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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Block252 said:
That’s the spirit. Start writing off next season before a new signing has even come through the door
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Son of Erik said:
Wow! Ange is so shit for wanting to win a football match and expecting supporters to do so as well! How dare he!

ANGE OUT!!!!!1

Any idiot who thinks Ange cared more about this league match than any other needs to remove their tin foil hat. Professionals want to win every game, every time.
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Then win the f’in game - win more than 1 of the last 6. For a professional that wants to win every game, he sure hasn’t done it much recently.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Nobody is upset with fans for wanting to lose.

I was fuming with fans cheering City goals and doing the Poznań or people in here celebrating a loss.

I’ve calmed down now and I probably owe some people an apology or 2. I shouldn’t have even watched the game and definitely didn’t need to come in here.

The fact that we didn’t help those cunts win the league is obviously wonderful and the media can fuck off. We all remember Leicester and lasagna gate. I was hoping we’d get food poisoning before the game tbh. Would have been Justice.
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Perfectly justified position.
 
So I’m told that some of the players were told some home truths by a group of staff and ex players a day before the game.

That fact made it back to Ange and he was furious. Hence the foul mood last night and the comments post match. He doesn’t give a fuck about rivalry whereas the ex players understand what the reaction would be if we hand it to Woolwich.
 
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Top_Spur said:
Yeah I thought the support for the team was pretty good, if anything the fans supported the club MORE. Someone posted on social media 'it was embarrassing Spurs fans singing 'oh when the Spurs..' when we were 2-0 down', errrr isn't that showing good support to the club despite losing.

I felt the fans were very much on side with supporting the club in more ways than one.
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We sang when 4-1 down (and down to 9 men) against Chelsea... and that was GREAT support
.. little did we know at the time that would be the catalyst to our mid season implosion... We thought we were doing the right thing at the time...

Last night SHOULDN'T have happened... The points should already have been on the board to make the outcome irrelevant... But they weren't, cos Ange oversaw the greatest capitulation of a Spurs team since the last greatest capitulation of a Spurs team
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The fact he couldn't address that slump, and got the hump, is on him!

We were TOP... after 10 games, that doesn't win you the league, but it's a great start to build some foundations on...

...and anyway, I thought he said the CL WASN'T the be all and end all of everything...

Long term mate, not short term fixes.

Woolwich winning the league damages us as so much as it pushes them WAY ahead of us in the pecking order...

We did our bit last night by LOSING.... because we couldn't do our bit by WINNING against them when it mattered, and we had the chance.... But capitulated by half time... Where was the fight THEN?

So don't tell me how to support my club!
. SPURS put SPURS FANS in this unenviable, compromising, conflicting position last night... No one wanted to be here. Yet here we were!
 
Incomplete_usernam said:
"It's meaningless to me, I don't see fourth as the prize," said the Spurs boss. "I don't want to finish fourth if we haven't grown as a team."

I mean...it's not far off let's be honest Spider and we certainly haven't grown as a team since he said that in March either.
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It’s such a pathetic thing to say anyway. Why not aim for 4 th regardless of where we are in terms of the project.its basically giving him a free pass. Only thing is we haven’t got 4th abd we haven’t grown as a team infact we have regressed.
 
Dudski said:
I wonder if there's something more going on than just his issue with fans not wanting to hand Woolrich the title? By saying 48 hours it points to that, but then he talked about the foundation and having to reassess what he needs to do about things. There's nothing he can do about the fans, we think what we think. It's not like he can go out in the transfer window and get better fans. This is a manager who has been around football for all his life. He knows how fans feel about rivals and, more importantly, how they feel about their team whether the trophy cases are full or not. Why would you not listen to what fans were saying about the game in that context and just shrug it off and move on? And why say what he did about the last 15 years? It comes off like someone picking a fight, but with who? Going back through his career, Postecoglou has reacted with some heat when challenged. But who challenged him? The foundation remark makes me think he's had some issue with either team management or some players. There has to me more to the story than just fans having mixed feelings about one game.
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Dw worry his going back to the drawing board, the one he never left too far from😀
 
Kleinfeld said:
So I’m told that some of the players were told some home truths by a group of staff and ex players a day before the game.

That fact made it back to Ange and he was furious. Hence the foul mood last night and the comments post match. He doesn’t give a fuck about rivalry whereas the ex players understand what the reaction would be if we hand it to Woolwich.
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As in, a few staff and ex players told some of the team ‘you need to see the bigger picture - lose’?
 
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harry7 said:
Ange had every right to call out the fans on this. It's pathetic that fans would rather lose just to spite a rival.

If you want to spite your rival - be better than them. That is the entire premise of sport. The best wins. Once you take that away, it is no longer a sport.

I think we played well and showed what we are capable of. We clearly lack a target man up front, and Johnson doesn't yet have the required quality to deliver the final ball.
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lol doesn’t have the required quality but to deliver the final ball! Why not? His a professional footballer nearly 23 and cost nearly £50M abd was the managers prime target. When can we expect this player to be able to deliver the final ball? When DHL arrive!
 
Brooklyn said:
The state of some of you.

Anyone who is #AngeOut is part of the problem.

Anyone who wasn't rooting for City today needs counseling.

And anyone who expected Ange and the players to say and do anything other than what they did--try 100% to win the game and express frustration at the loss--is not living in reality.

Today was a uniquely bizarre and uncomfortable day. That's why we are seeing and hearing these emotionally charged takes that are all over the place.

Just take a deep breath, root for City next week, and look forward to next year when we'll be in Europe and fighting for the PL title.
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All good but where do you the confidence to say we will be fighting for the title? The guy could hardly manage a game every two weeks!
 
The people dismissing the importance of us not taking points off City must live under a rock.

Even if you don't live in London and don't have links to any real life gooners, the media wank fest over the next few weeks would have been sickening. Images of open top bus parades and then a whole summer having to listen to what a special team they are. Followed by a whole season of them as defending champions. Technically this could still happen and that would be a whole year of pain to endure.

If WE had been the ones to hand it to them it would have been decades of pain. Someone mentioned it earlier but they would immortalise Son as their hero and sing songs about him had he stuck that in. It would have been horrible.

And what gets me most is that there is no chance in hell that Woolwich would have done the same if roles reversed. They would have rolled over and had their bellies tickled. We experienced this ourselves in the Leicester season but people are quick to forget!

If you wanted us to win that game, you're not actually Spurs sorry. You might think you are but you've outed yourself. A few on here have been exposed.
 
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