Aston Villa V Tottenham FA Cup Build Up

comment by burghandy (U10383)
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comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
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Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
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This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.

comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.

comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

What current players am I supposedly ridiculing. Davies I think is to old now, Son is clearly past his best. And that's about it. I still 100 per cent back them when they play.

You however constantly ridicule both the manager and the owners. So pot and kettle come to mind.

comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well you say he did well, it was ok, nothing that special. Got overrated by fans and media for the job that was done. Some moron pundit on Sky even described it as a "superb" job. Nobody said Poch had done superb for getting 5th in his first season and a cup final.

Whatever he did in those leagues it's not comparable enough to the PL, nor those teams to our club. In retrospect we ought to have gone for someone with experience in a much stronger league.

comment by Spurtle (U1608)
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comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well you say he did well, it was ok, nothing that special. Got overrated by fans and media for the job that was done. Some moron pundit on Sky even described it as a "superb" job. Nobody said Poch had done superb for getting 5th in his first season and a cup final.

Whatever he did in those leagues it's not comparable enough to the PL, nor those teams to our club. In retrospect we ought to have gone for someone with experience in a much stronger league.
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If you remember at the start of last season a lot of fans and pundits were predicting us to finish a lot lower, especially when Kane left just before our first match.

comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well you say he did well, it was ok, nothing that special. Got overrated by fans and media for the job that was done. Some moron pundit on Sky even described it as a "superb" job. Nobody said Poch had done superb for getting 5th in his first season and a cup final.

Whatever he did in those leagues it's not comparable enough to the PL, nor those teams to our club. In retrospect we ought to have gone for someone with experience in a much stronger league.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you remember at the start of last season a lot of fans and pundits were predicting us to finish a lot lower, especially when Kane left just before our first match.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

How do you think Ange's second season will compare to Poch's second season? That's if he somehow lasts the season.

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comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well you say he did well, it was ok, nothing that special. Got overrated by fans and media for the job that was done. Some moron pundit on Sky even described it as a "superb" job. Nobody said Poch had done superb for getting 5th in his first season and a cup final.

Whatever he did in those leagues it's not comparable enough to the PL, nor those teams to our club. In retrospect we ought to have gone for someone with experience in a much stronger league.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you remember at the start of last season a lot of fans and pundits were predicting us to finish a lot lower, especially when Kane left just before our first match.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

How do you think Ange's second season will compare to Poch's second season? That's if he somehow lasts the season.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lets hope he sticks around so we can find out

comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well you say he did well, it was ok, nothing that special. Got overrated by fans and media for the job that was done. Some moron pundit on Sky even described it as a "superb" job. Nobody said Poch had done superb for getting 5th in his first season and a cup final.

Whatever he did in those leagues it's not comparable enough to the PL, nor those teams to our club. In retrospect we ought to have gone for someone with experience in a much stronger league.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you remember at the start of last season a lot of fans and pundits were predicting us to finish a lot lower, especially when Kane left just before our first match.
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Expectations change over time or over the course of the season. If you put yourself in a good position to achieve something, then it's still a disappointment when you don't achieve it even if that's not what was expected at the start. It's like Arsenal not winning the league a couple of seasons ago when it was in their hands. Nobody expected it at the start but they still bottled it.

Besides, I was one who thought we could do well and challenge for the top 4, as I thought we had spent well and had no Europe.

A lot of pundits predicted us for top 4 this time round and we were struggling outside the top 4 before our injury crisis.

comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 1 second ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by burghandy (U10383)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Don’s Dinner (U11802)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
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Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.
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Well you say he did well, it was ok, nothing that special. Got overrated by fans and media for the job that was done. Some moron pundit on Sky even described it as a "superb" job. Nobody said Poch had done superb for getting 5th in his first season and a cup final.

