Morning Gooners,
Children in Need today, so fill those buckets for Terry and the gang. Wonder if Wenger or Gazidis will be giving up any of their hard-earned pennies?
Bit or gossip to kick off with as usual:
It’s believed that Carl Jenkinson has signed a new six-year contract with Arsenal and his salary has increased to £32,000 a week. Well if that story is true then credit has to go to the player, one who clearly just loves playing for the club he loves. He’s now an England International and is tipped to be a really good, if not great footballer in the years to come.
Wonder what Theo Walcott, who allegedly wants £100,000 a week, thinks about that? He should be embarrassed!
The Sun report that Huntelaar is available for £7 Million in January, Go on Arsene, you know we want you to!
This is the last moan and groan in a post, well, for this week. Tomorrow is the NLD, the big one, the one that matters more than any other and we have to win it!
I’ve supported Arsenal for over 30 years now and this is by far and away the most frustrated I’ve ever been as a gooner. It’s been building for some time but my thought patterns since Saturday, and after listening to Wenger’s subsequent turgid drivel, have both worried me and made perfect sense to me in equal measure.
It’s no secret that the manager and the board see CL qualification as a successful season. Better than some pots on offer but most of us beg to differ. Our best players want to leave year on year because we’re not competitive and when they do they’re rarely replaced adequately. Yet ticket prices remain ridiculously high. The message seems to be that we should be grateful for what the club achieves and should happily pay through the nose for the privilege. It’s insulting. Our loyalty is being ruthlessly exploited. More and more I’m realising that my loyalty is to the Arsenal of yesteryear. The Arsenal that didn’t insult its fans with ridiculous notions like winning trophies isn’t important. The Arsenal that signed some of the best players we’ve ever seen and that loved playing for us. How and when the hell did that change?
My recent thoughts have centred around what must happen for this dreadful cycle to end. It strikes me as simple. We must finish the season in a league position the likes of which we haven’t seen for many years. The 1994-95 finish ought to do the trick. That was the season George got the sack and Stewart Houston took over for the remainder of the season. We finished 12th. Only then can I see the arrogant fools in charge of OUR club being forced to change their doctrine of mediocrity for profit.
I’ve seen enough. I’ve spent enough. I’m getting nothing back. It really hurts to say this but if we lose to Tottenham at the weekend I’ll simply see it as another nail in the coffin of that colossal fool Ivan and his cohorts. Believe me, defeat to ‘them’ has never been something that’s taken less than a week for me to get over.
So long as the team manage, by hook or by crook, to scramble a top four finish we’ll never see the end of this dross. I want my Arsenal back. The Arsenal back. The Arsenal that wanted to win trophies and show their fans what they meant to them.
All I feel like is the back end of the cash cow they’re milking. And I would honestly suffer a seriously bad league finish if it meant change would occur. Be it the board, the manager or dare I say it a change of club policy regarding transfers, players contract negotiations and attitudes to competitions?
Written by Bendtnersgone
Hi all. Good bit of moaning and good post and I agree it may get us a change in the top to finish out of CL. I just don’t want us to be like Liverpool.
Sadly when asked by my wife “do I want an Arsenal shirt for Christmas”? I replied I don’t want a shirt of our worst team and there is no Arsenal player’s name that I want on the back. My ma was Portuguese so I said how about a Portugal shirt with the greatest modern day player on the back instead.
Good Morning my Esteeemed Fellow Gunner Conspirators.
Well done for a good post Bendtnersgone.
Bradley……..I suggest you do buy one…..and put either your name on it with your favourite number or else put JENKINSON on it. A true professional who loves the club.
Just a short jump here today. Got a long day ahead.
Morning all,
Good post Bg….
Changes needed that’s for sure, even if for now it’s tactics ahead of the NLD becuase we have to win it….
Long term changes, well until top 4 is missed out on, I’m not sure we’ll see any in the immediate future… annoyingly!
devil,
Jenks, Wilshere, Gibbs, Frimpong, Afobe, Aneke, the list goes on now, true gooners in the camp…
Lets hope they all make it…
bradster why do you need a players name on the back? Its the badge on the front your wife is paying for! Surely you’re not 12 so its shouldn’t be an issue. A portugal shirt with a grease ball on the back?? Pffft.
Keep the faith and remember last year…
But shouldn’t we be aiming higher than a last minute fight for 4th dgoon?
Bradster, as long as you don’t have Ronaldo on the back 😉
Brad – Just get the shirt, stick a number 7 on it and put the name ‘Rocastle’ above it. Can’t go wrong mate.
Oh, and good post BG! Nothing like a Friday mood killer!! haha! Only kidding. Sums up what a lot of people think.
And morning all…..
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4647131/Christian-Benteke-dreams-of-playing-for-Arsenal.html
😛
Problem solved rocky, simples 🙂
Easy as that Rico!
My wife always buys me the latest shorts and puts a number on (generally listens out to someone I have been praising for a while and goes with that) for Christmas. She got me Rambo’s – Badly injured, and he’s been shit of late. She got me AA’s – after that Christmas he was terrible. She got me Merts’ last year and he had shocker after shocker, then got injured! I’m praying she doesn’t get me anyone good’s this year or we’re screwed!
Basically, Arsenal’s downfall isn’t due to Wenger or the board. It’s my wife’s fault. And she’s a Spud fan…..
Evening all.
You guys will not bring me down with your negativity…no chance,never,i will continue to fight it……especially on the eve of a Spuds match.
You are playing into their hands.
You want the players to show some spirit and fight,let us all do the same!
Top of the morning fellow Gooners.
Smile…..it doesn’t hurt….much 🙂
Walcott’s next then Rocky 😉
Every player is going to have a good day tomorrow….
Goodday everyone,
https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/269366556402798593
https://twitter.com/johncrossmirror/status/269366816613216256
You married a Tott fan Rocky, that’s love 😉
Ha ha Scott, when the team show a bit more courage, so will I…
Lead from the front Rico!!
Supporters support……….you know that is my favourite little saying lol
Thing is, Rico, she knows my feelings towards Walcott! She never hears praise from me towards him so I won’t be getting that!
We should be aiming for higher than a last minute agreed Rico but a lot of fans think we have an entitlement to win things. We aren’t in a position to and haven’t got the squad to compete on four fronts. Yes there is blame to be attributed to certain quarters for that very reason there is no dispute about that. At the minute it is just a case of accepting that this is our level. I think we will push on and challenge again in the near future but in no uncertain terms do I think supporting, wanting or feeling the need for a 12th position will have a positive impact in any way shape or form.
Bloomin heck emma, we need a few to pass a fitness test…
Hope that’s Wenger playing games…
My ma was Portuguese so I said how about a Portugal shirt with the greatest modern day player on the back instead.
But Messi is Argentinian.
Big one tomorrow , I really hate this game , if it goes pear shaped it doesn’t bear thinking about.
dgoon – No-one really wants us to finish 12th, or lose just to get a managewr sacked. I think if they do, they have a serious issue. No-one should want their team to fail, regardless of circumstances. Everyone wants AW to prove them wrong. So that can only be a win-win situation surely! He proves us wrong and does us proud – he wins. In doing so he makes us successful again – we all win.
Sorry Scott, I can only do/write/say how I feel…
I expected that Rocky..
dgoon, kind of disagree there a bit. I don’t think we are entitled to win anything, no club is, but as Bg says in the post, the club take take take from the fans but don’t give us too much in return these days.
Just a squad deep enough to compete is all most ask for, a manager who can then play square players in square holes and not round ones. A manager who is oepn to change when things aren’t going right and a squad of players who are willing to fight for the right to wear the shirt…
Oh, and a board who stops allowing our better players to be sold off all too often.
We may not win trophies, but lets at least look like we have the fire power and attitude to want to be winning…
rico – AVB was playing games yesterday as well. So wenger decided to come up with a joker that almost the entire squad needs fitness test and would require more doctors to help him with that
Massive potter, and I read that all totts players who were doubts are all fit. Meanwhile, ours are now doubts, typical….
Rico,the club don’t take,take,take,the board do.
The board are not the club…..Arsenal FC is bigger than that.
Ha ha emma…
I’d really hoped Gibbs was back, annoying he’s not…
You are splitting hairs Scott, the board are the club..
https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/269406862091370498
Glad they are being allowed and checked, don’t need any negative banners tomorrow, we need the whole stadium singing against that lot…
Popping off for a bit, Fido needs some excercise… Laters…
Hi Rico, Emma, Scott, Rocky, Potter and everyone els that I may have missed.
Always a lot of apprehension, and what ifs before the every London Derby, and i have seen many. AVB is probably rubbing his hands at the prospect of meeting Arsenal at the moment, with the amount of goals that we have conceded, through individual errors etc. But hopefully, the enormity of the Derby, will mean something to the players, and they will put a shift in, and surprise many Spuds fans, by beating them at a time when their tails are up.
I fancy a 3-2 win, amid rumours that Wenger has been testing a back 5 defence.
Lets see.
Marinello
Shew, didn’t know I’d cause such a stir with what shirt to get.
I hear more and more players doubtful for tomorrows game.
I heard Arteta and Giroud are now also injured. Is this Wenger’s mind games as well or is it for real?
The flags and banners may well be aimed at the name of their travelling army .
Will i even watch this match? This remains to be seen. Wishing the team good luck.
Foggy out there, struggled to find my way home… 😉
Afternoon all….
Did you miss it?
Giroud looks Ok
https://twitter.com/OsmanZtheGooner/status/269450268263997440
Walcott as well
https://twitter.com/OsmanZtheGooner/status/269450063816826880
Wilshere and OX as well
https://twitter.com/Stuart_PhotoAFC/status/269436816006991872
No emma, no chance… of missing the 5-2 😉
rico – 😉
Good news on the players…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20220153
https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/269460842800640003
Rocky, get No.52 on your shorts….
Problem solved…
Off to eat a bar of cheese….
Btw, Afternoon Gooners…
Bendtner’sGone, that was an excellent and heartfelt post, and i certainly share your disappointment over the way thing’s have gone since we moved from the Marbled Halls…
To a certain degree, the club are to blame, for being so dishonest…
But ticket sales have be the clubs remit, so a few ‘White Lies’ to keep us mug-punters on board, has been the order of the day…
as far as Gazides is concerned, i have changed my opinion on him since the AGM, i do think he cares, and like Wenger, i believe, or i hope, that the club is getting into his blood…
My view on that old fool Hill-Wood remains unchanged….
Whilst Kroenke is, in my view, no better than Hicks & Gillette…
Afternoon everyone. It’s good to get things off your chest once in a while. That said I am trying to find a bright side. We have had worse periods like the tail end of Terry Neill and the Don Howe era. The football wasn’t as good then as it is now so that’s a plus. And we do at least flatter to deceive occasionally unlike back then. That said it was far cheaper to go a watch back then so you didn’t feel so robbed. Oh well, I tried. 🙂
Thanks for posting that Rico.
I want to see Olivier doing this three or four times tomorrow…
http://instagram.com/p/R76n6hF9WT/
And a couple of these as well..
http://instagram.com/p/R76H7jl9V9/
Me too Kev, 3 times would be nice.
A good rant it is too Bg, and hope you feel better 🙂
Sorry Bradster, someone had too…
Just got up Kev ?? 😉
I remember this one like it was yesterday….
Another Classic
The Creme de la Creme
I wouldn’t mind Walcott and Podolski getting a couple each tomorrow.. as well of course…
Yes Rico, i had a bit of a lay-in…. 😉
BG, when i’m feeling a bit p’eed off, i check into You Tube and take a walk down memory lane…
That Highbury pitch, a mud-heep…
I was looking for a couple from the 1930’s for Wath, so he could re-live his youth…. 😀
I remember that 1-0 win over the Spuds.
a mate of mine sneaked a cockeril into the ground and let it go onto the pitch before the game started…
Getting himself chucked out…
Good thinking Kev, I’ve worn the dvd’s out! 😀
That West Ham game BG, pay-back for them knocking us outta the FA Cup the previous season… Alan Taylor on a mud heep of a pitch.
Lucky Bastard…
😆 Kev re Wath, he have your guts for garters
Those videos depress me. In them i see a fluid, dynamic team. In the current side i see rigidity and play. No bueno.
Will, you should have seen some of the football in the rest of those season’s… a couple of them had Arsenal fighting relegation….
Dodgy video for that Newcastle game, but quite a match…
hey guys what’s cracking? is gibbo atleast fit for tomorrow? i dont wanna see tv5 or santos at lb, i might have a seizure. this is a must win folks. COYGS.
Rico, he don’t frighten me, if he wanted to see me behind the bike sheds, he’d probably not turn up……as usual….. 😉
howdy kev, nice videos puts me in the mood to smash some spuds. guess what? i ll be having me some mashed potatoes tonight in anticipation of tomorrow’s massacre of some rotten overdue spuds. COYGS!
Will, saddens me, seeing where we once were and where we are now….
no Gibbs goonie…
😆 Kev..
whoa are you serious maam? so its either tv5 or santos? God help us.
but is dembele still out? i hope that egg head don’t play cause with the way our mid field is playing right now, he’s gonna have a field day.
helloooooooooo is anybody here?
I’m here Stan…..
How’s thing’s in the US of A…?
couldn’t be better kev, just got a raise. i just might see me poor old mama afterall. so how re you kev? how’s london? cold yet?
I’m here too, just scribbling tomorrows post..
Dembele is out i am sure goonie…
TV at Lb I suspect…
but why dont wenger try sagna on the left and jenko on the right? tv5 ll be exposed by that short cuss lennon. am really worried.
Don’t know about London Stan….
On the South-Kent Coast it’s dull, misty, cold and miserable…
But 3 points for the reds tomorrow, and it’ll be sunshine…
now that’s the spirit kev my man. i hope we smash them though cause the team dont inspire confidence in me at all.
Bale on the left, Lemon on the right and Defoe in the middle…
Stop them and stop Spuds…
Anyone know who the ref is?
i ll bet its fergies dog webb……grrrrrr i hate that bald headed prick faced bastard. i wont be suprised if he awards them a “pelanty” too. what a wank.
Howard Webb?
yikes i jinxed it……..are serious kev? is it webb?
That’s what i heard mate, but it could have been a wind-up…
Don’t think we should too hung-up on the ref though Stan….
We’re not gonna get any favours from any of them.
It’s all down to what Arsenal do on the pitch…
We have that too Kev, needed to pop into town to take some ‘stuff’ back, but I’m not driving tonight, can hardly see 25 yards ahead…
Webb will ok, ‘Arry isn’t there any more 😉
Fed up with SS’s showing Wenger telling us he could have signed Ibra…
We have only won 2 of the last 8 NLD’s 🙁
afternoon all
Any important news?
How many draws Rico?
Don’t know Kev, i’ll try and find out….
None JM, other than it’s a NLD tomorrow 😉
Evening all Good post Bendy, and i can tell you are wearing your heart on your sleeve, personally it takes me longer than a week to get over the NLD i hurt till we turn the tables on them but i am not thinking about a loss and you shouldn’t too they are shit as well and they have another mug leading them we’ll win and you can breath easy again
Steve, i love that comment…
Off to get dinner, back shortly….
Steve Palmer; The Voice of Reason… And common sense!
What is all this nonsense about Ibrahimovic..?
