Jonker busy, Gnabry back & Should we expect a glut of goals?

Morning all.

First up, great to see Serge Gnabry get 67 minutes playing time for the under 21’s last night. Having him back in the first team squad can only be good and both Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will have to up their game.

Staying with the Academy, young Chris Willock and Ben Sheaf have signed their first professional contract with the club having turned 17 years old. Seems Andries Jonker his sorting his lot out…..

Tonight we face a side who are in all sorts of problems. Their manager has been in the press for all the wrong reasons and his team sit bottom of the league with just 17 points and look favourites for a return to the Championship.

Having started so well in the Premier League, in fact they were 7th at one stage, Leicester have gone on to fall away rapidly.  They can’t buy a win and have lost eight of their last 10 away league games. Together with Qpr, they have managed to keep a clean sheet just four times this season which is the lowest in the league.

Not only do Leicester struggle to keep a clean sheet, scoring goals is also a problem and have managed to find the back of the net just 21 times.

The last time we played Leicester at home in the league was back in the 2003/04 season, the very last game of that campaign and a 2-1 victory secured our Invinsible title. What a season that was eh but haven’t we fallen away since then…..

As we fight for the top four trophy, they are fighting for survival and sometimes that can cause an upset, so I hope the players remain focussed and don’t just expect to turn up and win.

Leicester should be cannon fodder, this is the type of game in which we really should stamp our authority from the first kick of the ball until the final whistle. We need goals and plenty of them.

The return of Alexis Sanchez to the squad is great news and hopefully the rest of the team have had a rocket up their jacksie after Saturdays pathetic showing.

Arsene has compared our Chillean to Ian Wright…

He is a bit like Ian Wright. He has the enthusiasm of Ian Wright. He is quieter than him but that is not difficult and he doesn’t get booked!

He is dynamic and he does both parts of the game. He’s important in the team because of that, because he wins you the ball back quickly as well

Alexis is more with the Spanish players of course but he is loved by everybody. He is very friendly and bubbly every day.

It was difficult for him not to play [at Tottenham], if it was the last game of the season he would have played.

We are at home and have won our last seven fixtures in all competitions. Our last showing was a ruthless 5-0 thrashing of Aston Villa I hope the buys can replicate that feat. In fact a similar scoreline would see us jump up to 3rd place if the neighbours don’t beat Liverpool at Anfield. Southampton have a tricky fixture against West Ham tomorrow night.

No doubt Stan Kroenke and Arsene Wenger will be getting twitchy about the top four situation and history suggests that this time of year is when the results start to improve as everyone wants to be playing Champions League football next season.

We’ll see I guess but as we all know, 2nd place is still up or grabs but to get there, we need to raise our level, work a lot harder and every player has to put a shift in.

Hoping for a big win tonight but with this Arsenal team, you just never know what to expect….

I’ll also be hoping the Dippers get at least a draw…. Ouch, that hurt….

Have a good Tuesday…

COYRRG’S!!

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scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Morning all.
Stan who, Rico 🙂
Nice post……..let’s hope for a decent win today.

Wavy
Wavy
11 years ago

Good read Rico.
As you say we are igniting for the fourth place trophy and they are playing for the fourth from bottom survival plate!
They probably won’t score but……so we have to get more goals than them tonight. And there we have a statement of the obvious. Yer, I’m on fire today

Happy match day all.

Wavy
Wavy
11 years ago

Fighting not igniting…ipad vocabulary….again!

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Wavy, stop blaming the IPad…….we both can’t 🙂
Rico, we really need to get back on the horse.
3-1.
Aaron……I’m going broke bloody backing you lad!

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

A fine post..

Serge in my opinion has been missed; he is arguably the best winger we have at the club even though he is not a winger; tactically he is like a 25y.o; shame he has similar DNA as Abou coming from Cote D’Ivoire.

Cheeky man you are Scott; Jan was a fine coach- its the fied chicken I liked that did not help… 😉

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

fried*

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Ginge, think you misunderstood bud……I meant the guy now coaching Sean….not known outside of Holland but one hell of an intelligent player.

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Lol Rico……they are sheathed every now and again, but never too far away 🙂

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

oh… I see. 🙂

Most continental coaches are awesome…

I have a young nephew who is 13 and lives in Belgium and the coaching he gets is amazing according to his dad.
Unfortunately, he is at an age where video game comes first for him…

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Good Morning Hipsters and Swashbucklers.

