I have no idea if this post will even work or if anyone will read it, but figured it can't do any harm, so here goes.
Just thought I'd throw in a theory as to why we've been so abysmal thus far.
Looking at the team we put out last night, the thing that stood out was that so few of them had been at the club for anything approaching a decent length of time.
I decided to have put together some stats to back this up, so I've taken the average period at the club for the first team squads (22 players) of Spurs, Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea.
I've got the full Excel spreadsheet I used if anyone's interested, but the averages are below.
Man U: 1744 days (4.78 years) Chelsea: 1257 days (3.44 years) Arsenal: 1010 days (2.77 years) Spurs: 616 days (1.69 years)
It's a pretty damning indictment of our revolving door policy if you ask me. How can we expect sustained success when we can't even sustain a squad?
Year in and year out we supposedly get rid of the deadwood and replace it with shining new stars, and though this is a great way to keep the fans buying replica shirts (after all, who wants a dependable, talented player like Steed Malbranque when you can have the 'next big thing' Luka Modric), it's evidently not the best way to go about mounting anything approaching a top four challenge.
Until the "chairman", "director of football" and all their associated underlings can bring something approaching stability to the club, there will be no progress, it really is that simple.
Forget whether Dimitar Berbatov was there or not, the most important thing about last night's Spurs kit launch are the strips themselves. (Click the pics for larger versions)
Why should the Bulgarian have been there? The Club appears to have needed a defender, a midfielder and a striker to show them off for the first time and there's no way Dimi would have been chosen above Robbie Keane - he's our Captain after all.
Keano was joined by Jonathan Woodgate and Jermaine Jenas and also three of our top talents for the future - Troy Archibald-Henville, Danny Rose and Tomas Pekhart. Let's hope this means Juande Ramos might actually put one of them on the bench this weekend against Liverpool.
Traditionally, we'd all instantly put our hands up under the Arsenal option but as my Spurs Pies colleague Ashley Lawrence said this morning, of late a lot of people seem to pick either the Blues or Hammers as our bitterest rivals these days.
Perhaps that's because we know we'll struggle to finish above the Gooners right now and before the 5-1 drubbing of them in the Carling Cup, many of us would have expected us to lose to our nearest rivals.
That doesn't stop us hating them with a passion obviously, but I often think there's just a little bit of grudging respect within many Tottenham supporters for the way Arsenal play and the way they've fashioned a decent team in the right manner.
And is anyone else just a little bored of standing up at White Hart Lane just to show how much we hate the Emirates lot?
Few players deserve - and are rewarded with - as much respect from fans of all colours as Edward Sheringham. To still be playing professional football aged 41, or 42 as he will be next month, is an amazing feat in this day and age. But on Saturday Teddy announced he will bring down the curtain on a glittering playing career at the end of the season after 26 years.
Currently playing at Championship side Colchester United, he said: "After a long and fun-filled career I have decided this season will be my last. I've had a fantastic time and want to thank all those who have contributed to my career and helped me along the way.
"I've no immediate thoughts about going into management but football has always been my life and hopefully I will be back at some point in the future. Until then I have to try and help Colchester United stay in the Championship."
I've said before how Teddy Sheringham would be a major asset to the new regime at Tottenham. He has before expressed his desire to manage and has made the right noises about being interested in the Spurs hotseat. I firmly believe that with Gus Poyet AND Teddy Sheringham by his side, Juande Ramos can take the Club to real heady heights next season.
After yesterday's heated debate about whether Spurs should leave White Hart Lane for a purpose-built new stadium, I thought we'd simply put it to the vote and get a definitive idea of who wants what.
So, make your choice below and then if you still want to tell us your reasons for going or staying, post them as a comment...
We had a quick discussion the other day about this when I said how impressed I was about the transport links to and from the new Wembley Stadium and how they showed up the useless trains and tubes around White Hart Lane.
It was said before Christmas that Daniel Levy and the Club would announce in February or March their plans for Tottenham Hotspur with regard to where we are going to be playing our football in the future.
The main two options always seem to have been: a) move away to a purpose built stadium or b) transform the current ground by spinning it around and enlarging it into the land Tottenham Hotspur PLC have bought up nearby.
But the second one relies on Haringey Council lobbying the Government to improve the transport infrastructure in the area and if their hap-hazard way of implementing a Controlled Parking Zone is anything to go by, we've no hope of that coming to fruition.
Today's Daily Telegraph hints that an announcement is imminent and points to sites north of White Hart Lane and in Enfield as potential places for a new 50,000-seater stadium.
As speculation inevitably mounts over the future of Dimitar Berbatov, can the importance of keeping the Bulgarian superstar at Spurs really be overstated?
In the cut-throat game of modern football, contracts, signing-on fees and balancing the books are now talked about as much if not more than tactics, team selections and man-management. Every fan worth his salt has become au fait with the intricate inner-workings of the transfer system, and phrases such as 'sell-on clause' and 'Bosman ruling' are commonplace in pub discussions up and down the country.
So, in this brave new world, is the signature that we all hope and pray Dimitar Berbatov signs on a new and improved deal to stay at Spurs potentially the most important in the club's history? I'd like to put forward the argument that it most certainly is. Though Berbatov, at the end of this season, will be only two years into the four-year contract he signed upon joining the club in 2006, no one can be in any doubt that failing to secure his signature on a new deal would signal the end of his time as a Spurs player.
Berbatov arrived at Spurs from Bayer Leverkusen amid reports of an 11th hour attempt by Manchester United to hijack the move. Berbatov later confirmed these reports, but revealed that he had chosen Spurs because “Spurs stood by me the whole time and sometimes that's more important”. After showing such loyalty and courtesy to the club upon first signing, the time has now come for the club to repay Berbatov's faith, with repay being the operative word.
Reports in today's papers name recent signing Jonathan Woodgate as the club's top earner, and whilst it is understandable that the board will have deemed worthy to pay top dollar for a player who has already made a huge impact on the side, it is also inconceivable that they could value him as highly as they do Berbatov.
Berbatov's first season at the club was a revelation, though the one accusation levelled at him during that time was that he failed to turn it on against the better sides in the league, and indeed, he had but one goal against a top four side to his name at the end of his first season. Recently, however, he has managed to find that big game mentality, and in the last two months, he has scored against Arsenal, Manchester United and, of course Chelsea. His reputation is growing with every passing game, and it can be presumed that his list of potential suitors is growing just as rapidly.
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