Definitely not this militant, but it does annoy me. I'm beginning to see the arm waves as an admission that the players are out of ideas. - ThreadSky

cartoonstevebould.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Definitely not this militant, but it does annoy me. I'm beginning to see the arm waves as an admission that the players are out of ideas.

Reposted from WestStandTone

All that waving their arms around that our players do at the crowd really pisses me off.

No, you fucking up your performance.

It’s you that’s the fucking problem, not me.

I’m here doing my job.

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tim-stillman.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t think we should take it personally, players are under stress and that brief lift can work. I see it as a compliment that we’re seen as valuable.

cartoonstevebould.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's a very nice way of seeing it. I dunno, though, we see it so often that I do fear the crowd is expected to put the players over the top.

tim-stillman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nah we’re the ones overthinking it. How much conscious thought do you think is going through Odegaard’s head in that moment? It’s just trying to get a two second lift when he’s afraid things will die. I’d be more worried about the captain doing nowt.

tim-stillman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Put it this way, he’s always done it. But have you ever seen anyone pick it out when we win or we’re playing well?

tim-stillman.bsky.social•1 day ago

When we don’t win we properly go fishing for things that are wrong. We didn’t play well cos we have four big attackers injured, not cos the captain does what he always does with the crowd. It’s fishing.

emmanuellaine.bsky.social•1 day ago

I agree, it is not rocket science. It is a team that is stretched beyond its limits. I could not care about PGMOL or any players to blame today. That's not on them. They do what they can and we have to appreciate it at the very least

cartoonstevebould.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, I'm not saying the players looking to the fans is *the problem*. I think of it as potentially symptomatic of the problem, I guess.

cartoonstevebould.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ask @notthatstevenash.bsky.social, it's been on my radar forever... but I mostly talk shit.

tim-stillman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did you pick it out last year when we were pretty fucking great? Cos he was doing it then.

cartoonstevebould.bsky.social•1 day ago

I absolutely know what you're saying Tim, and God knows I bow to your greater judgement on this, but........

Does any team do it as much as we do under Arteta?

tim-stillman.bsky.social•1 day ago

And we’ve been quite good in that time, no? Like, no it didn’t happen under late era Wenger or under Emery. I don’t see that as a great validation. Aubameyang didn’t do it but you know what? He was a crap captain.

cartoonstevebould.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think this is definitely more a thing that annoyed me becoming relevant than it was a relevant thing that annoyed me becoming noticed. But, yeah, I just have this thing about the onus put on the crowd to elevate the team when I feel like the team could maybe just attack better on its own.

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