Whatever he did in those leagues it's not comparable enough to the PL, nor those teams to our club. In retrospect we ought to have gone for someone with experience in a much stronger league.
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If you remember at the start of last season a lot of fans and pundits were predicting us to finish a lot lower, especially when Kane left just before our first match.
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Expectations change over time or over the course of the season. If you put yourself in a good position to achieve something, then it's still a disappointment when you don't achieve it even if that's not what was expected at the start. It's like Arsenal not winning the league a couple of seasons ago when it was in their hands. Nobody expected it at the start but they still bottled it.

Besides, I was one who thought we could do well and challenge for the top 4, as I thought we had spent well and had no Europe.

A lot of pundits predicted us for top 4 this time round and we were struggling outside the top 4 before our injury crisis.
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I think this season we were 3 or 4 points off the top when our players started getting injured.

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Everyone one of us are entitled to their own opinion.

We're not all going to have the same views

I get why so many are angry and are venting their anger

We all want our club to be competitive and that for me more than anythings means we are on the pitch.

We've got some great young players but we're lacking some older players who can compete and fight for us when the going gets tough.

We've got no leaders in this squad

Whether Ange stays or goes this must be sorted out.

I really hope Ange can turn this around but i'm not sure if he can.

I'll be at the United game and hope we can win the game and totally understand the anger towards Levy.

I go to support my club if that makes some think i'm a minion then so be it,I've seen some posters on here say our fans are a disgrace and referred to as happy clappers which i find a feckin piff take.

Nobody around where I sit are happy with our situation but still get behind the team.

C O Y S
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Great post mate. However, we get behind the team, but we let our frustrations out on the manager and Levy. Posters like Sandy will ridicule players relentlessly to suit their agenda. I do not believe that we have such a poor team that we should be sitting in 16th place. I do believe that they are poorly coached and the squad in general has been underinvested in over the years by ENIC.

Just look at Eric Dier’s comments regarding Postecolglou’s training. How can this be brushed under the carpet and the focus be solely on an injury list?

I will support this club until the day I die, but it will not pretend I’m a fan of either a manager or chairman who are both clearly inept.
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This is what I don't understand, so if Ange is this big fraud as I keep reading, he is so inept etc etc. my question is how comes we finished 5th last season?

Why were we not fighting relegation last season?

Why has every team that he has managed previously he has won something?
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The gung ho style worked up to a point (the first 10 games). We took a league who weren't really prepared for us by storm, combined with the new manager bounce, and new players. There was a feel good factor.

Then the Chelsea game happened and it killed our momentum. Never been the same since and many of the league's teams figured our predictable style out. Remember we may have finished 5th but we could and should have finished 4th, only we deteriorated April onwards, with a fully fit team by the way.

No European football either and did nowt in the cups so really with minimum games, we just had the league to focus on for the first time since Redknapp's first full season, who did manage top 4 and an FA Cup semi final.

His other teams were in crap leagues. I mean there's practically no point comparing to Celtic for obvious reasons.
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Right, so he did well in his first season due to the feel good factor.

The other teams he managed were not the best teams in those leagues and he still won. The standard might not be as good but it is all relative.
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Well you say he did well, it was ok, nothing that special. Got overrated by fans and media for the job that was done. Some moron pundit on Sky even described it as a "superb" job. Nobody said Poch had done superb for getting 5th in his first season and a cup final.

Whatever he did in those leagues it's not comparable enough to the PL, nor those teams to our club. In retrospect we ought to have gone for someone with experience in a much stronger league.
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If you remember at the start of last season a lot of fans and pundits were predicting us to finish a lot lower, especially when Kane left just before our first match.
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Expectations change over time or over the course of the season. If you put yourself in a good position to achieve something, then it's still a disappointment when you don't achieve it even if that's not what was expected at the start. It's like Arsenal not winning the league a couple of seasons ago when it was in their hands. Nobody expected it at the start but they still bottled it.

Besides, I was one who thought we could do well and challenge for the top 4, as I thought we had spent well and had no Europe.

A lot of pundits predicted us for top 4 this time round and we were struggling outside the top 4 before our injury crisis.
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I think this season we were 3 or 4 points off the top when our players started getting injured.
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But struggling none the less, lacking consistency and losing too many games including to teams we shouldn't who hadn't won games before.