Tell me what I have to do to make more people turn up and I'll genuinely do it, because I don't know.
Tell them there'll be punch & pie. More people will come if they think we have punch & pie.
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Tell me what I have to do to make more people turn up and I'll genuinely do it, because I don't know.
Fair enough if people are not interested in the U21 games then I guess it must be like pushing a snowball up a mountain. I can relate to this as I know many Spurs fans that have not been interested, until now that is. I know many that have never been interested in going to a youth game and non of them have ever asked me about players likely to brake into the first team squad etc. Until now, all of a sudden they are taking an interest in our accademy and ahead of the recent pre-season Spurs XI that played at Stevenage I ended going with an enthusiastic bunch of them, these are people that have been going to The Lane since late 70's and early 80's & saw their first development game just the other week, they now want to go to others. What has stimulated their interest has been the brake through of Kane etc plus the obvious focus on youth by Poch and the TV coverage of the FA Youth Cup over the last couple of seasons and last but not least 1882. I think actions of 1882 movement are widely known now to most Spurs fans that go regularly.I have no idea how we would get 1500 to Chelsea in the youth cup either. You're seemingly blaming us for the lack of turnout when it's more a case that people don't really give a shit about U21 football or as Ricky said on the pod people can't make it regularly. Charlton had novelty appeal, as did Woolwich away, the home game was much closer to 800 rather than the 200 you mentioned, but still lower. We're doing the same stuff we always did but people just ain't as interested it at youth level. It's a shame, but it's just what it is in my opinion.
Tell me what I have to do to make more people turn up and I'll genuinely do it, because I don't know.
Tell me what I have to do to make more people turn up and I'll genuinely do it, because I don't know.
Hope this hasn't been done in the past 2 seasons where I didn't really listen to the podcast. Sorry not sorry.
Finally, the time has come. It's the morning of the first game at the new White Hart Lane. You've been looking forward to this for years on end, the chance to stand behind the goal at Tottenham in a one-tiered, rail seating area. To hear the roar of over 55,000 Spurs fans in their own, unique, state of the art football stadium to rival no other.
Then a sudden realisation that you've lose your ticket (forget season cards and all that for the purpose of this) and there is no time to get a replacement. The club won't issue new ones, your mates have no spares, nothing.
What depths do you go to, to be inside that ground for the first ever game at our brand new stadium?
Probably buy another ticket. Plenty of seats free.
Do you reckon Oduwa could nutmeg a lamppost?