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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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His league win % is actually 40.8% (31 wins in 76 games). Nuno's was 50% (5 wins in 10 games).
(Statistically, he has the lowest PL win % of any ENIC era manager, except Hoddle, 36%, and Ramos at 27%)
No point except proving that stat.
They are going to get shredded the exact way we did- except their CBs are slower than VdV and will be punished worse for it in key games.
They built that squad for Nuno’s system- not Ange ball. We’ll see what happens of course but I can’t see it working out any better for them than it did us.
I hate Marinakis because he fucked with our MGW bid, so now I hate Forest because of Marinakis.
I quite liked him up until the ear cupping stunt...after that...
He got very out of pocket for a couple months there. The paranoid shit about a mole at the club or whatever too?
But whatever, he's a good character in the PL drama and we got what we came for by appointing him
The reason I was focusing on goals scored is that that's where he can realistically oversee an improvement compared to Nuno, albeit a relatively small one for the reasons I outlined above.
He's certainly not improving that defense, no way. He wouldn't be able to concede less than 46 with a handpicked back 4+ keeper of his choice, let alone an average Forest backline.
He's a little bit unfortunate to take over a team fresh off of a season where they overachieved tremendously. A sharp contrast to the situation he inherited here that caused a lot of people to continue cutting him slack for a -very- long time despite his obvious shortcomings as a manager.
I don't love him, but I absolutely would buy him dinner for the joy he brought us all (well, most of us) with the Europa.
Best night we had in years!
Hate would have to be the most hurtful word to use!Ange still living rent free! Is this thread going to be active every time he does a press conference for Forest?
I couldn't care how he gets on at Forest. He won us a trophy so there won't be any hate on my side but I don't want him to succeed there either. However, I would love if they got a result on Saturday against Woolwich!
Why do people hate people, even when they have not met them, I cannot understand!
There are certainly components of Forests squad that are more suited to his style than ours though.
He’s got better direct wingers than he had at Spurs, a better 6/DM in Anderson and arguably a better 10 in MGW.
Defensively could be an issue but Murillo is a quicker CB than most in the league.
Another massive element is that the expectation and scrutiny at Forest will be far lower than it was at Spurs.
I could see it going pear shaped for sure, but it genuinely wouldn’t surprise me if he did very well there either.
Yes well in past times I would say "If your aunty had balls, she'd be your uncle" but these days even if she had balls she could still be your aunty, so that's out.
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The reality is and should be that the Ange and Spurs story is over and no more needs to be said.. He's a part of our history and always will be, but we moved on. He's been able to get another job in the best league in the world. To my knowledge, he didn't throw too many barbs our way today, and even mentioned how the Spurs fans he meets are very warm to him. It should be nicely wrapped into a little bow.
It's the press that are going to make this whole thing exhausting.. Us and Postecoglou are constantly going to be brought up in reference to each other, Say Forest win on Saturday and we drop points, there is going to be a bombardment of "haha Tottenham, what have you done?" And not just Saturday.. If there's any weekend, where Forest win playing nice football and we drop points, the same will happen.... It'll be interminable.
It's the press that are going to make this whole thing exhausting.. Us and Postecoglou are constantly going to be brought up in reference to each other, Say Forest win on Saturday and we drop points, there is going to be a bombardment of "haha Tottenham, what have you done?" And not just Saturday.. If there's any weekend, where Forest win playing nice football and we drop points, the same will happen.... It'll be interminable.
Don’t mind if he gets off to a successful start on Saturday though. Would be pretty happy with that
He’s a multimillionaire - he should buy me dinner for all the sh*t I had to sit through.
Plenty of vile people in the world I hate and I have never met them , however Ange certainly isn’t one of them . Job was beyond him, but he gave my son and I a great night in Bilbao in spite of his shortcomings.