Collective positivity will only help push us forward.

Parish has spoken about it before and I believe in it myself.

If you want negativity then you'll get a bit more in Jordan's Talksport interview on the HOL homepage. Although it's not negative, it's a bit more meh about the appointment with regards to the here and now football in the prem issue. And it's not just bitter anti Parish stuff.

Jordan spoke about Silva over Frank as Frank only really has Dutch league experience. Similar to my opinion weeks ago. Then there's Pellegrino who has English football experience, but if he prefers Southampton there's little we can do about that. Jordan didn't mention Pellegrino. Southampton have possibly chosen wrongly and should've gone with Frank.

Jordan would do well to read the article on the de Boer philosophy thread. Puts a lot of fears to rest, but he'll need Sammy Lee IMO and possibly a word in his ear to not go too open too quickly. All managers now know how to defend behind the ball, as will Frank, but there's also a bit of discipline and wisdom required to not develop things too fast. We just had Sam who knew how to exploit the opposition trying to break us down. Something like that and a bit of progression in style but not too much is what I'm hoping Sammy Lee stressed in his input. Sammy could be just as valued as before.

Alan Brazil and Mickey Quinn just went onto say 'total football, attractive, entertaining stuff but might fail' etc but I suppose that's what a lot would say without either watching Ajax for 5 years or reading the philosophy article.

Oh and at the start Jordan was positive about Silva but then later said we should look at English managers as we've already done, but as I said, we should've appointed Silva. Maybe he'd alter that to English experience. Only heard it once but could be another Jordan contradiction, or just a preference if his favourite choice didn't want the job.

COYP

The short version:

- Dutch teams don't know how to defend
- Dutch managers don't know how to get their teams to defend and can't be bothered to
- De Boer will try and do 'total football', it's the only thing he knows
- Which works if you're Ajax in a league full of micky mouse Dutch outfits, but good luck as one of the lower league prem teams.

On the plus side, he was even more scathing about Dortmund appointing Bosz: he gave de Boer the credit for the Ajax of last season, Bosz is an unknown quantity and WTF do Dortmund think they're doing appointing him? He doubts they know themselves why.

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

So excited by this!
Let's tap in to the Dutch market now.

Although Frank will be our first non British boss i think the Dutch are the the most similar race to ourselves. They all speak English will be fine with English culture etc. Hes the nearest thing to an English boss we could find who isnt actually English

All valid concerns. Keeping Sammy et al is vital for a safe beginning or I'd be quite anxious we'd have more of the first half vs Bournemouth last season or conceding 2 goals from our own corners at Burnley. Discipline and the basics cannot be overestimated.

But also that philosophy article does say Frank is flexible vs big sides. Defending deep, the usual stuff.

COYP