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Management Ange Postecoglou

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In response to a journo asking if he could have made subs earlier:

"All these things are totally irrelevant to me, substitutions and all those kind of things.

If you're not competitive, it doesn't matter what you do, you don't deserve to win, we didn't deserve to win based on our second half performance; irrespective of subs or anything else and I think if you do get something out of the game, then you're falsely rewarded and I don't want to get falsely rewarded"


This may be the most idiotic statement I have heard from a football manager in a very long time, if not ever.

So, according to his own words, our second half performance was bad and we didn't deserve to win but making subs are irrelevant and if he did make a sub and we managed to win the game he wouldn't want it because we would have been falsely rewarded for, you know, turning the game around with subs...

It makes no fucking sense at all, why are you even the manager then you clueless moron if not to change the game with the one thing you have control over outside of tactics?

Also, I thought he was a winner? What does it matter if you're "falsely rewarded" if you win a fucking football match?

It's arrogance, ignorance and stupidity, a bumbling cunt with no clue as far as I am concerned.
That's mad. Ange is becoming an arrogant prick.
 
He really, really needs to stop saying stuff like this.

He has this very underhand, passive aggressive way of saying ‘it’s all my responsibility’ whilst simultaneously throwing the players under the bus and, in actual fact, hinting that it’s not his responsibility.

Jose and Conte were cunts, but they were more honest cunts.
 
Ok but last season when we had the best start in PL it was different story innit.

We probably aren’t, but we’ve been close once or twice. I’d like to at least experience that again even if we won’t win it.

We won’t win shit with this system imo. When it really starts to matter in later stages, one wrong step and you’re out. At the moment we don’t show any consistency that could give me hope that we won’t fuck up in one of those knock out games.
We never win shit in any system
 
That's a sack-worthy statement TBH.

One could go many ways with this:
- So, what is his job during the match? Why not send them and stay home?
- Why did he then make his weird subs? What is a 17-yo going to do in 5 minutes?
- Is his goal to WIN matches, or decide if we deserve to win or not?
- So, if we play like YKW against Real Madrid, and we win by an own goal, is he going to forfeit the win?
- and more....

Amazing. But at the end, when one is on the wrong and know he is wrong, the more they talk the worse it gets.

:cool:
His job is to create a winning culture and club, not treat a week 7 match like it’s some sort of cup final.

He’s trying to push his team and help them mature and learn, not bail on them at the first sign of doubt.

The knee jerk after 1 match is so ridiculous. Find some hobbies and don’t make your entire life about if we won a game we’ll mostly forget about by the end of the year.
 
We havent won 3 league games on the trot since December. You are going to get nowhere with that inconsistancy. Its exactly like our great performance at Villa last season followed by the Fulham 3-0. We'll beat most of the rubbish, look good on the odd day but forget top 4. 6th to 9th if we carry on like this.
 
He really, really needs to stop saying stuff like this.

He has this very underhand, passive aggressive way of saying ‘it’s all my responsibility’ whilst simultaneously throwing the players under the bus and, in actual fact, hinting that it’s not his responsibility.

Jose and Conte were cunts, but they were more honest cunts.
he fools some idiots on here with it. hes a proper wanker of a bloke. its a good job for him footballers are soft these days because hed be getting a whack in the mouth if there were some men in there after the shit hes trying to pull to mask his incompetence. chucking them under the bus in a snidey way the piece of shit.

i wonder what the likes of maddison and co really think of him? they will be aware of the strokes hes trying to pull to save his own face here. levy needs to act quick. not only is our season on the line here, but having this idiot loiter about all year will put us back years.
 
Bizarre comments and attitude from Ange regarding the lack of subs.

It's as if he said: You've got yourselves into this situation and I'm not going to bail you out of it with some clever substitutions. He needs to be pressed on those comments by journalists (if any have the balls) because that's how it comes across.
 
We havent won 3 league games on the trot since December. You are going to get nowhere with that inconsistancy. Its exactly like our great performance at Villa last season followed by the Fulham 3-0. We'll beat most of the rubbish, look good on the odd day but forget top 4. 6th to 9th if we carry on like this.
Yup, you won't go over 60-65 points/season with this kind of form. Which gives you exactly league positions that you have mentioned.
 
Yup, you won't go over 60-65 points/season with this kind of form. Which gives you exactly league positions that you have mentioned.
we will/are getting worse. when youve got a manager who doesnt even value subs and know how to change a game back into our favour then youre fighting an uphill battle. other teams have switched on managers. theyll love coming up against a guy who doesnt know how to switch things up and doesnt value subs....

dont care what anyone says our squad is good enough to be competing for 4th at a minimum...we will struggle to get 8th with this clown.
 
the players deserved to be chucked under the bus this time

when they play well and lose, ange will protect them, when they make a mistake because they are exposed playing his way, he will protect them, when they are all caught ball watching and not being able to do fundamental things then they get thrown under the bus
 
In response to a journo asking if he could have made subs earlier:

"All these things are totally irrelevant to me, substitutions and all those kind of things.

If you're not competitive, it doesn't matter what you do, you don't deserve to win, we didn't deserve to win based on our second half performance; irrespective of subs or anything else and I think if you do get something out of the game, then you're falsely rewarded and I don't want to get falsely rewarded"


This may be the most idiotic statement I have heard from a football manager in a very long time, if not ever.

So, according to his own words, our second half performance was bad and we didn't deserve to win but making subs are irrelevant and if he did make a sub and we managed to win the game he wouldn't want it because we would have been falsely rewarded for, you know, turning the game around with subs...

It makes no fucking sense at all, why are you even the manager then you clueless moron if not to change the game with the one thing you have control over outside of tactics?

Also, I thought he was a winner? What does it matter if you're "falsely rewarded" if you win a fucking football match?

It's arrogance, ignorance and stupidity, a bumbling cunt with no clue as far as I am concerned.
Now thats an insanely worrying statement, to be successful at some points in the season you're going to be "falsely rewarded", theres nothing wrong with seeing were not competing in the second half and being proactive with your subs to try gain a bit of control of the game again.

I love the way he sets us out to play the game and our football in the first half was beautiful, but were going to do absolutely nothing if he cant improve his in game management, were not going to be perfect every week , there's going to be times where we lose momentum in a game and thats where you look to your manager to come up with a new plan and he seems unable to do that.
 
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