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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Not sure if this is a recent interview but he clearly doesn't know the sentiment of the fans of how to deal with them in high level competition.
He should understand that no Spurs fans want Woolwich to win the EPL title even if that meant Spurs losing a game where they - unless, of course, Spurs were challenging for something.
His native tactics themselves is like asking Spurs to lose.

He does understand. He managed one of the old firm. Hes just trying to get across that hes such a winner. Its come back to bite him big time
 
We won 3-0 with 80% posession. It was a couple of days after having beaten Liverpool, and a couple of days before we were set to play Woolwich.

I'm not sure how Spurs got "shown up"

Did you watch the game?!

They could have easily beaten us before we had to introduce the big guns to defeat them!

Shown up is being kind, it was cringeworthy levels of embarrassment!
 
So out of his depth that he managed to finish 5th in the Premier League and made it to 2 semi finals?

Something most other coaches would only dream of.

Fact of the matter is, we binned off the league in December. The squad was bare bones and we had to pick our battles. Go for in in the cups (less fixtures, more breaks), or try and scrape 6th place (more fixtures, play every week).

Give the man a proper squad, we will challenge for the title in his 4th season.
Yes we would challenge for the title in his 4th season. The championship or league 1.
 
I honestly believe there are some people who want us to lose this semi so its another stick to beat Ange with.

I’m part of a Spurs supporters group and I don’t lie when one of guys in it would rather finish 7th and qualify for Europe than win the Europa and finish bottom half. Amazes me.
 
Where's that P45?

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I honestly believe there are some people who want us to lose this semi so its another stick to beat Ange with.

I’m part of a Spurs supporters group and I don’t lie when one of guys in it would rather finish 7th and qualify for Europe than win the Europa and finish bottom half. Amazes me.

I think the concern for all fans is that Levy might just he stupid and cowardly enough to stick with Ange if he wins this trophy. We all want that reassurance that he won’t be here next season.

The atmosphere at home matches is absolutely dead and nobody is bothered about facing us anymore. He has turned us into a pathetic side. Winning the EL won’t make me want another season of games like Leicester and Ipswich at home.
 
I think the concern for all fans is that Levy might just he stupid and cowardly enough to stick with Ange if he wins this trophy. We all want that reassurance that he won’t be here next season.

The atmosphere at home matches is absolutely dead and nobody is bothered about facing us anymore. He has turned us into a pathetic side. Winning the EL won’t make me want another season of games like Leicester and Ipswich at home.
Oh I agree, regardless if he wins the Europa Ange has to go in the summer, and he think the club and he knows that.

But I don’t want us to lose just to confirm he leaves.
 
He came. He saw. He then carried off the loot.

The man has a gift I'll give him that!
for someone who talks the moral high ground not sure if that is something to be proud of?

The owners of THFC didn't come down in the last shower. Whatever their business has been they will be watching and listening I would expect.

Personally have no idea of course.
 
He does understand. He managed one of the old firm. Hes just trying to get across that hes such a winner. Its come back to bite him big time
I don't think that he really gets it.

Celtic are by far the dominant party in the old firm. They punch down at Rangers (and the entire league) every time that they face off. So his "I want to win every game" thing does very rarely need to change.

The same cannot be said about us and the goons.
 
Tbh that is how his football works. It really relies on a few players providing those moments as he doesn’t coach the team to play attack as a team or defend. It’s like defence his whole ‘system’ breaks down I’d VDV is not playing because he hasn’t coached any defensive disciplin.
yep, and its virtually impossible when the players dont have the will to play for him, which is why we are 16th. just hoping they wanna win this comp and forget the fat clown.
 
I don't think that he really gets it.

Celtic are by far the dominant party in the old firm. They punch down at Rangers (and the entire league) every time that they face off. So his "I want to win every game" thing does very rarely need to change.

The same cannot be said about us and the goons.
I think Ange does understand what he wants his teams to do. He's just not been able to get this team to do it as often as he thought he could and the injuries have devastated any chance of consistency.

Playing to win every game is actually an admirable quality.

There is more than one way to win though and Ange has struggled to accept this fact.

I went through a phase where I thought he might be on to something. Playing open, attacking football, means you will give the other team opportunities and sometimes you will be severely punished.

Where I thought Ange was right was that you get 6 points for two wins and 6 points for 6 draws.

In other words; losing a few games would not affect the overall points tally after 38 games as long as you continue to win more than you lose. A drawn game sometimes feels like a defeat anyway; depending on the opposition.

What has actually happened is that the players Ange has selected, or been forced to pick due to injuries, stopped believing in the system which in turn led to the supporters losing belief too.

The supporters are not fools and know when it is no longer working.

Ange clearly thinks the supporters are fools and he subsequently lost any sympathy many supporters had for him when he began expressing his feelings publicly.

Levy is ultimately to blame for letting all of this go on longer than it needed too.

Ange wanted Neto and Eze. He got Odobert and Werner.

He lost the senior players during the Autumn, having been let down in the window, and here we are again.

Ange is just another Levy scapegoat who has been made to look a fool but hasn't helped himself at times. He's clearly uncomfortable dealing with the pressure and has been left exposed. I don't blame him for taking the job though and giving it a go.

Some good can come out of this if Levy, or a new chairman, gets the next appointment as head coach right.

From my point of view I now couldn't care less if any of the current first team squad were sold in the summer.

I can't ever remember feeling like this about Spurs and can't help thinking that for that reason alone this may all have been a deliberate act on the part of Dear Leader.

Levy knows what it takes to make a team successful because he has achieved it in the past.

The fact it has gone so badly wrong may suit the prick for reasons which are not obvious to the rest of us at the moment.
 
There does seem to be a flurry of interviews with Ange and the players doing the rounds, obviously set up by the clubs media team.

Has an end of days feel about it and is a tad cringe. Although the headline on Vic’s ‘Loving Ange Postecoglou’s ‘untraditional’ approach to football’ made me guffaw!
 
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