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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
I've wanted him out during the season, but if we sack him without at least giving him the first few games of next season, we'll be back to being the laughing stock we were before the EL win.
 
I've wanted him out during the season, but if we sack him without at least giving him the first few games of next season, we'll be back to being the laughing stock we were before the EL win.
And if it doesn't work out ...Spurs will also be a laughing stock.
Either you stick to Angelos or not because brining in a new head-coach in the middle of the season is not a good idea (yes, I know, there are cases of it working out on the short run).
 
Lol.

The low quality of argumentation? You guys are quality. Really and truly.

We finished on 38 points. In other years this has you locked in a tight relegation fight. We were the worst not promoted premier league team.

Prior to this season, we had an awful finish to the last in which we lost nearly every game. We haven’t played consistent quality football since the first time Ange got here. This is a team heading nowhere, looking almost entirely un coached.

We won a cup. A cup where we played a horrendous United team who are right next to us as a terrible side. Both of us got to a European final based on a talent advantage over middle tier sides in Europe.

None of what we did to win the cup was Ange’s football. It was just win at all costs stuff. Which is fine but not feasible across higher quality competitions as good opposition who are actually coached put us down.

The EL final was two teams who looked badly coached & one side got the break. It was some of the lowest quality dirge you will ever see.

A year and a half of terrible performances in all competitions apart from the distinctly weaker Europa league and you’re sat here talking about weak arguments.

The argument to keep Ange is literally just ‘he won something’. That’s it. And it falls so flat when you expose it to context.

The guys exposed at the elite level.
He won us a major trophy, that's more than those previously had done for a while.
The language before the final was not like this.
Unbelievable, some have been seduced by those that write for the mastheads who fucking hate us!
If he gets another year, back him, like the squad will, don't try and tear him down.
 
Well, PSG just won the CL playing high intensity football with an aggressive press and attacking full backs.

What a miracle all of their players hamstrings didn't explode mid game. Very irresponsible of their coach to ask them to sprint in a game.
 
I guess here's my question for this perspective.

I believe Ange bears some, perhaps a lot, of responsibility for our rolling injury crises, and that alone may be a sackable offense. But leave that to one side for the sake of argument.

Assume a different manager, Frank, Glasner, whoever, has the exact same player availability as Ange this season, both with injury, general fitness and fatigue levels, PLUS the SAME focus on rotation to prioritize for the cups. So like Ange they are hell bent for leather to win a trophy, position on the table be damned.

They have the same bodies and same focus game-by-game as Ange did.

How many points do they have over 38 games?

I think it's reasonable to conclude that managers who will adjust tactics to our player availability, to our available player's strengths and weaknesses, and to those of our opponents would collect quite a few more points in any given week. Over the course of two seasons through training, a competent man could have had us modestly organized in defense and not so awful on set pieces and those alone would have created significant points.

Where in the table this year could a manager like Glasner, Frank, Iraola etc have had us? Who can say, but I suppose we have to start with where their position in the table ended up being. They were working with a talent level not far off from ours during injury crisis, and some of those clubs had crises of their own. We could at least have been near where they themselves finished this year.
 
I've wanted him out during the season, but if we sack him without at least giving him the first few games of next season, we'll be back to being the laughing stock we were before the EL win.
Who cares about being a laughing stock? We shouldn't play to the press or rival fans.. They'll always shit talk us.. There is only the right decision and the wrong decision for the future of the club. I don't know for sure what that is (I know what I think it is). But how it appears, or what is deemed to be good and proper behaviour should not be a flicker in the mind of those making the decision.
 
He won us a major trophy, that's more than those previously had done for a while.
The language before the final was not like this.
Unbelievable, some have been seduced by those that write for the mastheads who fucking hate us!
If he gets another year, back him, like the squad will, don't try and tear him down.
Back a clown who have no tactics

9 men on the halfway line lol
 
17th doesn’t get you relegated in any PL season . 5th got you CL football this season.

The most likely outcome based on the 2 seasons so far if Ange stays, is that we start strong, then pick up injuries when European football starts. Those injuries mess with our form and then priorities come into play. Having won a trophy now, I’d expect Ange to prioritize the PL and we end up getting knocked out of the LC and CL early.

If somehow we strengthen the squad and bring players who enable us to not suffer from injuries so bad and also the likes of VDV and Romero start building that robustness that VVD and Salah have, then it could easily be very different

Celtic under Ange had the same issues with hamstring injuries' he admitted that here:

We can't have enough player cover when we have eight or nine players out through injury.

However much the fraud is given to spend, he will just break them.

He has to go, the mans a liability to any player we sign.
 
that game alone should get postecoglou sacked, no matter how much money you invest on players, he wouldnt get a team anywhere near that level, hes up against managers that are playing a different sport to him.
So these results earlier in the season were just the players performing in spite of Ange? But dropped points against Ipswich and Leicester Ange’s fault?

Everton 4-0
Brentford 3-1
West Ham 4-1
Man C 2-1
Villa 4-1
Man C 4-0

We were 19 pts from 12 games with double figure gd. That’s equivalent of 60 pts over the season. Then December hits and a ton of injuries. Then last 7-8 games we rest best players from PL games. They win Europa (players in spite of Ange) .