Nice Post Lady Boss. Do we expect a goleada tonight??? I do that for every game, Chavs, Manure and Shitty included. If the Spuddies can put 5 past the Chavs, than we with the team we have can do so as well. If Shitty can put 6 past Manure, than we can do so as well. so I go with that hope for every game. However, with this team you never know as you rightly said.

Yes…..I EXPECT a glut of goals tonight. And not concede as well.

Gnabry is back. But it will be a while before we see him playing with the first team….unless he becomes a b2b midfielder. A feeling I have had for a long time since I saw him playing. I feel he is more suited to that role than to the role of a winger.

I hope the dippers and WHU get a draw form their games vs the Scum and Southampton.

potter
potter
11 years ago

1 point each at Anfield tonight would be my preferred result providing we get three against Leicester . That gives us a 2 point lift against the other two and a 5 point buffer against Liverpool. A lot of goals for the goal difference would be handy but the points are more important.

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

Interesting Dev re Serge.

He played b2b yesterday as well

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Ginge, school comes first for Sean while he’s there, but afterwards, he’s just a kid 🙂 🙂

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Continental coaches, especially those who are teachers as well by trade are more equipped to teach young kids than some of the English coaches I have seen. Once we had a couple of coaches over from the FA (around 12 years ago) and literally I was LMAO. It was so boring. The coaching was good but it was very basic and not creative. With young kids between 8 and 10 years it must be enjoyable, full of agility, combined with skills and full of FUN.

Ah yes…..I used to enjoy tying BALOONS to their shoe laces , put around 15 in an area of 10×10 metres and tell them to try and burst each other’s balloons. The last one standing with a balloon tied to his foot wins the game. Those who go out of the game must go to the side to juggle and do ball tricks.

Ah yes….I used to enjoy giving each kid a ball and they have to dribble the ball but at the same time tag a player/steal his bib or kick another kid’s ball away while still dribbling yours.

And that my mates……is how you learn ball skills and make them enjoy football.

Joaquim Moreira
Joaquim Moreira
11 years ago

yes, Devil “a goleada” tonight!
We must look for ourselves now, get points , score goals wth a clean sheet.
We can´t forget we are ain Fa.Cup and Champions league also, and the others, mostly are in the other european competition except MU. At te end, tis can made the dfference.

Wavy
Wavy
11 years ago

A word of caution.
Don’t underestimate Leicester City! They are not as bad a team as their league position would suggest. They have goal scorers, good pros who know how to play the game! They will fight for every ball and we must match them and better them.
I get the feeling that we are a little over confident. The result, in our favour, is not a foregone conclusion!
They have often proved to be our bogey team, home and away. Remember the game at their place earlier this season, we were cruising and then crashed, should never have drawn, but we did! For as long as I can remember they have done well against us.
Then again, given our general form lately we should win by 4! So nothing to worry about, really!
Have a nice day all, and an even better evening!

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Wavy….I am not overconfident. Its what I want and expect. I expect us to respect them and expect us to score a glut of goals as well. And by respecting them means keeping it tight at the back and take all the chances in front of goal.

AndrewH
AndrewH
11 years ago

Hi rico, House, good post.

I know its easy to think Saturday was pathetic, but without an extremely good header at the end, wouldn’t we have thought, job done, not great but defensively looked fairly tight. Its easy for one moment to cloud our thoughts. And Giroud actually had a far easier heading chance but fluffed it.

HenryB
HenryB
11 years ago

I enjoyed the Post, Rico, thank you. 🙂

I know nozzink but when the blood is up, and the guys are smarting from an embarrassing defeat, it often encourages them to go all out and then when leat expected the opposition get a lucky or breakaway goal.

My wish/advice is that we go about tonights game calmly and professionally and remembering that patience is the recipe for success.

[I wish I could take my own advice sometimes.] 🙂

HenryB
HenryB
11 years ago

AndrewH,

I tend to agree with you. It was a tale of two headers, Kane beat Kozzer to the ball, when he should not have, and scored well, because no one was on the back post – Giro at the other end had a ‘free header’ in front of goal, and almost hit the corner flag.

Such is football, such is life.

Joaquim Moreira
Joaquim Moreira
11 years ago

yes, I forgot Southampton…..

