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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    But you should also perhaps understand that Frank is the proactive one in the way a lot of us think. Identifying strengths and weaknesses of your opposition is proactive especially when you blend them into your own philosophy. Frank's the one that is building processes and strong foundations...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Not sure what you mean by this. We're the same club, on the same project. We've just moved a couple of chairs around.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    With 2, I think it was a major reversal in tactics that won us the trophy. It wasn't a tweaking from the normal Ange philosophy we'd seen for 18 months. It was a switch to sitting deep and playing on the counter, as opposed to the high press. It worked a treat as well. The problem seem to be...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think you've labelled Frank way too early, as if he cannot be a different Spurs manager to the one we saw at Brentford. Pragmatism is proaction. You build your proactive football philosophy into your squad and then you tweak game for game based on what opposition you face. Proactive is the...
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    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Palace **. 28.12.25 4.30pm

    Reading your post got me thinking that one of the biggest changes the players have gone through is prepping differently for games this season. It was strongly implied that for 2 years Ange was getting his players to follow his game plan and didn't seem to focused on the opposition as other...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    I think you're perhaps being a little harsh on Frank. Palhinha wasn't a "primary" target of the club. He was a late summer stop gap loan that Frank agreed to so he had enough bodies to tackle a busy season. I can't imagine Spurs coping with the workload with just the other 4 options. That's...
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    Yves Bissouma

    Captain and playing in the 10 role for Mali. There is clearly a parallel universe.
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    Radu Drăgușin

    Late to your b'day party here. Hope you're having a fantastic day? lol - at least [fill in the blanks] didn't play today and ruin it :cool:
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    The Game Is About Glory Podcast

    Is it too early for new year resolutions? I think mine would be to start listening to this pod after it is released. I had to binge listen to 3 last week in one sitting :cool: Genuinely, keep up the great work guys.
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    Radu Drăgușin

    It's a dilemma really. I'm not sure of your age, but I have decades of watching Spurs defences that were never strong and deep. Poch had his 2 great centre halves but I would have never called Wimmer or Sanchez fantastic backup even though they did well in spells. Ditto Dier in the days Poch had...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    Fantastic post. I guess when you add the pieces you talk about to the intelligence, comms and defensive awareness and physicality I was talking about we really were looking for one hell of a player. Perhaps even a unicorn as not even Carrick passing through all those years ago ticked all this...
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    Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

    lol, I'll PM you as this conversation could become the music thread :cool:
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    Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

    Gutted today for PL fans. It seems every other English league has some Boxing Day football on. I will watch the 8pm game though. Enjoy Egypt, a country I've never been to. Love watching PL football in bars abroad. No interesting pressies here. Best I got was a new gig bag. Chuffed to bits with...
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    The Current State of Spurs (and some sympathy for Thomas Frank)

    Yeah, agree with most of what you say. I don't think we're totally disorganised though. I saw moments under Ange where we looked scarily that but clearly weren't. I think it's more a case that the manager is giving the players some organising principles but they are struggling to adhere to them...
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    Xavi Simons

    Nah, I'm not expecting perfection. I'm expecting higher standards and they come from a couple of things. The first is to admit there is an issue with the quality of the officiating and putting a get well plan in place. That is something PGMOL have not done in a 5-10 year period which smacks of...
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