Yes. Ignoring the anti-Spurs conspiracy nutjob stuff some go on about, Ange's "we'll just cop it mate" doesn't appear to serve us well
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Hopefully its emotion speaking, but got the same vibes. Our last game is quite important in that sense, I could easily see Ange moving on if we don't perform and he blames it on the 'weak mentality', while fans blame his lack of ability / understanding. Ultimately think the silver lining of our sht run in is that it exposes our weaknesses and allows us to work on covering them (versus thinking we are in great shape with a 4th and shtting the bed next season)
Maybe this was all Ange knowing his hope of Liverpool were going down the drain with his 5 losses in 6 games...
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Tldr is for repetitive shit I’ve read a million times already
tbf, the guy is an elite athlete. I doubt he'd be covering much more, if any ground at speed at LB than he does in the high line CB role. I thought that was Ange justifying previous inflexibility for something that has worked well since he tried it.
No apologies for this.
The non stop repetitive bitching about the manager is nauseating and doesn’t get any more logical the more times you repeat it.
Paying customer or not, your posts often show how clueless you are but you keep repeating them.
Both. What' s more, I have two legs and nine hamstrings.
How about poor Skipp? He is a midfielder thrown as LB, doesn't he have a hamstring which may have blown?!
We’ll have to agree to disagree as I don’t think he said anything to bring the club into disrepute.
Storm in a tea cup.
Not just that, but has to performatively announce he's not reading it. So childish.
You might be right in that it is the club that first and foremost drives a winning culture, but you’re also being unfair on a manager in his first season in charge. We’ve seen the good and the bad, and now it is time to give him a chance next season to see if we can improve
You are all acting as if Ange and the players wanted to lose these last recent games. They tried and were outclassed by better teams at the moment. Unfortunately it led us to this shit scenario. We need to give him time to reshape the squad to his liking, and stick him to his word
Yes but I think that is because of Ange. This whole furore is because of his immature reaction and odd comments. West Ham fans have said exactly the same and Moyes made a joke about it instead getting up his own arse.
(Don't bring up the remote possibility that we could have got top 4 as making it different - that is not Ange's point)
As someone once said, "It's a journey." If that journey ends with Woolrich not winning the title it's hard not to agree with someone who is happy today about the result.
What makes you think he can be found out at little old Tottenham and then end up at Liverpool?
If (when) he's done at Spurs, he's done at the top level and will go back to a pub league somewhere.
I said not suitable, never mentioned the word disrepute.
I am so glad to hear fragile foundation Ange is referring to, other things he said and his temper in the post match video is a storm in a tea cup.
Oh Ange, this is case study on how you simply can not pick the narrative surrounding the game, you can only pick the squad mate.
Ange is our manager and his sole focus is to win, as it should be however yesterday was a once in a blue moon situation for the FANS. He is not a fan so yes, in his view it is "irrelevant" for squad selection, tactics etc, but the NARRATIVE is not irrelevant and this is where he went wrong.
He desperately tried to change the narrative having already failed to do so for the NLD, so he didn't learn his lesson. It is hilarious for a manger all season long to say that our style of play is what will determine our progress (not even table position) then suddenly stake it on our ability to beat Man City. He said this directly. Well Ange, when we're good, we beat city, when we're shit, we beat city, when we're meh, we beat city. We are Man City's boogey team. Did he even realise that it was under his management that we conceded our first goal at home to City since our new stadium was built? His alternate view was BS to begin with but because he was so desperate to eliminate the aspect of the North London rivalry, he tried to make it something it simply never was. Worse yet, because he believed so much in his own delusional narrative, it's made him lash out at the club and fans.
