This should be moved into Arsenal Talk I reckon.
Five years ago we were already complaining that all the "debates" had been had ...
As well as the disappointment of this season, the fact we haven't changed our manager—or our level of investment or even our approach to the league season much in relative terms—means there's often not much to talk about other than the lack of change itself.
We have our own vocabulary for the fluctuations of our season and the quirks of our approach: the Prize™, the race for fourth, the round of sixteen exit, the March collapse, how we wouldn't want to "kill" X, Y or Z ...
None of this is too controversial, I think. Any Arsenal supporter for the last decade has been a spectator of football homeostasis. The club's dynamic is to absorb and accommodate external change factors like increased TV rights income, while ensuring the constancy of outcomes like no other football club in history.
Every year we don't win. Every year we qualify for the Champions League. Every year, we lose a player or two, we add a player or two, we spend incrementally more money, but never enough to change the fundamentals. And so on, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
There's other ways of looking at it, more optimistic ways, or ways that focus more on the happy individual moments on the pitch, but this is certainly one way. And since it's the long term reality a gooner inhabits, it's perhaps unsurprising debate and banter are at a low ebb ...
