Reaction Vs Aston Vanilla

[Niall_Quinn]

As you would say, take a day off.
Villa are awful but while they're losing most games they're rarely getting smashed. It was the first time they'd lost by 2 goals at home all season. City recently drew there. Where does this expectation that we should be hammering them come from when no one else has there.

Anyway...
Top of the league. Wenger out

Erm... watching the game?

But I realise, "What everyone else did(TM)*" is the real indicator of what we should be doing. Top of the league = nothing unless we are there when the season ends. We have been top of the league before and we collapsed. That's what's going to happen again if we keep on putting in shit performances in the PL, which we have been doing for weeks now btw.

And you said, "Wenger out", nobody else did. "But you knew that of course(TM)*".

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[Master Splinter]

Erm... watching the game?

But I realise, "What everyone else did(TM)*" is the real indicator of what we should be doing. Top of the league = nothing unless we are there when the season ends. We have been top of the league before and we collapsed. That's what's going to happen again if we keep on putting in shit performances in the PL, which we have been doing for weeks now btw.

And you said, "Wenger out", nobody else did. "But you knew that of course(TM)*".

* All Letters' trademarks recognised, this posting does not imply ownership or association with any of the tired old excuses that are the property of Letters Wenger Worshipping Ltd.

You can't do a ™ properly.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Congrats to Cech on equalling the clean sheets record. Though not too many given most of them were for Chelsea.

[Letters]

But I realise, "What everyone else did(TM)*" is the real indicator of what we should be doing.

I think you're trying sarcasm there but yes, it is an indicator.
If all the other teams we're supposed to be competing with are hammering Villa and we draw there or lose then that would be worrying.
But that's not what's happened. Villa are hopeless but they're not getting spanked every week. Utd won there 1-0. City drew there.
They've lost to Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool but they were all away from home and never by more than 2 goals.
So why would we, with our awful manager, go and smash them?
I didn't see the game but by all accounts we won 2-0 easily. As it was a game that took us top of the league I can live with that.

Top of the league = nothing unless we are there when the season ends. We have been top of the league before and we collapsed.

Of course. That's pretty much what I've been saying all season. Judge the season at the end. But given the early season wailing and gnashing of teeth I think we're doing pretty well so far. I expect us to compete for the title this year, so far we are. If we don't sustain it then we can start talking about sacking the manager.

And you said, "Wenger out", nobody else did. "But you knew that of course(TM)*".

No, of course they didn't. They'd look pretty stupid saying that after we just won a game which took us top of the league. But plenty will be saying it again after the next poor result, and you'll be first in line.

[Power n Glory]

Letters - You didn't see the game so there is no point in asking if you think we could have played better and if you think we were guilty of coasting.

It's the famous 'handbrake' and my worry is we don't know how to up it a gear when we settle into a slow tempo. We only seem to wake up once we concede a goal or it's the last 10 mins and we're chasing the game. We shouldn't be measuring games by what our rivals do. Judge by what you know we're capable and whether we played to our full capacity. I think that's what NQ means when saying we should have battered them. Nothing wrong with a comfortable victory but we need to you tempo against City without fail.

[Letters]

Letters - You didn't see the game so there is no point in asking if you think we could have played better and if you think we were guilty of coasting.

I didn't see the game but from the comments on here I'm happy to accept that we did. But I'm fine with that. We didn't need any more injuries, if we can beat a very poor side without getting out of 2nd gear then fine, let's keep some powder dry for tougher tests to come. We got the result, we're top of the league (for now). Job done.

[Power n Glory]

I didn't see the game but from the comments on here I'm happy to accept that we did. But I'm fine with that. We didn't need any more injuries, if we can beat a very poor side without getting out of 2nd gear then fine, let's keep some powder dry for tougher tests to come. We got the result, we're top of the league (for now). Job done.

That's a more sensible argument. I wouldn't bother mentioning the results of other top teams against Villa. We played a poor team and since I didn't watch and can't remember our rivals results, I can't judge whether they coasted through like us or really struggled to break them down.

[Kano]

Ramsey returning to his favoured and best position has helped lessen the blow of losing Santi and Coq.

Two goals, two assists in past three games. Long term he has to stay there, despite working out well enough out on the right, his energy is perfect for the middle. I can't remember if has played many games alongside Coq or not.

[Niall_Quinn]

I didn't see the game but from the comments on here I'm happy to accept that we did. But I'm fine with that. We didn't need any more injuries, if we can beat a very poor side without getting out of 2nd gear then fine, let's keep some powder dry for tougher tests to come. We got the result, we're top of the league (for now). Job done.

Kano stuck up a mention of the Clough documentary on the Film thread. You should watch it. I did and it reminded me about how far away from being a football manager and a sportsman Wenger and our board are. There's no second gear - ever, ever, ever, ever and if you even contemplate second gear you're a loser. Guaranteed. Sure thing, you can beat up on Aston Villa, but the loser mentality will come home to roost when the big and serious boys come calling. Maybe we'll luck out on a few due to the outrageous talent of players like Ozil, but long haul Wenger's bare minimum mentality isn't a winning one. He's negative, he's fearful, for some fucked up reason he's trying to conserve the energy of the team while doing fuck all about the injury crisis we have year after year. What's the point in the players being match fit in terms of lung capacity but laid up with muscular injuries? It's a lunatic asylum.

That second half performance was totally unacceptable and show me a person who says it was okay and I'll show you a massive loser. Same shit with the run in last year. It was "understandable" we eased up and fail to keep the gypos behind us. No, never ever okay. Never ever understandable to be a loser. Losers are fucking just that, losers.

100% effort every game, every time or go home. It's called sport and the purpose of it is excellence and achievement .

Trouble is, the same sort of loser mentality you have is painted a mile wide right through the club from the board through the manager and certainly through those players, and why not? Give them an easy ride and they'll take it. We're top of the league because the gypos are playing crap, not because we're playing well. There you go, if you want to compare us with everyone else rather than actually look at us and what we are doing.

We get this mentality problem we have sorted out and we'll walk the league and compete in Europe. To get it sorted out we all know what needs to be done.

[Niall_Quinn]

Congrats to Cech on equalling the clean sheets record. Though not too many given most of them were for Chelsea.

Great pro. When everyone else went asleep he was wide awake and ready for business.