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Yes, we don’t wanna be going all gung-ho tonight, but an early goal would be nice, and a clean sheet for the defence to rebuild its confidence from…

I’m looking at 3-0, but more goals in the Leicester onion would be very welcome, goal difference and all…

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Good post Rico, btw…

Just try to put it up a bit earlier, if you wouldn’t mind, thanks.::. 🙂

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

Ditto above Wavy…
Their 2 CB’s- Morgan and Liam Moore are very solid defenders. AW missed a trick there not signing either instead of Chambers last summer…
Hopefully, our old boy Upson starts tonight.. 🙂

Wavy
Wavy
11 years ago

Palms of hands facing skywards, shoulders lifted, quizzical facial expression, (in best traditions of the French shrug), “who can say? Who will win, or what the score will be?!”

rockyrocastle07
rockyrocastle07
11 years ago

Jumping for it would have been a start

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Blimey it’s quiet on here today…

I’m sure an earlier post would have had the place rocking… 😉

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Hiya Kev……how’s things in the taxi stand.

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Hiya Coach, just finished my tea break…

I wonder if Bielik will get a run out in either of the next two games…

The fixture list is gonna be more congested after Boro, so Wenger has to manage his resources wisely…

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Aye mate……he has to use them more wisely and rotate. For example….no good playing Ozil and Cazorla together. alternate them and rest them. Likewise with Theo and Danny. Same with Ox and Sanchez. AW has so many permutations that most likely he will get mixed up in them.

Its the same in midfield where he can juggle a bit especially when Arteta returns.

The only problem lies in two places…..Jack when he returns (and what he will or will not do with the ball) and Debuchy (who is out long term and it could be murder to expect Bellerin to play for the rest of the season there)

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Wilshere to feature in the Boro game, either as a starter or from the bench.
Welbeck as centre-forward with Akpom on the wing from the start, seems the way to go, for me…
Gabriel to earn his wings vs Boro…

How far off fitness is AOC, anybody?

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Bielik will play if we are safely ahead with a 2/3 goal cushion. He will sub Aaron or Santi with around 20 mins to go. But he will not replace Coquelin unless the latter picks up an injury.

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Coach, doesn’t Arteta and Debucy come back in mid-April..?

Is Hayden fit yet?

Gnabry will be like a new signing… 🙂

Wenger will need them all if we go on towards two Wembley fixtures.

Whilst it’s looking likely that we’ll progress beyond Monaco, so at least two more CL games to add to the midweek mix…

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Coquelin will get a rest vs Boro I guess, not that I’m sure that at 23, that he needs a rest, not yet…

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Afternoon Rico and the House.
A header from Kaylen Hinds has given our U17’s a 1-0 win over River Plate and see us playing Aspire or PSG in the semi final on friday.
This was an outstanding performance by our lads one we should be proud of.
Through out the game they were the victims of some very bad challenges from the Argentinean side but managed to keep their cool and did not retaliate.
A mass brawl broke out at the end of the game between both sets of players
but in the end we finished with honour River Plate in disgrace.

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

against Boro it would be ideal to begin with Danny and Akpom up front. Maybe Theo on the left as well.

And yes….I would still play Ospina as keeper. I like Ches….but imo he needs to sort his head out.

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Rick, those Argies are bad losers…

Great result all the same…

rockyrocastle07
rockyrocastle07
11 years ago

when are there not dirty challenges from South American teams?

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Kev it was bloody brutal far worse then the Rugby club.
Some of the tackles made me feel sick.

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Afternoon Rico. Soon off for me though. Will be back later on this evening

cu fine folk.

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Some news after last night
Serge has said he is now pain free and wants to get back in the first team as soon as poss He also said he is rusty and needs a few games under his belt.
Let him play in the next 3 u21’s and then he should be ready.
Kev Isaac is out untill April , and the Ox for another fortnight.

Beilick was not included in our P/L squad so cannot play for the first team.

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

So am I Rico.
But the highlights of last nights game show he is not fully match fit.
I think we should give him untill the end of the month and then we will see the real Serge.

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

There is no news when he will be back Rico.
No one wants to talk about him.
I wonder how much will go to the Clubs

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Rick, do you suspect that Arteta could be on his way out of Arsenal this summer?

Maybe through injury?!

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Bielik, can he play in the FACup then?

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Yes Kev I do and as you say through injury.
Are you going tonight?

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Yes I think he could Kev but I get the feeling he will not play for the first team untill he has played for the U21s or the Youth Team in the youth cup.

Bt62 Gooner
Bt62 Gooner
11 years ago

Rick, that River Plate captain, was a nasty piece of work. along with plenty of his team mates.
Thought the boys played well throughout the whole game. Great result.

