I thought guns were banned in this country. Scotland Yard need to get round to the Grove sharpish to confiscate the one Arsenal are using to shoot themselves in the foot.
The mistakes and bad luck at our beloved club are getting beyond a joke now. We no longer defend as a team and with JW and TV out, our only leader on the pitch at the moment is Robin, who obviously can't organise defences to save his life.
Mertesacker has not settled yet and looks so scared to make a mistake that mistakes are being made - and he missed a sitter at the end! Poor old Song and Kos were both in the wrong place at the wrong time.....again!
In attack, aside from the usual sitters we tend to miss, we seem to be coming together. Then we've always been good in that department overall.
As usual it is our defence as a team which let us down. Yes, the back line was as wobbly as Sepp Blubbers belly; they clearly weren't communicating with each other especially when trying to catch opponents offside, apart from one occasion when it worked but the linesman decided to switch off - typical.
As a team we didn't close down, we didn't get the blocks in. I've said it time and time again, when we've played that way, blocking, closing down space, chasing a player down and surrounding him until he gives it away, we've always come up trumps. Why for fecksake do we not do that in every game?
However, despite an awful day at the office, I still believe in giving it time.
Call me a typical Taurus, stubborn, resolute and dismissive, but I refuse to bow down to minority doomers calling for Wenger's head.
I continue to dismiss the media frenzy; hyping the situation as a crisis.
I stubbornly refute the idea that our season is already over in terms of progression and silverware.
As I've said before, I will judge with more scrutiny after at least ten games. A team that has been injected with eight or nine new players (most of which are not fringe players) must have time.
Wenger is literally rebuilding a whole new team following the collapse of the previous project spear-headed by Cesc, Na$ri and JW. We still have JW and we miss him as we do TV.
It's up to the others to step up to the plate but they need time for that.
Understandably, Wenger only has a wafer thin margin of error and time span available following 6 years in the doldrums but it has to be allowed. Changing the manager will not solve this situation, only worsen it.
When the time comes for a change of that enormity, it will be when the club are in a healthier condition both on and off the pitch.
Do the doomers think AW is purposely setting out to sabotage the club or something?
The man fixed us before, he WILL fix us again.
There is no such thing as a quick fix in the football world...even sugar daddy's have to wait for a while for things to fall into place despite buying their success.
So if anyone thinks that is the answer, then wake up and smell the Oil.
Wenger has acknowledged that we were abysmal defensively and I do think this will be worked upon further in the next few training sessions and beyond.
As long as evidence of improvement is noted then they'll know they're doing the right thing but until that happens, they MUST prioritise that segment of the training regime.
There are some people calling for a change in the defensive coaching, fair enough to a degree. But they need to remember, these are the same coaches that trained the team to beat Barcelona last season, that helped us get to a position where we were the only club challenging for 4 trophies. The defensive coaching isn't necessarily the problem;
It is the right state of mentality that has to be taught to this team.
They have togetherness, they have willing, they have ability, it's a case of gelling that together; which will take time. We must remember, we are in a state of transition and rebuilding.
We must lower our expectation levels a little, take the pressure off the players and Wenger.
Show them that they have our backing all the way and that we believe it will come good as, yet again, the away fans vociferously demonstrated on Saturday, despite the shocking events they were witnessing.
Well done to them.
As Wenger said in one of his post match interviews; we are 90% there but the 10% is punishing us.
We're nearly there and once we accumulate that final 10% we can start to feel more confident and slowly raise our expectation levels again.
If we don't improve and after 15 games we find ourselves in unfamiliar territory still, then I don't think we'll need to resort to sp*rs scum like doom mongering and go marching on North London.
Arsenal Football Club will still be there and the people who make the decisions, Arsene Wenger and Co. will make the right ones for the club and the fans.....
.....but I'm 90% certain it won't come to that.
Onwards and to the League Cup against Shrewsbury who are flying high in league two. No doubt we'll see the likes of 'The Ox', Park, Ryo and a few other young'uns mixed with a splattering of experience and maybe even an appearance for Mannone or Fabianski (I'll refrain from calling him Flappyhandski until he's had a few games, then we'll see if he gets his old nickname back).
No doubt a resounding win would cheer us all up a little, but we'll have to wait and see what happens at Bolton next week before seeing way we've learnt from our latest debacle.
Forward.
