ARSENAL - WOOF!!

[PatrickEwing]

Not that the league is much of a competition for anyone this year, but does a sixth place finish (time still yet to go of course), no Champions League salvation and now a Nottingham beating finally nail the lid shut for ol’ Arsene?

Zidane’s seat is starting to smolder over in Madrid as well. 

[El Presidente]

Ken......I didn't put him up to it!

...thankfully you still have the Redskins to cheer home in the playo.........oops. 

 

[Ken Gargett]

pity you got the forum working - would not have had to read such nonsense and drivel (and pot kettle - tampa bay?).

wenger will be back next year. 100%. and sadly we can't get rid of gruden. i have a dream where the kraft/belly/brady flight is realm and we swoop in and snag bellicheck. then we can say we had the 2nd best coach in history as well as the best.

if only those hopeless refs would not keep dudding us! that penalty against chelski. wenger should be praised for not having hit the bloke.

but all i really want is someone to take bruce allen. will sacrifice wenger, sanchez, ozil, cousins and lord knows who else if someone will just take bruce allen.

[PatrickEwing]

You need a people’s revolt against Snyder before anything good will ever happen again. He is your curse. 

And I second hoping the Belichick drama has some merit. Only he’s riding off into the sunset or coming on home to the coachless Giants. Imagine that. Can’t beat em, gotta join em right??

And in my opinion, Arsenal can’t turn around until their image does an aboutface. They’ve gone stale and entirely lost their shine of a decade ago, and I believe that transformation begins with Wengers head. But he’s Teflon so you may be right about next year. 

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, PatrickEwing said:

You need a people’s revolt against Snyder before anything good will ever happen again. He is your curse. 

And I second hoping the Belichick drama has some merit. Only he’s riding off into the sunset or coming on home to the coachless Giants. Imagine that. Can’t beat em, gotta join em right??

And in my opinion, Arsenal can’t turn around until their image does an aboutface. They’ve gone stale and entirely lost their shine of a decade ago, and I believe that transformation begins with Wengers head. But he’s Teflon so you may be right about next year. 

oh, if only we could get dan to sell! and stan to sell arsenal. dan and stan. sounds like the flowerpot men.

the good thing about dan is that he is genuinely a fan. unlike stan. dan desperately wants the skins to win. he is just a giant roadblock in the way. his, and our, worst enemy. stan just sees dollars.

it would be more likely belly would join the giants than us. so stay at the pats!!

we need to sort the kirk situation asap but i see he is happy to take his time. why wouldn't he? after watching pretty much all the QBs on wildcard weekend, bar brees, one realises how important it is for him to stay. would not swap him for any of the others.

wenger cops a lot of flack that is harsh. i think he has taken much of the criticism about non-spending when the blame lies with the board, and stan. but he feels that as the face of the club, he should take the brunt. but he is making more strange decisions. despite that trainwreck last night, a lot of the problems have been that first they did not nail down his contract and next, ozil and sanchez. no club wins if it has those things hanging over them. so distracting. once that is sorted, sanchez gone and ozil either signs or goes, we should start concentrating on football. but don't hold your breath.

[PatrickEwing]

22 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

oh, if only we could get dan to sell! and stan to sell arsenal. dan and stan. sounds like the flowerpot men.

the good thing about dan is that he is genuinely a fan. unlike stan. dan desperately wants the skins to win. he is just a giant roadblock in the way. his, and our, worst enemy. stan just sees dollars.

it would be more likely belly would join the giants than us. so stay at the pats!!

we need to sort the kirk situation asap but i see he is happy to take his time. why wouldn't he? after watching pretty much all the QBs on wildcard weekend, bar brees, one realises how important it is for him to stay. would not swap him for any of the others.

wenger cops a lot of flack that is harsh. i think he has taken much of the criticism about non-spending when the blame lies with the board, and stan. but he feels that as the face of the club, he should take the brunt. but he is making more strange decisions. despite that trainwreck last night, a lot of the problems have been that first they did not nail down his contract and next, ozil and sanchez. no club wins if it has those things hanging over them. so distracting. once that is sorted, sanchez gone and ozil either signs or goes, we should start concentrating on football. but don't hold your breath.

Yes there is that distinction between Dan and Stan. But Dan can’t get out of his own way. He launches napalm on virtually any PR sensitive matter. The Cousins “negotiations” have been wonderfully one-sided the last couple years, and minus Jimmy G stealing a bit of leverage with the Niners, they are going to have to open the vault for him. And yes they must do it or you will be witness to at least another half decade of misery. 

The Sanchez saga has been interminably perplexing and Ozil seems to gets thrashed week in and week out by the media and fans. Haven’t they figured him out yet? He’s moody and he can be complacent, but when on he’s one of the finest at his position. I really enjoyed him at Madrid and was sad to see him go, but perhaps they were on to something. That being said, outside Lacazette, where have the big names been? Or the young talent panning out? Ramsey has been tough luck with the injuries certainly but like I said they’ve become awfully stale and predictable. I can’t imagine a player in his prime right now looking favorably at them if given choice among the 25 best clubs in Europe. The prestige that Viera, Cesc, Henry, et al established seems to have evaporated and for my money an overhaul is needed to become attractive again. Liverpool seems somewhat analogous. The ship seems righted (outside the defense), but post 2005 it started to list badly. It took Gerrard leaving and a big revamp before roots could take hold.  

[Ken Gargett]

1 hour ago, PatrickEwing said:

Yes there is that distinction between Dan and Stan. But Dan can’t get out of his own way. He launches napalm on virtually any PR sensitive matter. The Cousins “negotiations” have been wonderfully one-sided the last couple years, and minus Jimmy G stealing a bit of leverage with the Niners, they are going to have to open the vault for him. And yes they must do it or you will be witness to at least another half decade of misery. 

The Sanchez saga has been interminably perplexing and Ozil seems to gets thrashed week in and week out by the media and fans. Haven’t they figured him out yet? He’s moody and he can be complacent, but when on he’s one of the finest at his position. I really enjoyed him at Madrid and was sad to see him go, but perhaps they were on to something. That being said, outside Lacazette, where have the big names been? Or the young talent panning out? Ramsey has been tough luck with the injuries certainly but like I said they’ve become awfully stale and predictable. I can’t imagine a player in his prime right now looking favorably at them if given choice among the 25 best clubs in Europe. The prestige that Viera, Cesc, Henry, et al established seems to have evaporated and for my money an overhaul is needed to become attractive again. Liverpool seems somewhat analogous. The ship seems righted (outside the defense), but post 2005 it started to list badly. It took Gerrard leaving and a big revamp before roots could take hold.  

yes, dan - his own worst enemy. if someone tried to appoint a tuckshop manager with the ineptitude that they have handled the kirk negotiations, you'd call the cops. kirk has to want to be there and that is by no means certain. i suspect that dan would open the wallet - he seems able to do that occasionally - but bruce will want to show he is master of this and hence cock it up beyond belief and we'll be drafting a QB mid round 1. and back on the hamster wheel.

ozil been good lately but yes, he plays his way and can't be made to do otherwise. attracting players is becoming difficult.