Staying positive

[yankspurs]

I'm not staying positive. That was the most disatorous game I've seen in 47 years watching Spurs.
Out greatest chance to win the league. All I asked is that we didn't muck it up ourselves and made Leicester win it if they were going to win it but we couldn't do that.
Feel as if the months of hope and traipsing around the country were a waste of time.
A win would have secure 2nd in effect but now a good chance we will finish below Arsenal.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Trying to stay positive but it's tough.

Fear we won't get a chance like this for a while. Chelsea and City will open up their cheque books over the summer and order will be restored. Gutted.

If you had offered me 2nd behind Leicester at the start of the season I would have bitten your hand off. Just need to hold onto 2nd spot now!! Holding onto 2nd will go such along way to keeping the squad intact.

So what? They've opened their wallets for the past how many years? Each have squads that cost around £1billion to put together, but where are they now? They can buy what they want, but if this season has (should have) taught us anything, and Man Utd have taught us in the past (under Fergie) a TEAM that is absolutely United & together, will always have a chance of success.

Also, both of the clubs you mentioned will have new managers next season, and much of their pre-season will be taken away because a good number of their players will be playing in The Euros. So, their expensively assembled squads will still need to get used to new tactics, training regime, team-mates etc etc. Meanwhile, little THFC & their lack of oil driven money, will have a squad that's a year more mature, a year more 'bonded' , a year more experienced & now has the added drive of knowing what disappointment feels like. Disappointment that was not expected at the start of a season where finishing 4th was the objective. I very much doubt they'll want to be feeling like that any time soon.

Basically, stop worrying about others, as that's what the Spurs of old used to do. This young, dynamic, driven squad, along with its equally driven young coach are, slowly but surely, putting to bed the dreaded & awful term "Spursy".. Have a bit of faith & belief, because I think we've just witnessed the start of something rather special!! COYS

 

[yankspurs]

This 100%...

We haven't imploded or "thrown away the league" like so many people are trying to say. That may be what rival fans say when they're trying to get a bite out of us but if you were to actually look at the season as a whole you could never say that we've imploded. If anything we've improved as the season has gone on.

First 21 games W9 / D9 / L3
Last 14 games W10 / D3 / L1

What this allows us to do is pinpoint exactly where we lost the league. We had way too many draws to start the season. In our 14 game unbeaten streak, we drew more than half of those games. We bottled it in alot of those games as we lacked the killer instinct. All we had to do was just win 3 of those draws.

Also, you cant drawn WBA and Everton twice and only get 1 point out of Leicester, which was the away fixture, and expect to win the league.

When we had all those draws in our 14 game unbeaten streak we were all so quick to try and protect, i was partly right. It did cost us something. But i was wrong with what it cost us. I said it would cost us top 4. I was not expecting that it would be the league that it cost us. The fact that it cost us the league makes it hurt that much more.

 

[yankspurs]

So what? They've opened their wallets for the past how many years? Each have squads that cost around £1billion to put together, but where are they now? They can buy what they want, but if this season has (should have) taught us anything, and Man Utd have taught us in the past (under Fergie) a TEAM that is absolutely United & together, will always have a chance of success.

Also, both of the clubs you mentioned will have new managers next season, and much of their pre-season will be taken away because a good number of their players will be playing in The Euros. So, their expensively assembled squads will still need to get used to new tactics, training regime, team-mates etc etc. Meanwhile, little THFC & their lack of oil driven money, will have a squad that's a year more mature, a year more 'bonded' , a year more experienced & now has the added drive of knowing what disappointment feels like. Disappointment that was not expected at the start of a season where finishing 4th was the objective. I very much doubt they'll want to be feeling like that any time soon.

Basically, stop worrying about others, as that's what the Spurs of old used to do. This young, dynamic, driven squad, along with its equally driven young coach are, slowly but surely, putting to bed the dreaded & awful term "Spursy".. Have a bit of faith & belief, because I think we've just witnessed the start of something rather special!! COYS

To be fair to those clubs losing players to int'l football, we'll be losing Kane, Dier, Alli, Rose, Walker, Davies, Dembele, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Lloris, possibly Chadli to the Euros, Lamela and Yedlin(even though he'll be sold) to Copa America so thats all them missing for at least some of pre season and then we'll lose Son to the Olympics in August, which is him out for pre season AND the first few weeks of the regular season.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

To be fair to those clubs losing players to int'l football, we'll be losing Kane, Dier, Alli, Rose, Walker, Davies, Dembele, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Lloris, possibly Chadli to the Euros, Lamela and Yedlin(even though he'll be sold) to Copa America and then we'll lose Son to the Olympics in August.

Yes but those players won't be coming back to a totally new environment, unlike each player from both Man City & Chel$ki. That's the point I was making. Our players KNOW how they'll be training, what tactics they'll be using, how they'll be training to implement those tactics, what their manager expects from them, etc etc etc.

Basically we already have a head start on the clubs that Hawk_Spur mentioned in his post.