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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
SameOldSpurs said:
Had we the same results in a different order, the perception would be quite different. Finishing the season on a weak, whimper leaves a lasting memory but you have to take the season in its entirety, not the bit that suits wanting Ange sacked only.
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Well yes because it indicates a direction of travel.

Those first ten games were electric, and if they were recent obviously people would say there's something brewing there. But they're not recent, they're long gone and that form has never looked like being recaptured since.
 
Deuterz said:
Kane was injured for the majority of the CL knockouts and the end of the league season. Pochettino masterminded wins over peak City, an incredible Ajax team who would've cakewalked this years EL without getting out of second gear, and a pretty good Dortmund team - as well as navigating Inter and Barca in the groups.
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LOL. Masterminded? Navigating? You seriously gotta refreshed your memory there. We were almost out of the group stages if not for better head to head away goals VS Inter. We were always trailing early at CL matches, our defence were shit even with Toby and Verts. Lloris was so undependent. City would have been through if not for VAR. As much as the Ajax game was an eternal classic, you can't deny there was such a huge element of luck in that game, if not for most of our CL journey to the final. Only the Dortmund game was the convincing one in the knockout stages out of the entire CL campaign.

We were 4th in the league that season but had 13 losses, as many as Wolves who were 7th. You guys bashing Ange for throwing away the league for Europa was the same done by Poch. We lost 5 games after we were confirmed as semi-finalists in the CL, almost half of our entire losses for the season happened towards the end of the campaign. Poch was moody and many were saying the CL advancement was just papering over the cracks then. Deep down everybody knew that the CL campaign was a fairy tale if we truly won it, but most wouldn't be confident at all to despatch Liverpool.
 
You can only hope Levy and the board make the best decision for the club, and that's preventing us from becoming relegation candidates which is a possibility under Ange.

I really appreciate what he's done for us in terms of the Europs League, and having a massive influence in motivating the players, though I'm sure all of us are thankful for that.
 
manmountainbutters said:
Disagree with your last point. Recent results are obviously more important to any rational assessment of how a coach is doing. They are a better guide to future results, in the near term at least.
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That dreadful 12:30 away game at Newcastle, followed by defeats to Chelsea, Woolwich and Liverpool when we needed a result or 2 really changed how that season will forever be remembered.

Still think most Spurs fans recognised it as a decent season overall that you might have taken at the start of the season - 66 points and 5th after Kane leaves.

Still you are of course right the most recent results are the most relevant for how you're going forward, but you assess a season in its entirety for full context when talking about 23 24.
 
SameOldSpurs said:
That dreadful 12:30 away game at Newcastle, followed by defeats to Chelsea, Woolwich and Liverpool when we needed a result or 2 really changed how that season will forever be remembered.

Still think most Spurs fans recognised it as a decent season overall that you might have taken at the start of the season - 66 points and 5th after Kane leaves.

Still you are of course right the most recent results are the most relevant for how you're going forward, but you assess a season in its entirety for full context when talking about 23 24.
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It was ok yes. He had a monster new manager bounce. Have to give him some credit for that. Made a big mistake surrendering CC at Fulham.

At the start of this season I said on this Board I'd take a low league position and a cup, and I 100% stand by that. I just think now (A) the monkey is off the back (B) our league form is so bad and the risk of relegation (C) the inherent unlikelihood of a poor manager repeating the same trick ... that we can and should do better.
 
JimothyCF14 said:
Well yes because it indicates a direction of travel.

Those first ten games were electric, and if they were recent obviously people would say there's something brewing there. But they're not recent, they're long gone and that form has never looked like being recaptured since.
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Don't think we were as fantastic as people maybe remember in those 10 games. We played a lot of duff sides and after Conte, Stellini and Mason, perhaps was easy to look wonderful.

The Woolwich game we looked good in spells, with Maddison and Son doing some great work - but also remember a calamity, monumental fuck up playing out from the back that Havertz? completely fluffed which could have massively changed things in terms of momentum. Obviously the Chelsea game exposed just how thin was the line we were walking but the injuries certainly didn't help, and played a massive part in our lack of cohesion in the following fixtures.
 
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