The mistakes and bad luck at our beloved club are getting beyond a joke now. We no longer defend as a team and with JW and TV out, our only leader on the pitch at the moment is Robin, who obviously can't organise defences to save his life.
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| Stop It...Just, Stop it. |
In attack, aside from the usual sitters we tend to miss, we seem to be coming together. Then we've always been good in that department overall.
As usual it is our defence as a team which let us down. Yes, the back line was as wobbly as Sepp Blubbers belly; they clearly weren't communicating with each other especially when trying to catch opponents offside, apart from one occasion when it worked but the linesman decided to switch off - typical.
As a team we didn't close down, we didn't get the blocks in. I've said it time and time again, when we've played that way, blocking, closing down space, chasing a player down and surrounding him until he gives it away, we've always come up trumps. Why for fecksake do we not do that in every game?
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| Samba was 'Shocked' to see us scoring goals for Blackburn |
However, despite an awful day at the office, I still believe in giving it time.
Call me a typical Taurus, stubborn, resolute and dismissive, but I refuse to bow down to minority doomers calling for Wenger's head.
I continue to dismiss the media frenzy; hyping the situation as a crisis.
I stubbornly refute the idea that our season is already over in terms of progression and silverware.
As I've said before, I will judge with more scrutiny after at least ten games. A team that has been injected with eight or nine new players (most of which are not fringe players) must have time.
Wenger is literally rebuilding a whole new team following the collapse of the previous project spear-headed by Cesc, Na$ri and JW. We still have JW and we miss him as we do TV.
It's up to the others to step up to the plate but they need time for that.
Understandably, Wenger only has a wafer thin margin of error and time span available following 6 years in the doldrums but it has to be allowed. Changing the manager will not solve this situation, only worsen it.
When the time comes for a change of that enormity, it will be when the club are in a healthier condition both on and off the pitch.
Do the doomers think AW is purposely setting out to sabotage the club or something?
The man fixed us before, he WILL fix us again.
There is no such thing as a quick fix in the football world...even sugar daddy's have to wait for a while for things to fall into place despite buying their success.
So if anyone thinks that is the answer, then wake up and smell the Oil.
Wenger has acknowledged that we were abysmal defensively and I do think this will be worked upon further in the next few training sessions and beyond.
As long as evidence of improvement is noted then they'll know they're doing the right thing but until that happens, they MUST prioritise that segment of the training regime.
There are some people calling for a change in the defensive coaching, fair enough to a degree. But they need to remember, these are the same coaches that trained the team to beat Barcelona last season, that helped us get to a position where we were the only club challenging for 4 trophies. The defensive coaching isn't necessarily the problem;
It is the right state of mentality that has to be taught to this team.
They have togetherness, they have willing, they have ability, it's a case of gelling that together; which will take time. We must remember, we are in a state of transition and rebuilding.
We must lower our expectation levels a little, take the pressure off the players and Wenger.
Show them that they have our backing all the way and that we believe it will come good as, yet again, the away fans vociferously demonstrated on Saturday, despite the shocking events they were witnessing.
Well done to them.
As Wenger said in one of his post match interviews; we are 90% there but the 10% is punishing us.
We're nearly there and once we accumulate that final 10% we can start to feel more confident and slowly raise our expectation levels again.
If we don't improve and after 15 games we find ourselves in unfamiliar territory still, then I don't think we'll need to resort to sp*rs scum like doom mongering and go marching on North London.
Arsenal Football Club will still be there and the people who make the decisions, Arsene Wenger and Co. will make the right ones for the club and the fans.....
.....but I'm 90% certain it won't come to that.
Onwards and to the League Cup against Shrewsbury who are flying high in league two. No doubt we'll see the likes of 'The Ox', Park, Ryo and a few other young'uns mixed with a splattering of experience and maybe even an appearance for Mannone or Fabianski (I'll refrain from calling him Flappyhandski until he's had a few games, then we'll see if he gets his old nickname back).
No doubt a resounding win would cheer us all up a little, but we'll have to wait and see what happens at Bolton next week before seeing way we've learnt from our latest debacle.
Forward.
I get hundreds of readers to my posts but rarely does anyone fucking comment, I must be so on the ball no one's got anything to say, so I'll put my own comment in just to make it look good....
ReplyDelete'Great blog Rob, well said. I agree with what I've written here and I've inspired me to carry on being positive and getting behind the team and AW. Cos unless the defecation 'really' hits the oscillation, it's way too early to panic! Keep up the good work!'