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TeeCee
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Post by TeeCee »

There are such basic failures in the Arsenal team. As others have said, we just don't practice defending. Arsene's answer to last season was to change to zonal marking instead of man to man....not to coach defending! Arsenal don't prepare to face the team they are playing, they just go out and play the same way against everyone. It's astounding that the media don't make more of the fact that Arsenal are the most obvious footballing team in history! Even monks in remote Buddhist monasteries in China are aware that Wenger will play 4-3-3 tappy tappy, no defending football!!
Wenger - Legend? Fuck off, he's a cunty shitforbrains lying twat blind wanker bullshitting fuckwitted sausage jockey slag.

I HATE WENGER!!

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Post by Glitch33 »

armchair supporter wrote:
Demun210 wrote:
Eboue-Why? wrote:
Demun210 wrote:Unreal...the amount of points we needlessly piss away is terrible.

I know a lot of people on here are fed up with Wenger, but I think the players need to have a look at themselves today, we should have won that comfortably, especially considering we went ahead twice.
Demun for fucks sake open your fucking eyes. The players reflect the manager. The players are clueless, what the fuck does that tell you?
Enough is fucking enough :banghead:
But the point is that Wenger fields a team and can reasonably expect a player like Koscielny to clear that instead of scoring an own goal....let's be fair here, Wenger is at fault for a lot but there's too many individual errors from players that are good enough to do better.
Listen - Wenger bought these fruits, paid them too much, treated them like babies, didn't properly motivate them, didn't properly coach them defensively. They are not good enough. Its Wengers fault. Get it? FS :roll:
This ^^^^^

The buck stops with the AW. If he is being fucked over by the board then he needs to start his own public protest.

Remaining stuck to his seat looking stressed during the game is sending out the wrong signals to everyone. It is a sign of defeat and no idea how to change it.
Players deserve a rocket - again that is AW's job to knock them into shape.

In the meantime AW is dragging this great club into the gutter because of his myopic vision of how we should play the game. He must swallow his pride fess up to being responsible and either change his ways or fuck off.

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ramon wrote:diasappointing result needless to say against a team that is/was struggling. It’s true, I think we need some time to gell, but these players are already skilled so the problem shouldn’t be how we hold a clean sheet, but how we score more goals in my opinion. But that’s not the case as I saw today. Basically inject some massive confidence into the players.

I still think we need more quality defenders preferably young ones like M. Sakho or Santon from Inter, not saying that will happen, but it would be nice to have those defenders, especially to take over Gibbs, but I’ll have to see how Santos plays/defends. It would be great to have some consistency in this team no matter what game we are in… but I guess that will take some time or major spending.
Not sure what planet you live on but when you go to a place like Ewood Park, 3 goals should be more than enough to win a game for you. The club is on a huge downward spiral and the only way to change anything is for Wenger to go simple as that. None of the problems that have been evident for a while have been solved over the summer that is plain to see and we have been fed the same old lines from the club and wenger. The defence still seems to look like headless chickens at set pieces and we seem determined to never hold a lead in a game long enough to bag a second :banghead:

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TeeCee wrote:There are such basic failures in the Arsenal team. As others have said, we just don't practice defending. Arsene's answer to last season was to change to zonal marking instead of man to man....not to coach defending! Arsenal don't prepare to face the team they are playing, they just go out and play the same way against everyone. It's astounding that the media don't make more of the fact that Arsenal are the most obvious footballing team in history! Even monks in remote Buddhist monasteries in China are aware that Wenger will play 4-3-3 tappy tappy, no defending football!!
Wenger - Legend? Fuck off, he's a cunty shitforbrains lying twat blind wanker bullshitting fuckwitted sausage jockey slag.

I HATE WENGER!!
You don't mince your words. :gayflag:

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ramon wrote:I still think we need more quality defenders preferably young ones like M. Sakho or Santon from Inter
We've been throwing defenders (of varying quality) at the problem for three or four years now. The issue isn't the personnel, it's the fact that we simply do not practice defending. Wenger has no idea how to coach a defence, in fact from what i've seen of Arsenal training sessions, all we seem to do to prepare for a game is run up & down the training pitch, a couple of games of five a side & jump over some cones. It's a fucking shambles.

Sadly, Wenger is far too stubborn to admit he needs help & draft in Keown or another proper defensive coach.

