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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    True, but I think it was work towards making sure the squad was in the best possible condition to win the Europa games.
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I do wonder if he viewed the league games last season just about getting the squad to the summer. In the sense that, so many of them had probably been played in the red zone that he wanted to tamper down the intensity and just get through. I don’t know that for sure but it was clear he wasn’t...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    The Forest job just shows he shouldn’t have taken over mid season from a manager that played a completely different way to the way he did. I think it’s an interesting example of how unwavering self belief can actually lead you to make a really stupid decision, which joining Forest was. I think...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I’m sure Levy always consults football people. Was interesting about football though is that there are so many different styles, systems, philosophies and agendas that people have, that he can take as much advice as possible but the buck stops with him. He is the one that has to have a sense for...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    I hear you, all fair points. It might have been two down years rather than one. So my question is, are we starting the rebuild in 2019, or 2020, if we keep Poch on in this alternate history? Or are we starting it in 2018 like he asked? If we’re starting it in 2020, I agree, it’s hard because...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    This is where decision makers earn their status, by having the insight that allows them to make the right decisions that lead to success. Like, no one would criticise the decision of a board to appoint a manager that got Spurs 6th 10 years in a row, hypothetically, the logic would be there. The...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    Yeah, when I say I think it was the wrong decision to let him go, I really mean it was the wrong decision to not listen to him and realise that Poch was the thing that was making the club over perform. By the time he was properly frustrated, I didn’t blame him. But we gave up our special...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Also it’s very hard to know who that manager is for Spurs. The mid table over performers don’t tend to earn the respect of our players unless they are a truly special one like Poch. The big club winners don’t last long when they don’t have the most money to play with. Our only choice is to...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    We simply weren’t shocking after the first 10 games. There were plenty of great wins. Just actually look at the results. There was a tough period after the Chelsea home (lots of injuries and suspensions came there) and a tough period towards the end of the season where we essentially played the...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    This image is from the same journalist who wrote the frankly insane ‘Thomas Frank should be the most in demand manager in football’ article today. But I think the end of that first paragraph gets to why Ange didn’t adjust like some people wanted him to. He built a whole project on the idea...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    Indeed. It is completely obvious to me. And I don’t even think of like an ‘itch to scratch’, he’s simply right for us on his own terms. He literally called out, way in advance of the results slipping, that we needed a rebuild. Instead of listening to him, we then went multiple transfer windows...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Yup, very much agreed.
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    High risk high reward. Likely to be more risky when the first options aren’t available.
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Or maybe we’d have improved on his 5th placed finish in the first season with those options?
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    If we go from the City 4-0 win to February, where we barely couldn’t even field a team of 11 players, and had to play actually unfit players, and decide that this means Ange had to go, I think that’s insanely bad decision making to be honest. If the decision on Ange was that we need someone...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    I disagree on Poch being purely someone to get us back into the top 5. But I appreciate we won’t agree there. What I will say as another reason I think Poch Round 2 will be better for all concerned, is the sale of Brennan Johnson, because of what it shows. It shows that we will sell players at...
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    What’s odd is that he was gone in February. So just at the point that we’re coming out of the worst of the injury crisis, we’re securing the wins that virtually guarantee our safety, and make the decision to focus on the Europa, that’s when the decision is made. So this is before even more of...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    And if you build the wrong model, or draw the wrong conclusions, or don’t have a sense of what you should be looking for, all the data in the world won’t help you.
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    If this is true, and honestly I think it is based on what we saw and what Frank said, this is a core reason for the big frustration, It would mean that he wasn’t just saying ‘we finished 17th last season’ as a deflection to relieve some pressure on himself, but that he genuinely believed he...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I think this is exactly what happened psychologically with the squad. I do think Frank can succeed with another team, for sure. I think his appointment was completely the wrong one for what the squad needed, and it smacked of not really understanding what was happening with the team last...
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