What our opponents' fans are saying

[C-oops]

Eventhough Im happy and proud of our current position in the league and especially with the way that we've gotten here, ( years of building ) I find it a bit disconcerting thatlots of people on here are getting a bit too cocky about it all. The attitude of some people, especially in this thread is exactly what we are laughing at other fans about. As someone pointed out. We have to play the top 6 sides away ( except man utd). Lets not get too far ahead of ourselves just yet. We're only half way through the season and as they say, pride comes before a fall. I'm so excited about how this season is going but I still can't find it in me to gloat to my Arsenal & chelsea supporting mates just yet. A lot can happen before the end of the season and we don't want to be left with egg on our faces. Maybe some of us need to wind our necks in a bit and see how everything plays out before we condem the likes of liverpool and chelsea to the scrapheap and mid table obscurity. They can also strengthen this window and can only improve.
Boring eh...

 

[OmarsComing]

http://rawkprof.blogspot.com/2012/01/part-7-mid-season-review.html

Therefore:

Man City will finish between 90 and 94 points
Man Utd will finish on 90 points
Spurs (assuming their 19th match will be a par) will finish between 80 and 85 points
Liverpool will finish between 76 and 83 points
Arsenal will finish between 72 and 81 points
Chelsea will finish between 64 and 77 points

1time pls

 

[Ionman34]

If you think the future of the club is boring, then I apologise for keeping you awake long enough to read my posts.

Levy is like the boss you've forgiven for trying to kill your wife and children because he's given you a pay rise.

No, as i said, it was a worse case scenario - he knew that we needed a bigger stadium if we were going to compete, which was made all the more urgent by the announcement by FIFA of their financial fairplay rules, which mean that a club can only spend what it makes itself and can't run at a loss being funded by loans or assistance from outside. His business plan obviously hinges upon us cementing a new ground, and you can't not see how frustrating it must be for a businessman to look and see people, literally, on a waiting list to give him money, and him not able to take advantage of that?

He said himself, in an ideal world we'll stay at White Hart Lane, we'll expand and continue to thrive in Tottenham, but this isn't an ideal world, we all have first hand experience of that, so he put in place a plan that would in effect do the exact opposite of what you're accusing him of and save the club from a future of poverty restricting our ambition. If it was a choice between watching the club die slowly but remain at the Lane and go down the route Everton appear to be sliding, or to move to Stratford and continue to improve and compete with the best in the world, it's not a hard choice for me.

If you want to pick apart how we've got to this point, where the paperwork is being dried and signatures are required, closer than we've ever been to a new stadium on the High Road, and try and assume how it went in Levy's head, then you go for it, but i'm not going to try and reverse engineer a process that has just been thrashed out over a period of several years, by some of the most accomplished legal minds our club had available to it.

I'm just going to assume, as with most (not all, most though) other things that Levy has done, that it is within the clubs best interests else he wouldn't even consider it. He's a fan too, don't forget that.

Top quality post. Repped.

 

[cockerel downunder]

the funniest thing is they don't even know how fucked up the comolli entity really is.. can't wait for that realisation to kick in! got my lolhat in hand and ready!

You mean they might end up with players like modric, bale, bae, Lennon, kaboul, berbatov...

 

[Kendall]

Lennon wasn't Comolli.

 

[ajspurs]

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Redknapp wants Ba now, hinted he has a release clause in his Newcastle contract - wonder how much?

Gallas and Sandro have both suffered calf tears, we'll see Spurs' depth tested soon perhaps although as long as Modric, Bale, and Adebayor are fit I think there is strong cover elsewhere.

every knowledgeable fan in the league states that Spurs play kick and rush football. Your tactics have always been to twat it to a winger, who you hope can give it to Crouch, or provide a knockdown to VDV. Now he has gone, it's twat down the wing and give it to Adebayor.

will Sandro and Lennon miss the City match? Or has Lennon returned to fitness? They can't use Adebayor anyway, so that's good. I rate Sandro way ahead of Parker.

