Tottenham Dave

Townsend is a very good player. When confident, and flying he's great. Criticisms - a bit eager to shoot, and can be greedy, but he's young. Will be a worthy addition to NUFC, I'm certain. Kind of sad to see him go.

Your tea ladies must be pissed off tonight! Oh well, football innit.

This news pleases me immensely. That said, it also adds fuel to the 'It's the hope that kills you' fire.

Chelsea will be in tier 1 next season.

I obviously don't watch as much NUFC as you, but it seems to me you have some excellent players, some of the best in the league in fact, but not a whole lot of cohesion. I reckon if you get a decent start, and confidence builds, there's no reason you shouldn't be challenging for the European spots. Obviously need to hold on to your better players though.

Well I for one hope your players aren't already on the beach when this match comes around! Can't see Wigan getting anything against Arsenal, so it'll likely come down to the last match. I'm hoping the whole 'pressure off' thing will make a difference and you'll turn up pinging it about like 1970s Brazil!

I think barring one or two obvious exceptions, most teams would miss Bale if he left them. You may be right, he's getting better every year and unless Spurs invest significantly in the Summer, which is unlikely given the new stadium being built, he'll be off. If we qualify for the Champions League, I reckon he'll give us another season, if we don't I think he'll go this summer. You know what Levy is like though, it'll take silly money to offload him - probably £40m at least if it's a Spanish side (preferable) or a lot more if an English club wants him. I can't vouch for the accuracy really, the bloke that runs the site they are from ( http://www.myfootballfacts.com/ ) is a Spurs fan, so I'd imagine more importance is placed on our stats. Dembele started amazingly, but like a few others in the side has gone off the boil in recent weeks. He's a good player though. no doubt. He did pick up a knock recently.

Fair result I thought. Bale is in great form, and it's good timing as the rest of the side aren't clicking at the minute., but all the 'one man team' stuff is a bit off in my view. Yes he's our most talented player, but the rest of the team muck in too, as these pre-match stats confirm: Thought you looked very good in spells, especially first half, and it was fairly even until Gouffran went off. Chin up, you're nailed on to be challenging for the European spots next season.

I read yesterday that only Man City and Liverpool have done it in recent years. So basically, it'll change very little.

While Bale has been great recently, so has Lennon - he's having arguably his best season for Spurs so he could be dangerous for you as well. On Adebayor, meh, he's up to his old tricks again. I heard City and Arsenal fans complaining that after an encouraging start to his stints at both of their clubs he took the foot off the gas and ambled about. Well, he's been average at best this season, and this whole business of a late return from the AFCON isn't exactly showing him in great light.

'lo all! Pretty spectacular match from your lads yesterday, was very impressed. Despite a decent unbeaten league run, apart from the 2nd half against Man United (where we battered them) we've actually stumbled through a lot of games not playing all that well. A bit of magic here and there from Bale has pulled us through the last two matches. Going on your performance yesterday (and I can only really go by that given the influx of new players) and our relatively poor form, I wouldn't be amazed if this ended a draw, or by 1 goal each way. Tough to call. No Defoe - it was Sod's law he'd get injured straight after not buying a striker in the window. Bit gutted about that. Ade is back, but he's been shite for weeks. Well, I dunno if it's shiteness, or lack of effort, either way it's been like playing with 10 men. Dempsey's been a bit hot and cold with his performances, but has 5 goals in the last 6 games, so must be doing something right. Encouraging signs from Holtby though, he looks a very good player, I'm personally hoping he can hit it off immediately and strike up an understanding with Ade. Should be a good match, I'd imagine both teams will be in the 'fuck it, lets go for the win' mood. I can live with that!

I know you're getting done, but top marks to your fans here, great noise. Loved "we support our local team" when the Man Utd fans were trying to give it.

YES! I was 12 years old last time we won at OT in the league. 12!

Pleased with Dempsey joining, but I'm almost equally pleased with the annoyance of the Scousers that he didn't go there. Honesty, RAWK is a gold mine tonight.

Had worse days. Shame to lose Rafa though.

Yeah I got told off once before.

Sorry, at Manchester United.

First game of the season is a difficult one anyway, teams are all getting their stuff together etc Look at last year, Spurs got done 0-3 and 1-5 in the first two games and went on to have a decent season. Arsenal got done 2-8 at United and finished third! Early days.

Love you too xxx

Well now you're just rubbing it in.

I will, in fact I intend on annoying you all season.

Easier said than done though. I know a lot of the rest of the league think Modric is overrated, but he really is (was) the catalyst for pretty much every thing Spurs do/did. He doesn't score but boy can he spot a brilliant pass. No use lamenting, the geezer's gone. I agree, Defoe ran his socks off, and I'm not knocking him at all, it's just this system isn't set up for him, he's not a the target man type.

Congrats lads (and possibly lasses, but doubt it). Good result for you, thought a draw would have been fairer blah blah blah Superb finish from Ba, can't argue with that kind of quality. As for Spurs, I think our toothlessness (word?) upfront was evident, we had decent possession and movement, unfortunately there was no one upfront to make any of it count. No focal point etc blah blah blah Oh well, still a bit of the window left. Good luck for the season, see you at the Lane....

Bravado Dave?

Just like to take this opportunity to retract my earlier confidence in light of us once again starting the season scratching our heads. Fuck me. Defoe and Kane, that is our strike "force" for this match. Balls up.