Season's Progress

[Letters]

Would you be happy if we were top of the league?

[Niall_Quinn]

Right hand is for the mouse.

You mean hamster?

[Niall_Quinn]

Would you be happy if we were top of the league?

I'd say, judge us at the end of the collapse.

[Letters]

Well, quite.

As I said before, if you think that we can't win the league because Wenger then fine. It's a valid opinion and one I think is probably true.

Just don't pretend that you think that the way the season has gone so far shows that, if a new manager had taken over and the results had been what they have been so far, no-one would be whining.

[Goonermerree]

Would you be happy if we were top of the league?

We topped the league for more weeks than any other team a few years ago and we still didn't win it. Just saying like.

[Niall_Quinn]

Well, quite.

As I said before, if you think that we can't win the league because Wenger then fine. It's a valid opinion and one I think is probably true.

Just don't pretend that you think that the way the season has gone so far shows that, if a new manager had taken over and the results had been what they have been so far, no-one would be whining.

Blimey, if a new manager had taken over and we were putting in such shite performances I'd be mega worried. I wouldn't be happy at all. However, seeing as the guy would have just started, I'd give him time to sort his shit out. But not 10 years.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

This season is just a sign of Wengers conservative instincts, like the manager himself totally lacking in dynamism, innovation and ambition.

Of course we know the board love him because they love his consistency, and he is that. Give him a patchwork squad full of holes or a reasonable squad with depth and the result is still the same.

He never falls too hard and he rarely if ever gets us above the line we've been at for years because that would involve him taking risk and the guy is totally risk adverse.

I would be content largely with the results this season, if the performances hadn't been so turgid. It's just not fun watching us play.

[Goonermerree]

And yet when you hear the pundits and commentators they all say that we play beautiful football, they're all living in the year 2004

[Kano]

This season is just a sign of Wengers conservative instincts, like the manager himself totally lacking in dynamism, innovation and ambition.

Of course we know the board love him because they love his consistency, and he is that. Give him a patchwork squad full of holes or a reasonable squad with depth and the result is still the same.

He never falls too hard and he rarely if ever gets us above the line we've been at for years because that would involve him taking risk and the guy is totally risk adverse.

I would be content largely with the results this season, if the performances hadn't been so turgid. It's just not fun watching us play.

It's not fun watching anyone play because of the shitty tactics employed by every team drilled to the bone to run until they drop. The Bielsa school of athletes sacrificing skill for endurance.

[Letters]

Blimey, if a new manager had taken over and we were putting in such shite performances I'd be mega worried. I wouldn't be happy at all. However, seeing as the guy would have just started, I'd give him time to sort his shit out. But not 10 years.

I said results, not performances. You always focus on whichever is worse.
But while I'd like to see us perform each week like we did against Chelsea, surely a manager should be mostly be judged on results, no?