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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
Don Pedro said:
Bournemouth are going to low block and counter us at the weekend and they'll pick us apart. It's become way to predictable.

We will have all the ball but a front 3 of Son, Tel and Brennan who just stand still and offer no threat. Bournemouth will wait for our 2 full backs to get way too high up the pitch. Then bang they'll press us, turn us over and quickly have a 3v3 or 3v2 with oceans of space! Rinse repeat. Ange can't see it. Our football style is all risk and no reward! He's been found out and needs to just be sacked
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Well positivity is not for everyone brother.

When you step out of the darkness and into the warmth of Ange’s bosom we will welcome you back into the light of our thread of hope!!

Stay strong!! These times are sent to test us.
Core Belief 1 in The Way of Ange teaches us that.

Unyielding Conviction:
Much like Postecoglou’s undeterred belief in his football strategies, the Way of Ange emphasizes unwavering faith in one’s personal beliefs, even amidst challenges
 
As a fanbase I feel like we are letting the players off way too lightly. I accept that Ange has to take a large portion of blame but these players are taking the piss. You cannot convince me that the players put a proper shift in yesterday. As professionals they need to be held accountable too...
 
nicoclaesen said:
The crazy thing is he does seem to have the board’s support but if we don’t get through next week then that might just be the tipping point. Our whole season could be finished by the 13th March. That’s unacceptable
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Not disagreeing nico I just think he knows what the scenario would be if he pulled the trigger.We won't go down so nothing to be gained rather than actually backing him. Just my take no-one knows what goes on in Levyworld
 
I think if we go out to AZ then its 50/50 he makes it until the end of the season imo. He has no support base left, it will be a mixture of toxicity or complete indifference, i'd imagine season ticket sales will be pretty horrific. Any break or reduced pay out clauses in his contract would have been met. Its just if they can stomach appointing Mason for the 3rd time.
 
I've been behind Ange up to now but I've been turned by our latest games and in particular last nights debacle. The things that kept me pro Ange were the way we played football at the start of last season as I believed if we could replicate with fit again players we could beat anyone, and secondly I just couldn't see for the life of me who I would want as a replacement? It's not like Pep or Ancelotti or Enrique are available. Some were talking about Iraola because they are doing OK at the moment but really is he that good or has he lucked in on a good group of players? Look at United bringing in Amorim. He was meant to be a genius who would turn them around. No my friends there is no easy solution and sooner or later the board are going to have to stick with one manager through good and bad times.
 
Top_Spur said:
Being 3-0 down against Everton at half time and losing at home to Leicester was truly the point it turned for me, we get glimpses of some good football but you cannot be losing to sides like that.

Last night was very very poor, the players looked like they didn't have a clue what they were supposed to be doing and that's after 8 days on a training pitch with players back!!
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It's not good is it . I think the fact that we had 8 days to prepare for this game speaks volumes about the training and the management . We can't keep on losing key games even if it's half way through a tie . There was No desire and No commitment from the players . We have absolutely no chance of winning this competition even if we win the return leg it won't address the shortcomings of the players . The only players that came out with any credit last night was Vicario , Gray , Bergvall and Spence . The rest were just sleepwalking through the game . This football reminds me of the time we got relegated . Something's got to happen to stop the rot that's growing in the squad and the club . It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of supporters didn't renew their season ticket , I'm seriously thinking of not renewing mine .
 
WillWilliams said:
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Unaseptabal!!!


View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ZC6rUUDXeyo
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For sometime now I have wanted the word "unasetable" in the dictionary. It's like unacceptable, but worse.

Herclueless said:
I'd be more inclined to hope that Ange nuts an official this weekend and gets himself a ban...

Surely we'd sack him then, right???
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People would still back him. He could headbutt a child and people would blame the child.

_mehstg said:
As a fanbase I feel like we are letting the players off way too lightly. I accept that Ange has to take a large portion of blame but these players are taking the piss. You cannot convince me that the players put a proper shift in yesterday. As professionals they need to be held accountable too...
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To some degree, yes. But from my perspective, it's more for the fact they still seem to back him than their actual performances. They look hopelessly unprepared for matches most week. We often win just due to the having better players with the ability to put a chance away compared to the opposition. There isn't usually a plan or patters. Players all look void of ideas or muscle memory type actions.
All reeks of poor training and lack of actual planning for games. "it's just who we are mate" isn't how you challenge. Fastidious work, research, preparation, diet, training, tactics, fitness regimes, squad rotation, player development all of that is what makes a team elite. And we lack all of it by the looks of things.
 
Michaelspurs said:
I've been behind Ange up to now but I've been turned by our latest games and in particular last nights debacle. The things that kept me pro Ange were the way we played football at the start of last season as I believed if we could replicate with fit again players we could beat anyone, and secondly I just couldn't see for the life of me who I would want as a replacement? It's not like Pep or Ancelotti or Enrique are available. Some were talking about Iraola because they are doing OK at the moment but really is he that good or has he lucked in on a good group of players? Look at United bringing in Amorim. He was meant to be a genius who would turn them around. No my friends there is no easy solution and sooner or later the board are going to have to stick with one manager through good and bad times.
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I would love for him to succeed. But his pricky demeanor/arrogance off-field and stubborness/lack of ideas on-field just tell me he has really nothing to show he deserves to be stuck through times. He had long enough time. He gotta go.
 
Michaelspurs said:
secondly I just couldn't see for the life of me who I would want as a replacement?
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Now that Saints have sacked their dud, we've got the worst manager in the PL. So finding someone better should be easy. Even Levy might manage it this time.

I put a list together months ago of 7 managers all with good PL exp. And I don't bother following Euro footie so heaven knows how many Hurzelers or Glasners are waiting to come over for the PL riches and exposure
 
It's just simple for me. It falls to the manager. The manager is Postecoglou. He has been at the club for coming up to 21 months.

It may take 6 months, possibly 9 to instill a style of play and mentality. Not more.

Losing to Liverpool with a squad that was on its knees was always going to happen. Playing Villa 3 days later was clearly going to be an ask too far.

But the start of this season, 8 day's of rest, with platitudes about great chance and important to do well in the Europa, and against an average Dutch side, and that garbage of last night.

Nothing about this team, under this manager fills me with an ounce of confidence and yesterday, I was once again proved right.

The only test in every walk of life is being consistently good

Ww are currentky horrendous, abd that's on the manager more than anyone else.
 
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Richard Arlison said:
I'm pretty uncomfortable now with him defending the players, even when they go on mid-season snowboarding trips like Bissouma. Feels like the players have clocked that they still have the power and can take liberties with him because their performances have been so bad that he's toast if the club get half a sniff they have the excuse that he's lost them.

They clearly aren't going to step up for him now.
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He is what is called in business-speak an "affiliative leader" . In fact he's a pretty textbook one. And under such leaders things classically start well but quickly deteriorate and never recover.
 
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