Will moving to a reduced capacity help Spurs?
STADIUM TALK
The performance last night in the Europa League draw with Gent showed that we can actually play at Wembley, perhaps we are getting more used to it.
There have been some suggesting we can't play on a large pitch but several pitches in the Premier League are as large as they are allowed to be. The new White Hart Lane will be a maximum size pitch, just like Manchester City where we usually perform well.
An interesting point is that clubs like West Ham United who move into a bigger stadium struggle with playing there. Is it the size, the pressure, are the opposition more motivated or a combination of factors.
Tottenham are moving into a bigger Wembley for a season, but then we are moving to a smaller stadium, we are moving from, we hope 90,000 to 61,000, so will we be able to cope with the downsizing better than others have coped with upsizing?
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I do worry about next season and our ability to cope with such motivated opponents every other week.
Basically we are going to play the whole of next season away from home.
To be successful, as Borgie pointed out in a previous post there can be no more shoe-ins.
There needs to be competition for those places where players don't always perform to their (supposed) potential.
I appreciate that it's easy to point out the obvious but 2017/18 could turn out to be a disaster especially if Poch continues to operate with the chosen few.
Let's be honest, the ratio of those players who have arrived (so far) during the Poch reign and have cemented their places to those that are (still) operating on the fringes is not encouraging and part of their failure to break through can be attributed to lack of playing time.
Personally, given what's been achieved so far and, as long as we qualify for the Europa League this year I wouldn't be unduly disappointed.
What concerns me more is that I don't see some…
Moving stadium will certainly be a problem. Playing at Wembley each week will be much harder than at the current WHL. Eventually though, we'll come out the other side. We're much better equipped to go through that troubling period now than we were even a couple of seasons ago.