Yep, it’s true, Aaron Ramsey, who’s return will be classed as being ‘like a new signing’, could make his return today against Sunderland as Wenger has confirmed he’s in the squad.
If he’s ready to play, I hope he’s in the first team, not just the squad!
Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Thomas Vermaelen, Robin van Persie, Fabianski and Alex Song are all out of todays clash with Sunderland and Koscielny will have a fitness test this morning.
Sunderland also have their own long list of injuries, with Zenden, Cattermole, Gordon, Onunoha, Wellbeck, Campbell and Meyler all out today, Gordon’s absence means will continue in goal.
We have won just one of our last five league meetings with Sunderland (W1, D3, L1)but when Sunderland last beat us at home it was back in 1983
We are unbeaten in our last ten league matches, winning seven and drawing three, in fact we sit top of the form table for February whilst poor old Sunderland sit bottom having lost their last four matches.
That is not to be laughed at though as they have been to Chelsea and won and took a point off both Fulham and the Tiny Totts at their own ground so we will still need to be at our very best and again, those stepping up for the injured need to prove their worth.
I’m not going to guess the team, I’ll leave that to Wenger but whoever plays needs to look at the shirt they are wearing and play with pride….
We all know Old Red Nose has appealed his FA Charge of Improper Conduct following his loss to the Chavs last weekend, well I for one am glad he has. If for once the FA ‘grow some’, they will soon realise that the appeal is frivolous to say the least and give him a few extra matches added on to his ‘sentence’. He is facing a minimum of a four match ban in any case! Would be nice to go to OT with the red nose glowing in the crowd!
Back to today, we have a chance to really put some pressure on the Mancs, if we can get the three points we will sit just one point behind them they don’t play until tomorrow and that’s a tricky fixture at Anfield.
We’ve had the door opened for us, let’s make sure we get one foot through it by battering Sunderland in front our home fans today.
Have a good day all……
rambooooooooooooooooooooo
Indeed jj, i hope he starts 🙂
morning 😉
Morning all,
rico, i recon jack may get twenty minutes, will be suprised if he starts, but am looking forward to watching him again. Read a post this morning about young Myachi,saying that he’s hopeing to play anywhere in a forward position, could be our chance to see Theo down the middle, mind you with what video i have seen of Myachi he could just be pretty exciting to watch
morning honey bee..
yeah hes gotta start..he’ll be pumped..the crowd will be pumped..
koz looks to be in too 😉
morning steve..
myachi could be our hazard..
Morning Steve
I just hope he plays, don’t mind for how long, we have all been waiting for this day 🙂
Re Myachi – a wonderful prospect who really does excite and looks like we are getting close to signing another Barca player on a free, he’s older too so maybe one for next season…
Looks like Hazard isn’t coming in the summer, smart move by his club getting him to sign a new contract. Any club will have to pay mega bucks to get him now…
Counts us out 😉
Morning JJ, the lad looks pretty good, you could be right there
the new contract could be just to put teams off..
the chances are lille have installed a minimun fee release clause to protect their investment..
but we know wenger wont pay it..
we’ll have to wait a while for myachi though..
could be 2 years before he qualifies for permit
I will be happy to see aaron back in the team
whos the barca freebie, rico?
Looks like a bit of summer cleaning, these guys are so young, futures looking up.
Got to be the tores lad with a spanish father and English mother
if their is a summer cleansing and AW can get good cash we may well see a big name signing..
AW wont spend but if hes generated enough cash through player sales, now the stadium and highbury square crisis is over, that money may well go back into the squad..
if he sells 5 players and makes 25mil he should bring 4 players thru from academy and buy a superstar
yeah i know about jon harper but i though they might have been another 😉
just to piss barca off more
nah, its not him, i’ll go find his name
Victor Vazquez, 24, who is a free agent in June.
Víctor Vázquez Solsona (born 20 January 1987 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona B, as an attacking midfielder.
