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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?

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Mrs Perryman said:
Just a thought..... will Thomas and his tactics come under more scrutiny and therefore more exposed now he's with us, and will that hamper him?
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I think the difference you will see is it’s trickier to pick his tactics apart completely, as he’s adaptable and so whilst you analyse one game, he may well set up completely differently in the next. You may learn many of his tactics but you won’t necessarily know which he’s going to use against you.

Last season, any fan at home could basically pick Ange’s plan apart, pundits and commentators did as well, the problem was Ange never did anything different. So, once you figured it out, that was it, 22 league losses.
 
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For the people not open to giving Frank time. This from BBC reveiwi Rangers game. Dejavu is palpable...


Under Martin, Rangers have one way of playing and stout defending isn't a part of it. Not yet at any rate.

Caution is thrown to the wind. Everybody is on the front foot. There's little midfield or defensive discipline, none of the cynicism that you need, little of the physical strength and none of the commanding authority.

They could have shipped five or six in this game.
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
For the people not open to giving Frank time. This from BBC reveiwi Rangers game. Dejavu is palpable...


Under Martin, Rangers have one way of playing and stout defending isn't a part of it. Not yet at any rate.

Caution is thrown to the wind. Everybody is on the front foot. There's little midfield or defensive discipline, none of the cynicism that you need, little of the physical strength and none of the commanding authority.

They could have shipped five or six in this game.
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To win games you have to respect the opponent. Daft managers like Ange and Martin simply don’t.

That doesn’t mean you have to park a bus every game but you have to consider how you will stop the opponent creating chances and make it difficult for them to score. A manager that doesn’t mind opponents being free to run straight through on goal shouldn’t be working at a serious level.
 
StripiestPilot said:
To win games you have to respect the opponent. Daft managers like Ange and Martin simply don’t.

That doesn’t mean you have to park a bus every game but you have to consider how you will stop the opponent creating chances and make it difficult for them to score. A manager that doesn’t mind opponents being free to run straight through on goal shouldn’t be working at a serious level.
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It's no secret that Rangers hired Martin with a view to his similarity with Ange, who was wildly successful in Scotland.

Different leagues are different.
 
Martin isn't even getting his team to push bodies forward in an ambitious, although also somewhat chaotic, manner as Ange did succesfully in Scotland and even in here in the first few months.

He is all about defenders passing among themselves endlessly in dangerous areas, in the hope that they'll eventually bait opponents into losing patience and pressing haphazardly. Then they'll blitz forward with a line breaking through ball or two.

It's an alluring footballing vision to sell, but everybody bar Celtic in Scotland can spoil this "plan" by sitting back patiently for 90 minutes. And any half decent team in Europe can force errors in those dangerous areas on enough occasions for them to cause irreparable damage.

The similarities are there, including the complaints of the fans of their respective teams that they are wide open at the back while also failing to create enough chances to make up for it up front. But Ange is way better than Martin is, and probably ever will be.
 
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I feel the guy is a pragmatist.

He will know Eze didn't want to come..

It's less the failed bids as opposed to the reaction.

Nothing says Eze might not have broken his leg once he signed.

We need 2 or 3 players, which is obvious, and it's for the club to ensure Frank has a strong enough squad or Levy should do the right thing and publicly lower his aspirations.
 
I feel in my bones that this works out well for us. We need to find players who want to play for the club once we show an interest.

Savimho seems to be in that category and I would love us to try and tempt Villa with a big bid for Rogers, remembering Frank seen me to prefer PL-experienced players.
 
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