Comments on: The catalyst? We’ll see.

By: Leroy

Leroy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:25:34 +0000

Our league form this season is: W11, D4, L8. That’s mid-table form and Arsenal sit this morning in 7th position. Behind Liverpool. Behind Newcastle. In all competitions this season we have lost 11 times. Each one of those defeats came before the January window closed, and if that’s not evidence that this was a squad that needed something adding to it beyond the emotional but mostly ineffective return of a former legend, I don’t know what is.

We can listen to Ivan Gazidis talk all day about our business model and how successful it is. Which is great. Except for the fact that our footballing model is failing, nobody seems to be doing anything about it and nobody seems to be accountable for it. And I think what frustrates me most is that for most of these trophy-less years there’s been a sense that if we could just add a couple of quality players to the mix we’d have a side capable of competing for the league each season.

Now it looks as if it’d take a lot more than one or two and that’s a measure of how difficult our task is going to be for the reason of the season. We’ve taken just 8 points from our last 8 league games. We have yet to win a league game in 2012. We’ve been overtaken in the league by Newcastle and Liverpool, teams who I think we can objectively look at as average, at best. Which, if we remain objective, tell us a lot about ourselves.

I said yesterday that not strengthening in January and results being affected by that would provide people with a stick with which to beat Arsene, Ivan and our silent owner with.

I suspect for many, whacking day is upon us.

By: lance

lance — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:12:03 +0000

I watched the game today, we play good, well drilled pass and move high tempo football. Its the philosophy Wenger put forward and has achieved. The problem is its so predictable, there’s no creativity, no drive or urgency! The only time i get excited is when OX is on the ball, he looks lively, creative, dangerous, when everyone else is on the ball i just slump back into me chair. OX has that drive the real winner attitude which i dont see in any of the other players. This is something that specifically Walcott lacks and is why i believe he will never reach his potential (i hope im wrong). The one on one he missed today was pathetic! No need to mention RVP quality as per usual. I’ve defended wenger in my posts but, as the season goes on my mind is starting to change more and more. Something needs to be changed now or dare i say it wenger out

By: bergChamp

bergChamp — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:18:39 +0000

@ Leroy:
Here Here – Hear Hear!

Time for a Bolton thrashing – although the Reebok is never easy!

By: Leroy

Leroy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:07:16 +0000

I know there is a lot of negativity towards Arsene and the board and rightly so. I don’t class myself as an apologist or an AKB.. but there’s not much else we should be doing than getting behind the team tonight, as Im sure most who are going will do, as usual.

Better get going.. see you in The Beehive… or McDonalds

By: bergChamp

bergChamp — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:45:37 +0000

Tonights Line Up?

Szcznesy
Sagna – Metersacker – Koscielny – Vermaelen
Arteta – Song
Walcott – Ramsey – Oxlade
Van Persie

Does that make sense?

By: lance

lance — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:45:16 +0000

“You of little faith, why are you so afraid?”

By: KTbird

KTbird — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:11:01 +0000

woop woop

By: arsefan101

arsefan101 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:52:50 +0000

We are on the knife edge – a win tonight and saturday and the fans and club survive and get closer to fourth.

But imagine if we lose tonight? The wrath of the fans? So far away from 4th…

It’s a very sharp knife edge.

By: sistable

sistable — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:18:25 +0000

Day by day Wenger’s praise of RVP is sounding like a broken record. Just reminds me off the time when he was deprate to keep hold of Henry and the many others that had gone before and after him. Bolton winning tonight will be another nail in the coffin for this manager that has completely lost the dressing rooom. I mean RVp had to do the HT team talk – really i mean WTF. RVP will have one look around him and see the dross that he has to carry week in week out and like Cesc he’ll realise there is no hope in hell this team to win anything.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:32:36 +0000

last week one poster made the point on here that if wilshere’s setback is worse than we all thought and he’ll miss the season,the news won’t be released until after the deadline passes so that wenger can’t be further pressured into buying.so…..when news of the injury came up at first wenger refused to put a date on his return.fair enough.lets be cautious.the next day we hear the setback is not too bad and he doesnt need a protective boot.great news.However!…….the deadline passes and now the mornings papers are full of news about how jack has indeed suffered another stress fracture in the same foot and will almost certainly miss the rest of the season.forgive my cynical tone but this is total crap!i would put my mortgage on the fact that the club knew jack was crocked again.this has just made our lack of decent signings even more pathetic.yet another solid performance from the medical team at AFC!