And its not that Biss was running to the ground in terms of played minutes. He played like 50% of available minutes in Premier League. Didnt play 90 minutes in the league since Liverpool battered us...
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Management Ange Postecoglou
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If your going on Sunday then bring your boots - let your boss know on the Friday that you will be unfit for work on the Monday
How about St. Jude? He's the Patron Saint of Hope and impossible causes.I'm sure Conte can recommend a good saint to pray to
Rich will be along presently to do exactly this. But of course it's the coaching, it's the lack of game management, it's the fucking dopey mad dash to get the ball back in play without being set, its the zero game management, . It's HIS ENTIRE TACTICAL ETHOS been saying it for a year with the same dopey wankers saying " But Liverpool press!"
#wedontstop
#Fucking muppet
Spence wasn’t banished for half a season. At least attempt to deal in facts. Spence was given a chance to earn a spot in the squad after years of not clicking with several managers in several clubs. He was the first defensive sub Ange made in the season, he also came off the bench against Coventry. Then he got injured. I’d say there was 1 maybe 2 games after that injury where I was thinking he probably could’ve got a chance. I think Ange was asked in one press conference then a game later he was playing.Ah, I get it.
You are a strong man.
Just that your legs, hands, neck and core are weak, right
You literally try to use ONE game example when Spence was banished from playing at all for HALF A SEASON where Porro and Udogie were overworked? You cannot expect anyone to take you seriously, can you?
I do agree, some issues are outside of Ange control. Regarding Vicario and also abscentees of Bentancur had nothing to do with him. Also no issue with Richie - he was injury prone before and it was good he was not thrown in to start vs Everton, could have ended badly there.
Though I generally think that he was hired to achieve best possible results. I do not think that blind and oxygen-deprived running was a KPI in his contract. Neither was starting play as soon as possible in every situation. One has to be smart about these things. Ange game management is anything but smart.
Your last paragraph is waffle mate. You are just refusing to acknowledge that the club knew how he played football when they hired him and brought him to the club to do that. You really think Ange as stubborn as he is was ever in an interview saying that his philosophy was going to change?
Also Liverpool and other teams that press normally use triggers to press and target players. We quite often have 1 player press with no support. Our press even at its best has no coaching.
I wouldn’t. That squad is a mess and his mess to fix. Amorim would have had half a chance with a summer to fix things. He’s swimming against the tide trying to fix it now.
It's the pitch.
It's the common denominator.
Just because the injuries don't always occur while they are playing on the WHL pitch; it doesn't mean that it can't be the pitch.
Spurs players are disproportionately injured and they play on that pitch 25 - 30 times a season.
An audit needs to be carried out using data from other teams players who have picked up injuries while playing on it too.
When Spurs played Wolves at home the Wolves players were dropping like flies and there was no agenda to time waste.
It was pissing down that day and I reckon it has something to do with that too.
I know we've been speaking about it for ages, but it does really seem like we are in do or die territory now.
I genuinely think he needs to win the next 3 games and convincingly.
If we lose on Thursday and drop points on Sunday, he has to be finished. Levy might want the injuries to clear up, but as we are seeing, the list is getting longer so that isn't a sound strategy.
It really just feels like we need a reset even just to banish all the injury curse that Ange has over our squad.
View: https://x.com/TheSpursExpress/status/1881737908131893731
I think Levy will pull the trigger after Liverpool.
Exactly
And it’s no different to the way Conte was set up to fail with Royal as his Senior RWB and Lenglet as his star CB signing
No, mostly just money - even with all the money and the best players in the entire league we picked up more points from those same fixtures.
Ange Postecoglou: Is Tottenham manager's style causing Spurs injury crisis?
Sports scientist Anton McElhone has worked closely with Ange Postecoglou at Celtic and speaks to BBC Sport about his methods.
www.bbc.co.uk
Worth a read. Someone with the qualifications to know said this:
“BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club spoke to sports scientist Anton McElhone, who worked for Postecoglou at Celtic and for Tottenham under Mauricio Pochettino.
"Ange is very clear 'This is how I do it at each club.'
"The players will adapt to it over the months. It was a collaboration. He wanted us delivering the philosophy of 'football first' - everything must start and end with the ball.
"Ange is very good at giving players time off, time to reflect. The training volume is good. “
Mauricio Pochettino brought in front-foot football at Spurs. But to get that style, it probably took six to 12 months. The intensity was through the roof.
"It's survival of the fittest for players. You need to be young, you need to be healthy, you need to have a certain physicality about you, and a mentality to get through that.
"To get that in the Premier League, you do have to train quite extensively for it. But you need the right tools, by that I mean the right players. They need to be robust enough, and I don't know at the moment at Tottenham…
Ange is his own man, he's an exceptional leader and very strong and understanding, and has a good background in sports science and education from Australia."
At Celtic after six months Postecoglou could rotate the front five at 65 or 65 minutes to keep the freshness for the 60-game season," reflected McElhone.
"At Tottenham he's probably found that a lot more difficult because I don't think the strength in depth is the same as other Premier League clubs like Manchester City and Chelsea.
"Look at the evolution at Celtic under Postecoglou, we had a three-month period of sustaining injuries every week, mostly hamstring injuries. We had to get to the winter break to reset."
"As the players adapted to the demands of the system, the game fluctuation changed rather than that constant 'basketball' up and down the pitch, the team was able to control one half of the pitch more.
When absolutely everything is gone wrong, there’s no reason to stay the course. You can’t dig your way out of a hole. Going deeper into this “project” with Ange will just waste more time.
First the argument was that injuries had very little, if anything, to do with him. Now the argument seems to be that having half of the squad out is what high intensity play entails, and club should somehow have been prepared for this. At this rate any additional injury will be celebrated as another badge of honour for Ange and his approach soon.
People who were so convinced that players were running through walls for him less than two weeks ago now gladly acknowledge those "leaks" about him losing the dressing room, implying that he's the victim of entitled players who downed tools once again.
He was supposed to be that low maintenance floor raiser manager who would make us punch above our weight, now it turns out he is a chequebook manager who "needs to be backed" so that he can avoid a bottom half finish.
He can't lose can he?
People who were so convinced that players were running through walls for him less than two weeks ago now gladly acknowledge those "leaks" about him losing the dressing room, implying that he's the victim of entitled players who downed tools once again.
He was supposed to be that low maintenance floor raiser manager who would make us punch above our weight, now it turns out he is a chequebook manager who "needs to be backed" so that he can avoid a bottom half finish.
He can't lose can he?
The fallacy of sunk cost in a nutshell