Spurs WILL win the league

[andyw362]

I wouldn't take notice of that article at all. We are playing very well but still playing catchup.

The league belongs to Man Utd. City or arsenal will finish 2nd. Its out of us and Chelsea for 4th.

if we could get Benzema then i would fancy us. But right now I would say Chelsea are favourites.

 

[Shanks]

Silly to write off Chealsea.

In my opinion, the title is between Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal. Probably more so between Chelsea and Man Utd.

 

[Timberwolf]

If you break down our season so far there are an awful lot of encouraging signs. We have had an unsettled back line, been without our top goalscorer, juggled the league with the CL, and generally not played our best, yet if we win against Fulham on New Years we are only 2 points behind city who are joint top!

Now that Dawson has returned, our defence looks a lot more miserly, and I would argue that the Villa and Newcastle games yielded two of our finest team performances all season. We're starting to look like we can actually keep a clean sheet, and if we can combine that defensive strength with better team performances, and more moments of inspiration from VDV + Bale, who knows what we can do... (scraping 5th is certainly a very cynical prediction).

 

[Shanks]

I still really don't get how people are saying Chelsea are out of it.

Currently the table stands like this

Utd - played 18 - points 38
City - played 20 - points 38
Arsenal - played 19 points 36
Chelsea - played 19 points 34
Spurs - played 19 points 33

Lets say for the ease of the topic, that the rest of the others won their games in hand, it would stand like this

Man Utd - 44
Arsenal - 39
City - 38
Chelsea - 37
Spurs - 36

3 points from 5th to 2nd.

It's anyones title out of those teams IMO, but I do believe over the rest of the season, Utd will drop points, and city will more than likely be fighting out for 4th with us.

 

[sunnydelight786]

Bring in a class striker who knows where the goal is then i'm inclined to believe what Mr Lewis is saying. Truth is the uber strikers wont come to us as they will have better options aswell as the fact we rightly refuse to pay stupid wages. Better off bringing in a up and coming class striker i.e. Rick van Wolfswinkel/Lukaku/Falcao/Hulk/etc....

 

[StartingPrice]

I wouldn't take notice of that article at all. We are playing very well but still playing catchup.

The league belongs to Man Utd. City or arsenal will finish 2nd. Its out of us and Chelsea for 4th.

if we could get Benzema then i would fancy us. But right now I would say Chelsea are favourites.

:roll: If the team at the top was automatically gonna stay top, and 2nd 2nd, and 3rd 3rd, etc. shouldn't we just play ten games and then give the lads a break:shrug:

If you break down our season so far there are an awful lot of encouraging signs. We have had an unsettled back line, been without our top goalscorer, juggled the league with the CL, and generally not played our best, yet if we win against Fulham on New Years we are only 2 points behind city who are joint top!

Now that Dawson has returned, our defence looks a lot more miserly, and I would argue that the Villa and Newcastle games yielded two of our finest team performances all season. We're starting to look like we can actually keep a clean sheet, and if we can combine that defensive strength with better team performances, and more moments of inspiration from VDV + Bale, who knows what we can do... (scraping 5th is certainly a very cynical prediction).

THIS.

And momentum!
And easily the best team spirit!
And on and on and Ariston!

We CAN win the league. Stop shitting yourselves over teams who are no beter than us. Stop feasting on your own inferiority complexes. Get rid of that massive black dog on your backs.
ArseScum are one of the clear favourites to win the league which we have no hope of because they are 3 points ahead of us...quite frankly I haven't heard so much self-defeatist shite since we couldn't finish 4th last season even when we where in 4th position (and even 3rd) - it was probably the same people saying it.


Read my lips: WE ARE GENUINE TITLE CONTENDERS:bang:

 

[AngerManagement]

When you think this season we have Bale playing at a much higher level than than ever before, Gallas and VDV, we should have more points than the last one though...

The only blips in form you can attribute to the CL campaign are the loss to Wigan at home and the defeat to Bolton away. (imo)

Wigan was just one of those games, we were finding out form early season and didn't get off to the best start and BOlton is a tough away fixture in which at best I only expected a draw anyhow.

Other than that the only real bad result has been West Ham, again during the early season and a tough away London derby against a team who were very fired up.

It's also unrealistic to expect a side to go a whole season with out blips in form and bad results here and there, it's frustrating to look at the points we dropped to Wigan, West Ham and Bolton and think what could have been if we turned up those days....but it's the same for all teams, I'm sure Arsenal weren't expecting to drop a 2-1 lead against 10men last night or indeed a 2-0 half time lead a few sweet weeks ago.

Also you can offset our bad results with some unexpectedlty great ones, the last min win over Liverpool was two last min points won Arsenal away were 3 points from nowhere (in a six pointer) etc etc.

