Henry Norris 1913 wrote:I hate our board- but I've had enough of the repetitive threads.
And I don't like what Fiszman did at arsenal and the way he turned our club into a plaything for the yuppies and JCLs but theres nothing clever about wishing an ARSENAL man to rot in hell :awnker:
herd your totally missing the point . martin's shit about the board starts in match threads until everyone tells him to FUCK OFF because its the MATCH THREAD. He thens decides to open 3 threads all about something we've already discussed with USM 67 trillion times.
I agree with 75% of what he says but for some reason he hates any criticism being thrown at wenger without anyone mentioning the board which makes his paranoid anti-board posts a bit silly and funny to read. If you can't acknowledge what wenger has done to us then your the one fooling yourself marty
No Henry what I hate is that too many Gooners want to lay this solely at the Manager's feet when there is no evidence to support that, and that only makes it easier for the Board to continue these policies because they don't have to answer for them as long as they have Arsene Wenger around to create the confusion and be the lightning rod for them.
I hate the fact that there is no proof whatsoever that anything would change under a new manager right now because as long as the supporters focus their criticism of how the club is run on the manager alone whoever he is again, they can hide behind him and continue to take advantage of us.
Perfect example - a 40 million GBP warchest for transfers
and wages? Well excuse me but the Manager made the club 33 million pounds the last five years, so that is less than 10 million GBP extra. Well some of that 33 million went into new wage deals some will point out fine. Then use some of the up to 100 million in the cash reserves that is available. After all, we no longer owe on anything but an annual mortgage on the stadium and there are penalties for early repayment there is no reason not to use some that money here and now while it still can be effectively I can see.
And iof its being saved as a precaution against the football bubble bursting as was suggested earlier maybe the same caution should have been shown about borrowing 300 million GBP building in the first place and certainly the same caution - about the housing bubble in this case - and borrowing another 120 million.
But so long as we all tell ourselves if the manager wasn';'t such a stubborn so-and-so no one who made those decisions had to account making them or why they made them or make them any differently going forward. That's what I hate. Well be having these circle jerks of debates until s***s supporters start hanging "2004 Oh Dear" signs at North London Derbies
