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  1. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    So we can wait til May? Nice.
  2. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    We will be saying many things about how the next bloke is underperforming, because we were saying many similar things about how the last bloke was underperforming and the last bloke and the last bloke. We’ll change the wallpaper: that’s all. If the solution is a third interim in five years then...
  3. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Genuinely curious as to when a team in the bottom 6 had a better GD than two of the top 6. And by genuinely curious I mean a little curious and if anyone actually knows the answer I’ll personally give you a wedgie.
  4. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Would you argue that this is, at least partly, exacerbated by having a patched together back line and no consistent DM?
  5. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    And if they don’t?
  6. RuskyM

    Premier League 2024/25

    Arsenal won’t win the league cause they’re not that good. They didn’t win it either of the past two years where they actually were good: I have no fear they’ll do it this time.
  7. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    …what?
  8. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Can’t wait until we sack Ange and we never get any injuries ever again.
  9. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    To me though, Ange’s flaws have been compounded by pretty shambolic shortsighted ownership over the past six or seven years. I get why some would want a complete overhaul but I dunno, it’s starting to feel like deck chairs on the Titanic without pretty serious changes upstairs. Which is why the...
  10. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    But we’re judging managers on not utilising players they clearly didn’t rate, signed years before they arrived, who have been disregarded by other coaches. Regardless of Spence and Reggie’s qualities, that just isn’t a sustainable way to run a club.
  11. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I like that he looks like Alfred Molina.
  12. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    What difference would waiting five months and reassessing make? We’re not going down, and frankly I’m sick of short term fixes which would, this season, be the difference between us finishing say 10th and 14th. I still think the worst thing the club could do is another short sighted appointment...
  13. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Yeah, it’s “are we going to keep judging managers on how they use players signed by the club two years ago”. It’s not like Ange has had some blind spot no one else has had with Spence, is it?
  14. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think any manager comes in and has twenty years of disappointments to contend with - it’s a huge issue and fans patience is understandably dwindling by the year. I’d hope you’re right though.
  15. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Huge difference of expectations and pressure though - Bournemouth finish in the European places and it’s the best season in their history. I’m not in a place to comment on their injuries cause frankly I’ve not seen enough of them, but them doing well with injuries doesn’t mean we should ignore...
  16. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    What rotation options wasn’t he using? Spence, a player we’ve tried to loan out twice, and Reguilon, a player we’ve also tried to loan out twice? Come on.
  17. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    My point is there’s a huge difference of expectations at Bournemouth as there is here. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that we’re sticking with a bloke - we simply don’t spend enough money to get instant success or get in a replacement. If that worked, it’d have worked through the past five years.
  18. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Was nearly sacked after his start there though. Absolutely no way he’s still the boss at a top six club with that start - and maybe therein lies the problem.
  19. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I mean it’s a very fair excuse if a) your team requires energy and b) your team requires good options, and ours currently has neither. I’m always a little skeptical about “look at how much better these are” cause I’ve seen enough “these are so much better why can’t we be like them” about teams...
  20. RuskyM

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    The club’s general direction since the decision to sack Poch has been only trending downwards, with an exception of 21/22. There’s really only one person to blame for that. I think if Levy wasn’t a big shareholder that decision would’ve seen him ousted.
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