Southampton (h) - Instant Reaction

The problems at this club run deeper than on-pitch performances. This is where players go to get overpaid and underperform. Until 50% of this current squad is out and replaced by players with real intent to perform - nothing will change.

Why did we have two center backs and Cedric on the bench? Smith-Rowe should have been in on of those spots.

I managed to listen to18 minutes of that podcast. Clive must be a saint for managing to participate for 50.

We haven’t won a game in two months not sure how you could possibly say he’s over reacting. Nowhere in the “process” are we meant to fall so far behind before we go again

In the first 6 months arteta got the whole squad on board, and many senior players bought in because they knew their reputation was on the line. After the summer though, we didn’t clear out the deadwood by all means necessary. That’s definitely played a part in the toxic atmosphere.. too many chefs! And besides why would majority of these players fight for champions league football when they’re already on champions league wages!? Arteta has to start drip feeding the hale end talent into the first 11 starting with amn. He still has buy in with those players

“This draw is stopping the rot” - only if results improve from here. If we lose to Everton and Chelsea or struggle to score a single goal, I guarantee that this result will have completely different optics.

Spot on Soji. If you taking social media as the gauge, then yes you do need to steer clear. Especially if your prone to the odd over reaction. (Cough) Elliott 😉. Love ya passion though

Jeez Elliot, stay away from the knife draw. As Clive said small steps. Buckle up mate, gonna be a bumpy ride ahead for a while yet. Think your over reacting. We'll take a point at this point anyway anyhow.

agree Elliot. shambles. this shows the level of the club at this point. low to midtable, threat for relegation. for clubs with aspirations of top 4 or league title, a draw is tantamount to a loss. i agree with Clive, too though, stop the rot. but nothing is going to change until the dross leaves the club. some of these players are just not good enough

I agree with Elliot assessment here. Absolutely diabolical performance with 10 men

It genuinely makes me sad that we’re celebrating a draw against Southampton. We’ve become a Europa league team on a champions league budget fighting for mid-table

Completely agree with you Elliot. I’d encourage people to try waking up at 4am like I have to and watch this sort of football. People wouldn’t be as forgiving

Same here (on Apple Podcast app) - the new episode isn’t showing in the feed for me either.

Tom Laverick

I just can’t accept a situation where we try to kill off a game by bedding down in our box and hoping for the best

Agreed

That’s fair. Although we played better against Burnley I think

Yeah thanks. I just think tonight was the first time in this run where I thought we looked like a small club.

My friend is a saints fan, I told him he should see a point as a poor result. He couldn't see it, but for Southampton this was shit, all they had to do was sit in their own box when they scored. They should have got us offside on the goal, they had us down to 10 men, we put in about 50% effort at best, Southampton dropped points today.

I agree with Elliott. We look bad. Our players look scary. Every player looks less composed than ever. No one can look at our shape today and tell me this is sustainable. This has to change. I am sorry to say that but the sooner Arteta goes, the better. It doesn't look it will get better soon.

This might be a reach but I find it interesting Aubameyang and others apologised for todays game but not Burnley. It's alot easier to come out and say you want to do better when you got the goal or assist that secured us the point. It covers alot of the criticism they may have got otherwise. Without the goal as a shield they seem to hide away from criticism and i think it shows a bit of fear from them.

Cai

Elliot I am BEGGING you, please keep this energy, you’re 100% right this result moved us from 15th to 15th this didn’t stop any rot. I feel like some arsenal fans have lost all touch with reality. We haven’t won a game in 8. Where are we with the expectations of this football club?

It’s bad but it stops the rot. Ps. For your health Elliott social media is never a good ref point :-)

My podcast app downloaded the Nov 2019 episode. Just me?