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.
xisstential wrote:Held onto 4th place so all is well. On a different topic Henry should not be allowed in the studio when Arsenal play. He behaves like Wenger's son. What the hell does he think, that Wenger can fire him???
I think that he is earning his coaching badges under Wenger, so effectively, yes.
Coaching badges under Wenger? is that a 2 day course?
You don't need 2 days. Wenger's coaching is printed on the back of a fag packet.
1. Play the same tactics every game
2. Never consider the oppositions strengths and weaknesses
3. Play the same players every game until they breakdown
4. Unless for an injury (see number 3), make your first substitution on 70mins.
5. After a poor result, consult SteveO's Wenger bingo thread before speaking to the press.
6. Count your money.
xisstential wrote:Held onto 4th place so all is well. On a different topic Henry should not be allowed in the studio when Arsenal play. He behaves like Wenger's son. What the hell does he think, that Wenger can fire him???
I think that he is earning his coaching badges under Wenger, so effectively, yes.
Coaching badges under Wenger? is that a 2 day course?
2 days of coaching followed by an intensive 4 week course of deception, spin and entrenching oneself as unsackable.
I can't watch Henry justify that shite time after time. Why did he have to go into punditry? Why isn't he coaching the first team?
robbo10 wrote:
begeegs wrote:
xisstential wrote:Held onto 4th place so all is well. On a different topic Henry should not be allowed in the studio when Arsenal play. He behaves like Wenger's son. What the hell does he think, that Wenger can fire him???
I think that he is earning his coaching badges under Wenger, so effectively, yes.
Coaching badges under Wenger? is that a 2 day course?
A coaching job at the Arsenal is like a 'no-work job' on The Sopranos:
Henry Norris 1913 wrote:I've got a novel idea - lets blame our problems on injuries, refereeing injustices and, erm......the players. lets blame the players for having no tactical awareness, no drive or passion, and playing the same tippy tappy football. yes I know these have been our same problems since 2007, but I have a feeling it is a coincidence, it's not the way they are coached, or our philosophy, it is the players fault.
I'm just posting the average akb response tonight, to save some of the wums from their efforts.
Dont forget to blame Gazidis, Kronke, the pitch, the weather, tirdness, Chelsea and Man City money.
Anything at all to deflect from Wenger.
Gunner Rob wrote:i must admit though that Wenger is proving myself and a lot of others on here wrong this season.
you can't really argue with the results over the past month.. hopefully he can continue to prove me wrong next month too.
I would like to apologise for my stupidest ever post on here.
I forgot that just as night follows day then a possible Arsenal title challenge crumbles in the month of November.
lets face it - Groundhog Day is here again. It is just so boring now and what makes it worse is that we are going to be struggling to compete with Spurs this season
I was here too. I wanted to give him credit, but per usual, as September and August are generally good months, November is usually shi*te. With the depth of our squad ( ), we will be out of the race by XMas. Better than last year, but I think that with other teams climbing the table, we may have a fight on our hands for 4th this year.
No it isn't, it's stronger than it's ever been, that's why you get Bojan playing for fucking Stoke and people like Payet at West Ham, Mahrez / Cambiasso etc at Leicester thesedays.
I wouldn't back us to get 4th this season with our squad depth in tatters and a title challenge looks miles off despite being only 2 points away.
rodders999 wrote:On why Sanchez not rested, Wenger snapped:
"The players are there to play, not to be rested when press decides when they need to be rested."
Oh dear and what's the manager there for you complete fuckwit. I will take so much pleasure in your demise. Cannot wait.
That's him in a nutshell. Makes decisions which every man and his dog can see are idiotic and then follows it up with some condescending nonsense suggesting that mere mortals are unable to understand things and have stupid ideas like you need good players to win stuff and that playing somebody for 90 minutes every game week after week after week is going to make him a massive injury risk.
Had the same crap when he got stick for playing Ospina instead of Cech, when he was ridiculed for signing a complete no-mark like Sanogo, or whenever he is seriously quizzed on his lack of signings.
Nothing serious obviously before the fucking bleeding hearts lose their minds but what if it was discovered he had some condition that meant he would no longer be medically cleared or insured to manage the club? Just get me out of this never ending cycle of shit.
Robin_L wrote:Everyone says the league is weaker than ever etc.
No it isn't, it's stronger than it's ever been, that's why you get Bojan playing for fucking Stoke and people like Payet at West Ham, Mahrez / Cambiasso etc at Leicester thesedays.
I wouldn't back us to get 4th this season with our squad depth in tatters and a title challenge looks miles off despite being only 2 points away.
Of course the league is weaker. All you have to do is look at the CL results for the top teams over the last few seasons for starters.
Man City have glaring weaknesses in central defence when Kompany is not fit/selected, Manure haven't been the same as during Fergie's reign( even Chelski are having a shocking season). We have been in decline since 2004 and hit a plateau with our 3rd/4th place trophies every season.
So given this, is it surprising the less glamorous sides are taking points from the top teams. Every season one of the less fashionable sides has a good run in the first half of the season only to fade away. In recent years it's been Southampton this season its Leicester.
Wenger is a typewriter in a world full of iPads, a complete fossil of a manager. He is incapable of managing player welfare, coaching defence, addressing the glaring weaknesses in the squad, delegating responsibility and does not have the tactical nous needed in a modern day manager.
), we will be out of the race by XMas. Better than last year, but I think that with other teams climbing the table, we may have a fight on our hands for 4th this year.
