Igor the Interim

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

One thing I have learnt from Tudor's time (other than we really don't know what is going on day to day with the players and coaches)...we must have seriously lacked fitness, and that is 100% on Frank's shoulders.
Our running stats the last few games have been significantly higher, and we outran Liverpool by (I believe) nearly 4km as a team on Sunday. Tonight we were at it the entire match, same on Sunday, and each game we scored in the 90th min or later.
What it tells me is that when Tudor said we were unfit he was right, and that I really have no f ucking clue what Frank was up to that our players were so unfit during the season. It makes me wonder whether the reason Paratici wanted this guy at Xmas was because he could see this, knows Tudor is a fitness guy, and knew he'd need a few games to make it take root?
Anyway, the man is showing some skills and cajones now, delighted that my nervous 'fan' insecurity was not in charge of decision making post Palace!!!!!

Yeah…I’d been defending Frank’s approach because I was trying to see the logic in it, because I was thinking surely the decision makers at the club couldn’t be so wrong. Boy was I wrong!

A team with our quality should not be geared to only attacking in like 30 minutes of a game maximum. We should not be defending for our lives against bottom half teams for the majority of games. But that was what was happening.

I think appointing Frank will go down as the weirdest, most massive headloss of a club in a long time. The guy was just wholly unsuited to what we needed in almost every conceivable way, and that decision, and the decision to stick with him for so long, may yet relegate us.

 

[SteveAWOL]

One thing I have learnt from Tudor's time (other than we really don't know what is going on day to day with the players and coaches)...we must have seriously lacked fitness, and that is 100% on Frank's shoulders.
Our running stats the last few games have been significantly higher, and we outran Liverpool by (I believe) nearly 4km as a team on Sunday. Tonight we were at it the entire match, same on Sunday, and each game we scored in the 90th min or later.
What it tells me is that when Tudor said we were unfit he was right, and that I really have no f ucking clue what Frank was up to that our players were so unfit during the season. It makes me wonder whether the reason Paratici wanted this guy at Xmas was because he could see this, knows Tudor is a fitness guy, and knew he'd need a few games to make it take root?
Anyway, the man is showing some skills and cajones now, delighted that my nervous 'fan' insecurity was not in charge of decision making post Palace!!!!!

Wish the nepo-babies had heeded Paratici’s advice and got Tudor in before January so that our players were able to run relentlessly during NLD; as the psychological damage of getting battered by those gobby Goons yet again was clearly bad for squad morale plus the opportunity to put a dent in their title hopes would’ve been a nice filip for fans who’ve been traumatised from watching us pick up a pathetic 37 points from our last 38 PL home games.

Sounds like Tudor is cut from the same cloth as Conte & Ventrone, which should put squad in good stead should Pochettino return next season…

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[thfcsteff]

Yeah…I’d been defending Frank’s approach because I was trying to see the logic in it, because I was thinking surely the decision makers at the club couldn’t be so wrong. Boy was I wrong!

A team with our quality should not be geared to only attacking in like 30 minutes of a game maximum. We should not be defending for our lives against bottom half teams for the majority of games. But that was what was happening.

I think appointing Frank will go down as the weirdest, most massive headloss of a club in a long time. The guy was just wholly unsuited to what we needed in almost every conceivable way, and that decision, and the decision to stick with him for so long, may yet relegate us.

I bit my tongue and supported him when he arrived because I support the club. I wanted to believe he would be worth it. But it didn't take long for me to see he was not going to do us any good.
What I have been surprised by, is the reality that we really weren't very fit/ready for the graft. I mean, WTF were they doing under TF to be so unprepared?

 

[El Dante]

I really don’t understand why we couldn’t press like this under TF. We seemed to start the game pressing for five minutes each time and then just stop. Clearly it was a fitness issue and raises significant questions.

I didn’t want Thomas Frank, but tried to buy into it, as we had to really. I was so negative about him and criticised him early on. But would always want to see better times. I would want to somehow believe that I was wrong about him and that he could get the job done. He talked a good game at first but then the matches started and we looked far from where we needed to be.

It’s frustrating that rival supporters just think our players are brick as we finished 17th last season and here we are again. When the reality is that we have a very good squad that has suffered from poor management, low confidence and injuries. If only we could start our best team, managed well, then just think where we could be.

Imagine if last night we had had our best lineup available then maybe we could have overturned the deficit. Instead we go into the summer, likely lose a few key players and then who knows which manager arrives next and where we go from here.

It didn’t need to be this way. Appointing Thomas Frank may well have set us back a few seasons at least by the time we get to where we want to be.