Time for a Change

[stov]

But then, genuinely, what's the point in it all? I don't disagree by the way, but I often ask myself this question.

Entertainment, passion and identity. The reason we are so disgruntled with spurs at the moment is the team are not displaying any of the above.

 

[Harrier]

Like the obscene amount of money we dropped on Jimmy Greaves (a transfer record at the time)?
Or the 'Saturday job' we gave him in the WHL offices to allow us to pay him over the salary cap (contravening that FFP rule at the time)?

Football has always been about money, just relative to the time.

I hear what you’re saying but hardly comparable to the explosion in ‘investment’ that started with the Oligarch and oil money where they’ve effectively bought the league. Prior to that you’d get the odd high value transfer not like Citeh/Chelski where every player is an expensive signing.

The only chance other teams have of competing is through supplementing mid-priced transfers with smart talent spotting (eg Mahrez) or academy products (eg Kane).

 

[JW72]

I’m too old to start again. I love my club for the reasons they are Spurs. I’ll continue to hope for trophies and appreciate them when they arrive but you can’t just clear the cache and reboot. This stuff means more to me than picking up the odd League Cup. I want to continue it.

Wish they’d bring this back pre-match. Still gives me shivers…

 

[newbie]

So true. The only way to consistently compete and actually win things is to have access to unlimited amounts of money which has usually been stolen from the ordinary people. Football is rigged and it looks like it is going to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

We could have with a couple more better buys a bit of luck, believe and ambition won stuff.

Our forward planning / recruiting has cost us

 

[FuturistiC123]

I'm just as impressed by the honou'rs we have won as the rest of you; I've witnessed many of them. I just feel that we dwell too much on past achievements, The double was 60 years ago - time to create something new. I wonder if Hull have still got signs up about winning the title 3 years in a row the 1930's. The past can hold you back.

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

I wonder if Hull have still got signs up about winning the title 3 years in a row the 1930's. The past can hold you back.

Think you might mean Huddersfield? And i bet they have.

 

[SandroClegane]

The game is about glory internet banter

 

[FuturistiC123]

Yep, I meant Huddersfield, and I'm sure they'll have it on their honours board, but have they got it plastered all around the ground, writ large for the whole world to see; look we were great 60 years ago.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Yep, I meant Huddersfield, and I'm sure they'll have it on their honours board, but have they got it plastered all around the ground, writ large for the whole world to see; look we were great 60 years ago.

Do we have that?

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

First post. Hi. I think we missed a chance to change our image when we moved into the new stadium, we should have dispensed with all the 'game is about glory' stuff, and looked towards the future. The club is too focused on the past; we bring old players back, now we want to bring Poch back.

I was in the ground the day we lost 1-2 to WBA but picked up our last league title trophy. We should have done the double again in the next season but dropped 3 pts to champions Ipswich, ironically because the 'games about glory' hero Danny Blanchflower persuaded Nicholson to change our tactics. When we played them in the Charity Shield Billy Nich said stuff that and we beat them 6-1. Nicholson's thoughts about our ambitions were summed up in his statement' any season Spurs don't win an honour is a failure'. But you cant put that around the stadium it would draw attention to our failures.

Time to stop harking back to old times, old players and managers; get behind the new bloke and lets move on.

Hi. Welcome.

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