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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
Just shows how random football is, in terms of winning trophies. Under Poch we had the best team in the league at one stage, but never won anything.

Ange is one of the worst managers in our history, it's been an absolute didgrace of a season, and we could end up winning our biggest trophy in decades.

Winning this comp changes nothing for me in how I look at Ange. He's an absolute fraud. It's been an incrediblely understrength Europe League this season and we've almost got there by default.

Our away game at Frankfurt was the stand out, but even then we relied on woeful finishing by Frankfurt, literally missing open goals.

The fact we played Bodo Glimt in the semi final says it all as to how weak the comp is.

It won't make it any less thrilling for us fans if we win it, it shouldn't do.

But it does matter in terms of analysing Ange's performance this season and how poor we've been.

On paper winning the trophy makes it a successful season in terms of trophies, but an appalling season otherwise. And we really are a cigarette paper between success and , if we lose next week, the worst season in probably modern Spurs history.

So winning one game next week doesn't change any of that. It finally gives us something to celebrate, but beneath that, there's an awful lot wrong at the club, and that needs to change immediately, with Ange fucking off, along with the entire backroom staff, and the club appointing a competent manager who can have us fighting for top 4 again.

One thing I will say though, is if we do beat United in the final, even with them being crap themselves, I wil give Ange credit for actually getting the team over the line in a final. That's something Poch couldn't do despite giving us so much more in terms of consistent results and performances. Which leads me back to my first sentence, football is so random. If Ange wins a trophy, he will despite being an abject pathetic excuse of a manager, actually won something at Spurs. It's so bizarre.

But then you only have to look at Ramos, and how he is remembered. If we win the final, Ange will be remembered with disdain, despite being in the record books.

P.S. I don't see us winning the final, I think we will shit the bed like we always do. If far better managers than Ange couldn't get us over the line, I just can't see it. I'll be amazed to see us turn up in a final and win.
Bang on. Great post.

Any win is in spite of the man in charge, not because of him.
 
The modern ones never jump Spaniel, they take every single penny. Say what you will about Keegan he was honourable enough to leave money on the table.
There just wasn't the money back then, as well as a little bit of honour.
Managers cared about the fans and the clubs. Nowadays they care about their payoff, they would take a club down and into ruins to get it.
And fans will be there, saying "you have to give him time to fix it"
Fuck. Right. Off.
 
I got banned for making 1 joke at the expense of Eric Dier
I got locked out of the transfer section for asking Trix a really innocuous question, had my post deleted and received a really sarky direct message, so I thought ‘fuck this’ and walked. I’ve never been on a forum before where the twat in charge of admin duties seems to have permanent PMT! Before I walked I may have compared their censorship to North Korea! 😂

It’s comical that they have a really low opinion of this place, but that’s probably because a lot of them are 40 year old virgins living in their mum’s basement scared of their own shadow! 😂
 
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If we win the Europa League, it will be demeaned by everyone, you all know that, right?
Our wins in the competition this season
Qarabag
Ferencvaros
AZ
Hoffenheim
Elfsborg
AZ
Frankfurt
Bodo
Bodo
We lost 2 and drew 3 against pretty weak sides.

Inter, into the CL final by comparison have won against
Red Star
Young Boys
Arse
Leipzig
Sparta Prague
Monaco
Feyenoord
Bayern
Barcelona

People will beat on it. And we'll never hear the end of how it's "wrong" that we get in the CL as a result because our totally unrelated league position.
The mental gymnastics are insane.
And then you throw the Ange madness into the mix.
 
Totally agree but its not just the most amount of defeats in the prem era, its the highest in our 143 year history.

Correct, but i wanted to state the relevance to, should we say the modern game.

He's genuinely making us the laughing stock of the PL, a comedy club managed by a manager who can't coach players, has an injury record only an aircraft disaster could match, and has no empathy with the fanbase.

He is no more than a snake oil salesman, i can think of no other comparison that would sum up his time at the club.

Levy and the main board of directors should be fucking ashamed of themselves at the amount of uncontrolled damage one man can do to a once proud club.

They know no shame.
 
