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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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The only reason that we "sacked off" the league during the spring to aim at the Europa solely is because of Ange's failure to manage the squad properly during the fall.

He refused to rotate, and ran his starters into the ground with many consecutive games in a row, expecting to only utilize suicide tactics which are known to blow out hamstrings.

It's like 7 years old playing FIFA- all they known how to do is hold down the sprint button and hope for the best.
 
I can't actually believe how bad the PTSD, Stockholm syndrome and just general patheticness from some of you.

We're one of the richest clubs in the world, top 5 most successful in English football history, have one of/the best stadiums in the world and a world wide fanbase.

Stop coming out with ridiculous bullshit like "why would Thomas Frank come to us" you fucking pathetic tarts.
 
I can't actually believe how bad the PTSD, Stockholm syndrome and just general patheticness from some of you.

We're one of the richest clubs in the world, top 5 most successful in English football history, have one of/the best stadiums in the world and a world wide fanbase.

Stop coming out with ridiculous bullshit like "why would Thomas Frank come to us" you fucking pathetic tarts.

Other than Frank maybe not wanting the pressure of the role,or indeed an excess of loyalty to Brentford, which I would applaud, exactly as you say.
 
Why do people assume managers are never capable of more?

Frank has been finishing in mid table with Brentford.. so he’s now destined to ALWAYS be a mid table manager according to some? Different finances, players and all sorts, what’s to say he doesn’t do exceptionally well with the step up? Sure he could go either way but why do people always assume that you are only capable of what you have done to that point.

Ange hadn’t done anything truly noteworthy before the Europa League win (please don’t say Scotland, laughable league) but with the Europa league win he’s actually got something decent under his belt now. If we keep him then fine, I think I know how that ends But equally if you gave someone like Frank the exact same circumstances as Ange had this year, I’d fancy him to win his first major trophy too.

If it’s Ange, fine, we’ll see what happens. If it’s Frank, I’ll back the bloke and hope he gets the chance to show his real capabilities.
 
Outing myself what the fuck are you talking about?

The FA cup and league cups are not as prestigious as a Europa particularly when it comes with champions league qualification as an added bonus.
To suggest otherwise is assinine
Not as prestigious granted, but a hell of a lot easier to win. 2 teams from the prem lge having their worst seasons ever got to the final. Didn’t have to get past Liverpool, Woolwich, city, Newcastle or Chelsea.
Beat Frankfurt and Bilbao, both champ lge next season, on the way.
The rest of Europe must be sick of the English with all their money.
 
He played weakened teams because we had already been so bad in the league that we were left in no man's land. Let's not act like he made that decision out of choice, it was because we were already so crap that he saw the EL as by far the easiest way to achieve anything.

Not to mention, weakened teams shouldn't mean unable to beat Ipswich or Leicester.

They probably wouldn't finish anywhere near 17th.

Dictated to him by the injuries haha, jesus. We were awful in the league before injuries and we were awful at the end of last season without injuries. It was dictated to him by his own shoddy management skills, there was nothing "ballsy" about it, it was unprofessional bullshit based on utterly failing to compete against teams in England so throwing everything behind the Europa which was an easier target.
So you see nothing ballsy about coming out and saying you always win a trophy in your second season, then putting all your eggs into the one basket and actually achieving it?

Do you have any romance for the club in your soul my dude?

Would you really be happier winning the top 4 trophy and sacking off the domestics ala Poch every season?

Fuck that.

Totally disagree with your assessment as well, we were absolutley murdered by injuries around November and December at the busiest time of the season.

The proof is in the fact that Gray played so many games at centre back. Bergvall probably wouldn't have played nearly as many minutes in any other season either. These guys were bought for the future.

He weighed it up, realised he couldn't get CL through the league, realised he had to nurse players like Romero and VDV back and gave the league up. Just look at the lineups. its there in black and white for all to see.

That's not me giving him a pass for some for the 22 losses or some of the awful defeats to the Ipswiches and Leicesters.
I've roasted him long and hard about that and that's why he only gets 10 games to prove himself next season.
 
Outing myself what the fuck are you talking about?

The FA cup and league cups are not as prestigious as a Europa particularly when it comes with champions league qualification as an added bonus.
To suggest otherwise is assinine

Outing yourself with not knowing the club's history. Your post comes across like you've misheard something and assumed it to be true.

Doesn't matter how you perceive the prestige - it is not our first "major" trophy since 1984. Accept the L and move on
 
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