TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

Course we are, huge stadium, regularly competing with Europe's elite in pre-season friendlies.

I'm not old enough to remember when tottenham were a big club

shouldn't celtics strategy just be to sit back and laff at rangers going bust?

is, afaik

shouldn't celtics strategy just be to sit back and laff at rangers going bust?

Yeah we've been doing that for two years and they seem to be doing all the laffing :(

You maybe accept a guy coming from the Irish league might not have the same fitness levels when he arrives

I don't! If they irish league guys don't have stamina and workrate then they don't have anything tbh.

Paddy mcCourt has been a prospect for a long, long time. 'mentally unfit' is probably very close to teh truth of the matter here.

Agree 100% on LB, I want a dour, experienced LB-by-trade, and not a frustrated 'footballer'.

does this include wayne bridge?

nah he's actually attack minded, just shit.

At the same time if you have a player like Vedran Corluka (solid, hardly ever fucks up, no pace whatsover) on either side that limits your attacking options somewhat.

The idea of playing Bale week in week out and making sure his defensive awareness improves seems like the way forward, if he can be developed to Ashley Cole level (and I absolutely believe he can) then that's enough. Maybe a dour experienced leftback as backup but how many of those are there in this day and age? I can't think of many particularly good LBs in the Premiership.

lbs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rbs

Corluka is a very good footballer, just not pacy. He is, imo, about the best partner for Lennon that we could wish for in terms of his movement and passing.

I don't think Bale will ever match Cole defensively, but IMO he's already better going forward. I don't think he'll ever be a good LB defensively, really. Heart's not in it, the poor tot.

It's easy to forget that Ashley Cole was seen as a bit of a defensive liability during his first through years at Arsenal. I'd give the boy Bale a bit more time meself.

hey i'm not advocating dropping him or anything

Maybe a dour experienced leftback as backup but how many of those are there in this day and age? I can't think of many particularly good LBs in the Premiership.

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This is my point. BAE is near the top, surely?

BAE improved a lot this year, but I mean every game he'll Phil Babb.

BAE has improved both in attack and defence but he just has these stupid rushes of blood to the head that result in conceded penalties and near misses. If you could cut that out of his game he'd be fine.

yeah, like I said he'll Phil Babb

Noticed that Celtic failed to qualify for the Champions League tonight. I was expecting Spurs to have to play a qualifier - I guess the "co-efficient" or whatever its called means English fourth placed clubs now qualify automatically - right? Or have I missed something?

As a BITTER LFC fan I was looking forward to the possibility of them not making it - just like Everton when they pipped us a few years ago!

there's another round of qualifiers after tonight's- draw takes place friday

ah - well that was the other explanation. Thanks.

who cares about the champions league? the lads brought the eusebio cup back to the lane

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/Dawsontrophy415.jpg

ha that's classic

Dos Santos! Is he any good? Thought he looked a tricky little thang in the World Cup.

classic ability vs reported attitude probs

+ inability to get any of his 12 shots a game even on target.

Dos Santos will never make it in the Premiership, we should cash in on his decentish World Cup now.

hasty imo.

his tasty flick brought spurs the eusebio cup glory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQwLpEZ1D-8&feature=player_embedded#!

around 4:20 in

aw cheers for that, watching this second

i gotta pause that for a sec and just say- wow benfica

and now i gotta reload wtf

didn't get to see all of it it kept skipping on me, but from what i caught there's no way we should have won that one.

;_; for sub waiting to come on when we scored

benfica looked amazing in that

yes but they do not like it up them iirc

Haha yeah from those highlights it looks like Spurs got ripped up for 90mins and somehow still won.

BTW

Forgot completely about Kaboul in our discussion of 'do we need another centre half' so the answer is a definite 'no' cos I <3 that dude.

we're goin to the CL folks

prayers for young boys answered.

glad about this btw - got the makings of an absolute egg-on-face classic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sutter

and here's your instrument of fate

I don't see any way that this can't happen. Only compunded by this: "In the autumn of 2006 Sutter stated that he no longer wished to be considered for selection for the Swiss national side as he wanted to play for the Three Lions"

Young Boys at the Wankdorf stadium!

u r kidding

Got tickets for the WHL leg! Best day ever!

:D

that's class.

young boys' away strip looks familiar

http://www.bscyb.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/homeaway2010.jpg

http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq99/javinspencer/tupac_west_side.jpg

for my second ever premiere league match i'm going to see fulham vs wolves at craven cottage. i'm bringin my 74-yr-old dad. i don't think the supporters will be particularly rambunctious but i guess we should probably sit w the neutrals?

Neutrals?

Yeah Craven Cottage has a neutral area, FSVO "neutral". In the very unlikely event that anything kicks off its more likely to happen in the neutral area than anywhere else because it's only nominally neutral, you'll get both sets of fans in there.

I'd go in the Fulham seats myself, you'll get the best atmosphere in there.