No matter what happens I have to give him at least four weeks’ holiday. The [Under-21] tournament finishes at the end of June so he won’t come back until the end of July. That means he will not be ready to play at the start of August or maybe at the beginning of September.
That is what Arsene Wenger has told our club website, if that’s for real then I hope England get knocked out early, Jack comes home and gets his rest prior to next season! 😉
Surely the same time has to be given to Kieran Gibbs and Henri Lansbury too so if reports are true and our squad is to be trimmed this summer, three players out for the first month is not good is it and that is without any other hic-cups during pre-season!! I guess we will have to worry about that when it comes around.
On to todays big game at Stoke City, the home of rough and tough tactics enforced by Tony Pullis!
It’s the place that Aarron Ramsey suffered a double fracture in his lower right leg following a brutal assault committed by Ryan Shawcross.
Today Ramsey faces them again for the first time!
Today it’s time for revenge, not physically but by getting three points!
We play first today, after that there is a little match going on at Old Trafford, a game we need to be drawn to stay in with a shout for the title, well, more like a whisper really but should the Mancs win, and we get our three points, we can still get second place.
Second place would be good wouldn’t it, not so that Wenger and the board can bleat on about ‘how good it is to be second in such a difficult league’ but it would mean no Champions League qualifying matches next season.
We know Cesc Fabregas, Diaby and Samir Nasri are missing for today’s fixture, Ramsey steps in for Fabregas and no doubt Arshavin will replace Nasri as he did last weekend against the Mancs.
Thomas Vermaelen has been declared fit and ready to play so the only question will be whether he starts or just makes the bench.
The rest I’ll leave to Wenger 😉
Let’s just show heart, show guts, show passion for Arsenal and show all fans how much OUR club means – especially today to the away fans who follow OUR club through thick and thin this season and there’s been plenty on the thin side hasn’t there.
Go get three points guys and do yourselves proud again, just like you did against the Mancs…..
Finally:
I’d like to give a small mention to a small club, Tottingham Hotspur – having completed their first season in the Champions League and doing so well it seems the league form has suffered somewhat. Following their 1-1 draw at home to Blackpool yesterday we are certain of Champions League next season, they however will probably not!
Also,they cannot catch us in the Premier League, let alone overtake us – maybe now Harry will realise how hard it is to compete at the top.….
Happy St Totteringham’s Day to every Gooner – may you all celebrate 50 years of their failure !!
That’s it for today, have a good one…..
Morning Rico.
JJ made some good points last night/early morning, about Everton Vs Man City. Wonder if that doyen of stylish football Pulis garnered any ideas about roughing up City in the Cup final? Me thinks 90mins of aerial attacks on Kompany & company at Wembley.
Morning kev, was just spreading my marmite 🙂
Who do you want to win the final, Stoke?
Citeh must be pretty cheesed off, all that money spent, no doubt more will be spent this summer and right now they are not guaranteed CL football next season…
You know, the rest of the football world, outside of these islands, must think it’s hilarious when they see the likes of Stoke prosper in our football.
What does Pulis bring to the table? Football bordering on the edge of physical assault, unacceptable aggression and just good old fashioned violence. Makes ya proud to be British!
You know Rico, i accept that fans don’t want to see financially doped clubs like Cittie win anything. But i’m sure we don’t really want to see a bunch of thugs like Stoke win anything either. So for me, it’ll be ‘Play up City’
This season finishing 2nd is nothing to be happy about.The standard of the top 3 teams has been poor.Anyone of those teams who played anywhere true to their real form would have won the tile by 20 pts.We won 1 game in 7 yet are still within touching distance.Will we ever get a better chance?i doubt it
Marmite????? You either love it, or hate it. I luv it, but it’s porridge for me this morning.
How’s Fido?
i have a question if wenger doesnt buy anyone till the season starts and we are again with same team buys a unkown french defender n another mediocre midfielder !!!Will there again be that much enthusiasm to the next season by the fans who are angry with him?
Phew, i thought you were hoping for a stoke win… I’d rather they were just below West Ham…
Hi Graham, trust me, very few bloggers here are happy with 2nd place, our rise then the fall has been a disgrace…
hi arsenal fan – there will always be a group who will back wenger regardless and nothing will change their view but for me its a summer last saloon if that makes sense.