Bt62 Gooner
Bt62 Gooner
11 years ago

Sorry evening all.

Bt62 Gooner
Bt62 Gooner
11 years ago

Rico, i’m taking tips from, Ts

Nice post,

Wavy
Wavy
11 years ago

Palms of hands facing skywards, shoulders lifted, quizzical facial expression, (in best traditions of the French shrug), “who can say? Who will win, or what the score will be?!”

Wavy
Wavy
11 years ago

Palms of hands facing skywards, shoulders lifted, quizzical facial expression, (in best traditions of the French shrug), “who can say? Who will win, or what the score will be?!”

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Yes Rick, I am parked in Highbury Station Road, killing a bit of time before I have to feed the blasted parking meter…

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

The Evening Standard is suggesting that Sanchez will start tonight, and Gibbs for Monreal…
Must be tactical?

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Tonights team Ospina Bellerin Merts Kossy Monreal Coq Rosicky Santi Ozil Alexis

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

No Ramsey, Ozil, Walcott, and only 10 men Rick….

Arsene must be confident 😉

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Subs Chessny Gibbs Gabby Flamimi Ramsey Wellbeck Giroud
No Chuba
Enjoy Kev.

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Hmm, Ozil is in, I need my glasses Rick 😀

Bt62 Gooner
Bt62 Gooner
11 years ago

Kev, enjoy your night…

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Giroud on the bench???

Who is up front, is it Sanchez?

Bt62 Gooner
Bt62 Gooner
11 years ago

Rico, you’re too kind…..as always…

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Thanks BT/Rick, just going to feed that meter, grr….

COYRRG

Rick
Rick
11 years ago

Sorry Theo Plays my wrong

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Cheers Rico, lata

Bt62 Gooner
Bt62 Gooner
11 years ago

Rico, you do it so effortlessly..

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

That formation 4-1-4-1 formation nor a 4-2-3-1.

Imo it is a 4-1-3-2 formation with Theo and Sanchez more advanced than Ozil, Cazorla and TR07.

That means that AW will rely a lot on Bellerin being a right winger with Monreal holding slightly back.

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Good evening Lords and Ladies.

What are we going to witness tonight???

Bt62 Gooner
Bt62 Gooner
11 years ago

A little bit of this, a little bit of that and some of the other and goals..

Should win, Dev..

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

I would be a bit sorry if it has to be Leicester’s turn. However, I eagerly await a 7 to 10 goal thrashing of someone. Farfetched, but not impossible.

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

I see this being a low one. I think we needed Giroud for this one. It’s gonna be pass pass pass around their box with no penetration.
I took the bet yhis will be a 1-1 draw.

kel
kel
11 years ago

nor playing well atm. we could be 2 Down already ffs

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Why would Mert go up for a direct free kick?

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

Theo is still trying to look cool.

kel
kel
11 years ago

Trying to thread passes through the eye of a needle atm…

kel
kel
11 years ago

Get inn kos 🙂

kel
kel
11 years ago

spuds 1 down

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

That was quite similar to the 1st goal by Kane against us. Morgan lost Kos and gave him half a yard of pace. Around the 6 yard box that is suicidal. On Saturday the same happened with the spuds first goal. Shows how tight you need to be with opposing players.

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Tots are losing

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

Noting what TR07 is doing when we do not have the ball as compared to Santi and Le Coq…

TR07 never ever ball watches…

kel
kel
11 years ago

Leicester don’t look like a team bottom of the league…

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Great finish Walcott

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

Yes Rico…

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

1-1 liv vs tots

kel
kel
11 years ago

Lol theo. ..2-0

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

Scott- what has happened to your fellow Aussie, Schwarzer… absolutely shite. lol

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Bellerin needs to be careful. He is leaving acres of space behind and while he is very technical and good going forward he must be careful defensively.

Well done Theo. 2-0.

Lords and Ladies…..just notice that Ozil had a hand in both goals. Twice he tested Schwarzer and twice what followed resulted in goals.

kel
kel
11 years ago

A few heavy challenges in this game, could be costly for us… Alexis and cazorla have been roughed up a bit.

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Lloris plays well against us and lets in a shitter like that one against Liverpool

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

I would leave out Sanchez for the 2nd half. I would put Welbeck instead.

As I pointed out when I saw the line up AW is playing a 4-1-3-2 formation today. And as I expected Bellerin would be deployed more as a winger than as a FB. However, this is hampering the team imo. We are being stretched on our right hand side and while it helps in the attack, if you see the Coquelin’s heat map it shows that he is playing more on the right than on the left side of the pitch. Monreal is not going up as much as Bellerin and he is more sound defensively.

