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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Was sacking Ange a good idea?

  • Yes, I think it was a good idea.

    Votes: 73 64.6%

  • No, I think it was a bad idea.

    Votes: 40 35.4%
  • Total voters
    113
Auscock said:
Maybe you could start a TLD thread and post all your negative attitudes on there?

The rest of us could look forward to next season and success.
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Listen, your boyfriend's a dickhead.

And he better fix-up and start actually winning instead of talking about it like a champ, or I will be one of the "negative attitudes" that drive him the hell out of this club.

He's got exactly the same sort of smug-cunty attitude you have.

No wonder you're drawn to him.
 
Gmspurs said:
With his comments about 'the past 48 hours inside and outside the club'


What does that actually mean?

Who inside the club is actually fragile? Has he been given the hairdryer by Levy about top four? Or do we think someone in the hierarchy has encouraged Ange to throw the game and he doesn't like that?

It's a bizarre thing to say at this stage of the season.
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Well the inside the club comment thinking Levy and the board and/or players. If it turns out his comment was aimed at Levy then that will make for some interesting dynamics.
 
How do you know? We’ve missed chances all season and the front 3 have been the biggest problem. Talking of fragile he got one of the most fragile players imaginable in Johnson then got another one in Timo. We’ve always sonny to be fragile.
 
Gmspurs said:
With his comments about 'the past 48 hours inside and outside the club'


What does that actually mean?

Who inside the club is actually fragile? Has he been given the hairdryer by Levy about top four? Or do we think someone in the hierarchy has encouraged Ange to throw the game and he doesn't like that?

It's a bizarre thing to say at this stage of the season.
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He’s obviously frustrated that the fan base is still obsessed with what Woolwich do even at the expense of our own ambitions. He wanted to win the game and many fans didn’t.

When you’re managing a club with a loser mentality that’s probably very irritating. The first step in fixing our lack of trophies is to actually want to win every single game.
 
I get what Ange is saying about the last 48 hrs and I expect many of the spurs players and staff would be like us and hoped we didn't hand the tittle to the gooners, but he has to accept his part in this mess, if getting top 4 was in our hands it would not have been as easy to accept a loss last night, but it wasn't because he & the coaches hadn't taken other games serious (not planned tactics to counter teams)
 
Jenny Talia said:
Fickle fan base ... You were doing well until that. The fact that a club that has such a poor record on the pitch is still considered one of the big clubs is 100 per cent because of the fan base.
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Once the first goal went in the likelihood was the game was gone . No true Spurs supporter wanted Son to miss but he did.
Managers rarely get it when it comes supporters rivalry this wasn’t about love for Spurs it was about not wishing Woolwich well.
When you actually look at things in the cold light of day post the first dozen or so games it’s been a disappointing season . The form over the last 6 sees Spurs in 19th place with a record very close to that of Sheffield Utd in last and over the last 10 sees a return of just 10 points. Ok that’s not been the form over a season but if it was it would see a return of 38 points.
Injuries over a season haven’t been close to as bad as the likes of Utd, Chelsea or Newcastle so sorry can’t put that up as an excuse.
Harry moving on was always going to happen and possibly he has been missed but him going was known and with the wedge BM paid for him should have seen the team ,the squad , the club improve.
So what is the problem.
The start of the season was remarkable but just about everything changed following the home game against Chelsea . The managers tactics were laid bare . Some say it was brave but did we witness a manager without a plan b?
 
StripiestPilot said:
He’s obviously frustrated that the fan base is still obsessed with what Woolwich do even at the expense of our own ambitions. He wanted to win the game and many fans didn’t.

When you’re managing a club with a loser mentality that’s probably very irritating. The first step in fixing our lack of trophies is to actually want to win every single game.
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Players want to win every game, they don’t because they are not good enough. We could have Pep and his team at Spurs with no fans and win the league.
 
Jenny Talia said:
He has spent the whole season saying the club belongs to the fans, he is just passing through.

I think he should have gone and had a glass of red with Pep before talking to the media, calm down and put things in perspective a bit before going in front of a microphone.
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When you see the amount of interviews that these managers have to do after the game, it must be quite exhausting not to come out and absolutely shreds of somebody. I’m talking about all of them not just our manager it must be my numbingly boring to have to go through everything time and again with different people.
 
Brian Fantana said:
When you see the amount of interviews that these managers have to do after the game, it must be quite exhausting not to come out and absolutely shreds of somebody. I’m talking about all of them not just our manager it must be my numbingly boring to have to go through everything time and again with different people.
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Post match press conferences should be voluntary, I bet no coach would step up if they didn't have to. The winner says he's happy, the loser says he's unhappy ... no shit.
 
In all of this defeat and crazy circumstances the performance and general play was really good. A lot to build on for me if we have a big summer.
 
thinktank said:
I don't buy any of that.

And Ange needs to sort his attitude out.

Coming across as a huffy cunt.

When we upheld standards of winning - wanting us to defend set-pieces like adults - he told us to shut up, he's gonna do what he wants.

Now all of sudden we're not up to his elite standards of success?

Not having one bit of it.

Playing fans for pricks.
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Why the hell don’t you become manager? Idiotic comments.
 
Kid Chameleon said:
I think there are going to have to be adjustments on both sides if our relationship with Ange is going to work. Ange needs to understand that our hatred of Woolwich isn't going anywhere and that he if he isn't more open to Woolwich-related issues he will struggle to form a relationship with the Tottenham fanbase.

We need to realise that celebrating a 2-0 home defeat because it buggers up our rival's title chances isn't the way forward. It's not exactly Glory, Glory stuff. We have a proud history of playing some of the greatest football ever and Ange is a man with the potential to take us back to those glory days - when we were the ones winning the trophies - but, for that to happen, we need to think bigger.
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Oh for sure. Ange needs to adapt as well a bit. Both in tactics and how confrontative he can be. This season has been a learning experience for everyone.

And on some level I cannot fault a football coach for wanting to win games. Since that is how his career is going to be measured and valued at the end of the day.
 
Ed Vanderlay said:
100%

I went there wanting us to play well be entertained, not get smashed but ultimately lose . So Ange had a different agenda , called out a dickhead fan for shouting out throw the game . Whether he got the tone right in his press conference is no biggie for me , could he , should he have handled it better? Yes
Did we lose and Woolwich are screwed ?Yes

But the Ange upset me he has to go reaction is a bit pathetic in my opinion
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You must feel so proud this morning.
 
Not that it makes a jot of difference but I really don't understand what Postecoglou is bemoaning or maybe it talks to it's just another game reference he made when we played Woolwich a few weeks ago. It really is much more than that.

But how can that be if you dissect it. He managed Celtic, so he has a strong kmowledge of intense rivalry. He seemed all in on the keenness of the conpetotiom between us and that lot earlier this season.

Abd yet instead of saying he gets how the fans feel but professionalism has to be seen to be shinig through, he goes on the attack, when in this match, nobody would have criticised him or the players, once the match ended.

He needs a holiday.
 
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