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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?


  • Total voters
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Wake up to no news, again. This guy is literally bulletproof at this stage. Go through the motions for the next few games, likely even get two wins because the next two teams are so bad, get trounced by the big sides next month and he gets sacked then.

Amateur.
 
i just think some of the players dont rate frank at all. Happens anywhere in workplace. You dont rate your manager you either leave or say something. Even on naval ships the crew mutinied if they had enough.
The trouble is this isn’t the first manager in recent times that Spurs players have done it to is it?!

There’s a theme here. PEH alluded to it when he said ‘you could put the tea lady in charge and I’d still put a shift in’ or words to that effect.
 
It's weird how the media are protecting Frank, if our previous manager so much as breathed the media would have been all over him.
 

Part 2

4) Pressing



This has been a disappointment for me, having seen the PSG and City games in particular where we looked rather sharp in pressing high and causing turnovers. Those turnovers, along with set pieces obviously, seemed like our best bet to create chances with a group of players that lack flair / creativity for the most part.

Instead we're joint with Villa for 18th with only 122 high turnovers, only above Fulham [88] and Burnley [116]. Unsurprisingly, we're also dead last in number of shots [12] and goals [1] that have resulted from such turnovers.

Something that we can actually improve on sooner than later, or another area where Frank's methods haven't translated well to a bigger club?

5) Set Pieces



Finally an area where Frank has been delivering. As illustrated above, Brentford during the last 4 seasons under Frank were as good as anybody in the league in set pieces. And it looks like this greatness has been carried over here, although imperfectly.
  • We're joint with Newcastle and United for 4th with 11 set piece goals; only 1 behind the trio of Leeds, Chelsea and Woolwich
  • We're 2nd in percentage of goals scored from set pieces with 36.6 : 11 out of 30.
  • We lead the league in percentage of xG created from set pieces: 36.57 percent of our entire xG has come from set pieces
One caveat is that we haven't -yet- matched Brenford's ability to create a high volume of xG from set pieces.

Despite being 4th in goals scored as I've mentioned above, we're only 10th in xG created from set pieces with 7.51 ; whereas Brentford as mentioned in the bit above were leading the entire league with an xG of 64.7 over the course of last 4 seasons.

Basically, our currently high goal tally may not be sustainable. We're scoring a lot from them, but not necessarily through creating high quality chances.

Think of those overhead kicks by Romero and Palhinha against Newcastle and Bournemouth respectively.
 
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Part 2

4) Pressing



This has been a disappointment for me, having seen the PSG and City games in particular where we looked rather sharp in pressing high and causing turnovers. Those turnovers, along with set pieces obviously, seemed like our best bet to create chances with a group of players that lack flair / creativity for the most part.

Instead we're joint with Villa for 18th with only 122 high turnovers, only above Fulham [88] and Burnley [116]. Unsurprisingly, we're also dead last in number of shots [12] and goals [1] that have resulted from such turnovers.

Something that we can actually improve on sooner than later, or another area where Frank's methods haven't translated well to a bigger club?

5) Set Pieces



Finally an area where Frank has been delivering. As illustrated above, Brentford during the last 4 seasons under Frank were as good as anybody in the league in set pieces. And it looks like this greatness has been carried over here, although imperfectly.
  • We're joint with Newcastle and United for 4th with 11 set piece goals; only 1 behind the trio of Leeds, Chelsea and Woolwich
  • We're 2nd in percentage of goals scored from set pieces with 36.6 : 11 out of 30.
  • We lead the league in percentage of xG created from set pieces: 36.57 percent of our entire xG has come from set pieces
One caveat is that we haven't -yet- matched Brenford's ability to create a high volume of xG from set pieces.

Despite being 4th in goals scored as I've mentioned above, we're only 10th in xG created from set pieces with 7.51 ; whereas Brentford as mentioned in the bit above were leading the entire league with an xG of 64.7 over the course of last 4 seasons.

Basically, our currently high goal tally may not be sustainable. We're scoring a lot from them, but not necessarily through creating high quality chances.

Think of those overhead kicks by Romero and Palhinha against Newcastle and Bournemouth respectively.

If/when Frank goes, do we just keep the set piece coach?
 
If the Club would just show some proper ambition we wouldn't continue to be in an ever-ending cycle of shit.

Wouldn't fully back managers like Poch and Conte. These guys would of transformed us given enough quality tools to do so.

Poor recruitment,players and managers alike. Always trying to be 'clever' instead of being directly ambitious.

It's never ending and I think the majority of fans have had enough of the Club's so called 'ambition"

I don't know what the ownership are expecting? We were told the new stadium would change things.

It has on the commercial side, enormously. The problem is it's not being distributed, fairly, back into the footballing side of things. This a huge issue that is becoming more and more exposed. They've sold us down the river.

The Frank era is quickly turning into a saga and will probably rumble because of the financial consequences to get rid.

It really does feel like it doesn't matter what happens now until the ownership changes.
 
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