Arsenal V's The Shadow In The East Sat 12th Sept 2015 KO 3pm

[LDG]

First 3pm KO of the year against the Orcs of Mordor.

Going to this :popcorn:

4-0

[Letters]

4-0
:lol: Yeah, our prolific strikeforce will wreak havoc as usual.

[Niall_Quinn]

Will be a good result if we can limit casualties to 50% of the team. We should position Ramsey in the centre with Coquelin and deploy Walcott on the right flank, feint attack through the centre to draw the enemy forces and then hit them hard on the flank. Alexis to drive through any gaps created on the front line to support the flanking attack. Giroud will have to try and hold on at the front for as long as he can, then bring Giant Haystacks on to replace him when the enemy forces have been depleted. I think spears to counter their clubs and knives for when they get in close.

BLitW :bow:

3-0 Hat-trick by whoever replaced Ozil

[Marc Overmars]

A good start, early goal, fail to get a 2nd then hit with a sucker punch.

1-1.

[GP]

3-0

[Globalgunner]

Own goal to continue his current hot streak for us 1-0

[Bumble]

We will win. It will be scrappy, it will be a bit boring but a relative comfortable 2-0. With the Ox and Cazzie to score.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Im going to this with my son. Hopefully we get to see a goal (for us) in this one. I genuinely can't remember the last match we attended where we actually scored.

[LDG]

Im going to this with my son. Hopefully we get to see a goal (for us) in this one. I genuinely can't remember the last match we attended where we actually scored.

Quick pint in the pins afore, sir?

[fakeyank]

Quick pint in the pins afore, sir?

See you there :tiphat:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Quick pint in the pins afore, sir?

Sounds good. What time are you and FY getting there?

[GP]

Wait what??

[LDG]

Sounds good. What time are you and FY getting there?

Me, about 12.30/1pm

FY, about never in a million fucking years

[Xhaka Can’t]

I'll try to get there for 1 to 1:30. My son has swimming and art on Saturday mornings (separate classes) so not sure what time he will be ready.

[LDG]

I'll try to get there for 1 to 1:30. My son has swimming and art on Saturday mornings (separate classes) so not sure what time he will be ready.

No rush mate. I'm about all day, and after the match too, so sure we'll catch up at some point.

[Syn]

Also going to this, hope it's as funny as last year when their trains up north stopped. GW team meet imho.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34211616

Fuck off you cunt. Took 18 months off the CM talisman for the world's top 9 international team.

[Marc Overmars]

I'll be there as well, going with my dad after I've finished swimming and art class.

[Syn]

Drinks on Moe IMO.

[AFC Leveller]

1-2.

Giroud to go full Giroud and miss a lorryload, Cech mistake and a Diouf double.

Little bit jaded and lacking sharpness.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I'll be there as well, going with my dad after I've finished swimming and art class.

:haha:

Not if you leave the laundry basket out again.

[milla]

I'll be there as well, going with my dad after I've finished swimming and art class.

No shit :faint:

[Master Splinter]

5-0.

We'll click and hammer them.

Hope Gabriel keeps his place and we stick with the same front three as last time.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal: Cech, Monreal, Koscielny, Gabriel, Bellerin, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis, Theo.
Subs: Ospina, Debuchy, Gibbs, Arteta, Ox, Campbell, Giroud.

Stoke: Butland; Bardsley, Cameron, Muniesa, Pieters; Whelan, van Ginkel; Diouf, Shaqiri, Arnautovic; Joselu.
Subs: Given, Wollscheid, Wilson, Ireland, Sidwell, Bojan, Crouch.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif on the bench vs the Orcs? Theo will lead the line against the fighting Uruk Hai? This will end in tears and leg splints.

[Kano]

Merts is still dead. We should win this and they're not a top 8 team.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Trevor Francis straight on the barely any English players train.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How haven't we scored?! :haha:

[Master Splinter]

WTF?!!!!!!

[Thierrymon]

Theo :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

Fuck Walcott - he's done. Striker needed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Aleis header, saved on to the post.

Theo. :haha:

Sort it out man.

