Why FA Cup exit will prove a blessing for Spurs

[Gaz_Gammon]

Tottenham's season remains very much alive with a Wembley final looming, the Europa League campaign about to resume and theattritional Premier League season far from over.

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[garryparkerschest]

I persoanlly don't agree. With the number in our squad we could have still competed in the FA cup.

I personally am gutted, for a club with our rich history in the competition for it to be 24 years since lifting the trophy is heart breaking.

 

[greywizard2020]

I am also disappointed not to be in the FA Cup, particularly now that the likes of Chelsea & Man City have been eliminated; however I feel it is because we don't have the quality in our bloated squad to cope with the situational demands that this is considered 'a blessing in disguise.' There are at least seven 'big-time charlies' on the books who are frankly not good enough, who need to be shown the door come season's end.

The primary squad will get some much needed 'R&R' before the tough matches against Fiorentina, West Ham & the small matter of Chelsea in the League-Cup final.

I think it will be next season before we see a much leaner, more capable squad that will enable us to compete to the high levels the Poch & supporters demand. With a carefully selected number of new additions, along with a few more of the academy graduates drafted in I can see the club performing very well on multiple fronts.

 

[chico]

I think it's a crying shame that we surrendered our place in the next round so cheaply vs Leicester. We have a team strong enough to beat ALL the surviving teams if we are at our best on any given day. It's been far too long since we lifted the FA Cup, a comp synonymous with Spurs for so much of our history.
Nonetheless, the season is unfolding nicely, League Cup final, big games to come in the Prem and Europa, and if we really excel , 4th spot?!
COYS

 

[bigspurs]

I persoanlly don't agree. With the number in our squad we could have still competed in the FA cup.

I personally am gutted, for a club with our rich history in the competition for it to be 24 years since lifting the trophy is heart breaking.

We are better off out of it. We can't rotate our squad very much cause it's not good enough. Our first 11 is very capable, but beyond that we're crap!

 

[Mullers]

I'm not even going to bother to read that rubbish, it's not a blessing for a club like us who has won one trophy in 14 years to be out of any competition. What's the point of double training sessions if we can't handle all competitions?

 

[slartibartfast]

I think, and Im sure this will get a few disagrees, that the sad truth is clubs just don't give a shit about the FA cup anymore same as league cup.
There's just no money in it.
Drop 3rd and 4th CL spots and give them places to the cup winners. Then you'll see some interest, same as Europa.
Then it would be a Champions league not a finished 4th whoopy doo league.
If this ever happened I guarantee it'll be brought in the season After we win the fkin thing lol.
I'm not bitter

 

[chinaman]

Aside from the League Championship, the FA Cup is next for me. I still dream of those days when we owned it.

 

[parklane1]

Rubbish, the FA Cup is a trophy we are good enough to win and being out of it is a shame. The game is about glory and that means winning something, not finishing among the losers ( top four).

 

[spursbhoy67]

I think, and Im sure this will get a few disagrees, that the sad truth is clubs just don't give a shit about the FA cup anymore same as league cup.
There's just no money in it.
Drop 3rd and 4th CL spots and give them places to the cup winners. Then you'll see some interest, same as Europa.
Then it would be a Champions league not a finished 4th whoopy doo league.
If this ever happened I guarantee it'll be brought in the season After we win the fkin thing lol.
I'm not bitter

Sorry, but big clubs take the FA Cup seriously. In the Premier League era the FA Cup has been won by:

Arsenal - 7
Chelsea - 6
Man United - 4
Liverpool - 2
Man City - 1
Wigan, Portsmouth, Everton - 1

Look at the top four winners since the EPL has been formed. Two of our biggest rivals seem to have taken the FA Cup seriously despite protestations to the contrary.

Now look again and notice that one name is missing from that list - Tottenham Hotspur.

It is never good to be knocked out of the FA, any cup for that matter. Big clubs have a winning mentality. To develop a winning mentality a club has to actually win things. We should be on that list, we need to be on that list.

One of Arsenal, Man United or Liverpool will win this year's FA Cup. It will compound the misery for me from our exit to Leicester City.

 

[slartibartfast]

Sorry, but big clubs take the FA Cup seriously. In the Premier League era the FA Cup has been won by:

Arsenal - 7
Chelsea - 6
Man United - 4
Liverpool - 2
Man City - 1
Wigan, Portsmouth, Everton - 1

Look at the top four winners since the EPL has been formed. Two of our biggest rivals seem to have taken the FA Cup seriously despite protestations to the contrary.

Now look again and notice that one name is missing from that list - Tottenham Hotspur.

It is never good to be knocked out of the FA, any cup for that matter. Big clubs have a winning mentality. To develop a winning mentality a club has to actually win things. We should be on that list, we need to be on that list.

One of Arsenal, Man United or Liverpool will win this year's FA Cup. It will compound the misery for me from our exit to Leicester City.

I don't disagree that we should be in it and treat it seriously.
But those big teams that won it have spent more than us and have bigger better squads.
One of them wins it more often than not because their second 11 are still better than most teams they come up against. One of them will invariably get through and take it more seriously the closer they get to the final.
I think its more a case of big clubs have 3 times the spending power more ghan a winning mentality.
We have to cut our cloth accordingly and if its a choice between going for CL qualification in league and Europa or concentrating on winning the league/ fa cup then we're only going to go one way.
Not saying its right or that I like it, but imo thats how most club chairman who cant compete financially, going for CL Money not glory, view it.

 

[14/04/91]

Doesn't feel like a blessing watching Leicester & Villa in this match which can only be described as a 'shit-off'

 

[spursbhoy67]

I don't disagree that we should be in it and treat it seriously.
But those big teams that won it have spent more than us and have bigger better squads.
One of them wins it more often than not because their second 11 are still better than most teams they come up against. One of them will invariably get through and take it more seriously the closer they get to the final.
I think its more a case of big clubs have 3 times the spending power more ghan a winning mentality.
We have to cut our cloth accordingly and if its a choice between going for CL qualification in league and Europa or concentrating on winning the league/ fa cup then we're only going to go one way.
Not saying its right or that I like it, but imo thats how most club chairman who cant compete financially, going for CL Money not glory, view it.

Finances play a huge role as well all know, so when we have been eliminated by Man United, Chelsea and Arsenal like we have in recent years it is somewhat understandable.

What is not understandable nor should it be acceptable for a club of our stature is to be eliminated as we have recently by Leicester City, Leeds United, Fulham, and Portsmouth.

Watching Leicester lose at Aston Villa was annoying in the context of our loss to them. It will only get worse when one of the big three teams left lifts the cup in May.