He’d be a good addition and and at good age, replacement for AA and Rosicky maybe??
mmm..
never heard of him..
hope hes the next pedro and not bischoff 😉
They not got any central defenders rico
i dunno about replacement rico
but at 24 he wont be shoved in the stiffs
Barca aren’t happy about it so he must be ok – no doubt he can’t get into the first team because of who is in front of him…
Whats the word on fringpong he’s been off the map forever
Solsona ? Solsona was a great player from Espanhol (Barcelona) on the 70th -80th years. Was also a midfield.. His is son? familiar?
😆 Steve, I wish they did…
Steve – Frimpong was cruciate liagements, a season out, he could be back for the last 4/6 weeks…
frimpong was done for the season from the word go..never expected him back..
hey jm..
its still not ringing any bells but im sure ktr will know
jj, i reckon both of them will leave in the summer… AA will be going into his last year on his contract and Tomas sadly just can’t cut it anymore in the PL
we already got him
iggy 😉
Vazquez – now i know why wenger wants him…..
Note the injury 🙂
Having entered FC Barcelona at the age of nine, Vázquez progressed through its ranks, making his first team debut on 12 April 2008, replacing Santiago Ezquerro for the final 15 minutes at Recreativo de Huelva, a 2–2 draw.
Josep Guardiola called Vázquez for Barcelona’s pre-season in the following season, where he appeared in three matches. On December 9, he started and finished in the 2–3 home loss against FC Shakhtar Donetsk, in the last UEFA Champions League group stage match, but was again mainly registered with the B team.
On 8 February 2009, he suffered a serious knee injury in a game for the reserves, going on to miss the remainder of the season. Due to the lengthy calendar in 2009–10, many first-team players were given breaks towards the end of the year. Thus, on 29 December 2009, four Barça B players were called by Guardiola: Vázquez, Thiago Alcântara, Gai Assulin and Jonathan dos Santos.[1] All returned to the reserves the following month.
On 7 December 2010, after coming from the bench for fellow youth graduate Jeffrén Suárez, who suffered an early injury, Vázquez scored his first goal for Barcelona’s first team, contributing to a 2–0 home win against FC Rubin Kazan for the Champions League group stage, as the Catalans had already secured the first place in their group.[2]
He looks good too jj……
I was watching the game the other night, someone said about our shooting yesterday, and i was not suprised at some of our shooting miles off target but Nas hit some absolute stunners even Bendy got one in, you think the practicing is kicking in
it was cos it was orient steve..
they were shit we had time to shoot..
we dont get the same time when we are closed down..
I wish they would take a few more shots Steve, Rosicky really frustrated me agaist B’ham, clear cut chance on goal but didn’t pull the trigger – yet before his injury he scored a few scorchers from the edge of the box..
The two against the Dippers spring to mind…
rico, how are we managing to secure some of these Spainish youngsters. i know securing youngsters are under a different system than us, about a year or so behind us, but is it because these youngsters cannot see a future at Barca
Good point JJ, Diabys clean through one had me jumping in the air then he missed the goal(the air was blue)
I haven’t a clue if I’m honest Steve, i guess the souts over in spain are busy watching the youth and reserves and picking up the gossip relating to their personal situations…
its all clever stuff but i wish we could get a few more from england too… maybe ten years older though 😉
Back in a short while….
Morning all, don’t think Hazard is what we need if I’m honest so as good a player as he is i’d rather we bought an out and out goalscorer rather than yet another creative attacking midfielder, we got more than enough of them.
Morning Wath,
Loads of midfeilders but still none compare with threading a ball like Cesc
Hmmmmmmmmmm tough call that one Steve, Jack is on a par for me and Naz not far behind…! Hazard plays wide but isn’t a winger and isn’t a goalscorer, we need an out n out winger or a goalscorer so lets buy players for a change that actually fit in exactly where we need them not a jack of all trades.
hey wath
thats also a problem steve..
because we have so masny ‘runners’ from midfield its often the case its our mids who are shooting..
nasris abit more composed than most so he finds the net more often than not but the rest are not clinical enough and miss too many..
denilsons worm burners do my swede in
Wath, dont know if you would agree but i think we have one now in Theo, put him in the middle and i think he could just be the one, so often i have seen a pass pushed through for bendy or Robin even Chamakh and their to slow i’m sure Theo is wasted out wide and he wants to come inside all the time great pace thats wasted, if he runs down the wing theres no one to pass to
Imagine for a minute Barca attacking us and we get the ball and Theo was on the centre spot and one of them lobs went in they we hate and Theo went after it, now that could raise the heartrate i know
thats why a player like theo is a massive weapon against a team like barca..
for all theos negatives hes dangerous because barca play a high line and are easily caught on the break when done properly with pace..