I love it kev, especially with marmalade 🙂 Bit of a porridge fan myself but went for the lazy option…
Fido is just tip top thanks 🙂
I have snatched this from AshburtonGrove
The Sunday Times has released it’s annual Rich List and there are a number of people within the top 1,000 wealthiest people in the UK who have Arsenal connections.
The clubs second biggest shareholder Usmanov comes in second, ahead of Roman Abramovich. The Uzbek is valued at £12.4 billion.
anyway hope we defeat stoke n ramsey scores the winner it will be great!!!yesterday mtch between spuds n blackpool was a comedy of errors thanks to their keeper!one thing for sure atleast one keeper is worse than almunia
AFC fan. It all depends how we start the season. We can’t help ourselves getting caught up in the excitement, but in the back of our minds we’ll suspect that they’ll be another Easter collapse if Wenger doesn’t strengthen.
Graham, my worst ever season remains 1979-80 when AFC lost two cup finals. But this is definately ‘The One That Got Away’ re; the League.
Marmalade???????
I’d love Ramsey to get the winner too, mind you i don’t care who gets the winner as long as we get one…
Yep kev, M&M on white toast, mutts nutts 😉
Rico, you seem convinced that ‘The Uzbek’ is gonna take over? Not sure myself, but it wouldn’t really suprise me i suppose.
Mutts nutts, ha ha.
Yep that would be sweet to see Aaron stuff it down their throats.
I am convinced kev, this interim is all about making money imho…
Good to see Benik Afobe score for Huddersfield again yesterday. It would be great for him [and us] if Town get to Wembley and get promoted. Then he could do another year with them, this time in the Championship.
The Sunday People link Denilson with a move to Sevilla or Roma
🙂
Hmmm that would be total ballcocks, because it may mean a few more years of zero investment in the team. Where’s David Dein when you need him….
At least then we’d have a few more medal winners kev 😉
Norwich got promoted yesterday – good for Lansbury
I have a sneaky feeling that Afobe will be part of the CC Campaign next season, what is he now 17/18?? Same with Chuks
Happy Days Rico. Will he be missed by anyone????
Usmanov & Dein had dinner together at the Orange Tree, Totteridge.
Obviously still close …but obviously wanted to be seen !
Afobe/Aneke are both 18
Delighted for Lansbury, really hope Wenger integrates him into the squad next season Rico.
Doubles, when did this occur mate?
No he won’t be missed, just glad that clubs are interested and a move is on the cards, he hasn’t played for ages, surely he’ll want out…
Thats interesting DG, wonder why they wanted to be so public, i really do think the pair will be back….
not saying i want that to happen, just think it might…
Allezkev:
2 weeks ago. Spotted by my Goon mate who works behind the bar.
Me too re Lansbury, can’t wait to see him back in red and white and playing where he belongs…
It’ll be like having Ray Parlour back in our squad…
Wilshere saw off Denilson, maybe Lansbury & Bartley will see off a couple more wallies out of the squad.
I’m offski for awhile, may try some Marmite & marmalade, hehe.
DG, cheers mate, Dein returning would be a great day for me, see ya later Gooners
Have a good day kev, catch you later…
I hate this media fascination of Pulis and his “good, old fashioned English football”. I am sorry, I remember those days and the media wondering why we couldn’t produce teams like Ajax, Munich and the great Brazil teams. Well, now we have teams who play “total football” and the media hate it and want to hark back to days of leg breaking tackles. Oh fuck it, I hate the English media.
As for the game today, we need to do a Barca, with every vicious Stoke tackle, we need to crowd the ref, pressure him, let him know what is happening and that we won’t stand for it.
But we also need an enforce that tells their thugs that the next nasty tackle they make will be their last as he will break his legs.
I hate what City are doing, same as Chelsea, buying success and it is distasteful.
Ok, I am rambling.
Morning Will, good ramble 😉
Mark Halsey is the ref today, he’s one of the better one’s isn’t he, well fairer?
I still think after every “nasty” tackle “and we know there will be a few) our players should make the ref aware.
But you watch our players get booked if they do that Will, only manure and barca get away with such behaviour…
By Michael Calvin….
