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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
another shameful post match where he gets bent out of shape and cunty with the interviewer. if you want to get angry about no hand ball call then man up and say it rather than dancing around it and getting mad that someone asked you to clarify. god what a clown
 
The Mercurial No.10 said:
If the ball had sat up nicely for Joelinton after the accidental handball and he fucking wellies it directly into the net from 25 yards, then the goal would have been ruled out and a foul awarded.

If the ball hit his hand accidentally on the way into the box and then he took it round someone and scored, the same thing would happen.

If someone whacked it into the area and it accidentally defects off a Newcastle players' arm/hand and goes in, then no goal and foul awarded.

Hitting off his arm on the way to Anthony Gordon to then score is completely different.

The Dan Burn one would maybe be the one, but I'm personally not sure of his intent as my immediate thought was that he was trying to put his arm(s) behind his back. At that point in the game with him on a yellow, it's a very hard call to make re: intent IMO and the match was sort of end to end and quite even then.

As for Ange, he's now drowning instead of being out of his depth.

Even Celtic fans can see it which says something.
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But the ref gave one and not the other? No consistency. Again. All in all, if the rule supports the decision to allow the goal to stand then it needs changing. It stopped us clearing our area and allowed them an opportunity to score. After it was played with a part of the body you are not allowed to play the ball with. Something seriously wrong
 
Kaz Hirai said:
Bournemouth don't play anything like poch's Southampton. Ironically they played somewhat like an ange team, quite a high line which required a sweeper keeper, intense pressing, lots of forward pressure

I guess because they're both brunettes of similar build doing better with a traditionally poor side. But again poch was playing for PSG and at world cups with Argentina having an elite mindset
Not to mention iraola won't have the stars align with having not one , not two but three absolutely generational world class kids in the team in Kane , son and dele , could arguably add Kyle Walker too.
Not to mention just randomly having hugo fuckin boss in goal
What an alignment, the kind Leicester had minus the doping . Crazy we still won fack all
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Fair points on playing style tbh.

I'm not advocating for Iraola btw, I think he's a talented coach but lets see what happens if he gets Bournemouth into Europe and they play twice a week next season. I hope he smashes it because I've been following his career but people acting like he's a new Poch are miles off it. ATM at least.

Xavi might be worth a shout btw.
 
Don Pedro said:
The fact posters are rattled by that idea makes you wonder if they even want us to win a trophy this year!

I mean the only advantage to us being in the bottom half is that we can just bin off the league and go full strength in Europe rather than the other way around. We've never done this before. We have always gone full strength in league.

The idea of us going full strength in Europe is scaring them because we might actually win it!
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I’m sorry but this is nonsense again, I really do appreciate that you so often try and put a positive spin on things and the forum needs it, and you try and put a positive spin on Ange and again the forum can do with it.

I just really hate this idea that people are “scared of winning things” because it somehow suits an agenda, no one here is scared of winning things. You have a group of people who think we have to stick with Ange because of SOME of the context around the club and because they feel that he can still win something, and you know what, fair enough, good for those people.

The other side is people who just don’t think Ange is going anywhere and that his tactics simple aren’t good enough to win anything. A lot of them want him gone sooner in the hope that the person coming in might be able to get the team playing in a way that actually COULD win something.

I’m sick to death of the bollocks on this forum of trying to show who is the better level of fan, or who’s more on board as a spurs fan than others because they will support things no matter what. People are Ange in, people are Ange out, and people are entitled to be either way. This thing though that people are scared of winning something, or want us to lose because it proves them right though is just complete, utter, unadulterated bollocks.

Everyone on this forum wants the best for the club, they’re just in different places over how to achieve it. The ONLY thing people are truly annoyed about, is that this club should be capable of finishing higher in the league AND challenging for cups. It shouldn’t be a choice which one to bin off considering how bad it gets in the season. That’s not just on Ange but he’s certainly a massive part of it.
 
bk_spur said:
We were in a CL final and title race less than a decade ago. Now our fans dream of winning the mickey mouse cup instead 🤡

Peak cope.
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What? 😆 😆

I hate to break it to you but we're nowhere near those levels now if you hadn't noticed.

