If it's any consolation mate, we'd lose on the Tuesday as well
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Management Relegation
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I have watched a lot of the championship this season and the quality is shit. Burnley and Wolves would be the best teams down there. They would also be our main rivals for promotion.
On paper we would have 5-10 of the best players in the whole league even with sales. We would be peak Pep City on paper but it only works if we have a good manager like De Zerbi and we don’t have half the squad injured.
It is really poor quality, Southampton if they dont come up and as you say Burnley and Wolves would be the better sides. I think West Ham would come straight back up and they dont have the squad and youngsters we do. Only thing that concerns me is our decision making. If they're sensible, buy some good champo players, a couple of experienced ones in there at keeper and centre back then we'll be fine but i can easily see a scenario where we keep some bad eggs and accept a good offer for say Bergvall.
Not sure where all the confidence about walking the championship is coming from. We’ve been dogshit for more than two seasons. Our squad on paper looks better than many teams but has proven to be weak and low on technical ability. Our best players are all injured or likely to be sold. Our talented youngsters are still miles of any consistency. If the champ is low on quality then we’re going to fit in well. It’s not low on determination and physicality though and we’ve hot little fight as this season has shown.
Southampton scraped into the playoffs quite late despite looking pretty decent in the cup - I wouldn’t be confident in us beating them. Look how we’ve coped against championship or lower opposition in the last few years. Add in the inevitable boost that playing us-cocky-big-rich-club-from-the-premier-league will give to every opponent, it will be far from easy.
Southampton scraped into the playoffs quite late despite looking pretty decent in the cup - I wouldn’t be confident in us beating them. Look how we’ve coped against championship or lower opposition in the last few years. Add in the inevitable boost that playing us-cocky-big-rich-club-from-the-premier-league will give to every opponent, it will be far from easy.
I think 3 or 4 reasons .
Our enormous resources.
A manager, and hopefully a nucleus of our current players who will be hell bent on an instant return.
A tendency to think more of ourselves than the evidence.
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From next summer, more clubs will have the opportunity of being promoted to the top flight of English football.
As is the case now, the two Championship clubs that finish the season in the top two spots, will automatically be promoted to the Premier League.
However, the new format will affect clubs who finish third to eighth, and will work like this:
The Championship teams that finish in third and fourth place will go straight into the play-off semi-finals.
A one-legged quarter final will be played with fifth at home to eighth and sixth hosting seventh.
The play-off semi-finals will still be played over two legs, and the final will still be held at London's Wembley Stadium at the end of May.
If Millwall can almost get in the top two I think we should be ok.
If we do, go down, the scope for instant return could not have been made more easy in many respects It's as though the PL were saying but we need them (us) straight back, so....
If ENIC failed to provide what would be objectively considered as the strongest platform for an immediate return I think there would be riots on the streets of Tottenham.
Probably. If its any consolation we deserve to lose most games we lost. If its any consolation we might still be shit even if we didn't have any injuries. If its any consolation, all the referee errors usually balance out. If its any consolation nothing matters and we deserve to be relegated. Nice one mate. We'll just stop fighting for every inch and accept relegation so.If it's any consolation mate, we'd lose on the Tuesday as well
Sums up the attitude of the whole club. We've been giving away inches all year and nobody cares. Just a club that has accepted defeat. And moving the Chelsea game to Thursday has a huge knock on effect on our preparations for Everton on Sunday. How many PL games did we win last year after a Thursday night Europa League game? Exactly. This has totally screwed us but nice one mate, any consolation mate and we'd be relegated anyway. Brilliant attitude
Isn't that glossing over the fact we HAVE been treated abysmally by the authorises and reffed differently by PGMOL ...?
Yes, we ARE culpable of gross mismanagement from within, but BOTH can be true...
We haven't helped ourselves, but have had absolutely no help from ANYWHERE all season!
We've been neglected and faiied on both sides ...
It's like blaming a girl who likes sleeping around for getting sexually assaulted... On one hand, you could argue she's not helping herself... but then again, assaulting someone is NEVER acceptable! She doesn't DESERVE to get assaulted...
Ok, that's a dramatic comparison, but you get my meaning...
We're not helping our own situation, but it also feels that we're not participating in a fair contest on a level playing field!
You're right.
You're clearly at the anger/bargaining stage still, whereas I've hit acceptance.
Hmmmmm....
I think it's possible but anything akin to complacency and we will start another losing cycle. No doubt t all.
Steady on, Andrew Tate.
I think the factors working against us are quite astonishing. Some self-induced but the catalogue of injuries, decisions etc. Just astonishing.
I'm basically there now. This was the final straw for me. I'm absolutely baffled by how the club accepted this. We've turned chelsea making a cup final into a disadvantage. We never stood a chance with these people in charge.
I'm with you on the game change to Thursday. It is absolutely crazy to have agreed to that.
I'm sure the police would have had some say in it but 3 days before we face Everton. Just why make it advantageous to the filth and our relegation rivals?
The club really are depressing in what it agrees to and stays silent on.
The s ope of the changes that are needed at the club are growing day by day.
Harry Kane??
The Pens are the least of our worries...
Yes, you have to be IN THE BOX to warn a pen, which we never WERE from August til April... Or thereabouts!
But I agree it's the niggly little stoppages and yellows/reds we're getting that other clubs just haven't, that is killing us!
It doesn't help when all Dermot fucking Gallagher have to do on a Monday morning is agree with the wrong decision at the weekend, and everything is forgotten!
Much as they are hated, if ANY of the big red teams get such unfair decisions, their hierarchy are ALL OVER IT complaining, and making sure it's highlighted again and again until it stops happening....
We just let it happen.
It depends on which squad of players we have available. Could we piss the league with the current squad (and injury issues)? I doubt it.
I trust the manager, though. And with the right group of players, we could (and should) do well.
But this is THFC. And we know how that often ends.
This year yes. Under Postecoglou we were one of the teams with the highest touches inside the opposition penalty area. In fact those two years under Postecoglou Tottenham had more touches inside the box than any Spurs team in recent memory.
Tottenham Touches In Opponents Box This Seasons | StatMuse
Tottenham Hotspur have 9,635 touches in the opponent's box in the Premier League all-time.
Not many pens though...
The 21st is the anniversary of Bilbao so of course it'll be then!
It's also my birthday and I can't think of a worse way to spend it than watch us get relegated at Stamford Bridge.
It's also my birthday and I can't think of a worse way to spend it than watch us get relegated at Stamford Bridge.
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