Hi chaps. Spurs fan here in peace, hope you don't mind.
Had a good read through this thread today as was curious to see how the fans are feeling about the current situation, alarmingly it looks as though many are already resigned to the drop. Really hope it doesn't happen, there's a lot of Spurs fans rooting for you boys right now (and lots who aren't, I'm sure!)
A lot of us have always seen Spurs and Everton as similar beasts - entertaining teams, great players, perennial underachievers in the PL era, with gobby and obnoxious neighbours. Please don't disappear and leave us to it on our own ffs.
Interested to see your guys' theories on the solutions from here, because from the outside in, it would seem that cutting the manager right now is the obvious one. Sure there's deeper issues in terms of the club leadership and the players' mentality which are longer-term fixes but at this point you just need someone who can grind out a string of grubby wins and draws to the end of May. The right manager is key because they can make really average, uninterested players look vaguely competent on their day, as we're seeing ourselves with Conte right now making Davies and Doherty look a bit like professional footballers.
On paper you're far too good to go down, which I guess makes things worse in a way, because it's not that the players aren't capable of playing, they just don't seem to care enough. I was surprised at us putting 5 past you last month, because aside from a couple of passages of play we weren't that good, your defence just didn't seem to want to get involved.
I've seen a few guys on here saying that maybe a season in the Championship will do you good but I don't buy that myself. Hopefully you'll escape the drop and this close shave will be enough of a scare to inspire the big big changes that are needed at the club.
Wishing you the best, it ain't over til it's over.
ps Sorry about Dele Alli, I promise he didn't used to be crap. His fall from grace honestly breaks my heart.
