Truly a roller coaster ride of a season. Am happy we played the last match well but we are a better team than where we ended up. Fourth is a playoff spot for Champions League and should be celebrated usually. But it is very strange when we can't.....until we know what happens at the final.

Mixed emotions really.

Well it's now out of our hands

It's been a good season with plenty nice moments. Here's to hopefully an even better season in 12/13.

I think if they handed fourth spot to us, just shy of a point behind arsenal, at the beginning of the season, I would've taken it and ran with it. Sure CL is still up in the air, but we set out to achieve a target and we achieved it. I'm a proud fan.

The only thing that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth is there were too many "what if situations". Sure these situations are common in football, but most of the time it's on the pitch. I'm talking those off the pitch

1. What if Daniel and Harry settled the Modric situation at the beginning of the season earlier?
2. What if Harry didn't have that tax evasion case? He could have been there for the Liverpool - Spurs match where the opposition played lousily.
3. What if John Terry didn't f up, the FA had more common sense, Capello didn't get his panties in a bunch, and the media stopped saying HR to be the next England manager.

Lets all pray for a better season and CL spot. GO BAYERN!

so quiet in here..i want to troll here sumore no mood edi..

Ya lor... boring la no troll

It's a quiet week with not much Spurs news except that Kaboul and Walker are unlikely to be involved with Euro 2012.

today's news confirmed that walker will not join euro team. not a good news after a brilliant season from him.
but that's injury related and i think recovering should be main priority.
parker is doubtful, no update yet.
lets see...

This post has been edited by lewmoker: May 16 2012, 01:45 PM

Aaw too bad for him. So who'll be englands rb? Glen johnson again? Micah richards injured.

Bah. Whatever. Dont care

in a way... ayam a bit glad

he can rest for the summer

the moment next season start he'll be eager to do well

i agree with you too. walker played the most game for spurs this season.
dont fancy much with three lions's chance but eager to watch whole tournament...

i don't mind if our key international players miss out =P

more rest and less chance of major injuries.

This post has been edited by ihawk98: May 16 2012, 04:17 PM

kaboul also not playing for france, injury.
nice time to rest and enjoy the game

fuh, i takut i kena bash for expressing that lol

he's sure sad as hell now while I'm a bit glad that he'll miss out

not sure how i should feel actually

Walker might make it for Olympics though.

just suddenly had the urge to write this:

during our first few months we were playing great and winning games. Parker was, to me, that final jigsaw piece that actually made us competitive for the league title. But as we all know, we had our March-April meltdown although there wasnt any drastic squad changes.

The question is; why? It would be easy to think that Harry really let the England post get to his head, but to me it's not enough to justify how we went from championship material to going a goal behind and chasing every game.

Was it tactics? Opponents finally figured us out?

Mental? Fatigue?

I'm still deeply dissatisfied with our run-in... and would like to discuss possible reasons why we ended up that way.

Oh where do I start. It all begins with the mood in the locker room. Uncertainty crept in when 'arry and chairman did not come out and say that 'arry was not interested in the England job. 'arry's head was obviously somewhere else as we became tactically poor.

On the pitch, our strength in offence comes with pace and width. The marauding runs of Bale and Lennon will draw the attention of at least 2 opposing players on each side (total of 4 players distracted). This gives Modric and vdV more space to move the ball around the inside and find space.

And with Lennon out, we had either van der Vaart or Modric playing on the outside and hence out of their preferred positions. Bale then tries to cut in from the left as there is more space inside but he is most effective staying wide and drawing the attention of the wing back and another opposing player.

When we have no threat of attacking or counter attacking with pace on the wings, the opposing team can commit more players into their attack too. And this will overrun our midfield.

The come from behind win by the Gunners took the confidence away from the team. And the sudden realization that we were vulnerable make us tentative in many matches. Watching the 13 pt gap evaporate also has a psychological impact on players mindset.

oh, nicely written. so it unraveled in large part to Lennon's absence? susah la like that, he always has injury issues one

as for the confidence thing; i'm not too sure. We had a terrible run-in too last season right? I was thinking it could be tiredness accumulating from the first half. Admittedly most of our midfielders (heck, even our centrebacks) always had this "niggling injuries" where they play 2-3 games and then sit one out. Can we get some guys in to increase their conditioning?

btw, i'm pessimistic with our chances to keep Modric... i think M City will try to raid some of our squad players.... any idea who can replace Modric (just in case?) and the departing Ade?

hazard

dun wan laaaaaa

hazard is out and out winger mana boleh replace General Mod

i think MC will get him

yes, Modric AND Hazard

flavor of the campaign, gylfi sigurdsson?