Welcome Ange: To Dare is to Didgeridoo

[Muttley]

I agree, but regardless of how I think about it, I feel it twitching in me like a bad addiction every time we fudge up or look to do so. It’s what the psychologists would call «learned helplessness», I think. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: our club is suffering from a collective depression. The best way out of that is for the team to start performing, hopefully we’ll start by winning this cup. Then, we need to build on that, get a mental coach in (like the fighter pilot Bodø got in that turned everything around) - really build a new culture around what Ange just said there. Belief going into every game. We’re too much of an easy target for the media and our own fans now. The best way to start turning that around is by winning this trophy - which of course we can fudging do.

Great post. Makes so much sense.

I guess where my head is at is that, in these narratives, Ange talks as if us fans and the club have the cultural issue but he doesn't. In reality though there is so much of Ange's job he does with a losing mentality in his own head. He doesn't do basic things like win at all costs. He doesn't seem to hate not getting clean sheets and he seems to just say to his players he'll take the heat if they play his way and mess up. That is NOT a winning mentality that you would have ever seen from a top line manager. I ask myself the question if we haven't got that winning culture at Ange's level, why would we have it anywhere else? Then the person that doesn't seem to have it in abundance is the one preaching at us about it. The irony.

I would advise Ange to stop worrying about this stuff and just double down on coaching his squad. Prove to us stakeholders that has has the ability, the attention to detail and the football management techniques to create a winning Spurs side. If we can get to the EL final, we will need every ounce of it as it will be against a PL team that have every piece of data possible on the way we play. Amorin and Utd will be totally prepped.

 

[DubSpur]

I agree with this but at the same time reflecting on Thursday night we put ourselves in a position to bury the tie there and then but instead we allowed Bodo a possibility of recovering. That’s not the fault of the media or the fans. It’s down to low standards on and off the pitch.

We controlled the game and looked comfortable throughout it. Bodo scored from practically the only chance they had and even then it was onlu because of a deflection. If we had've gone gung-ho for a 4th and conceeded, the narrative would've been we can't control a game when ahead. We created enough chances as it was to win it 4-1 or 5-1. For once the team played pragmatically. Play to the same standard in the second leg and we'll go through.

 

[thfcsteff]

You wanted the club to give him the infamous “vote of confidence”?

The Club has backed Ange more than they should have in my opinion.

The fact that he was under pressure is of his own making.

There is an argument that more than the Manager should be talking to the press, but that should be part of an overall forward thinking media strategy. Not just to take some pressure of a manager who has quite frankly shít the bed.

No. I did NOT want that. I wanted them to back the whole DIRECTION laid out by the club and EXPLAIN that it was a club decision and not just the work of one man. Very different.

 

[Yiddo]

Here is a question

If we had played in the championship this season, where do you think we would have come realistically?