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Management Ange Postecoglou

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I see we’re back to the point on the cycle where Anges football is described as attacking, and anything that isn’t Anges moron-ball is described as “pragmatic and boring”.

I swear some people must get through a lot of cars, always getting in and stamping on the pedal until they crash into a wall opposite as being in park feels pragmatic.
 
His tactic (One) is to play the entire 90 minutes like you're chasing a goal in the last 5

its absolute madness which is why no one else does it
 
Richard Arlison said:
You haven’t answered the question though mate
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The overlap wasn't really on, nor was the underlap.

Of course I want our fullbacks to get forward.

Forest were sitting there with two banks of 4.....and we started doing all this running around in front of them creating absolute chaos.......for ourselves.

One pass later they scored.

His system is shit as a whole. even our press.. while it's full throttle because we have some excellent athletes, Solanke,Sarr Kulu etc....i don't even know what triggers us to do it.

It's just like "opposition got the ball go and get it, run".
It's all without structure. We leave gaps everywhere.

I was backing Ange last season but now I see it clearly and Galatasaray game done it for me. He set them up to get slaughtered and proved he had no idea what to do at at this level.
 
Richard Arlison said:
You think that but the volume of quotes and interviews he's done and been asked for is way beyond the level of our performance since he's been here.

Either the club have been pushing him hard or the media have been asking for him more than most managers.
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Bcos he came in last season like some sort attacking messiah who was going to revolutionise the EPL. Made some good sound bites bcos his Aussie and said mate a lot. The media lapped it up as they always do knowing there will be a downfall at some point and they be ready to pounce.
 
Murphy said:
That’s bit much.

Ange needs to go and is woefully out of his depth. But he reportedly wanted Eze, Gallagher and Neto and got Odobert, Archie Gray and Werner on loan.

Levy has not properly backed the manager, like he hasn’t properly backed any manager ever. When it comes down to it, he penny pinches in the wrong moment.
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Come on let’s get this right. Gallagher was not going to come to spurs. We paid £65M for dom so I’m sure we could have done something for either eze or Neto.
 
Stag said:
His tactic (One) is to play the entire 90 minutes like you're chasing a goal in the last 5

its absolute madness which is why no one else does it
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I think he thinks he can get the game won by half time.
But as we saw against Brighton and utd in the cup, having a 2 or 3-0 lead means nothing when the team caves in under pressure.
Lucky for us against utd the team finally won it, but the set up.is all style and no substance.
 
If he doesn't win today that might be that... it really should be the end and if it isn't I'll be completely lost as to what is going on. You can blame injuries all you want but I guarantee our starting XI today would have cost more than Wolves and the weekly wages would probably be double that of Wolves. Ange is a dead man walking but the real culprits are those who hired him, didn't sack him in the summer and didn't sack him after the Ipswich game. They are culpable of negligence but no doubt Levy, Cullen, Munn and Lang will take 25m out if the club in bonuses this year.
 
_mehstg said:
If he doesn't win today that might be that... it really should be the end and if it isn't I'll be completely lost as to what is going on. You can blame injuries all you want but I guarantee our starting XI today would have cost more than Wolves and the weekly wages would probably be double that of Wolves. Ange is a dead man walking but the real culprits are those who hired him, didn't sack him in the summer and didn't sack him after the Ipswich game. They are culpable of negligence but no doubt Levy, Cullen, Munn and Lang will take 25m out if the club in bonuses this year.
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Why would they sack him in the Summer FFS lol
 
_mehstg said:
Because we were dreadful. We lost 5 of our last 7 and beat two teams who were relegated. There was enough evidence to bin him.
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Mate come on be serious, we finished 5th - if you're gonna sack every manager after a bad run especially losses in notoriously tough matches against our rivals then you might as well collapse the club.

Get a grip man, honestly.
 
Furball man said:
If , probably when he goes I hope to fuck that the back room staff get shot too . We have a terrible coaching staff full of failures & nepotism , probably all done on the cheap

That’s how serious the board take the footballing side of the operation
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I'd keep Wells because he is at least experienced for an assistant. But the rest can go. Ryan needs to go to build his own experience at this point.
 
Why get rid of Ange asap?
Because imo there is every chance that our young squad will end up with long-term injuries, shell-shocked and lacking confidence if this fool continues to have them play his approach/system.

Someone should point this out to Levy. "Hey Dan, You know the 10's of millions you paid out for the likes of Gray, Bergvall, Sarr, Udogie, Odobert, VDV etc. Well they ain't worth half of what you paid for them now after allowing that bloody idiot to run them into the ground and destroy their confidence with lose after lose"! DL would get rid like a shot!
 
People are saying Ange won’t be pragmatic and manage games out.
But last year we had the Viking come off the bench and help us see out matches very successfully so I wonder is it because ange doesn’t want to do it or we don’t have the players?
Once again more questions than answers.
( my own hot take is that we should have kept holjberg)
 
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