Lennon is in their squad tomorrow I think, but there's little chance Sandro will be fit to face us. Same applies to Gallas, although Dawson will be back.

Spurs are my second least favourite team, but they deserve credit for their performances this year. They have to considered genuine title contenders now, but I think ultimately it'll be between City and United. I think they're nailed on for a top three finish though. They have a quality squad, unfortunately.

Spurs will do what they do every window.

A couple of upcoming players from lower leagues,a disgruntled star from a top club ala adebayor,sandro or van der vaart.

I'm expecting them to gamble the house this month,and I expect them to snatch 2nd.Its vital we beat them Jan 22nd and force them and the rags to start looking at each other as opposed to us.

I hate looking at the table and seeing them with that game in hand, it's getting a bit OCD'ish now. When will they make it up because I so want to see them overtake the rags.

As soon as King gets injured and he will be, Spurs will start to slide. If they lose Bale and Parker for a few games too then they will start losing against the teams they should be beating and become typical Spurs again.
Their fans will start bleating and 'arry will tell them it's as good as it gets and before he arrived they were in the bottom 4 and he wanted to strengthen in January but the chairman does all the transfers and another club came in a blew them out of the water anyway.
Same old Spurs, same old 'arry. It will happen just wait and see.

unless Spurs slip badly, Arsenal should finish 4th. They are a very good team...but they looked frightened of Fulham and rightly lost.

Chelsea look so ordinary I cannot recognise them from the team a season ago.

Spurs have looked....so unlike....Spurs......

Spurs like SAF stated on top form are probably playing the best football in the league, I think with the way things are going for them ( if the CB's don't crumble again ) I think 3rd place is a high probability for them...

Arsenal to sneak back up to forth for me ( If they can keep RVP fit that is )...

Spurs will soon be playing all of the top 8 + Everton away (edit: Wigan home in that too) in a row, that will make or break their season. If they still are in the top 4 after that, they will stay there.

Sun Jan 22 Manchester City A
Tue Jan 31 Wigan Athletic H
Mon Feb 6 Liverpool A
Sat Feb 11 Newcastle United H
Sun Feb 26 Arsenal A
Sat Mar 3 Manchester United H
Sat Mar 10 Everton A
Sat Mar 17 Stoke City H
Sat Mar 24 Chelsea A

Agreed.

If you win the next three home games before your horrible run of fixtures start, I would actually think you can afford to lose all those five games and still be in 4th place. You would have at least 9 points to 5th place before playing city. (And 8 points to 3rd)

It looks very promising for Spurs, just hope you can avoid injuries. Would love to see two of Chelsea, Arsenal and liverpool miss CL next season.

You'll be fine. Arsenal and Chelsea fans will be more worried. Spurs actually look ok at the back, something not too many people seem to pick up on - that guy who looks like The Rock has been solid as a, erm, rock whenever I've watched Spurs in recent weeks.

Arsenal and Chelsea can't really say that they've got the luxury of a good defence although Koscielny doesn't get enough plaudits IMHO. The less said about Terry and David Luiz, the better.

Yep, I just hope you can keep your players fit. Modric and Parker are key, the latter being the key to allowing Modric roam and play the creative game.

I've been impressed with so many of the Spurs players this season I have to admit. Love or hate him, it all comes from Harry Redknapp - I've always thought that whilst tactically he isn't a Mourinho or Guardiola, he's a fantastic man manager and seems to always get the best out of his players.

The top three spots are sewn up - United, City and Spurs. Not necessarily in that order.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Chelsea will get their act together just enough to take the other spot. This is based on the fact that they do have experienced and seasoned winners in their side. They've shown that they can pull through and be competitive in the second half of a season, even if the manager isn't up to it at that point in time - see last season and the 07/08 season as evidence.

Arsenal will always drop points when it really matters - they waste too many chance and concede too many, it's not a good combo. I'd back Liverpool for the Top 4 more than Arsenal - at least they keep it tight at the back. They've got no European distractions and will probably improve if Gerrard stays fit.

