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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    By this point we’d lost our first choice centre backs (generally considered to be the only world class players in the squad) as well as our goal keeper. We would end up playing Fraser Forster for a lot of games and Brandon Austin for a couple. We were also in the midst of a run where we had to...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    This is what has frustrated me most about the club. We expect miracles from the managers. We don’t have the most money. Fine. But we are also aren’t willing to get through a couple of hard seasons in order to let a vision fully come to fruition, where it might counteract the relative lack of...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    It’s really not that hard to comprehend. You can judge how many points the teams below us are likely to get, you can judge how many points we were likely to get, and then you can test how well the judgement played at the end of the season. We were never in danger of going down.
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I feel like people have just chosen to forget what December to February was actually like last season. We had a whole team out, crucially we had a whole defence out. And while we have a fair few injuries this time too, Frank has still been able to rotate. In that particular period last season...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Ok, you are factually correct on the mathematically safe point. But in terms of actually being safe, and ever actually being in danger of relegation, that point was much earlier. And the reason that matters is because that’s what guided the decision making to try and end the season with...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Sure, but bringing the term ‘mathematically safe’ into the discussion was a device to distract from the original terms of the debate, which were whether or not we were ever in serious danger of getting relegated. And we were not ever in serious danger of getting relegated. If we were, we would...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think you’re completely right on this. The starting point is that we were never in danger of getting relegated, and someone argues that we weren’t mathematically safe until with 5 games to go, but the relegated teams are not winning those 5 games in a row, and if there was any danger of them...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I’ve been as critical of the direction and the output under Frank as anyone but I thought today was just one of those where…if you concede first against a Dyche team, you make it really difficult for yourself. Bad individual errors, and a freak second goal at the start of the second half. I...
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    ***Tottenham Hotspur v SK Slavia Praha***

    I would be fascinated to hear a detailed breakdown from Frank on why now is the right time to use more of this positional fluidity. Last two games we’ve clearly attacked with a lot more variation than we had for any game previously. I know he’s talked about adding layers. I would just love to...
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur FC v Brentford FC ***

    I was actually going to make a point on duels, I thought it was waaaaaaay better today. Maybe it was luck, but I do wonder if there’s been some coaching focus on that in the last week. Like…it wasn’t as if players were inherently stronger than Brentford’s. And it wasn’t like we were busting...
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    I think that against Fulham, I felt like we were trying to be whatever passes for aggressive for the team at the moment, at the start, and it didn’t work at all. We seemed waaaaaay too open to a single direct pass and they had us running backwards on more than one occasion. It was odd how easy...
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    Yeah I don’t think the intention is to offer quite so…nothing in those moments we are defending. But at the very least, we did prevent good chances. And we raised the intensity when we needed to and created good chances ourselves. I’d class it as progress. I would say that countering does tend...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    I think we have that philosophy, but it’s probably to do it in the last 15 minutes of the first half and the last 30 of the second. At least that’s what I saw last night where pass and move looked a lot better. I think a lot of Frank’s philosophy (piecing together his points around competing...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    To quote Blair (I think) stability is sexy. You’re probably right on the NI rise. The trade off is the NHS got much needed investment. So as I say, look at this as a 5 year program for government. Let’s see what the picture looks like at the time of the next GE.
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    I agree. There’s something about the players taking more touches, like they’ve been told to keep it safe, but it actually makes them worse. I think Bentancur is a real culprit of this. Multiple times last night he took too long, or played a teammate into trouble. It was odd. Like, just because...
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