"I really like Arsenal. Do you really like Arsenal, or only Arsenal with trophies?" - Dennis Bergkamp.
"Which Arsenal do they want back, the one Arsene created?" - Tony Adams.
The key is consistency. It's what we lack and it's great getting 3 points but we need to have a consistent desire to win and prove a point. Some players were coasting today and didn't take authority compared to what was shown last week. That will always be a worry. What changed over the past few days to make them think we're in the clear and the hard work is over?
"I really like Arsenal. Do you really like Arsenal, or only Arsenal with trophies?" - Dennis Bergkamp.
"Which Arsenal do they want back, the one Arsene created?" - Tony Adams.
We were crap but we won so good because I still want us to qualify for CLnext season. However, nothing has changed.Nobody has been vindicated oneither side by this game. This season becoming a mirror image of the last and the one before....etc. says only that we are not going anywhere again. Out of all competitions by march and nothing to look forward to except a similar feeling of frustration at the end of May.
i just hope this game puts an end the the Walcott is a striker charade. he is clearly no striker, except maybe for Brentwood.
Totally agree, I'm not convinced some of the people that do that really want to see changes as the club, they just feel they have to agree with everyone else as it's not a popular choice to disagree.
The performance matters as it reflects where we are as a team, if we were performing well for most of the season and winning you could say we don't need many changes, if our general play was good but we were not getting results then maybe a forward might be needed to put our chances away, if you're playing badly for most of the seasons but picking up the odd result here and there to keep you in 3rd/4th though, that simply masks the problems and leads to nothing changing, I don't think this is a healthy thing longer term.
If we get results nothing willl change, those are the facts, Wenger won't go out and sign players if we're lying 3rd....it's not his way.
The only way we really are going to see changes is through poor results, if we play badly all the time but win or draw it really does us no favours because in reality it allows the club to sweep the problems under the carpet as they have been doing for years.
If we were playing well and winning then fine (at least on the whole), but the fact is this season we have been largely awful so there are lots of problems with the team, problems that are likely to be ignored as it stands.
Some quality players in January would have been good, it's looking highly unlikely now I'd say.