Was saying the other day that Adebayor is once again showing that he's a world class striker when he's in the right mood. He's been terrific for Spurs this season when I've seen him - hasn't always translated to goals, but his set up play has been excellent. The Norwich game was a case in point - great assist for Bale's first and a willing run to create the gap for Bale to exploit for the second.

I wonder what's going to happen with him long term? As you say, an Adebayor-less future doesn't augur well for Spurs given what's in reserve. He suits the system down to a tee.

Wilshere will help to an extent, but not a great deal. The midfield area hasn't been a problem - Arteta has settled well and Song has been good. Their forward line (excepting RvP) is criminally wasteful and their backline is still porous - they're fucked.

They a very good side at the mo. Sure Harry might not be the greatest manager in the world, and yes he is over hyped in the media, but anyone who thinks he hasnt done a good job with spurs is deluded. Think Harry would be stupid to leave spurs and take the poisoned chalice that is the england job.

hey are good but how many players would you swap for ours?. We know they have the players we lack and that is why they are playing so well

Bale
Modric
Van Der Vart
Adebayor
Defoe

Some of those players we could have bought in the past and also Spurs did have a period when they were out investing us on the transfer market.

IMO Comolli must make sure we are the Spurs of 2013 - when a number of young players come through together.

they are pretty decent to be fair and will get a champs league spot unless they fuck up.

Mind you,I think 'arry will go for the Ingurland job and Modric will be prised away.

Spurs are peaking now. Cant be much doubt about that, they're playing some very good football and picking up a lot of points.

But is the contingency there?

King is still a crock and liable to have to retire at any minute.
The rest of their defence is hardly anything to write home about.
Friedel's no spring chicken.
Nor is Parker
Modric is always likely to want a move away. And will be massively in demand.
Bale ditto.
Adebayor is only on loan, and is prone to going off the boil.
Defoe and Pav both want out.
Redknapp will be out of there in the summer.

So yes, at the moment they're looking very good. But can't help but get the feeling that this is the crest of their wave.

3rd best team in the league-simple as

Kaboul looks good when partnered with King. Im not so sure he'd be the same player without him. Kind of like how Skrtel looks a different player when alongside Agger. Dawson is the definition of average though.

I think you'll be surprised about Bale. Can see many a team stumping up the money for him. Although Levy is a master of getting every last penny when selling I could certainly see any number of team's parting with £35m+ for Bale if he keeps up his current form.

Can also see Bale wanting the move. He seems to be a determined lad who wants to maximise himself. Im not sure he can do that at Spurs. If a Madrid, Munich, Barca, Milan, Man U/City came in for him I think he'd be very receptive to a move.

Very very good at the moment, only difference between us and them is they have been taking their chances, without Lucas and gerrard they have a better midfield , we have a better defence. Attack is one where we have the better player in Suarez but they have the better strike partnership in adebayor and VDV.
If we had a prolific scorer we'd be pushing the two manc clubs like spurs are.

They are better than us, I know that much. A very good side and despite all the hate for 'Arry, he has done a good job there. It would be suicide for him if he left the Spurs project to take the England job.

They are a good team and much mentally stronger than other teams that they have had. They are the 3rd best team at the moment in this league.

That said, they still won't win anything regularly. Also, they are making the most of a few really top class players who are on top of their game, in Modric and Bale, with suitable supporting acts of Van Der Vaart, Adebayor, Parker and Lennon. You take Modric and Bale out then you won't really see the strength in depth and winning mentality that someone like Chelsea of old or Man Utd possess.

Winning teams need that mentality that they will win regardless of whoever they sell. They don't have it.

Definitely.
We have no chance of the league and if we are going to have any chance of top four we need Liverpool, spuds and Chelsea to drop points.

The problem is we are dropping as many points as our rivals

Having a laugh at Defoe's haircut....terrible, possibly even worse than Song last year.

Defoe scores for Spurs.

Neat finish from Defoe.

