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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Why do they keep coming in here?
As long as there are cultists demanding the return of a manager who has won 1 of his last 19 premier league games & lost a record number of games in a season for Spurs before winning none for Forest, there will be pushback. Inevitable.
Our “saviour” is a man hideously proven inadequate at premier league level over the last year and a half. People would mock those demanding the return of other managers with a similar win % - they just don’t have a cult behind them so it doesn’t happen.
That would make sense if this was the "Next Manager" Thread but it's not. So why are you policing the Ange Postecoglou thread hunting for wrongthink from people who speak approvingly of him?
It's sooo weird.
Let's see what other quality insights our friend MrSkeletor has made over the journey.
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7th Jan 2026:
Oh dear. I guess things didn't quite work out the way Mr Skeletor thought they would.
What a surprise. He seemed such a switched on, cogent observer of football. And such a nice chap. Oh well...
Cry more if you want, shrug.
*Stalking me and picking random comments from my history coz Levi screwed you out of hundreds of thousands of pounds over the years is your problem.
I stand by EVERY. SINGLE. WORD I ever wrote on this forum.
I bet you wrote a Dear John later to Ange when he got sacked.
Tut tut....
“Policing” my guy it’s the Ange thread, if you wanna come in here and beg for daddy’s return go ahead, but people are going to point out his serious deficiencies at erm .. winning premier league matches. Which tends to be an issue with surviving relegation. Of course in return you can say “European trophy” but we aren’t playing in Europe, it isn’t Bodo or AZ or Frankfurt (who Frank beat 2-0 in Germany!) it’s tough English team after tough English team.
You post more in this thread than any other thread on this forum. I didn't post in here for 5 months but you're all over it. You're utterly obsessed. you care more about Postecoglou than you do about Spurs.
Don't you think you need to ask yourself who exactly has "daddy issues" and is exhibiting cult like behaviour?
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Not random at all. they were very focused. You went from::
"Yay, Frank is the bestest we're gonna be the winningest"
TO
"Fire Frank and delete the Club "
I'd suggest you show some introspection and question just what poor choices and conclusions you had made over the journey. But you do you, buddy. It's all good.
They don’t have a top 5 finish or a trophy either
Yeah because I'm sure you've not made any poor predictions in any of your 10,000 of posts.Let's see what other quality insights our friend Mr
7th June 2025:
7th Jan 2026:
Oh dear. I guess things didn't quite work out the way Mr Skeletor thought they would.
What a surprise. He seemed such a switched on, cogent observer of football. And such a nice chap. Oh well...
Imagine having such an ego over something you have absolutely 0% control over.
Mate.
The decision to sack him was the right one, the decision to hire Frank is where it all went tits up.
This fixation with "either or" of the two of them is missing the point entirely.
He won us a trophy, for which we should all be forever thankful, but what we were seeing in the PL was absolutely awful. Looking back as though his tenure, for his last season, was some sort of halcyon days is ridiculous. We weren't any better then than we were under Frank, and the players, by all accounts, adored him.
He had to go, but Frank was the absolute worst appointment we could have made.
Instead of hankering after AP, move on and just hope we bring in a manager who will provide some structure that will allow the talent we do have to shine, whatever league we end up in.
Terry Neal took us down. Burkinshaw may have been at the helm when it happened, but Neal was the slag that did all the damage.
The General rebuilt us from the ground up near enough, with a young Hoddle starting his career, then bringing in quality like Ardiles, Villa, Crooks and Archibald.
That's correct, if you thought Postecoglou would have got the team away from the threat of relegation back in January, and you still think that now, then you are spot on 100% in agreement with yourself.
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That “top 5 finish” was quite a while ago and built upon a very good start. He hasn’t shown any ability to get that kind of form out of a team for well over a year and a half of management. We lack the entire attacking spine of the team that did it!
The trophy was based on beating a team Frank beat 2-0 away, Bodo, AZ, and an almost equally terrible man united team in a shit off final. It gives you no guarantee whatsoever of translating to wins in the premier league, as his failure to win 18 out of the last 19 league games he’s managed shows.
The irony in the discussion is that our team that played in the Europa League final were playing more like Thomas Frank's style of cautious football, than Postecoglou's high risk tactics.
You can keep on saying 18 of 19 but as has been mentioned numerous times a number of those loses were part of a bigger plan which worked
A bigger plan hahahahahhaa, yeah mate you totally need to throw away premier league matches for fun in order to beat AZ and Bodo Glimt. Even Frankball comfortably beat Frankfurt at their own gaffe!
He then failed to win a single match at Forest with a decent side, because he sucks. Dyche got sacked there but at least he beat us 3-0 and won at Anfield 3-0.
The bigger plan got the buffoon sacked. That’s if we live in ange land where he’s some grand strategist and not just a desperate man who bet everything on the Europa ‘cos he had no chance at anything else.
That record of losing games without repurcission has directly contributed to the state we're in right now - we went from top 6 to bottom 4 under his watch and all involved were vindicated for it, trying to dial back that loss of basic standards has proved too difficult/nigh on impossible.
I hope that Europa League trophy brings you some comfort when we're scrambling around in the Championsip next year.
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This is truth. I certainly didn't mean any disrespect to the great man Burkinshaw
