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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
whenstevewentup said:
As much as I detest that club it’s true , big teams find a way , small clubs hide behind excuses.
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Yup, fuck off as well. Reported for being a blatant gooner.

I've never met one Spurs fan refer to them as a "big club" . They should never have left woolwich and were never even promoted to Division 1.

Arteta wears heel extensions to make himself look taller and picks a rapist every week.
 
theyearoftheone said:
Son hit the crossbar would it been less of a disgrace if he hit it straight at the keeper 🤔
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I can't see how Son hitting the crossbar is relevant to the point I am making.

Son's shot hit the crossbar because he was forced to shoot from an angle it was virtually impossible to score from.

It was a desperate attempt, at a consolation goal, towards the end of the game, when we were 4-0 down on the night.

There's nothing there to get hold of.
 
As silly as it sounds, now that he has avoided the sack despite going out of two cups, he actually has a considerable chance to get the next season. Unless Levy and co have already made their minds about him, and are counting the days til the summer that is. As I said in another thread, a correlation between a possible upturn in form and injured players coming back would easily be interpretable as the latter causing the former, making a case for sticking with him despite everything.

Since those 10 matches he has never been on anything that can be considered a proper run. But if he flukes a win streak of let's say 4 or 5, even solely based on regression to the mean because of how awful we've been in the last couple of months, then they might find it hard to let him go in the summer. Especially after their refusal to do so during the absolute worst.
 
BJK said:
As silly as it sounds, now that he has avoided the sack despite going out of two cups, he actually has a considerable chance to get the next season. Unless Levy and co have already made their minds about him, and are counting the days til the summer that is. As I said in another thread, a correlation between a possible upturn in form and injured players coming back would easily be interpretable as the latter causing the former, making a case for sticking with him despite everything.

Since those 10 matches he has never been on anything that can be considered a proper run. But if he flukes a win streak of let's say 4 or 5, even solely based on regression to the mean because of how awful we've been in the last couple of months, then they might find it hard to let him go in the summer. Especially after their refusal to do so during the absolute worst.
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He's avoided the tin tack as there was no alternative all the names on the list are employed.Even Levy doesn't want to go back to Mason.
I think they believe relegation is extremely unlikely so nothing to be gained by getting rid now
 
Dark Shadow said:
He's avoided the tin tack as there was no alternative all the names on the list are employed.Even Levy doesn't want to go back to Mason.
I think they believe relegation is extremely unlikely so nothing to be gained by getting rid now
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So we have a chairman who keeps making terrible decisions; he has hired a manager he wants to sack but is avoiding sacking him because he is incapable of bringing in an external candidate, probably due to the cost, and the internal candidates are also terrible?

A shit chairman, with a shit manager who has shit coaches and assistants.

And we pay top dollar. :gallashmm:
 
I mean, sacking a manager is like seeing a doctor or taking medication in the sense that it's usually done when symptoms peak. Unless the worst somehow is yet to come, the only way is up from now on. By up I don't mean anything beyond a purple patch of some kind, but this might be all it takes for Levy and co to be swayed. Especially if they have already started doing some groundwork for a summer replacement without much result.

Going crawling back to Ange of all people would be pathetic, but for some reason I can see it happening.
 
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We have easily a big enough sample sized to encompass all of the variables and the conclusion that is most obvious is poor coach. He isn't special here, his work in the Japanese league is the highest level league he's worked at. His success there means less than winning the second division. So waiting for some special alignment of factors that make up for all his coaching deficits is just magical thinking. Blind nationalism on the part of the Australian glee club.
 
He can have the players back, we ain't winning shit under him because he's a shite manager. Proved to be a shite manager with good players already, could't get absolute nothing with some injuries, it's very clear how bad he is and if he's still here next season it will be another missed season, with players bad coached, a middle of the table finishing, embarassment and our better players gone. If Levy is thinking he's wise by keeping this turd in here and save some money, wait until summer window and our best players making transfer requests because they are tired of playing this shite football.
 
BJK said:
As silly as it sounds, now that he has avoided the sack despite going out of two cups, he actually has a considerable chance to get the next season. Unless Levy and co have already made their minds about him, and are counting the days til the summer that is. As I said in another thread, a correlation between a possible upturn in form and injured players coming back would easily be interpretable as the latter causing the former, making a case for sticking with him despite everything.

Since those 10 matches he has never been on anything that can be considered a proper run. But if he flukes a win streak of let's say 4 or 5, even solely based on regression to the mean because of how awful we've been in the last couple of months, then they might find it hard to let him go in the summer. Especially after their refusal to do so during the absolute worst.
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Regression to a mean ; implies that for every unlikely event that goes against us ; eg losing at home to Leicester, The Tractor Boys drawing with Wolves , Fulham etc

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to be matched with equally unlikely events e.g. beating LFC and Chavski away etc occurring in our favour.

Then it all balances itself out .

I really hope it happens but I’m not over-optimistic TBH .

Obviously this assumes that our previous results ( and current league position) have happened either by random chance or by so many interacting random factors
( freak injuries / VAR / the bounce of the ball / Acts of God etc ) that it amounts to the same thing .
 
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Charlie F said:
Woolwich have a lot of injuries now- no strikers.
Arteta improvised and it worked.
Maybe Ange - just does not see things.
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The two things are not the same though. In his first two seasons Arteta was getting pounded more often than Bonnie Blue whilst he got the squad into some sort of shape. Now he has a rock solid back five, a midfield with experienced and top-performing players in it. Yeah, he’s missing some attackers, but the structure of the team is solid.
 
Spaniel said:
And he's not savvy enough to realise it and/or he's too thick and stubborn to change it..
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I reckon he figured out last season that it's not really ever gonna work.
But he is on £5m a year here. He was on £2m a year at Celtic. Which probably dwarfed what he was on in the A/J Leagues.
He knows this is his last big money contract, so just carry on as normal. Either it works and get gets big bucks or it doesn't.......and he gets big bucks.
 
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