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  1. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Squad on paper vs reality is quite different. Take these points 1. Sonny. He was top scorer in Conte’s full season. Tactics suit him to a tee. And Kane was KDB-ish that year. But he can’t seem to make those outside the box shots or crosses anymore, not forgetting his loss of pace and poor...
  2. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Question: how many of our current squad would we consider to be “world class”? And would get into EPL first xi or squad of the season? Question 2: how many of our previous managers (who all failed to win anything too) had such players? for Q1: I’m thinking only VdV, maybe. But that’s due to...
  3. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Haha for sure It’s silly to big him up just from one game. just saying that the raw ingredients are there which are lacking in current crop of keepers we have and it was stark how that (1) relieved pressure of opponent’s press (2) gave us a long ball option which you already cited in your...
  4. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Do you see it now? How one GK changes the build up game play with ability to be composed as well as passing range. heck it’s one game but dare I say Kinsky has Allison handling abilities with Ederson’s passing Give Ange the tools. It’s not blind faith. It’s evident in how much we (players...
  5. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Spurs vs Liverpool

    i think this is the difference tonight compared to our recent performances. there were many that played at 8/10 or above tonight - kinsky, dragusin, archie, spence, bergvall, solanke. that we were able to manage the 2 or 3 6/10 - son, deki, maybe johnson with the last 2 probably at 7.5? - biss...
  6. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Nottingham Forest v Spurs

    And now no spence for Wolves on top of possibly no Radu great
  7. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Nottingham Forest v Spurs

    Forest could make 5 subs We couldn’t especially with a few of ours on yellows / in case of injuries
  8. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Nottingham Forest v Spurs

    What was Udogie doing?!
  9. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Nottingham Forest v Spurs

    Very loud from my broadcast
  10. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Nottingham Forest v Spurs

    No good centre midfield play / players Bentacur not up to pace and already asking our players to slow the game down since minute 15. But he’s not running as much / fast / covering as well as he was at his peak. Nor is he consistently showing himself as an available outlet to receive the ball...
  11. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Nottingham Forest v Spurs

    Because you’re not expecting your team mate to lose the ball there? Don’t know what Spence was trying to do but when he lost the ball, both and closest team mate, Johnson in this case, didn’t try hard enough to win the ball back, or stop the counter Rest of team mates caught flat footed...
  12. carpediem1906

    Match Threads Nottingham Forest v Spurs

    Bentacur off the pace after not playing epl for so long
  13. carpediem1906

    I love (hate) Daniel Levy, please don’t mention him anywhere else!

    If he says ange way is our dna and “we got our Tottenham back”, then he has to back ange or face backlash later if he says we want him to succeed here and then points at something that isn’t about improving the squad, then the writing is on the wall
  14. carpediem1906

    I love (hate) Daniel Levy, please don’t mention him anywhere else!

    We all know his scripts about success and spending etc but what might be revealed this time around will be his stance on ange qn like “how are you liking the football now? Is this what you mean by spurs dna?” And we’ll know whether the oh so united Ange thread is likely to persist for a...
  15. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Love a balanced perspective, tis rare in here. And love that u ended with the conte eg - because somehow, pundits, commentators, fans (I’m guilty of it live during matches myself) all expect players to be flawless, make and execute the best options - but like Ange said, we are all humans, and...
  16. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Precisely as Matt posted in football 365 (post above) Ange’s message to the players was probably “we go for it. We can do them” but as fans we knew that if we have to get pummelled, as we r wont to do, then this is probably the game - them better n fresher, fixture congestion, squad...
  17. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Copy and pasted 👇🏻 I’m loving Big Ange instead You know, reading all this dross from the other side of the world about Ange’s need for a “Plan B”, playing kamikaze football, being out of his depth, I had to bite. I’ve read about Ange’s shortcomings for well over a decade now. He proves you all...
  18. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Your post here on surface makes so much sense (and that’s why it’s gotten so many positive reactions) but is actually prejudiced The way you put it, it’s as if Ange intentionally tells the players to do the stupid things and that players have no power or control or decision making process to...
  19. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    You are so upset at a man you don’t know personally not making the changes you want and expect. instead of listening and paying attention to what he had, has and will keep saying about him not changing. expectations vs reality. You, and many others, seem very very unwilling to change your own...
  20. carpediem1906

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    This is enlightening, cos going by the vocabulary chosen, one of the big reasons why there’s so much reacting going on even after an expected big loss is becos people hate experiencing shame Doesn’t help that 1) the football team you support conceding 6 goals at home which leads to 2) being...
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