If you seriously think we have players near the level of PSG you’re seriously delusional. Their players do as much running/sprints as ours if not more. Yet it’s Ange’s fault for the injuries!
 
If we'd given any manager
A) carte blanche to go for it, at least one would have won it, it not many. Especially if...
B) there were no champions league drop outs and
C) there was CL on the table

He's not a messiah. He's just extremely lucky he was here at the right time and was given the unparalleled freedom to tank our league form.

You need to leave Aus, come back to England and get the hell out of his wierd cult.
I'm definitely not in the cult, I've been Ange out since before Christmas.

It's just the ridiculous comments that have no intellectual worth at all that cause friction between support on here...

'Ange is a fraud', 'Ange is a fat c**t', 'he's a thief', Levy is a bald c**t......

Just nonsensical rantings of people with no intellent conversation.

He never falsified his history to get the position, he never guaranteed a finishing position in the league. The only statement he consistently made was that he ALWAYS wins a trophy in his second season. So it could be argued that he's the opposite of a fraud.

As I've said before, I believe he's tactically naive at this level, the season itself has been unacceptable under his leadership. All I'm saying is that to use the term fraud is factually incorrect and just over-emotional ranting.
 
I'm definitely not in the cult, I've been Ange out since before Christmas.

It's just the ridiculous comments that have no intellectual worth at all that cause friction between support on here...

'Ange is a fraud', 'Ange is a fat c**t', 'he's a thief', Levy is a bald c**t......

Just nonsensical rantings of people with no intellent conversation.

He never falsified his history to get the position, he never guaranteed a finishing position in the league. The only statement he consistently made was that he ALWAYS wins a trophy in his second season. So it could be argued that he's the opposite of a fraud.

As I've said before, I believe he's tactically naive at this level, the season itself has been unacceptable under his leadership. All I'm saying is that to use the term fraud is factually incorrect and just over-emotional ranting.

I think a lot of people project their own insecurities and shortcomings back onto this forum personally
 
Sorry mate, I'd just added this to my post while you were typing...

By the way - your suggestion won't happen under The Post. Under him we won't win another trophy and we'll finish lower than 10th - oh and by the way, it will all be achieved in the same manner as this year - with shit football and unnecessary injuries.

My question to you is, under MY suggestion, are you happy to have him around? (my scenario is more likely than yours).

Did you think we’d win the EL under Ange?

He’s the most likely of all our modern era managers to win us more silverware. Objectively.

If we finish 10th and no trophy of course he has to go. I think the EL earned Ange the chance to show league progress until December. But you do need to give the whole thing completion… for good or bad.
 
Shocking decision if he stays.

Arrogant gas lighting fucker. Cupping his ear to the fans then denying it.

That alone should see him sacked. Can't believe some want him to stay.

Another league campaign down the drain incoming and they'll not be a cup this time.
If I recall most on here at start of the season voted for a trophy over a top 4-5 position. The sentiment was that Levy wouldn’t put up the dosh for a CL squad so let’s target a trophy.
Ange delivered, and with that got CL.
FFS there’s some bipolar attitudes here.
 
So these results earlier in the season were just the players performing in spite of Ange? But dropped points against Ipswich and Leicester Ange’s fault?

Everton 4-0
Brentford 3-1
West Ham 4-1
Man C 2-1
Villa 4-1
Man C 4-0

We were 19 pts from 12 games with double figure gd. That’s equivalent of 60 pts over the season. Then December hits and a ton of injuries. Then last 7-8 games we rest best players from PL games. They win Europa (players in spite of Ange) .

If you seriously think we have players near the level of PSG you’re seriously delusional. Their players do as much running/sprints as ours if not more. Yet it’s Ange’s fault for the injuries!

If you think PSG players do anywhere near as much running in their league compared to ours I really don’t know what to say to you.

That’s seriously delusional thinking.

The premier league is way more intense than ligue 1.
 
I think the EL earned Ange the chance to show league progress until December.
So, if Ange The Alpine Mountain Walking Guide leads you off an edge and you plummet down a ravine, you regain consciousness and you say to him, "Okay, if you can get me up 20ft I'll stick with you."

Not sure I have full respect for your decision making skills - or his.
 
If I recall most on here at start of the season voted for a trophy over a top 4-5 position. The sentiment was that Levy wouldn’t put up the dosh for a CL squad so let’s target a trophy.
Ange delivered, and with that got CL.
FFS there’s some bipolar attitudes here.
We are not a Liverpool / United / Chelsea’ / city who win all trophies available type club. It’s just not us. History shows that.

For years I have been pointing out to the ENIC out crowd on here that since the 90s when we win a trophy we do shit in the league. Is that what we want when we cry “win a trophy!!”

This forum had never existed when we had one of these seasons.

So the season we win a trophy we do shit in the league. And this forum goes insane.

But no surprise there.

People here clearly want their cake, to eat it and then rub it all over their naked bodies.
 
Imagine Frank coming in now.

Hiding to nothing doesn’t do it justice.

The anti climax and instant drop in optimism would be seismic. Not his fault, he’s a good coach but that’s how the players would react.
Nuno V2 levels of excitement. Ditto Glasner and Silva.

Although I have a preference to Glasner, I’m struggling to think of too many names who would fill fans with joy.
 
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