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Originally Posted by JoshGooner
I did :lol:
Damn!! This is sexy stuff.
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Yet more proof that we've got lots of good players and don't need to sign decent players from the French league. We need only sign world class players. No point in just making signings for the sake of it.
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Originally Posted by Suarez Is Boss
I don't really agree but am glad it worked out tonight. I think his strengths are direct running and playing through-balls more than anything else. When playing deep, he'll find himself in pressure positions against better teams where there isn't an out-ball and it's not his game to deal with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kryptonite
A few minutes before kick off it was half empty (or half full...).Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
By a few minutes in it was pretty much full. There were plenty of empty seats but there were still about 55,000 in there I reckon.
If I have one minor grumble (and I do) it's we do lack a bit of ruthlessness sometimes, we could have made it a real humiliation but we took our foot off the gas a bit and let them off the hook.
Overall though, very pleasing tonight. Felt hard done by to be 1-0 down with what was West Ham's first serious attempt. Had it stayed 1-0 for long we might have struggled but cracking goal from Podolski and we came out with real intent in the 2nd half. Great performance, much needed win. If we could just get some consistency we'd be a really good team. We can do it, we just don't. Not often enough anyway. Sagna was loads better tonight and just generally the effort and desire in the 2nd half is what we should be expecting every game.
It*'s on :cool:
* - the 4th place trophy, I mean.
We did win 5-1 though, that's a pretty good result and a thrashing by all intents and purposes.
My comments about the seats was based on the highlights on Sky where they commented they'd not seen so many empty seats at Arsenal.
yup, strikingly obvious how bare the 2nd and 3rd tiers were. Noticed it when the West Ham player was down and the game had stopped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
The number of empty seats is certainly creeping up but it wasn't an embarrassingly low attendance as it looked to be around kick off. It was a thrashing and at times we played some great football. Frustrating we can't do it more often.
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Originally Posted by JoshGooner
Still 2012 ? Not 2013 for you . Happy New Year when you celebrate itQuote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
I have to the game to watch tonight and am looking forward to it after the last couple of razor jobs. . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
I agree, I hope we dont take this win as a sign all things are rosy with the state of the squad. . .:gp: I also get your argument yesterday about the need for a true talent rather than mere squad players but I sometimes worry about the appeal of the place.
Also I have been thinking, correct me if I am wrong that it is not necessarily RvPs goals we are missing (well at least not the quantity of them.......) we seem to be sharing the goals across the team more than in the past (Feo 15, Pods 10, Giroud 9, Santi 7 all comps)- I know we are a massive amount of points adrift, and worse of in terms of points than at any time during Wengers era but the amount of goals we have scored compares favourably to those teams above us.....more than Everton and Spuds, one less than Chelsea and more than Citeh, what we miss is the match winner, someone to score a goal out of no-where a la RvP - I think this adds a little weight to the argument of bringing in Villa - if we can swallow his wages.
I know that the counter to this argument is that we need to stop letting in......but before you shoot me down, I am not saying that we don't need to help with the defence - but our goal difference is better than those apart from the top three! as Boss was saying yesterday we need class and a player that can win us games with a flash of brilliance is definitely order of the day -
that podolski assist for walcott was beaut. perfectly weighted and perfectly timed #orgasm
see what happens when you give giroud a bit of service? he actually scores.
ramsey had a good game tonight. can we talk about this a little bit more please? it'll be another 2.5 years before we can say it again.
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HAD A GOOD GAME
RAMSEY HA............
see what happens when you play a player in his favoured position? who would have thought it eh?!
much better overall.
on to the next. come on you gunners.
I follow the Ugandan calendar..Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
Wonder if there is anything like an Ugandan calendar :unsure:
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Originally Posted by fakeyank
By the looks of it, there is.....or maybe was!
Just caught the highlights from which it was impossible to get an idea of the overall game as most of the show was then ten minutes of old style football followed by the injury. The first half seemed unremarkable apart from the fact that bloke Collison should have been red carded for deliberately trying to break Jack's ankle - and then went on to score of course. Plus a cracker from Podolski who was in most of the highlights until he was subbed. Great power, pace and precision from him in the bits I saw.
Nice to see some counterattacking football again. And some energy. Can't pick out a poor performance from the highlights, everyone seemed to chip in. Nice to see Giroud finally net. Strange game that was brilliant one minute and then just faded out. 37 points from 23 games though. Dire. 6 more needed from the next two home games. Not getting excited about one performance. It was fun to watch in parts but they've caught me with the sucker punch of a terrible follow-on performance too many times.
Pace, precision and purpose. That's what comes to mind from what I saw from the highlights. Very rare to see us play like that but that's the level we need to see week in week out.
Ramsey looked good from what I saw. But it looked like the whole team was pumped up. But would like to see him play in that role again. He might be more cut out for seeing things from further back and trying to keep it simple. He's no good playing in the final third or further up field.
We weren't messing around pretending to play like Barca for a change, it was instinctive and quick and I think the most important thing was that we made use of the wide areas. The lack of width at times is horrible in this team but Gibbs and Podolski in particular really managed to nail down the left side.
Caught the highlights on Sky last night, we looked great in that 10-15 min spell in the 2nd half when we banged in 4.
More of the same please.
Saw the highlights, agree about the 15 minute spell, it was good stuff. First half was pretty even.
Just got back from the game.
First 15 minutes of the 2nd half was a little bit awesome. The rest not so much. Shame their pub teamer got an injury cos it killed the game as we probably would have gone on to score more.
Everyone was decent to very good. Sir Ches had f all to do and even started the counter for one of the goals. Sagna showed a much better performance than he has recently. Mert and Verm are awesome. Hope Verm is ok. Was kind of Wengernto bring on Kos for West Ham after we went 5-1 up. Gibbs is brilliant.
Ramsey had one of his better days. Hopefully the end for Arteta if Ramsey continues this form. Sir Jack and Santi kept things ticking along and the latters goal was sublime.
The stand out players were upfront though. Giroud who has been shocking recently scored 2 poachers goals and finally showed some movement. More of the same pls ffs. Theo was brilliant once again. Goal and an assist.
But the best player on the pitch was Podolski. Goals, assists, is there anything he can't do? Always been a big fan of his and he's producing the goods. We were right behind him when he took the shot for his goal and we knew it was in as soon as he hit it. Best left footed striker we have had for some time. RVC :haha:
Hope Potts is ok. Didn't see what happened.
No real complaints about the game. It was a little bit cold though. Fucking Wenger. He has to go
Only thing even in the 1st half was the score, imo. We dominated midfield and general play from the get go, but just couldn't find that fluidity in the final 3rd (I said as much during the 1st half of actual game and forecasted a comfortable win should we be able to address our lack of sharpness upfront).Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
Just got back from the game? Jeez, where you living these days Cripps? The game ended last night. :dQuote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
East LondonQuote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Shows how bad London transport is tbh
one thing i found interesting was that jack got the captains armband when verm went off. obviously if arteta was playing it would have been him, however, with mertesacker, sagna playing, surprised it did go to jack but very happy for him. he is the next captain, maybe wenger will change it next year.