And there's no 'instead' the argument put forward is that should we go strong in the EL compared to the league and seeing as we're nowhere in the league right now it makes sense to go strong in the EL and the cups.

Stop being a clown, your argument is stupid.
 
Gmspurs said:
So what do you think will be different this time then?

Sacked Poch
Sacked Nuno
Sacked Mourhino
Sacked Conte

Tell me - what will be different this time?

Who's the manager that we should get that we can sack in 58 games time?
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Someone practical with an indefeatable attitude. I already have politicked for Marco Silva enough, but others like him I think would be the ones. Very Poch-like
managers!
 
HampshireSpur said:
After we get dumped out of the CC by Liverpool atm.
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The chances of us beating them and advancing under Ange are nil, I might even give Mason’s Mates a better chance.

The board seems to have set this up as the reason he’ll be sacked, but it’s a shame because if we’d done it at the first international break we could be seeing some positive results and maybe some transfer business now. That would have given us the best chance at a cup trophy overall.
 
Shadydan said:
What? 😆 😆

I hate to break it to you but we're nowhere near those levels now if you hadn't noticed.

And there's no 'instead' the argument put forward is that should we go strong in the EL compared to the league and seeing as we're nowhere in the league right now it makes sense to go strong in the EL and the cups.

Stop being a clown, your argument is stupid.
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So you do admit we are “nowhere near those levels now”. You admit we’ve regressed, and are rationalizing it, and chastising me for being unsatisfied with it?

It feels like you’re incapable of seeing how much you’ve normalized failure and regression.
 
John Thomas said:
I'm sorry. But you and others like you are why our fan base gets mocked, mate.
That's the harsh reality. At least show some balls and own it.
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commanding old man GIF by South Park
 
Phomesy said:
All jokes aside Doomy - every Spurs fan in the ground today were rightly happy with such a performance under such conditions. And rightly so.

None of which means the manager shouldn't be sacked - but Gray, Spence (second half), Bergvall and Austin are worthy of every bit of praise proper Spurs fans will send their way.
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With all the shit going on around them , the players you mentioned deserve credit for their efforts today . Whatever the future holds , we have some very promising young players to look forward to in the years ahead .

All this gloom will lift eventually and hopefully better times will follow . COYS
 
White Van Jan said:
Oh ok. A complete waste of the season. Instead of just half the season.

Zero chance of top 4 and zero chance of winning a cup
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Going by comments in here, we've no chance of top 4 anyway and/or the top 4 trophy is pathetic.

We're still in all cups.

Absolutely no new manager, coming in at this stage of a season, guarantees us those things any more than Ange does.

Let's see how we go as players start returning.
 
bk_spur said:
So you do admit we are “nowhere near those levels now”. You admit we’ve regressed, and are rationalizing it, and chastising me for being unsatisfied with it?

It feels like you’re incapable of seeing how much you’ve normalized failure and regression.
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I haven't said anything about you being unsatisfied with our league position are you alright?

You said that Carabao, FA and EL are mickey mouse trophies and said you'd rather go for a EL place...to qualify for a Mickey Mouse competition you think is beneath us

Take a moment before you respond...you'll realise how fucking stupid your argument is.
 
Gmspurs said:
Keep the faith Mrs P

We've got to find out what actually happens if we stick by a manager for more than a season and a half.

We've had an awful run of luck, we've had the worst run of injuries since we used to put Doherty up top as a striker......but there's enough there to see that we've got green shoots.

Gray, Bergval, that new keeper.


Ange will come good, or Ange will fail.....but we'll never know the actual truth of whether he can or not if we sack the manager - especially given the circumstances.
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As I said, I really hope I'm wrong, but it's tough at the moment.
 
Billy Bob mate said:
Going by comments in here, we've no chance of top 4 anyway and/or the top 4 trophy is pathetic.

We're still in all cups.

Absolutely no new manager, coming in at this stage of a season, guarantees us those things any more than Ange does.

Let's see how we go as players start returning.
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It damn well does

A manager who plays what’s in front of him

A manager who plays to his injury situation

Both of those guarantee better results
 
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