[Master Splinter]

I don't want to see that replay ever again?

How?

What?

[Globalgunner]

Walcott. !!!

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Oh Theo...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Butland saves from Alexis' freekick.

[Thierrymon]

Alexis off the post again!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We hit the post again. :haha:

[Master Splinter]

One of those fucking days .

FFS!

[Thierrymon]

Theo :doh:

Misses easy header.

[AFC Leveller]

We look good.

Need to score.

[Master Splinter]

:wacko:

It should be 3-0.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil. :cloud9:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Theo shoots, Butland saves. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Walcott is shit. This much is plain to see.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shaqiri. :lol:

[AFC Leveller]

Little bit no handbrake today.

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis is such a great player.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well done Cech.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla boots it out of play.

[Niall_Quinn]

Cech hunting Orc in his pen box. Nicely done.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bellerin. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Good strength from Ramsey.

[Power n Glory]

We really need to settle our nerves and get a goal. Should be a goal up at least.

[Niall_Quinn]

Kos almost has his arm pulled out of the socket in the pen box.

PL tBLitW :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Great stuff by Ozil.

Ramsey - not so great tbf.

[Power n Glory]

Why not? Good attempt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Butland saves from Koscielny!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla smacks it, Butland saves.

[Niall_Quinn]

Is their keeper having "The Best Game Of His Career" by any chance?

[Niall_Quinn]

FFS - put Theo on the wing and Alexis in the centre.

[Kano]

Theo is useless upfront, at least another forty minutes until his substitution.

He might even pub a couple but he spends most of the game looking lost.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's not "the" Bowyer warming up for the White Hand Legion of Death, is it :o

[A Gunner]

1 - 0 Walcott!!!!

[Power n Glory]

Yes!

[Thierrymon]

Yay! Walnut 1-0

[McNamara That Ghost...]

THEO!!!!!

[Master Splinter]

THEO!!!!!!!!

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

BOOM!!! fahhkin get in!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil. :cloud9:

He is great.

[AFC Leveller]

Great tackle from cos great pass great finish.

[Power n Glory]

Great tackle from Coquelin, beautiful pass from Ozil, a great touch and finish by Theo.

[Master Splinter]

Coquelin is simply brilliant.

[Niall_Quinn]

Theo! Fucking great player.

[Kano]

When he runs onto the ball he looks decent. Problem is we spend most of the game facing up to a defence.

At least we've bloody scored at home now!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cech saves from Joselu.

I have a good gameplan - let's all lose our heads!

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

As I often say...Theo usually needs a bit of time to get going. Don't fluff any more now!

[Niall_Quinn]

Win the ball. Coq :bow:

Play the lethal pass. Ozil :bow:

Put the fucker in the net. Theo :bow:

No fucking around. No tippy-tappy. Pace, purpose, bang, bang, bang.

Now everyone has to block their ears in case WUMger tries to shut this down.

[Globalgunner]

Theo! Fucking great player.

NQ Behave yourself.

[Niall_Quinn]

As I often say...Theo usually needs a bit of time to get going. Don't fluff any more now!

It's the opposite - he needs no time whatsoever. If he has even a split second to engage his brain then it all goes to shit. He's 100% instinctive.

[Niall_Quinn]

NQ Behave yourself.

???

I'm a footie fan. I can change my mind every 15 seconds if I want and be as biased is hell in the process. It's great.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey rubberlegs.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coq. :haha:

[Master Splinter]

Coquelin maybe too confident now.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We have had the most shots in the league this season. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Coquelin - great rugby playa too.

[Power n Glory]

It's the opposite - he needs no time whatsoever. If he has even a split second to engage his brain then it all goes to shit. He's 100% instinctive.

Wouldn't he have scored his first two attempts if that were the case and fluffed the third where he had time to think more?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil booked. :doh:

[A Gunner]

I don't see how was Ozil booked, apart from the fact he's an Arsenal player!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Theo didn't fancy our chances of scoring from a counter-attack then anyway.

[Niall_Quinn]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Card for Ozil.