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Rico…..feel free to take any of my comments if you want them for match report.

kel
kel
11 years ago

What an attempt from sturridge..

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Has Aaron got his third yet 🙂
Morning all.
Great time slot for us Aussies to watch, right?
WRONG…..bloody work.

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Now you know how I’ll feel from this weekend Scott. Our first game in the world cup is 4am

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

monreal has been solid

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Rico, he can still do it, he’s that good.
Well, he was last season hahahahahaha.
Bradster, I’ve been feeling this pain for years….what is sleep, anyway lol

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Yeah at least I can see these games late at night from my couch

Lewis
Lewis
11 years ago

Only we can make a team as bad as this look decent. FFS

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

That was a lousy goal to concede.

Leicester are coming into the game. Our players need to be careful not to loose concentration.

That was dirty by Vasilevski. Only a yellow??? that was blatantly intentional on Ospina.

kel
kel
11 years ago

Time for Danny and giroud imo…

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

2-1 to liverpool

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Shew, we were lucky there

kel
kel
11 years ago

Fuckin hell Arsenal wake up…

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

You’d never say we’re the home side playing against rock bottom.

kel
kel
11 years ago

Theo off for Ramsay…hopefully we can get a grip in midfield now fs…

kel
kel
11 years ago

We are living dangerously…

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Lucky again. Thank you forchipping

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

midfield was like a sieve before Ramsey came on… tsk flamini.

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

Winter break for Ramsey again this year? Wonder where him and Diaby are going this year. Looks like Wilshere won’t be able to join them though.

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

stream went off…..why was Aaron subbed??? injured???

bradster
bradster
11 years ago

How the hell was that a yellow

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

That has to be a howler of laughable proportions…..OG booked for standing outside the penalty area when Schwarzer kicked the ball.

LOOOOOLLLLLLLLL

The ball hit OG and the ref compounded the keeper’s mistake by making a worse mistake.

That was an idiotic yellow.

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

Dippers 3-2 up. Hope it stays that way.

kel
kel
11 years ago

Very frustrating performance from Arsenal… but the pts are in the bag and that’s all that counts…

Hell Raising Devil
Hell Raising Devil
11 years ago

spuddies loose

LOLLLLLLL

shows the importance of why we should have got a result from our game against them.

Joe
Joe
11 years ago

Well that was bloody hard work

Joe
Joe
11 years ago

Nice bit of refereeing tonight Giroud’s was not the only strange decision tonight but I’ll take the win.

Judge me in May
Judge me in May
11 years ago

What a painful second half to watch…
We definitely need a viera type of a midfielder as our lot got pushed and shoved all the time with minimal physical contact…
We can’t rely on the corrupted incompetent PGMOL to do us any favour..
Sanches had an off day and didn’t get any protection from the useless ref..
Le coq did very well imo and hopefully he continues to improve..
Walcot with all the frustration he brings, took his chance and scored the winning goal..
Ramseys season so far has been very disappointing.. He should never have got married..
What a lazy lacklustre performance from Le quiff..
He should be ashamed.. In fact he should be fined a week salary..
Top work ethics from monreal and the defence in general..
Midlsborough are top of the championship and will be up for it in the cup..
We need to raise our game and hopefully Le Prof picks the right team and tactics.
Good result at scouseland..
Night gooners..

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Mike Jones is simply the most inept referee that I have seen in years…

Leicester got away with a litany of fouls and handballs.

And Jones punished us for everything.
All what was missing was the obligatory soft penalty for Leicester as required by Jones’ puppet master at the PGMOL…

Rosicky and Carzorla worked their nuts off, but I can’t say the same about Theo.
Yes he scored a poachers goal, but I’m not sure of what else he did before being subbed…
Wenger said that the team were nervous, well I wonder if they pick up that nervousness from him, as the Arsenal team being ‘nervous’ has become a nasty habit…

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

My dad watched, and he has no real intricate knowledge of the game, but said Leicester consistently got away with fouls whilst we gave away plenty for doing little.
A few months back, I told him that’s a weekly situation and laughingly suggested I was biased.
Now he watches regularly and wants to know how these pricks get away with it.

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Morning all.

