Match Reaction v Udinese

Gervinho made some promising runs.

Theo was OK

Chesney looks sharp, and we haven't conceded.

We need signings.

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Originally Posted by Joker

Blah blah blah i'm a boring cunt

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This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 permitted by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatever.
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Can any new signings play in the 2nd leg?

We need 4 players minimum.

CB, LB, CM and a CF

Give Everton £30m for Jagielka and Baines, get Parker in asap and some quality CF

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 aloud by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatever.
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Originally Posted by Ach

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A rare slip by me, enjoy it. :coffee:

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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner

Not sure how you came to that conclusion we played 2 games this season. Anyway did you think we would batter them with the team put out and players missing.

If thiswas UTD who did this you be having an organasm ovr them.

chill out, yeah it was not the best perfomance, but not the worst.

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Because once again just like last season we're awful.

I'm not having the players missing BS to be honest, we should have done our business by now, the fact we haven't and are incompetent is not an excuse and shouldn't be used as one

It was borderline embarrassing and unless we spend some money nothing will change mark my words.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 permitted by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatever.
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I made the point about the lack of quality in the squad because today's match laid those weaknesses out in the open. Wenger actually said the squad is too big, ignoring not just the lack of quality but even the fact we have 8 unused slots in first team squad as you say. This tells me the guy's lost the plot and his delusions are costing us big time.

PS: I'm neither boring nor a cunt.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist
This is the match reaction thread, I even have my own thread where I highlight the fact we're 8 SENIOR PLAYERS SHORT in the 25 aloud by the FA. Don't see why you can't separate that from the fact we got a result. But whatev

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Originally Posted by Ach

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Is that like Girls Allowed?

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Originally Posted by Joker

I don't have any sense of entitlement that we should be winning trophies season after season, and that we should be playing champagne football week in week out. I know this is impossible for any football team, and I understand football is more than just about trophies, and we're lucky to have seen so much silverware in the last 15 years.

The anger and frustration is due to the almost criminal manner that Wenger dismantled an experienced squad of players who had won trophies from 2005-2007, and failed to recreate a sufficiently strong squad of experienced, quality players, instead relying on young players to step up, even though most of them were simply mediocre players. Tonight I saw the result of incredible negligence that Wenger has shown when it comes to developing a robust squad of players who can cope with injuries, rather than hoping to get lucky whenever a few first team players are out.

We didn't need to spend £100M to make sure our squad was of the required standard, all it needed was a bit of care and attention, but Wenger, being blinded by dogma, failed to see the obvious, which has cost us dearly.

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Yep Letting Diara go was Wengers biggest mistake in the last 5 years and he'd do no harm getting him back, because song is useless in that posistion. We deffo need a LB Not sure where we will get one of those unless we move TV 5 there. Problem today was getting the balls to thje strikers today the service was poor.

Should have played Arshavin today, was he injured or what. should have played bendtner too tbh.

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Originally Posted by AKBapologist

Apparently we haven't played amazing football since Wenger arrived. Apparently, great defending and clean sheets is proper footy. Apparently, we've had a shit squad for 3 years.


Seriously though, I'm honestly not sure why people were shocked how poor we were. The last preseason game give us a good preview of how "not ready" this youth side is, so I'm totally thrilled by the result and the effort.

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Wow, we played the best football this country has ever seen, under Wenger. That's why the shit we are seeing now is so hard to take. If we'd been playing like Stoke all these years people would be chuffed we were 1-0 in the qualifying rounds of the CL. But just a few years ago we were in the damn final and now a qualifying game is big time for us. The decline has been so rapid a lot of the fans are still catching up. And all the while a signing here, an addition there, just a few more quid to tighten up the defence has been desperately needed and the fact this hasn't happened has added to the frustration. It's like a great club is deliberately being wound down.