Yep agree Steve but also find that when Theo does make runs from out wide where he wants a little ball played in between defenders he never gets the pass, agree he is wasted out wide as I still don’t think he is a wingers arse. Don’t need to be Einstein to know if he plays off the last defender balls in behind the defence he will feed on all day long.
JJ i now know how we win on tuesday with your pace theory….. We play denilson up front with squlli 😉
Similar to what your saying Steve and something thats driven me absolutely ape shit for ages is “WHY” is Theo in our pen area when the opposition have a corner…?????? He isn’t gonna win a header he isn’t gonna defend very well so why is he not on or around the half way line ????? It’s a no brainer…! They would have to put 2/3 defenders close to him and any lose ball goes into space knowing Theo has a good chance of getting on the end of it. It’s a weapon we fail to use properly and is sooooooooooo frustrating.
I look at the prices of Tores & others and wonder what Walcott could bring if used right not that i want him sold, but think how much to bring one in
Yeh got to agree, any body wouldnt want him on the half way line, not even if it was a penalty
When you look at Carroll and Torres I reckon a fair price was 15mil for Carroll and abt 30 for Torres, what you reckon…? As you say we gonna pay 20mil for a decent striker thats for sure but we can rasie at least that just from getting rid of the fringe players that quite obviously are not gonna cut it at Arsenal.
Is he definitly out for Barca
Best form of defence is to attack and the risk of not marking Theo if he is around the centre circle means the opposition wouldn’t be able to commit as much as they might want for corners etc…! It does my head in to see him in our own box defending a corner.
Seems that way Steve, not even a hint he might make it…!
I personally dont rate them that high, Tores has had three four games and is still goaless and Carrol has a lot to prove yet, if he ever gets a game, i rate Rooney, dont like to say that but his workrate is second to none he’s distribution is good and if his
told to support he does it realy well. shame his such a wanker
Newcastle said they were willing to sell Carroll last summer for £1 Million….
Hi WATH…
I suppose a players worth is what someones prepared to pay then, Strange that when you think were second in the league, and our teams worth about 35mill. would you swap them for Carrol
No way Steve, he’ll be inside soon, no use to us then 😉
Boo! How’s everyone? Can’t wait to see Rambo myself. 🙂 And it’s high time the second stringers stepped up… Looking at ya, D&D. 😉
Hey, agag, long time to hear, all ok i hope?
Sadly, I think D&D will feature today and heavily…..
I think Rambo will be used in the week rico, and so he will get on if only for 20.
even a couple of years ago, theo was worth up in the 20’s
now hes worth double that..
its not his talent either
its the market now..and its being going that way for years
Suns shineing so time for a bit of gardening before the game starts catch up later.
Ah, Tuesday Steve, I hope wenger isn’t thinking too much about that game, 3 points are massive and a must today…
jj, English, just because he’s english 😉
Back in a bit….
11 Wins for us in the league = PL winners..
simple isn’t it…..
Off for a bit – back later…
Anyone about or am i talking to myself
Ok Billy no mates catch you later
How are we doing guys?
Not great. Goalies at the half, but we have been rather subdued. Mackems working hard, but we have also been a bit sloppy. Denilson in particular.
Nik forced keeper into a fine save. But not much else.
Cheers Oliver, I am unable to watch and it seems to me the BBC are only reporting when Sunderland attack.
Afternoon
Not seen the first half, how we doing??
How many shots do we have that are straight at the keeper?
Just had another. Chamkh fed arsh who fired straight at the keeper…
Seems we have been on the wrong end of several decisions again today.
Tell me these all work themselves out by the end of the season?
I cannot believe we haven’t scored …..
What a load of cack!!
This hurts!!! Absolutely 2 points dropped here…
What is the point of chamakh? Is he afraid of the ball?
