Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

[Bluto Blutarsky]

I've lost the enthusiasm already.

Every time we concede a corner we look like conceding.

Every time a team comes forward on a counter attack against us we look like conceding.

But that's how we play mate.

This is the most concerning aspect to me - we have been embarrassed too many times this season. Well coached teams generally do not get embarrassed. It's one thing to drop points - that happens. But, we have been flat out embarrassed in our performances a number of times this season.

 

[Centrocampista]

I have loved the attacking football but he won't last long if we continue to defend like a pub team.

 

[cliff jones]

This has to be his last chance with this set piece bullshit.

He’s still allowing Ben White to get on Vic’s tits, Porro got nudged under the ball for the first- that was the spot Kane used to hold and head away a good percentage. That’s where he should station a decent header of the ball- Bents.

Why is PEH wrong side on the first.

Fkin farcical, and incredibly naive and disorganised

 

[spurs mental]

Next season is where the judgment happens. If we continue this next year, continue with the exact same issues, continue to get found out game after game then I don’t think he’ll survive

He has to change, something has to give. You can't get turned over like this 2 games in a row and think it's working. We've got 5 games left and he needs to change something and make some adjustments then

If he doesn't I don't want him here for next season.

 

[NEVILLEB]

Little Ange

 

[philll]

I think Ange is simply up against a higher level of opposition managers in this league.

Better managers and better players. His Celtic side pressed the shit out of Real Madrid in the CL (and were lauded for it) and got slapped 8-1 on aggregate. I think back to how we laughed when smug little twats like Neville described him as naive but it's the best word for it. It's like he thinks he can just devote all of his attention to 1 part of the game and the rest will just kind of sort itself out but the Premier League demands more nous than that and a more all-round approach. He needs to adapt over the Summer and for fucks sake own his mistakes and hire better people to work on set pieces.

 

[spurs mental]

I have loved the attacking football but he won't last long if we continue to defend like a pub team.

The attacking football lately has consisted of us dominating the ball, teams sitting in and hitting us on the counter while we slowly move it about, get forward, turn back and recycle

It's like the end of Poch days

 

[poc]

This has to be his last chance with this set piece bullshit.

He’s still allowing Ben White to get on Vic’s tits, Porro got nudged under the ball for the first- that was the spot Kane used to hold and head away a good percentage. That’s where he should station a decent header of the ball- Bents.

Why is PEH wrong side on the first.

Fkin farcical, and incredibly naive and disorganised

It isn't hard is it.

 

[mrlilywhite]

I've not really bought in to the Ange's style of football, even when things were looking good. There was always this feeling of susceptibility about the system. You can play an attractive game of football, but what we're doing, and continue to do is never going to work. I feel like others have mentioned, and that Ange is simply out of his depth, but has been given grace, virtue to the fact that we played an attractive style of football that kept bums on the seat, at least short term anyway. I don't think Ange is a long term manager that can change the fortunes of the football at our club. Happy, of course to be proven wrong.

 

[Krafty]

Considering he has also had plenty of time on the training ground with the players it’s not a great sign that we have got steadily worse, and have managed to not only stop the same errors/issues/patterns from happening but allowed new ones to slip in.

 

[Strikeb4ck]

He's got to get rid of Jedinak. It's been diabolical all year, but to show up defending set pieces again like this with 15 days of training is just unacceptable.

 

[sparx100]

I think Merson was right. I can see us as fans getting on Ange next season. Next season cannot allow us to be so easy to play through.

 

[Tucker]

I think Merson was right. I can see us as fans getting on Ange next season. Next season cannot allow us to be so easy to play through.

People are on his back now. This is our problem as a fanbase, we’ve no patience. We need to give him time to build the team the way he wants it.

 

[yawa]

We’re playing like his teams do. Not sure what giving him time is going to achieve exactly. This is what it is.

We’ll stuff some teams and equally get stuffed on a fairly regular basis.

 

[Zaphod]

I have a horrible feeling we’ll be looking at Liverpool under Slot next season and be thinking ‘What if…’

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I think Merson was right. I can see us as fans getting on Ange next season. Next season cannot allow us to be so easy to play through.

Eurgh. This already. I think there are some clear areas for us to improve. I’d like to think we will

Some changes in the squad needed though too

 

[poc]

People are on his back now. This is our problem as a fanbase, we’ve no patience. We need to give him time to build the team the way he wants it.

There is patience but you can't keep getting slapped especially in games like this and it not tarnish your reputation.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I have a horrible feeling we’ll be looking at Liverpool under Slot next season and be thinking ‘What if…’

I’m sure we will. It is what it is

 

[NEVILLEB]

We’ve progressively got worse through the season.

That’s a terrible sign for a Manager in his debut season.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

We’ve progressively got worse through the season.

That’s a terrible sign for a Manager in his debut season.

Harsh. But, fair.



It is a little amusing looking back to Poch's first season - and we are doing slightly better this season - but there was a sense of optimism, and growth that I don't feel about this club right now. Maybe expectations are higher now - but Ange is going to have to hit the ground running hard next season, or he won't last until the end of next season.