:banghead:

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Dan_85 wrote:
ramon wrote:I still think we need more quality defenders preferably young ones like M. Sakho or Santon from Inter
We've been throwing defenders (of varying quality) at the problem for three or four years now. The issue isn't the personnel, it's the fact that we simply do not practice defending. Wenger has no idea how to coach a defence, in fact from what i've seen of Arsenal training sessions, all we seem to do to prepare for a game is run up & down the training pitch, a couple of games of five a side & jump over some cones. It's a fucking shambles.

Sadly, Wenger is far too stubborn to admit he needs help & draft in Keown or another proper defensive coach.

:banghead:
The problem is that they haven't been of "varying quality". With the exception of the injury plagued TV they have been consistently poor quality!

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Post by Glitch33 »

AW has just spouted sh1t about the fragile confidence in defence following the 8-2 defeat at OT.

This is total tripe on the basis that 3 of the 4 defenders didn't play in that game. Djourou can be forgiven as a sub playing out of position but Sagna, Merte and Santos didn't play at OT.

Kos might be frazzled but Ches continues to play well, probably player of the month despite shipping a shed load of goals.
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MK Gould wrote:
Dan_85 wrote:
ramon wrote:I still think we need more quality defenders preferably young ones like M. Sakho or Santon from Inter
We've been throwing defenders (of varying quality) at the problem for three or four years now. The issue isn't the personnel, it's the fact that we simply do not practice defending. Wenger has no idea how to coach a defence, in fact from what i've seen of Arsenal training sessions, all we seem to do to prepare for a game is run up & down the training pitch, a couple of games of five a side & jump over some cones. It's a fucking shambles.

Sadly, Wenger is far too stubborn to admit he needs help & draft in Keown or another proper defensive coach.

:banghead:
The problem is that they haven't been of "varying quality". With the exception of the injury plagued TV they have been consistently poor quality!
Piss Poor -> Woeful -> Bollox seems like varying quality to me :lol:

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Glitch33 wrote:Kos might be frazzled but Ches continues to play well, probably player of the month despite shipping a shed load of goals.
Guys, imagine if we still had Almunia as our number 1 :oops:

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Red Gunner wrote:
Glitch33 wrote:Kos might be frazzled but Ches continues to play well, probably player of the month despite shipping a shed load of goals.
Guys, imagine if we still had Almunia as our number 1 :oops:
Only he and flappy got injured last year he still would be

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TeeCee wrote:There are such basic failures in the Arsenal team. As others have said, we just don't practice defending. Arsene's answer to last season was to change to zonal marking instead of man to man....not to coach defending! Arsenal don't prepare to face the team they are playing, they just go out and play the same way against everyone. It's astounding that the media don't make more of the fact that Arsenal are the most obvious footballing team in history! Even monks in remote Buddhist monasteries in China are aware that Wenger will play 4-3-3 tappy tappy, no defending football!!
Wenger - Legend? Fuck off, he's a cunty shitforbrains lying twat blind wanker bullshitting fuckwitted sausage jockey slag.

I HATE WENGER!!
If we are the best no plan b required. We are not the best so..........On the way back painfully from Blackburn, ffs we looked quite dangerous lumpimg it up! Arsene ................... out in January, give the team and the manager 3 months.....and 4th place with the chavs & red/blue manc *word censored* is a result (acceptable 4 any Afc manager the next few years) now! We will miss last 16 of champions league when we are not their next year I fear!

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Post by GunnerTino »

We are struggling big time,you dress it up how
you like but its relegation form simple as that.
I honestly now fear the worst every time we play,
it's got to the point where when we do win I'm
surprised.

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Post by Irish Gooner »

The lies I constantly hare about his spending.

The man spent 56 fucking million pounds this summer and had another 50 million he could have spent, yet this is the best we can offer?

Disgraceful.

he bought 1 17 year old for nearing 15 million pounds and he isnt even being put on the bench nevermind the first team?

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Ahhhh, just got in from a refreshing walk and pub lunch.

I take it we won?

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Post by proudtosaythatname »

I just couldn't believe how we folded in the 2nd half. One own goal is embarrassing - but two? Such a depressing, spineless defensive performance. Someone has to carry the can for the team's accelerating demise, otherwise goodness knows where it will all end. The Championship? I am unable to see how Wenger can continue as Arsenal Manager. We need a new manager, new ideas and a new direction for the club - now.

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