:haha: :haha:

It's FUCKING RIDICULOUS

[Niall_Quinn]

Wouldn't he have scored his first two attempts if that were the case and fluffed the third where he had time to think more?

Shut up with your fancy logic

[Niall_Quinn]

I don't see how was Ozil booked, apart from the fact he's an Arsenal player!

Well, so you do see how he was booked then.

[Globalgunner]

Own goal has been useless for us so far in this game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Diouf. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Own goal has been useless for us so far in this game.

He's been Wengered

[Niall_Quinn]

Santi does their Orc then gives a little wink on the walk back. Nice.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT. Well we have a goal at least.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil and Alexis :bow:

HT 1-0

Should be 4-0

[Power n Glory]

Shut up with your fancy logic

Excuse me. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Good performance in everything except sticking the ball in the net. We've seen how we can score, we need to do more of that than the Wenger stuff and we should get another couple in the second half.

Basic stuff is back in order, passing, tackling, defending.

Ref has been a fucking joke. That card for Ozil :doh:

[Marc Overmars]

Need Alexis to get amongst goals and the floodgates should open for him.

[Power n Glory]

We should be more goals up. Very nervy in front of goal but we got there eventually. We really need to end our attacks quicker. Camping outside of their box does us no good. Stoke tried to break on us, play broken up wonderfully by Coquelin, pass by Ozil, touch by Theo, goal. It's that simple. We need to get back to scoring on the break and moving the ball forward quickly.

Defence need to hold tight so we can come away with a victory now in case that's our last goal.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

It's the opposite - he needs no time whatsoever. If he has even a split second to engage his brain then it all goes to shit. He's 100% instinctive.

How did you get on here Mr Waddle...

[Niall_Quinn]

How did you get on here Mr Waddle...

I waddled on

[Niall_Quinn]

Coquelin has dominated the middle. So much so that Santi has been able to wander all over the place. Ramsey has been a lot more disciplined too, and so we haven't heard his name as much but he's been doing his job.

First game of the season where the defence has looked solid.

[fakeyank]

Ramsey and Ozil has been shit tbh.. but the others have been great.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox coming on. Who's injured?

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox not coming on - who's not injured after all?

We should have scored from that cross by Monreal. Really poor in the box.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey. :haha:

Useless.

[Power n Glory]

Get Ramsey off.

[Globalgunner]

Can we get Ramsey off FFS!

[Niall_Quinn]

Great play. Terrible finishing. We need a T-shirt

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Joselu off, Ireland on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Terrible stuff from Gabriel. Had time, headed it back to the opposition.

[Niall_Quinn]

Terrible stuff from Gabriel. Had time, headed it back to the opposition.

It was Kos apparently.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good pass from Butland to Cech.

[Niall_Quinn]

We've gone all boring and Wengerish.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bit sloppy.

You can always rely on us.

[Power n Glory]

We look like we have switched off. Our midfield has gone missing.

[Kano]

Shakira :lol: shit midget

I can see them fluking a goal soon.

[Globalgunner]

Our inability to kill teams off is a terrible weakness.

[Niall_Quinn]

Stoke make changes, Wenger reacts by doing nothing. Game changes. Wenger watches. 72 minutes is when he'll react by going 100% negative.

[Niall_Quinn]

We look like we have switched off. Our midfield has gone missing.

The half time talk has worked again then.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Theo. :lol:

Back to fluffing four chances before the next goal.

[Niall_Quinn]

Good back pass by Theo. 5 more chances and he'll get one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis pokes it wide, well wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Butland saves from Özil.

[Niall_Quinn]

5 mins to the sub.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Butland saves from Theo. :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

4 more chances to go and Theo will score.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arnautovic down, Trevor Francis calling for a red on something he didn't see.

[Globalgunner]

Give it up Theo. You`ll never be a striker

[Kano]

No Trevor, but for Theo Arsenal would be out of sight.

[Niall_Quinn]

The Orcs don't like it up em.

[Kano]

Gabriel you dirty bastard. Brilliant stuff. We need more of your ilk.

[Power n Glory]

This is woeful stuff. Coquelin is the only one having a good game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Diouf off, Bojan on.

