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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?

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Why, Thomas, do you keep trying to dumb down expectations by dumbing down the team? Couldn’t you just have said something like “Winning the Europa League was a great achievement and gave us the chance to compete in the Champions League this season, and while we might be in transition, my job and my goal is to get us competing in the Champions League regularly again”?
 
thinktank said:
He simply explained the reality of the situation.

He told no lies.

Has the right to bring context to the situation in an attempt to orientate pundits/fans/journalists

I don't have a problem with it.

Frank is pretty frank about everything, so far, from what I've seen.

Seems to talk straight, for the most part.

"Oh it doesn't really matter how shit we are this season because last season we finished 17th"

I don't believe you actually think he actually was saying that.

Carry on with it all, tho, I suppose.
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I respect that you are still defending your guy.

I’m trying to find a way that I still can. I hate blaming managers. At this point though, I can’t find an honest way to defend him staying on as the long term answer. Short term there isn’t much reason to continue this either.

Saying that, I’m still open to him changing the plan and showing everyone something to believe in on the pitch. If he does, the stuff he says in PCs means fuck all
 
docomospur said:
Why, Thomas, do you keep trying to dumb down expectations by dumbing down the team? Couldn’t you just have said something like “Winning the Europa League was a great achievement and gave us the chance to compete in the Champions League this season, and while we might be in transition, my job and my goal is to get us competing in the Champions League regularly again”?
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Is our squad top 4 material? No

Should we be languishing about in lower mid-table and getting thumped by Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth? Also no.

He’s trying to excuse the shit job he’s doing. It’s not working.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I respect that you are still defending your guy.

I’m trying to find a way that I still can. I hate blaming managers. At this point though, I can’t find an honest way to defend him staying on as the long term answer. Short term there isn’t much reason to continue this either.

Saying that, I’m still open to him changing the plan and showing everyone something to believe in on the pitch. If he does, the stuff he says in PCs means fuck all
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I'm just not joining in on the feeding frenzy on Frank at the beginning of a new transitional phase.

I said I'd give him the season.

That hasn't changed.

If he does end up getting sacked, we move on.

I support THFC.

Nothing and no one comes before that.
 
thinktank said:
He simply explained the reality of the situation.

He told no lies.

Has the right to bring context to the situation in an attempt to orientate pundits/fans/journalists

I don't have a problem with it.

Frank is pretty frank about everything, so far, from what I've seen.

Seems to talk straight, for the most part.

"Oh it doesn't really matter how shit we are this season because last season we finished 17th"

I don't believe you actually think he actually was saying that.

Carry on with it all, tho, I suppose.
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It’s pretty obvious he’s doing some kind of fire fighting behind the scenes. Whether that’s because the players are against him or because of their attitudes or both, I don’t know.
 
thinktank said:
I'm just not joining in on the feeding frenzy on Frank at the beginning of a new transitional phase.

I said I'd give him the season.

That hasn't changed.

If he does end up getting sacked, we move on.

I support THFC.

Nothing and no one comes before that.
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I’m fine with that.

He’s contributed to his own feeding frenzy this time with the arrogance in his comments.

All he needed was the humility to remember that he’s never got into the CL on merit in his career and those players winning the EL is the reason his CV says Champions League next to it.
 
Honestly think his mentality is a very poor fit for the Club.

I get he's trying to lower expectations to take the pressure off himself but it's the last thing we as a Club need....a negative manager.

And, it shows in our play completely.
 
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latman said:
Honestly think is mentality is a very poor fit for the Club.

I get he's trying to lower expectations to take the pressure off himself but it's the last thing we as a Club need....a negative manager.

And he is, it shows in our play completely.
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I may well be wrong but I don’t remember one interview where he has spoken about the size of the club and that we should always be aiming for the major honours etc…
 
docomospur said:
Why, Thomas, do you keep trying to dumb down expectations by dumbing down the team? Couldn’t you just have said something like “Winning the Europa League was a great achievement and gave us the chance to compete in the Champions League this season, and while we might be in transition, my job and my goal is to get us competing in the Champions League regularly again”?
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Are you available to start tomorrow if we fire Frank after CP?
 
TomHotspur said:
I am usually very much of a blame the ownership not the manager mindset (and in this case I still think it’s not entirely Franks fault, in the sense that I don’t think he should have been put in this position by the powers that be)

But in this instance, I think we simply have get rid of him.

There is not one single aspect of him that inspires any confidence that he has what it takes to turn this around. We are a complete and utter mess from top to bottom. We are playing genuinely the worst football I’ve seen us play in the last 20 years.

He is woefully out of his depth when it comes to what he’s saying in the media, constantly digging out fans who are paying the highest ticket prices in the league to watch the utter garbage he’s serving up week in, week out. It’s unbelievable that the club haven’t pulled him up yet tbh.

Some of the decisions he makes in game - bringing on Ben Davies as a left back when we were 2-0 down the other week the worst of the lot and as sure a sign you will ever see that the guy doesn’t know what he is doing.

The fact that the players clearly have absolutely no faith in him - not one player has gone out of their way to defend him or say any kind of encouraging words towards him after any defeat this season, speaks volumes.
Clearly they are not playing for him, and tbh even from the outside looking in, he inspires fuck all confidence from the line, if he’s not roaring and screaming like a maniac he’s buried in an iPad. No sense of calm or composure.

What we are seeing on the pitch now is simply unacceptable on every level. The club need to grow a pair of bollocks, put on their big boy pants, admit they made a mistake appointing this bloke and get rid.

And for the “there’s no one available now” brigade using that as an excuse to keep him, I don’t give a fuck. If there’s no one immediately available, bring in an interim and bring in a permanent manager in the summer. Big clubs don’t carry on like that.
ANYTHING would be better that the relegation scrap we are hurtling towards with Frank.
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Strange how his old club are thrashing Bmouth 3-0 with the ex physio or whatever having lost 3 of thier best players in the summer and our now 4 points ahead of us. How has their coach been able to do that whereas Frank with 4 top international players purchased now languishing in 14th and slipping. Was Frank really that good at Brentford. Did they have a great scouting network that helped them identify players.
 
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