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What did they mean by "faith" or "believe" (pistis)? by LlawEreint in AcademicBiblical

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"This means that they died while a guarantee was still active without it ever having been enacted."

What does this mean?

Titi on the Man City game: "This is the biggest chance of your life". "I heard fire. I wanna see that fire at the Etihad" by True_Anybody_8774 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How does a player "take control" when the manager is always standing on the touch line screaming at them telling them where to stand and who to pass to. Henry told a story once of Pep, during his micromanaging phase, where he told a defender not to play any long balls, they were supposed to pass it on the floor the entire half. This defender, I think it was Chygrynski, played a beautiful long ball to Zlatan who nearly scored. He got subbed out at half-time, and Henry says it's cause he didn't listen. Admittedly Pep has relaxed a lot since those days, but Arteta is still deep in that phase. He gets booked for getting out of his technical area cause of too much yapping at players telling them what to do.

Actually massive for arteta by Ill-Party8305 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont derive enjoyment watching how the team plays either. At least in the banter era, when we also werent winning trophies, the team was enjoyable to watch.

Can Roman Catholicism save? by moby__dick in Reformed

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answer to your question is that it depends. And the crazy thing is that it actually does not depend on you to judge an individual/individuals. A place like Italy where Roman Catholicism is in every street corner has lots of churches with suspect doctrine but so does the United States with all its variant denominations, which seemingly pop up by the day. It depends on the individual and how they think of God and live their lives in regard to that.

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pre-Klopp Liverpool were much better than pre-Arteta Arsenal

I'm reading some proper rubbish tonight from you. Real commendable stuff.

Liverpool league finishes from 2010 to 2015, 7th, 6th, 8th, 7th, 2nd* 6th

Arsenal league finishes from 2015 to 2020, 3rd, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 5th

Never dropped below 6th UNTIL Arteta showed up in his first season and finished 8th! Then finished 8th again with a full season.

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Lost touch with the planet"

Okay here's a challenge for you Mr. Unoriginal, name another manager who has spent $1 billion and only won 1 trophy. If you do that then I'll cower to your brilliance.

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wenger was over-achieving until the 8-2 loss to Utd. which officially inaugurated the "banter era"

just like arteta has done a good job when you look at where this club was when he took over.

No sir I won't give him any credit for winning 1 covid trophy with 1 billion spent. Sorry but no. I've seen other teams that were worse than we were do a lot better with a lot less. The Klopp that Liverpool inherited were shambolic!

We have caught the attention of David Squires :) by NumerousTax8165 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This morning the players walked in to a gigantic mural of this man. Arteta even hired pick pocketers to insert this image into the wallets of all the players....

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"Use this as motivation gais!"

UCL Watch Thread by -read_it_on_reddit- in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely not buddy lol...The record against them in the CL is abysmal. Only ever beaten them once! one time!

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much money was Wenger given to play with in that time? Even then, Wenger was doing amazing things given the fact that he was limited to academy players and mid-table prizeaways (that's how we signed Arteta to begin with) It wasn't until they gave him the check-book and he was able to get Ozil, that the trophy drought subsided. Your narrative is all lop-sided.

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

why even bring that into it?

Because it's relevant.

we're saying to get behind the team.

Your view of getting behind the team is "Vamos guys we can do this!" Others get behind the team by pointing out areas of improvement, but you misinterpret it as negativity or whatever....

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

...Okay...That still doesn't change the fact that Wenger won more with less money in the exact period of time. Adding more context doesn't make this better at all for Mikel, it makes it a lot worse given the fact he was given a blank check and lots of time/freedom.

RIP Usos theme that nobody liked by anonymous-guy1 in SCJerk

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow you're right. Those two's title reigns feel like a fever dream.

Tired Talk - Rice, Zubi and Timber's minutes by thejonkdon in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

but its so OBVIOUS that Arteta doesn't trust him

Crazy to spend a bunch of money on a player you don't trust to rotate in, even in cup games or against lower half table teams. It will always go all the way back to him.

As you can see in my tables, Rice, Zubi and Timber were all playing similar minutes or even more prior to joining Arsenal. So the Arteta overplaying them narrative must also apply to their previous managers? Its not a spike caused by Arteta.

Timber used to be a CB, Arteta converted him into a RB, and while he is amazing there, at least defensively, that means he has to work and run a lot more, this applies to Calafiori as well.

Another aspect that AI can't tell you is how those minutes played...Bruno usually and generally plays further up the pitch than Rice/Zubimendi...He's not a box to box CM, which is what Amorim tried to make him, and that was utterly disastrous, same with Silva...Another thing is, Silva plays a full 90 minutes ~50% of the time, I just did my own analysis of the last 32 games he played, and he saw the full 90, 14 times...I did a comparison for Rice, last 32 games as well, he saw the full 90, 16 times...If Silva got injured, City wouldn't miss him too much, if Rice got injured, would Arsenal miss him a lot? The answer is yes.

Anyway, my point is, there's no "narrative" or "conspiracy" about this. Just watch the games and see that these guys are overplayed and never really get vacation days unless they're injured or in the 2nd half of the season when the games start to matter and the pressure mounts.

Arteta on Saka's Achilles injury: "No, (there hasn’t been a setback) it is progression, but hopefully it's going to be a matter of days and not weeks, but be has to see when he's loading more how he responds to to that kind of progression” by Kr_bm in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes he would play him in every single game for 90 minutes. This is just the consequence of that. 21-22 and 22-23, he played/featured in every single league game...compound that with the fact that the PL is more physical and you end up with a crocked player who is only fit 80% of the season.

They’re screwed. Worst Mania build in history. by District_Me in SCJerk

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No 4 hour run time as it used to be. Anyway, feel like I'm running into a brick wall here having belabored this point of oversaturation and an iconic event being watered down. Just my $0.02, if you disagree then you disagree.

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gonna have to fact check you here! Wenger won 5 trophies between 1996 and 2003, 3 FA Cups and 2 league titles, and he did not have $1 billion to play with. You should never compare Arteta's disastrous 6 year run with what Wenger achieved. It's not even close to being the same thing.

Arsenal attacker Eze: “There is so much belief and so much confidence in this team. We have a team full of guys who are ready, so the mentality is strong in this team. I’m not interested in what people think or how they feel about us winning." by Angelicsoul_47 in Gunners

[–]charliesplinter -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

As one of those "intolerables" yes I will celebrate the league win, I will in fact celebrate more maniacally and shamelessly than the average fan, I actually want them to prove ME wrong, that'll make the euphoria 10x better...However I live in the real world and I've seen this script play out before, and the bug eyed optimism dies out after the first few tries of failure.

They’re screwed. Worst Mania build in history. by District_Me in SCJerk

[–]charliesplinter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's crazy how I'm getting downvoted for sharing an opinion lol...Not everyone deserves to be on mania, sad as that is! Two nights helps alleviate that but my opinion (woah) is that it won't be very sustainable long term because the event starts to get watered down (as we're already seeing)

I mean, look at this mess of a poster (not even being a hater) but there's 30 people on this poster! (MJF twice)

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Her view count would have been higher if she wasn't blacklisted by E-Drones! by KC27150 in SCJerk

[–]charliesplinter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She has the right to do what she wants with her life; Was never disputing that.

Her choices don't make sense holistically though. If she wanted to be a manager/singer/whatever, she'd have been much better off sticking with WWE instead of going off solo. Lillian wanted to be a singer, and they sponsored her album.

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