Stoke have won many friends on the way to the FA Cup Final.
It’s payback time today, when Arsenal visit the Britannia Stadium. The consequences of Aaron Ramsey being roughed up don’t bear thinking about. Just this once, it’s not the win that matters.
It’s winning friends and influencing people.
***
What precisely is the point of the Football Association?
They leap into action when someone says a naughty word on Twitter.
But when they have an issue of substance to consider, the shutters come down.
The secrecy surrounding the QPR trial is scandalous.
It has added to the sense of chaos and incompetence.
Instead of protecting themselves, the FA are damning themselves.
morning all..
i was reading a wenger interview last night and i had a real chuckle to myself
‘The next step is the
top three because we want to avoid a qualifier.
We will fight like mad.’
ok..now we are going for the avoid a qualifier trophy and a fight like mad trophy…??
lol
the thing what really tickled me is that while this is typical wenger..hes right isnt he..we dont really want a qualifier for cl next season..
but what would be better to ensure cl qualification would be to win the league
Good read rico but id like to mention that a top 3 finish ensures automatic CL qualification.
hey ktr
reports are now suggesting we are after gotze..
good player i reckon
Hi jj
Some of his comments make me laugh, although they are not really very funny – to be where we are and him talking about securing third just smacks of lack of ambition to me…
Pity he didn’t get his side to fight tooth and nail about five months ago, then todays result probably wouldn’t have mattered quite so much….
Cesc would be lifting the PL Trophy instead…
Hi Kt.. the reference was more about ‘not for wenger to bleat on about coming second’….
😉
Gotze is a good player jj but we have many of his kind.
Almunia >>> Gomes.
We have conceded the least amount of goals from open play in the league.we have however conceded 56% of our goals from setpieces.
harro 😉
nice read, thank you very much!
AW is a funny fucker, ain’t he? we should have been ‘fighting like mad’ throughout the season…
radical idea, I know!
trainig ground ktr..its a drilling thing..
no new cb will fix that issue
although no team has won the PL without an english CB…
Hi SUGA, spot on, not just in the last three games, bloody crazy…
off for a bit, later all…
hey suga, i see youve been ruffling a few feathers 😉
JonJon,
nah mate, just putting a certain pompous individual in his place 😉
he just doesn’t seem to get it, does he?
mate ive had same problems with him..
only advice i could give is to let him carry on with the name calling..its his tactic to wind u up and make you agressive and then hope everyone else jumps on you..hes a fucker for it some of the regulars think hes brilliant but hes constantly disrespecting the rules of the site and he doesnt realise it..
i find its easier to let him get on with it and if you ignore the insults and just pick him up on the crap he talks youve got him hook line and sinker..
a man who debates with facts has more credibility than a man who debates with insults..
i dont even read alot of what he says anymore to be honest he bores the shit out of me..
and the funniest thing is that it’s only me who gets the yellow card waved at me 😆
to be honest, I enjoy that sometimes, cornering his ilk using the strength of logocal arguments and watching them squirm and blow their top…
JJ you lycra loving village person you 😉
Mario Gotze is a good little player Kt mentioned him the other week but he’s so similar to what we already have and we really don’t need anymore techinically gifted dwarfs……..!.
Oh and morning and happy mothers day to everyone who is a mother…. Not naming anynames tho 😀
howdy sailor 😉
yeah hes similar i have to agree with you both..
rambo and jack today for stoke WATH..young lions ready to roar i reckon..
better chance than using denilson and diaby anyway..
Diaby would have to be fit in the first place!
i dont know how diabys still here..
its not like hes rvp, it aint like he makes a difference to the team when he is fit..
hes just an average player who’s never fit..
maybe weve still got him cos we pay him silly money and nobody is prepared to meet those demands for a crock
JJ,
I think you may be onto something here 😆
JJ, Diaby = he’s tall, fwench n skinny and reminds us off someone and hmmmmm thats about it… Oh and every now and then he gets an Arsenal first team strip slightly dirty….! He also costs us 60% of the yearly season tkt increase…!
WATH, is Will Smith? 🙂
** is it**
Shit…………….. Lee, your good mate no kidding you eh 😉
Not many ppl know Will Smith was born in Paris 🙂
JD & Kos playing, TV on the bench………..
