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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?


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More so Maddison for me, but we know that isn't this season. Kulusevski a close 2nd.
Maddison

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I'm amazing you can say that with a straight face.

Do you know have self awareness that is it exactly what you're doing?

I have never once told another poster how they should feel about any manager. Feel free to use the search function to prove otherwise.

What I HAVE done is castigate others for bullying fellow posters simply for supporting the current manager of Tottenham Hotspur - whoever that manager may be.

It's not my fault if you cannot comprehend the difference. 🤷‍♂️
 

Like I said, sack him and bring Tim Sherwood in as caretaker. I wanna see him in the press giving it the large. A manager with a bit of confidence and arrogance even if it’s unwarranted. He’ll be desperate to want to prove himself. He’ll be a shithouse. He’ll get a rise out of the players. Guarantee you we start picking up points. He’ll use the youth and bemoan the state of the mentality and instill a reaction. He was after all the guy to introduce Kane. But he’ll be Spurs. I dont doubt his pashun.

People will laugh but they dont understand. Right now we don’t need another pseudo tacticians master. This club has undergone a lobotomy and needs some shock therapy and a back to basics approach. Sherwood has way better coaching credentials than the likes of Ryan Mason.

I just want to see a bit of life and character at this club and someone to shake us up for 6 months and he understands the structure of the club as an “old guard”. Get him talking about the old days under Redknapp. About our roots. Because we need to return to that and he was around to see all of that and bring it back. Wheeler dealing. Get a loan striker in that’s actually a baller. A playmaking midfielder.

We need to use a bit of street savvy instead of this corporate way of transfers that fit the model of what ever ENIC is trying to pursue.
But will he be any good at set pieces and long throw ins ?
 
I have never once told another poster how they should feel about any manager. Feel free to use the search function to prove otherwise.

What I HAVE done is castigate others for bullying fellow posters simply for supporting the current manager of Tottenham Hotspur - whoever that manager may be.

It's not my fault if you cannot comprehend the difference. 🤷‍♂️

You have been tagging me relentlessly bring up Ange, even when I haven't mentioned him.

What I HAVE done is castigate others for bullying fellow posters simply for supporting the current manager of Tottenham Hotspur - whoever that manager may be.

Says the guy stalking me for simply supporting the current manager of the club.


You're either hard-trolling or so lacking self awareness it is dangerous
 
In some regards, you can appease fans by winning ugly or losing well. But you'll never win the fans over losing ugly.

That was the home match Vs Bournemouth and Chelsea, away to Woolwich. Drawing at Brentford. You can't play like that, get nothing from the games and expect people to be happy about it.
If we'd won all those games but played exactly the same, fans would be less irritated.
It would also be a miracle as I don't think we even had a shot against chelsea
Pfft, we won the Europa that way!

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the biggest issue is player empowerment and apathy. they gave frank a look and decided they didn't like him or his football and decided to just mail it in and frank just isn't the kind of person to get them back in line. poch and conte briefly were the only coaches with the personality to whip our players into shape but even they eventually failed because they didn't get the support at the board level to move on or freeze out under performing players and bring in competition for the starters. the fix is a top to bottom reprogramming of the entire club and that likely only comes from a sale to someone else.

in the short run we need someone to bench the players who aren't playing up to standards and when asked why they aren't playing to tell the truth, "they aren't playing because their effort and performance is poor." but we won't see that because we might hurt their feelings or hurt their value in the transfer market or whatever. winning has to be the only goal and barometer and until that happens we'll continue to wander in the desert for another 40 years
 
Remember this infamous sequence where Palhinha the destroyer was backing off of a player inside our own third despite having the insurance of a 5 man defense behind him?

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Is Frank just terrified of the alternative reality where defenders rush at the player on the ball on these occasions, only for the latter to tear the entire defense apart with a nifty through ball to leave a teammate 1v1 with the keeper? That's the only semi-reasonable explanation that I could come up with.

I get it to some degree; but being this close to the goal well inside the shooting range, the player on the ball becomes the primary threat himself. Besides, like the sequence above, he can still find the exact pass that Frank is trying to prevent with this strategy.
He got turned inside out there, then, when he got his bearings back, he left it to Richarlison and whoever the other one is, as they were closer.
 
You have been tagging me relentlessly bring up Ange, even when I haven't mentioned him.



Says the guy stalking me for simply supporting the current manager of the club.


You're either hard-trolling or so lacking self awareness it is dangerous

Dearie me... the levels of self-pity are truly epic.

I've never told you how you should feel about Ange Postecoglou. I've only ever responded to your ridiculous and monotonous obsession.

And I too support the current manager of the club. I just don't have to shit on previous managers - or posters who support previous managers - to do so. 🤷‍♂️
 
I could easily have done the same myself, completely innocently - no stitch up required.

Pick up cup, grab coffee, go out check the pitch/chat to assistant etc...

Excuse the pun - but its a storm in a tea cup

However, as someone said earlier (apologies whoever it was) - its become his Christian Gross travelcard moment, an instant meme, and it just seems to encapsulate his time at the club
Easily done.
At Woolwich.
Not so easy at Brentford.
 
Dearie me... the levels of self-pity are truly epic.

I've never told you how you should feel about Ange Postecoglou. I've only ever responded to your ridiculous and monotonous obsession.

And I too support the current manager of the club. I just don't have to shit on previous managers - or posters who support previous managers - to do so. 🤷‍♂️

Simple answer for bullies

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Almost the entire squad are international players at senior level, and the 5th highest value club in the Premier League, and 9th most valuable squad in the WORLD.

They absolutely should not be dropping points, home or away to the likes of Bournemouth and Brentford.

If you can't get a tune out of - Vic, Romero, VDV, Porro, Spence, Palhinha, Bentancur, Simmons, Kolo Muani, Richarlison, Kudus then it seriously is down to the club and coaching staff 100%. The Spurs bench and youth players are also far better than pretty much all of our rivals - Tel, Grey, Bergvall, Davies, Dragusin, Danso, Odobert.

No Excuses. Either the coach is utter crap, or the club has issues behind the scenes that are affecting form.

The last 5 coaches have said the same thing - the club isn't set up for success. If you can't win a trophy over multiple seasons with prime Kane, Son, Eriksen, Dele, Dembele - the problem lies far deeper that the players and coaching staff.
You seem to have an unconquerable faith in any manager and any player we ever have, and your opinion seems constant that it is never those who are paid to produce results on the pitch who are responsible for the results on the pitch.

That managers like Ange are good enough and that players like the current donkeys (minus the two thoroughbreds) are good enough, but all are being hamstrung by a nefarious board room or some sort of ancient curse that's attached itself to our club is bonkers... it's a conspiracy theory.

The squad is built the way it is because of Daniel Levy's skinflintism. Doing a Levy and replacing the manager alone will not change anything, even if he is thumbless

Nearly all these stinkers need to be flushed but there hasn't been a window yet. Nothing can change until the players change
 
thanks for pulling all these together. what an appalling display of just not giving a fuck. the casualness with which we literally just walk around is staggering. i don't think i've ever seen a team in any sport less interested in competing in my life. play the kids. at least they'll try
It's horrendous. I was watching that sequence wondering if "AIA" was in fact some kind of code word for "cuckold"
 
that Super Cup final against PSG is the biggest Cat fish ever from Frank isn't it!!!! :ange-facepalm:
The history in recent times is that the players can bring themselves up for a performance occasionally, against a top club. When they are interested. They turn up for the odd cup match or against Citeh and the like.

Most of them can kick a ball, it's their mentality that is at the core of these issues. If a player's mentality is still poor and he's on his second or third manager then it's not the manager
 
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