Much as I don't want to get personal, I also think Frank is less than inspiring when he talks.
I just thought he was going to bring something of functional coherence and stability, if not great style and panache.
It's been neither.
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Much as I don't want to get personal, I also think Frank is less than inspiring when he talks.
I just thought he was going to bring something of functional coherence and stability, if not great style and panache.
It's been neither.
Last week it was fighting , this week it's working....what's next week?
We need to keep believing
Let's be honest the minute Spence and VDV shunted him I knew that was a symptom of something not right in the dynamics there.
Not to a backwards Angboi
Scrolled through the OS. Literally last 7 headlines where he’s referenced say ‘Frank’
Thus place, man.
Vicario was a rock
If I'm being honest I'm already at the point now where I don't look forward to watching us play because its just more of the same shite that is painful to watch and the results seem inevitable. It got that way in the last season for Ange, it got that way in the second season for Conte, same for Mourinho etc. It's just happened a hell of a lot quicker than I thought it would with Frank.
He's on incredibly thin ice and looking at the players body language and his lack of authority in the current situation I'm not sure it's going to improve any time soon.
He's on incredibly thin ice and looking at the players body language and his lack of authority in the current situation I'm not sure it's going to improve any time soon.
You have one poster on here saying last year's Europa was okay despite the shame of 22 defeats, and another carping on about ENIC,in that one-trick pony fashion.
Once again I don't give a fcuk who is to blame as opposed to hoping Frank turns it rind irvthe task is given to someone else.
Once again I don't give a fcuk who is to blame as opposed to hoping Frank turns it rind irvthe task is given to someone else.
The job is far too big for him.
You may be on to something there
I'm supportive of giving a coach time to implement their system - but a bad system will never yield results.
It took a couple of seasons for Klopps Liverpool to find their stride, and even Peps city were poor in their first season.
However, they had previous winning form and a clear style for the players to learn. It's not clear to me what system Frank is trying to get the players into. Does he really think sitting back and hoofing it to a single forward is going to win a title??
At least with Ange it was clear what system he was targeting. At times Spurs looked like world beaters, other times a disaster. Had he had a fit squad and better players, who knows?
The system right now is not playing to any of Spurs players best strengths. Xavi is lost. Richarlison isolated chasing dead ends, johnson sat on the bench. Frank seems to have built his team around a 40 year old Palhinha.
It took a couple of seasons for Klopps Liverpool to find their stride, and even Peps city were poor in their first season.
However, they had previous winning form and a clear style for the players to learn. It's not clear to me what system Frank is trying to get the players into. Does he really think sitting back and hoofing it to a single forward is going to win a title??
At least with Ange it was clear what system he was targeting. At times Spurs looked like world beaters, other times a disaster. Had he had a fit squad and better players, who knows?
The system right now is not playing to any of Spurs players best strengths. Xavi is lost. Richarlison isolated chasing dead ends, johnson sat on the bench. Frank seems to have built his team around a 40 year old Palhinha.
I think you need to keep your opinions private after tonight
the question the board needs to ask themselves is Frank the manager to keep us up . That’s where we are now under this manager - in a relegation battle .
Starting to look that way.
He'll absolutely park the bus on Tuesday and hope for a set piece.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's a scrappy game which Newcastle win 1 or 2 nil
Silly mistakes plus all round Garbage performance as usual bar a 20 minute spell after kudus pulled off a good goal
Decades watching football, and other team sports, and I fully came to believe in "momentum". When you have it, don't mess with it, especially when at home.
We pinned them the first 10-15 minutes of the second half and the adrenaline was flowing through the players blood, only for him to call for the subs at the goal kick-off. You put the squad with instructions for 15 minutes to do something, and they did. You should have the "balls" to tell the subs, you know what? we are on a roll, let's wait 5-10 minutes to see if we can get another and ride the tide a little more.
Those subs changed the dynamic of our play to the worse, understandably (not blaming the players), because the new players need time to get into the flow.
We pinned them the first 10-15 minutes of the second half and the adrenaline was flowing through the players blood, only for him to call for the subs at the goal kick-off. You put the squad with instructions for 15 minutes to do something, and they did. You should have the "balls" to tell the subs, you know what? we are on a roll, let's wait 5-10 minutes to see if we can get another and ride the tide a little more.
Those subs changed the dynamic of our play to the worse, understandably (not blaming the players), because the new players need time to get into the flow.
You're right, it is.
The game is about glory
But we shouldn't have to accept 22 league defeats and a 17th place finish for a cup win either. That has clearly carried on into this season, and we won't get a cup win this year.
Last week it was fighting , this week it's working....what's next week?
We need to keep believing
Let's be honest the minute Spence and VDV shunted him I knew that was a symptom of something not right in the dynamics there.
Yep, that signified some sense of instability.
Mind you we had no such obvious friction with the previous incumbent and we lost 22 PL games.
However we look at it, it needs fixing at the core.
I think you need to keep your opinions private after tonight
Done as a wind-up mate. Simply serves to provide a platform for the crap that follows.
Don't get sucked-into it.