Yep, a well earned week off for Feo.
So Giroud is a ****....
Worse than Chamakh, Bendtner?
.....Go!!
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Yep, a well earned week off for Feo.
So Giroud is a ****....
Worse than Chamakh, Bendtner?
.....Go!!
He is terrible when he has time to shape up and shoot, more often than not ends up missing the target which is unforgivable.
Stick to the headers Big Sexy.
Watch his all-round play. His finishing was off today, but he hold the ball up and plays others in brilliantly.
Goals will come. At least he's involved in the game, unlike Chamakh.
He just looks so clumsy in everything he does. He's useful when we punt the ball up to him or put crosses in (he almost scored a great header at the end) but we need more from our centre forwards. If Theo had performed like Giroud did today, we'd have the usual suspects gleefully slam him. IMO we should try Podolski in the centre forward position because Giroud's not good enough at the moment.
Its their manager's fault IMO. Wumger, turns gold into shite :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz
Giroud is light years ahead of Chakma.
This doesnt say much because Chakma is so shit.
Giroud, if given proper service from midfield IMO is a good striker.. I think he makes good runs and pulls defenders with him. If we ever play a proper 4-4-2, I can see him being a really big asset.
This is a wum thread, people. Not to be taken seriously.
Thing is, the time for goals is now... He arrived at a time when honeymoon periods are ill-afforded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
Not a bad player if he was at a QPr or a Soton, just not what we need.
He's the best we have. Like it or not, we look a far worse side without him.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshGooner
It was reported on SSN that ******* had been watching Dember BA at the same time he was scouting Giroud, but went for Giroud!
:haha:
Wenger said: "It was Giroud or Demba Ba in the summer — they are very similar players. I was a bit cautious about the noises on Ba’s knee injury, but someone told me the problem he has is manageable and can be prevented."
Yet he signed Overmars who had a dodgy knee because he was a risk taker and had steel balls. Now he's a loser with no ambition.
You spelt Wenger wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindFaith_8
Imagine then how we'd look with someone who did the attributed to him, plus scored needed goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
The goals will come.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshGooner
At the rate if one a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
Giroud has 9 goals and 8 assists in 17 starts this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindFaith_8
Ba has 16 goals in 23 starts this season.
Yep.
He had the chance to buy Ba again recently and still refused, I just don't get Wenger TBH. He won't pay the BIG prices and then refuses to pay peanuts for Established PL strikers. Ba would score a bucketload of goals for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindFaith_8
Ba is clearly a much better finisher than Giroud and you'd be a fool to sign Giroud over him if you wanted goals. The latter seems to take 5 chances to score one, missed some real sitters today.
He's basically good enough to be a backup and nothing else, we need a quality striker to play regularly.
Pretty much, a decent striker would make a big difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshGooner
and imagine how many goals Ba would have scored playing in this Arsenal team with Carzola, Wilshire etc supplying him with endless chances.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
Yep.
have you seen our games this season? not sure about endless chances. probably would've scored one or two more than he has already - definitely wouldn't be ahead of rvp.Quote:
Originally Posted by gunnerrrrr
Giroud is an aesthetically pleasing oaf. actually what annoys me about him is his heading. Eight times out of ten he mistimes his jump when they punt it towards him. Hangs in the air, descends and then gets beaten to it.
Rubbish signing really! In the summer spending 15m (so extra 3m) could have got us Ba, Huntelaar or Michu. Giroud misses too many chances. Nowhere near as good as theo or podolski. Whatever happened to having strikers that know where the net is!!!
Trouble is once we put these Chamakh and giroud type players on the stage everyone can see so we can't get rid of them. We need to p,at behind closed doors with a TV blackout and beefed up security.
I don't think he's a rubbish signing, he's more than capable of doing a job for us. The problem is we don't need someone to just to a job, we need class. That chance today was bread and butter but it's not the first time he's fluffed his lines in that sort of situation. Brilliant at the "big number 9" work but we need a lot more than that because we're well off the pace.
Giroud was the cut price option we always take, a good player but nothing more and certainly not good enough to be the man we rely on for goals. Wenger is so cheap he never spends on quality and instead looks at the price before looking at what we actually need.
Giroud isn't the player we should have signed and is never going to be able to deliver what we need, buy a striker and stick Giroud on the bench for cameo displays when needed.
Someone should start questioning Wenger's transfer policy in interviews to see what he actually says because they're not delivering the goods.
what for, he'll just deliver the same non-committal replies he always gives. ever since he arrived at the club that has all he has ever said is the same thing, yet 16 years later people still look for clues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
Still I am baffled why we don't play Podolski(i know he was sick today) at Striker....I always thought he and Giroud were to replace RVP, both at Striker fighting for the top spot. Not Poldi as a winger and Giroud up top, Poldi is wasted out there cause all he wants to do is drift in...same with Walcott, it defeats the purpose of creating width. Let 2 of the 3 of them play up top and have one drift wide like Henry used when the time is needed....
Wenger seems to over-complicate the game by playing players constantly out of position and forcing it...instead of changing the formation to fit the players we have on the pitch....VERY FRUSTRATING!
When I said I ask him, I meant grill him by countering his answers with facts about their performances, no more nice interviews where he gets asked simple questions without any comeback.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz
he'd slide his way out of it - he always does. he knows how to play the game, just like any politician.
reporters would never grill because they like him and want to maintain their access.
the reporters stay just the right side of nice to get what they want in the long run - even down to how they rate players in games.
This is why we badly need a change of manager to implement some new ideas and raise the mood of the team. Wenget has spoken about using Barca as a blueprint but our style of play is nothing like theirs at all. We don't have the players for it yet we persist with the same old tried, tested and failed tactics. Chelsea fans were singing 'Arsene Wenger, we want you to stay' with good reason today.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ Philosophe
As of three games ago (can't find updated stats), Ba had a worse conversion rate than everyone's favourite 'clinical' striker Fernando Torres.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
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Endless chances are a thing of the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by gunnerrrrr
In fact the chances are so rare, when one is missed, even if half a chance, it is blown up out of massive proportion.
Endless chances :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by gunnerrrrr
Talk to me after you've watched one of our games.
Sorry, who's played out of position?
Ah those heady days where we'd create multiple chances a game and sometimes even have more than 3 shots on target. :cloud9:
Your face :coffee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
My face has the versatility to play anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by milla
The thing about the stats is they don't tell you where the chances were, how far from goal etc there's no context so they don't really give you a perfectly accurate picture of one players performance vs another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss
We can talk about Giroud however as we've seen him miss a host of chances in matches, chance he should have put away.
Stats :haha:
I thought people would have stopped using those the minute it showed us having the best defence in the league a few months back.
so he converts more from less, gets more shots on goal and still manages to score 50% less than ba. sounds like a man at the top of his game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boss