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Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

spursfan1991

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I wonder how he is going to answer the first question in his next press conference. We all know whats going to be asked.
 

Bluto Blutarsky

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Controversial, and I am thinking out loud rather than expressing a personal opinion, but here is one way of looking at our prem results so far this season

Brentford - draw - I don't think they have won at home in the Prem so far this season
Man Utd - win - very dysfunctional side ATM who didn't have their shooting boots on in the first half against us
Bournmouth - win - meh
Burnley - win - promoted team who have only won one game this season (against another promoted team)
Shef Utd - win - took us 102 mins to beat a promoted team at home who then got 8 put past them the following week
Woolwich - draw - stand out performance to come back twice away to your biggest rivals
Liverpool - win - 9/10 men, disallowed goal and 96th minute og

Ange is playing our start down, and he may be right to be cautious.

I think thats reasonable - but it misses out on quite a bit of context.

First - recall our pre-season, and the utter shambles it became, with the tour, cancelled games, then the Barcelona away match, on the Tuesday before the opener.

Second - recall the state of the team at the start of pre-season - coming off a terrible run-in last year.

Third - recall that Ange starts here from scratch. Not brining any coaching staff to help ramp up the process.

Fourth - recall that we are playing completely the opposite to how the team had been training/playing for the last 2 years - that is a lot to take on board - even before you consider all of the disruptions of pre-season.

Fifth - we sold Kane on the eve of the season opener. And, while Ange may have been anticipating this - Kane started and played with the 1st team for the entirety of pre-season, only to be replaced GW1.

Sixth - we bought VDV on the eve of the season opener. No pre-season matches with his teammates.

Seventh - we handed PL debuts to VDV, Udogie, and Vicario in an away match at Brentford.




Given everything that has gone down at the club - from the time Conte walked away - we are lightyears ahead of where we were at that point. Does that mean we are a finished product? Of course not. We are just starting this journey, and we have loads to work on. And, from Ange's perspective, it's always better to under-promise and over-deliver. So caution is the right approach. But, that should not discount the progress that Ange, and the squad, have made so far this year. Remember how many people thought we were going to be relegation fodder if Kane left...
 

mil1lion

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They could just rename the 2024-25 season the 2023-24 Replay to keep the scousers happy
Get var sorted to a point where every decision is fully controlled by AI with no errors. Then replay all of football from the very beginning. First up, Barnes FC vs Richmond FC. Last game was 0-0 so let's see what it should have been.
 

Johnny J

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Such a shame that only eight games in we have a massive injury crisis. I mean for fuck's sake. So fucking typical.

Thank god Ange and the players have got us off to a flying start, because right now we have zero offensive options apart from Veliz.

We have to hope to god that Maddison stays fit. Because I reckon, right now, our team is about half as good without him in it.
 

McFlash

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Ok, I’ll be the miserable bastard. It’s the type of thing that if I saw West Ham or Liverpool, or basically anyone else doing it, I would say it’s the most cringey shit I’ve ever seen.
Fair but you know that we didn't do it though yeah? Sky put that little montage together, not us.
 

spursfan77

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New Ange interview with an Aussie paper

https://archive.ph/2023.10.06-01235...e-williams-and-the-Paulo-20231004-p5e9uu.html
 

kmk

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All I want to know is if he has received a signed poster from Henry Winkler and has he hung it up on his wall?
 

Jenko

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Fair but you know that we didn't do it though yeah? Sky put that little montage together, not us.
I liked it. Spent so many years cringing about Tottenham that liking it feels weird but really pleases me. Positivity works, it's been needed from our fanbase for some time now. We had excuses in the past but we should embrace it now.
 

McFlash

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I liked it. Spent so many years cringing about Tottenham that liking it feels weird but really pleases me. Positivity works, it's been needed from our fanbase for some time now. We had excuses in the past but we should embrace it now.
I like it too, obviously helped by growing up watching Happy Days but your right, this new and rather sudden positivity is great.
I'm really looking forward to watching the game tomorrow withy lad, like I've looked forward to the past seven and I'd really missed that feeling.
 

newbie

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Such a shame that only eight games in we have a massive injury crisis. I mean for fuck's sake. So fucking typical.

Thank god Ange and the players have got us off to a flying start, because right now we have zero offensive options apart from Veliz.

We have to hope to god that Maddison stays fit. Because I reckon, right now, our team is about half as good without him in it.

I think you could add destiny, vdv, son, Romero, and bis as well in to if any of those guys are injured we are in trouble
 
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