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Management Ange Postecoglou

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The more time that goes by the more I have zero issues with his comments. He said the foundations are fragile and I don’t know how anyone can really argue with that.

We’ve been talking about how mentally fragile these players are for weeks now, and some for years. The fans are at their wits ends and just look at how this place, and I’m including myself, have reacted to recent losses, not even including leading up to this game. I’m not saying that isn’t justified, rather he understandably wants a united front both with the team and supporters.

I take his comments as that he’s just now realizing what a knife’s edge the club sits on, and realizing the scope of work it will take to turn it around.
 
Kiro Kompiro said:
Because he's a professional who plays to win, has done everywhere he has coached.

What exactly did you expect-"Mate, I've decided to throw the game because the fans want us to lose to spite Woolwich". No self-respecting manager at any level of the game would do that.

That aside, he IS arrogant, he IS inflexibe, he has said in the Australian media he wants to be challenged by them about his tactics/ approach/ philosophy,/player selections and throws a tanty when they actually do! If you want to know why its because he has an ego the size of a planet, nothing more complicated that.

He talks about his past achievements because he feels he justify that he belongs at this level, because most many locals think he doesn't.

He doesn't actually have to do that, he doesn't have to justify his appointment, he's earned it--the guy belongs at this level, perhaps not with this group of players and maybe not this club, but he belongs, especially when compared to the numerous useless frauds that have been gifted their chance to coach here
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Assuming he was talking only about the fans, what purpose have his comments served? He's burned through some of the good will he had with fans. None of it had to happen and nothing was accomplished by it.
 
TravellerOfBoth said:
I have to give him credit for Mourinho level politics and tricks that I didn't think he had in him. The conversation should be the collapse in this second half of the season and the 5 defeats in 6.

However, the press, every other fan in the country and even the most spineless of Spurs have shifted their focus to how much of a disgrace the "toxic" Spurs fans are. And the biggest joke of all ... "Ange is a winner and deserves better". Fuck right off.

I'm not completely unreasonable. I'm willing to give him a chance... But only if he's willing to look in the mirror and see what he needs to work on in himself.
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If you point out that Mourinho did the same gaslighting and deflecting you are ridiculed though. Mourinho before he came in the job said he watched Tottenham on the TV under Poch and thought our base position was third and with him we should be first.

He left us in 5th-7th like most other managers. Fuck all to do with the loyal supporters.
 
Dudski said:
Assuming he was talking only about the fans, what purpose have his comments served? He's burned through some of the good will he had with fans. None of it had to happen and nothing was accomplished by it.
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It's an emotional reaction. Supporters cheering for the opposition in the stadium could make any manager wonder wtf kind of shitshow the club is.

He came across poorly with his response to the "proportion" question. Nothing wrong with the question at all.

Hopefully he gets backed and then he's got 10-15 games to show us a good team again
 
Gmspurs said:
With his comments about 'the past 48 hours inside and outside the club'


What does that actually mean?

Who inside the club is actually fragile? Has he been given the hairdryer by Levy about top four? Or do we think someone in the hierarchy has encouraged Ange to throw the game and he doesn't like that?

It's a bizarre thing to say at this stage of the season.
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ILSpur said:
The more time that goes by the more I have zero issues with his comments. He said the foundations are fragile and I don’t know how anyone can really argue with that.

We’ve been talking about how mentally fragile these players are for weeks now, and some for years. The fans are at their wits ends and just look at how this place, and I’m including myself, have reacted to recent losses, not even including leading up to this game. I’m not saying that isn’t justified, rather he understandably wants a united front both with the team and supporters.

I take his comments as that he’s just now realizing what a knife’s edge the club sits on, and realizing the scope of work it will take to turn it around.
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not the players ffs that are fragile, Romero is a WC winner. It’s that bald bastard and his useless exec board that have been thieving a living for decades
 
ILSpur said:
The more time that goes by the more I have zero issues with his comments. He said the foundations are fragile and I don’t know how anyone can really argue with that.

We’ve been talking about how mentally fragile these players are for weeks now, and some for years. The fans are at their wits ends and just look at how this place, and I’m including myself, have reacted to recent losses, not even including leading up to this game. I’m not saying that isn’t justified, rather he understandably wants a united front both with the team and supporters.

I take his comments as that he’s just now realizing what a knife’s edge the club sits on, and realizing the scope of work it will take to turn it around.
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I think he was just venting because he was pissed off. If you apply what he said to the players then he meant Porro for their goals and Son for the missed sitter. Two of his favourite players. I am sure he would say something else today.

