Craig

More than you do CT?

Spurs

Cracking performance and result. Miley, Woltemade, Elanga, Thiaw, Hall, Livramento - all class today.

“Felt something in his groin” Bollocks!

Dropped the Dead Donkey.

He’s not even on the bench. Claim he’s injured?

From?! Or are you expecting people to want to go here, there and everywhere

The injury seems to have definitely taken something out of him, but with Burn & Schar to complement (and Lascelles tbf) we should be carefully managing his return to full strength. Central Defence is something we appear to have got strength in numbers for ... for the immediate future, anyway.

Aye, but let's stay within the rules.

Saw this team photo from 91/92 (before Keegan) and it reminded me of this

First choice back four for me is Tino Thiaw Botman Hall I know Botman had a shocker v Brentford, but he's better than that.

Problem with that approach, no matter how much I would like success as early as possible, is those outside of our circle will go to town on pointing out we've only got there because we've bulldozed our way in. To date, I'm managed to shut-down many a conversation about us getting where we are because of the investment by pointing out we're still considerably behind the curve on spending - something they reluctantly have to accept. Patience on this one.

Aye this is spot on. We're victims of being miles ahead of where we should be. Ourselves and Villa are in similar positions in that we have what it takes to qualify for the CL, but not yet at a level whereby we can sustain a CL campaign and qualify for it again the following season - if we somehow manage that this season we'll have massively over-achieved - even more so when you consider the shenanigans of the transfer window in the summer. Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool & Man City are at a different level to us at the moment and the next milestone has to be getting to that level.

Would love the run of the Europa League which, given Spurs's exploits last season, we should more than be able to make a good stab at. The concern is about keeping our personnel happy. We shouldn't kid ourselves that for some of them playing in the Champions League will be more important than playing for Newcastle United.

Someone get the defib on standby for Wykiki if neither Burn nor Schar starts

The whole kit rules are bollocks anyway. I'm fairly certain the rule years ago was that the GK had to have a kit that didn't clash with anything else on the pitch. Did you see Pope's shirt, and that of the referee last Saturday? Almost identical.

Yeah it's too early yet to write things off and as you point out, there's 78 points still available. I think we'll turn the form around and probably look back on this period with a view of "what might have been".

Revised it based on the kit. 3-0 to them

Agreed. I'm not saying it's how it should be, I'm saying it's how it WILL be.

The seed is sewn on this now. There's been chatter amongst the fan base for some time that Ramsdale must be given a chance - following Tuesday night's escapades the media seem to have joined that crusade and are now asking direct questions of it. To that end, Pope will be continue to be selected but his next fuck up will result in him being dropped.

Ahhh but we're all displaying our flags so that's a good thing!

So basically they're backing the police's overreaction? Fucking cunts

I'm employing the 'expect fuck all and you won't be disappointed' approach to this one. 2-0 to them.