"This Is Good As It Can Get"....

[matthew.absurdum]

I live in Birmingham. It is great that I can have chance to meet my boyhood hero Robbie Keane and Niko at the Bullring

 

[riggi]

I live in Birmingham. It is great that I can have chance to meet my boyhood hero Robbie Keane and Niko at the Bullring

Im sorry to hear that .

 

[SpursDave88]

He said it after we went on a 10 plus game winless run to go from title challengers to a fifth placed finish. We did that two seasons in a row and it was an act of self preservation.

 

[matthew.absurdum]

Im sorry to hear that .

Still better than Liverpool I guess

 

[tiger666]

He said it after we went on a 10 plus game winless run to go from title challengers to a fifth placed finish. We did that two seasons in a row and it was an act of self preservation.

It was said on the 22nd May 2011 after beating Birmingham 2-1. We beat Liverpool 2-0 the game before. This threads getting embarrassing now with people just making things up.

 

[For the love of Spurs]

Some of us look at how good the players were that he (inherrited) had at his disposal, and think if anything we underachieved.

That aside my issues with Harry are not so much based on what we were doing on the pitch, but all the crap that was happening behind the scenes and in the media. As a club things were far from rosie when he left, and that generally was down to Redknapp and his never shut up attitude.

Perhaps, but I found the Redknapp era far better than whatever you called the AVB/Sherwood reign. Pochettino is exceptional, I never expect us to get a manager of his ability.

Considering where we were as a club a good manager with a mouth like Redknapp was better than most of what else we had. for me I could live with having a dickhead in charge if we got the results and played good football rather than a nice guy taking us down to the bottom.

That we have be given a guy who is a brilliant coach of players, plays a wonderful brand of football, is professional and motivated to such a degree like Pochettino is a god send. I genuinely wouldn't trade him for any manager.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

"Where do they expect us to be - above Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea? We have had an amazing season - it won't get any better, enjoy it. This is good as it can get. This has been a fantastic season."

Remember that quote in 2011 and how some of us were outraged by it whilst many others were accepting of such a shallow mindset. How stupid does it look now? Granted we have not won anything as yet, neither did HR btw, but we look far more likely to now as opposed to then. All this done by having approx the same net spend.....

At the time of the quote, i as well as many others thought the same. Hindsight made of a quote that was made some six years ago is plain daft.

Here's my take on the Redknapp era, he rescued us from possible relegation and in four seasons got us to the QF of the Champions League playing some remarkable football. When will witnessing a 9-0 PL win not be enough? When will "Taxi for Maicon" grow old on any of us?

Those four seasons were up until now the best i had seen a Spurs side since the Burkinshaw days, (and i have seen Greaves playing at Spurs) and by the way i note you didn't quote Keith's famous remark that "there used to be a football club their once" (or words to that effect?)

See, we can all make a statement at a time of extreme excitement (as in Redknapp's case) and during times of sadness (in Burkinshaw's case) and then fans come along, segment a sentence and then try to apportion blame or ridicule where there simply isn't any.

In my mind, whether you are a Redknapp fan or not what he achieved at the Club was undeniably having a side to be proud of, playing football that at times was as good as we see today, and taking us the furthest in the Champions League than any other Manager.

Before Redknapp, when was the last time we qualified or won anything that we could be really, truly proud of?

It was 33 years ago.

 

[Trix]

He inherited from jande ramos a team that looked like it might be relegated. He turned them into winners. Bale was considered a jinx before harry came along.

Bit like Conte inherriting a midtable chelsea team and turning them into probable title winners?

Considering where BMJ had finished with us before juande came in I'd say it was far more to do with the juande under achieving, than anything else. Yes he gave them their confidence back, but anyone who believes Harry coached them to where they got knows fuck all about Harry's coaching(which is pretty much non existent).

Like I have already said in this thread he will more likely turn City around because prior to Zola, Blues were doing very well, and that's what Barry is good at, confidence boosting.

