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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?

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Bazali said:
You’re being very generous regarding when it got shit under Ange as I thought it got shit the previous October after the 9 man high line against the Chavs which was nothing short of embarrassing 😳
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True that was but there was a little run of form in the winter where we did well until teams figured us out. But the huge tactical flaws were there from day one. Eg. Fullbacks outnumbered on the far post regularly each game and then the whole set piece nonsense from the manager.

Matt1882 said:
At least Conte rarely lost home league games.
In his 2nd season, I think the most frustrating thing for me, was emerging from the underground 1 hour before kick off to see the team. Exactly the same. Never any change.
I was done with Ange well before March 2024. Every game was just soul sucking from before I even got there. You'd have the occasional outlier, but for the most part, I was only going to stretch my legs a bit or I couldn't sell my ticket.

Really hope Frank can add back some consistency in performances and results and have a little bit of a shake up with the team rather than play the same formation and same players game after game.
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We’ve been short changed in the league for a long time that’s for sure. Since Poch and the first few months of Conte’s reign isn’t really a great return for us in terms of actually liking the match going experience in terms of results. Frank really doesn’t need to do anything spectacular, just win some games sensibly.
 
White Van Jan said:
So 38pts is acceptable to you?
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As a one off, given the context e.g. the horrific injuries, the number of games we had to play, the focus on the cups, the freak nature of the league last season, then yes 38pts is if not exactly acceptable, at least understandable.

Obviously I wish we'd have finished higher up the table, and got more points, but last season was far from the worst season I can remember as a Spurs fan.
 
walter said:
As a one off, given the context e.g. the horrific injuries, the number of games we had to play, the focus on the cups, the freak nature of the league last season, then yes 38pts is if not exactly acceptable, at least understandable.

Obviously I wish we'd have finished higher up the table, and got more points, but last season was far from the worst season I can remember as a Spurs fan.
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...and don't forget that it was the wrong type of ball.
 
walter said:
We were never in danger of going down last season. We finished on 38 points, which has been enough to stay up in virtually every season since the Premier League started. We were 15 points clear of eighteenth place FFS.

Also if the teams below us had been less awful, we'd have more than likely, actually finished higher up in the table, as Leicester, Southampton, and Ipswich, would probably have taken more points off the teams above us.
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Seriously?
 
We all know that 38 points was shit. We also know, if we are being honest, there was never any chance that we were ‘flirting with relegation’ last season.

Why are we still spending more time, in the Frank thread, talking about the previous manager than about Frank? It seems to really stick in the craw of some people that the much hated, by them, previous manager brought us a major European trophy at the end of our worst league performance since most of us can remember. I, for one, am still basking in the afterglow of our EL win, and will always be grateful to the previous manager for that.

Now, can we please get back on topic.
 
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For me hiring Frank is not setting the pulse racing for next season. Was different with poch when we hired him as saw his southampton team outclass us all over pitch at whl until Bale scored a worldie. Was excited when we hired him. Frank for me seems a climbing the table manager next season. Bit underwhelmed tbh but hope im proved wrong.
 
That's my biggest worry - managing Brentford is a different kettle of fish to managing us, expectations are miles apart. Having said that, he's going to find that he'll have to make do with what he's got and set up the team to their strengths rather than set them up to fall flat on their faces.
If he can do that, and I really hope he does, then he might achieve a level of success that is expected. My measure of that for next season would be at least top 8 and a domestic cup, followed by top 5 and another trophy.
(In my dreams that would obviously be CL and/or PL).
 
Hampshire Spur said:
For me hiring Frank is not setting the pulse racing for next season. Was different with poch when we hired him as saw his southampton team outclass us all over pitch at whl until Bale scored a worldie. Was excited when we hired him. Frank for me seems a climbing the table manager next season. Bit underwhelmed tbh but hope im proved wrong.
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PL: There has been the special one and the chosen one, now it's time for the right one!
 
Hampshire Spur said:
For me hiring Frank is not setting the pulse racing for next season. Was different with poch when we hired him as saw his southampton team outclass us all over pitch at whl until Bale scored a worldie. Was excited when we hired him. Frank for me seems a climbing the table manager next season. Bit underwhelmed tbh but hope im proved wrong.
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Dim Sherwood also oversaw a win against Poch's Southampton without Bale.
I was worried Poch was another AVB, who just had a formation as a philosophy and nothing else.
 
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