As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Henry Norris 1913 wrote:name: Victory through harmony
motto: "Its Arsenal FC, not PLC"
Could we get taken to court for our motto though?
That's why my suggestion would be fine...
Name: The Trophy Hunter's
Motto: 'Victory through Spending Money'
As Martin Tyler would no doubt say: That sums it all up!!!
Seen it all now, A WUM MOD
Don't worry I've reported him to the senior irish mods.
Don't see them doing anything about it. Rebel's on the golf course probably and DB10 is watching Lord Of The Rings, trying to take inspiration from the line 'even the smallest person can change the course of the future.'
I'm not sure that I'm against the principle of Arsenal being a plc that makes profit. I'm against the club's lack of a clear investment strategy. Most plc's have a 'strategic vision' - usually along the lines of "to be the UK's / world's / Europe's largest preferred / largest / no.1 in xxxxxxxxx"
My disapproval is that I have no idea what Arsenal's strategy is ? Are we a football club or a property company ? If it is supposed to be the former (god only help us), then what is the goal ? That's the single biggest question any Chairman or Board of Directors should be able to answer.
Is it to be London's best / biggest / most succesful. England's ? Europe's ? How do they measure their success in achieving that goal - is it trophies, if so then clearly they are failing to meet the goal. If not trophies then what - profit, fan base, commercial income.
We should ask them testing questions and ask them to explain themselves thoroughly. If they chose not to, that's the time to get the press active.
QuartzGooner wrote:Yeah SteveO has identified a clear and important item.
Anything that campaigns for"Wenger Out" or "The Board Out" is doomed.
It is too cliched, and by it's very nature encourages resistance against it.
Focus should be on getting the manager to buy more top quality players/improving the coaching.
And that is it.
Anything else such as ticket prices, relations with the club, etc is pointless, as there already exist fan organisations to deal with that, which have regular meetings with the club.
Our focus must be on changing the frustration of seeing a squad that has been "So near yet so far" for the last five years.
Not surprising really but PURE RUBBISH
The focus should be on the club showing more ambition. Whether that means sorting out the manager or confronting the Board on its policies is uncertain but it would be irresponsible to pretend this is solely down to the manager and pressuring him to take care of it. Basically they can just say money is available to spend if the manager wants to one more time then and get away with it. Or even if they change the manager if these are their policies all they will have accomplished is changing the manager, not correcting the problem.
Real pressure has to be exerted on the Board because even if I am completely wrong in my beliefs it is ultimately still up to them to rectify the situation - they still own and run the club after all. Either they are content with a manager lacking any ambition whatsoever whatever his motives or he is acting on their own lack of ambition whatever its motives, and either way they are the only ones who can really fix things, whatever is required to do that.
Where do you get off with writing such stuff?
Tell you what.
You carry on with your sluggish campaign to vaporize the board, and everyone else will get on with a realistic focused campaign for better players.
