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Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

G Ron

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I can’t be arsed for the general debate of can he can’t he off the back of that if I’m honest. The whole discussion will return again in force come Sunday irrespective of the result anyway.

Wasn’t perfect on the night but I was happy with his decisions, forced or not. Was backs to the wall for a lot of it but he was right in that we didn’t concede too many clear cut chances. Was a poor goal to concede also. I have to watch it again but was it Johnson once more who was caught at the back post?
I think it was - looked to me from the glancing replay I saw on someone’s phone on the train home like he was caught ball watching and got drawn to the middle of the box rather than being aware of the runner on the outside and tracking him. Archie grey tucks in to cover for Romero who tracks a runner at the front post. Need to see it again but I’m sure that’s what happened.
 

chas vs dave

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It's just one very good game, just like the last one was just one very awful game.

Until there is some prolonged consistency it's going to be jury out. No point in beating City if you then fall to bits against Southampton in the next round.

Big win but that's it's all it is right now, and we have to build on it.
My post was more about the fact that he had elbow patches 😅😅😅
 

Wearegoingtowintheleague

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Love that we have a manager who sticks to his principles and just doesn't sit back.

It's proper Spurs and as we see tonight it can and does work.

As we saw against Palace we are not nearly the finished article.

But consistency requires patience and belief.

If any manager deserves that it's a manager who aligns with the Spurs way of playing football. Ange is that man. As fans we should get behind him and give him our full unwavering support.

We will have a great idea at the end of the season where we are and then let's judge.

But please let's not be too hasty the moment we have a bad result, we are already seeing how well we bounce back from a poor performance and that's a great sign.
 

ajspurs

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I think it was - looked to me from the glancing replay I saw on someone’s phone on the train home like he was caught ball watching and got drawn to the middle of the box rather than being aware of the runner on the outside and tracking him. Archie grey tucks in to cover for Romero who tracks a runner at the front post. Need to see it again but I’m sure that’s what happened.

Thanks for that. Yeah that would not be the first time either. There always seems to be a largely unmarked player or two in the box, on either side really.
 

WiganSpur

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Love that we have a manager who sticks to his principles and just doesn't sit back.

It's proper Spurs and as we see tonight it can and does work.

As we saw against Palace we are not nearly the finished article.

But consistency requires patience and belief.

If any manager deserves that it's a manager who aligns with the Spurs way of playing football. Ange is that man. As fans we should get behind him and give him our full unwavering support.

We will have a great idea at the end of the season where we are and then let's judge.

But please let's not be too hasty the moment we have a bad result, we are already seeing how well we bounce back from a poor performance and that's a great sign.
It was good today but I think it’s more the fact that we are playing home and away than that we have ability to bounce back. We’re better able to play this style of football with the support of the crowd. Away from home it seems to give the home crowd too much encouragement which always seems to make the game twice as difficult.
 

Styopa

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That was an impressive win, and following it up by beating Man U at home would make a strong statement, showing we’re serious about winning this tournament.

It’s also a great springboard for Sunday’s match against Villa. Confidence at home is building—we've won six out of seven home games this season with an aggregate score of 17-4, even against tricky opponents like Man City, West Ham, and Brentford.
 

SpursSince1980

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If we replaced Ange with someone who works in the canteen (with the proviso they'd not be sacked for 3 years, as players often don't respond to a coach that doesn't seem like a long term choice) we'd still finish from around 3rd to 6th place, yet our fans would still be convinced the head coach is the most important role on the foootball side of the club!

Tim Sherwood is not a football genius. He's a moron. There has to be someone, who can currently be found washing the dishes after lunch, that could have been more inspiring than him. Yet he had a better ppg in his 26 games than AVB and Poch's first season. In AVB's first season we finished 5th. In Sherwood's 26 games, we finsihed 5th. In Poch's first season, we finished 5th.

We had a completely differen style under Ange than Conte. Everyone was praising how much better we were under Ange, yet we finished in the same position (5th) we were in when Conte left. Yes we lost Kane, but of you look at the XG under Lloris and compare it to Vic, that negated the loss. The head coach just isn't that big of a deal. Had we kept Kane we'd have got CL, but it's because we added Vic and Micky to replace a past it Lloris and Dier, not because Ange is better than Conte.

Our best period in the last 40 years came under Poch and coincided with us producing the greatest goal scorer in the country's history. Take away the fact Kane came through, is Poch's reign really any different to that of Jol or Redknapp? We always sign some really good players. The difference under Poch, was that alongside having signed some really good players, we produced a truly world class striker through our youth system, to take us up a level. Poch had next to no impact. No more than Sherwood, Jol, AVB, Nuno, Harry, Ramos, Jose, Conte or Ange.

The long and the short is, you are most likely wasting your time worrying if Ange is holding us back or not.
Thank God. Someone gets it.

All the bickering about the pros and cons of X, Y, Z manager, who can abracadabra a transformation of Spurs into a team that can legitimately compete on the regular with highest spending teams in the league, is a gerbil wheel of futility.

FORTY years, of mumbling complaints about all of coaches during that time not being good enough.

Widen your aperture. We ain’t done shit. We ain’t been shit. We never gonna be the shit, until we have finance + great recruitment.

Ctricize Ange all you want. No coach is perfect. But until the bean counter part changes, all the complaints are like screaming at the moon: Fun, but ultimately, insane.
 
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