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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
sudoku said:
I disagree with every line in your post.
Ange's philisophy is that we will pass the ball forward at all times and aim to score more than our opponents.
You can't tinker with that. You either do it or you don't.
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Football cannot be simplified to such basic principles.

A truly exceptional manager is someone who makes a team more than the sum of their parts. He does not try and repeatedly force square pegs into round holes. He tinkers with his setup, adjusting the position of those holes, to maximise what he has at his disposal. Overtime, if he is lucky, he gets the type of players that can accommodate his more natural approach.

You can be a perfectly attacking, aggressive team without repeatedly making the same mistakes. To require, for example, Dragusin and Ben Davies to play the ball out from the back is silly. They are not good enough to do it. You have someone drop back and help them. You support the individuals in the team and give them confidence, rather than hanging them out to dry.
 
Cranston said:
Football cannot be simplified to such basic principles.

A truly exceptional manager is someone who makes a team more than the sum of their parts. He does not try and repeatedly force square pegs into round holes. He tinkers with his setup, adjusting the position of those holes, to maximise what he has at his disposal. Overtime, if he is lucky, he gets the type of players that can accommodate his more natural approach.

You can be a perfectly attacking, aggressive team without repeatedly making the same mistakes. To require, for example, Dragusin and Ben Davies to play the ball out from the back is silly. They are not good enough to do it. You have someone drop back and help them. You support the individuals in the team and give them confidence, rather than hanging them out to dry.
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Perfectly logical but incorrect.
Compromise=failure.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I don't know mate, you'd have to ask him. Maybe he feels the fans deserve the respect of having someone to take a pop at?

He was saying that he's not the type to just sneak off down the tunnel after a pile of steaming shit like that. I can respect that, even if it probably wasn't smart.
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He didn’t have to sneak off down the tunnel mate, he could have clapped from the halfway line and it would have sufficed.

There is only one reason he went over to those fans and that’s because his ego was hurting and his insecurity around his ability as a manager at this level is getting to him.

This is why he can’t be trusted to take us forward by the way among the many other reasons, he doesn’t even believe what he is telling us so how can we believe it?
 
Maureen said:
Mason should have gone years ago. But why would he when he is on a cushy number here? No pressure or responsibility. Just sits on the bench. I’d love to know what the players think of him and what football insight he offers. Does he even have his badges yet? Anyways if he had any ambition he would have gone to take a proper coaching role or number 2 / assistant role somewhere. Bet his never had any offers.
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Way OTT mate

Get a grip!
 
Richard Arlison said:
Is it?

Almost zero elite coaches change their philosophy and principles. And Almost zero elite coaches give a fuck if anyone likes their philosophy if they aren't coaching them.
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Yup it what makes them who they are

I also think many confuse tactics with philosophy.

Anyone who watched the city game must have seen different tactics?

Ange has used both a double and single pivot in game this season too... full backs have been much less inverted numerous times this season.
 
Dark Shadow said:
I have long passed the poster who put up the article about him but it is not the first time he has alienated fans.
Fans who had travelled a fair distance in shitty weather for a fucking 8.15 ko.
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Those fans deserve all the plaudits as they sang their hearts out all game so they had every right to have a go at the final whistle but having said that they can do better than to call him a fat cunt!
 
Os22 said:
He’s got a large following who “believe he’s the best manager Spurs have had”?

….really?

He has a following that rate him after one and a half seasons, as being better than all the other managers we’ve had? Or did you mistype?
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I do think there's a considerable number of people (not on this board) who still are very much taken with his personality and the style of play. Go back to the first ten games of last season and people were already talking about him in terms of already being one of the league's top managers. I still think he is very popular and has the backing of most Spurs fans. I'm not sold on him, but I'm also not anxious to see a decision made about him until after this season at the earliest. Maybe now that he's acknowledged this is a full rebuild people will look at him and the project more realistically and things will calm down a bit.
 
I’ve had mixed feelings about the guy this season. When we are fully fit and it clicks we know what we are capable of. The problem is 2 seasons in a row under him we have had multiple injury issues. Tons of hamstrings too. That tells us it could be down to his training/ playing style.

Regardless, any manager would have an issue coping with the injuries. It’s his inability to adapt the playing style to the squad options we do have and also the inability to see out games we have been up in. He doesn’t seem all that interested in adapting in any case.I do understand what he’s trying to do but having a more realistic approach when playing squad players needs to be there.

Would anyone else be able to do better? Still think this comes down from the top. Overall the squad just isn’t good enough unfortunately.
 
im actually worried he might not even be sacked if we lose tomorrow, any actual ambitious big club he would of been gone already, but if he wasnt, tomorrow would be judgement day after the last few months....but im worried we are such a feeble, pathetic club that he could even survive tomorrow. maybe it will actually take us dropping into 13/14th for levy to wake up.


the only positive is the hardcore that go home and away have turnt, not sure ive seen any manager get that abuse from his own fans. that was a pretty serious display of what the most devoted fans think of him.

as poor as united and newcastle have been they will overtake us in the next 4-5 games if he isnt sacked, by then 5th will be out of reach.
 
Incomplete_usernam said:
He didn’t have to sneak off down the tunnel mate, he could have clapped from the halfway line and it would have sufficed.

There is only one reason he went over to those fans and that’s because his ego was hurting and his insecurity around his ability as a manager at this level is getting to him.

This is why he can’t be trusted to take us forward by the way among the many other reasons, he doesn’t even believe what he is telling us so how can we believe it?
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Why would his hurt ego make him go over there? How would it help his ego to go and get called a fat cunt,
 
sudoku said:
So Newcastle were smashed by Brentford today after they beat Chelsea and the Goons and drew with Liverpool in their last game.
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So? Why is this in the fucking Ange thread? You do this. Point out OTHER teams that are doing shit and indirectly imply that it somehow makes things better that we are also a bit shit.

*Lose another game* ooo but we're only 3 points behind an in crisis City! *lose another* oooo yeah but aren't Newcastle also a bit rubbish?

Bugger off.
 
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