Win, Lose or Draw.

62 comments to Win, Lose or Draw.

• Charlie

  March 7, 2013 at 6:26 am

  Sorry I meant Mario Gomez and I forgot Suarez.

• Florian

  March 7, 2013 at 6:34 am

  uk,

  Why don’t you post a picture of you in the manure shirt so we all know you’re true to yourself? I guess it’s only because it has too much shit on it.

• AL

  March 7, 2013 at 8:49 am

  Charlie
  You will find its near impossible to ignore what happened 5 years ago as it shaped our destiny. For instance, Wenger seems to have ‘abandoned’ his policy of buying unknowns & polishing them into gems as he’s been buying the finished product(Podolski, Carzola,Giroud,Per,Arteta,etc). This might be because he felt his youngsters were not being given any chance by being targeted for some bad kicking as well as not being offered any protection by refs. This slight change in philosophy from the manager, if we may call it that, could explain why its taking longer for the new players to adapt to the Arsenal way of play; a 19yr old will adapt quicker to new methods than say a 27yr old. We don’t necessarily need a 30goal a season poacher to win stuff; utd has been winning the title over the yrs with their highest scorer just about managing double figures.20 goals is fine, if these can be shared between 3 or 4 players . We had Ade hit over 30 one season & Rvp too but didn’t win nothing. Meanwhile both times teams with 20 goal strikers were winning. This year we should have 3 players doing that, Walcott, Giroud & Podolski.

  Just a reminder about your statement that we haven’t been shafted this season by refs, two games spring to mind; chelsea & city both at our own turf. One might want to argue at OT too. That’s easily 6-7 points that could’ve been in the bag, and more often that’s the difference at the end of the season.

• dy

  March 7, 2013 at 9:26 am

  tell you what, Arsenal didn’t receive quite that much wrong decisions yet from the refs simply because Arsenal isn’t a threat to the other so called established title contenders this season. I’ll bet you they’ll come IF somehow Arsenal manages to climb back up to to third or fourth and threaten again the Manu ManC , the Spuds, etc.etc.
  One final forecast, we’ll draw with Manu at home if we’re already 5th without a chance of catching up to 4th, of course, RVP would be sidelined as well.

• Rupert Cook

  March 7, 2013 at 10:01 am

  @Al, really, you think Podolski, Giroud and Walcott will all score twenty goals this season? Can’t see it myself as they’d need to score 30 goals in the remaining fixtures which seems not only unlikely but impossible. I reckon you could get 10,000 to 1 on that happening.

  As to the refs shafting us, well we were played off the park in at least two of those games. We were utterly shocking at Manu and were lucky not to concede twice as many. And we were asleep against City for the first half and rightly had a player sent off.

  Six or seven points is the difference in what, finishing fourth? I thought our prime target was to win the league. That’s Wenger’s target every year.

  We used to be a great team and that maybe down to the fact that we used to play fast incisive football. Now for some reason we have been adopting this ponderous possession football which lacks a cutting edge. Wenger got obsessed with smaller and less bulky players, in awe it seems of Barca, and exactly where has that got us. We don’t have the calibre of player to play that way, and as I’ve said before, we don’t pressurize the opposition when we don’t have the ball. If we don’t sort out the mistakes we’re repeating game after game there’ll be no CL next year and even fewer good players will be interested in joining us.

• Charlie

  March 7, 2013 at 10:52 am

  Arsene needs options. Arsenal don’t have a squad this season, it is more like 4 or 5 star players trying to carry the rest. Failure to qualify for the UCL would leave us really no better off than 15 years ago. The 30m in lost TV money is roughly equal to the difference in match revenue between Chelsea (40k seat stadium) and Arsenal (60k seat stadium). Add to that the inherent unfairness of Financial Fair Play, namely that the rich stay rich, and Arsenal will struggle to recover.

• kampalaGun

  March 7, 2013 at 2:34 pm

  I really wonder what most so called fans smoke,if players can go to teams like QPR,SWASEA and those who have no dreams of playing in Euro ever why not a fourth placed Arsenal team? Im waiting to a moron to bet if arsenal wont be in the champions league next season i have found none

• AL

  March 7, 2013 at 8:11 pm

  Rupert,
  Walcott is on 18, Giroud 14, Podolski 13, and you say 20 is impossible? Let’s have this conversation again in May

• Rupert Cook

  March 8, 2013 at 10:58 am

  Well I checked the stats and they were wrong it seems or maybe they were just goals scored in the EPL. Anyway my oversight. That still means they’d have to score 15 goals between them. I can see Walcott exceeding 20 but I doubt Podolski and Giroud will both reach that target. I hope they do because that should mean we’ll get close to maximum points in our final games.

• asd

  March 8, 2013 at 3:39 pm

  We lost the Birmingham game because at 2-1 Adebayo refused to pass to Bendtner.
  When are we going to stop blaming Refs for our failure? If we did not win it because of refs in 2007/2008, why have we not won it till now?

• WalterBroeckx

  March 9, 2013 at 11:56 pm

  Well my dear asd if I would know that I would be manager of Arsenal.
  I don’t have all the answers. Do you? If so: what are you wasting your time over here. Go to Arsenal and do it.

  Or you could write an article. And tell me how you would do it. And tell us how you would pay for it.

• Stuart

  March 10, 2013 at 9:22 am

  asd
  It may have escaped your attention that we still have refs.