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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
Gym&Chill said:
Too many games 😂😂😂😂😂 club had the privilege of being knocked out of every competition before the season even started last season and now he’s gotta play a few europa games its the end of the world.

Absolute pussy club. Who let him do this interview? Dude talks and talks and does nothing. Media darling, like his boss Ange.
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I mean it’s not rocket science the more successful you are the more games you play. I bet salah who’s probably played more games and at a much higher intensity and pressure than kulu ain’t going on about too many games. Wdf do these players want! Do they not want to qualify for CL or EL? Do they not want to get to Wembley in a domestic cup final. Bloody amazing!
 
Jaynola said:
Them clowns on LWOS coming out with absolute gems such as "some Spurs fans don't like Ange cause he's Australian" or "the team's struggled cause Ange hasn't been backed".

Who gives a toss he's an Ozzie, like seriously. And not backed? He's had 400 mil to spend.

Bunch of helmets.
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They may well feel the same about you and your position on Ange!
 
Deuterz said:
Yeah, they're not an excuse for how bad we've been, because nothing could excuse it. The injuries explain us not being at our best, they don't excuse dropping as low as 16th (!!!) in the table. Especially when our injury crisis wasn't at its height for the whole season - we simply didn't do enough before that either.

Yeah they had no defence mate. Not sure what you remember. They lost the best defender on the planet and both partners (matip and konate) and were forced to play Nat Phillips or Williams (now of the VERY lower leagues) as a result. For a very extended period.

Yeah it just happened to happen to us back to back. Newcastle further ahead in development? They were below us last season and Howe could barely spend due to FFP. Jesus. Maybe if accompanied by winning games we should win it would be fine.

Yeah the reality is that at no point this season were we looking impressive with any consistency in the league. Even when we were fit. We were also god awful at the end of last season. So that's a really extended period of being not that good, hence a loss of faith...

You referred to him with whole "Not even part of spine" thing as if losing a Saka isn't as bad as losing a CB. It is demonstrably worse - any team would take a Gabriel injury over a Saka injury. They also have both strikers out and both left wingers and right wing alternative out.

I accept that we wouldn't ever have been 16th without an injury crisis - I just don't ever accept it for an excuse for how bad it got, and have not been impressed by Ange's Spurs for a very, very long time.

We haven't played 'champagne football' since his first 10 matches so you might be waiting longer than that.

We had a settled team. It won a game then lost a game. We had a settled team at the back end of last season. It lost every big match at the end of the season and looked shattered despite only one match of football a week. What am I putting faith in here that we will be mega great when players are all fit?

Its easy to see - some people put faith in Ange and want to fall back on the injuries, other people lost faith BEFORE the injuries (or had shaken faith) anyway. I fall in to the latter camp.
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Whats this we business? Your a Gooner aren't you!
 
pleb said:
They may well feel the same about you and your position on Ange!
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dude wheres my car GIF
 
Spaniel said:
Can't get excited about beating Ipswich I'm afraid...
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It's not really a question of "being excited" though, is it?

Liverpool fans are entitled to feel excited as they accumulate points towards a well-deserved title. Forest and Bournemouth if they get wins to take them nearer to dreamt of heights, but for the rest, I guess it's just happiness you won.

Even if Ipswich say manage to get a couple of wins while Wolves slip up, I doubt their fans would be excited exactly. Hoping against hope maybe but that's something else.

In a poor league season, that happiness is the best you can ask for. If, on the other hand, we despatch AZ, see a stronger team or two eliminated and get a good draw then I might start to feel "excited". And of course, I'm used to it ending in tears, but that daring to dream is what it's all about isn't it?

Or should be.
 
Deuterz said:
I don’t like him but he has a point. Players used to get assists for a sideways pass in midfield and then Messi running through 3-4 players and scoring. Players get assists because of really simple stuff which requires very little skill, and unlike a tap in you're not even demonstrating good positioning, awareness etc.

It can be a really misleading stat dependent on how clinical your team is too - Palmer and Salah have very similar expected assists but one has 16 and the other 6. Why? More clinical teammates..

Other metrics show creativity more even though it is a VERY difficult thing to measure.
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It's a bit like the stat on shots on target - a shot that rattle the woodwork is classed as off target and one that is nothing more than a pass back to the keeper is counted as on target.
 
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Bill Madrid said:
It's not really a question of "being excited" though, is it?

Liverpool fans are entitled to feel excited as they accumulate points towards a well-deserved title. Forest and Bournemouth if they get wins to take them nearer to dreamt of heights, but for the rest, I guess it's just happiness you won.

Even if Ipswich say manage to get a couple of wins while Wolves slip up, I doubt their fans would be excited exactly. Hoping against hope maybe but that's something else.

In a poor league season, that happiness is the best you can ask for. If, on the other hand, we despatch AZ, see a stronger team or two eliminated and get a good draw then I might start to feel "excited". And of course, I'm used to it ending in tears, but that daring to dream is what it's all about isn't it?

Or should be.
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I'm just not as emotionally stable as you...I've let these last two seasons grind me down...
 
Don Pedro said:
From a high level, we have dramatically changed many things in the 18 months Ange has been here.

1) Age. We've gone from having one of the oldest squads in the league to one of the youngest squads in the league.
2) Wages. We've also dramatically brought down our wage bill and dismantled our entire leadership group (Lloris, dier, Kane, Hojbjerg).
3) Style. We have totally changed our style of football. Gone from being arguably the worst team in the league to watch to being the most entertaining team in the league.

The post Harry Kane era was always going to be tough. We knew we needed a rebuild and phase 1 is always the hardest!

I'm not convinced Ange is the man to finish off the rebuild and manage us to success, but from a high level overview, he has changed the club for the better and laid some very decent foundations for the next man.
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Is no2 actually a good thing? Many people are saying we should spend more on wages to attract better players.
 
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