Match Reaction v Aston Villa

[LDG]

Fixed it for you.

What's a war board?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

What's a war board?

A board at war.

[Syn]

Now it's changed to board chest. Brilliant.

[LDG]

I too have a broad chest.

[Letters]

chests

[Olivier's xmas twist]

chests

Prefer draughts tbh.

[LDG]

[Syn]

[Letters]

Prefer draughts tbh.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

To put some perspective on how slowly we've started this season, we had more wins at this stage in 94/95, the year we finished below Spurs and one of Graham's turgid final years. We're really struggling to break down and see teams off this season, at this rate we're going to end up in mid-table. We've lost the edge that made us the best of the rest, my biggest worry now is that we're just one of the rest.

It was RVC who was turning these draws into wins last year and that's why he was irreplacable.

We just have to string a few wins together now, I don't think we've won back to back games since Liverpool and Southampton. We'll never get into the top 4 dropping points every other week.

I think we will only because the quality of the league is so poor, teams like Everton will drop of the pace soon. Spurs are not the same as last season. All We need is a run and we'll be fine. If All the others who are going for top 4 pulled miles ahead by now then we'd have to worry.

Can I knock him out instead?

By all accounts (no pun intended) Wenger has a lot of money which he just refuses to spend.
Given the lack of trophies, why haven't the board sacked him?

Who stands to gain from us making a lot of money? Wenger gets a big salary, yes, but he gets that whatever happens, unless he gets sacked. Does he get extra money from us being profitable? Does he have shares or get dividends? I wasn't aware that he did. Unless he's looking at the longer term I don't see why he'd care what money we make. If Wenger can keep us top 4 without spending too much then the board gain far more from that than Wenger.

Who stands to gain from us winning trophies? It would mean some more income I guess but not a significant amount given how much we're raking in anyway. Who was on the board in the 30s when we had that period of dominance? I've no idea. But I and pretty much every Gooner knows who Herbert Chapman was. The manager gets the credit when the team does well and the flak when we don't. The board get very little of either. Point being Wenger is the one getting the flak most directly now, to suggest he doesn't care and is just happy to keep getting in his salary and doesn't care how we do is somewhat unfair. He does come out with some shit but you can see by his reactions he's not happy when things aren't going well. I don't believe he's able to do anything about it any more but it's not because of indifference.

He does deserve some flak, but not abuse.

This is why i don't see what he gets as a problem, his bosses pay him what they want is up to them. Only a fool would turn down money being offered to them.

He does deserve some flak, but not abuse

Very true.