TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

Yeah, I remember getting Spurs in the RUMBELOWS CUP in 1991 and being quite pleased for a similar reason. You had Gazza and Lineker and were favourites, but we won and won well. (Was thinking about this game last night listening to Andy Townsend and thinking how great he was at WHL that night and what a cock he is now.)

I think even when we used to draw Arsenal a lot in the 90s I quite enjoyed it, even though we always lost, because I expected us to lose and there was always a slim chance that we wouldn't.

It's probably a hangover from the 5-1, but also the expectation that has come from the last few years which makes defeat appear to be so much more humiliating than it used to be.

I know Arsenal friends hate drawing Spurs for the same reason. How do Liverpool feel about getting United?

But this isn't just me - every chelsea fan I know and others on twitter and web are bricking themselves about getting Spurs. Some are saying they won't go to the Lane because they couldn't take losing. *winning mentality*

Re: cup draws, I always want United to get drawn away to a team they never usually play (say Rotherham or Bristol City or Northampton) to provide a bit of variety, or to get drawn at home against a hated rival so that the game means something. You risk being very pissed off if you lose, but them's the breaks. I can't stand home ties against clubs that we've played loads already but who don't really mean anything (e.g. Middlesbrough or Portsmouth or Aston Villa).

Can we draw another English club in the quarters? I always forget how these things work.

I think so. I think you can get anyone next time, and they draw it all the way to the final.

ya

seeding protection only in first and second rnds

So I'm basically a wuss who takes it all too seriously. Fair do.

ur just assuming a loss. Same meself tbh

Not sure this has been posted, but fuck me it's gorgeous. Gareth Bale v Inter in animation.

http://www.runofplay.com/2011/03/10/bones-like-ghosts/

wow that's great

neato, dude is so g-d explosive, u can really see it

wow, that's beautiful

Ramon Ramon! Ramon Ramon! Ramon Ramon Raaamon VEGA! is on SoccerAM.

Zinged the fuck out of us when he left Celtic for Watford because they were "more ambitious". 18 games in Scotland and walked away with league, cup and league cup medals. Must be some kind of record. There seems to be no record on the Internet of him modelling in a silver mini-skirt.

some ridiculous rumours today. next year's lineup will look like this

gomes
g johnson dawson terry bale
lennon lampard modric j. cole
van der vaart
drogba

why would we sign cole, and nothing against lampard but that midfield doesnt work.

Terry is pretty unbeatable, but on his wages and at his age i'd rather not.

Drogba ditto

Bale at lb- there's a reason nobody called him one of the world's best when he played there.

Really, thats a massive expenditure for an improvement that is arguable at best. One class striker and one class cb, a better lb. Done.

what's gonna be done with all these cbs?
dawson
gallas
king
woodgate
kaboul
bassong
khumalo

caluker coming along well in the championship, too

king woodgate write-offs
Gallas not as good as has been painted, though vital this past while tbf. Not getting younger.

Have always liked kaboul. Bassong can be anywhere between great and a total nightmare. Both good second choice options.

Dawson pretty inarguably the future

Khumalo i dont know much about tbh.

interested to know whats happened all the midfield talent, yr obikas and the like, that came in in one tranche there a few years back.

obika's a striker, iirc.
you mean dean parrett and john bostock? they are both still 19, but have stalled recently it seems. harry kane seems to be best bet along with caulker.

bostock looked a genuine prospect alright.

dean parrett update

Midfielder Dean was making his home debut for Charlton against high-flying Southampton at the Valley, who took the lead through Radhi Jaidi on 64 minutes.

But Dean capped a Man of the Match display with a sublime chipped through-ball for Bradley Wright-Phillips to equalise four minutes from time.

The 19-year-old was substituted and replaced by former Spur Gary Doherty soon after to a great ovation from the Charlton faithful.

I would quite happily take the Drog for one season and that's the only one of those three Chelsea strikers that's even remotely plausible, and even then so not gonna happen.

Three Chelsea signings even.

how much would one season of drog cost?

How many games would he play?

L king, but up front, twice as pricey, and disruptive.