One thing that stood out to me in the post match press conference was his admission of the fans influence. He said the FANS got us extra time goals in the past, which is actually the most humble thing I've heard from him so far as manager. So for him to then proceed to call the fanbase "fragile" because of the anti Woolwich chants and apparent lack of support shows a massive contradiction in beliefs when you bare in mind what he's said all season long about the importance of the supporters free will to believe what they want - especially when things were going well and some were saying we could be title challengers. He effectively blamed the fans for the loss yesterday even if he didn't have the bollocks to directly say it.
And the final oddity which others have already pointed out is his sudden turn on team selection and tactics for THIS game. He finally started all three of our CBs together, shifted one to left-back, completely changed our shape out of possession with a prime Brighton level mid-block which was a masterstroke and completely stifled City in the first half. He even went with a false number 9 setup during attack with fucking Sarr being the furthest forward to press the ball. Call me cynical but this is Ange's most egotistical move as of yet. He had so much contempt for the narrative that we should lose that he FINALLY CHANGED TACTICS. He's sat back and watched us get battered week in week out with the same shite set-up but yesterday was the day he re-imagined the squad. No one can deny that those tactics and squad selection were out of character.
I change when I want to change and if think i'm going to throw this away for your benefit then you'll see the biggest change yet!
The fact that he is only willing to adapt the squad tactically out of contempt for the noise surrounding a match makes me doubt his composure. We could have had this set up (and it was a rather good one) against Woolwich (who play similar football to City), against Newcastle etc. His ego has leaked onto the pitch. He's actually lucky it's the end of the season because everyone can fuck off and calm down.
Ange is our manager and his sole focus is to win, as it should be however yesterday was a once in a blue moon situation for the FANS. He is not a fan so yes, in his view it is "irrelevant" for squad selection, tactics etc, but the NARRATIVE is not irrelevant and this is where he went wrong.
He desperately tried to change the narrative having already failed to do so for the NLD, so he didn't learn his lesson. It is hilarious for a manger all season long to say that our style of play is what will determine our progress (not even table position) then suddenly stake it on our ability to beat Man City. He said this directly. Well Ange, when we're good, we beat city, when we're shit, we beat city, when we're meh, we beat city. We are Man City's boogey team. Did he even realise that it was under his management that we conceded our first goal at home to City since our new stadium was built? His alternate view was BS to begin with but because he was so desperate to eliminate the aspect of the North London rivalry, he tried to make it something it simply never was. Worse yet, because he believed so much in his own delusional narrative, it's made him lash out at the club and fans.
One thing that stood out to me in the post match press conference was his admission of the fans influence. He said the FANS got us extra time goals in the past, which is actually the most humble thing I've heard from him so far as manager. So for him to then proceed to call the fanbase "fragile" because of the anti Woolwich chants and apparent lack of support shows a massive contradiction in beliefs when you bare in mind what he's said all season long about the importance of the supporters free will to believe what they want - especially when things were going well and some were saying we could be title challengers. He effectively blamed the fans for the loss yesterday even if he didn't have the bollocks to directly say it.
And the final oddity which others have already pointed out is his sudden turn on team selection and tactics for THIS game. He finally started all three of our CBs together, shifted one to left-back, completely changed our shape out of possession with a prime Brighton level mid-block which was a masterstroke and completely stifled City in the first half. He even went with a false number 9 setup during attack with fucking Sarr being the furthest forward to press the ball. Call me cynical but this is Ange's most egotistical move as of yet. He had so much contempt for the narrative that we should lose that he FINALLY CHANGED TACTICS. He's sat back and watched us get battered week in week out with the same shite set-up but yesterday was the day he re-imagined the squad. No one can deny that those tactics and squad selection were out of character.
I change when I want to change and if think i'm going to throw this away for your benefit then you'll see the biggest change yet!
The fact that he is only willing to adapt the squad tactically out of contempt for the noise surrounding a match makes me doubt his composure. We could have had this set up (and it was a rather good one) against Woolwich (who play similar football to City), against Newcastle etc. His ego has leaked onto the pitch. He's actually lucky it's the end of the season because everyone can fuck off and calm down.