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Thomas Frank - Head Coach

thfcsteff said:
From yesterday's post-match presser. Make of it what you will. I know my thoughts. To see that he essentially gave up the match after the second goal is somewhat scandalous.



"Then the 2-0 goal killed the game off. Basically, we were not in the game after that, in my opinion. That's part of keeping the structure, keep the game plan, keep going, keep doing the right things. So, that's definitely not the first time we've seen that, this year, last year, whenever. That's something that's ongoing work in progress before we're more consistent in that. It doesn't help that we made two mistakes with the first two goals but, again, that can happen in football. So, we just need to keep doing the right things. so everything looks the right way. Then on top of that, we decide to throw the ball away at least 25 times. So, we can't hit each other 25 times...."

"When you are on track and in sync, you see the last three performances. That's very simple." (referring to Saudi Sportswashing Machine away, Brentford and Slavia at home)

"We win together, we lose together, but I can't pass the ball on the pitch. So, if we lose the ball 25 times, I think it's fair to say that it's pretty difficult to create something."

""We had four offensive players on the pitch. I think that's fair to say. So, I felt that, just to go back to the bit before where I say we're disjointed. So, if you're disjointed, you can have 11 offensive players on the pitch. It will not help. So we need to be in sync, and then it helps, and hopefully we can find a way back after that." - on Davies and Palhinha subs 57th minute

" It was a very bad performance. No two ways about that. I also know that to change this, this will take some time, because no one wants to hear about that. It's just reality. I think the ones who have followed the club and the team, I think it's fair to say there's been a few not-too-consistent performances and that's a thing we are working very hard on."

"I'm pretty sure when I watched the game... when did we concede the first goal? 28 minutes. I think when I watch it back, it was probably not that bad until the first goal. So, it can't be one goal that makes it so disjointed for 15 minutes. It can't happen. You can have a day where it's not perfect. How many games have you seen where it's not perfect? Then you find your way into it. Then you maybe draw 1-1, win 2-1 in the second half where you eat your way into it. That's just ongoing work we need to work so hard on."

""First and foremost, we have, finally, a more or less full week going into Liverpool next time. After that, we have eight days to Crystal Palace. That gives a little bit of time to train and try to get on top of some of these things. That's also the challenge. No complaints, just the fact. We try to change things with very short time between games. It's just a little bit more tricky. We need to utilise the time in the next two weeks massively and then we have five games in a short amount of time."
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I think he’s talking retrospectively. Not what he was necessarily thinking at the time.
 
Robspur12 said:
But that’s the point I made earlier. We were very different last week at home. Our passing was sharper and movement better. Closer I would imagine to how TF wants his team to play. Something is trying to emerge, but we are very inconsistent and the players’ confidence really fragile. I wonder if Gray hadn’t made that mistake whether we might have got something out of the game even.
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We were poor all game, there was nothing to suggest we would get anything from that game. One shot on target all game and should have been 1-0 down in the opening 2 minutes. We came back twice vs Saudi Sportswashing Machine a couple of weeks ago, we were simply just extremely poor yesterday....
 
fernadez said:
I wouldn't class H as a winner personally. I think that is what stops him from the having taking that next step.

I'm talking about that player that wins you a game through sheer force of will, that accepts nothing apart from the best. You ever hear Kobe speaking and that's what I'm talking about Mamba mentality.
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A lot of the time those sheer force winners also have the extreme quality of ability to make the difference, very much like Kobe was. Force of will alone can only take a player so far unless they have the ability to go with it.
 
NaijaSpurs said:
I am concerned when our manager says the second goal killed off the game when we had over 30 minutes to play. That attitude is not what I want from my manager.
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I'm not.

It did. I like that he's a realist, he knew.

Better that than being in denial about it. Anyone can trot out sporting cliches, but sometimes games really are over.
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
The simple fact is that we are way too predictable in our pattern of play. Get the ball out wide preferably to Kudos and then a cross comes in. The better organised sides have worked us out and we become very easy to defend against. Note on Sunday, Forest had two, sometimes three players out wide to cover Kudos. Now, you would think that would open up gaps elsewhere, but if it did, we were not able to take advantage of them. I doubt Frank will get us any better than maybe 8th to 11th place and I have no confidence that even with better players he will be able to improve results.
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A problem amplified by the fact that when Kudus does beat a player he typically tries to beat another one instead of then passing to an open player.
 
harr1984 said:
All fair enough mate but we're on the decline - We had a generous fixture list for start of the season. Burnley, Wolves, Leeds, West Ham all in that first 8 games or so. Now the fixtures are evening out, we are 17th in the form table and the football is getting worse. There are worrying signs for me, signs that suggest rightly or wrongly he's not got the real buy in of the players. We didn't just lose to Forest, we got absolutely done by them and the worst part is this was just yet another tepid performance where we barely mustered up anything going forward.

It's not even where we are at positionally for me, sure we all want to win games and eventually a manager has to deliver on the results front. But first and foremost I want to see us playing a bit of football and we simply aren't, not even a little bit. It is just horrible - unless we can play Copenhagen and Slavia Prague at home every week of course....
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Several people on here talking about us being close to relegation last season under Ange. I happen to think we might be closer to it this season.
 
SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
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 money.

So we expect miracles. And the only one that delivered consistent over performance over a number of years in the league was Poch. And then we sack him anyway! And then we sack the guy who actually won a trophy.

I think they’re probably gonna let it ride with Frank because they think he is a good long term bet, but who knows. I agree that we have to stop the cycle and show someone patience.
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The previous chairman would’ve sacked him by now. We’ll see how much more patient the new decision makers are.
 
Baleforce said:
I'm not.

It did. I like that he's a realist, he knew.

Better that than being in denial about it. Anyone can trot out sporting cliches, but sometimes games really are over.
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Because we need goals and he brought on a defensive midfielder and a defensive left back. He effectively gave up. That was pathetic. He then brought on more attacking places when we had just 10 minutes left FFS
 
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El Dante said:
As has been said, Kulusevski’s injury wasn’t a freak injury. That’s what happens when you run players into the ground. It was waiting to happen.
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Didn’t know you was a dr
Can you let us know when he will return and we can stay seeing football again
And you do know I was talking about Maddison’s and Solankes
I actually can’t remember how Kulu got injured because it was last season under Ange, not on Frank’s watch as we were discussing
 
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