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Manager Thomas Frank
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It's a game we just don't need to lose. Let's not start creating a need that isn't there.
The 2nd half,regardless of who is the manager will give a boost to the players, and the fans, who I suspect will be their most vociferous since the season started.
As soon as a manager is called “pragmatic”, just know he is counter attacking, and cautious.
The manager is a coward. It’s his nature to turtle
He didn't tell them to go out and be meek.
And had to rocket them at halftime to get them properly into gear.
He's not covering himself in glory, but these players are spoiled, weak and irresponsible.
The notion that his job could be 'saved' by an ok second half in a game we still lost concerns me. The first half like 90% of our matches this season was trash.
30mins of ok football every few months seems to be the damn bar now. We should have been all over of them in the end but nope, just lost discipline and accepted defeat. All on Frank, just go.
30mins of ok football every few months seems to be the damn bar now. We should have been all over of them in the end but nope, just lost discipline and accepted defeat. All on Frank, just go.
Yup second half was better because we went 2-0 down and threw all his stupid tactics out the window and just started pressing. We saw the same thing against Liverpool a few weeks ago.
It's scary that we just look a far better team once we are 2-0 down
I’d prefer he was working on making us better.
This is now my concern.
Absolutely it should not save him, he needs to go
That first half was Franks football all season, the fact the second half was a possibility that whole time is damning of him
He's just not Spurs
would have been absolutely battered had it not been for palhinha, the bloke who hes made warm the bench for the south american winks.
My breaking point was Fulham. That was much earlier in a manager's tenure than I would normally lose faith. It was the lack of courage and lack of a discernible ethos that convinced me then. We can, and must, have someone better.
I know there's some real poor mentalities in this group, and of course he's not telling them to be meek but it's a consequence of how he sets them up to approach games.
It's not just about rollicking them, otherwise he'd of being doing that all season.
He sent them out after HT with a different sort of INTENT to what we've seen all season.
Oh yes he certainly does.
If you spend all your time talking up the opposition, how you need to stop them, don’t think passing through the middle is important, rely on long balls and set pieces… sit deep in your box, then you are being meek by nature.
Juat get the fuck out frank. Youre out of your depth.
This.
Our team is meek in significant part because our manager is a coward.
Chelsea did it for me. Though I never wanted us to hire him in the first place. Nothing I have seen has surprised me.
Good point.
If it was 0-0 at half-time, I don't think they put that better second half performance in.
Thought it looked a dumb sub, that trio of Tel odobert and Simon's was killing them.
So he takes off two of them for two who have barely played all season
Come on Frank, begging to sacked. A bit more Woolwich merch might do it before ENIC wake up I guess
Said before it’s such a bastardisation of the term. Pragmatic is supposed to mean flexible, like Redknapp not defensive like Jose or Nuno or Frank. They don’t say defensive because it sounds worse than pragmatic.