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.
Nos89 wrote:
|The third reason is that the supporters that want him out the most can't afford to go to matches as they've been priced out, therefore attending a protest on a match day is not feasible.
Not true. All of the protests organised by the "No New Contract" group were outside the ground as far as I'm aware.
Many people went to protests and didn't go to games.
Just another made up nonsense excuse to do nothing.
You can't just dismiss that as not true.
For many people the cost of getting to the ground is as much as the ticket price. Some people can't afford to just go to the ground purely to protest. If you can only afford to attend 3 or 4 games a year you're hardly going to spend some of that money just to go to a protest. Doing so would mean you probably have to miss a game another time. Money is a finite resource. Some can afford it and no doubt do so but you can't assume that everyone can.
Nos89 wrote:
|The third reason is that the supporters that want him out the most can't afford to go to matches as they've been priced out, therefore attending a protest on a match day is not feasible.
Not true. All of the protests organised by the "No New Contract" group were outside the ground as far as I'm aware.
Many people went to protests and didn't go to games.
Just another made up nonsense excuse to do nothing.
You can't just dismiss that as not true.
For many people the cost of getting to the ground is as much as the ticket price. Some people can't afford to just go to the ground purely to protest. If you can only afford to attend 3 or 4 games a year you're hardly going to spend some of that money just to go to a protest. Doing so would mean you probably have to miss a game another time. Money is a finite resource. Some can afford it and no doubt do so but you can't assume that everyone can.
That comes down to the individual as a lot of people did just that. At the end of the day people have to do what is right for them.
Nos89 wrote:
|The third reason is that the supporters that want him out the most can't afford to go to matches as they've been priced out, therefore attending a protest on a match day is not feasible.
Not true. All of the protests organised by the "No New Contract" group were outside the ground as far as I'm aware.
Many people went to protests and didn't go to games.
Just another made up nonsense excuse to do nothing.
You can't just dismiss that as not true.
For many people the cost of getting to the ground is as much as the ticket price. Some people can't afford to just go to the ground purely to protest. If you can only afford to attend 3 or 4 games a year you're hardly going to spend some of that money just to go to a protest. Doing so would mean you probably have to miss a game another time. Money is a finite resource. Some can afford it and no doubt do so but you can't assume that everyone can.
I would rather miss the game to protest than the other way around. But I understand not everybody feels that way....I'm at a stage now where I just think...whatever it takes...And the only time I would be interested in actually going back into the ground would be to protest.
Not everybody feels like that and that's fine, I've realized that. What I don't like hearing is a whole lot of BS excuses and using those who want to protest as a reason for not wanting to protest yourselves as they "put you off". We are all sort of on the same side, I just think there are varying levels, if we got top 4 and won the FA cup for example, a lot of people on here would be willing to give him another 2 years. if you don't want to protest then don't, there are other ways we can get our message across without having to recruit bodies. It's counter productive arguing about it....if everybody on here was involved in deciding the way forward we wouldn't have done ANYTHING yet as there are so many differing opinions.
Can you believe the absolutely stupidity of the senile old c.unt - this smacks or arrogance and it's like he knows more than conte does and that his words of warning should be heeded
This time last season he made the same stupid warning to Leicester and they went further in champs league than we did - I reminded of the line from The Hangover movie where he "is literally too stupid to insult"
Wilson wrote:So get this, Wenger is spinning this season as a success at is looks like we will pass last seasons tally of 71 points. Although last year he said we were showing progress because we finished 2nd (with 71 points). However, the year before last, we finished 3rd with 75 points.
So he literally chooses to define improvement in either league position, or points tally - which ever is higher than the season before.
Not even Donald Trump is more convinced of his own bullshit than Arsene Wenger.
Why on earth to dimwit fans play along with this level of delusion? He insults your intelligence when he moves the goal posts like this, yet some support him anyway. The 'Wenger in' brigade are not a movement - they are part of a cult.
so basically weve got more points even though we will finish 5th whereas last season we finished second,it just shows what utter gash the league was last season and we couldn't even win it then in a 2 horse race against the shit that was Leicester,really the senile old twat should just shut the fuck up as he makes himself look more and more stupid
Nos89 wrote:
|The third reason is that the supporters that want him out the most can't afford to go to matches as they've been priced out, therefore attending a protest on a match day is not feasible.
Not true. All of the protests organised by the "No New Contract" group were outside the ground as far as I'm aware.
Many people went to protests and didn't go to games.
Just another made up nonsense excuse to do nothing.
You can't just dismiss that as not true.
For many people the cost of getting to the ground is as much as the ticket price. Some people can't afford to just go to the ground purely to protest. If you can only afford to attend 3 or 4 games a year you're hardly going to spend some of that money just to go to a protest. Doing so would mean you probably have to miss a game another time. Money is a finite resource. Some can afford it and no doubt do so but you can't assume that everyone can.
If the op was talking about travel costs then that's a totally different a separate subject. If it was travel costs he was talking about then fair enough but I didn't see him say that he said "priced out"
He said people were "priced out" which has always meant on this forum the cost of attending a game.
Can't really use the "priced out" excuse for something that's free to attend. And is zero to do with AFC. More like TFL.
I know loads of people who wouldn't attend the protests and they have their own, valid reasons...
Protesting is just not for them
They think it's crass
Not the way it should be done
They've only just come round to wanting him out and are not ready to protest
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xisstential wrote:"Bayern is similar - they dominate the German championship in a very easy way."
Just as they dominate your Arsenal team in a very easy way...you forgot to mention that.
The moronic irony of some of his statements is embarrassing.
He's denegrating teams for winning their respective league titles - something he hasn't managed in 13 seasons. Also, you gotta love the way he conveniently ignores the fact he could not win the easiest most winnable PL title ever last season when the poxy league was at a "diminished level domestically".
xisstential wrote:"Bayern is similar - they dominate the German championship in a very easy way."
Just as they dominate your Arsenal team in a very easy way...you forgot to mention that.
The moronic irony of some of his statements is embarrassing.
He's denegrating teams for winning their respective league titles - something he hasn't managed in 13 seasons. Also, you gotta love the way he conveniently ignores the fact he could not win the easiest most winnable PL title ever last season when the poxy league was at a "diminished level domestically".
Wenger comes out with this crap because HE KNOWS HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT!!
The majority of our fanbase sadly deserve this specialist in failure in charge of the team
Nos89 wrote:
|The third reason is that the supporters that want him out the most can't afford to go to matches as they've been priced out, therefore attending a protest on a match day is not feasible.
Also spuddy fyi, note the op specifically said" attending a protest on a match day" wasn't feasable. Which would indicate that a non-match day was feasable because the price of a match ticket wasn't involved?
The op was not talking about being "priced out" because of travel imo. The cost of travel is involved whether he protests on a match day or non-match day.
“I think we suffered a lot when we went out of the Champions League under special circumstances. If you look at just the first halves, we would have qualified"
wow look everyone we would have beaten Bayern Munich had we not had to play the second half each time. So unfair!
by the same logic I believe I should claim Gold Medal in the Olympic Marathon because I am sure I could have been fastest over the first 100 metres
Gunner Rob wrote:my quote of the morning from the press conference
“I think we suffered a lot when we went out of the Champions League under special circumstances. If you look at just the first halves, we would have qualified"
wow look everyone we would have beaten Bayern Munich had we not had to play the second half each time. So unfair!
by the same logic I believe I should claim Gold Medal in the Olympic Marathon because I am sure I could have been fastest over the first 100 metres
Rob did you make that quote up? I worry after your posts in the EU thread
