otherwise they'd be higher than us in the league.Originally Posted by Flavs
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otherwise they'd be higher than us in the league.
Not really, there is a lot more to this game than just talent
you can't have one without the other to be in the top section of the league.
a win yesterday and this conversation wouldn't even be taking place. classic internet rage.
Season isn't over by a long shot. A few more injuries and fuck knows where we'll be. Nobody has mentioned it, probably because we're all treading on egg shells, but if He Who Shall Not Be Named gets injured we are well and truly fucked.
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At one point I thought we could do it but the result yesterday convinced me that we won't finish in the top four.
We're an average team who are being carried by one fantastic player. Yes we work hard which can be enough to win you a football match but to win trophies you need some quality in the team and we just don't have it. In fact we are carrying players so we're making it even harder for ourselves.
We cannot continue to play Walcott and Arshavin when it's clear that they just aren't good enough. I'm even hearing that Walcott wants a payrise and the worst thing is I think he'll get it. He must be earning double what Sinclair and Dyer earn and they showed him up yesterday!
I'm a big fan of the work ethic that Wenger has brought into the team this year but we need to add to that with quality. It seems that he seriously isn't going to sign anyone which is criminal.
When we don't finish fourth we will lose the few good players we do have which is only going to make it worse.
We are going to have to stick with Wenger until the end of the season but then I want him gone and let's hope he takes Walcott & Arshavin with him.
No, not Internet rage. It's the fact we fell at a major hurdle. We needed the points there. There have been several key occasions where the teams we are hoping to catch have dropped points and we just haven't been able to capitalise. This was another one of those occasions coming close after the Fulham fuck up. People are starting to see the old patterns emerge and it's sort of depressing.
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Nonsense I think quite a few people have been questioning whether or not we have talent in the squad or the illusion of it for over 3 years now. Is Chamakh really more talented than Steve Morrison at Norwich? Is Walcott more talented than Scott Sinclair?
I think its somewhat an arrogant leftover from the good old days to think we are a far more talented team than some of those around or or that we "deserve" a top for finish just for that talent. What about graft? Tactical nous? gamemanship? Mental application? and so on.
I look at the squad and i see it more and more as a polished turd sadly
We're not a talented team. We struggle to get passing movements going like Swansea did yesterday. We don't pass quickly, the first-touch is average, no difference in pure footballing talent between ourselves and teams around 6th-10th. But if we finish around 5th then it's because we're better in defence and more resilient than teams 6th-10th. I know we weren't exactly solid yesterday but we usually are ok in defence..we just can't score enough goals and attack well. Funny how things change. Arstoke FC imo.
given our start, we have always been playing catch up. then like any other team we were due to drop form, which was going to hurt more considering our start, so it's a catch 22 of sorts. we are in a position to challenge for 4th, which is what we expected a week ago. if we had 4 points with games to go i'd panic. but not now. nothing will happen in the transfer window but show me the point in facing up to 4/5 months of gloom? we've come back from an almost apocalyptic start to where we are, so it is within this lot to grab that 4th place come may.
That's the key failing of our squad and the management, resilience or the lack of it, no mental resilience, no physical resilience and no testicular resilience
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