Mid-table mediocrity: the positives

[ShipOfTheseus]

We’re in for a major regression to the mean. Let’s look on the bright side.

1) Tickets on general sale, just like in the 90s. Rock up to a game when you feel like it. Why pay for membership when all you get is a bag of tat and a birthday card?

2) No selfie-takers at the ground. Supporting Spurs will revert to what it should be: a furtive pleasure, not to be exposed on socials.

3) Football conversations abroad in pidgin English with cabbies and shopkeepers and scammers can peter out blissfully again after mere seconds. They won’t know who any of our players are and they can’t build enough rapport to inveigle you into a gemstone fraud.

4) Genuine excitement when we beat a big club; easily manageable pain when we lose to dross.

There’s lots more. This list should go up to 100.

 

[Jurgen the German]

Getting tickets for away games should be slightly easier and won’t be a closed shop for ST holders with 400+ points.

 

[Raziel]

hahaha, you guys need to give me the number of your dealer

You think after almost two seasons of no football, they will have problems selling tickets?

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

hahaha, you guys need to give me the number of your dealer

You think after almost two seasons of no football, they will have problems selling tickets?

In 2026, when the charabancs from Seoul have long stopped running and our ambitions are more about survival than Europe? It's not too long ago that they were advertising half year season tickets on billboards on the A406.

Anyway, this is the thread for positives.

6) Sponsors that sell fun things like lager, not boring things like insurance.

 

[MKSpur]

7 we are so brick we don’t have a shirt sponsor for a season

 

[AdamB]

8. We all get lots more free time back given that, if we end up as a mid-table team with ticket prices and attendances falling, the club will go bust due to all the debt

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

9. We get bought out of receivership by a tabloid-friendly lovable rogue. Levy goes back to Byrite, chastened. The annual missives from the chairman are greatly improved, and only proper nouns are capitalised.

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

We’re in for a major regression to the mean. Let’s look on the bright side.

1) Tickets on general sale, just like in the 90s. Rock up to a game when you feel like it. Why pay for membership when all you get is a bag of tat and a birthday card?

2) No selfie-takers at the ground. Supporting Spurs will revert to what it should be: a furtive pleasure, not to be exposed on socials.

3) Football conversations abroad in pidgin English with cabbies and shopkeepers and scammers can peter out blissfully again after mere seconds. They won’t know who any of our players are and they can’t build enough rapport to inveigle you into a gemstone fraud.

4) Genuine excitement when we beat a big club; easily manageable pain when we lose to dross.

There’s lots more. This list should go up to 100.

In my membership renewal it said birthday cards were just for children now, which is a shame because my wife and son don't get me one either. My friends all think giving cards is "gay" so it was the only one I got.

 

[Finney Is Back]

10. Without the nuisance of European football we no longer have to put up with our wives/husbands/partners moaning about the fact that we watch too much football.

 

[Finney Is Back]

11. Those of us who follow us home and away will have a lot more money in our pockets due to having far less games to go to due to no Europe and nice, early exits from the Cups.

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

In my membership renewal it said birthday cards were just for children now, which is a shame because my wife and son don't get me one either. My friends all think giving cards is "gay" so it was the only one I got.

Do a King John.

And, round about December,
The cards upon his shelf
Which wished him lots of Christmas cheer,
And fortune in the coming year,
Were never from his near and dear,
But only from himself.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

12. The occasional 3pm Saturday kick-off, especially when playing fellow mediocre clubs, as we'll be of less interest to the (UK) broadcasters.

 

[Alaric]

13. Better (less talkative)match commentators, as we're no longer one of the marquee matches.

 

[afsoc4life]

Less pressure on the players. They can now get on with their main hobbies now.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

13. Better (less talkative)match commentators, as we're no longer one of the marquee matches.

I don't know, that 3-3 still has a lot of mileage left in it for Tyler I'm sure.

 

[lurker of old]

Fewer games moved to daft days of the week because we won't be on TV, plus eventually we will stumble on a Martin Jol equivalent, and learn to start winning our home games

 

[lurker of old]

The genuine excitement of being in Europe again once we have been out of the Europa League for a decade.

 

[Mikey10]

We’re in for a major regression to the mean. Let’s look on the bright side.

1) Tickets on general sale, just like in the 90s. Rock up to a game when you feel like it. Why pay for membership when all you get is a bag of tat and a birthday card?

Both were done away with last season. Now you get a £10 voucher which you can only spend on selected (brick) items in the Spurs Store.

I have just written to my bank this morning to cancel my, and my daughter's, membership direct debit.

 

[parklane1]

The end of self entitled fans( i wish) and glory hunters.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

18. No queuing to get into the station.