Transition?

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delgooner
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Transition?

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Is it me or does anyone else accept transition as the excuse for a very poor season this year. We started the season well but then as the season carried on, we just seemed to go downhill. I know we lost TH and RVP for quite most of the season but most of the midfield and defence have been with us for a few seasons plus the pit bull in goal. Its just that the defence dont seem capable of stopping any team we play from scoring. Time and time again when the games were in the closing stages and we were winning, we give a stupid free kick away at the sideline and the other team score. These guys are supposed to train together week in and week out and yet the same thing happened game after game. So Im sorry I dont buy the word transition, more like complacency. We need a Keown in there to kick some arse into them. :evil:
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Post by MK Gould »

Whether Arsene admits it to the media or not we are in transition. Is this acceptable for a club of Arsenal's stature? I think it is. Look at what happened to Leeds when they spent above their income. I also think that it will simply serve to make success, when it returns, all the sweeter.

Looking back I think its nothing more than amazing that we still managed to finish with Champions League qualification & get past the CL Group stage & get to the CC Final - & all this without RVP & TH. People shouldn't underestimate the impact their loss has had!! Even with one of them fit we'd have been a very comfortable 3rd place & would have beaten PSV - then who knows....

If anyone is complacent its the new fans, who turn up & expect success on a plate & who think this season was as bad as it can get! Relegation battles, years without winning the league (or even challenging)...in fact years without winning anything - 1972 to 1986 = one FAC win? Been there, got the t-shirt!!
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Post by proudtosaythatname »

I've got the same T-shirt as MKG, and a similar one too from the 60s, but there's no getting away from the huge disappointment that we missed a shedload of open goals that didn't require the consummate abilities of TH14 or RVP. Strangely painful too.
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MK G talks a lot of sense between 1971 and 1989 with the exception of 1973 the title challenge was over in the 1st week of September.And in that period of time smaller clubs than us won titles and even European cups (Forest and Villa).Dont forget it took 26 years for Man ure to win the title and 50 years for Chelski to buy the title. Compared to the 60s 70s and 80s these are the glory days
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donaldo wrote:MK G talks a lot of sense between 1971 and 1989 with the exception of 1973 the title challenge was over in the 1st week of September.And in that period of time smaller clubs than us won titles and even European cups (Forest and Villa).Dont forget it took 26 years for Man ure to win the title and 50 years for Chelski to buy the title. Compared to the 60s 70s and 80s these are the glory days
Ours would have been spuds best season since 1960/61. One teams glory days is another teams shit season in transition.....
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