Clichy out of the squad.
Come on gooners!
Hi Gooners, not sure how i think it’s gonna go today.
guys same can be said for alot of our players cant it but weve covered the wages many times before..
hiya kev
ive got a bit of faith today..
does anyone have the team?
i’m off to watch a bit of rugby up the local boozer… 😉
JJ we’ve got 4 Brits in the starting XI and we’ll need a bit of that grit up there on the Dark Side of the Moon.
WS BS JD LK KG JW AR AS TW AA RVP….TV on bench
LEE, how was the ruby, did you finish your speech?
Didn’t start the speech… The Jalfrezi hit the spot Kev!!!
lol lee 😉
not a bad team..looking forward to seeing jack and rambo play..let the young guns loose i say..
will be watching gibbs closely too..good luck today son show us what youve got eh…
whos feeling the vibe today??
wish i would have gone now kev but cant afford it anyway..
i had to work a 80 hour week to afford my cup final ticket and it costs me an arm and a leg to travel around supporting them, we in the middle of a reccession here arsenal and ive been hit for six and i need all my arms and legs..dont even get me started on the home games…
but im still feeling the vibe today ;)…i hope they fucking do it i really do cos i cant fucking stand stoke…
Pity Lansbury couldn’t be involved… Know it’s too soon after playing for Norwich, but i bet he wouldn’t disappear when the tackles start flying.
Calm down calm down [in a Scouse accent]. JJ i hate them as well and not just recently. Been to the old Victoria Ground and they’re a bunch of total c**ts.
rvp has 17 goals in 18 games..
ive heard talk ppl want him to go cos hes just a crock but hes class…
he needs help…he needs a supporting striker who can take the pressure off him..
we should have no talk of selling him
How about putting a couple of Stoke players out of the final? What goes around comes around…
ffs robin lol
those pricks are booing aaron
wtf??
JJ, what do you expect from inbreds?
i hope he bangs one in today..
15mins gone..
we need to score soon i think
How are we doing? I can’t get any good streaming links.
Boo, have we started yet 😉
Can you believe they are booing Ramsey?
0-0 Will, all possession, no real threat though…
stoke fans are booing ramsey….
our passing is a bit dodgy….
I think Jack is burned out…..
Rico, do you have any decent links?
why don’t they think?
why bother crossing into the box without any presence and with Huth + Shawcross in there?
SMH…
I think Jack is burned out……
we cant get thru the middle we are looking for other options but they arent really there are they..
http://atdhenet.tv/index.html
Try this one Will
shit…another set peice
Bollox
Will, my lad is watching it on
http;//eplsite.tv/stream3.html
Suga, also, why isn’t theo cutting in like he did against the mancs, just no way in right now….
Cheers guys.
it’s starting to get a bit niggly out there….
Didn’t see the goal, let me think. Long ball into the box, huge fight?
pathetic defending!
needs a huge effort now..
dogs of war..
You just have to smile at the ‘swing low’ 😉
that is exactly why arsenal should not tell the media what they think about other teams tactics…
This is why Arshavin and Djourou both need to go. Fucking useless!
@OptaJoe Opta Sports
57% – Arsenal have conceded a higher proportion of goals from set-pieces than any other PL team this season. Flaw.
I have turned it off, we are fucking walking.
just wait for that broadside of a post…
fuck..
make or break time
oh, fuck that shit!
That’s it, fuck this, i’m off into the garden to fire up the barbacue, i’ll see all you fine Gooners later.
What is happening?
glad i didnt go now 😉
Game over, give them the three points and go home. USeless fuckers.
2-0
442
It is pathetic. Could you see this Stoke side being the Vieira, HEnry, Pires, Bergkamp, Keown, Campbell side?
I’ve changed my mind about giving Wenger another year. Please take your spineless persona and fuck off.
im not feeling the good vibe anymore
Wenger has THIS summer and this summer alone. Don’t get the people in we need, he has to go.
Well, if that is giving it our all then my goodness…..
er, no, he has to go, full stop!
We barely threaten without cesc.
We lack guile when teams sit in their box.
Jones goal was scored by his arm….
