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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
Kosher Kid said:
Pains me to say it but this guy may have been right all along.


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skimmed through a bit of that, bang on about slot. i posted a video up a couple weeks ago of his interviews since hes been at liverpool. compare slots interviews with this idiot and it exposes him even more. slot is a football person, postecoglou is a two bob motivational speaker. its actually comical that they are meant to be peers looooool.

in 18 months postecoglou has not once to my knowledge spoke about football or tactics. its all generic shit that a blagger could come out with. "didnt get to the levels we want to" bla bla fucking bla.

"its who we are" LOOOOOL. this is the sort of reply he gives when asked about having a suicidal high line with 9 men. this idiot is a clear charlatan, its actually funny.
 
daveyboy88 said:
skimmed through a bit of that, bang on about slot. i posted a video up a couple weeks ago of his interviews since hes been at liverpool. compare slots interviews with this idiot and it exposes him even more. slot is a football person, postecoglou is a two bob motivational speaker. its actually comical that they are meant to be peers looooool.

in 18 months postecoglou has not once to my knowledge spoke about football or tactics. its all generic shit that a blagger could come out with. "didnt get to the levels we want to" bla bla fucking bla.

"its who we are" LOOOOOL. this is the sort of reply he gives when asked about having a suicidal high line with 9 men. this idiot is a clear charlatan, its actually funny.
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So… what you ‘re saying that Slot is a “proper football man”, then?


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Pedders81 said:
An interesting comparison:

Spurs - 9 first team squad injuries. 1 league win in 9. 15 points off 4th place.

Bournemouth - 9 first team squad injuries. Unbeaten in 9 league games. 4 points off 4th place.

What a difference a competent manager makes.
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Watching the first half of the Newcastle Bournemouth game it is impressive how well coached Iraola has them. You don't look at their players and think there's stunning quality there. They're decent players, don't get me wrong. But the sum is greater than its parts.
As for us...we are a mess tactically.
 
HenryHotspurII said:
Watching the first half of the Newcastle Bournemouth game it is impressive how well coached Iraola has them. You don't look at their players and think there's stunning quality there. They're decent players, don't get me wrong. But the sum is greater than its parts.
As for us...we are a mess tactically.
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The tactical side of it is down to ange. The most disorganised Tottenham team i have seen for years.
No identity really at all, just a heap of nothing, even with the injured players it was nothing special.
The odd good win here followed by embarrassing defeats/performances.
 
Ange watching the Newcastle game tryng to figure out how Iraola is doing it.

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Distaste for scouse said:
Different managers have different approaches when it comes to intensity and training methods. Do you not remember the criticism Conte came in for when he ran the players to death on that pre-season tour. He was luckier with injuries than Ange.

You don't compromise your approach if your a manager. Look at Klopp with his heavy metal football. If a reporter had asked him "Jurgen would you temper your heavy metal football to protect the players from injury" I wager he would have laughed.
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I don't understand the points you're making in relation to the specific point we're addressing. You said it was ridiculous to suggest Ange doesn't care about injuries - but now you're saying he wouldn't (nor shouldn't) compromise his style just to stave off injuries.
Then you've brought up Klopp in Ange's defence - but Klopp didn't suffer with injuries at Dortmund or Liverpool like Ange has at Celtic or Spurs.
I cant find it, but there was a post match interview near the beginning of his tenure at us where he said he liked players who came back sooner from injuries and wanted to play through pain.
Our injury situ is definitely some, but surely not ALL, bad luck.

On another tack - go and check Bournemouth's injury list - it's lengthier than ours - they're now 13 points above us having just beaten the form team in league 4-1 at their gaff
 
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dudu said:
Personally, looking at where most of our injuries have come from it is in defence.

Vicario..... unfortunate
VDV recurring Hamstring injury
Romero.... was a foot injury then a hamstring issue after doing a stupid turn in the box.

These issues then forced us to have to play others for more than we would have liked which then caused other injuries.

Udogie should have been rested more for sure though and that is down to ange.

Our MF and Attack do more sprints than our defenders - much more in fact and there are stats out there to show it. These players bar Werner aren't occurring because of over training.... I doubt that was Odoberts issues either as he was barely with us 5 mins before he got injured.

So in short. I'm not 100% sure but I think especially in defence the iSsue is exsperated by having to over play some players becauee of the other injuries.

What do you think?
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But VDV sprinting back constantly and have to make sliding tackles is not helping is it? Udogie hammer, odebert reaction to the style possibly. Forwards are less likely to reach stretch and slide etc. We had a lot of injury problems last year when Ange actually complained we werent playing enough games. So has to be something there in what were doing
 
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