23 Mar 2017 20:05:14
Personally I don't blame wenger at all. the players haven't shown the desire or quality whatsoever.
They have the ability but they have let us down and wenger just makes himself the scapegoat.
I also fully blame our fans who instead of supporting our team they criticise and boo their own players. We have been awful at home because the away fans out sing us. That's pathetic. Maybe. Just maybe. If all our fans got behind our players they would perform a whole lot better.
I'm not here for an argument or confrontation but I'm sick of a player having a bad performance and then their whole fan support knocking their confidence. It doesn't matter how much you get paid confidence means everything, and we need to get behind our team to make them better. Not be their biggest critics.
23 Mar 2017 20:38:18
Makes you wonder why Chelsea sacked Morinho, Liverpool Rogers, Everton Martinez, Utd LVG and moved forwards when it was all down to their fans all along :-)
Maybe Arsenal should set the standard and totally ignore the fans as long as the manager and players are content, oh they are already!
23 Mar 2017 20:50:10
Yep, I definitely blame the fans, myself included, for not winning Prem League for 13 seasons.
Shame on the same fans for our poor performances in CL.
23 Mar 2017 22:32:28
I thought both me and you were particularly poor in Munich Dags, i can totally understand Iwobi and Xhaka being totally frustrated by us mate :-)
23 Mar 2017 22:41:38
The sad thing is he believed the squad could win the league. For years pundits said he need leaders and stronger players. But he wanted to prove them wrong. Wont ever happen.
23 Mar 2017 23:33:57
Can't believe you missed that sitter G62, lol.
Very true Derby mate.
24 Mar 2017 11:12:50
I think it's fair to say that booing a player or team probably does little to inspire or help them through a bad patch. Equally it could and maybe should be an inspiration to do better.
That aside confidence is key and bar the opener against Liverpool, a game even with a weakened team, we could and should have won, we started the season pretty well and then Cazorla got injured.
Since that point it seems Wenger didn't or couldn't decide who should be at the heart of our midfield. Coquelin and Cazorla had to me been immense there.
So points get dropped confidence goes and it's hard and I'll include Sanchez in this, to pick one single player who has played anything like to potential this season, they've been collectively woeful.
I can't remember that last game I've gone into feeling confident we are going to win and that I'm afraid in the managers job. As Steve has said many times, pick the side, motivate the side and build them up into winners. Yes they carry some undoubted responsibility but the buck always stops with the manager. Ranieri being a classic recent example.
24 Mar 2017 17:06:10
I totally agree Stoner, it's beyond me why people pay all that money to boo the team surely it's much better to stay away in the first place.
If the team are giving everything they've got and it just isn't good enough on the day then fair play it's one of those things and they should go and thank the fans for sticking by them and the fans should applaud thier 100% effort, but all to often it doesn't appear that the Arsenal players haven't given everything they've got in far to many games over far to many seasons running now.
I totally understand people not bothering to attend games as they've had enough of the players lack of effort and clubs lack of ambition, what i don't understand is why go to all that expense time and effort to not support them, vote with your feet not with your boos.
If your favourite restaurant suddenly became very hit and miss and you became at least as likely if not more likely to be served up flavourless poorly presented food that was totally different to what you ordered and you were expected to pay £70 a head for the privilege would you keep going back each week on the off chance you might just catch them on a good night or worse still turn up as always so you complain to chef in person or would you stay away and hope the owner got the message and did something about making sure what he was offering was a bit more palatable each and every time in future?