The problem he has made for himself now is that he will be asked to explain what he meant. It’s good in a way that the season is soon over and he can have some time in Brisbane.
 
Sorry Ange, but i'm at peace with what happened...

Losing last night ONLY mattered BECAUSE we lost 4 in row in the OTHER BIG games.
If Ange wants to have a go at the fans... he should maybe ask himself WHY we even kept coming back after FOUR DEFEATS on the bounce, against teams who WERE in and around us, and winning ANY of them would've put us in a stronger position for CL Qualification.

To not be unhappy 'cos we LOST against the ONLY team who can now stop Woolwich, beggars the question that WE coulda been the team to stop Woolwich by beating them a few weeks ago... but we failed to do that... same as we failed to capitalise on our great start this season, and failed to change our tactics when EVERY fucker had worked us out... guess what, the FANS he lambasted, saw that coming in JANUARY...

Just a shame the Guy who CAN change the team tactics/formation chose stubbornly not to... mate!

'cos all the fans doing the Poznan last night, were only doing it out of a sense of frustration and relief that OUR shit 2nd half of the season didn't end with potentially handing Woolwich the title...

let West Ham deal with that conundrum... we didn't do OUR bit against either of them... but we certainly did our bit last night!
 
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I've just watched Postecoglou's post-match press conference. He let the mask slip there, didn't he?

Okay, he's understandably in disagreement with anyone who wanted Spurs to lose last night, and that pissed him off, but I sense that it's not the entire picture. Conflicts behind the scenes would be my guess, possibly brought to a head by the win/lose debate.

He came very close to losing it and showing his 'Mr Angry' side, which is why he had to walk out of the presser.
It looks to me like there's a battle of wills going on behind the scenes, with Ange's position being 'My Way or No Way'. Who's not fully onboard with him? No idea, but the Summer will be interesting, one way or another. I don't think we'll be starting next season as a 'carry-on' film - changes are afooooooot.

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ILSpur said:
The more time that goes by the more I have zero issues with his comments. He said the foundations are fragile and I don’t know how anyone can really argue with that.

We’ve been talking about how mentally fragile these players are for weeks now, and some for years. The fans are at their wits ends and just look at how this place, and I’m including myself, have reacted to recent losses, not even including leading up to this game. I’m not saying that isn’t justified, rather he understandably wants a united front both with the team and supporters.

I take his comments as that he’s just now realizing what a knife’s edge the club sits on, and realizing the scope of work it will take to turn it around.
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The foundations are not fragile. He has good players to work with. Spurs have great fans who have been far better to him than his recent comments deserve. The part of this equation that is fragile is his ego.
 
manmountainbutters said:
I keep reading this "draw was no use"

It's wrong.

A draw would have got us into the Europa.

Trust me that if we make the Europa Final this forum will be ablaze with excitement and rightly so.

We now have to get that point or three away from home. We should. But it's not a certainty by any stretch.
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This is the kind of mentality the manager is calling out.

If you don't believe we'll beat bottom of the league Sheffield then you might as well pack up and go home.
 
mummy said:
I've just watched Postecoglou's post-match press conference. He let the mask slip there, didn't he?

Okay, he's understandably in disagreement with anyone who wanted Spurs to lose last night, and that pissed him off, but I sense that it's not the entire picture. Conflicts behind the scenes would be my guess, possibly brought to a head by the win/lose debate.

He came very close to losing it and showing his 'Mr Angry' side, which is why he had to walk out of the presser.
It looks to me like there's a battle of wills going on behind the scenes, with Ange's position being 'My Way or No Way'. Who's not fully onboard with him? No idea, but the Summer will be interesting, one way or another. I don't think we'll be starting next season as a 'carry-on' film - changes are afooooooot.

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It was our press officer who stopped it, not Postecoglou. He looked like he was fine to carry on but our guy called it a day. Watch again how it ends.
 
Hrytn said:
Do you think how Ange behaved and what he said was the right thing to do during the mancity post match interview?
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We’ve heard far worse from managers before, some of it from our own.

The whole thing is being blown out of proportion IMHO.

We want our players to show some steel and backbone, yet we’re whining about some comments that could be taken either way, said in the emotion of post match where he’s seen his own team’s fans happy to lose and not being quiet about it either.

We need to harden up as fanbase and stop forensically dissecting everything looking for the negative.

Take the medicine and move on!
 
I doubt Anges comments were aimed at fans. That they were so cryptic leaves them open to interpretation. It invites misunderstanding and all kinds of reactions, angry or otherwise.
 
mummy said:
I've just watched Postecoglou's post-match press conference. He let the mask slip there, didn't he?

