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Welcome to the Plus Dave Podcast - a Tottenham Hotspur themed show, brought to you by an assortment of Spurs fans... and a Leeds fan called Dave. We will be bringing you our in-depth thoughts looking back on each week‘s game as well as a look forward to our upcoming fixture and a series of discussions about all our favourite Spurs players, goals, matches, teams and moments from years gone by.
Episodes
![Episode 80 - Getting Rid of that Conte Stink](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Episode 80 - Getting Rid of that Conte Stink
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
With Dags away on a Plus Dave pilgrimage to learn the origin story of Dave, Elio is given far too much leeway in his hosting duties. We also bring some fresh blood just like Big Ange this time from the Man Utd fanbase to be ridiculed. Do Spurs actually feel like Spurs again? Is it possible, will the faith return?
![Episode 79 - We Go Again](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Episode 79 - We Go Again
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
The season is back! A fully stocked Plus Dave team console themselves (except Dave who couldn't care less) over the departure of Harry Kane by looking back on our season's opener - an encouraging, albeit unpolished, display against a Brentford side many expected to cause us big problems. We take an in-depth look at all the key performers in a new-look side taking on its first competitive challenge as an Ange-inspired unit.
We also look ahead to the next challenge, Postecoglou's home debut against Man United in what will surely be a measure of how well the team is coming together.
There's lots of discussion around how the team might start to shape up as the season progresses, where we look good, where we might need tweaking and who is already starting to impress.
It's good to be back, Spurs fans - legend might come and go but us fans, we're never going anywhere - we hope you enjoy!
![Episode 78 - To Support is to Believe, To Believe is to Support](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Episode 78 - To Support is to Believe, To Believe is to Support
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Football is almost back! We're just days away from the start of the season, recording in the midst of a Harry Kane transfer storm - mere hours after it was announced Spurs had accepted a bid from Bayern, before rumours crept in that maybe Kane would stay? By the time you read/listen to this, who knows what may have happened!
We talk new signings, pre-season games against Shakhtar and Barcelona, Oliver Skipp's brace, Bissouma's class, how much we may or may not hate Chelsea and what pre-season has taught us about how we could line up when our season gets underway on Sunday and we finally see some competitive Angeball.
We of course preview the season opener away at Brentford and we give your general predictions and hot takes ahead of the season in a segment guaranteed to make us all look very silly by next year.
It's time to get excited!
![Episode 77 - Sit Down Elio, I’m Not Finished](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Episode 77 - Sit Down Elio, I’m Not Finished
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
We're back with more pre-season action! No special guests this week (aside from the always-special regular contingent returning once again). Thanks to Spurs we are never short on topics to discuss, chief among them of course being the ongoing and escalating Harry Kane saga and the wider topic surrounding the best way to handle it.
Elio and Socs get into it, discussing their slightly opposing outlooks on the end of Kane's time at Spurs as we consider the various permutations of selling now vs selling next year, selling to a rival or selling abroad.
We also take our first proper look back on the opening 2 games of pre-season against West Ham and Lion City Sailors and pick out our highlights and players that have made the biggest impression with the opening day of the season looming.
All this supported by Dave doing his level best to pretend he has watched any Spurs pre-season whatsoever, let alone that he cares enough to discuss it.
Hopefully we manage to get you excited about the new season rather than put you off entirely - either way, as always, we hope you enjoy the show.
![FPL Special with 2022/23 Mini-League Champion, David ’Pricey’ Price](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
FPL Special with 2022/23 Mini-League Champion, David ’Pricey’ Price
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
For a second year running, Dags welcomes back recurring guest star and resident FPL expert, David Price AKA Pricey AKA the OTHER Dave - back to give us his best Fantasy Premier League advice ahead of the new season and to tell us how he became back-to-back Plus Dave Super League champion.
We talk Tottenham player prices, most owned players, hidden gems, strategies, tough calls, top tips and more! There's also Pricey's exclusive team reveal (almost definitely due to change beyond recognition by Gameweek 1) and the less hotly anticipated team reveal from Dags who has given it all of 5 minutes' thought until now.
Finally we run through some of the best Spurs-themed FPL team names.
To join next year's FPL Plus Dave Super League, use the code 4grd8o
![A Sensible Spurs Summer - with Special Guest, Jon Mackenzie](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
A Sensible Spurs Summer - with Special Guest, Jon Mackenzie
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
The Plus Dave returns for a third season as regulars Dags, Elio, Socs and Dave are joined this week by an extra special guest - Tifo Football's own Jon Mackenzie! Jon becomes only the second Leeds fan to ever grace the show and joins to kindly help us break down an exciting Summer window for Spurs ahead of Big Ange's debut campaign as boss.
