Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
If the team can't win on Sunday (I assume a few of them still know and care what it means to the fans) they can fuck off tbh. This is all we have left from the season, this and doing everything conceivable to overhaul our arch rivals. A loss or a draw and they simply don't care, end of. If they don't win it proves they don't give a toss about the fans and just want the money. Fail on Sunday and they'll have given us precisely zero this season. Winning this is the absolute basic standard requirement, the barest possible minimum. After this nightmare season they get zero credit for delivering the bare minimum but on the other hand, I hope they get slaughtered by every last fan if they can't even achieve this most basic standard. Better be a fucking win guys, just get it done. Earn at least a fraction of that money.
Don't entirely agree with this. The sad fact is Spurs are better than us right now. For years and years we never lost to Spurs not because their players didn't care. For their fans it was their Cup Final but they generally failed in it simply because we were better than them and while 'form goes out of the window' I don't think quality does. If we don't put the effort in tomorrow and lose then that is unforgivable. If they give everything and just get pipped by a better side then I think it would be harsh to be too hard on the players. By all means go apeshit at the manager and board who between them (and I still don't know what proportion of blame to attribute to who) have year on year sold our best players and replaced them with mediocre ones. We got away with it for quite a while and stayed reasonably competitive. This year the wheels have finally fallen off. Possibly irreparably.