Get real Augie for long enough everything wrong with this club was blamed on Wenger and rightly so but there has to be parity, we all know this was never going to be easy but when the replacement makes the same mistakes as the replaced then you'll have to forgive me for seeing a recurrent problem.augie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 10:10 pmGoonerMuzz wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 9:54 pmGuys i know we're all glad to be rid of Wenger and all but a dose of reality here, if he had started the season the same as Emery making the same mistakes with line up and tactics we'd have fucking roasted him. As i said in the match thread UE is supposed to be the master of match and player analysis and if he can't see problems that us numpties can spot then it is seriously worrying.
So we'll see how it goes but so far for me i see nothing really that different from what happened under Wenger but i am willing to give him time but as Sid said he's starting to lose me already, i wasn't happy with some of the transfer dealings and contract extensions, i've not been happy with team selection so far and i am sure as hell not happy with the tactics defensively which even that muppet Hoddle stated were no different from last season.
I am willing to give him time but i want to see vast improvement in the coming weeks because so far the way things are going he looks nothing but a much more animated AW.
So you are looking for some reality here, but at the same time you think that it is reasonable to expect dick to have sorted all our problems in 6 weeks of his coaching, and in 2 competitive league games ?? Wenger left behind a mess/pile of shite that hasnt been seen in our club for over 40 years, and most of us recognised the amount of high quality players that he inherited 22 years ago - when you oversee a number of seasons of decline like wenger did then you entitled to get every bit of abuse that he received, but to liken emery to that shitfest after a mere 2 games (against the last 2 seasons league winners I might add) is way ott and beyond belief if I'm honest
He has had plenty of time to review the problems we had last season, he has plenty of time to review the players and how they play, we had 7 or 8 pre season games, plus any closed door sessions yet he is insisting on playing the same way with the same players Wenger did. As for playing out from the back we are currently not in any position confidence wise to play this way especially against the top tier teams but as with AW he has a tactic he wants to play and sticks with it even when it doesn't work.
I totally understand that it takes time to get things right but he has not enamoured himself to me making the same mistakes as the previous encumbent and unlike some i am not blinded by my hatred of AW and can take a more balanced view on this.
As I said i'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt but so far all i see is a Wenger clone and as he stated himself he is an admirer of AW and he also stated he'd rather win 4-3 than 1-0 hardly a ringing endorsement to resolve our defensive issues if he considers attack as the best for of defence.
One thing many on here stated when he was appointed and during pre-season was that results weren't so important it was performances that mattered, well as far as i am concerned those performances have not improved yet and in terms of desire and appetite from the AW players i have yet to see it from any of them.
I'm not going to blow smoke up the guys arse just because he is not Wenger, sorry but i'll call it exactly as i see just like the rest of you will. You are free to disagree but i have more than enough years watching playing and coaching to make the calls i do and if i'm wrong i'll admit it but at the moment i see what i see.