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Performance How far away are we really from challenging the top 4 again ?
- Thread starter Shadydan
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Took my kids out for a meal on Monday before school instead of going to the game. Shared some decent food and had a good laugh. Less than half the price of a PL ticket. More than double the pleasure. I’m struggling to see why anyone would choose NWHL as a decent option any more. £100 ticket p.p. Travel. Crap overpriced food and drink. All to be treated like a plastic disposable and easily replaceable consumer. Fuck off Levy. You’ve killed the club forever.
I also think tickets are too expensive but isn't it pretty much the same at all of the 'big' clubs?
You wanna know how happy I was to secure my season ticket in 1999??? I was 15 & saved up all fukkin year doing a paper round EVERYDAY then working on the weekends at an Internet Café (remember those things) fixing the desktops getting £40 a week.
My Parents don't give a fukk about football & my mum was broke so I had to do it all on my own...
I went to the final & saw us win a damn Trophy!!! I was almost crying as a kid...I had enough money to buy a fukkin shirt too!!!
I felt like I was a KING - I could just turn up to the games??!?! home & away?!?!? I could see Spurs at The Valley 5 mins from my house & I could just walk in?!?!? We were shit but Ginola & Ferdinand...I saw Ledley King's FIRST APPEARANCE!!! then the years passed & kept saving my arse off returning year after year growing with the team...too many players & Eras to mention...but I saw us lift another Trophy! in person I was older so no crying & I could drink
That ST meant the world to me & now this club in just two Seasons (yes I've been there for the shit years before but always had faith) has killed my passion for wanting it & that PISSES ME OFF...maybe it's old age but I can't watch this bullshit anymore I just can't in person the difference between then & now is meh if I actually think about it anyways...
Watching how far we've fallen in such a short space of time is almost depresssing if I wasn't so apathetic to it all now...yeah I'll still support the team but I aint going NWHL until this club takes this team fukkin seriously & these spoilt fukkin players get off their arse to play fukkin football because this AINT FOOTBALL...
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We have a number of players who might join the squad in the next 2 years - Devine, Vuskovic, Donley, Abbott, Keeley, Phillips, Dorrington, Lankshear, Moore, Scarlett and a couple of others, all of whom already have first team minutes either at Spurs or on loan already.
It may depend on whether we are in europe (ie more games) and/or injuries or departures to other players already at Spurs as to who comes through.
For next season, I'd suggest :
- the front runners would be Devine and Vuskovic getting regular playing time, although not automatic starters.
- Moore (only 18 in August) getting minutes and
- one of Scarlett or Lankshear if we are tight on forwards also filling in with minutes but not a regular starter.
Kane wasn't immediately world class as soon as Bale left, he was only just getting in the team under Sherwood and then Poch, I'd say he really only would've walked into any team in the world (my definition of "world class") around the 24-25 mark, after consistent seasons banging in 20+ league goals. Son probably peaked around the same time, though that is to say look at what came out of that period of being bereft of a world class player, we built a team that arguably contained 5-6 (prime Kane, Dele and Son would have walked into any team IMO and Alderweireld, Vertonghen and Dembele rose to that level under Poch IMO).
Not far off with the correct coaching staff