Season's Progress

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Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn

So you've decided what people say, even when they don't say it? Well, I guess you'll always be right then.

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I learned from the best...


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Originally Posted by Letters to Santa

So if you're consistently getting good results does that mean you are consistently playing well?

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Well it's more likely than not

We have been sketchy at best for two months and we can't say the results have been good. Like i say poor form, ok results

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

I tend to post more on the Non Football posts, just to alleviate work boredom. There is just so little to discuss about Arsenal after so many years of the same gruel.

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Santi's annual injury isn't even worth the ink any more.

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Originally Posted by Letters to Santa

I learned from the best...


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And there it is. The one line closer hot on the heels of another failed mission to apologise for a decade of nothing. Nothing of substance, just a proclamation of how everything is fine provided it's not compared to the almost identical stream of more, "everything is fine", failure that has gone before. This time, this time, it'll be different. All the signs are there provided the eraser is taken to a whole decade. Other teams would KILL to be in our shoes - you missed that one.

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Originally Posted by Bauble Loblaw

It's the first of December and we're:

Fourth in the League.
Runners-up in a CL group we should have won.
Out of the League Cup.


And our most influential player needs an operation keeping him out of the side for three months - a month and a half after getting injured.

Who the fuck could have seen this coming?

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This should have been a hint for you, Letters.

Anyway, I can feel a Dreyfus moment coming on so breathe, relax, try not to shoot own face off.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

Well it's more likely than not

We have been sketchy at best for two months and we can't say the results have been good. Like i say poor form, ok results

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Results in November were patchy at best. The next 3 league games will be interesting. The two are very winnable then it's City which is a test.
While we're 'up there' I'm not going to complain too loudly.

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Originally Posted by Letters to Santa

Results in November were patchy at best. The next 3 league games will be interesting. The two are very winnable then it's City which is a test.
While we're 'up there' I'm not going to complain too loudly.

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what you yourself do is immaterial, just don't feel too inclined to face palm when other's dont share your relatively optimistic appraisal

There should be no fixture to a club of our size which is not "winnable", however when we have struggled to the extent we have there is a big gaping hole between winnable and should win.

West Ham aren't quite as bad at home as people believe, and I think we could very easily play into their hands to give them something and very possibly all three points.

We have a massive problem in the full back area, caused by injury on the right hand side and a player who just isn't good enough on the left hand side

We are presenting sides with far too many chances and we have only to see how it just takes a ball into the box for a player like Carroll to punish us when we aren't especially aerially adept.

The difference in the way your viewing it is, well we are getting results when we aren't playing well so hopefully we will do even better when we are

I look at it like, the good performances are becoming a distant memory and sooner rather than later we are going to get properly punished for playing like this.

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Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn

No, I have always said the performances are most important. Consistent performance delivers results consistently and consistent results win titles. Like Leicester when everyone around them lacked that consistency. Get the performance right and the results follow. And to get the performance right you need a solid team with solid reserves, you need planning, tactics. Above all you need ambition because without that there's no incentive to take a risk and without risk there's no chance of coming out top against a field of competitors striving to beat you. We know how deceptive results can be. We'll often string a set of results together on the back of a series of ramshackle performances. That's because we have talented individuals in the team who can pull a result out. sometimes against the run of play. But we are constantly teetering on the edge of the next big setback. We know when these setbacks arrive, like clockwork as soon as we face a major challenge that could influence the overall outcome of a season. So many years we have seen it now, the building hope and expectation that arrives at the game where we must get the result, where we must show we have enough about us to take command and control our own outcomes. And bang, it blows up. So many times. This is because you can't rely on a series of flat track bully results when the performance is not there.

The manager has to go. He's been failing for years now, in footballing terms. Coming second all the time, or third or fourth, qualifying for the CL all the time, whilst never actually challenging to win it or even progress to the later stages, stringing a cup run together. This is not the mark of a top team. This is the sign of a second tier team. That's what Wenger has built. A very profitable also-ran and that's totally unacceptable if you are genuinely in a sport to win. We aren't and it's because of him. Too many years have passed now to accept any more excuses made on his behalf. Maureen might be the biggest cunt in football, but when he called Wenger a specialist in failure he was absolutely correct. In a football sense he's the biggest loser in the game. Of course, financially speaking, he's a genius. No argument there. That's why the leeches clamp on and won't let go. Money, money, money.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

what you yourself do is immaterial, just don't feel too inclined to face palm when other's dont share your relatively optimistic appraisal.

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That's fine, but plenty of people facepalm at my cheery optimism as if that's a bad thing.

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The difference in the way your viewing it is, well we are getting results when we aren't playing well so hopefully we will do even better when we are
I look at it like, the good performances are becoming a distant memory and sooner rather than later we are going to get properly punished for playing like this.

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I think that's probably right and I'm not exactly doing cartwheels about our performances but results so far have been fine. I'm just hoping they start clicking again, we really shouldn't be this dependant on Carzola, we've got enough good players.