The players want to win- not play for draws. Thomas will slowly choke the vitality and optimism out of our squad if he continues in the manner. He's for sure going to lose Bergvall, Sarr and Gray if he continues to keep them out of the starting lineup. If they check out and become malcontents that would an absolute disaster for our future.
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The players want to win- not play for draws. Thomas will slowly choke the vitality and optimism out of our squad if he continues in the manner. He's for sure going to lose Bergvall, Sarr and Gray if he continues to keep them out of the starting lineup. If they check out and become malcontents that would an absolute disaster for our future.
It sure seems it's headed that way. Board is too dumb to do anything about it either, except maybe fire him when the results are too loud to ignore.
hes taken bentancur off the majority of the time, hell need to fix up sharpish, cos the heat is getting hotter now.
its all on the jan window now, that window is absolutely massive. not just for frank but for enic too.
We either get a top LW or nothing will change- it's really that simple.
Frank could glean some improvement out of this squad though if he would just commit to starting Tel over Richy, and Bergvall/Sarr over Bentancur. So frustrating that he wants to persist with that shit tactic.
I'm starting to think players no longer know how to play under Frank when things keep changing - some players performing are not keeping their places while certain players always play, not helped by system keep changing up because what started for a game didn't work at all.
They were literally being coached out of their abilities, as much as the joke was on our previous manager. All our defenders were much worse now. Hilarious to think people think Frank make us more defensively stronger.
Agree.
Got up at 3.30 am to watch the game with my son. Watching the first 25 odd minutes was torture, knowing full well that once they scored, it would be carnage. It was the most placid , boring NLD in recent times. You know things are not good when a 1-4 loss is flattering.
Fulham at home will be interesting, to say the least.
They shouldn't have started together so many times. Taking one of them off at 60th minute is wasting 60 minutes already. For me our best game was the first of the season with none of them playing, and it still is.
They are more suited for European game. So when we see them against PSG and suddenly we look good, Frank will assume it's all rosy and start them back together again on weekend against Fulham. Fuck me.
We're definitely better defensively than we were under Ange. But I agree- the inconsistency in the lineups is sending the wrong message- subpar performances from Bentancur and Richy being constantly rewarded with more starts? It sends the absolute wrong message to the players.
For me, current defensive stats are already not looking good for Frank, when he has almost the full starting XI defenders available for him, bar Udogie on some days. More clean sheets yes, but Ange has Gray playing as makeshift CB, and Davies/Dragusin the other pairing most other times.
A few more games like today and all the hard work keeping a tight goal differential will be all for naught.
I still think we are better under Frank, but not enough at present for me to want to keep it going. He still has time to turn it around though- just not sure if he will.
Just give Dave a run out he showed more skill to win that pen than Richi has in 3 years. Can’t see what there is to lose. This season Frank should have experimented, developed the youngsters, promoted academy players. But his done none of that just trying to be safe and playing the tried and untrusted mainly. Not developing any patterns of play or combinations between players. Bit of a mess really.
That’s what I’m saying he hasn’t given gray any mi s but given plenty to likes of tel and Wilson who are not good enough. I’d be tempted to throw gray, Berg with either Sarr and Paul in midfield. Just develop them rather than trying to persist with the same old same old expecting a diff outcome. These are the games that define franks qualities not beating a poor rate danish team at home. Who still had 12 shots.
It is a shame that 2 of Spurs best players last season (Bergvall and Johnson) can't get a game. Also, Grey who at 18 stepped up and showed fantastic maturity to play out of position. Meanwhile we have a 31 year old who it seems is undropable, and Kudus whose gas tank is smaller than my Lawnmowers.
Still maintain whoever sanctioned over £200M on crap / ave players like Richi, dom, Johnson, tel and Wilson needs firing. Just imagine the quality we could have bought for that money. Nearly every team in PL has better forwards than we do and most spent half the mo et we have!
He a manager not a fucking magian... 
And for his next trick, he'll set us up not to lose a NLD and make our faith in him disappear...He a manager not a fucking magian...
Dragusin and Davies were our CBs in that game.
Without the 4 attacking players you mentioned, I could understand if we couldn't score. But we shouldn't let in 4 goals against the scum with our first choice and supposedly one of the best CB pairing playing for us last night.
Contract up at end of season so doubt it’d be a sum beyond what we could afford
That would be an insult, had this brick wall not been correct in seeing this coming and been saying it for fucking weeks.
Oh I'm thinking about what will happen if he doesn't get sacked. The slide is going to be outrageous. It's clearly go nowhere, not working football. Players look like they've given up, no surprises with what they're being asked of. We have genuinely no plan, and with the fans getting uneasy, you're an idiot of you think the club won't do something.
Get a caretaker in til the end of the year, but I assure you, this won't get any better, and he'll be sacked because it's untenable. You go on like I choose the appointments, Jesus wept.
Nuno crap. Frank crap. Same difference.
Like talking to a brick wall.