09 Apr 2015 11:52:19
Hind sight is a wonderful thing but looking back do you think finishing 4th last season would have been better than being runners up.
I know it sounds like a strange thing to say but 4th would have been steady positive progress without raising expectations to a virtually unsustainable level overnight.
Of course everyone wants to win things but it seems to me without hundreds of millions to spend season after season on fees and wages steady but sure process is better than a sudden boom that almost always leads to bust

1.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 12:21:44
Spoken like a true gooner! Happy with 4th everyear with nothing else ;) I think we all realised we finished 2nd in an awful quality league last year and losing our only world class player without replacing him with all the other teams improving/ getting back to their usual quality & us having the extra games and the loss of the quality all expected to finish lower than last season, it was a 1 off freak of nature and we should have won the league. I'd say we're back to normal but we should expect and try to be better. Brendan isn't the man to bring that. Change it find someone that is. Who it is idk but it's not him

2.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 12:22:20
It's not a strange thing to say. It's a silly thing to do. The higher you finish the better it is. The fact that we failed to build on it is a separate issue

3.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 12:33:16
In hindsight finishing 1st last year would have been better than runners up. It would have raised expectations even higher for this season but I still would take it.

4.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 13:12:40
I like the happy with 4th gunners bit harry :-) we certainly made a habit of it that's for sure, of course every team finishers as high as it possiblely can each season but personally I do think long term something steady and sustainable would have been better for you than a massive leap from 7th to 2nd in a season that was never going to be maintained and could only ever lead people being disappointed.

5.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 14:32:18
Love you to death, gunner bro BUT pls, keep that comment well clear of here because 4th in the end is NOTHING if you have dominated European and English footie as we have for almost 2 decades. It is rhetoric like that that make Arsenal the laughing stock of many and the reason why your club will NEVER win the CL and will continue to be left behind in the PL and never win it as well with that type of attitude. You were top last season and still finished 4th. That should be failure at any big club BUT to many of the fans, it`s a trophy. We should have won the PL last year hands down and you had a chance as well to win it and had you won it and struggled for 4th this year, would you say that? Didn`t think so hence,

6.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 15:05:08
Some of you are being a bit harsh I think, what Gunner is saying kind of makes sense. In terms of our expectations of this season, if we had scraped 4th last season, clinging on to the hope of top 4 this year would be easier. I don't know about you guys but the devastation of coming second outshone the achievement of nearly winning the league. I felt like we had every reason to be hopeful of a title challenge this year, and I trusted BR to build on what we achieved last year. That didn't really happen which makes this season all the more frustrating. Finishing 5th, wouldn't be so bad if it was BR's first season have previously finished outside EL spots. Now I'm (sort of) over the disappointment of not winning the league, I can appreciate that 2nd is a pretty decent achievement when looking at our competition, I think everyone is all the more disappointed at our lack of title challenge this year.

7.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 15:16:00
This season would be no better if last season was worse. The average would just be even lower. That's the only difference.

8.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 16:05:33
I do think if you'd finish 4th last season instead of going so close lots of things would have been different this season and you'd still be looking to repeat it and be in next years CL too.
The panic over Saurez wouldn't have been so urgent without so much expectation around the place and possibly (I'm not sure on this one) but maybe some of your transfers would never have happened at all.

9.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 20:18:10
There was no panic over Suarez because we all knew he was a goner after the WC. It was the manager that messed up with his "kid in the candy store" approach to transfers instead of being much more focused on how we needed to replace not the player, but his goals as well as plan for studge`s annual 10 game absences. The expectations were also raised by said manager as well with his mindless drivel in the media which may end up being the source of his demise because his failures are well documented. Why finish 4th when you can win the PL outright?

10.) 09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015 22:33:42
redohio,lol,you slag of arsenal calling them a laughing stock who will never win the prem or CL,and then you say 4th is nothing for a club of liverpools stature as you have dominated european and english football for almost 2 decades,i don't know if its your delusional red tinted glasses your wearing again or if its the medication,but the last time i checked it was 25 years since liverpool dominated anything,this is exactly why people poke fun at liverpool supporters

11.) 10 Apr 2015
10 Apr 2015 17:00:02
Good post the word that clearly highlights what fans of teams like Arsenal seem not to get. Arsenal would have no-one poking fun of them if they didn't think they are winning. The fact that they call 'not winning' winning is what's so funny. There are other things funny about Liverpool true, but at least by and large the majority seem to recognise that you can do well till you're blue in the face - until that doing well becomes an actual win you're not winning. Earning the right to try again doesn't count.

12.) 10 Apr 2015
10 Apr 2015 21:00:51
There is no doubt that by finishing 2nd expectations were raised far more than if we had finished 4th and scraped it on the last day.