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Management Ange Postecoglou
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If Spurs wins Europa - Its certainly leaning towards Ange in. Without all but 3 of his senior players for a large chunk of the season, he actually found a pragmatic approach to winning a trophy. Something Jose, Conte, Poch couldn't do - with better squads.
IF Ange can satisfy the fans with an honest assessment of our league performance and demonstrate changes that will be made for next season; there is no reason why we shouldn't all be 100% behind him.
This season, he has clearly struggled to juggle multiple competitions. Tried to win them all. Remember, 1/3rd of the way through the season we were just 4 points off 2nd and progressing well in all 3 cups - but we didn't have the squad to fight across 4 competitions, and we burnt out, and broke down. No excuses, he called himself out on this and admitted he made that mistake.
Making the tough decision to bin off the league and focus on cups could pay dividends - or could leave us humiliated - and I respect Ange for choosing the path most likely to lead to a trophy; but also, the most likely to lose him his job if he failed. Would we still be talking "Ange out" if he finished 6th with no trophy?
If we win Europa we might end up sacking him in November rather than May but he will get sacked by the end of this year, of that there is no question. He's been found out as a semi-professional level coach in the big boys game.
We still have ( just ) enough time to sack this clown before the second leg of the Bodo game kicks off .Cmon Daniel…. do the right thing ( for once ) COYS.
I'm not sure how many 'semi-professional' coaches can take a squad that has lost its best player, changed its goal keeper, and changed 5 of the starting 11 outfield players - and still go on to finish 5th in the Premier League.
Nuno, Irola, Frank, De Zerbi only dream of finishing 5th; and would only dream of reaching 2 semi-finals. Yet somehow our fans think they will be Spurs saviour.
I've got a letter from Poch wishing me well for my wedding in 2014.
Unlike him, she's still here.
Ange the man is a great guy, and is sticking up for the club as we've always wanted. He's one of the few that have.
It's shame because his approach just can't cope with the demand of the Premier League, so I think it's curtains either way in the summer. However as a bloke I think he's a good guy, and bet he'd be a right laugh on the beer.
It's shame because his approach just can't cope with the demand of the Premier League, so I think it's curtains either way in the summer. However as a bloke I think he's a good guy, and bet he'd be a right laugh on the beer.
It's probably because of this nonsensical season that certain questions have been put to him that have led to him sticking up for us. IE, potentially winning the Europa league getting to the champions league despite a possible 17th placed finish.
That's never happened.
United are getting the same flack we are in fairness. I did comment on social media that, had it been Villa, Newcastle, Palace, Forest in our position, nobody would be bitching like they are about us and United. It's pure fan "rivalry" leading to whining about us potentially being in the CL next season.
Poch never faced those questions as we never had a nonsensical season. We were always in the top 4 after his first season. What would have been interesting with him, was whether the narrative had changed if he did win something. Title in 2016? "oh yeah, but no one else showed up"
Title in 2017? "You beast last seasons 10th placed team to the title"
Win the champions league "it doesn't count if you play another English club"
There's always a reason to beat down on us and it usually comes loudest when we're close to getting over the line.
Nail on the head. It is done to put pressure on the club and try and ensure that we fail.
I can't agree with this. The League campaign has given nothing to cling on to in terms of hoping for improvement. The Europa would be nice, but whilst we've overcome the obstacles in front of us to now, we haven't done so in such a convincing manner that it negates the abject League performance.
I swing back and forth a bit on my opinion of Ange the person, the things that annoy me about him are greatly exacerbated by the poor form of the team. We're we competing well in the League, then I'd likely have little to no issue with the way he conducts himself.
And there are good things about him too, his engagement with fans in terms of sick kids and such seem very genuine, he does have character, and he calls out the media BS well, this weeks EL winner getting into CL debate for example.
I also like his desire to play attacking football, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to go much deeper than a plan noted down on the back of a fag packet.
If he woke up tomorrow and had an epiphany that actually, he doesn't have a clue how to coach a system that achieves his vision, and that he needed to get serious about putting an adequate coaching team in place that he could trust to put his ideas into action, then I'd be all for him having one last bite of the cherry.
It just seems delusional at this point from all involved to think that he can just carry on as is and things will improve.
As it stands, I don't think it matters who we could sign in the summer, if things don't change massively with the coaching set up. Better players, more physically capable of achieving the demands, maybe we'd be a few places higher in the table, but we would still have a group of players that wasn't achieving as much as they could with some capable coaching.
Don't even think it's that clever. The football world is full of fucking "manchilds" who have irrational hate for certain other teams.
Sadly Spurs have become one of those teams where many many different fans hate us.
Newcastle are mostly hated by Sunderland.
Villa by Birmingham etc.
Spurs? Fucking everyfuckone.
It's not even for good reason, like being successful.
Genuine question: when was the last time fans sung the "oh oh oh oh oh Ange Postecoglou" chant. Feel like it's been a while. Good sentiment indicator.
You never hear it anymore. Don't think I even heard it last Thursday when we were 3-0 up, did I?
I've always thought there is something deep down sinister about it and it has gone on for decades.
But let's win this fucking cup and really annoy them!
TBF, they/we all sang Mourinho and Conte songs early doors.
Absolutely. The look on a West Ham fans face when you tell them you're a Spurs fan.
Like, you've spent 3 hours getting to know this new person you just met, you get on well, then it moves to football and say you're a Spurs fan. And they're reduced to the lowest form of intelligence possible. Basically the football equivalent of racism.
THAT said, Spurs fans do it. The utter drivel I've read on here because there's a link to Arse. I can't even type the full word.
Grow up folks. Humans need to be better.
If we were 8th and 4 points off 6th your post might at a stretch have some credibility, we are 16th and 21 points behind Forest .
You should volunteer for the Samaritans with such positivity .
Ok so I know your wife has left you for your best mate and has taken the kids with her. However she didn’t take the dishwasher tablets and she made the bed you will now sleep in alone before she left.
Let’s get this starting it was 2 cup
Comps for most of the season. FA cup only started early Jan by then we had played 1st led of semi final v dippers. Plus it v Tamworth where he rotated the whole team.
Let’s get this straight it was 2 cup
Comps for most of the season. FA cup only started early Jan by then we had played 1st led of semi final v dippers. Plus it v Tamworth where he rotated the whole team.
