Winning relegation 6 pointers. :bow:
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Winning relegation 6 pointers. :bow:
No we wonQuote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
Poor performance, but I'll take the win. We are getting Gervinho and Song in the next PL match on wards. That will give us a little bit of an edge upfront and stability in the midfield.
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Originally Posted by gunsofashburtongrove
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Originally Posted by GB.
RIP Rogers senior :rose:Quote:
on a first win of the Premier League season...
It was vital for us to win the game. I think we started quite well but slowly the nerves took over. We played with the handbrake on and were restrictive in the second half. It is not often that we pass the ball back to our goalkeeper when we are at halfway. You could see in the second half that we just wanted to get over the line and we didn't make a mistake. Swansea make it difficult for you because they keep the ball well and on the wings they are very quick. Overall they have the basics of a very good Premier League team but they just can’t score at the moment.
on Arsenal’s debutants…
Mertesacker was calm and composed - he just needs to adapt to the pace of the game. He looks very intelligent in his positioning. Arteta played very well, especially in the first half. In the second half it was more difficult for him but you can see he will give us some technical security that this team needs and wants to play like we play.
on the feeling in the dressing room…
We know that confidence goes quickly and comes back slowly. For us to be in the situation we were in, we were not used to that. We will come back. You look today with the fact we had no Gervinho, no Song, Diaby or Wilshere. We now have a decent squad overall when everybody is back and we have chance. First we just need to put a few wins together.
on whether nerves were a problem…
When you don't win you have a deep problem, that's for sure. The longer it lasts, the deeper the problem becomes. As soon as you win things are different.
on an element of luck about the goal…
There was an element of luck about our goal, of course.
on Andrey Arshavin’s performance…
Arshavin has a very good spirit. He had lost confidence but he has a good attitude in training and a good spirit. People think that he doesn’t care but that is not true at all. He cares very much and he had just lost confidence. You could see that he was himself again today.
on Yossi Benayoun’s debut…
He brought us something when he came on because he was mobile, he was dynamic and he did well.
on the strength of Arsenal’s squad…
Today, look at the bench I had and I still didn’t have Alex Song or Gervinho. We have a big squad.
on Chamakh having the captain’s armband for the final 10 minutes…
He could find anybody! I told him to keep it, what does it matter for the last 10 minutes. Thomas Vermaelen is the vice-captain but it was difficult to find him!
on a word for Brendan Rodgers…
His father passed away and that is very sad. The team fought for him today and that is the best they could do. It is very sad.
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His father passed away and that is very sad. The team fought for him today and that is the best they could do. It is very sad.
Hmm..that works both ways.
Allah wakbar! The handbrake, intensity, spirit comments are back! :lol:
thought mertesacker and arteta done well.
i think most important thing is getting some wins under our belt, momentum is key and when you win confidence comes back. will also take time for team to gel, but arteta looked really good.
with song and massiveforehead back soon, and jack and verm coming back by november, we should be ok for top 4.
liverpools honeymoon period will shine off.
If we get top 4 with this squad, it will surpass any of Wengers previous achievements
The game was shocking! We are terrible... and its got nothing to do with spending the cash. We dont play good football anymore.. I can go to sleep watching us play, boring shit! WTF happened to our fast football?! Just watched Utd play their game against bolton and the gulf in class between us and Utd is enormous and unless immidiate steps are taken, we will be in midtable mediocrity for the foreseeable future.
If we have an European super league soon then we are definitely not going to be in it!
it'll happen.
united, city, chelsea, us, liverpool.
liverpool will be crap once their injuries kick in and squad become tired.