Chesney should have saved the second….
Will-Cesc Fabregas makes alot of difference to this side.if he doesn’t transmit a transfer request id turn down all bids as we have no equivalent of him yet.
rico,
yes, he should have done better, but why can’t we learn to deny them space in front of our goal?
a set piece and failure to close down the opponent, story of our undoing for how many years exactly?
Will he realise now that we need buy some quality?
Fans need to let Wenger know, because he is so powerful at Arsenal, he just doesn’t get it. Maybe next week at home against Villa, Wenger needs to be told exactly how we feel.
Suga Thats why we concede loads from speculative shots.we back off instead of attacking the space.
It´s pathetic!!! Allways the some!!!
Continues to play without a player in a modern area. There is no depth of play. it’s just knitting!!
And now come two to unbalance the team!!
Bendtner for Arshavin? WTF?
I’d like to take that fucking baseball cap and poke it where the sun don’t shine….prick!
this game is cutting me deep..
wtf..
What is the score?
2-0
but stoke are embarrassing us
er, weren’t we supposed to be kicked off the park?
weve been dirty and weve been out though with basic football tatcis
Lee,
We can’t blame Pulis for our pathetic team. Pulis has never been relegated at any club he’s managed and has them in a Cup final. I bet if you offered Stoke Wenger, they’d laugh at you.
We are so so poor, so so poor..
we are lucky Halsey has been the ref today….
Lee, i’d like to poke his bb cap further than that….
oh robin, how did you not score….
I’m off folks, got a BBQ to go to shortly….
Catch you all tomorrow as i don’t think i’ll make a lot of sense if i pop back later 😉 😉
Dreadful showing, dreadful result and I’ve had enough of this season…
Til tomorrow all….
🙁
that was embarassing guys
Definitely, and ask this question a long time ago, is the team with the coach? With his options? Is united? Without unity, there is no ambition, no team, no motivation and can not have football.
Arsenal football has no depth. Period.
In football, there isn’t, like in skating, technical notes and artistic note. Period.
All opponents, with the exception of the top teams, play the same way. Defender all together aggressively and put the ball in front, where the powerful forward, trying to gain fouls, corners, penalties, etc. How many goals, suffered by us, not the result of set pieces? Most certainly. Can any of you give me those statiscal results? Period.
A coach who hypothetically has two center-forwards, who has not played with any, it is because he lost confidence in them a long time ago. Without a center forward, which “locks”the two central defenders, no depth of play, makes it easier for defenses, it is very “tricot” and it is possible to spend an entire game without scoring opportunities. Period.
There are flaws in goalkeeping, defense, etc. In my opinion, the major problem is the number 9. If AW has lost confidence in the two center-forwards, he must have had to go get a new one. This one from Stoke,for instance, on January. Looking for Malaga
(on the 1st division of Spain) which was seeking, in January, Julio Baptista from Roma (who was an Arsenal player), served us perfectly. Period.
Who began to see the 2nd part of the game today, questioned who was losing 2-0. It is a team psicilogicamente lost. A team with no guts, no strength, no motivation, no calls, no will. Period.
The fans are tired of seeing Arsenal play well (is it really?) and did not win anything. Tired and worn. Period.
For the tenth time (or more), we could approach the first place, move to 1st or win a contest, we lose. I confess to you that in addition to this information, we do not know in the World, club, which has lost over its history, so many late European Cups, FA and league championships and bend the straight end. Period.
I will rest!
HCCA…. He’s a prick and you’re right our under-achievement is fuck all to do with him…
Second place still ain’t a trophy is it? Left all the silver at Highbury.
Who do you support James?
yes, second place but 4th too!
No answer Will…..twat!
Well that sums us up eh and our esteemed manager say we lacked something…. No shit Sherlock….
Who said sell RVP on an earlier post?
No idea Lee, why..?
Didn’t see the game , and in truth i didn’t need to because it’s the same old crap we’ve been suffering for the last 4 years.
Had a few sherberts so i’d better be carefull, but if Wenger doesn’t act this summer then he should be taken out at dawn and effin shot… Rant over
Tell me, how many of the goals we conceded, came from dead-ball situations?
What on earth do our coaches do in training?
