***The Official Arsenal Gunners" Thread***

[Aruthless]

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Have you seen the rest of Spurs and Chelsea's schedule? I'm not trying to jinx the club, but its looking pretty good

[cdawg44]

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Have you seen the rest of Spurs and Chelsea's schedule? I'm not trying to jinx the club, but its looking pretty good

I'm guessing you haven't been a Gooner long......

[ZM Punk]

Ditched work early to catch this game. It's that important. I like us 2-1 with goals from Giroud and Santi.

[Krebstar]

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Ditched work early to catch this game. It's that important. I like us 2-1 with goals from Giroud and Santi.

A draw doesn't feel horrible against that team, except when it's at this point in the season.

With a win Spurs would be a point up on us.

Damnit.

[Aruthless]

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I'm guessing you haven't been a Gooner long......

last 4 or 5 years I started watching, so not very long at all.

[Suntan Superman]

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last 4 or 5 years I started watching, so not very long at all.

Lesson #1: NEVER assume a win
Lesson #2: Don't take points for granted.

[Brahvocado]

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Lesson #3: don't get attached to your star players
Lesson #4: 4th place is way better than any trophy

[Krebstar]

Lesson #4: 4th place is a trophy.

And...fixed.

[Aruthless]

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Yea learned #3 real quickly as I was a big fan of van persie. Pissed me off seeing him give fergie a hug after he scored last weekend. I threw up in my mouth a little

[rsnomar05]

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I know this has been said many times before, but Mertesacker is amazingly bad at corners considering his height. At this point he'd be more likely to score from one by accident instead of intentionally.

[cdawg44]

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last 4 or 5 years I started watching, so not very long at all.

Didn't mean to beat up on you earlier, but I've seen too much crap with this club to know the deal. Yea, every game is a potential to drop points for this squad sadly. I watched this club piss away a league title in 2003 after being up a crazy amount of points in the Feburary when they had one of the best squads I've seen. Now fast forward to today.....

Rule #5 - Points are never in the bag until the Ref blows the final whistle, because we will find a way to concede a howler and drop the points.

4th Place is the new League Cup title.

[Krebstar]

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Not surprisingly there are reports that Alex Song is not happy with his role at Barcelona and would be open to moving back to Arsenal.

How about that green grass, Alex?

[Aruthless]

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No worries.

So whats everyone's feeling regarding Wenger coming back next year and finishing up his contract. What if he ended up signing another extension? I personally think Arsenal's problem is Kroenke. If you take a look at the history of other teams he has owned, you can see that the selling Arsenal's best players isnt some conincidence.

St. Louis Rams - Kurt Warner superbowl MVP released him after having a bad season in which he broke his hand, Had a rough time in New York and moved on to Arizona which he made it back to another Superbowl. The Rams have been the laughing stock of the NFL ever since then. They seem to be on the rise now but i wouldnt bet on it

Denver Nuggets - Traded away Carmelo Anthony, probably would have done the same thing as he wasn't going to sign an extension. The Nuggets are actually pretty similar to Arsenal as their only goal is making the playoffs. The equivalent to that 4th place trophy, they are never contenders for a title, they just hope to get into the dance

Colorado Avalanche- Kroenke bought the team in 2000 and they won the title that year. They were pretty successful for the next 4 years until the NHL lockout in 04-05. After the lockout a salary cap was put in place and he could no longer retain their star players and the avalanche have been marginal at best since. Only making the playoffs twice out of the last six years in a league where half the teams make it.

I guess in the end I don't believe the full responsibility lands on Wenger because I dont think Kroenke is asking him to spend and until that mindset changes, things will stay the same.

Theres my rant for the day. Hope i made some sense
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[eyeamg0dly]

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Not surprisingly there are reports that Alex Song is not happy with his role at Barcelona and would be open to moving back to Arsenal.

How about that green grass, Alex?

despite how many feel about song. who would be better song or arteta ? some how I dont see song coming back simply because I doubt arsenal would pay what he wants.

i remember reading rumors of wanyama linked with arsenal during the winter transfer. that would be an interesting idea especially since we can't rely on all our midfielders.

[cdawg44]

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Fitting that Flippe Senderos basically handed the Gooners all 3 points because of his awful marking. As many games as he cost us, he for sure owed us one.