Okay, he's understandably in disagreement with anyone who wanted Spurs to lose last night, and that pissed him off, but I sense that it's not the entire picture. Conflicts behind the scenes would be my guess, possibly brought to a head by the win/lose debate.

He came very close to losing it and showing his 'Mr Angry' side, which is why he had to walk out of the presser.
It looks to me like there's a battle of wills going on behind the scenes, with Ange's position being 'My Way or No Way'. Who's not fully onboard with him? No idea, but the Summer will be interesting, one way or another. I don't think we'll be starting next season as a 'carry-on' film - changes are afooooooot.

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Shadydan said:
The foundations of the club's mentality is broken, I think that's what he was referring to.
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But is it? Not trying to be disagreeable, but how would anyone begin to measure that? There's been a lot of turnover of players, so you can't put it all down to any attitude they carried over. As for the fans, I think they have been very supportive of him. Most games (granted I watch them on TV) the fans sound like they are enthusiastic. Up until recently Postecoglou had turned the press room into a petting zoo. The media has treated him with kid gloves. As for player acquisitions, the front office seems in sync with him or at least he's said that a number of times. There's nothing about Spurs he didn't know when he took the job. The mentality he has to work own belongs to himself.
 
Dudski said:
The foundations are not fragile. He has good players to work with. Spurs have great fans who have been far better to him than his recent comments deserve. The part of this equation that is fragile is his ego.
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For sure, I think the fans are amazing and I don’t think that’s bias talking, especially compared to other clubs. But I don’t think that it’s unrealistic to say that the fans are super restless as well, and rightly so. There is frustration with the club, the players, and the coach so while he would love just 100% pure backing from the fans that isn’t the case at the moment.

We have a handful of elite players with the right mentality, a bunch of high quality players with super fragile mentality, and a bunch that just aren’t good enough. You don’t win anything with that combination.

I think what people are getting caught up in is that they think Ange called them specifically “fragile”. He called the foundations fragile.
 
TravellerOfBoth said:
I have to give him credit for Mourinho level politics and tricks that I didn't think he had in him. The conversation should be the collapse in this second half of the season and the 5 defeats in 6.

However, the press, every other fan in the country and even the most spineless of Spurs have shifted their focus to how much of a disgrace the "toxic" Spurs fans are. And the biggest joke of all ... "Ange is a winner and deserves better". Fuck right off.

I'm not completely unreasonable. I'm willing to give him a chance... But only if he's willing to look in the mirror and see what he needs to work on in himself.
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Yep, 100% agreed. That is next level blame game to shit on fans and everything, after:
- you have delivered 10 points from 10 EPL games;
- you oversaw your squad totally fucking embarrassed and ripped apart within first half of NLD despite having 14 days to come up with solutions to play better and be prepared;
- you haven't got the team to play even 1 (!) game in 2024 well from start to finish (Villa game hardly counts, they played most 2nd half with 10 men and they were dangerous to our goal even on 80th minute while being 0:2 down)
- you have been faced with painfully obvious issues in defending and has seen your coached team to keep 1 (!) clean sheet within 18 (!) games
- within last month, ONLY two goals from attackers in open play came when Liverpool was already 4:0 up; apart from that we either have not scored, converted penalty or saw our defenders score goals, cause in attack there is 0 fucking idea and pointless horseshoe football

After all that to come out and divert blame for doing pathatically shit job - it is borderline outrageous.
Eat an humble-pie and look into mirror before calling others names.
 
Dudski said:
But is it? Not trying to be disagreeable, but how would anyone begin to measure that? There's been a lot of turnover of players, so you can't put it all down to any attitude they carried over. As for the fans, I think they have been very supportive of him. Most games (granted I watch them on TV) the fans sound like they are enthusiastic. Up until recently Postecoglou had turned the press room into a petting zoo. The media has treated him with kid gloves. As for player acquisitions, the front office seems in sync with him or at least he's said that a number of times. There's nothing about Spurs he didn't know when he took the job. The mentality he has to work own belongs to himself.
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Is this a serious question?

The mentality of this club is on the floor, from owner to management to players to fans, if there wasn't much evidence of it over the last 30 years or so when we've only picked up 3 trophies since 1991 for Christ's sake.

We obviously lack a winning culture which is a collective issue and since that's happened our fans no longer have the belief of anything this club does, look at the reaction in here over the past few weeks for example our fans have turned on yet another manager in the space of a few weeks.

It's a collective issue that needs addressing from top to bottom, to bottom to top.
 
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