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  1. DubaiSpur

    Ange in or out?

    I take your point, though personally I believe that any manager would have struggled in those first couple of season as Chelsea bought their team. Now their ambition is paying off, but there was inevitable turbulence early on. Potter himself isn't a bad coach, just not one suited to that...
  2. DubaiSpur

    Ange in or out?

    He's at major risk of becoming like Alan Curbishley imo - the longer he spends out of the game, the less purchase he has in getting a new job as his old exploits are forgotten. Spend long enough on the beach and you'll end up like Curbishley did - unable to get a role and ending up a full-time...
  3. DubaiSpur

    Ange in or out?

    Potter turned us down too. The fact is, managers are finally growing wise to the impossibility of coaching under Levy and ENIC - where, as you know mate, you get no support, but are instantly made the spacegoat when things go wrong as they inevitably will with a team full of teenagers and...
  4. DubaiSpur

    ***** OMT TOTTENHAM VS CHELSKI *****

    I mean, he's said to himself - he wants players to find solutions out on the pitch because it's more sustainable than him giving them the solutions from the sidelines. Up to you if you believe that.
  5. DubaiSpur

    Ange in or out?

    If he gets sacked, it'll be off the back of losing to Bournemouth, Ipswich and Palace. Not in losing to Chelsea who have bold owners bringing investment and ambition our Daredevil Dan could only dream of. I know it hurts. But don't make too many judgements off today, is my suggestion. On my...
  6. DubaiSpur

    ***** OMT TOTTENHAM VS CHELSKI *****

    Hard to get too bothered by this. Chelsea have a far, far, far better team than us, funded by owners who are determined to make them a good footballing side. They've been this way for 20 years - lucked into getting a Russian oligarch, then when he got done, lucked out into getting an American...
  7. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    It get what you mean mate, but it's grimly amusing to me that 25 years after this lot took over, we're right back to sitting in 10th wondering if we need to sign washed up old pros to give a spine to a dirt cheap, young side. This is their model, this is what it will always be z stadium or no...
  8. DubaiSpur

    Ange in or out?

    Nothing changes if he goes - the depressing reality is nothing changes until the men up top sell up. So, Postecoglou in for me. Pointless mediocrity personified, but not like the club will do any better under a different coach.
  9. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Pick a full 11 for comparison. In fact, pick the starting 11 they beat United with. Raya - Brentford Kiwior - no idea where he came from Saliba - St.Etienne Timber - Ajax Zinchenko - Emirates Marketing Project Partey - Atletico Madrid Rice - West Ham Odegaard - Real Madrid Martinelli - no idea Havertz -...
  10. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Not really. Yes I could compare us to the past and you would be right, because historically this has always been our modus operandi and always will be under these owners. Buy cheap, either in wages or transfer fees - and that is more easily done buying mid-table players. But if I were to pick...
  11. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    This idea that we're not mid-table on paper baffles me. What about our squad says anything other than mid-table? Here's our squad and where they came from - - Fraser Forster - cheapo freebie, came from..Southampton I think? - Archie Gray - kid from Championship - Radu Dragusin - kid from...
  12. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Conte wasn't the problem either. Even in his parting rant that people hated - he gave us some cold hard truths that still, to this day, are as true as the day he said them. "20 years here the owners and they win nothing. Why?" Mourinho, eh. As for the recruitment team, I am not convinced we...
  13. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    He. Is not. The problem. I've said it from the start, I'll say it until he is inevitably sacked when the heat starts being turned on Levy, because that's how this always ends. He's a thoroughly mediocre journeyman who will keep us roughly in upper mid-table. Said that since roughly March, and...
  14. DubaiSpur

    OMT *** TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR V IPSWICH TOWN *** Sun 10th Nov, 14:00 BST, The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    Was it also hard to coach a different way when we had basically one game a week all of last season? Because he did the same thing then too mate. All opinions of course, but imo he won't coach a different way because he only has one tactic, and one that is being easily seen through and exploited...
  15. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    It isn't solely perception, it's more the different metrics we're using - actual results vs xG. I see our results getting worse and attribute that to us not improving. You see xG getting better and attribute that to us improving. It's not easy for either of us to shift to the other's favored...
  16. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    It's about on par imo. Scottish football is roughly equal to the Championship, but a lot less competitive. A-League/Japanese league are more like League 1 level, or lower. Those are the levels Postecoglou has managed at with success. Up here in the Prem, it's an open question whether he has the...
  17. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    An the point is mate, most if not all of those coaches he beat wouldn't cut it at Spurs either. Being the best of a bunch of no-names doesn't make you qualified to compete in a league which attracts the best of the best (unlike Scotland, Australia or Japan). Ultimately, he has no track record...
  18. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    It's fair to say he was outcoached. McKenna nullified his one tactic completely, and he has no other ideas so outside of a corner we got basically nothing. On the other end, they broke at pace and scored twice, again pretty easy to do given our one tactic that is laughably easy to score against...
  19. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Before Bournemouth, Iraola coached in Spain. Before outcoaching Postecoglou yesterday, McKenna managed Ipswich in the Championship. Both are higher levels than Postecoglou has ever coached at before he came here. That's why people say what they say mate.
  20. DubaiSpur

    Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

    Also, the idea was that the system and team would improve with time. If anything, the opposite has happened - after a fast start, we have looked worse and worse, and the past 365 days of form would have seen us bottom half. And the excuses for Postecoglou are drying up too. Last year it was...
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