Hang on - the year ends in one.

i'll have a qf cl run over the league cup tbph

otm

would expect a gooner to empathise with that tbph but there you go eh

Just getting them in quick before Gomes has the game of his life against us to make up for it.

nah not gonna happen, we've not much hope of building up a head of steam now.

Tho iirc he made the difference last year after rvp came on.

We'd need to shoot from outside the box, so it's never going to happen. And every keeper has the game of their life against us. Even Paul Robinson.

lock this thread, re-open the old one. there are only three big clubs in england, the ones that score phantom goals and can't ever have their centre halves sent off. everyone else makes up the numbers.

heh

Or change the thread title to 'WE THOUGHT TOTTENHAM WERE A BIG CLUB FOR 11 MONTHS, WE WERE WRONG'.

you'd think with spurs having spent 6000 billion in the last few years they'd have bribed some refs and got more than one cl jaunt out of it.

While the priority will be looking for new arrivals, Redknapp knows he has some big decisions to make in terms of what happens with a number of his squad who have failed to come up to scratch this season.

None of his three strikers - Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe or Roman Pavlyuchenko - have impressed

fuck this for accepted narrative bullshit

Rafael Van der Vaart    35	14	
Roman Pavlyuchenko	37	12	
Gareth Bale	        40	11	
Peter Crouch	        44	11	
Jermain Defoe	        28	8	

pav's 37 appearances includes 13 sub appearances, as far as i can work out.

You'd have to be very charitable to say that Pavlyuchenko has "impressed" this season really.

scoring rate stands up, this season and throughout his time with us.

and his general play far outshines crouch/defoe imo (though i'd have to acknowledge vdv's handy knack of being in the right place to benefit from crouch's shit headers)

ha just found this. shit so far

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8750_6930324,00.html

i mean, alan hutton 'keep' kyle walker 'season long loan' stfu mate

Jermaine Jenas
Has to be rated as one of the worst players in the Premier League. Every time he plays Spurs lose due to his lack of ability to read the game. He should be playing Championship football next season.
Verdict: Ditch

i forgive u

i mean, alan hutton 'keep' kyle walker 'season long loan' stfu mate

Also Corluka 'ditch'.

well yeah!

corluka, walker as the rb options next season looks more than a good mix to me.

Palacios, troubling. I'd say rid but then there was the spell last year when he was brilliant.

Anyway, I'm thinking:

SELL - Gomes, Bentley, Jenas, Keane, Crouch, Pavlyuchenko, Dos Santos, Hutton, maybe Bassong but knowing our defensive injury record
SIGN - A goalkeeper, at least two big strikers, a left-back to put pressure on BAE and to ensure we never have to play Danny Rose there again
PROMOTE - Walker, maybe Caulker to the squad, dunno what's happened to Bostock but I assume he's not gonna make it

Would keep Kranjcar and play him more often, Palacios as a squad player but behind Sandro in the pecking order.

I'd kinda like a right midfielder with more penetration, Lennon is exciting but inconsistent and come on we're still occasionally playing Jenas there.

How much deadwood can we get away with flogging to QPR I wonder?

SELL- Gomes, Bentley, Keane, Jenas, Crouch, Dos Santos, Hutton
BUY- Everyone you said, and a first team centre-half (I'd keep Bassong, I don't think he's as bad a player as he's looked all season)
PROMOTE- Walker, definitely. You'd know more about the others.

Random- Keep Kranjcar, Palacios, Pienaar as 3/4 of our 2nd midfield- it's not like we don't get injuries or need to refresh things FFS Arry). Agree completely that a new right winger is needed to make up that quartet.

i do think we could be the equivalent of QPR's one stop shop, if you look at that first line.

is there a lower EPL striker you'd bank on to improve us, or would you rather go abroad? Not that our hitrate is inspired with either option.

Rodallega, Demba Ba, Odemwingie, might all be good options i think

wow

this site is the absolute balls

http://www.imscouting.com/reports-generator3/?id=40&t=601&p1=0&p2=100&p3=0&p4=10#rep

anyway ^ spurs players' minutes-per-goal this season

I missed Gio dos Santos's first spell in England but he's been excellent for Santander imo. Is he not a good match for the Prem style-of-play wise or is it that his relationship with Redknapp is beyond repair?