Match Reaction vs Sunderland (away).

[Globalgunner]

Think back 2 seasons ago . The season when we overhauled the Spuds 10 point gap. We won something like 8 of the last 10 games but each 1 was a shitfest horror show.
We maybe played better last season overall but this was the season where we suffered some absolutely horrible maulings. Scandalous scorelines that would have seen any other manager shown the door. We are not going to drive Wenger out on our keyboards but we should not allow some self important individuals mendacity to smokescreen us into believing that things aren't really so bad. It is a shitty league, apparently so. But right now that seems to be our only saving grace. If cavemen like Allardyce can identify weaknesses in their team and take steps to correct it. Why the heck cant a man with 5 times the resources and 4 times the pay.

[Letters]

Inside your head must be an ocean wave of contradictions sloshing back and forth in a colossal conundrum. 2 days ago we were stagnating, Yesterday, we seem to have regressed.

Seriously? We had that exact conversation earlier and I addressed that.
Do I really have to have to do so again? You're like my bloody wife!

It really isn't that hard to understand the point. Over the last 10 years (roughly) we have stagnated.
From last season to this we seem to have regressed.
It's not a contradiction, it's assessing different timescales.

When discussing the first of those timescales I was addressing the argument that we have got 'shitter and shitter' which I took to mean over a reasonably long period. That just isn't true and I've shown clearly it isn't.

Points don't mean jack.

What a bizarre thing to say.

[Letters]

Case in point would be the 2008 season where we finished on 83 points and the next season, we barely scrapped past Villa into 4th. The same thing is happening this season yet I find you at a loss for words to describe how this is happening! This has been happening for the last 5-6 years. It shouldnt be a surprise anymore!

That's a fair point but with the signing of Ozil last summer (whatever you think of his performances, that was a major signing which showed some real intent) and Sanchez this it really did seem we were starting to show more ambition. So while you're right, we've been here before far too many times, the new financial deals are in place now so it did seem things might be different this time. Alas, it seems not.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Points don't mean jack.

What a bizarre thing to say.

Its all about possession mate.

[Globalgunner]

Seriously? We had that exact conversation earlier and I addressed that.
Do I really have to have to do so again? You're like my bloody wife!

It really isn't that hard to understand the point. Over the last 10 years (roughly) we have stagnated.
From last season to this we seem to have regressed.
It's not a contradiction, it's assessing different timescales.

When discussing the first of those timescales I was addressing the argument that we have got 'shitter and shitter' which I took to mean over a reasonably long period. That just isn't true and I've shown clearly it isn't.



What a bizarre thing to say.

Its not that difficult. You can have more points than a previous season and be in an overall worst position. Similarly you can have less points than last season and win the league. Points are not a barometer of progress, Surely even you can understand that.

[AFC Leveller]

Our football is now one of the worst in the top 10, its just slow and boring. Left to righ to left to back to right etc and it gives the opposition time to get organised and stop any potential attacks.

I watched Everton's 1st goal yesterday and it was a reminder of what we used to be able to do to teams. Fast counter attack from left to right finished clinically by Eto'o. Apart from the great Alexis, the rest of our players are happy to pass it around and neglect responsability.

Its not a coincidende that the 2 or 3 players we have who press high and workd hard are new to the club (Alexis, Welbz and Campbell at times).

[Letters]

Its not that difficult. You can have more points than a previous season and be in an overall worst position. Similarly you can have less points than last season and win the league.

OK. That's valid.
But last year we got the most points since 2008 AND it was the smallest gap between us and the champions since then too.
And we won the FA Cup.
So we clearly weren't in a worse position than the previous 2 seasons. Ergo, we weren't getting 'shitter and shitter'.

[Power n Glory]

Degrees of shitness.

[Letters]

Degrees of shitness.

I think we can all agree we're a bit shit this season.
Luckily, so is pretty much everyone else. We've won 3 games out of 9 and we're 5th

[Niall_Quinn]

Its not a coincidende that the 2 or 3 players we have who press high and workd hard are new to the club (Alexis, Welbz and Campbell at times).

Add Chambers to that list. He's started to settle into the Arsenal way unfortunately. Campbell hasn't had enough game time to be blunted yet, the few times he's been on the pitch he's looked worryingly positive. Welbeck is taking to his solitary confinement quite well and is looking less and less of a threat as the games roll on. But Alexis is the real problem. Seems the boy just doesn't want to learn. Charging around the place, hustling, harrying, running towards the goal, shooting, abandoning his triangle. Whatever the hell goes on at Barca on the training pitch we don't want any of that here thanks!