Samuel Rooke

In a strange way, that was more encouraging than say beating Everton 3-0 at the weekend.

I'd say 2-3 seasons or 2-3 more managers, whichever comes first.

Yes apparently now it's cumulative fatigue.

Yours is the only pod I don’t avoid when we’ve lost. I think you strike an excellent balance between positivity and realism.

A lot of analysis starts from a conclusion and works backwards

People refuse to apply any sort of context and just repeat the fact that Spurs finished 17th as if that could possibly matter.

Exactly.

I think sometimes it's best to acknowledge a mistake as soon as it's clear that you've made one.

You want to watch a Pullis or big Sam team? Fine. I want to watch Spurs, not the opposite of glorious football.

Ange also followed some pretty awful years where I for one struggled to give a shit. Ange got me caring again. I also really appreciated him standing up for the club and hit back on lazy mockery. The contrast to his predecessors probably increased patience.

While there’s no point crying over the AP departure now, I think it is fair to question our commitment to a football identity. Does identity matter? Does the daring and doing stuff mean anything, or is it just marketing? Does Frankball resonate with fans sufficiently for us to buy in and be patient?

I’d like to know if there’s any logic to his “defense first, then layer on attack” philosophy

Time to do what though? It's not like they're trying to do something and not quite landing it. They're executing the game plan. It's just a bad plan. Keeping Gray and Bergvall on the bench at home against such a risk-averse opponent isn't a bug, it's a feature.

Totally. I'm repeating myself, but he's a small club mentality manager.

It’s so small time

My worry is it won't be implemented for long. Remember the 8 seconds for a keeper to handle the ball and get rid of it? That was a nice 3 weeks.

5 seconds to take a throw or it goes to the other team, rubs out long throws immediately.

To varying degrees I like pretty much all of our squad. Yo varying degrees I think we have mainly good or potentially good players. It's quite an achievement by Frank to turn us into such a poor and unlikable team.

It was supposed to be ‘flexible’ or ‘adaptable’ but it’s just surrendering initiative

Whoever could possibly have seen this coming

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Our build up play is:

1) Lose the ball
2) Play Kudus back to goal with a straight pass and hope he can magic something up

I am starting to see the doubts about Frank’s ability to coach possession football

Still got Bissouma to deal with as well, one way or another.

Yeah that's the problem. He suits Frank's approach meaning he is unlikely to drop into a depth role to which he is adequately suited.

We can still sell Bentancur if we want to before being forced to lose one of our promising young players.

The biggest disgrace about that was seeing what should have been when we were forced to actually attack. There's a lot I could say, both small and big picture, but I don't think there's any point. Suffice it to say I'm not warming to Frank.

It's just going to be a waste of everyone's time - Frank's included - which will only end one way.

Yes, his lack of Australianness gets him a lot more leeway.

It doesn’t seem as though a great deal of thought went into the recruitment process. That has been true in the past more often than not.
On your second point, that is a real worry. What are we sacrificing our central ethos for if not defensive solidity? If then we don’t even get that…

Perhaps he can adapt but it seems a strange strategy to ask someone to do that. Building the plane in midair