Villareal Friendly

[AngerManagement]

People were booing at the end of a pre-season friendly??!!

The world has gone mad.

I've stopped taking any notice of friendlies whatsoever since we beat Roma 5-0 and people though we were going to win the league.

It is stupid and outrageous to boo the team especially after a pre season game. I can understand the frustration though, I myself was going to go to the game but ending up watching it at home instead and at 20 pound a pop for tickets (not to mention the spending on the whole day probably being closer to a hundred quid atleast) I would have been a bit pissed off with the result and performance.

Still to boo is outrageous and I fear what will happen if we fail to get off to a flyer against Man CIty now with fans like that.

 

[Gilly Me Silly]

people boo after every loss, no matter what the circumstance....and after most draws if we have been in front.

It has almost become more of a dig at the result than the players.

Not worth getting wound up about

 

[StartingPrice]

SO, the issue with the fans who booed, was it that they didn't understand that this was a pre-season friendly where the result was relatively unimportant, or was it that the club charged £20 kowing that they would put out a team treating it like a pre-season friendly where the result didn't matter very much?

If it was the former that is just sad, really. If it was the latter, then I can kinda understand (there was someone on here, yesterday, saying he was taking his 5 year old lad to the Lane for the first time), but then, surely they should have outlined their concerns directly to the club, and not to a half-fit team, and particularly some young lads, who might have found it demoralising.

 

[Supersi32]

Villerreal looked very good indeed, but the defeat is nothing to get wound up about, didn`t Celtic Reserves beat us 2-0 in the Wembley Cup last pre season....

 

[InOffMeLeftShin]

Villerreal looked very good indeed, but the defeat is nothing to get wound up about, didn`t Celtic Reserves beat us 2-0 in the Wembley Cup last pre season....

And we lost to the mighty South China 2-0.

 

[mil1lion]

This was a great test for us against a team that I think could return to the top 4 again this season. We were handed a lesson against Barca last season, and now we've learnt another one. Not that i'm comparing Barca to Villareal, but the La Liga teams play beautiful football and we'll need to get used to it for European games. We also got Schooled by Getafe and Sevilla (well the home game) a few years ago. I think we just suck against La Liga teams in general really.

Lets just avoid Spanish teams in Europe this season.

 

[chrissivad]

Harry saying we are playing too many games.
Never wanted the game last night.

 

[jondesouza]

SO, the issue with the fans who booed, was it that they didn't understand that this was a pre-season friendly where the result was relatively unimportant, or was it that the club charged £20 kowing that they would put out a team treating it like a pre-season friendly where the result didn't matter very much?

If it was the former that is just sad, really. If it was the latter, then I can kinda understand (there was someone on here, yesterday, saying he was taking his 5 year old lad to the Lane for the first time), but then, surely they should have outlined their concerns directly to the club, and not to a half-fit team, and particularly some young lads, who might have found it demoralising.

That was me - and he's 4! Result didn't bother me at all really. It wasn't pleasant viewing but in my experience you should never go to pre-season games with any expectations. And I knew the cost of the tickets before I went so I have no issues on that either.

For my little boy the experience of a first team game was enough. He got most annoyed though when there was a bad challenge on Bale.

 

[spursgirls]

I can't believe people booed last night! If they hate watching Spurs that much, they shouldn't go! I've always said that booing the team makes their heads drop, not makes them play better. When we cheer on the team, even after a big mistake, we are 'the 12th man'. Getting behind the team is so important! I just hope the boo boys do get behind behind the team when we start to play games that matter.

 

[StartingPrice]

This was a great test for us against a team that I think could return to the top 4 again this season. We were handed a lesson against Barca last season, and now we've learnt another one. Not that i'm comparing Barca to Villareal, but the La Liga teams play beautiful football and we'll need to get used to it for European games. We also got Schooled by Getafe and Sevilla (well the home game) a few years ago. I think we just suck against La Liga teams in general really.

Lets just avoid Spanish teams in Europe this season.

That was me - and he's 4! Result didn't bother me at all really. It wasn't pleasant viewing but in my experience you should never go to pre-season games with any expectations. And I knew the cost of the tickets before I went so I have no issues on that either.

For my little boy the experience of a first team game was enough. He got most annoyed though when there was a bad challenge on Bale.

:up:
Sorry for prematurely ageing your lad

p.s. I wasn't actually hinting that you were one of the booers, just saying £20 is a lot to pay for a game that is meaningless pre-season fodder...the club could've charged less, and for you, it being a bit of an occasion and all, hearing booing wouldn't have been ideal.

 

[tylaw]

£20 isn't expensive, even if it a friendly.

For all the bitching that can be done about club prices (£54 v Botlon, £76 v Man City, £54 v Sunderland, £78 v West Ham etc.) I don't think that the £20 for last night ranks very highly.

 

[Kendall]

I think it does when I can pay £20 to watch Spurs away in the Premier League at some grounds... I think I paid £35 to watch Bolton at the Lane last season. In fact I paid £12 to watch us at Bolton in the cup!

