Sentences with phrase «paper over the cracks in»

All Wenger has done for the last nine years is to paper over the cracks in our team and squad.we are Arsenal FC and we should be not just competing for trophies but winning them on a regular basis.unfortunately our manager is now too old and to stubborn to change and he refuses to listen or ask for help.

After doing a brilliant job of papering over the cracks in recent weeks the real Arsenal turned up (or should I say didn't turn up) in the final ever North London derby at White Hart Lane.

While the side have been able to paper over the cracks in many of their matches so far this season thanks to goals from midfield (Hazard has notched eight thus far, Shurrle three and Oscar six), they could find themselves exposed at the Emirates on Monday.

A lot can be said of the injury situation at the club, however, that only papers over the cracks in the style of play that is hindering United from blowing teams like West Ham away.

Martin Horwood, undeterred by the Tories surrounding him, says the bill is «papering over the cracks in the Conservative party itself».

The damning report could not come at a worse time for Duncan Smith, who has recently lost a legal appeal on his back - to - work programme and been accused of misusing statistics to paper over the cracks in his policy agenda.

«What a disgrace that the fool's errand of Brexit embarked on to paper over cracks in the Conservative party has resulted in hate crime on our streets.»

Its political commentary can be occasionally simplistic, but also offers important messages around cultural tolerance, and the strong performances of the film's leads paper over any cracks in the film, bringing Mullin's gentle romantic comedy to life.

If possible, time and effort should be implemented at the planning stage to ensure any renovation, repair or addition to a school's environment is something that will enhance it for the foreseeable future, and not paper over the cracks in the short term.

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It can not simply involve papering over the obvious cracks in order to return to gospel business as usual.

And I don't mean «let's paper over the cracks here» or pretend we're happy when we're not, I mean Christianity is surely about saying, yep, some of us are going through excruciating pain but God never claimed we wouldn't, but throughout that pain I'm going to rest in God and trust there is better to come outside this life.

This has happened before, season after season, but 4th always kinda papered over the cracks and we never truly addressed the fact how far behind we've fallen in terms of training, tactics, scouting, wage negotiations and so on.

Instead FA Cups and 4th place finishes have been papering over the cracks for years and keeping fanbase satisfied while Liverpool get Klopp, play great football, and Spurs overtake us in our precious top 4 spot.

A point might please a lot of Arsenal supporters but for me it papers over a lot of cracks in the structure at Arsenal.

The manager's job) it's all just a discussion about how to paper - over the cracks in the short - term.

Under 23 players look good and many now getting a run out in first team So we are in transition finally rather than papering over the cracks If we get either Malcolm or Auba then its been a good window with new and younger players coming in for Sanchez Waclott and Giroud

All in all, with these guys in charge, we are only papering over the cracks, the only clubs that made it to the latter stages of the Champions League last season were either owned by the fans, sugar daddies or family owned, go figure.

Okay a one off win at City is good but it's paper over the cracks and we constantly have pathetic injuries because our players can't last the course, the whole team is pitiful in many aspects.

Our strong end to the season somewhat papered over other cracks in our squad.

They have, if we are being honest been bloody awful and a couple of wins in the Europa League (that many on this forum have written off as being a joke tournament in the past) is just papering over the cracks.

That result — against a team confident of being in the Premier League next season — provided the Gunners with a much - needed confidence boost, but it merely papered over the cracks, which are wide and deep.

The FA cup is papering over the cracks no matter how much people slate me in the comments.

Cazorla alongside Coquelin papers over some of the cracks but it still leaves us top heavy and light in the middle.

Lets not even contemplate this might be the thing that kicks us back on track, as even a win at Wembley in the final would merely paper over the cracks.

look man i understand that you say ozil in the middle means no protection or less than adequate but ozil will be CAM and he is close to scoring a tap - in rather than giving shield to arteta who is an unreliable source and does not deserve the captaincy, wenger only gave it to him cause he gave the players some papering over the cracks statements after the Liverpool, chelsea and man city match and the player does not even have a cap for the national team Wenger may have seen this as a player who can play in and out with no internationals regardless of his qualities on the pitch and the main reason why he sold vermaelen who would have done decent job at CDM and then all that fluid style that arsene thinks he can play dictate «arrogance»!

Alaba would paper over a lot of the cracks that Arsenal have suffered in defence for the last ten years, and with fellow defenders in Mustafi, Bellerin and Gabriel the Gunners would have a huge standard of defenders for years to come.

However, his signing, and his 7 goals in the season, served only to paper over the cracks of United's midfield, as they were still left without a Defensive midfield presence, that van Gaal's system harks for.

Since the injuries to Santi Cazorla, Francis Coquelin and Alexis Sanchez, Arsenal's results haven't been disasterous, and there have been some very good wins in that run of games, but the team has looked more vulnerable, and the midfield partnership between Mathieu Flamini and Aaron Ramsey has been a very thin piece of paper over a rather substantial crack.

But a tie with a powder - puff Leeds team would only paper over the cracks and as October arrived, the ability to occasionally cling on to a draw gave way to a portentous run of defeats — boss Steve Smith finally losing his job and being replaced by a big name manager in Malcolm Macdonald, a promising helmsman indeed in an earlier spell at Fulham, previously chronicled in these pages.

There are cracks appearing in the manager's philosophy that can't be papered over any more.

Argentina's loss showed just how many cracks having the best player in the world can paper over.

With discontent growing ever louder around Arsenal, the FA Cup can no longer paper over the cracks appearing in the team and in the fan base.

So while there is no co-ordinated economic strategy in place the best any government can do is paper over the cracks.

In a speech arguing for major reform to the welfare system, the Prime Minister said the current system encouraged «papering over the cracks», instead of making the «fundamental reforms» needed.

But director and co-writer Nadine Labaki's storytelling is impeccable in the story proper, and the film attains a real emotional sweep, enough to paper over technical cracks and excuse the odd lurch into sentimentalism.

As a result the movie feels delicate and presents certain flatness in its structure, like cracks that have been papered over and held together with superglue so that it may be sold to the public quick, before anyone notices that it's broken.