That's 7 goals from 7 (6) starts in the league this season. Find it funny that people thought i was crazy for wanting him in the summer when we were linked with a cut price move for him.

Come on West Brom.. grab the equaliser.

FT, Spurs win 1-0.

They are 6 points ahead of us with a game in hand

It currently pains me to look at the table.

We could find ourselves too far behind them at the end of January if we don't put a string of good results together

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Spuds have been 5-6 points ahead of us with a game in hand for weeks.

I can't understand people on this forum who seem to think we will catch them up.
I'd be surprised if they weren't further ahead of us at the end of the season.

All they have to concentrate on is the league, we have the CL to contend with as well.

With so many players out the players we have are playing virtually every game and they are going to pick up injuries as well.

Spuds, on the other hand, have very few injuries to key players and have very good back up to their first eleven.
If they buy a couple of decent players in this transfer window I cannot see us catching them up.

I hate to admit this but Redknapp has done exactly what we should have done in the last six seasons, which is buy decent experienced players and have decent players on the bench.

Would Redknapp tolerate such mediocrity as we had on the bench in our last game, Chamakh, Almunia Squillaci etc?

I don't think so

Thing is Spurs will have a nice boost in revenue this year from doing well (ticket/jersey sales) and making it into the CL again.

Could see them holding out with that money and using it to reward/rework their pay role.

Fourth place is looking more unlikely if spuds keep grinding out wins like they have been.
If we don't manage to get fourth I just hope we don't go the same way as Liverpool and slide out of the top four on a regular basis.

It's still a race for fourth but we really need to put a bit of a sprint on we are going to catch spuds up

In general it's a race for the 4th place but it will be changing time by time again. I think if we would win 2 games now and all the others would lose 2, then most would think that we can finish second or even first (like last week when we won and all others lost). Our main target should be 4th (Champions League) but I believe that we can finish 3th if particularly Tottenham drop points. At the moment Tottenham seems unbeatable but they'll drop points at some point and TBH I don't actually think that Liverpool and Chelsea are REAL competitors for the places 1-4 because they are **** atm. But maybe they can change their whole situation with some new signings. So all in all our target should be 4th.

Less than half the season is gone and we have ascended like a rocket ship this autumn. Spuds WILL collapse, that is what they DO.

Arsenal being above Spurs doesn't mean that much to us unless we're also above United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City but being above us for Spurs is a dream come true. If you asked a Spurs fan before the season started if they would want their club to finish 5th if Arsenal came in 6th and they would bite your hand off.

Forget about them for now and concentrate and all things in house because that's what I'm doing, no more watching Bale up and down the wing or King wondering how he's managed to be fit all the time. Things will even themselves out in time.

Finish below Spurs and Wenger will walk but he won't let that happen. He has just enough magic left in him to get us above Spurs, at least I hope he does

Spurs have way too many chances to **** this season up still. We'll finish above them.

I wish I share your optimism. But I am certain that we won't finish above Spurs if we don't sign anyone in January, except Thierry. We won't even finish in the top 4. You can quote me at the end of the season. I'll happily eat crow if we do manage it.

Tottenham have got a good squad but that's what you get when you keep your top players. To be honest, as long as we keep focusing on ourselves and our results I see no reason for us not to leapfrog those scums. Hell, it never stopped us before did it? The top 4 teams for the past couple of seasons had better players than us but we still managed to either qualify for the CL or leapfrog a couple them.

Both Manchester sides don't look convincing, Chelsea is in shambles, Liverpool aren't that good and will have Suarez out for 8 matches, and we will finish ahead of Spurs.

Not given as much space or time tonight I don't think.

Dzeko really is totally sh*t in my opinion, stealing a wage.

Liverpool are dung, we must beat them.

Hopefully the spuds don't score.

Is anybody watching Spuds-West Brom? I just have the gametracker up on my computer so I can't see the actual gameplay, but it appears that Spurs are all over them and just haven't scored yet. Here's hoping West Brom can hold out and protect the clean sheet.

