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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Was sacking Ange a good idea?

  • Yes, I think it was a good idea.

    Votes: 73 64.6%

  • No, I think it was a bad idea.

    Votes: 40 35.4%
  • Total voters
    113
FightingIllini said:

View: https://x.com/simonyemane/status/1869881839638176200

The day may come when we don't have anything to show for it all and the defensive frailties and undue appetite for risk just take too much off the table and the only sensible thing is to give someone else a go.

But after all the bullshit we've been through and the toxicity and self-seriousness that the whole world is always trying to inject into this club and the bunch of kids he's been handed to work with, I just totally click with Ange's devil-may-care attitude, it's the breath of fresh air we've needed.

Good on ya mate :ange-clap:
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We beat a side with bigger defensive frailties than our own.

If that makes people happy fair enough. I thought it was a shitshow, and were it a different side. A competent side. We would have lost.

Nobody is going to have success in the premier league playing the way we play.
 
Pepperami said:
If he's just gonna stand on the sideline and do nothing but watch the game wouldn't he be better off up in the stand? I'm serious. He'd get a better view up there at least.

Things were going tits up at 3-2, the camera cuts to Ange and as usual he's like a statue. "Fucking run around a bit."
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Would you prefer Amorims praying on the sidelines :D

Football fans and their moaning about perceived managerial failures on the touchline are the single most ridiculous things about fandom. :roflmao:
 
happy pants said:
Who cares? It’s an unforgiving job with a lot of pressure and accountabilities. Plus no other job has thousands of dickheads baying for your blood every time you fart in the wrong direction
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It’s like saying the pain of giving birth is the worst pain a human can have. Well I’ve banged my shin on the tow hitch of a car and I’m here to tell you it’s worse (and you don’t have any support people). Angelos is just saying it’s a tough gig. So Messers Happy Pants (if that IS your real name) I couldn’t agree more.
 
PatagoniaPhil said:
We beat a side with bigger defensive frailties than our own.

If that makes people happy fair enough. I thought it was a shitshow, and were it a different side. A competent side. We would have lost.

Nobody is going to have success in the premier league playing the way we play.
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We had 10 players out you muppet

This is the same team you've been waxing lyrical all over since the Summer by the way and you were adamant they've overtaken us yet here you are making excuses for them when they have a full squad to pick from

Clown sanctuary in full swing again, I swear half of you aren't Spurs fans
 
FightingIllini said:

View: https://x.com/simonyemane/status/1869881839638176200

The day may come when we don't have anything to show for it all and the defensive frailties and undue appetite for risk just take too much off the table and the only sensible thing is to give someone else a go.

But after all the bullshit we've been through and the toxicity and self-seriousness that the whole world is always trying to inject into this club and the bunch of kids he's been handed to work with, I just totally click with Ange's devil-may-care attitude, it's the breath of fresh air we've needed.

Good on ya mate :ange-clap:
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So be it
 
Done said:
It’s like saying the pain of giving birth is the worst pain a human can have. Well I’ve banged my shin on the tow hitch of a car and I’m here to tell you it’s worse (and you don’t have any support people). Angelos is just saying it’s a tough gig. So Messers Happy Pants (if that IS your real name) I couldn’t agree more.
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Pants by name, pants by nature.

I’m rewatching the Wire at the moment and being a teacher in a poor, drug fucked neighbourhood with violent, traumatised kids in America would have to be up there for hardest jobs. That’s not including the stress of potential school shootings at any minute. Was it silly for Ange to say what he did? Possibly. The stakes of difficult jobs are different but the levels of stress might be comparable.
 
Pepperami said:
If he's just gonna stand on the sideline and do nothing but watch the game wouldn't he be better off up in the stand? I'm serious. He'd get a better view up there at least.

Things were going tits up at 3-2, the camera cuts to Ange and as usual he's like a statue. "Fucking run around a bit."
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Once the players are on the pitch, it's their job to know what to do. They don't need the coach bellowing at them from the sidelines if they are executing their role as planned.

Having a coach screaming on the side lines can have the effect of players hiding from the ball; or playing it safe to avoid criticism.

I like that Ange lets them get on with it.
 
harry7 said:
Once the players are on the pitch, it's their job to know what to do. They don't need the coach bellowing at them from the sidelines if they are executing their role as planned.

Having a coach screaming on the side lines can have the effect of players hiding from the ball; or playing it safe to avoid criticism.

I like that Ange lets them get on with it.
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It’s almost like the people demanding he screams from the sidelines don’t really understand coaching enough to know there are different ways to do it.
 
harry7 said:
Once the players are on the pitch, it's their job to know what to do. They don't need the coach bellowing at them from the sidelines if they are executing their role as planned.

Having a coach screaming on the side lines can have the effect of players hiding from the ball; or playing it safe to avoid criticism.

I like that Ange lets them get on with it.
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Agreed but passion merchants like that sort of thing.

I think players are over coached these days anyway, players need to be trusted to work things out for themselves not told what to do at every opportunity.
 
happy pants said:
Pants by name, pants by nature.

I’m rewatching the Wire at the moment and being a teacher in a poor, drug fucked neighbourhood with violent, traumatised kids in America would have to be up there for hardest jobs. That’s not including the stress of potential school shootings at any minute. Was it silly for Ange to say what he did? Possibly. The stakes of difficult jobs are different but the levels of stress might be comparable.
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Shhheeeeeettt
 
happy pants said:
Pants by name, pants by nature.

I’m rewatching the Wire at the moment and being a teacher in a poor, drug fucked neighbourhood with violent, traumatised kids in America would have to be up there for hardest jobs. That’s not including the stress of potential school shootings at any minute. Was it silly for Ange to say what he did? Possibly. The stakes of difficult jobs are different but the levels of stress might be comparable.
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I was a teacher for a few years working with (terminology used at the time) ‘students at risk’. My bit was hard enough, but others on staff had a really tough job. Everyone has stress and challenges no doubt - just the overall (subjective/objective) consequences are different. Ange (or any manager) is presiding over a lot of people’s happiness (183million if Wiki is on song). Boris, Thatcher, Starmer, they are expected to be average at best, and have/had no problem throwing ministers and secretaries under the bus
 
Incomplete_usernam said:
How is it shit baiting? Let’s see what he said shall we?


View: https://x.com/ChrisCowlin/status/1869713962469822835

Said “this is the hardest job in any walk of life” without a hint of sarcasm, he is dead serious when he says that and it’s absolutely insulting to many people around the world to make such an idiotic statement.

This man gets paid in one season more than most people will ever see in their entire life and for what?

I would love to see what this man would do if he was in the forces, wouldn’t last 10 mins.
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This is also the bloke who openly admitted post match that tactics and adjusting them don't come into his thinking and relys on the mistakes his players make as tactics enough going forward!!
Get this fool out of my club asap.
 
I am at peace with our style of play and playing out from the back, inciting teams to press us leads to many of our best play and goals. It was pleasing to note that Spence and Gray both seem very adept at it too. What frustrates me about Ange is that he seems very slow to react to momentum swings. The momentum swing happened at 3-0 when Man U brought on 3 fresh players and committed more men forwards. We were already running on fumes and could not cope with the tempo that Man U set. That said, it was only 2 individual errors by Forster (who has been MotM in ~80% of the games since Vicario's injury) that let them back into the game. Also, last night was tough as we did not really have a bench for Ange to be able to change anything, and both Bergvall and Johnson struggled when they came on.
 
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