Narrative was there under Poch when we were probably the toughest to play agains.
We don't help ourselves as Spurs fans by going along with it.
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Narrative was there under Poch when we were probably the toughest to play agains.
We don't help ourselves as Spurs fans by going along with it.
Politically Correct Semantics. If you can't call Postecoglou a fat cunt on TFC, when he's ruined our season as badly as he has, the game's gone and we might as well all turn our devices off or pop over to Mumsnet and discuss the relative Tog ratings of duvets.
I think a lesser EPL team, with players with worse quality, would suit him even worse. If he goes to Leeds for example, been some vague rumours about that, I'm pretty sure they would become Southampton under Russell Martin 2.0 where they would constantly try, and constantly fail, to play out from the back despite their players not being capable of doing so effectively whatsoever.
There's an ant crawling across my kitchen floor (actual photo). I've named him Ant Postecoglou. Should I...
a. Tread on him now
b. Give him another season
c. Wait a few weeks and see if we end up with a trophy - then make a decision?
Take him outside , no need to kill it
Classic gas lighting from him.
Not going along with it - it’s there for a reason mate. We are the biggest underachieving club in England, that’s a fact.
Nothing will break it but success on the pitch which we never have.
Blaning fans in any way is a joke imo - look what we have been through like!
Get a spider, put it in the kitchen with Ant and hey presto you can get an early preview of Sundays game.
There's an ant crawling across my kitchen floor (actual photo). I've named him Ant Postecoglou. Should I...
a. Tread on him now
b. Give him another season
c. Wait a few weeks and see if we end up with a trophy - then make a decision?
A lot of what Ange has said is correct. The club are taken for a laughing stock all the time, regardless of finishing 4th or 16th. We’re constantly bantered about trophies, despite being one of the most successful in England. Pundits like Carragher constantly talk us down and other media companies just accept it.
He might have let us down this season in the league, but he does genuinely want the club to be successful and want the media to stop the narrative they have.
Ange the manager and Ange the man are two separate things, and the man speaks a lot of sense about the state of the game, the club and the future.
He might have let us down this season in the league, but he does genuinely want the club to be successful and want the media to stop the narrative they have.
Ange the manager and Ange the man are two separate things, and the man speaks a lot of sense about the state of the game, the club and the future.
One of the many downsides of forum tittle tattle, where people too easily forget decency.
I'd never kill him really. I love ants.Take him outside , no need to kill it
Nota
No need for such language though Notabadsquad, you should follow Hotspurpaul’s example.
Yep he can hear the death knell tolling and he’s in full preservation mode!
I’m sick of seeing this guy’s mug and hearing his waffle!
Still acting like a bloody martyr about that game
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He's such a cunt
I think this is quite accurate.
In that respect, it's a real shame Postecoglou has not been able to solve the riddle.
Ange is not wrong that there is a narrative around Tottenham but unfortunately we’ve earned it through years of soft teams that can’t handle pressure. It’s justified.
Ange might be earnestly trying to change that but he has failed completely. There has never been a Tottenham team that is easier to beat than his.
Ange might be earnestly trying to change that but he has failed completely. There has never been a Tottenham team that is easier to beat than his.
That comes from him allowing the players to play without fear of making mistakes, to build their confidence, playing with postivity. If the players then take that to mean they can fuck about without consequences then that 's on them.
I wish Poch anybody else- bar the likes of Guardiola or Ancelotti good luck in "toughening" this lot up.
One of Ange many downfalls was his obsession with wingers imo. Widened pattern of team and left us too open.
I disagree - it began to shift a little - but we certainly didn’t help ourselves by losing all of our SFs. I definitely recall time when we were viewed as challengers to the big teams on a consistent basis - but our equally consistent efforts to slip up when the moment came made the comfortable Dr Tottenham reappear.
Having said that, the fiasco of this last year has set the hard work that’s happened over the past ten years or so back quite a way IMO. Whoever comes in after Ange will have to work extra hard and hit the ground running.
It wasn’t so long ago that we were Citeh’s bogey team; it wasn’t so long ago when we were used to giving Liverpool a very good challenge / going over at WHL; we consistently beat Utd even when they weren’t quite the shitshow they are now. I think we’re in danger of forgetting that the past two years are in contrast to our achievements since Redknapp at least. Yes, Levy is a part of the issue; but we’ve created our own narrative.
At least we were in the conversation before - now, thanks to Ange IMO, we’re expected to be beaten week-in, week-out.
What a weird concept.