The Arsenal v Bournemouth, Saturday 3 May, 5.30pm, Emirates Stadium (and on TV somewhere if people can be bothered to watch)

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

If they do turn in a listless performance, it's not acceptable.

As in, I won't be sad for any of them bar one or two to be phased out of the side.

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The players aren’t responsible for this, the coach is

He’s got to go. Everyone deep down knows this, even those in the cult of Arteta in the online world

In a genuine fight now to finish top 5.

Words fail me. This team and its coach stinks, what a huge regression this season. Totally unforgivable drop off.

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

Of course you can bottle a game, and we did

We had the lead and we threw it away

That was down to nerves

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Why would they be nervous of Bournemourh?

Do calm down, we lost a game, the only bottler is Ode in front of goal,it's shameful that he just won't take a shot

For me it proves why we should have fielded an alternative team, they couldn't have done worse and now we've run people'a batteries down even further and done nothing for so-called momentum

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

The players aren’t responsible for this, the coach is

He’s got to go. Everyone deep down knows this, even those in the cult of Arteta in the online world

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You might be right but there's no way he is going.

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Originally Posted by Mac76

Why would they be nervous of Bournemourh?

Do calm down, we lost a game, the only bottler is Ode in front of goal,it's shameful that he just won't take a shot

For me it proves why we should have fielded an alternative team, they couldn't have done worse and now we've run people'a batteries down even further and done nothing for so-called momentum

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We are now in a real dogfight potentially for top 5 and your answer is we should have made things even worse

We were nervous because of our habbit of getting a lead and not holding onto it, because there’s not enough goals in the team

I blame the players much less than I do Arteta and also the club, they've been let down by poor squad building and management

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

Of course you can bottle a game, and we did

We had the lead and we threw it away

That was down to nerves

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Nerves about what? We didn’t need a win to secure the title.
Fine, you can bottle a game in the context of a title run in. We aren’t in one.
It just feels like we have collectively given up. It’s pretty pathetic.
Obviously a turnaround on Wednesday would mitigate.
I still haven’t completely given up that although I am edging towards team Maccy in that you can’t keep on getting poor results and then suddenly turn it on for a big game

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

We are now in a real dogfight potentially for top 5 and your answer is we should have made things even worse

We were nervous because of our habbit of getting a lead and not holding onto it, because there’s not enough goals in the team

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How could it be worse than losing :shrug:

Oh and genuinely no offence but it's 'habit' btw

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

You might be right but there's no way he is going.

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I wonder whether he will survive another season without a trophy. I don’t mean this year, I mean next. They have backed him financially with very little return.
Big summer coming up.

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Originally Posted by Mac76

How could it be worse than losing :shrug:

Oh and genuinely no offence but it's 'habit' btw

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Because we didn’t lose to Palace, Everton, Brentford

And you’ve been crying out for us to play a significantly weakened team for weeks