Some people seem to want it both ways. They say this is just a training match, an exercise, a workout, but then say it was a 'great test'. Well which was it? because it can't be both.

There must have been some element of wanting to win or at least compete out there. If you can draw positives from the game such as the performances of Walker, Bale and Giovani then surely we're allowed to pick up on the whole host of negatives?

 

[faymantaray]

http://www.101greatgoals.com/video-...rreal-batter-tottenham-4-1-at-the-lane/60502/

So um... 101 are taking the piss.. maybe whoever made that 'cute' champion's league video should have waited til we qualified..

 

[bomberH]

Some people seem to want it both ways. They say this is just a training match, an exercise, a workout, but then say it was a 'great test'. Well which was it? because it can't be both.

There must have been some element of wanting to win or at least compete out there. If you can draw positives from the game such as the performances of Walker, Bale and Giovani then surely we're allowed to pick up on the whole host of negatives?

It can be both and you've proved it with the next paragraph, the positives were there as you've mentioned and the negatives were that we were outplayed completely.

Harry said he didn't even want the game last night, so if it was up to him things would be different. With an attitude like that (and i'm not saying i disagree with him), he certainly won't be sending a team out to 'go at it' but it was a decent workout and a good insight of what's to come (hopefully) in the next few months.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

http://www.101greatgoals.com/video-...rreal-batter-tottenham-4-1-at-the-lane/60502/

So um... 101 are taking the piss.. maybe whoever made that 'cute' champion's league video should have waited til we qualified..

Totally agree

Talk about tempting fate - f*ck sake that's stupid

 

[StartingPrice]

£20 isn't expensive, even if it a friendly.

For all the bitching that can be done about club prices (£54 v Botlon, £76 v Man City, £54 v Sunderland, £78 v West Ham etc.) I don't think that the £20 for last night ranks very highly.

£20 isn't expensive...for you.
What about someone on benefits, or a minimum wage with kids.
Not saying this applies to jondesouza (good buddy:grin, but what if he really pushed th boat out to take his lad to the football last night and it was a rare treat for both of them?

 

[rockyhotspur]

But it is not just £20. You have to also add on the travelling and other associated costs. It always adds up very quickly.

 

[DC_Boy]

if Harry didn't want the game - why was it played?

presumably he's implying he was overruled by the board

he's also moaning about the US tour - presumably this was a board decision too against harry's advice

i really enjoyed our US tour so support the board on that one, tho i accept we did pick up injuries

however AFAIK (and the OS didn't tell us much!) none of the US injuries were as severe as the one bentley picked up in our trip to harry's beloved bournemouth

last night's game shouldn't have happened tho if harry was against it

though TBH - jj's injury seems to indicate he has real ongoing problems now, and that would presumably have happened sooner or later anyway

given harry's justified criticisms re the friendly internationals - i hope we play hardball and any borderline injuries/strains see the player stay with us - not going off to play for their country

tho doubtless said country may insist on seeing for themselves any injuries

i hope wilson bassong and BAE, for example, aren't having to travel too far that 'friendly' week

as for the booing, assuming it happened, once again we're let down by certain elements of our crowd

 

[nailsy]

That was me - and he's 4! Result didn't bother me at all really. It wasn't pleasant viewing but in my experience you should never go to pre-season games with any expectations. And I knew the cost of the tickets before I went so I have no issues on that either.

For my little boy the experience of a first team game was enough. He got most annoyed though when there was a bad challenge on Bale.

That must of been a really special night for you taking your son to the game for the first time. My boys coming up for three now and i really want to take him to a game, but he's not so good with the sitting down and staying still yet.

£20 isn't expensive...for you.
What about someone on benefits, or a minimum wage with kids.
Not saying this applies to jondesouza (good buddy:grin, but what if he really pushed th boat out to take his lad to the football last night and it was a rare treat for both of them?

I agree SP. £20 for a pre-season friendly on a Thursday night isn't cheap. To be fair to the club though they are offering free seats for kids for some games.

 

[StartingPrice]

That must of been a really special night for you taking your son to the game for the first time. My boys coming up for three now and i really want to take him to a game, but he's not so good with the sitting down and staying still yet.



I agree SP. £20 for a pre-season friendly on a Thursday night isn't cheap. To be fair to the club though they are offering free seats for kids for some games.

I don't want to sond like I am having a real goat the club or anything, as i think they've done pretty well in recent years, amongst other things being the firt to freeze prices at the start of the recession. And my original post wasn't a dig at the club at all, it was about 'fans' booing the team off after a friendly...if their complaint was how much they were charged for a meaningless friendly they should take it to the club, not boo half-fit and (particularly) young payers off the pitch in a demoralising way - as Spursgirls says, and I have constantly tried to get across, booing really does transmit to the players.
I just also felt it was wrong of Tylaw to arbitrarily decide that £20 is 'nothing' when to some folk it would actually be quite a big thing indeed (especially when, as rockyhotspur points out, you add transport costs, et al. In my original post, using jondesouza as an example, I was just assuming that him and his lad were travelling from 'around the corner'. For all we know he could have been travelling from Scandinavia or the antipodes:shrug: