Question for Arsenal fans

The fact that Arsenal are 30 points back, whether it’s to us or anyone else is just laughable, IMO

That’s the invincibles year, yeah?

I have never even looked at that table.

Regardless, the past is shite. If you want to dwell on that, be a Mexican Dallas Cowboys fan. That’s all they do.

Here's the pat on the back you so desperately are craving.

:patsback:

Well the sport changed in a massive way in 2005, with the offside rule, which said that the a player is offside only if he touches the ball or is in a position to potentially touch the ball. This changed the rule from the one before you were offside if you were beyond the second to last defender and were deemed to have gained an advantage by being in that position.

What this meant was that strikers could lounge in offside positions with no regard to team shape, whereas before they had to be actively involved in the team shape in order to receive a pass legally. This prevented high pressure systems from using the offside trap to negate midfield through balls, and sent defenses deeper. This created more space in midfield, inviting a third midfielder rather than a second striker, moving the game to one where the possession game was very important against low-block defenses.

This negated the offside trap that Wenger was used to, and he tried to develop different systems. This also coincided with the aging of the team and the construction of the new stadium. That Wenger has not been able to adapt is more weird than our position in the table. He did in fact adapt with Fabregas, but he hasn't rebuilt our midfield correctly, nor does he seem to get how to position players in the low block, which is the system we should go to.

Absent of those 2005 changes, he could have still built a functional team that would have been more competitive than we were post-2004. The near misses made Wenger more stubborn rather than thoughtful, and his stubbornness has been his downfall.

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I have never even looked at that table. Regardless, the past is shite

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Boy you back tracked on the premise of this thread in a hurry.

Wahhhhh someone is talking shite on Tkgerdroppings!!

Keep my plate warm, Mom!! Imm gonna Show this guy!

I'm not going to say that wouldn't help, but Arsenal is going nowhere until Wenger is gone. He would not win the league with City's squad this season.

He did try. Diaby was his attempt, and injuries derailed him. He also did really poorly with the Lass Diarra situation, as Diarra would have filled a midfield gap for us after Flamini left. And frankly, the 2007-08, 2009-10, 2013-14 and 2014-15 teams were very good and were maybe a player or two away from actually winning the title. And we challenged for the title in 2010-11 as well. Injuries, poor squad players, and a lack of the right sort of depth really hurt us then.

I like it when u talk technical bb