There's just not enough creativity in the team at the moment.
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Benayoun started. As far as I recall he has done for most games he's been available lately. Keep?
I don't think results have slipped because of any tactical issues with the team or their ability.
The problem is that once we reach our ceiling of 3rd/4th, results start to fade because we're in a comfort zone. We're limping over the finish line as usual but thankfully the teams below us haven't been able to take advantage, despite our open invitation.
Gervinho's lack of balls is pathetic and I've given up on him. Scared of getting that forehead on the end of a perfect cross? He can go fuck himself. When Walcott was going through a very bad patch in the first half of the season, he'd at least try to be positive and make something happen. If Gervinho headed that chance over...fair enough. But pulling out of the header because he was afraid of getting clobbered? Fuck him, he's a coward as epitomised by his behaviour in the ACoN.
As a squad, we have made a lot of progress by getting rid of the players with shitty attitudes and getting a committed bunch in. There's obviously a lack of quality but not a lack of fight. Gervinho should join the bin pile and he's well on his way to cementing his place as the new Chamakh.
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Let's cast aside our differences over the manager, forget about the team as a whole and focus everything we have on abusing Arsenal from the first whistle to the last. They oppose everything that we as a football club and football supporters stand for. Honest play, sportsmanship, football with dignity - all of those things are absent from Wenger's Arsenal. They are not just a footballing joke, but a footballing disgrace, a shameful stain upon the English game.
Non-stop booing of every Arsenal touch of the ball, wild cheers every time a crunching tackle from a Stoke player goes in, cries of 'boring, boring, boring' when they are in possession and, of course, the most imaginative and vitriolic abuse you can think of to direct at Wenger himself. No matter what the result, they must leave knowing what we think of them in no uncertain terms.
You never know - it might be enough to make their players wilt on the spot. van der Vaart said that he wanted to leave the pitch after 25 minutes at the Britannia, so lets make van Persie want to leave the pitch after 25 seconds. We can get the team up for one last hurrah, rile them into smashing Arsenal aside, while causing the Arsenal team to choke and freeze. We all have a massive part to play, every one of us.
It is a day to show what football and football support should really be about and to put Arsenal to shame. Please, let's do it.
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If someone can muller RVP in the first few minutes that should be job done. Either clatter him so he has to go off or hit him hard enough (huth, shawcross) and he wont want to know. Boo ramsey off the park and play long ball at every oppurtunity. Fucking hoof it up to crouch or kj and then hope for the best. Hoof it down the line and they will head it out. Get rory to launch it in the box and get shawcross holding the keeper so he cant move. Lets do whatever we have possible to beat these ****s.
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Everyone involved with Stoke needs to be neutered.
Which includes Foy, of course.
Gary, I think I just threw up a little reading that.
Cracking point. Will be very important that. Thought we were gonna get done by those dribbling shite fuckers and that cap waring spastic abortion. Didn't see the game. Don't care. It's all about points now, and maling sure we're third. If we can do that and then fail to do the necessary in the sunmer, i'll be marching in the wenger out brigade. But i think it'll be somewhat different this time round, as i think he's had enough as much as us. Onwards and upwards.