Believe me if he does "2 from 22 will soon enough be the new " 2 from 8". It's easy to look good when the guy you are following has been fairly awful.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Some of us look at how good the players were that he (inherrited) had at his disposal, and think if anything we underachieved.

That aside my issues with Harry are not so much based on what we were doing on the pitch, but all the crap that was happening behind the scenes and in the media. As a club things were far from rosie when he left, and that generally was down to Redknapp and his never shut up attitude.

Those "good players that he inherited" took us to the bottom three, i guess you mean those "good players"?

 

[Trix]

Perhaps, but I found the Redknapp era far better than whatever you called the AVB/Sherwood reign. Pochettino is exceptional, I never expect us to get a manager of his ability.

Considering where we were as a club a good manager with a mouth like Redknapp was better than most of what else we had. for me I could live with having a dickhead in charge if we got the results and played good football rather than a nice guy taking us down to the bottom.

That we have be given a guy who is a brilliant coach of players, plays a wonderful brand of football, is professional and motivated to such a degree like Pochettino is a god send. I genuinely wouldn't trade him for any manager.

Yep he was better than Sherwood/AVB.

 

[SpursDave88]

It was said on the 22nd May 2011 after beating Birmingham 2-1. We beat Liverpool 2-0 the game before. This threads getting embarrassing now with people just making things up.

Except that is is you who is making things up so....

'Redknapp steered his side to the Europa League next term as they finished fifth following a 2-1 win which relegated Birmingham.

And after the game, the Spurs boss told Sky Sports: "It's been an incredible season - the European adventure, beating Arsenal for the first time, going to Liverpool and winning. We've had great games and this has been far and away the best season in the Premier League that Tottenham has had."

There has been criticism amongst some fans of Spurs' failure to qualify again for the Champions League after their push for the top four fell away during the latter part of the season but Redknapp described such critics as "idiots".'

 

[fortworthspur]

whatever we have now was built on the back of Harry's success. I think Poch is definitely a better coach - hell Harry would probably admit that in private - but Im glad we had Redknapp for a while.

 

[SpursDave88]

I don't think the quote is very relevant to what Poch is acheiving today. All it demonstrates is the "not me guv" attitude Harry always had. That season we went on a run of one win in 11 as our season collapsed. A feat we would repeat the following season. It demonstated a level of rank unprofessionalism which would mean it didn't matter how good a squad we had under Harry, we would always come up short.

 

[Trix]

Those "good players that he inherited" took us to the bottom three, i guess you mean those "good players"?

Imo those " good players" many the same ones that finished 5th under Jol took us to the bottom three because of Juande Ramos.

All Harry did was give them their confidence back(which I will give him credit for). The players got us 4th IMO not Harry. He really did just let them get on with it.

 

[tiger666]

Except that is is you who is making things up so....

You said "He said it after we went on a 10 plus game winless run". That isn't true.

 

[SpursDave88]

You said "He said it after we went on a 10 plus game winless run". That isn't true.

Ok,one win in 11....

 

[have_it]

It was said on the 22nd May 2011 after beating Birmingham 2-1. We beat Liverpool 2-0 the game before. This threads getting embarrassing now with people just making things up.

Was that the game when Aaron Lennon got a last minute winner?

 

[riggi]

We have a hard time getting over things don't we?

 

[tiger666]

Was that the game when Aaron Lennon got a last minute winner?

No, Pav got both.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/13444710

 

[MichaelPawson]

I enjoyed watching those Redknapp teams as much as anyone, but the "good as it can get" quote annoyed me for the same reason him getting his head turned by the England job annoyed me. I get that as fans, we shouldn't expect him to revere the club the same way we do, but at what point do we get to say that a manager who didn't believe we could ever make it to the top simply isn't good enough for a club that defines itself by its ambition?

"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory." This is our defining ethos. Not, "Fuck it, fifth is good enough if the fixture list is congested."