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[Power n Glory]

Duplicate accounts allowed?

[Coney]

You could've just posted under your usual name Coney.

Not me guv - does look like someone who is a regular though!

[Power n Glory]

Strange. 1st time post, only joined in November but knows all about NQ even though NQ has changed his name to Arsene Wenger recently. Long time reader, first time poster maybe.

Welcome to GW

[Kano]

Not me guv - does look like someone who is a regular though!

[GP]

[Stilts1964]

Strange. 1st time post, only joined in November but knows all about NQ even though NQ has changed his name to Arsene Wenger recently. Long time reader, first time poster maybe.

Welcome to GW

Genuine first time post / new member but have been reading for a while. Just a bit fed up by the negativity of some "fans" who just want Wenger out and looking for any opportunity to knock the team and manager.

Thanks for the welcome!

[Niall_Quinn]

Top of the league, comfortable away win, great performance in Europe (albeit admittedly to salvage a desperate situation of our own making) and yet you continue to bleat on and on and on. Makes you wonder what fans of all the other teams below us in the league are saying about their teams / managers / boards etc. I thought one of the reasons why we love the game is because it is unpredictable - you seem to want to know the result before every game but, like a spoilt child who if they don't get what they want goes crying and wailing back to mummy!

I've been supporting this great club for 40 plus years. Where does this expectation that we should be winning everything all of the time come from? Wenger has delivered success that is the envy of almost every other club (and way beyond what we have achieved in our history other than arguably the Herbert Chapman era).

Get behind your team but if you can't do that then I suggest you keep your negativity to yourself. It's really very very very boring!

As for delivering excellence I wonder if you apply that same standard to everything you do?

Suggest you shut your own hole pal before telling others to shut theirs. Public discussion forum, I'll say what the fuck I want, when I want, until the owners decide otherwise.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Suggest you shut your own hole pal before telling others to shut theirs. Public discussion forum, I'll say what the fuck I want, when I want, until the owners decide otherwise.

Aaaaaaaaand welcome to GW!

[Letters]

Genuine first time post / new member but have been reading for a while. Just a bit fed up by the negativity of some "fans" who just want Wenger out and looking for any opportunity to knock the team and manager.

Thanks for the welcome!

Welcome.
It's nice to finally have an ally

I genuinely don't understand the negativity on here, certainly not the level of it. We've just won the FA Cup twice in a row, we're currently top of the league and have qualified for the last 16 of the CL. What other set of fans would be calling for the manager's head under those circumstances? We have, admittedly, had a pattern of falling short and if that happens again then we do need to consider a new manager - we should be challenging for the biggest prizes. Ironically of course, that expectation comes from Wenger's time with us. Before that we were never a side consistently challenging for the league. But with the first half of Wenger's time with us and the new stadium comes new expectations. But I don't understand why people on here look for any opportunity to dig at the manager. If we lose or even draw vs City next week you'll see more of the same. And I do see that game as quite important, it's the sort of game a potential champion should be winning. But if we do lose we're not going to suddenly be out of the title race.
Whatever. For now I'm content with how this season is going. If and when we fall out of the title race then I'll reassess.

[Letters]

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

Another response to this, as I just thought of it.
When's the last time you saw Usain Bolt run flat out in a heat? He doesn't because he doesn't need to. He could blow the opposition away, win by miles but why give your all in the first round when he can conserve some energy and save it for the final? If that's what we did yesterday then that's fine with me. We won the game, let's save some energy for bigger tests to come, like City next week.