Referee was a disgrace in the second half – but we should have been able to overcome him.
Hi oliver – i haven’t seen any of it today, just been listening to the wireless… all i got was just how many chances we missed……
Why was diaby left on, he was having a nightmare
Two easy points dropped, this is becoming a nightmare season
Diaby and Denilson were dire! Grrrr. This will cost us! 😡
hi rico. I saw it live and in it’s entirety. Not good enough from us. Ref crew blew two huge calls, rash should have had a penaly and was wrongly called offside when he put the ball in the net…stll shoulda won…
I’ll do the report…
You can understand people moaning at refereeing decisions these guys are either being paid off or they are just not good enough
Hello, rico, oliver, Steve. WTF was that??
No urgency, no passion, no sense of commitment. Poor, poor, poor.
What was the big rush getting Rambo back he could of had another weeks wages paid. we need a clear out no doubt about that
Thanks oliver, for the report and the update…
Hi Agag, breaks your fffing heart dosn’t it
I can’t comment on the game agag, i haven’t seen and cant until much later today which means tomorrow for me 🙁
Steve, roll on the summer i say and if wenger doesn’t have a clear out, he has really lost it…….
It does, Steve, it does. But it is so very angering, too. If they can’t be arsed to play, they shouldn’t put on the shirt.
rico, I was on hols. 😉 Was trying to catch up with work… Sigh.
rico, Arsh was through with a defender right behind him lost him and he fell forward and pushed arsh in the back with two hands just as Arsh shot and the ref never saw it neither the linesman, blatent penalty and the prat gave a goalkick
Spare yourself, rico. In what could be a season-defining game, our players didn’t bother to show up. And I have had it with Diaby. I don’t hold him to any high standards, but… grrrr…
I dont understand Diaby last few games i’ve watched him get worse and worse,just watched Arsene’s interview, he showed great composure, he was seathing but was frightened of a three match touchline ban, surely Managers have got to get together and have a say in these decisions owing to the tv camera’s proveing that there wrong decisions, i’m listening to all the managers and their all moaning, i smell a rat.
what can we do? if i could play this for them i would… no leadership out there today, just a willingness to revert to our sideways-backwards passing routine when it became apparent sunderland would not cave in easy.
It’s been a long long while since I have seen such a tosser of a referee who gave us absolutely nothing, the linesman was also a fucking prick, blatant penalty first he holds AA back then pushes him in the back when shooting and then AA scores a perfectly good goal when at least a yard onside. May I take this opportunity to say that AW is a complete and utter dickbrain when starting any kind of football match with diabolical and dire in midfield, not only did he do this but he put Jack sort of playing as a 2nd striker, we had no tempo what so ever we went backwards and sideways and only when these two insults to an Arsenal shirt were taken off did we look in the slightest dangerous. If this lot are going to barca on tuesday we will get smashed to bits…! Not in a million years will this lot win the league, sorry but thats how I just seen it and we are nowhere near good enough and the manager is to blame for picking such a crap midfield.
Steve, Wenger should of been clever and asked if the ref was from manchester and left it at that BUT doesnt cover the fact his team selection was piss poor and he didnt change it anywhere near early enough and these are the players he swears by who are not good enough simple as that. The league is there to be won and D&D play 2 yard backward passes to each other, they both drive me to drink. . . . .
The amount of attacks we have and the final ball is so often bad , o for an instinctive striker that can shoot with power and direction, where is that quick breakaway we were talking about five or six weeks ago, slow boreing build up twenty useless passes ten sidewaysforward, nine backwards, and a pass to them
spot on Wath, in a nutshell
The last three seasons Wenger has fucked up doing exactly the same thing…. Doesn’t buy when we should has faith in players clearly not good enough and then has the tactical nous of a frog… pardon teh pun…! We have the players to play that would of got a result today and yet he fucked up big time, yes the officials were beyond pathetic but doesn’t mean we can blame them for still not looking like we really wanted it, Jack yet again one of a few. Moan and slag me off all you want but from where I am sitting the common factor at Arsenal of whats wrong is the manager.
