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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Yesterday was the fans fault now. It's the fans who made Ange line up like that and made the players forget how to pass a ball. It's the fans you see, if it wasn't for the fans Ange would have played his way and we'd have seen a beautiful display.

Fucking fans. Paying their money and taking hours out of their day to travel to the stadium. It's their fault.
Fanbase is the worst I've seen for a while. Perfect storm of things

- Expectations vs reality: being involved in title races and cup finals within memory for vast majority
- Not winning anything for 16+ years
- In a permanent 'rebuild'
- Time and expense of following Spurs, one of the priciest clubs to support
- Ange is a frustrating figure - "it's who we are", "I don't want to be falsely rewarded for subs", and so on

Adds up to tempers fraying and the lack of patience.
 
Fanbase is the worst I've seen for a while. Perfect storm of things

- Expectations vs reality: being involved in title races and cup finals within memory for vast majority
- Not winning anything for 16+ years
- In a permanent 'rebuild'
- Time and expense of following Spurs, one of the priciest clubs to support
- Ange is a frustrating figure - "it's who we are", "I don't want to be falsely rewarded for subs", and so on

Adds up to tempers fraying and the lack of patience.
The irony being that the one with the most patience isn’t usually renowned for it. The fuck is Levy thinking or playing at.
 
Just looking at the 2024 calendar year and we have 16 PL losses.

Only Brentford (17) and Wolves (21) have more this year. Obviously the relegated / promoted teams don't get a full PL year so ruling them out of the list in terms of like-for-like.

Utterly unacceptable.
 
Can you believe Ange is now saying “I just feel that at some point we'll get a relatively healthy squad and when we do that we'll be able to perform at a high level consistently”

Hahaha. He's shameless. We have never once been at a high level consistently with him, and he is waffling to the fans and journalists saying just bear with me, once we get Romero VDV and Vic back, we will win games consistently.

Absolute bollocks. I can't seriously believe anyone is still buying the shit this guy is serving. He's a bullshit merchant. He just blags it constantly every week. Absolute fraud.
 
Can you believe Ange is now saying “I just feel that at some point we'll get a relatively healthy squad and when we do that we'll be able to perform at a high level consistently”

Hahaha. He's shameless. We have never once been at a high level consistently with him, and he is waffling to the fans and journalists saying just bear with me, once we get Romero VDV and Vic back, we will win games consistently.

Absolute bollocks. I can't seriously believe anyone is still buying the shit this guy is serving. He's a bullshit merchant. He just blags it constantly every week. Absolute fraud.
Of the 15 odd league games we’ve lost in 2024 around 8/9 of them featured Vic, Micky and Romero. It’s not like they are the magic ticket.
 
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Seems nothing will happen today. Ali Gold released his talking points piece as usual, including club plans for helping Ange. Wow, just wow...
 
Just looking at the 2024 calendar year and we have 16 PL losses.

Only Brentford (17) and Wolves (21) have more this year. Obviously the relegated / promoted teams don't get a full PL year so ruling them out of the list in terms of like-for-like.

Utterly unacceptable.
The 16 PL losses is a staggering stat. I think Ange's problem is there is no plan B so if we are missing our best players then we just look totally exposed playing this attacking football and leaving ordinary defenders 1v1 and exposed. We get away with it when Vicario, Romero and VDV are on the pitch but the drop off is insane without them. Archie Gray has been fantastic I must say and I wouldn't even call him a drop off he's been that good. But the Forster/Vicario swing and lack of VDV's pace really is a massive drop off.
 
The 16 PL losses is a staggering stat. I think Ange's problem is there is no plan B so if we are missing our best players then we just look totally exposed playing this attacking football and leaving ordinary defenders 1v1 and exposed. We get away with it when Vicario, Romero and VDV are on the pitch but the drop off is insane without them. Archie Gray has been fantastic I must say and I wouldn't even call him a drop off he's been that good. But the Forster/Vicario swing and lack of VDV's pace really is a massive drop off.
We’ve lost at least half these games with those main three playing.
 
Can you believe Ange is now saying “I just feel that at some point we'll get a relatively healthy squad and when we do that we'll be able to perform at a high level consistently”

Hahaha. He's shameless. We have never once been at a high level consistently with him, and he is waffling to the fans and journalists saying just bear with me, once we get Romero VDV and Vic back, we will win games consistently.

Absolute bollocks. I can't seriously believe anyone is still buying the shit this guy is serving. He's a bullshit merchant. He just blags it constantly every week. Absolute fraud.
It’s a last ditch effort by sweet Angelos

Him/ his team injure players. It’s “who they are”. Mate

There will never be a fully or nearly fully fit squad under dear Angelos
 
We didn’t have a squad that was equipped to handle the rigours of a Premier League campaign, particularly when you’re trying to challenge and sustain some sort of level of intensity and competitiveness in the toughest league in the world,” Postecoglou told The Athletic earlier this month. “It wasn’t surprising. Some of that is just because it was my first year and we had a lot of injuries, which I think was just the remnants of us training the way we train and the way we do things. You’d like to think this year we are a lot better equipped to handle that side of it.

May 2024-ish.

Get this bluffer out to fuck.
 
We didn’t have a squad that was equipped to handle the rigours of a Premier League campaign, particularly when you’re trying to challenge and sustain some sort of level of intensity and competitiveness in the toughest league in the world,” Postecoglou told The Athletic earlier this month. “It wasn’t surprising. Some of that is just because it was my first year and we had a lot of injuries, which I think was just the remnants of us training the way we train and the way we do things. You’d like to think this year we are a lot better equipped to handle that side of it.

May 2024-ish.

Get this bluffer out to fuck.
And the plan to sustain almost 50% more games was Solanke and some kids, whilst losing experienced players. Whilst doubling down on working them harder?
 
We’ve lost at least half these games with those main three playing.
True but he has absolutely no chance of turning it around until he gets them players back. So its either sack him now and bring in a new manager to takeover Forster and no fit centre backs (Drag played injured yesterday), or wait it out until some of them are back and see if Ange can turn it around and atleast if we are bringing in a new manager he will be taking over a team that actually has a fit defence and is ready to win some games!
 
We didn’t have a squad that was equipped to handle the rigours of a Premier League campaign, particularly when you’re trying to challenge and sustain some sort of level of intensity and competitiveness in the toughest league in the world,” Postecoglou told The Athletic earlier this month. “It wasn’t surprising. Some of that is just because it was my first year and we had a lot of injuries, which I think was just the remnants of us training the way we train and the way we do things. You’d like to think this year we are a lot better equipped to handle that side of it.

May 2024-ish.

Get this bluffer out to fuck.
He’s a fat fluffer. Get out now
 
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