Does anyone think that the Spuds are playing above their station? Or will they do their normal disappearing trick with 10 games left?

Seem to be. Spurs have had 70% possession, 13 shots and 11 corners, to West Brom's 30% possession, 3 shots and 3 corners. It's just a matter of time before Spuds take the lead there I'm afraid.

f**k

Defoe 1-0

By Jove, that's a rotten piece of news.

Just knew the spud f**ks would score.

Hate them so much ffs

Methinks they will hold onto 3rd place, unfortunately. They have quality and they have depth, though they had a few injuries today, so maybe we will get lucky.

Their next ten league fixtures:

Everton H
Wolves H
City A
Wigan H
Liverpool A
Newcastle H
Arsenal A
Man Utd H
Everton A
Stoke H

And then they come to the Bridge. That discounts any cup games they play in between. If they are still in with a shout at the title after that, fair play to them. But I dont see it happening.

Hopefully on March 24 we can put the final nail in their season's coffin

Well it looks like they could still be in the race if they continue to play like they are although I still think they are punching above their weight. Out of that fixture list I see then only losing the away games against City, Liverpool (possibly) and drawing with Utd and possibly Everton away other than that they have a pretty easy fixture list.

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[Spurger King]

If you asked a Spurs fan before the season started if they would want their club to finish 5th if Arsenal came in 6th and they would bite your hand off.

What a deluded wanker.

 

[riggi]

What a deluded wanker.

Ye what a wanker...

 

[OmarsComing]

please do not fail us, my beloved Spurs ray:

 

[Mullers]

Very surprised with what the opposing fans are saying about us, the remarks are surprisingly fair and generous.

 

[Spurvert]

ajspurs thanks a lot for that, you're a true gent

Interesting read indeed

 

[sloth]

No, as i said, it was a worse case scenario - he knew that we needed a bigger stadium if we were going to compete, which was made all the more urgent by the announcement by FIFA of their financial fairplay rules, which mean that a club can only spend what it makes itself and can't run at a loss being funded by loans or assistance from outside. His business plan obviously hinges upon us cementing a new ground, and you can't not see how frustrating it must be for a businessman to look and see people, literally, on a waiting list to give him money, and him not able to take advantage of that?

He said himself, in an ideal world we'll stay at White Hart Lane, we'll expand and continue to thrive in Tottenham, but this isn't an ideal world, we all have first hand experience of that, so he put in place a plan that would in effect do the exact opposite of what you're accusing him of and save the club from a future of poverty restricting our ambition. If it was a choice between watching the club die slowly but remain at the Lane and go down the route Everton appear to be sliding, or to move to Stratford and continue to improve and compete with the best in the world, it's not a hard choice for me.

If you want to pick apart how we've got to this point, where the paperwork is being dried and signatures are required, closer than we've ever been to a new stadium on the High Road, and try and assume how it went in Levy's head, then you go for it, but i'm not going to try and reverse engineer a process that has just been thrashed out over a period of several years, by some of the most accomplished legal minds our club had available to it.

I'm just going to assume, as with most (not all, most though) other things that Levy has done, that it is within the clubs best interests else he wouldn't even consider it. He's a fan too, don't forget that.

Fair points Rock, and ones I agree with, but BT has his own take on events. For him he would be happier to see us go down the AFC Wimbledon route and remain in Tottenham then shift to a stadium outside of the borough. For him, if that were to happen, it would mean the death of the club.

It's an extreme view, but a heartfelt one, and no amount of putting a less extreme view is going to make him think differently. In that context Levy is the man that nearly murdered his club.

What I can't quite understand is why you're in here BT, in this thread acting like your view is the consensus one. You must know you're an extremist on this issue and that very few share your view on it, so making the sarcastic remarks regards Levy was only going to come across as over the top.

 

[Spurrific]

ajspurs thanks a lot for that, you're a true gent

Interesting read indeed

Enjoy him while you can, the Polish mafia are after him

 

[StartingPrice]

Very surprised with what the opposing fans are saying about us, the remarks are surprisingly fair and generous.

