by bodacious benny » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:42 am
krully wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:26 am
I wish we were enjoyable to watch
I missed the entertainers years, but early 2000s under Sir Bobby with Solano and Robert on the wings, Speed and Dyer in midfield and Shearer/Bellamy up-front was decent
Andy Griffin scoring the winner v Juventus, a 2-2 in the San Siro, Shearer hattrick against Leverkusen, that game against Feyenoord
Plenty of exciting league games too, remember a 4-3 win at Leeds when they were one of the top teams, beating Man U 4-3 at SJP with a Robert screamer, winning our first away game in London in a century away to an excellent Arsenal team (3-1 I think) - some great memories. Of course there were some awful performances too, but it was entertaining to watch us.
As someone said, if you're a young fan now what do you have to get excited about? Grinding out a 1-0 win against someone like Palace at home? We still pull off the odd upset like when we beat Man C 2-1 and that was amazing (more so for the drama rather than the excitement of us playing well) but the legacy of the Ashley era may well be a lost generation of fans who simply got bored of being bored...
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I wish we were enjoyable to watch 🦆
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I missed the entertainers years, but early 2000s under Sir Bobby with Solano and Robert on the wings, Speed and Dyer in midfield and Shearer/Bellamy up-front was decent <awe>
Andy Griffin scoring the winner v Juventus, a 2-2 in the San Siro, Shearer hattrick against Leverkusen, that game against Feyenoord <awe>
Plenty of exciting league games too, remember a 4-3 win at Leeds when they were one of the top teams, beating Man U 4-3 at SJP with a Robert screamer, winning our first away game in London in a century away to an excellent Arsenal team (3-1 I think) - some great memories. Of course there were some awful performances too, but it was entertaining to watch us.
As someone said, if you're a young fan now what do you have to get excited about? Grinding out a 1-0 win against someone like Palace at home? We still pull off the odd upset like when we beat Man C 2-1 and that was amazing (more so for the drama rather than the excitement of us playing well) but the legacy of the Ashley era may well be a lost generation of fans who simply got bored of being bored...
