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  1. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    I just don’t agree, but that’s ok. I do wonder whether the fans in Japan thought his style worked in Australia but wouldn’t work in their league. Especially when they were tracking towards the bottom in his first season. But it ended up working. I’m not sure why for example if the system had...
  2. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    I actually don't disagree with this point. I do think Ange's system required a lot of things to be in place to work well. Chief among them is Van De Ven being fit. Having full backs that could invert. And having a culture where immense bravery and the confidence to keep doing what is asked in...
  3. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    I won’t go back and forth on the injuries but I think the combination of the amount of them, at the time that they happened, alongside a game every 3 days schedule, that was pretty unprecedented. I don’t remember another team suffering like it, ever. On Amorim, if adapting actually makes it...
  4. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    The context that he spent the majority of this season trying to get us through a historic injury crisis, playing in a way that adapted his ideal system but maintained the principles for the long term. That’s why I give him a pass on it and say, it’s no different to Amorim coming mid season. Both...
  5. BrainOfLevy

    Thomas The Frank Engine

    I keep thinking that there is no perfect blend of idealism and pragmatism that serves as our cheat code. It’s just philosophies and choices with different trade offs. We’ll be good under Frank. I have no doubt. But there’s a really obvious, basic trade off with the idea that he’s kinda...
  6. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    I see this argument. I just think that, again like at all of his clubs, the injuries usually work themselves out once the players are adapted. And if our squad thought seriously that Ange was putting them at risk, he wouldn’t be as beloved as he clearly is. Again for me it goes back to needing...
  7. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    I just don’t really buy that Amorim ‘deserves’ to be backed any more than Ange does just because he came mid season. To go along with your original line, either it’s tactically suspect or it isn’t. If Amorim gets a pass for coming mid season, I could argue Ange deserves a pass for winning a...
  8. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    This is what I don’t understand. There is no magic coaching formula. There is no perfect combination of idealism and pragmatism. All choices and all philosophies have trade offs. Is Amorim’s performance at United this year a tactical failing? I think it’s blatantly obvious they believe in his...
  9. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    Losing Ange and curiosity about what the fan base thought. Some perverse desire to make sure a man often misunderstood gets a fair hearing in some random tiny corner of the internet. And the feelings that it stirred about ENIC.
  10. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    I think we defended pretty well when we had our first choice defence playing. I also note that for example Liverpool had their first choice defence playing most of the season. But they were humbled by Plymouth in the FA Cup. What was the difference in that game?
  11. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    I think at the start of this season there was absolute progress to playing his style. I do think underlying numbers were strong (we were below where we should have been on xG and had league leading PPDA stats etc) and the eye test said a lot of our dropped points were down to poor finishing. I...
  12. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    This is literally what has happened with Ange at every club he’s been at, until it starts working beyond what anyone thought possible. I’m not saying we definitely would have won the league with him, but I would have liked to see him with a reasonably fit and deep squad that was fully adjusted...
  13. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    Thanks mate! Not sure why I stopped posting tbh but something about losing Ange really got me. It’s like he’s been misunderstood his whole career and then our owners go and do the same thing. I think we’ll be absolutely fine under Frank. Minimum top 6 and top 4 in a good year. Ange to me...
  14. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    Yeah, I think the distinction for the cup competition in terms of the very stark adjustment was something along the lines of ‘finals are for winning’ and he got the players to buy into almost a secondary idea that they were going to make something of this season, they would be winners despite...
  15. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    Agree with this 100%. I am reading on the last couple of pages that the ENIC plan is to ‘sustainably challenge for the biggest titles’ but I just don’t buy it. I am also reading that we are the equivalent of Sevilla to a Barca, and I agree with that. My question is as a fan why you would be...
  16. BrainOfLevy

    Ange departs

    Something on Ange that I don’t see get discussed much (and that I think does him a disservice) is this idea that he should have adjusted more. But that is to misunderstand what exactly was ever going to make him successful to the extent that he wanted to be. The thing with Ange, is that he has...
  17. BrainOfLevy

    Antonio Conte - officially NOT the coach of THFC

    I started watching the Juve All or Nothing today - I wonder if people will agree with me that it feels very different to the Spurs one. Clearly different clubs, different histories etc. But what is clear is that everyone in that club is utterly obsessed with winning. Nothing is good enough...
  18. BrainOfLevy

    Antonio Conte - officially NOT the coach of THFC

    This is actually really interesting. I was thinking it with the Europa qualifying results / performances under Jose. He did start calling it out, saying something to the effect of it is cold, the players have had to travel a long way, and they don’t look like they are into it. I wonder if...
  19. BrainOfLevy

    Antonio Conte - officially NOT the coach of THFC

    I’m not saying Levy listened to those players, or based the result of whether to keep Jose solely on that poll, but the poll happened and it would have had some effect, from a ‘has he lost the dressing room?’ kind of perspective. But really my point was more that these players, that are...
  20. BrainOfLevy

    Antonio Conte - officially NOT the coach of THFC

    Goddam I miss Poch. Takes ‘I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed, but I’m actually fudging angry’ to a whole new level. Calm, but very clearly stating those players have ruined the weekend for his family, wife, sons. Brilliant. Matter of fact that some of those players would not be with us for...
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