I’d sack the lot. How many times do you have to make the same mistakes before the penny drops?
I’m watching Porto- Paços de ferreira.
I’ve watching Barcelona-Espanol, before
All Arsenal fans should watch those 2 matches and understand why Barcelona and Porto plays better then us
We are sooooooooooooooooooooo predictable its pathetic
AK, we cant defend mate, 1st n 3rd goals were a joke and where were the midfielders for the 2nd…?
56% – Arsenal have conceded the highest percentage of goals from set pieces of any team in the Premier League
Will we don’t need the stats to know we cant defend eh mate, we can all see it…… apart from le boss
Wath, when the 1st goal went in i kinda knew that it was game over. So i just went off to do other things, i’m sick of the same old shit and sick of the same old excuses, if that prat don’t sort it out this summer then i give up.
The atmosphere at AFC vs Villa could be poisonous.
I turned the game off when they kicked the ball forward and two defenders watched as Ches strolled out to clear it only to be nearly blocked by the SPRINTING Stoke forward.
To be quite honest, this planned protest walk that’s going to take place on the eve of the Aston Villa game should be abandoned and so should the support for the team. Save your selves the trouble of travelling, and all that effort in walking the streets. Instead go down the pub and order yourselves a nice cold pint, and sit and watch the dart board or the pool table as they will have more life in them than Wenger’s squad. Yes show how you feel about the price hike and the lack of new players, but do it in a way that the board will understand.
While you sit and sup that refreshing cold beer and you hear on the radio or television that the Arsenal’s losing side are playing in front of an empty stadium, that’s exactly when the message will well and truly sink in.
Steve the problem with what your saying is half the stadium will still be full of jcl’s wenger lovers and jap tourists….! I reckon an on the dot protest that 20mins b4 the end everyone walks out…. BUT who would do it….? A protest where ppl show their feelings will work if ppl actually get off their arses and do something rather than merely moan abt it
AK, why does wenger take off AA tp play bendy left wing play Chamakh centre forward and drop RVP back into midfield, what the fuck is that all about…? why did we not go 4-4-2 why bring on big strikers and play one wide left when he is right footed… it beggards belief….! Wenger looked like he’d just accepted we were pitiful…!
I think a 90 minute boo session at the last home game should let them know how we feel.
True Wath, but untill they feel it in their pockets things will continue as they have, for the next 5 years.
it won’t happen tho Will far to many numpties in the ground…..!
I was disgusted watching Arsenal players walk around.
Wath, i’m at a loss mate. As SP said a half-empty stadium can often galvanise some action from the Boardroom. But not while Hill ‘silly bollocks’ Wood is the chairman.
Have you seen the genius of Wenger? Poor defending from set plays and a poor competitive spirit were to blame.
I know a lot of fans out there rate Song, and whilst i’m not blaming him alone, i thought he looked fairly feeble as the d/m. I honestly think we can do a lot better than him. What do u think?
I can appreciate supporters wanting to attend the games and also the walks, but to then go to the ground and fill the stadium up I can only imagine the laughter from the boardroom. It just goes against the grain.
Will wengers comments after the game are as pathetic as the players that played, sorry walked about in arsenal shirts… Bereft of passion fight and spirit and the prick has the cheek to say we didnt show fight today, we aint showed it for most of the season you delusional arse….! Song is a decent squad player for me AK thats about it….!
I agree, I want a clever hard bastard in there.
The thing is Steve, you can’t expect fans to spend 100’s on a season ticket and not go. Boycott the clubs merchandise, including the new shitty shirts might have an impact?
Kev, Songs quality.
the teams spirit is not there,I believe they are as worried as we all are, and now, have lost interest the same as us.
Wengers half time team talk. (Any body for tea)
Don’t be daft Steve wengers team talk was, pls look at yourselves and ask what you just did for 45 mins and look to corerect it…… jasmin tea anyone….?
Thanks lads, i thought i was alone on the Song question. To be honest, i’ve never really rated him that highly. I just think he gets ‘bigged up’ by fans because we’ve got bugger all else in that position.
Fair enough Steve. I respect your view on Song, but i just don’t think he protects the back four and is too slow generally.
