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  1. Muttley

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    But I guess you also know it is easy in football tactics to be an Ossie Ardiles and attack, attack, attack? It's also easy to be a George Graham and defend, defend, defend? It's so damn easy to focus on one of the 2 major traits that is required to win football matches. Surely, nobody can ever...
  2. Muttley

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    No doubt in my mind that the injuries were a major disruption and a major reason for the downturn in league fortunes. I guess where I got frustrated was with the narratives that we weren't allowed to learn anything through that 3-4 month spell because of the injuries. Quite similar to the...
  3. Muttley

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Not sure I'll ever fully understand. I could absolutely see why Ange played on the hope and imagination layers. I could perhaps see why he may not have satisfied the quantitative data side as a contra to that though. I can imagine Lange and the analysts could pick to pieces some of the things...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Yep, as fans we only get exposed to so much. We see what happens on the pitch and we see what happens in the pressers. I'm not saying we should speculate about the other layers but we should do so knowing that there is an employer / employee relationship and if we think we have quant and qual...
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    The Cricket Thread

    Holing in the deep. Sounds like an Adele song. I did feel for the guy though.
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    Luca Williams-Barnett

    Do you know. What you wrote had me so confused as in my head I had checked and saw April. So I checked again. Have a look at this - https://www.premierleague.com/players/134791/Luc%C3%A1-Williams-Barnett/overview There are a fair few other websites saying April as well but his DoB is clearly...
  7. Muttley

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    As I said above, the bigger picture was whether he was actually answering the true question being asked, especially the tougher ones. So many times he could talk for 2-3 mins and when you referred back there was a mismatch between his chosen narrative and the question asked.
  8. Muttley

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I should have put that in my post above. I have in pretty much all the others over time. It's not easy being that person that has to face the press. It does go with the job title though. Doesn't change my opinion.
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    Luca Williams-Barnett

    This one confuses me. When Mikey Moore signed professional terms it was well documented. I still couldn't tell you whether LWB has signed professional terms. Not on the official website and not listed as an academy player.
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I'm sure the definition of a good communicator is different for everyone. My problem with Ange was that he was a good communicator to the masses including the young players, mostly in their twenties, but fell way short of being convincing to those of us that looked through the bigger picture...
  11. Muttley

    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    When Ange first joined I thought it would be a bit like with other managers near the top end of the division where they plateau and get replaced after a while. Brendan Rodgers seemed to do that with Pool. Mancini and Pellegrini were even replaced after getting major honours. I guess you could...
  12. Muttley

    Injuries

    I thought his was a short term injury despite the protective boot. There was even some people speculating he would make it back for the final. I'm hoping he has a full pre-season. Still can't quite pick his best position but double pivot midfields may just suit him.
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    Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

    Football clubs are clearly seasonal businesses. I have a feeling in the transfer window it's sometimes all hands on deck with multiple leaders getting involved. All the smoke has been there that Levy is still quite involved and even having face to face meetings with senior figures at other...
  14. Muttley

    ITK Thread

    I'm left wondering what pre-season schedule Madds and Kulu are on after their end of season injuries. Be interesting to see how Frank finds that creative spark from the rest of the squad in his PS games especially as we know Tel and Odobert are in a summer tournament and will naturally be later...
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    Injuries

    Be interesting to see which players can't join up with pre-season due to injury. We saw Dragusin and Madds at the training centre this week in the Frank vid, presumedly working through the summer to get fit. Are they the only two though? What about Kulu? Saw some wedding photos so assume he's...
  16. Muttley

    Transfer thread

    Hope the mods don't mind, but I thought I'd reference and showcase #Milo's great work on this transfer thread. https://thegameisaboutglory.co.uk/tottenhams-summer-transfer-window-decoding-the-squad-rule-challenge-2/ It was already posted on the Podcast thread earlier but not sure whether...
  17. Muttley

    The Game Is About Glory Podcast

    Yeah, agree on Craig probably leaving. Have a feeling 2 or 3 other younger players might leave permanently as well. There will be a few that Andy Scoulding working back with the Lange and other members of our team may have already identified as not going to hit the levels. Then there will be the...
  18. Muttley

    The Game Is About Glory Podcast

    Love it. You've definitely put all the right pieces together. I'm still pondering a couple of your UEFA squad column choices though Matthew Craig is 22 to start with. He can't go on the B-list any longer and is club trained. Dane Scarlett is now 21 and I'm not sure whether he becomes club...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    I personally think there was an over rotation on the injury / fatigue topic by many including yourself. It was difficult for people like myself who totally believed that it was a major factor to keep listening to the repetitiveness of it. I didn't need reminding week after week about it's impact...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think when you track Brentfords goals for and against with the squads he's had, that part make a lot of sense. What you won't see is a mean defence at the expense of low goals scored based on recent history. Frank has almost become famous for his forward lines starting with the BMW and ending...
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