Never good having to go back and catch up agag, hope you had a fab time 🙂
It’s bloomin annoying when you haven’t seen a game and can’t comment – and the way you are all talking i think i will take agag’s advice and not bother watching…
I’m gutted….
I must admit, he’s decision making should come under fire, not every player can play good everytime but surly you dont leave a player on that is having a mare when you have others on the bench, or is he bottling and saving them for Barca
It will give you the hump rico, but you know you will watch it
piss off diaby and denilson..
every fucking year we end up relying on them and every fucking year they let us down..
fuck off and let someone else have a go….
WATH, it’s been heading towards the manager for the last five seasons….
it says a lot when you guys again say Jack was our best player….. and he’s the ‘boy’ in the team….
hear hear jj
Fantastic, rico, 🙂 bar the bit on Carling Cup finals. 😥
I honestly do not know what D&D are in our team for.
WATH and JJ– eloquent as ever. 😉
If Mr Wenger had any love for the club he would do the decent thing and go. Tactically he is way out of his depth. Somebody please contact the Japanese Embassy & ask them if they want him back!
At last, the true jj is back 😉 😉
Don’t go to that day agag, i’m still not over that…..
im so fucking annoyed with AW
whats the point of letting rambo go out on loan for months in a high tempo competitive league to get him fit and then when hes available he picks neves ‘wheres my inhaler’ denilson and abou ‘what, im supposed to chase the ball too??’ diaby…
its not over yet but it appears that this game with barca is a complete and utter sideshow and hes been more concerned with them for weeks..
bollox to barca field a weakend team and get our players back for the PL…
Tell you what rico, i used to love the way we played but they probably pass more now and i find it boreing knowing that they will fizzle out like a dud firework and only find a live one when your about to nod off, Jack dosnt give the ball away as much as some of the others but we still get a lot of side passes, we get our attack Mid pass the ball forward and the forwards pass it back past them to the ctl def drives me mad
Tell you what JJ CL may be the one we get a chance in
jj – now you know why i asked the question about which one to give up, wenger said he would face every game as it came with equal importance, well i say rubbish – rambo should have started today and tuesday…..
Steve,
‘i used to love the way we played but they probably pass more now and i find it boreing knowing that they will fizzle out like a dud firework’
Spot on, just so spot on…..
Wenger fucked up pure and simple, picks dumb and dumber and we had zero tempo zero creativity and he puts Naz wide and Jack in a forward role, what a complete plum…! Rambo should of played from the off even an hour would of been good, he could not of been worse than them two and we all know even a blind man knows that dumb n dumber in the same team is a recipe for disaster yet Wenger does it time and time again.
woullnt supprise me if we had them all back for tues, didnt want barca to see rambo, keeping them in the dark about cesc and theo song vermin
if we have to pick diaby and denilson for barca then weve got no chance
I’m off for dinner, back in a while guys/gals….
Wenger doesn’t have the bollox to pick a team to win the next 10 league games cos our poor players need a rest and are tired, utter shit, he will throw the fa cup next week with a piss poor side and insult the fans yet again just like the other year, then he will say we are tired lacked creativity in the final third but played a very good game, fuck knows what he was watching today to say he was happy with the way we played, who exactly is he trying to kid, does he think we are all totally thick…?
Steve, pls pass on those tabs your on cos I jst think the only one who’s delusional is Wenger, those players def aint back mate and that lot today will be there tuesday maybe with Cesc but thats gonna make no difference at all. Time to face facts…!
Steve, wenger has all but confirmed that they are all back barring theo and robin… darned annoying though as he is the one player Barca fear….
I fear all their players, hang on i need another tab
I want what your on Steve chuck em this way mate don’t be shy….. 😉
You wouldnt like them Wath they give you a headache and a stiffening, mind you the old woman likes them.
