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Match ***Bournemouth v Spurs - 8.15pm Thurs 5th December (Amazon Prime)***

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Nabil Bentaleb said:
Conceição is a much better coach than ange. But he’s a lunatic and the furthest away from a yes man
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He'd come for the paycheck...and fat payout when he eventually gets the sack in 18 months. But we'd get another Conte presser type moment. Maybe more than one. Silver linings eh.

Still things wouldn't change, though.

The barcodes managed to get rid of Ashley but we can't get rid of that cancer.
 
Jaynola said:
And in 75% of our games we won the field tilt.

I mean, even tonight we had more possession and more passes.

My club. My head coach. My chairman. My boys.
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The heatmaps from tonight back this up

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erlee said:
The fans turning on Ange

the players turning on Ange

Levy turning on Ange

Ange's fcked
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I said we ought to sack him at the end of last season.

I missed the game today as I thought it was on tomorrow, but am glad I didn’t watch it now in the end.

Sad that it’s taken this long for it to become obvious to the majority of posters and hopefully, the management. We’ve wasted a lot of this season sticking with Ange- hope it doesn’t last too much longer.
 
Raf said:
Would Iraola do any better here? He's plays a similar high pressing style no? It'd be difficult to do that every week with our current squad.
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He also puts defenders on the pitch to defend and is pretty astute on defending set pieces
Ive never really dissed Ange before because when things click we could beat any team in the world and he has had rotten luck with injuries to the squad (not just this season either) and i like the fact he doesnt use it as an excuse unlike many other managers (Ten Haag for instance)
Bouremouth did outclass us and fully deserved the win
thats a fact
 
punky said:
Says it all 🤣
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What is your point? Do I need to watch tonight's shit show to have an opinion and know what I am talking about? I got in from a friends birthday dinner and the game was in injury time, I turned it on to watch the ref blow for full time. Whoopee doo, what did I miss?

I'm not the one using injuries or a busy schedule as an excuse.
 
Dr Rocktopus said:
I did but really wouldn't blame anyone who didn't.

We all love Spurs here but many don't want to watch something they love going through a slow car crash.
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I would have watched it but I had a friends birthday meal. I was all ready to watch it from the start, checked the score and then read on here and thought better of it.

Why put yourself through that shite, no thank you.It's sad it has come to this, but that is Ange's fault. Yes not solely his fault, but he manages and coaches the side, and it is absymal. It's on him.

I said we should have sacked him last season in the summer. But our club is run by clowns, and the 5th place finish deluded them. Papered over the cracks for me.
 
ThePreacher said:
He hasn't been 'given' teenagers.

He sanctioned them.

I don't agree with firing him, but he has to carry the can on this squad.
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When I was a kid I wanted expensive sneakers like my schoolmates had. My mom wasn't having that and she'd take me to charity shops instead to find new shoes that weren't new. Or cool. But they were cheap.

When presented with a couple options, I'd go for the less shitty ones and I'd try to jazz them up at home using marker pens. Despite my best efforts, they were still uggos and my mates at school would laugh at me, but I'd keep pretending my shoes were ace and that I loved them, including to my old gal.

You see where I'm going with this?
 
Jaynola said:
When I was a kid I wanted expensive sneakers like my schoolmates had. My mom wasn't having that and she'd take me to charity shops instead to find new shoes that weren't new. Or cool. But they were cheap.

When presented with a couple options, I'd go for the less shitty ones and I'd try to jazz them up at home using marker pens. Despite my best efforts, they were still uggos and my mates at school would laugh at me, but I'd keep pretending my shoes were ace and that I loved them, including to my old gal.

You see where I'm going with this?
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Levy is refusing to buy the players adequate footwear ?
 
We play at home on Sunday 8th Dec..... I pray to the heavens we win.... but I also realise Chelsea are in brilliant form and nearly always beat us... so I will watch the game in a calm and thoughtfull maner..... then just cry.

Stay safe my felow sufferers.
 
Jaynola said:
When I was a kid I wanted expensive sneakers like my schoolmates had. My mom wasn't having that and she'd take me to charity shops instead to find new shoes that weren't new. Or cool. But they were cheap.

When presented with a couple options, I'd go for the less shitty ones and I'd try to jazz them up at home using marker pens. Despite my best efforts, they were still uggos and my mates at school would laugh at me, but I'd keep pretending my shoes were ace and that I loved them, including to my old gal.

You see where I'm going with this?
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Clarkes?
 
Raf said:
Would Iraola do any better here? He's plays a similar high pressing style no? It'd be difficult to do that every week with our current squad.
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Very much doubt it, unless he brings the Bournemouth medical department with him too.
Smith said after the game Iraola has them training with a lot of intensity, on Sundays, etc.
It isn't just an Ange thing intensive training, but we seem to have a medical department headed up by John Terry, Tierry Henry, Tony Adams, and Hannibal Lecter. I am serious, maybe they need to be vetted and investigated for any woolwich / chav links. It's woeful our injury record, and how come sicknotes like Lamela leave and play 55 games in a season for their new club 🤔
Even if we had 60 players like Chavs, and could name a twice as big squad as everyone else we would still have 16 left wingers injured, 8 Center Backs out, only 1 left back in the entire squad, 2 goal keepers, and 1 1/2 strikers and just one fucking RW. Shambles..

God himself would laugh if Levy offered him the job.. there's miracles Dan and then there's miracles..
 
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Regardless of whether you are Ange in or out the players have to show some real heart and bravery on the park . There was yet again nothing , poor in the tackle , poor in transition , scared to pass through the channels , not working hard enough off the ball , not prepared to put their bodies on the line for the shirt . Whether they are properly coached for corners or not someone has to cover beyond the far post , Sunday league defending again , and I don't believe they are coached to do this shit , it is just laziness and a lack of awareness on the part of the players .
If or when Ange is shown the door don't hold your breath on any significant change unless Levy has a character change or there is an ownership change , either way there needs to be a winners mentality involved .
Right now from top to bottom everyone seems happy to just collect their wages .
 
Geezergood19 said:
I think tonight we have had a better look at our soon to be new manager Andoni iraola
What a great coach he is.

Bournemouth totally outclassed us in every department and deserved the 3 points
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Appoint Iraola over Xmas, then fast forward 18 months and guess what, we're back to where we started ie Iraola is a fraud, get the greasy cunt out of our club etc etc.

They're football managers, not miracle workers. God himself wouldn't achieve success under Levy.

Ange would fare better if he was given proper tools in terms of coaching & playing staff ie if he had a proper chairman. Levy would still be the biggest cunt in football if he hired all of Pep, Carlo, Fergie, Klopp, Wenger, Cruyff & Bob Paisley.
 
Kuya said:
Very much doubt it, unless he brings the Bournemouth medical department with him too.
Smith said after the game Iraola has them training with a lot of intensity, on Sundays, etc.
It isn't just an Ange thing intensive training, but we seem to have a medical department headed up by John Terry, Tierry Henry, Tony Adams, and Hannibal Lecter. I am serious, maybe they need to be vetted and investigated for any woolwich / chav links. It's woeful our injury record, and how come sicknotes like Lamela leave and play 55 games terms in a season for their new club 🤔
Even if we had 60 players like Chavs, and could name a twice as big squad as everyone else we would still have 16 left wingers injured, 8 Center Backs out, only 1 left back in the entire squad, 2 goal keepers, and 1 1/2 strikers and just one fucking RW. Shambles..

God himself would laugh if Levy offered him the job.. there's miracles Dan and then there's miracles..
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Is it really on the medical team? I'm starting to wonder if the training and playing style has something to do with it as well.
 
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