To collate and summarize: "Spurs are shit and will collapse because they always do" - how strange that you should concur with that :rofl:

Okay, away from Mullers-Baiting, and back to reality. This is far from an easy run of games. And we always have to bear in mind that all clubs lose games they should win, and win games that they should lose. But I look at these fixtures and seem to see something different to the worse case scenario.

I mean, on current form, we look at the first six games (blue) and four of them are at home and against teams outside the top 6 - surely we should be favourites to win each of those games, individually. That leaves Citeh away, where they will be coming off a run of extremely taxing games, and us (theoretically) coming off easier games. As long as we get striking cover for Adebayor before we go up there, I would hope for a draw, at least (and have had a feeling, for a long time, that we will get a result there - hardly scientific, I know :grin. Besides, I would expect our lot to be incredibly up for that - to wipe out that hammering at the Lane. As for Liverpool, it is true that they have Gerrard back, but will be losing Suarez, to balance. And, with worse form, we totally subdued them at Anfield last season, and have by far the better of the results since 'Arry took over (quite luckily in the first game, at the Lane, but with better football more recently). I would think we should be good for at least a draw there, as well. On current form and on head-to-heads I really see no reason why some SCers are pooing themselves at the thought of playing them. I wouldn't predict us being unbeaten, but ray: it would be massive, and 12 points (3 wins, 3 draws) would put us in a great position. Accepting that, win our home games, we could even get by losing both away games.

Next come the brown games (brown for SHIT :rofl: - I'm a big baby :grin. The Goons away - a tough game, but we won the corresponding fixture last season dance we beat them earlier this season a the Lane (cue BC stat attack Eek), and 'Arry certainly seems to have the Indian Sign over the Whinger, and, on current form, again I would say we should fancy ourselves for at least a draw. The United game, again, is a tough game. When was the last time we beat them :think: (apart from Mendes from the halfway line :bang: :evil. But each season since he joined us, 'Arry has made a point of breaking one of these hoodoos, and, on current form, I don't see any reason why we couldn't get a result.

And that leaves the two red games. Red, obviously, is for danger mg: If I was to indulge in ye olde transference from past to present I would have to say it would be typical Spurs to get that far unbeaten (or, at least, with a good points total) and then fook these two up. But Everton have been asset stripped to a ridiculous degree, and at home, against Stoke, with the passion aroused by Chris Foy's match-winning performance, and the fact that I don't think this is the same old Spurs with a fragile mentality, means, again, I see no reason to not make us favourites for these two.

Everton H
Wolves H
City A
Wigan H
Liverpool A
Newcastle H
Arsenal A
Man Utd H
Everton A
Stoke H

And there you have it: rather than isolating 4 away games against top six games, throwing the United game in (with traditional mention of hoodoo), and concocting a worst case scenario were we just will inhernetly lose all five games, if you look at them, rationally, in sequence, they are clearly our most difficult run of the season, and, as opposed to being in a title race, which we are, we will not know if we are genuine title contenders until we come out of them. But I think we can come out of that with a pretty decent points haul.

And we come out of it into the Chelsea game at the Bridge. Unless we have totally collapsed and are totally deflated, if we come out of this run of games with a decent points haul, that is gonna be like a cup final. Redknapp loves a cup match :wink:

I think the important thing, really, though, for the deep level pessimists, is to remember that two seasons ago we were gonna beat Pompey and get to the Cup final, which would be compensation for the fact that we couldn't possibly beat the Goons and Chelsea in half a week, and qualify for the CL, could we :shrug:

Enjoy, lovely people :grin:

 

[walworthyid]

To collate and summarize: "Spurs are shit and will collapse because they always do" - how strange that you should concur with that :rofl:

Okay, away from Mullers-Baiting, and back to reality. This is far from an easy run of games. And we always have to bear in mind that all clubs lose games they should win, and win games that they should lose. But I look at these fixtures and seem to see something different to the worse case scenario.