So he scores 4 goals in a nothing International, a couple of those goals poorly conceded, and all of a sudden he’s Pele, Cruyff, Maradona, Matthews, di Stefano, Eusebio and Charlie George all rolled into one…..
Talk about hype…
He’s ok, but hardly a world beater, just another over-rated, over-paid, superstar who has one good game in about five….
We’ve had a few of them at Arsenal….
Rico,i am not sure how you could say i was splitting hairs.
If you think the board IS the club,then what are the players and fans?
The board is a masisve part of the club,and obviously influential,but witout players players,staff and fans,Arsenal FC does not exist.
That comment doesn’t make any sense.
In other words,are you suggesting we all follow the board??
Not for me thanks 🙂
Morning all.
Evening AK would you say that if he had our shirt on Yeh i think you would ha ha
Not at £200k per week Steve… 😉
Kev, exactly why i am fed up with SS’s..
Scott, don’t you start coming over all mental on us now, d’ya hear Digger? 😛
Evening Scott, i can tell your up for this weekend tell me your not Nervous 🙂
I’m not even going there Scott..
I’m off for the day guys, catch up tomorrow for the big match …
Have a good one, Night all…
Well i do not support the board.
Me,nervous…..never Steve.
I am full of confidence.
We will roll this mob,as we always do.
Good post BG. I understand how u feel. I dont know how to get us out of this cycle. But i am hoping we can turn this all around, starting with three points this week.
Thanks Steve & Nigel. Just to clear this up for those that may think I want us to finish 12th. I don’t. I was commenting on what it seems it would take to invoke a meaningful change to what’s upsetting most of us. This fixture last season kicked started a decent revival. Here’s to a similar result tomorrow. COYG’S!!!
I’m not nervous either Scott. These boys just need to realize how good they are and just play. Play for the team.
You guys aren’t nervous…ha……I bet you’ll be bricking it come 12.45 tomorrow 😉
COME ON YOU GUNNERS
And goodnight.
Are you away Kev? have a good one.
Lights out all out.
Night gooner faithful.
Glad your feeling confident Scott, personally I’m sweating more than Wath after he’s just found out he’s won a crate of Kaliber in his annual pub raffle.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man! Let’s play like a proper football team and give it to those wankers up the road!!
Morning all…… COYGS!!!!!!!!
Well said that man
Death before dishonour, but in Theo’s case just do your best.
Morning Lee, Steve and all….
Here here Lee…
Steve – you seen the ‘Sterling and Walcott’ swap rumours?
Morning Rico yes i did see that. what i saw of Stirling the other night suggested that he also gets pushed off the ball easily. I would feel that Jenks could do a shift as winger
I would rather see Jenks as CB Steve….
Wenger’s recent comments suggest he’s ready to sell Walcott though don’t they, Sterling is still young and fragile, he’d end up on the fitness table if he joined us 😉
Guys,when do i ever sound hesitant??
I am always confident!!
ALWAYS!!
Go you mighty Gunners,
Arsenal,stick it right up the Spuds,as you always do.
Theo is staying Rico…….
I think your right Wenger seems to have given up on Theo. But in all honesty i don’t think he’s worth 100 grand a week
Hi Scott, I don’t think so, not any more…
Pay him £100k pw and then if you sell him next season or whenever you’ll get more dough for him! It’s a no brainer?!?!
Wenger has been saying that this is the closest those wankers have got since he’s been at The Arsenal….well you twats stop selling our best players and replacing them with kids, inferior players or non PL ready players!!! The difference in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 squads is sad indictment of what’s going on at Arsenal….
Man up you fuckers and lets give it to those tossers….
Neither do I Steve, but then I don’t think footballers are worth what they are being paid today in any case….
Ah, I see you feel similar to me this morning Lee….
He’s input is greater than JD and the Squilster (sorry Adam) but they get paid £100k people between them…..just a thought!!
Agree totally Lee, how the club can moan about players demands and then pay rubbish players £50k + is beyond me…
New Post up
Lee,is his input 3 times Jenks though??