Match reaction: Sunderland v Arsenal - FA Cup

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Originally Posted by cheesy bites

I miss Nasri

:ninja:

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Guy in your avatar would be pretty helpful too. Shame we've killed him.

Nah we haven't killed him. You can only kill players by signing established, quality ones to start ahead of them.

No surprise that we lost, our end-of-season collapse has just started a bit earlier than normal.

Who knows how much worse it's going to get in the last few months of the season, I wouldn't be that surprised if we dropped to 7th by the end.

Wenger has to go, and in an ideal world so would the board and most of the players, giving us a chance to rebuild again.

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Originally Posted by Syn

I think we will eventually find out the truth. But it'll be a while. We might not find out from Wenger if he's in on it - by all accounts, including Wenger's, Wenger is getting paid a lot of money.

But regardless of the money situation, there is no direction at the club. There is no clear strategy on how to play. Players are clueless and confused. A new manager would probably help - even if he doesn't get extra funds. We are pissing away money in wages and not buying well even with the money we have.

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If the absolute, number one, no exceptions policy is success on the pitch- then you have what it takes to win. If priorities are elsewhere then you will be found out. Our priorities haven't been focused on football for a long time. Wenger and the board freely admits as much. First they want a financially profitable operation, then they think about football. We lack heart for the game at the very top, and this has run down through the club. I wonder what a player like Adams would have thought about it, or a manager like Graham. There would have been fireworks no doubt. Having captains that are always leaving doesn't help either. This is a very poorly run club from top to bottom in terms of football. We see the results of this neglect every year. It is usual now. I can't even picture a situation where we might win something of note. Other than the award for efficient accounting, maybe.

Woah. So sad. That's it. End of. Trying to make sense of it in football terms, but that doesn't cut it. The football we're trying to play doesn't work if you don't have the quality of basics ingrained. Such a shame. Gutted to fuck.

AST meeting on monday. Should be fun...

A team can only be better than the sum of its parts when they have an exceptional manager, or are exceptionally lucky, See Porto 2004, or Greece with Rehagle or Denmark, way back when. We have the unholy combination of poor to average players trying to play a type of game beyond their abilities. Plus a manger who cannot see the deficiencies of these players and cannot make a strategy that gets the best of their abilities. Wenger is obsessed with playing like Barcelona, with players that would be rejected out of hand by the 2nd team manager. they couple this with an innate weakness that prevents them from stepping up to a hustling side. We were outfought again today. Ferguson may have bad days with United but rarely are they outfought by any team.

usual flat performance for a big game and the second half of the season,surely you play football to play in the big games and most players need calming down before a big game,but not our lot,no movement, sloppy passing and most worringly lack of closing down and fight they do they not want to win or do they know they are not good enough,that was not a reaction but a fucking insult to all our fans all that told me is none of them could give a shit and the manager is incompetent and cannot fire this shower of shit up,fully expect a resignation in the morning before the spuds match or its going to be even more painful and embarrassing.too many premadonnas and not enough players to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in and with a lack of quality there is no chance

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Before the game I was thinking maybe, just maybe the team would surprise people with a reaction, but no, it was without a doubt the most predictable performance and result you could ever have thought of.

This season was always going to be a car crash after the start we had. Sure, we pulled a bit of form together but it's the same every year, as soon as February comes we are exposed for the gutless and overrated team we are.

We need wholesale changes this summer. The team is going nowhere and frankly I don't give a shit about the remainder of this season, 4th place means nothing to me.

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Yep from the Injuries to scoring an own goal you knew it would happen, shame we never got one of ours sent off the complete the set.

there may be trouble ahead....but whilst theirs moonlight and music and love and romance....
LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE!

Ah fuck it, let's do some asset stripping of our own......anyone fancy going to the emirates with a crowbar?