Theo off, Bif on.

[A Gunner]

Giroud On
Walcott Off

[Niall_Quinn]

Giroud On
Walcott Off

Should have left him on to get his next 3 misses out of the way for the chav game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a miss from Giroud!!

:haha:

Jesus christ.

[Power n Glory]

:haha:

[Master Splinter]

:haha:

They're sending WUMger a message again!

This is farcical.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Can we swop them back?

[Marc Overmars]

Are you sure we didn't need a striker, Arsene?

[Globalgunner]

Giroud. just when you thought you had seen it all.

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh my God!

Bif :doh:

[Power n Glory]

Give it up Theo. You`ll never be a striker

At least he's scored.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla shoots, wide.

[Kano]

:haha: boo him off

[Marc Overmars]

This is woeful stuff. Coquelin is the only one having a good game.

This is what normally happens if we sit on a 1 goal lead for a while. We needed to blitz them when they were on the ropes.

[Niall_Quinn]

This is what normally happens if we sit on a 1 goal lead for a while. We needed to blitz them when they were on the ropes.

Computer say no

[Power n Glory]

This is what normally happens if we sit on a 1 goal lead for a while. We needed to blitz them when they were on the ropes.

We need to counter attack them at this point but it looks like we made the wrong subs.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bardsley booked.

[Newguy]

Ozil simply cannot last the full 90

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ox given a few minutes to do something.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox on for Cech

[A Gunner]

Chamberlain, Arteta On
Ozil, Alexis Off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil off, Ox on.

Alexis off, Arteta on. :wacko:

[Power n Glory]

Ozil looks like he's about to collapse.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arteta on for Ox

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nah let's not do the job as a referee.

[Marc Overmars]

Shutting up shop against Stoke.

Wonderful.

[A Gunner]

2 - 0 Giroud!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

GIROUD!!!!!!

[Thierrymon]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Giroud!

[Master Splinter]

BIF!!!!!!!!

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Fuhk me that was belated... get in!

[Power n Glory]

Giroud really needed that's goal badly.

[A Gunner]

The two strikers do score goals

[Kano]

Utter bilge

[Niall_Quinn]

Well done Bif. Crucial goal for him.

Simple football again. None of that crappy tippy tappy - end result - GOOOOOOAAAAAAAL!

2-0

[Globalgunner]

Ref deciding Bardsley doesnt need another yellow. being ugly and a shit footballer is punishment enough

A beautiful man does score though!. Giroud, on the same number of goals now as Own goal.

[Marc Overmars]

Get in!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Butland saves from Koscielny.

[Power n Glory]

Good save.

[Niall_Quinn]

That really should be a yellow for Peters. Took out his man when he was through.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif might miss a lot but he's still twice the striker Theo is. At least he knows how to get in the box.

[Power n Glory]

Coquelin man of the match. What a player.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Giroud back to missing. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Actually should've been a pelanty.

[Master Splinter]

These officials :doh:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal 2-0 Stoke, FT! :bow:

[A Gunner]

2 - 0 FT
Strikers scored.
Clean Sheet.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif should have had a hat-trick.

Peters should be off now. And it was a pen. What a fucking awful ref.

[Marc Overmars]

Glorious!

[Power n Glory]

Bif might miss a lot but he's still twice the striker Theo is. At least he knows how to get in the box.

Bollocking, he's an instinctive striker. Give him time to think and he fluffs his lines. It's why most of goals come from his first touch.

[Niall_Quinn]

FT 2-0

Good first half.

Well and truly WUMgered in the second half.

[Master Splinter]

Should have had a pel and Pieters and Bardsley should have been sent off.

We also should have scored 20.

[Kano]

Bif should have had a hat-trick.

Peters should be off now. And it was a pen. What a fucking awful ref.

We become a pub league so we get the officials we deserve now.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Bif might miss a lot but he's still twice the striker Theo is. At least he knows how to get in the box.

I think that's the least of Theo's problems but he certainly needs to lick whatever toad is necessary to take the bread and butter chances. As does the whole team.