Leicester away at the start of the season. Battered them but somehow dropped points. Nothing learned from season 1 and that fixture to me was telling.
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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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Keep till the end of the season. In the summer get someone who can operate within the boards constraints.
Only managers I know of like that are Silva and Frank. I'm sure there are countless others.
I haven't been overly critical of him because I do think the root of the issue is above him. But he will never build a team to compete under this ownership. Which is why the painful rebuild talk is bullshit. It's not a painful rebuild, it's just painful.
But even if he's properly backed he just cannot get us to defend well or have control over games.
Only managers I know of like that are Silva and Frank. I'm sure there are countless others.
I haven't been overly critical of him because I do think the root of the issue is above him. But he will never build a team to compete under this ownership. Which is why the painful rebuild talk is bullshit. It's not a painful rebuild, it's just painful.
But even if he's properly backed he just cannot get us to defend well or have control over games.
They definitely don’t know what they are doing. The evidence is overwhelming on that front.
My issue is that it didn't have to be frenetic. We just give the ball away so so often
I really hope it’s not a Mason temp position. It undermines the coach if your replacement is your understudy. If we are getting rid, get rid of them all.
He's 9/2 behind the two managers playing El Sackio tomorrow night.
If i was manager id get rid of romero, dragusin , davies for starters
Not sure about that. But I now know he's definitely not a fan of the club as much as he used to say he is, which I used to believe. A true fan wouldn't let all these years of anguish and jokes to happen when you have the means to affect change in something you love.
Mason is too timid to be involved. Hes not a leader. We need a world class scouting and coaching network bankrolled by a more ambitious owner.
We will definitely lose against southampton actually. Bottom of the table, that will probably be it.
So you mean the first loss we had under him? Wow you showed him so much patience! No wonder we go on an endless merry go round of sacking managers that always amounts to 2 fifths of fuck all
Again, I acknowledge the deeply flawed, totally lacking depth squad that Ange is working with, and he can’t legislate for Bissouma and Sarr giving away idiotic penalties, Porro jumping out the way of Enzo’s shot etc, but he does pick the side, and going back to the failed experiment of Kulusevski (9 fucking passes in 78 minutes) in midfield - against Chelsea - whilst dropping Maddison, and starting Johnson again, was fucking tactically indefensible. We had no control of that game at any stage. And there was a huge flapping gash where the R8 should be.
I know we’ve had injuries to key players lately, and ones so young that we don’t even know if they could one day be key players but, as per the post of mine I’m quoting, which itself was quoting another, Ange may have been dealt a shit hand, but he’s not playing that hand well lately.
I liked what I saw for the first 10 or so games this year, we definitely seemed to have improved facets at each end and the underlying metrics confirmed that, even if results didn’t always go our way, but the last couple of months or so games it’s not just bad results, but shit performances, shit underlying metrics and most of those have featured poor selections, game management and subs, counter intuitive to tactics and opponents.
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Weve gone from one extreme to another after conte and mourinho with Ange. Its like putting yoir car stereo on fall blast. Annoying. Need a blanced modern manager who has a plan a,b, c, d e....
Spot fucking on. Brighton fans said that 1st half was as one sided at The Amex as they could remember. That was our platform to truly kick on this season - and we totally fucked it. Because the in game management is totally non existent.
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The difference for me is that under conte and Jose we seemed scared, in some ways I feel like this team is over confident in the way they play, constantly trying to do things that don't come off.
If we drew with them, I wouldn’t really call that a battering.
ABCXGALGBTQIA+ don’t mean fuck all. 3 points or 1 point are the only numbers worth anything.
I’m not saying Mason is the answer, but it makes zero difference undermining the manager if he’s already been given the bullet!
I agree that higher quality players would help his case. I'm not a fan of watching the likes of Johnson and Werner (to name just two) fall over themselves, fail to deliver a quality cross or give the ball away trying to get past their defender. General standard of our front players are far from ideal. I somewhat sympathize with Ange in this respect.
But isn't that just a truism that applies to every manager? I mean, who wouldn't benefit from higher quality players? More to the point, the main reason they brought a manager with such an underwhelming CV is because they hoped that he would get us to punch above our weight. If we were one of those clubs that spend the GDP of some nations every summer then there wouldn't be a need for someone like Ange in the first place. We would have our pick among the most well established managers in the world. Ange should have known this when he took the job. Did he really think someone with his resume would get to work with a squad full of world class players ? That's just delusional
Why would we keep until the end of the season when there is still plenty to play for this season? We should qualify in the Europa and have every chance in that competition with a manager who can set us up professionally. Same with the FA cup and Carabao. Leagues gone but we can get another manager in and have a go at the cups
Its just too kamikaze under ange. Defenders dont look coached and players are making rushed decisions. That leads to mistakes. Tbh the warning signs were ladt season losing 5 in a row. And conceding 3 to korean league pre-season. Bayern picked us off at will as will. Hes a 2nd rate manager.