If we win the Europa League, it will be demeaned by everyone, you all know that, right?
Our wins in the competition this season
Qarabag
Ferencvaros
AZ
Hoffenheim
Elfsborg
AZ
Frankfurt
Bodo
Bodo
We lost 2 and drew 3 against pretty weak sides.

Inter, into the CL final by comparison have won against
Red Star
Young Boys
Arse
Leipzig
Sparta Prague
Monaco
Feyenoord
Bayern
Barcelona

People will beat on it. And we'll never hear the end of how it's "wrong" that we get in the CL as a result because our totally unrelated league position.
The mental gymnastics are insane.
And then you throw the Ange madness into the mix.
I think there's gonna be a few twists before Ange actually departs
If by some miracle we beat manure, he'll be starting next season, that's nailed on
 
If we win the Europa League, it will be demeaned by everyone, you all know that, right?
Our wins in the competition this season
Qarabag
Ferencvaros
AZ
Hoffenheim
Elfsborg
AZ
Frankfurt
Bodo
Bodo
We lost 2 and drew 3 against pretty weak sides.

Inter, into the CL final by comparison have won against
Red Star
Young Boys
Arse
Leipzig
Sparta Prague
Monaco
Feyenoord
Bayern
Barcelona

People will beat on it. And we'll never hear the end of how it's "wrong" that we get in the CL as a result because our totally unrelated league position.
The mental gymnastics are insane.
And then you throw the Ange madness into the mix.

Bottom line is the EL and Conference League is just a money generating event for UEFA.

That a poorly managed Tottenham, and a United team in deep flux has managed to make the final sums up the quality.

We have truly played no team of merit.

I don't think winning the EL is going to take us to any other level, or onto something better, I mean what did winning the Conference League do for West Ham?

I would have sooner (and I am being picky here) made the Caribou Cup final or the FA Cup final. At least we would have had a better measure of the competition.

Now I know I am going to get some flack for this but I myself don't see the EL as a yardstick of success, i mean isn't there now a chance of six PL sides qualifying for the CL next season?

It's nothing more than a money generating exercise for UEFA, an overkill of games that is already at saturation point.

When I witnessed live Roberts lift the UEFA Cup that meant something to me, but today it's just a glossy, second rate competition.
 
If we win the Europa League, it will be demeaned by everyone, you all know that, right?
Our wins in the competition this season
Qarabag
Ferencvaros
AZ
Hoffenheim
Elfsborg
AZ
Frankfurt
Bodo
Bodo
We lost 2 and drew 3 against pretty weak sides.

Inter, into the CL final by comparison have won against
Red Star
Young Boys
Arse
Leipzig
Sparta Prague
Monaco
Feyenoord
Bayern
Barcelona

People will beat on it. And we'll never hear the end of how it's "wrong" that we get in the CL as a result because our totally unrelated league position.
The mental gymnastics are insane.
And then you throw the Ange madness into the mix.
Who cares?
 
Callin A&C a cunt in a private DM to someone he was going off on - he read it and banned me - proving my point about him.

I have come across that twat, and Rob when i challenged them about "donations" there timing, and the sycophantic way they dribbled over people making those donations.

I said that there was little if any proof that the website required XXXXX of pounds to be kept running, and that over a couple of days (this was some years ago) that if the donors for those two days martialized they would collect eleven hundred pounds?

Over their donation period (usually a month during the TW) they would collect thousands.

Now I wasn't accusing them of running a scam, but when I asked them to show the forum members some form of accounts they told me basically to fuck off.

I then asked them that as they were taking money into their accounts are they registered as a business and reporting for tax purposes.

I was banned the next day, rejoined under a different name and IP Address and left a message letting everyone know that no proof was provided on where their donations were going, A&C and Rob would not provide any accounts (i think A&C lives abroad) and that those making donations may as well burn the money they donate.

I then reminded both A&C and Rob that they were a pair of cunts, and was banned again.

Their website security is as watertight and a tea bag, and though i am not accusing them of embezzlement but I do question their motives of needing thousands of pounds to run a website when they have no staff costs.

Things on SC may have changed now, but my background would suggest that no one should just hand over email addresses, bank card details to any online website however friendly they appear to be.

Please believe me when i say I have witnessed hundreds of people get burned in this way, again I have no axe to grind or proof of this regarding SC.
 
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