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Manager Ange Postecoglou
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just read last 6 pages hoping for a happy ending. hell, any ending. fucks sake
Season three, better than season two!
When he said that he meant that he can lose 23 matches instead of 22.
Btw everyone is still laughing at him.
Now, you are moving the goal post...
You said 'He did not over achieve in Brentford'
Own up & say you were wrong.... and stop moving goal posts
Frank has managed only Brondby & Brentford in his managerial career. Brondby arent the biggest team either in the league. Brentford did win the playoff to get promoted. So , he did win something significant. Infact, probably the biggest game in Brentford history.
Btw, are you really saying, 19th wages club in league has the right to win anything ?
If thats the level you want Frank to be performing, may be Ange then should be winning the treble last season, which he didnt.
This is the issue with managers "stepping up" from clubs that have no business in the mid-to-top end of the table.
It ends up being a vacuum, because people will just sneer at mid-table finished or just about staying up, and ignore the challenge that it is. You could literally drag Brentford to two top half finishes (which he was) and then people are like "but what has he won?". With that team, it's like masterminding a CL final to get top half. Not only that, but because they aren't a well funded team, they have sold their best players each season and he's found a way to cope (aside from when Toney was banned, and they struggled - different set of circs there though).
People can say "oh but it's the structure and the scouting" - in two different stints he got maupay to look like a competent footballer. That's worthy of a trophy.
i did enjoy today's car talk more than the gyro talk from yesterday. well done lads!
People actually read this thread?just read last 6 pages hoping for a happy ending. hell, any ending. fucks sake
I read the page I’m in and that’s it. The rest is the same bullshit being repeated ad nauseum. You can read 1 page here and that’s basically the last 300 pages summed up.
I spent over a year screaming tactical periodisation to dummies who just kept thinking it was some defensive blue print of the Portuguese. Anyone who understands modern sports science looked at what was happening at Spurs with injuries and recovery, the attritional nature of the 'we don't stop' football knew we were going to hit a wall.
The reasons I think Ange WILL lose his job are almost entirely wrapped up in how the squad was composed and prepared to fight on multiple fronts. The bloke doesn't understand the challenge and isn't up to it. No amount of magic thinking changes this.The only other way is to bring in an incredibly experience backroom and have Ange as simply the face. I don't think his ego would survive it.
My belief is the reason Enic have not instantly got rid is simply due to the fact we won the EL with him and that has afforded him an "respectful" pause before the trigger is pulled, but pulled it will be imo.
there's a lot of skimming especially the posts of the brainwashed cult boys and the walls of text manifestos. i'm going to update my ignore list when he's gone but wanted to see the meltdown in real time so i'm unfiltered atm
I have a question for you regarding 1 June 2019!
Agree! For most, myself included, regurgitating the same point just in various different ways is a release until the pain of having to consider another season with AP has finally been put to bed!
Does that make me a bad person? No just a masochist and sadist all at the same time
And win the Champions League, yes
That's objectively better
He won’t manage spurs in the champions league
Oh Man! To give AP the start of next season to see if he just might be able to turn around the turgid EPL shite we have had to endure these past 18 months is a gamble to far for me my friend!
Sound like your stream has gone down, reboot your router rudeboy -You're about 15 days behind
Godfather 3 was shite!Season three, better than season two!
I will bow to your knowledge of sports science, and have read a lot of posts by people who are very knowledgeable with it. I read a few over the last couple of years by people who'd put stuff on maybe SC or something, about Bale's injuries, Kane's injuries, Romero's etc - all very interesting stuff and going into the causes and how different types of exercise can cause these things.
I found myself annoyed today to read the comparison of "But Conte had them running til they threw up and didn't have these problems, so it can't be a training thing". So admitting I don't really know much about sports science myself, I still think with conviction that it isn't that simple. Team Poch seemed to have a lot of injuries, and Ange seems to have them follow him everywhere too, and I suspect (again, don't actually know) that it is the type of training? Like comparing someone doing a marathon/road-running to someone doing cycling.
What doesn't really help is the squad management, and both Poch and Ange didn't rotate several players until they were broken. Harry used to have the right idea in the EL by putting out the likes of Kane so that the first team weren't trekking across Europe for little benefit, and they'd also get some experience. It irked me a little when Scarlett and Ajayi came on and turned the elfsborg game from a dull match into one that was exciting. 3 goals, all from academy lads. Where were they after that?
Like with a time machine, we could have played the academy from February onwards in every league match and got the same points at the end of the season.
Harry likes to talk about his elusive ignore list every day
