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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
Mrs Perryman said:
The only reason I can see that he's not had his marching orders yet, is because we are still in the cups. I've come to that conclusion because the Board have given him no support in this transfer window, when we are crying out for some reinforcements. Therefore the blame has to be on both Ange and the Board.
The only way I can see us avoiding the drop is that three other teams are worse than us, even then it'll be nail-biting stuff until the very end.
What a sorry situation we find ourselves in, an absolute disgrace that it has been allowed to come to pass.
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Postecoglou is also a big part of the team's hopes of establishing its brand in the Pacific rim. Ties in also with Munn's selection. Spurs seem to have a bigger investment than most teams make in a manager's success. Then there are the City Group ties. Fire Postecoglou and you don't just have a failed manager, but also a botched branding effort.
 
Mrs Perryman said:
You may be right, maybe I should just let rip!
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Do It Episode 3 GIF by Star Wars
 
Dudski said:
Postecoglou is also a big part of the team's hopes of establishing its brand in the Pacific rim. Ties in also with Munn's selection. Spurs seem to have a bigger investment than most teams make in a manager's success. Then there are the City Group ties. Fire Postecoglou and you don't just have a failed manager, but also a botched branding effort.
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Your branding is in the toilet once you get relegated
 
Mrs Perryman said:
The only reason I can see that he's not had his marching orders yet, is because we are still in the cups. I've come to that conclusion because the Board have given him no support in this transfer window, when we are crying out for some reinforcements. Therefore the blame has to be on both Ange and the Board.
The only way I can see us avoiding the drop is that three other teams are worse than us, even then it'll be nail-biting stuff until the very end.
What a sorry situation we find ourselves in, an absolute disgrace that it has been allowed to come to pass.
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Also I believe DL was hoping that we could mediocre our way through til season end …. Then get the new manager in

Sack Ange now and it’s unlikely we bring in who we want assuming they’re currently managing

I’m sure if we had the right person primed then Ange would be sacked
 
Richard Arlison said:

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Big 10 days for Ange. Do or die for his future. Odds are he’s probably a goner but at its best Ange ball is the best football we’ve seen at Spurs in the PL era and it’s not close.

Sure, it’s risky and fragile when everything isn’t clicking and we are a mess atm but when it is, we’ve done it to every level of team and battered them.
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It’s not the best football we’ve seen. Poch and Arry were much better. Under Redknapp we attacked on the wings and unlike Ange had guys like Sarge and then Sandro bossing in DM. Under Poch we’re were amazing, balanced, pressing, defensively organized and even god forbid long passes from defenders splitting teams open.

I not going to say there has not been amazing moments under Ange, especially when playing out from the back ends in a goal. But I’ve not seen a worse manager ever at Spurs. What a disorganized, idiosyncratic mess we are in.
 
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Carbon copy situation, but one where at least the coach has a history to underpin their continued tenure.

Forget the financial differences, both scenarios raise big questions about faith.

In our case myopic and skewed faith.
 
Richard Arlison said:

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Big 10 days for Ange. Do or die for his future. Odds are he’s probably a goner but at its best Ange ball is the best football we’ve seen at Spurs in the PL era and it’s not close.

Sure, it’s risky and fragile when everything isn’t clicking and we are a mess atm but when it is, we’ve done it to every level of team and battered them.
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Fuck me.
I’m giving that twitterer a mental age of 8.

You’re better than this.
A sad day.
 
Richard Arlison said:

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Big 10 days for Ange. Do or die for his future. Odds are he’s probably a goner but at its best Ange ball is the best football we’ve seen at Spurs in the PL era and it’s not close.

Sure, it’s risky and fragile when everything isn’t clicking and we are a mess atm but when it is, we’ve done it to every level of team and battered them.
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"At its best" being the ten games + a handful of others we've experienced over the last 18 months? It was a scintillating start cut off at the knees, and Ange didn't have the gumption to adapt. Stubbornness is rarely an attractive trait.

When your best performances are succeeded by a relentless shower of shite, I'm surprised you can still smell the roses.
 
Klaus said:
This. In 18 months, I have never, NEVER, seen him mention one word about tactics.

Slot, within 5 minutes of him arriving at Liverpool, was happily talking about his back 4 positioning change at half time against Ipswich to exploit the press, explaining to the reporter how their positioning was important for when they lose the ball.

Pep: look at Pep's eyes light up when he gets asked a tactical question by a reporter. He's so obsessed with this sport he spends 10 minutes at the end of games chatting to opposition players, presumably about what they could have done better on the pitch, or what he liked about their game. He lives the sport, he lives tactics, and you can see that in the results he gets.

Arteta: was handpicked by Pep to be his coach because he's just as obsessed with football. Famously they spent an hour discussing tactics after one of the games when Arteta was still a player. And again you can see that in what he's done for Woolwich over the past 5 years.

Go through the list. Emery, tactics obsessed, turned Villa from relegation into CL regulars. Howe, already a hugely accomplished manager having taken Bournemouth up 4 divisions, but he wasn't satisfied with that so in his sabbatical after Bournemouth went and studied under Simeone - because he's a smart, curious man who loves the sport and likes learning. Since then he's taken Newcastle from relegation to the CL.

Smart men, interest in the game, deep thinkers about the sport, and they get results.

Then you have our muppet. Never utters a word about positioning, tactical adjustments, pressing, structure, never says a single insightful thing about the sport he spends all day watching. Just the same old guff about effort, being together as a team.

Has he ever made a good tactical change in his life, a substitution where you've felt "yeah, this guy really gets what he's seeing on the pitch"? No. It's "oh we're losing, better sub our entire midfield" - something no competent manager has ever done in the history of this sport as far as I'm aware.

And Dier famously said he doesn't do any tactics. People wrote this off back then - is anyone surprised about it now?

It's becoming eminently clear this man is a pub level manager, who doesn't think deeply about this sport one iota. He'd be on a building site if he wasn't involved in the game. He's a charlatan of the highest order. And is absolutely sinking this club right now, and has hoodwinked half the fanbase in the process.
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I’ve noticed this too - no analysis/feedback after games.

Be afraid, be very afraid!
 
PatagoniaPhil said:
I normally listen to this guy with interest. but this interview couldnt be anymore on the fence. The numbers are stark, the evidence undeniable. Levy is a coward. The club is massively underachieving.
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He’s on the fence, somewhat, as he’s a finance professor (I think), so he feels compelled to highlight both sides (that we are brilliantly run from a purely, non-fan, business perspective). But, he repeatedly states things like “However, that’s not why we support clubs” and refers to our lack our trophy success amongst all the financial “wins” etc.

We just increased our events capacity to 20 a year, which may yield 3-4x the extra income it generates, which probably takes that income stream from equivalent to a moderate EL run, up to that of a CL run.

Anyway, I’m of the soft opinion that Ange should go, that he can’t turn things around from here, but, equally would like Levy and ENIC for foxtrot Oscar.
 
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