I think we are roughly where we deserve to be currently and that is in a great position to kick on, Man City have performed better than we would have liked them too, but if it wasn't for them right now we would all be delighted at sitting fourth just 3 points behind Arsenal and 5 points off the lead.

We are a striker away from being as close to our peak as we can expect this season and it will be a tough battle for the top four places, but this is what football is all about.

It's a strange season because right now the challenge for the title (for us) seems easier than it has ever been yet the battle for 4th is harder than it was last year.

 

[Mr Pink]

The only blips in form you can attribute to the CL campaign are the loss to Wigan at home and the defeat to Bolton away. (imo)

Wigan was just one of those games, we were finding out form early season and didn't get off to the best start and BOlton is a tough away fixture in which at best I only expected a draw anyhow.

Other than that the only real bad result has been West Ham, again during the early season and a tough away London derby against a team who were very fired up.

It's also unrealistic to expect a side to go a whole season with out blips in form and bad results here and there, it's frustrating to look at the points we dropped to Wigan, West Ham and Bolton and think what could have been if we turned up those days....but it's the same for all teams, I'm sure Arsenal weren't expecting to drop a 2-1 lead against 10men last night or indeed a 2-0 half time lead a few sweet weeks ago.

Also you can offset our bad results with some unexpectedlty great ones, the last min win over Liverpool was two last min points won Arsenal away were 3 points from nowhere (in a six pointer) etc etc.

I think we are roughly where we deserve to be currently and that is in a great position to kick on, Man City have performed better than we would have liked them too, but if it wasn't for them right now we would all be delighted at sitting fourth just 3 points behind Arsenal and 5 points off the lead.

We are a striker away from being as close to our peak as we can expect this season and it will be a tough battle for the top four places, but this is what football is all about.

It's a strange season because right now the challenge for the title (for us) seems easier than it has ever been yet the battle for 4th is harder than it was last year.

Wigan at home was the worst result, but drawing to Everton and Sunderland at home was frustrating too.

All in all though we are in a fantastic position and I reckon we will be even stronger in the second half of the season.

 

[danielneeds]

The only blips in form you can attribute to the CL campaign are the loss to Wigan at home and the defeat to Bolton away. (imo)

I don't think it is so simple to say we played a CL match in midweek, then look at the result in following league match to see how we have been affected.

It is pretty clear to me that the whole qualifying process for the CL and the initial matches meant that the whole club was very distracted from the league campaign. It was inevitable I am afraid.

Hopefully getting right into the title mix over the next month or two will mean our focus is on two fronts when the Milan matches come round.

 

[ryantegan]

Darren Lewis reckons we'll move for Suarez, Adebayor and Diarra. I can see Suarez and Diarra because I know we have moved for them officially in the past. Adebawhore, i'm not so sure.

 

[AngerManagement]

I don't think it is so simple to say we played a CL match in midweek, then look at the result in following league match to see how we have been affected.

It is pretty clear to me that the whole qualifying process for the CL and the initial matches meant that the whole club was very distracted from the league campaign. It was inevitable I am afraid.

Hopefully getting right into the title mix over the next month or two will mean our focus is on two fronts when the Milan matches come round.

Yea your right, but the equally you could suggest the CL campaign has provided belief and momentum that has seen us win games we might not have without the spark of true belief and unit a win over the Champions of Europe gave the squad etc.

So maybe over all it has balanced out somewhat.

 

[WaynoTHFC]

Diarra and a top class striker and we'll be right up there in the mix.

 

[gibbs131]

We're 4 points ahead of Bolton who are in 6th and we also have a game in hand. We have a much better squad than any of the teams below us. I think its almost certain we will finish in the top 5. If anything we would be lucky to finish 1st and unlucky if we don't finish in the top 4.

Bolton played well against Chelsea even though they lost. Thinking about it, I think they may drop off due to lack of depth so we are prob favs for 5th. I just would not be surprised if we ended up battling for Europa places.

I think we will fold between 2 key dates:

05 Jan - 09 March

IMO HR can not spin 3 plates. Cup, CL and Prem. He's not used to having a huge squad and tends to lose focus if he has a lot on his lap.

If HR has one job to do he tends to do it very very well. But when he has 3, he tends to make some odd decisions.

Take our recent results: Our squad was smaller due to injuries. He has a small pool of midfielders to play with and he focussed. A team decimated with injuries and we go on a record unbeaten run? Thats what I love about HR. Chips are down and he focuses: Down at half time and he can turn the tide. Because he is used to it with shitty clubs. He's not used to a big transfer kitty (Defoe, Crouch and Keane are all his signings and they have failed this season). So with his track record of strikers I am not convinced he can solve our striking problem if one of his targets did pop up.

Now he is motoring along because all he has to worry about is the Prem.