This isn’t a reaction just cos we can’t beat Sunderland this has been simmering all season the same problems have been there since day one the players who fail to deliver have not improved and still fail to deliver a manager who has failed to deliver for years has yet again more by luck that judgement got his team in a position to win things but fails when it matters, poor selections and no buying of players to strengthen the team in Jan when we are so close BUT yet so far, a few injuries highlights this and yet again May will show us up as also rans, mancs are average and we can’t capitalise on that so what does that make us…!.
wel one things for sure
wengers got no excuses this year..
weve got some of the best lads in ages about to break into the team in the summer and the financial shackles are off and have been officially since summer 2010..
if we dont have a clear out of the crap that backed cesc and co up for the past 4 years then somethings not well…
It might give me something to look forward to Steve 😉
A lad I know is a massive Glasgow Rangers fan, & when they’re unhappy with either the manager or the product they’re being served up, they simply boycott Ibrox, & the board are forced to react. Why aren’t the Arsenal fans doing the same at the Emirates? Put into context, everyone lauds Wenger as though he were a football God. Mourinho’s tactics against Barcelona in last years CL completely exposed Wenger’s flaws, & for a so-called ‘top coach’, his head-to-head record against either Mourinho or Ferguson is shocking. Has he ever dominated & thrashed Man Utd as they have done to us (6-1!?! 4-0!?! The one-sided CL semi-final!?! Even this season at OT, we never registered a single decent shot after they scored!), & how easy was their win at the Emirates last season? He is undoubtedly a principled man of great integrity who has done many wonderful things for our great club, but he is some way short of being a top footballing coach.
evening all
Peoblem is HCAA for every few thousand that wanna stay away to show they not happy with whats going on you got at least that amount of jcl’s and tourists to buy the seats up…! Wenger makes the club far to much money for them to slap his wrists and ask the appropriate questions regarding team selection and team results.
rico, I’m not over it either. 🙁
WATH, you’ll give yourself a coronary, if you’re not careful. 😉
waths spot on..
the emirates is made up of joshuas and jemimas now, they just go to see the sights or to show off their season ticket at prince williams wedding bash..
they wouldnt boycott…and those who did would just be replaced in a swipe of a platinum credit card..
AGAG I seen far worse Arsenal teams than this but that was also when you actually knew we were shit but least they put in 100% crap or not. We expect more from a team that is overhyped and who we pay a small fortune to follow week in week out. The problem comes from the top, board and manager.
I understand totally what you’re saying W.A.T.H., but the heart-beat of every club is it’s supporters. Is there nobody among us who can influence and instigate the change of philosophy that is so desperately needed? Someone has to make Wenger accountable for such piss-poor passionless crap, surely? Otherwise he’s getting £6m? a year for not competing. I don’t hate Wenger, I just hate what he has been allowed to do to our club. He deserves great respect for building a fantastic stadium, (and for the ‘Invincibles’), but everyone has now worked him out, & he really doesn’t have any other tactic. Fundamentally football is a sport which we all grew up to love, but if we’re now saying that greed & the need for money is more important than winning trophies, we may as well all pack it in and say R.I.P. Arsenal FC.
I think your last comment hits the nail on the head WATH, it’s not about the winning or losing sometimes, it’s about the effort given by the players – and far too many times this season we have seen very little effort…
That is the reason we lost matches we should have won….
HCAA, top comments. AW has to ship out a fair few in the summer. Waste of wages!
HCAA, good to see you here
i get what you are saying but how many are on the waiting to get ST’s? For every one that goes, another will be allowed in….
i don’t hate wenger but he’s really starting to naff me off, three players would make us into a great side – they would have done five years ago and it remains the same today….
HCAA, I hear what your saying and totally agree but we have new age fans that think Wenger is the be all and end all, we have a board that backs him to the hilt because he makes the club prifitable, we seem to of lost sight that playing football is about winning and success breeds success and that sponsors pay to sponsor winning clubs not oens who play pretty football, us the fans get shafted with the most expensive seats in World football we were promised that the club would compete to buy world class players and yet we have been lied to time and time again but if you question Wenger then your not a real fan or a glory hunter, well I am a real fan and I am def not a glory hunter but I think i am entitled to ask where does our money go…? where are the quality players we were told we could buy, why is Wenger not accountable when he picks crap teams and loses cup finals and picks team to go and perform below par and lose fa cup ties at Old Trafford that 9000 fans pay a hell of a lot of money to support their team and yet for what? to watch an Arsenal team roll over and get beat 4-0…? We have seen him build a team like the invincibles and yet we watch him back substandard players as is his life depended on it, he is a very wise man and yet sometimes acts like a complete fool, why…? Why then also treat the fans as if we are all stupid, the club call us customers well customers that are not happy are entitled to show their unhappiness, your right HCAA the fans need to do something but while most still see nothing wrong then nothing will change.