we've been there done that got the t-shirt kinda thing and know how to deal with it and still finish 4th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-Dqj4fHmMQuote:
Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Cant wait to have Coyle and Cahill here next season. Defiantly losing by only 5 goals to united at home... :bow:
Could have been worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
Could have lost by 6 despite being a "supposed" title contender
The only way we'll finish 4th is if the majority of teams in the league go bankrupt leaving just Utd, City and Chelski afloat. Then we might get 4th provided we didn't find a way to fuck it up. It'll be one hell of a poor league this year if we manage to finish in the top half. We don't have the players or the squad to compete at this level.Quote:
Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Better than 8 goals.. so we will be doing an upgrade!Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
Coyle with our transfer budget would have been able to do a much better job assembling a squad and getting players to play at their best. Look at Ramsey, who's performances for Wales are excellent, yet for us he looks a shadow of the player who won MOTM against England away. Wenger can't get the best out of players, regularly plays them out of position and is tactically clueless, as he proved today. When we were losing control of the match, he failed to make the right changes that could wrestle the initiative away from Swansea, and this resulted in us hanging on for dear life in the last 10 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
It's 6 goals given that we managed to score. Bolton were lucky to have Kevin Nolan still on at half time btw.Quote:
Originally Posted by FakeYank
Now your just making shit up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Nolan plays for West Ham and Bolton?Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
Impressive.
If Coyle can make a player play 2 games in one day one after the other then hes a must get
No one really wants Owen Coyle if a better manager is available (and they are available if we look around) His name is brought up to highlight how far Wenger has fallen away as a manager, that at the moment even Coyle would be able to do a better job than Wenger.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
And you're talking about Kevin Davies, not Nolan.
Agreed. Wenger has never said we are title contenders and we didnt lose by 6.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
I made it up
8-2 is the worst result in the history of the EPL when you consider the pedigree of the two teams involved. It will never be surpassed as the all time low point - unless we can pull something even worse out of the bag of shit ourselves this season, which I wouldn't put past us. I'm sick of this team, sick of crap players like Walcott, sick of cheapo nobodies like Benayoun wearing the shirt, sick of the stubborn guy who just can't admit his tactics are a joke and his philosophy a dinosaur and I'm sick to the core of the board not being dead. Otherwise great 3 points. Roll on the next crap opponents that we stand a chance of beating.
You cannot be serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirjackofwilshere
Swansea mate. Arsenal were at home to swansea and you're here going on about this player and that player being out etc.
How far your club has fallen that you're talking about the players you had out. Arsenal FC should not need it's proper 1st 11 to beat the team that are clear favourites for the drop.
6-1 was worse, considering the players involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
And we were the top dogs along with United back then, now we're relegation fodder.
No comparison.
no mate 8-2 is miles worse....EIGHT fucking goals conceded....8Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
EIGHT
What the fuck is that...EIGHT.
Wenger please just go
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Originally Posted by StamfordBrdige
Couldnt have put it in a better way. How the expectations at AFC have fallen... It pisses the fuck outta me!
jesus he needs to find some new shit to spout.Quote:
Originally Posted by FakeYank
Nobody will remember who played. It's the score the will be remembered along with the fact the result coincides with Utd stepping up a level and us dropping even further down the order. The 6-1 was a fluke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
Doesn't seem that way. Looks like people gladly settle for average players and an average manager just to role the dice. What, if Coyle had the resources Wenger has? What resources? We made another profit on player sales, if Coyle was able to do similar at Botlon he would have. You dont have to be a rich club to pinch teenagers ftom spain.
Sorry, but were still 3-4 really top world class players away from winning the EPL with wenger or almost any other manager in the game. Those that think the only problem with the squad is the manager are deluded.
Also, cheers on the Davis/nolan correction.
Spot onQuote:
Originally Posted by StamfordBrdige
The fact that we're in threat of relegation this season, given that we are same club that almost won the league only 3/4 years ago is a damning indictment of the way Wenger has mismanaged this squad. Let's look at the team that took to the field when everyone was fit in 2007-2008, a season where we were looking like we could win a trophy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
===========Almunia==============
Sagna====Toure=====Gallas======Clichy=
Hleb=====Cesc=====Flamini=====Rosicky=
======Adebayor===RVP=============
7 of that starting lineup has now gone (you could include Almunia as well tbh), and not been replaced with sufficient quality. If Owen Coyle had the same resources available as Wenger, no way would he have shown such neglect in dismantling a squad and not bothering to rebuild properly.
FY making it up. Wenger never said Allah wakbar and I watched the interview several times.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexander
wish he wouldQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
are we at risk of doing a Leeds?Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexander
But at least we'd beat United at Old Trafford.
No. Leeds spent money on players. No chance of us doing that.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexander
Nah. They had money problems and could use that as an excuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by alexander
We have a Wenger problem