Kev, with all televised games, believe me when i te, and they woll you that when its seen on the tele that the Ems is empty the reasons would be like a knife in the back to the board and sponsers
I think Song is decent but certainly not as good as we need, thats my opinion, I think he has improved ten fold but still doesnt do the simple thing gives away far to many freekicks and doesnt protect the back 4 enough but then again he not the only one on that count. We say the same thing every other game and yet nothing will change in the summer wenger will spout bollox abt frustrated players needing a chance so he cant possibly buy and we also getting back loads of injured and loanee players so we have the quality and mental strength and spirit blah blah blah…. Boring, tedious and tiring keep hearing the same shit over n over
Messed that up didn’t I
well steve, if it’s gonna happen, then the Villa game is when it should. A crowd under 50,000 would certainly make those Boardroom tossers sit up.
Maybe the fans should all leave 10 minutes before the end. Lets see a lap of ‘honour’ in front of an empty stadium eh?
Wath, did you hear the Stoke fans chantting Boring Arsenal as our mugs passed and went nowhere. Do you know, those fuckers are right, AFC’s overpassing IS boring.
Comes to something when Stoke fans can see it and wenger can’t how mad is that and spot on mate they are right. Steve maybe he would of added “please close your eyes and visualize” 😉
Ak, 50000 next week and they will say ppl have left early for summer hols…. any excuse to shove their heards further up their bums….! they happy with a top 4 donr forget 20yrs of 2nd place is a success, well we were 2nd today so thats obviously acceptable as well, how can you blame players when thats what the manager preaches…?
Samba says we nearly bought him in January, we prob offered Blackburn a fiver and they wanted a tenner….!
Wath ha ha. Yeah, you reckon they pushed the boat out at a fiver, no chance mate.
To an observer, there is no empathy between AW and the team.
There is no joy, no soul, no calls, no ambition.
This form of the game no longer, smarter players with the coach.
It is a proposal for a very predictable game.
JM, spot on, the only thing the team are to the manager is a reflection of what seems apathy and a broken spirit and a n acceptance that we are merely going through the motions…! no passion no nothing.
We could not of offered more than a fiver Kev, how would be pay 50k a week wages to ten 16yr olds next season…?
You know Wath, i was never really convinced by Samba, but we could do with a some big lump at the back whose more interested in defending than looking ‘technical’, and he looked just the kind of big lump we could do with.
Not only that, it’s the effect he’d have on the rest of the pussycats we have in the back4.
fuck sake
I have got to be honest, I still can’t see Wenger spending. We only ever hear we nearly bought.The only way I can see us buy is with another Manager and that won’t happen. I don’t like to sound defeatist but i just hope we haven’t got another season coming like this one
I thought that in Jan when his name came up, I though hmmm he aint good enough for us he aint that good on the ball etc etc then I thought wait a minute stop being a pratt i am forever going on about us lacking passion and bottle and this is the type of fella who would run through a brick wall for you… Sign him up I say another one would be Johnson from Brum and of course Cahill but we don’t need technical we got enough of that and look where thats got us, we need brawn over brain n skill its so so so sadly lacking.
Hi JJ, glad you saved your dough mate. Those assholes are not worth your hard earned cash.
If my boy didn’t want to keep my ticket going, i’d tell them to stick it.
we are shit at set peices..
we dont pay any attention to dead ball situations we rely on technical ability and triangle to win us games but if we conceded less and scored more set peices we would improve our GD by 15- 20 goals
we concede 57% of our goals from set pieces and we score less set pieces than anyone else in the league..
its a fundamental flaw and not only that wenger has lost control of the players..
Steve stop being such a miserable pessamistic git……. I totally agree with you, I can’t see him buying. He’s lost it, there is no spark there no nothing the lights are on but noone is at home.
mate that was a bulshit display
the squad is too big half of them arent good enough and they are demanding payrises cos they are pampered..
wengers losing control..
We play triangles in areas of the pitch that dont hurt teams JJ, no speed no penetration and hardly any chances created, all in front of the pen box square n backwards try pass through the eye of a needle into the box and we lose the ball…! no width just predictable and boring and poor…!
losing = lost JJ…………….
rosicky eboue denilson diaby almunia nikki chamakh none of them are good enough but want to play
gibbs, clichy, nasri delaying contracts
cesc wants trophies
200 players out on loan..
wengers stockpiling and pampering is beginning to bite him on the arsenal..