Wath
Wath
Admin
11 years ago

Morning Scott,

Seems your mate Aaron could be on his way to see you for a nice long holiday…!
Someone mentioned him getting married and hence his poor form lol

Maybe it’s true 🙂

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Hi guys.
Aaron again…damn.
Then there’s Alexis.
Plenty of Gooners condemned Wenger for not playing Sanchez on the weekend, yet with even more time to recover, it’s obvious the guy still isn’t healthy enough to play.

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Wath, marriage stopped my potential career in it’s tracks hahahaha

frednerk
frednerk
11 years ago

I’m I on the wrong page,
Morning all anyway.
This squad has not moved on like we hoped,
saturday showed us that,
is it the players,
is it team the selection,
My opinion is wenger has’nt got a clue.
We all know now the players
wanted more balance in the team,
What is balance,
is to stay compact,
is to play a big guy up tops,
is to have width and speed,
is it plan A or B we are seeing.
We were second best saturday,
that was no good.
Last night wenger changed it again,
put it like this,if the BFG did’nt play,
that team last was like looking at a
bunch of midgets running around,
Big grown men.

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Morning All

Morning Rico

Morning Scott

Wath
Wath
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11 years ago

I hear ya Scott, You Mrs told me your great with the dishes though…………..! Were you a juggler…?

Sanchez got a bang to the knee Scott, wasn’t his hammie…! Aaron’s is hammie reportedly.

As for Theo Rico not sure what his problem is….. It’s never been any different but it’s oh so obvious when others do put in a bit of a shift and he don’t…!

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

Morning Wath n Fred

Wath
Wath
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11 years ago

I blame Kev, he should of been working…………!

Wath
Wath
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11 years ago

Fred, Grown men…. yes… Big… definitely not lol

frednerk
frednerk
11 years ago

Them 3 at the back looked big to me Wath,
you must be tall mate

allezkev
allezkev
11 years ago

It was kinda predictable last night, as soon as it was suggested that we’d win by 5, 6 or 10 goals…

I knew it was gonna be closer, but not ‘that’ close!

As soon as Leicester scored our confidence slipped away.

Wenger has filled this team with players who are too soft and too nice.

We need a couple more, I hate this term but it’s applicable, warriors… Players that’ll get in the face of the opposition and that’ll pressurize the referee.

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Fred, we won, so of course we have moved forward.
We beat Citeh two weeks back, so how you come up with that comment is beyond me.
Not so long ago we’d have conceded another last night and Leicester played some decent football….and wrestling, but hey let’s ignore that bit as referees are no excuse, and no factor at all, right?
Yeah, right.
You’d swear we lost reading that.
Wath, haven’t you heard the song…the knee ones connected to the…hamstring 🙂
Sanchez wasn’t his normal self, so the lad needs to be told when he’s fit.
I love his enthusiasm though……
Kev, let’s see Gabriela as one thing he appears to be is a hard nut…hope he gets a run out ASAP.

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

KneeBones, Wath …bloody IPad 🙂

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

There is nothing wrong with being nice and cuddly.. 🙂
Have you not read about the smiley assasins Wath? 🙂 Micko and Bt know them.

Lets be honest this team is where we are and should be. in my view its either AW’s fault or the fans expect too much…

I am not a scout but lastseason and over the summer I mentioned Liam and Morgan as defenders/CB’s we should be buying but instead AW bought Chambers…

Its like IG, Fox and Dick took money to Southampton for Morgan Schneiderlein and their board said to those stooges… why don’t you keep £10m and then we will give you a young English player who was good in the first part of the previous season but got found out afterwards.

Morning all btw….

potter
potter
11 years ago

Beating City was a good result but doesn’t herald anything great. Their last 6 results are DWDLDD , not a great return 7 points out of 18 , all this since Yaya went to Africa . He will be be back soon but who knows he might bring back a bug like his brother did all those years ago. They are seriously out of form . I didn’t see last nights match but I have the Sky hour long coverage recorded to watch later . Trawling reports though at one end we are too weak at the other the now admitted Ferguson kick em off the park tactics were implemented and Untold went into refereeing meltdown . Still 3 points , lets go home.

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Potter, the WAY we beat Citeh showed we have improved.
Ginge, Chambers is very, very young….he deserves time.

tsgh
tsgh
11 years ago

I am with you Scott.
The issue is that as an ardent AW supporter, I expected him to make decisions that would get folks of his back…
He continuously shoots himself in the foot.

scottfromoz
scottfromoz
11 years ago

Ginge, but of he made those same decisions wearing a different shirt, he’d suddenly look better 🙂