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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: 72 64.3%
  • No, I think it was a bad idea.

    Votes: 40 35.7%

  • Total voters
    112
Eddie Howe : "We spent two weeks working on set pieces for this game, working to our strengths"

Ange : "We dont practice set pieces"

Says it all, just totally utterly damning - im not saying we win stuff like Howe has just done IF we practice set pieces but its indicative of the lack of coaching and preparation we have now. It was just about when he said that I totally lost faith in him.
Eddie Howe was appointed Newcastle manager the same week we hired Conte.
 
This is becoming more and more evident, there’s so many who are just contrary or just don’t have a clue about the sport. So many hangers on.
I was sceptical when he joined . I boarded the hype train after the first few games of last season , stayed on board when it was clear the driver had croaked and the train was heading for a crash . I jumped off the train about 3 months ago , I wish I could explain why I didn’t pull the emergency brake a year ago .
 
Eddie Howe : "We spent two weeks working on set pieces for this game, working to our strengths"

Ange : "We dont practice set pieces"

Says it all, just totally utterly damning - im not saying we win stuff like Howe has just done IF we practice set pieces but its indicative of the lack of coaching and preparation we have now. It was just about when he said that I totally lost faith in him.
And that’s the difference between backing the right horse with Howe and not with Mange.

Even when Newcastle had dips in form and were losing games, having periods of up and down, you could see how Howe wanted them to play, and they were moving in the right direction.

Their fans were right to back him.

Mange, in his time here has not shown anything to show us the team are going anywhere. We’re rudderless and only going in the wrong direction.

And it baffles the mind there are people that still back him, or backed him until the last few weeks when the writing was on the wall after the second half of last season.
 
Remember his “don’t you dare” antics back in Nov / December? Actually, he got that totally wrong. It is 100% when they should have bulleted Posto noclue
Yeah remember that and had no interest in anything he has had to say since. I dont expect him to be Woodwood or Bernstein as a Tottenham beat reporter but a few tough questions instead of fluttering your eyelids at the incompetent that has us on for our worst season in 2 decades might have been nice.
 
Eddie Howe : "We spent two weeks working on set pieces for this game, working to our strengths"

Ange : "We dont practice set pieces"

Says it all, just totally utterly damning - im not saying we win stuff like Howe has just done IF we practice set pieces but its indicative of the lack of coaching and preparation we have now. It was just about when he said that I totally lost faith in him.

And yet we actually have one of the better defensive and offensive set piece records this season in the league so far
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Ange is reminding me now of the Geography teacher at my old school who wanted to coach one of the younger teams . The PE teacher always managed the oldest two teams , the fat geography teacher managed us for a year when I was 12-13 . He knew even less about football than he knew about copper mining in Africa
If you’d have given him a second season, the geography teacher might have won you a trophy. Albeit it might have been copperware.
 
You know what’s funny?

For all the praise Ange gets for his press conferences, does he ever actually talk footballing tactics?

I swear to god I can’t actually recall him ever reflecting on tactical aspects of the game. He just comes up with pseudo intellectual non football related bullshit, feels sorry for himself that people would dare to doubt him, moans about injuries, and has a go at reporters.

You can’t even call him a fraud, he is what he is - a bang average football manager who has won some trophies in completely insignificant leagues and has never been tested at the top level. Fair play to him Levy took a punt on a complete unknown, Ange must be loving the big salary which will set him up for life.
The odd thing is how seldom the writers talk tactics. I think all the philosophical discussions that people liked during the first season have worn thin in the second.
 
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