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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
Tottenham doom mongering sells, the journos have cottoned onto it, doesn't help when the social media element of this fanbase encourage it.

I don't think it will ever stop with this club unless we win stuff and win stuff consistently, the negative stories were still around when Poch had us challenging.
It doesn't help that there is a decent amount of historic evidence that with this club there often is a negative to be found, and doom lurking just around the corner...
 
As if this started with Ange

Remember when we were in a title race to start Conte’s second season and Carragher decided it was “unsustainable “ and the fans would get upset if we didn’t attack more?

Then he just repeated it so many times that other media picked up on it until it became a reality?
It didn't "become" a reality, what Carragher was saying was the reality, it just took a while for people to cotton on to it because generally most fans simply see other teams' results.

We were playing badly against everyone, being pragmatic and getting points in the odd game where you don't play well is a good thing and a trait that Champions have, playing badly in every game and scraping wins is not a good thing, it is unsustainable, and that's what Carragher saw.

His words didn't manifest it into reality.
 

Depending on your personality you either do or you don’t. It’s a cesspit of hate generally so better to avoid it as much as possible.

I feel sorry for the ones that do get sucked into the rabbit hole.

Keeping busy and giving yourself zero free time is part of the key. But mainly it’s just the ability to blank it out and pay no attention.

Not sure I could do it tbh. On paper it’s way to easy to say yeah I’d just ignore it.

One or two old fashioned drinks and I’d be online making a haters list like Michael Jordan. Fuel to my fire!!
 
It's a fairly sensible coping mechanism when it comes to following this club...

I think fans tend to overdo it though.

I also think this negativity rubs back onto the club and thus lowered expectations amongst the fans...I mean we're already talking about how the next manager is going to fail after 18 months and we'll be back to square one.

I do agree that the club need to play it's part though and start to win things and not do stupid stuff which embarasses the fanbase however I just think that the fans are ready to buy into the negativity at every turn so much so that journos and aggregators have got wind of it and get easy clicks and engagement from winding up our fanbase, it's a bit of a vicious circle.
 
It didn't "become" a reality, what Carragher was saying was the reality, it just took a while for people to cotton on to it because generally most fans simply see other teams' results.

We were playing badly against everyone, being pragmatic and getting points in the odd game where you don't play well is a good thing and a trait that Champions have, playing badly in every game and scraping wins is not a good thing, it is unsustainable, and that's what Carragher saw.

His words didn't manifest it into reality.

It definitely affected the mood and patience of the fans. That affects the team and manifests the reality. They know what they are doing when they use their platform to build these narratives

They never once used it to say the gooners have been unsustainable when they’ve played shite Pulis ball.
 
As a pro manager? Hell no. Same applies to players btw.

He is the manager, he makes decisions. And his judgement should not be affected by either press or online fans opinions.

Only place he can't hide from direct feedback is stadium during the match and i get when he refers to something that happens at the stands, no problem with that.
 
So what do we think of the Glasner rumours? I'm surprised it took this long tbh.

Just looking at his stats. His Win % at Palace and Frankfurt is nothing special tbh, but his loss % is a little more interesting. He's at only 25% at Palace. AngeLOSS is at 37% in all games for us.
In the PL, this season only, Palace are at 30% we're at 51%

In terms of honours - won a real tournament in the Ropey League in 2022, unlike the Fosters Cup and Castlemain XXXX Title in Australia.

Not as interesting as the other main 3 we're linked to, but I'm not averse to it. He was in demand before Palace and, I believe, wanted by Bayern from Palace before Kompany.
 
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