Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
I used to expect them to win every game. That was the minimum expectation. I also wanted them to play well in the process and entertain the fans. Expectations cannot always be delivered, but always begin with the intent to win and do it in the right spirit. If every other club has the same intentions then you have a decent league, instead of what we have endured for at least the last decade. But my post was more a reflection of the abusive relationship between the club and the fans. Quality has been allowed to fall off the cliff, with a thousand excuses in attendance. But I notice the cost to fans has not declined, it continues to increase. And now the club doesn't even have enough respect to honour the traditional kit, such is its eagerness to rape the fans - while delivering the odd bout of "glory" from a lake of sewage.

Don't mind me. This is just my transition from fan to jilted lover to comprehensive indifference. Should be done by the end of this season.
I don't for one minute think we don't intend to go out and win every game, I just think we have limitations in both the coaching and playing staff. Honestly, my expectations have adjusted a fair bit the past season or so. I don't expect us to get beat every week, but I am also realistic in that I don't expect us to finish anywhere near top 4, I also don't expect us to progress that much under Arteta in terms of league position and improvement in team performance. The quality of coaching and I guess the style of play has declined quite a bit I agree, we are arguably the most inconsistent team in the Division, you literally do not know what you are going to get with Arsenal from one game to the next. That aside, all this value for money stuff is just what it is...it doesn't work like that in Football and certainly doesn't work like that in Modern society.