I mean, on current form, we look at the first six games (blue) and four of them are at home and against teams outside the top 6 - surely we should be favourites to win each of those games individually. That leaves Citeh away, where they will be coming off a run of extremely taxing games, and us (theoretically) easier games. As long as we get striking cover for Adebayor before we go up there, I would hope for a draw, at least (and have had a feeling, for a long time, that we will get a result there - herdly scientific, I know :grin. Besides, I would expect our lot to be incredibly up for that - to wipe out that hammering at the Lane. As for Liverpool, it is true that they have Gerrard back, but will be losing Suarez, to balance. But, with worse form, we totally subdued them at Anfield last season, and have by far the better of the results since 'Arry took over (quite luckily in the first game, at the Lane, but with better football more recently). I would think we should be good for at least a draw there, as well. On current form and on head-to-heads I really see no reason why some SCers are pooing themselves at the thought of playing them. I wouldn't predict us being unbeaten, but ray: it would be massive, and 12 points (3 wins, 3 draws) would put us in a great position. Accepting that, win our home games, we could even get by losing both away games.

Next come the brown games (brown for SHIT :rofl: - I'm a big baby :grin. The Goons away - a tough game, but we won the corresponding fixture last season dance we beat them earlier this season a the Lane (cue BC stat attack Eek), and 'Arry certainly seems to have the Indian Sign over the Whinger, and, on current form, again I would say we should fancy ourselves for at least a draw. The United game, again, is a tough game. When was the last time we beat them :think: (apart from Mendes form the halfway line :bang: :evil. But each season since he joined us, 'Arry has made a point of breaking one of these hoodoos, and, on current form, I don't see any reason why we couldn't get a result.

And that leaves the two red games. Red, obviously, is for danger mg: If I was to indulge in ye olde transference from past to present I would have to say it would be typical Spurs to get that far unbeaten (or, at least, with a good points total) and then fook these two up. But Everton have been asset stripped to a ridiculous degree, and at home, against Stoke, with the passion aroused by Chris Foy's match-winning performance, and the fact that I don't think this is the same old Spurs with a fragile mentality, means, again, I see no reason to not make us favourites for these two.

Everton H
Wolves H
City A
Wigan H
Liverpool A
Newcastle H
Arsenal A
Man Utd H
Everton A
Stoke H

And there you have it: rather than isolating 4 away games against top six games, throwing the United game in (with traditional mention of hoodoo), if you look at them, rationally, in sequence, they are clearly our most difficult run of the season, and, as opposed to being in a title race, which we are, we will not know if we are genuine title contenders until we come out of them. And I think we can come out of that with a pretty decent points haul.

And we come out of it into the Chelsea game at the Bridge. Unless we have totally collapsed and are totally deflated, if we come out of this run of games with a decent points haul, that is gonna be like a cup final. Redknapp loves a cup match :wink:

I think the important thing, really, though, for the deep level pessimists, is to remember that two seasons ago we were gonna beat Pompey and get to the Cup final, which would be compensation for the fact that we couldn't possibly beat the Goons and Chelsea in half a week, and qualify for the CL, could we :shrug:

Enjoy, lovely people :grin:

Great post!

 

[StartingPrice]

Great post!

mg:

 

[RickyVilla]

mg:

OK shit post then!! ;-)

 

[StartingPrice]

OK shit post then!! ;-)

Phewwwww, for a minute there I thought I wasn't alone in my madness...and where are the financial opportunities in that :shrug:

 

[werty]

"The guy who looks like The Rock". :lol:

 

[Tryph]

You'll be fine. Arsenal and Chelsea fans will be more worried. Spurs actually look ok at the back, something not too many people seem to pick up on - that guy who looks like The Rock has been solid as a, erm, rock whenever I've watched Spurs in recent weeks.

Arsenal and Chelsea can't really say that they've got the luxury of a good defence although Koscielny doesn't get enough plaudits IMHO. The less said about Terry and David Luiz, the better.

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There has to be a chant on this.........