Strap in for a feature length episode this week as we take a deep dive into Ange Postecoglou's system, how the squad profile needs to shift to best serve it, how that process is going so far and how Spurs might shape up for the new season.
We take a look at all our new signings in depth and what they could bring, before ambushing Jon with a surprise Tifo Sensible Transfers-inspired treat of our own.
There's also some bigger picture discussion around shifts in football tactics outside of Spurs and the use of data and analytics in the wider football world (for the real nerds among you) some early pre-season predictions and more than the usual share of gratuitous Leeds United tangents.
We hope you enjoy this blockbuster opener to the new season and huge thanks again to Jon for his help in making it all happen!
![Episode 74 - Aussie’s Going to Wembley?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Episode 74 - Aussie’s Going to Wembley?
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Welcome back listeners and welcome Big Ange Postecoglou!
Just when you've had enough of Spurs, they make an exciting, if slightly divisive, hire to drag us all back to the sports pages and to drag our team back to the microphones.
Join 3 of Ange's fellow Greeks and a Yorkshireman as we give our feelings on Tottenham's new manager, what we like, what should concern us, what shouldn't concern us, how the team might shape up under his stewardship, which players will fit and which might be on their way out.
Well played Spurs, well played... (let's hope that's not the last time anyone's saying that for a while)
Enjoy!
![Episode 73 - With Apologies to Sean Longstaff](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Episode 73 - With Apologies to Sean Longstaff
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
It's finally over - we get the sweet release of a Summer break as three very tired Spurs fans are joined by the only man more fed up with football: a Leeds fan called Dave.
In this season finale, we look back at how Spurs decided to show up the one time we didn't want them to and sealed Leeds' fate as a Championship club next season and we talk about what Spurs need to do to avoid joining them there in the next few seasons at what feels like a pivotal point for the club.
We get stuck in to some thorough planning around a squad reshuffle looking ahead to next season (no matter who the manager eventually is) and try and imagine life after Kane.
Finally we also bring you our end of season awards (no prizes for guessing our player of the season) and try to remember some of the highlights from our 2022/23. Thanks for sticking with us all year - hope you enjoy this sign off and hope you all come back next year once the irrational pre-season optimism starts to grab hold of all of us once again!
![Episode 72 - Not Dead Yet](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Episode 72 - Not Dead Yet
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
We are in the endgame now.
As the season's end and El Dávico draw nearer and the Levy Out chants grow louder, we look back on our latest disappointment, bottling a strong first half performance against Brentford in our last home game of the season.
We can always rely on our red and white neighbours to out-bottle us though and with the maths finally confirming the ultimate collapse, we rejoice in the small petty victory, celebrating with the unveiling of Socs' new all-trolling Twitter handle.
We dare to contemplate life without Harry, cautiously confident that we haven't just seen his last home performance in a Spurs shirt.
Dags returns to the host's chair and is joined by Elio, Socs and Dave as the group unanimously prepares to root for Leeds in what is essentially a nothing game for Spurs and an everything game for Leeds.
All of this is closed out with a little bit of Beyoncé for your listening pleasure.
Unlike the weekend and our season - we assure you this one gets better as it goes on.
![Episode 71 - It’s Beyoncé’s Fault](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12702925/1000025635_vk5cgw_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Episode 71 - It’s Beyoncé’s Fault
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Regular host Dags takes a well-timed holiday to spare himself the constant pain of following Spurs, leaving Elio, Socs and Dave with the unenviable task of breaking down our latest two attempts to salvage our season - giving their expert analysis on our ties with Palace and Villa before previewing our penultimate game of the season - the warm up act to the crucial finale at Elland Road, AKA the only game left of this season with any significance. As expected, much chaos ensues without the firm hand of the usual host at the helm, reminding listeners why you shouldn't mess with the system. Elio once again showcases his unique talent for spontaneous, wild analogies while Socrates shows that it's not just obsessive football expertise that runs in the family but also the ability to test the boundaries of what can legally be said on a recording. Dave (presumably) shakes his head throughout while looking down at a quickly-emptying glass/bottle of wine and Dags retains the arrogance to think he can write the preview of an episode he wasn't even a part of. Listen if you dare?