coupleof years back when we had King, Bale, Modric, VdV etc we still managed it."
Agree, but I just don't get why it's nearly always the Sunday following a Thursday game, even when most of the team haven't played!
We always lose at least one game, that beforehand we all expect to win. It'sjust part of who we are. Even a coupleof years back when we had King, Bale, Modric, VdV etc we still managed it."
Agree, but I just don't get why it's nearly always the Sunday following a Thursday game, even when most of the team haven't played!
MyNameIsNicolaBerti
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I blame Chripy. I mean seriously, you can't keep fucking with the mascot like that and expect the team to do well.
OTE="MyNameIsNicolaBerti, post: 4303715, member: 24678"]I blame Chripy. I mean seriously, you can't keep fucking with the mascot like that and expect the team to do well.[/QUOTE]
Quite appropriate having a cock as a mascot at the moment though. I voted meh because we have been here so many times probably about 35 of the 50 odd years I have wasted my life on this club.
Health warning everyone think it will get worse before it gets better and could be another 3 or 4 years before we are in CL again, might even be longer
Quite appropriate having a cock as a mascot at the moment though. I voted meh because we have been here so many times probably about 35 of the 50 odd years I have wasted my life on this club.
Health warning everyone think it will get worse before it gets better and could be another 3 or 4 years before we are in CL again, might even be longer
Coyboy
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Quite appropriate having a cock as a mascot at the moment though. I voted meh because we have been here so many times probably about 35 of the 50 odd years I have wasted my life on this club.
Health warning everyone think it will get worse before it gets better and could be another 3 or 4 years before we are in CL again, might even be longer[/QUOTE]
Liverpool worse or Leeds worse? Or Pompey worse?
Middle of the table worse and I don't mean for a few gamesTE="Coyboy, post: 4303768, member: 3146"]Quite appropriate having a cock as a mascot at the moment though. I voted meh because we have been here so many times probably about 35 of the 50 odd years I have wasted my life on this club.
Health warning everyone think it will get worse before it gets better and could be another 3 or 4 years before we are in CL again, might even be longer[/QUOTE]
Liverpool worse or Leeds worse? Or Pompey worse?[/QUOTE]
Midd
Health warning everyone think it will get worse before it gets better and could be another 3 or 4 years before we are in CL again, might even be longer[/QUOTE]
Liverpool worse or Leeds worse? Or Pompey worse?[/QUOTE]
Midd
JUSTINSIGNAL
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- Jul 10, 2008
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I'm just hoping we get a good win tonight so the idiots are kept at bay for a few days. This place is becoming more and more intolerable after we lose.
Kendall
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Do you really think so? I think it's always been the same.
JUSTINSIGNAL
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I've been a member of this forum for probably around 7 years and it's worse than I can ever remember.
I know it's been pointed out many times but the sense of entitlement our fans have now is chronic. Every loss is greeted with calls for the managers head, levys head, players to be sold, blah blah blah. And it's the same posters who seem to keep quiet through the good periods but then pop back up when we hit a rough patch. I really don't understand why they bother watching the team if they hate the chaiman, manager and players so much.
cliff jones
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short memory. Plenty did their best to remain upbeat in spite of the defensive shambles at City. The performance up there provided several grains of encouragement. Whereas last Sunday again proved the defence as is aint good enough and re-confirmed that at home against defensive teams we haven't got the flair or the guile to break through, at least not more than once.
But Poch again tried nothing new. Even Pardew used a bit of imagination and it paid off.
