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Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

DeanoAustin said:
Just realised that my son must be one of the few season ticket holders who hasn't seen Frank lose a game. He's only been at 3 games but Frank is the only Spurs manager in his time as a supporter who he never saw lose.
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Started taking my youngest son last season. He’s never seen us lose in about 10 games. At one point he had only wins but he had to lower the brag to ‘unbeaten’ after a draw this season.

I’ve no idea how he’s navigated these 2 seasons like that.
 
DeanoAustin said:
The only thing my bricky parenting is responsible for is forcing a life of never-ending misery, disappointment and underachievement on my son.
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I’ve got three nippers and they will all grow up to be miserable. My daughter can’t currently find her spurs shirt… I can’t be bothered to look for it, her mum can’t be asked to buy her a new one.
 
DeanoAustin said:
The only thing my bricky parenting is responsible for is forcing a life of never-ending misery, disappointment and underachievement on my son.
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I know you're being facetious but it's the best gift you could give I reckon. I gave a eulogy at my dad's funeral last year and the stories I told were about all the brick teams he made me support. One of those was a local Sydney rugby league team, the Balmain Tigers. In 1997 we went on a father-son trip to Adelaide (90 min flight) to watch them play. I was absolutely fudging buzzing. Met all the players pre-game, super excited. We lost 52-0. Didn't even see them score a fudging try.

But it's genuinely character building, relationship building and a great teacher. Life is brick, results aren't everything and most importantly...there's always next week! Always something else to look forward to.
 
No doubt Levy would have acted probably after wham, maybe even before.

Yet....you could make the argument that we're in this positions becuase we've chopped and changed managers so much, and not had a stable setup.
 
tommysvr said:
I know you're being facetious but it's the best gift you could give I reckon. I gave a eulogy at my dad's funeral last year and the stories I told were about all the brick teams he made me support. One of those was a local Sydney rugby league team, the Balmain Tigers. In 1997 we went on a father-son trip to Adelaide (90 min flight) to watch them play. I was absolutely fudging buzzing. Met all the players pre-game, super excited. We lost 52-0. Didn't even see them score a fudging try.

But it's genuinely character building, relationship building and a great teacher. Life is brick, results aren't everything and most importantly...there's always next week! Always something else to look forward to.
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Absolutely mate. We've had some great trips across to see Spurs even when we've lost.

It's not just about winning...if it was, we'd all be on Emirates Marketing Project's message board.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Always a good excuse for this banger...
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More like this, I think...

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'Done...done...on to the next one...'
 
our appointments continue to be re-active and not forward thinking.

Mourinho - he is a winner - we need to win a trophy no matter the style
Not Conte - We get in Nuno because knowone else would come
Conte - We wanted him thought he would bring goals but again he brought a negative style
Ange - Reaction to negative football so we get all out attacking
Frank - Reaction to all out attack and hopefully not all out defense. So a pragmatic coach.

I have no idea who I want to replace Frank. But he had to go. I stopped watching. its not that they are losing, I have seen worse seasons. But I was going into games with no hope a tall due the the lacklustre attacking style we had.
 
Sandman said:
our appointments continue to be re-active and not forward thinking.

Mourinho - he is a winner - we need to win a trophy no matter the style
Not Conte - We get in Nuno because knowone else would come
Conte - We wanted him thought he would bring goals but again he brought a negative style
Ange - Reaction to negative football so we get all out attacking
Frank - Reaction to all out attack and hopefully not all out defense. So a pragmatic coach.

I have no idea who I want to replace Frank. But he had to go. I stopped watching. its not that they are losing, I have seen worse seasons. But I was going into games with no hope a tall due the the lacklustre attacking style we had.
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It's reactive over all these years because the actual football operation is treated as a lucrative sideline, not the main reason to be, by the owners.
The yearly bottom line and position wrt to return of investment is what mainly seems to always count...
 
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billyiddo said:
I get that but the timing of his removal was poorly planned. We were off the back of a historically poor league season & had replaced the manager - in these situations you want some form of stability. If Lewis's wanted to make a change they should have done so once we had got ourselves back on secure footing in the league
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Fair argument regarding the timing. I just think it was a long time coming and we needed some sort of change. He had been in charge far too long. Even uber successful clubs/businesses make changes periodically to freshen things up.

Re waiting until we had got back on secure footing in the league, who knows when that will be given the absolute state of our squad at the moment.
 
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