the supporters dont mean shit to AW
hes spent the last 5 years throwing the dometics when we werent good enough for the pl and cl
and now we are good enough for the PL he still refuses to spend that little bit extra to reinforce positions that go to shit when the injuries kick in..
rico..
its all about giving 100%
fergies manutd are shit but he makes them work there bollox off..when they pick up a few niggles his squad players come and do a job cos they run about like tits..they may not look as good but they dont carry any passengers
its a different mentality at arsenal..the backups are technially gifted but they have no workrate and we end up with too many passengers and we look out of sorts..
we need those local lads to come thru and run their tits off cos our current backups are just happy to run the the bank with their pay cheque..
agag, i’m with all of that too – to be fair we have all been calling out for a few bits of dead wood to be launched on the nearest strip of waters…
seriously, so many who are out on loan would give more than two or three of this sop called ‘second string’…..
Top comment WATH….
jj, i know and that’s what really cheeses me off – they are sportsmen, why they do they not want to play to the best they can, why do they not want to come off the pitch thinking ‘ god i feel good, i gave my all today’…
and you are right, its grit that have got the mancs points at the death of games when they looked like all had gone….
we don’t have that, not accross the whole squad, by a long way….
we can still win the league..
theres 10 games left and we are unbeaten in 2011..
but we need to fuck the cl and fa cup off….get the injured players back for brom in 3 weeks and then go all out..and if robin come back for the last 5 games we’ll go on to win it..
not when diaby and denilson play anyway rico
weve seen it so many times over the last 5 years its not a new thing..its something we worked out years ago they cant play together and make us tick
the midfield is our engine room..its where the games won and lost you control the midfield and you control the tempo but those two cant control shit cos they have no workrate and we shouldnt be relying on them anymore to carry us over the line cos it doesnt work..it never has..they too lathargic..denilson cant run and diaby wont
rambo should have played today..ive said it for a few days now and i stick by it..
There’s absolutely no excuse for the performance earlier. Poor line-up, dire players. This is on AW’s head. SJJ, I agree. I want the league, too. Barca must be salivating at the prospect of facing the team that played today…
Still very angry about it. rico, I know you’ll watch the game anyway, but time and again D&D gave the ball away. Diaby, at least, had one or two good runs; Denilson… Eurgh.
you just know wenger will risk cesc on tuesday jj, and he’ll get another knock and season over……
i still think we will get a draw on tuesday…..
if we come away with nothing this year after doing so well and not buying in january i’ll be pissed..
I think, we’ll nick the CL tie. Just a feeling. 😉
You and me both jj……
i think so too agag, and i don’t know why either….
JJ, hand on heart you think this team can win the next ten league games….? If you do I honestly think you’ve lost the plot…! Stoke away, yids away, poo n mancs at home still, games we need to turn up and compete and show some bollox, not gonna happen. I just hope we can hold on to second. I’m seriously considering not even watching tuesday, am so pleased I turned down a tkt to go…!. I’d far rather waste my money elsewhere.
I have emailed you, rico. 🙂
Isn’t it a double-edge sword? Surely winning major trophies sells the club to a bigger world-wide audience. As much as we all hate Man Utd, their brand is bigger and better than ours, and that nas a lot to do with Ferguson’s desire for success. And when they go forward they always look like they can score goals. Every summer Ferguson looks his players in the eye, and if they don’t have the nunger or desire to fight for success, they’re gone. Maybe the French just don’t have that in their DNA. Scotsmen have won the most titles in the history of English football, & they’ve won a few European Cups too. George Graham won us a European trophy, and whilst Wenger had mitigating circumstances in 2006 CL final, his team were shockingly poor in 2000 UEFA final against an ordinary Galatasaray(‘scuse the spelling!). Look at what Bill Shankly built at Liverpool, and what Matt Busby did at Man Utd long before Ferguson. Ferguson has survived 25 years, regularly swats Wenger like you do an annoying fly, and has dealt with Abramovic’s billions in a way that Wenger just isn’t capable of. Even our own multi-title winning Lee Dixon questioned his old manager’s tactical philosophy! I’m no expert, but I think we should have a Scotsman managing our club, but please don’t ask me who.