Just watched the Twitcher on MOTD he sais he needs to move on some players and needs to bring three top signings to give them a decent chance next year, and here, we know Wenger will keep all our shit and buy a nobody for fucks sake
correction
lost control
has biten him
years ago
Bloody hell, SP/Wath, that’s just what i’ve been thinking as well.
He’s not gonna change, and those tossers in the Boardroom aren’t gonna change either.
Roll on 2011-12, Diaby, Eboue, Rosicky, Squillaci in the squad and the same old excuses by AW.
Happy Days
he better fucking sort it out steve..
i hope those lads march next weekend and i hope the stadiums empty during the game..
there needs to be a few hundred ppl in the stadium who have banners saying sort it out …the stewards can stop small sections but if you get it going and get a few hundred to back you the stewards cant do fuck all..
buying one or two players wont change a thing..
we need a clear out first
too many bad eggs
Wenger is comfy in a safe position he’s happy with finishing top 4 as thats the brief he has from the board who just want the shekles, the season tkts sell our the money still rolls in happy days…!
Bar 4/5 players the squad is a reflection of the manager there is no accountability there is no motivation to succeed they are all in a comfort zone with little or no pressure to perform and failure is rewarded.
listening to what i say is a trophy..
bollox…start listening to what we say now or walk away and let somebody else do it
I know gooners have paid a lot out for their season tickets but that’s the only way that the board will listen is with empty seats, they have already said that they think the ticket hike is justified, and fans are still clammering to pay the price. i know an empty seat is still a paid for seat but for viewers on the tele its an empty seat
As far as the managers position is concerned, and with the exception of George Graham, it’s not the Board but the fans that force a change in management.
They’ll do bugger all unless there’s unrest on the ‘terraces’.
Now i still stand by giving Wenger this summer to sort it. But that’s it for me if he sits on his deriere (or arse) and lets things slide.
I can only see one solution to our problem Arsene likes contracts,I might just get one out on him
If he sits on the fence this summer and does fuck all AK then we got another summer of “choke & passionless” next season…!
Nice one SP thats spot on mate 😀
Nte all,
SP, haha, that’s the spirit mate.
Wath, if he does nothing this summer, then he deserves everything he’ll get, and i won’t feel sorry for him because it’ll be his stupid pride that’ll be the cause of his demise.
See ya Steve.
Cheers Steve…..
We cant give him the summer in my book AK, I want players in and out and done latest end of the 1st week of pre-season, if he aint done the biz by then history shows us fuck all will happen and we get the bullshit and the lies all over again……
Wath, that’s me as well. See ya mate.
Wath, i know what ya mean mate, and to be honest it’s difficult for me to argue anymore.
The thing is, the Board won’t act this summer whatever. As i said earlier, it’s the fans that’ll get him out, and i feel that that scenario is still one more year away. He still has a lot of support, but his stupidity is seeing that support draining away. Give it another 12 months, maybe less, and there will be demonstrations frpom the fans.
weve got 61 players on our books and that doesnt include the 16 players on loan
we need a clear out first this summer before anyone comes in..
if this isnt a busy window for us then i will be disgusted
The thing is, he can still rectify his position if he spends some serious cash on at least 3 quality players. IF being the word. It’s still in his hands, it remains to be seen if he is smart enough to change tack or stupid enough to repeat his errors of the last 4 years?
There’s the problem as well AK he’s made the same mistakes time n time again….! cheers mate chat 2moro, JJ the size of the squad is a complete farce…. 50%/60% of that lots just aint good enough so why are they even on our books…? why are they paid as if they successful players why are they paid as if they have performed and delivered…? The whole thing stinks and then wenger says a price hike is justified, on 6.5mil a yr very easy to be patronising eh.
If we did that at work and made the same cock up again n agian we’d get fired simple… If you don’t perform you dont get a raise and a new extended contract you get a warning and told to pull your finger or you’ll get the boot…? notice the difference..?
I’m off JJ am all Arsenal’d out……..
Cheers mate.
wath im pissed off now
cheers guys..
nite all
Morning…
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