I think HR is learning how to shed his small time mentality. Just like a player in a new league, IMO HR is in a new league with Spurs. And IMO the dates 05 Jan - 09 March will see if he has learned from his early season mistakes. Because I think he can evolve with us.

 

[RogerTCB]

Do we have the quality to compete for the title? YES
Do I think we've dropped to many points on United to make it likely we will win? Yes.
Is it now impossible? No.

We should aim for the title but we are realistically fighting for top 4 and there are 5 teams in it. It is any of theirs to loose the CL spot.

 

[Mr-T]

(Defoe, Crouch and Keane are all his signings and they have failed this season). So with his track record of strikers I am not convinced he can solve our striking problem if one of his targets did pop up.

Defoe has been injured for ages this season but we know he can score loads under Harry. Crouch has provided many assists and as well as having a proven partnership with Defoe, he's also developing a great understanding with VDV - another one of Harrys signings.

Far from being a failure, it would seem Harry aint too bad with strikers.

 

[AngerManagement]

Just to be in touching distance of the top in such a competitive league come Christmas whilst undertaking our first ever CL campaign is testament to the quality of our squad.

Like some have said L.Diarra from Real would be a great signing, not that he is in a position we really need strengthening but someone of his quality if availble should be signed and a striker is essential.....whether that be the uber Dzeko type striker (if we can find one City don't sign for their reserves) great if not we should still look to make a make shift improve us for now type signing on the cheap like Elmander just to tide us over and replace Keane who is very much deadwood now.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Darren Lewis reckons we'll move for Suarez, Adebayor and Diarra. I can see Suarez and Diarra because I know we have moved for them officially in the past. Adebawhore, i'm not so sure.

I would absolutely love all three of those but there is no way City will sell us Adebayor.

 

[Adam456]

I don't discourage the recognition of the club's abilities that the article provides and there are some good stats on the home records of some of the smaller clubs but it's full of IFs. For me, forget the CL. The simple reasons that we're not up around there with the Mancs (plural) or even top are:

1. The central defensive crisis earlier in the season - we lost 3 points against West Ham, 1 at Bolton, 2 at West Brom by having makeshift partnerships - particularly by having to play Gallas before he was match-fit

2. We miss too many chances and don't put games to bed when we've completely outplayed the other side e.g. Citeh, Chelsea, Sunderland

The only exception to all of this was, of course, the loss at home to Wigan where Harry had another weird experiment with Bale at LB. We now have a great side and a great squad and we are finally seeing what a few of us predicted a while back - having a lethal winger both sides - tearing defences apart as they can't double-mark both. PS. Hang your heads in shame you spanners who were saying that 'none of the top teams play with two wingers' and that we should play some pedestrian midfielder like Steed or Kranky :roll:

So IF we can avoid another injury crisis that decimates one position AND IF we buy a world-class striker in Jan (or one or two of our existing have hot streaks) AND IF we keep Bale on the LW where he is incredible then there's no reason why we won't be up there in May

 

[Berglad]

If you break down our season so far there are an awful lot of encouraging signs. We have had an unsettled back line, been without our top goalscorer, juggled the league with the CL, and generally not played our best, yet if we win against Fulham on New Years we are only 2 points behind city who are joint top!

Now that Dawson has returned, our defence looks a lot more miserly, and I would argue that the Villa and Newcastle games yielded two of our finest team performances all season. We're starting to look like we can actually keep a clean sheet, and if we can combine that defensive strength with better team performances, and more moments of inspiration from VDV + Bale, who knows what we can do... (scraping 5th is certainly a very cynical prediction).

Good post, the thing is we didn't have a great start to the season with some poor performances and results, didn't score many goals, etc...we have 5 goals from our strikers, so still being in the mix is pretty good! Defoe had 14 himself last season at this point.

The last two games we looked quite good even with 10 men and if we can get a very good striker our squad strength would probably be better than Chelsea's. If we can keep improving as team (melding some great individual performances even better) we should do very well.

 

[gibbs131]

Defoe has been injured for ages this season but we know he can score loads under Harry. Crouch has provided many assists and as well as having a proven partnership with Defoe, he's also developing a great understanding with VDV - another one of Harrys signings.

Far from being a failure, it would seem Harry aint too bad with strikers.

IMO VDV fell into our laps.

IMO Keane, Defoe and Crouch are not good signings.

Defoe has been injured? So has VDV.

7 games this season 0 goals. Before his injury, he was in a Prem drought. It almost cost us 4th.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...o-fight-his-way-through-his-goal-drought.html

I believe he has scored 3 Prem goals in 2010. Around 25 games. His goals last year were mainly against crap op and in single games like where he scored 5. I think Crouch is even worse but has other qualities. As for Keane....

I know I may be a little biased since Keane, Crouch and Defoe are "you know whats" but looking outside my opinion, and how people are in general praying for a striker in Jan, then I may have a point.