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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?

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CJJ said:
I think you chose the wrong sad-as-fuck hobby to ask that about.
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Right... Now who knows the callsign for Daniels pigeon?
 
Brentford are a well oiled machine with a firm structure and a firm realisation of it's situation.. and I'm fully aware that when a larger club comes knocking on a smaller clubs manager's door, it's very difficult for the manager to say no. IE Ang 'walked' with a life changing settlement.. and i'de lay money the next Brentford manager slips into place and their cog keeps rolling. But with us Frank is inheriting a v different scenario.. one which I'm not sure he will have faced before will he be able to handle it? Tbh there's not a lot in his CV to suggest he will... time will tell and I'm absolutely hoping this gut feeling is 100 % down to my f**cing cold !!!
 
Honestly feel like we might be pleasantly surprised by Frank, or at least I hope so. Seems a sensible move.
 
JimothyCF14 said:
Maybe, maybe not. It's not like Brighton who have shown multiple times they can keep changing managers without much of a negative impact. Frank is the one who got Brentford promoted and he's been there ever since.

Time will tell on that front.
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Yeah it will be interesting to see. Very intelligently run operation, but also one that has had a remarkable degree of stability as they've ascended.

Their summer of change is here, and with the way all of this is being handled you can sense they kind of already knew it. They've gone as far as they could go with their existing core.
 
Herclueless said:
I feel that the trophy thing is a bit of a red herring.

On an optics level, the narrative easily becomes "just one trophy in 17 years" or "no domestic trophy in 17 years", or "no league title in 60+ years.

On a practical level, channelling my inner Levy, trophies are hard to win. In the present era they are generally hoovered up by the cheat clubs, and should they slip up then there's a group of traditional super clubs just below that. A club outside of City, Chelsea, Liverpool, and going a bit further back Woolwich and Man Utd, winning a trophy is a relative rarity, and it's a rarity for every club, not just us.

It's highlighted more with us though because we have on and off pushed into that upper echelon more consistently than anyone else.

We're obviously more sensitive to it because we are Spurs fans, but there's this notion that we're a laughing stock, or the butt of the joke, when in reality we're far from it, 95% of clubs in the country would love to be in our position.

But back to the point, I'm not so sure that getting this supposed hoodoo off of our back is going to lead to a glut of trophies coming our way, or that it makes our squad any more likely to succeed in the next cup competition we enter.
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Yes, they are hard to win and we can't expect to win trophies every season but it would be nice to at least be in contention for some of them for most seasons. Under Redknapp, we managed at least a quarter final for every season he was at the club. Pochettino also got us to the advanced stages in most seasons as well.

All too often, the obstacle that trips us up isn't a Chelsea or a Man City, it's a Portsmouth or a Sheffield United.

I think we have every reason to hope for another trophy next season with some great football along the way. I don't think there is any reason to assume the worst.

Let's see if we can build on success for a change.
 
With how quick this is all happening, it's pretty obvious we've been talking to Frank for quite some time.

I just wonder how far back we started contact.

I wouldn't be surprised if we sounded him out around Xmas time / January, and part of the reason Ange wasn't sacked was because Frank was our top target and he wouldn't leave Brentford mid season.

It's interesting to think back, now we know what we know. We were all speculating throughout the season about what the club were actually thinking. and whether the club wanted Ange to stay or he'd be sacked etc.

Its look like we had a plan to replace Ange quite a long time ago, so basically Ange has been a dead man walking for many months.

It does sound like the club lost faith in him pretty early on in the season.
 
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