i haven’t received it agag 🙁
Guys/Gals – gotta to fo for the day, be good and see you tomorrow….
night night froma very cheesed off rico…. 🙁
That’s odd. I’ll try again, rico. 🙂
WATH, I’ll send you a photo, I think you’d like.
I’ll await the photo AGAG. . . .
HCAA, spot on, sponsors and coorporate money goes to successful teams not ones who play pretty but always fail.
We have been saying it for months on here that I don’t want Wenger gone but I want the “old” Wenger back, the one that bought Vieira and Petit the one that got the best out of Henry and Overmars, where is the hunger and the desire in the players and your rigth fungusbum gets average players to spill blood for the team and it works and thats where we slip up all the time. Wenger to go…? maybe maybe not but either way doesnt mean we have to shut up when things are not write and we are entitled to question his tactics and his teams and aks why….???
Nite Rico, pour a nice large GG it will help you for sure 😉
Fast forward 12 months does anyone really think things will be any different?Will Denilshit Diaby Almunia Eboue Bender and Vela have been shown the exit door by then?Will Wenger have brought in the quality we lack.
As for Chamakh i maybe wrong but isnt it strange that his form collapsed when the cold weather arrived.
Chamakh another Reyes?
You reckon Chamakh will have a decent game on tuesday Don in that nice barca weather…?
If Wenger sells the players you mentioned it seems as if its a persoanl afront that he has failed as they are his babies…! Part of me says he’ll never sell them as he is to stubborn the other part says he can’t possibly be that stupid as to keep them..?
Well, funny enough, I have just had a bottle arrive at my door 🙂 🙂
Hi don, Reyes was good 🙂
Thats the one I sent over to you 😉
Got my emails, rico? Send WATH the one he’d like. 😉 I am off. I promised I’d cook breakfast! Wish me luck.
😛 Well thank you WATH….
Right, def gone now….
I did agag, will check them out tomorrow, thank you 🙂
Cracking banter, and thanks all for welcoming me & my biased/blinkered views. It seems that’s all we have to console ourselves & make sense of the on-going shit we’re constantly served up. Goodnight & good health to one and all.
Cheers HC, hope to see you back here soon, we’re not always so miserable or pissed off but it seems the way things are going if the truth has to be said then so be it….!
I’m off as well pub is calling need to go debate tactics with myself 😉
Cheers all.
Don’t burn brekkie AGAG and chat soon.
i dont think we’ll win them all no..
but i reckon we can still get away with dropping another 4 points…
thats 8 wins and 2 draws which is not impossible..
we havent lost so far in 2011..
weve won most and only drawn a couple..if we can maintain that form then we’ll take it..
the mancs still have to play liverpool, chelsea and us…
we gotta get those players back, and beat them tho to stand a chance..thats a 6 pointer..
morning….
Not good enough but expected.
hey up
6 first teamers out for barca… 🙁
probably out for mancs too 🙁
if we risk them they’ll prob be out for season 🙁
I am sorry guys but Wenger has let us down.
should have strengthened in jan..
but how many times do we say that..
all is not lost..if we forget about rushing them back for barca and manu we will have them back for wbrom and the final stretch of the season..
chances are tho wenger will play them in the next week
New post going up guys…
Come on JJ, how many first team players are out for the next few games?
Should have strengthened in Jan? Should have strengthened in the last 3 windows and slowly built a squad that was capable to win everything.
I am no genius but if Wenger buys some top class experienced players around 27 years old, it gives us the here and now strength to win, gives the younger players players to attain to be and learn from and gives scope for the younger players to grow slowly and take the places of the older players “organically”.
I hate this “kill the youth” excuse. Would an in his prime Bergkamp/Vieira/Henry/Adams kill the youth or give them someone to learn from?