Match Reaction vs Spurs

[selassie]

the system he is playing in and he is now a big fish in a big pond where the pressure is so much. If he came to the club with our best players still here he'd look better

Yup, he's slow too, his lack of pace really gets exposed in the big/more high pressured games.

Our midfield is so horrible this season it's actually quite disturbing.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The despair was more that he used that phrase.

He's become a cartoon character of himself.

Yeah I know. This is the kind of game you want the 'handbrake on' though as he put it. Usually he says it for games that you can afford to have it off.

[Niall_Quinn]

And I'm not sure about Gervinho either. Walcott's been getting a lot of stick but Gervinho's looked really mediocre after his good start to his Arsenal career. He seems to do the same thing every-time and fails to take it past the full back. And his miss was pathetic for a forward player.

The pair of them were so poor it made you wonder how they ever got into professional football. Walcott has had his chance and the evidence is now in, he's just a bad player. Bags of talent there but disconnected and he doesn't have the brain to bring it together neither does it appear he's coachable, certainly he never learns anything. Gervinho (and here we go again) needs to be given more time but he's displaying all the hallmarks of another nearly player who nobody else wanted hence he's playing for us. Oxo is already better than both of them by a margin. I don't see Walcott doing anything but he'll grab a few more seasons based on the hope his potential is realised, the he'll fade out like a Pennant or Bentley. Gervinho and Oxo might be able to strike up an understanding on the pitch though. Even though Gervinho isn't much use when he has the ball he seems more likely to be able to make intelligent runs that could open things up for capable players. We won't be seeing them best of any of them though, morale and belief is in the toilet.

[Power n Glory]

Oxo has only featured in 3 games. Chill with the hype. A second division English team and a Greek team is totally different to playing against a Prem side in the league.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

And I'm not sure about Gervinho either. Walcott's been getting a lot of stick but Gervinho's looked really mediocre after his good start to his Arsenal career. He seems to do the same thing every-time and fails to take it past the full back. And his miss was pathetic for a forward player.

tbf to the lad he thought he was coming to a much better sqaud then this, lets be real he was not bought for his fininshing all his end product. its clear he may be having second thoughts about being here like RVP. We have no chance of getting big signs in jan tbh who'd want to come to this club tbh.

this club is in bloody crisis no matter what anyone says.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Agreed, he doesn't look like he can bothered and no doubt will be pining for a move in the summer. Let's ship him out in January and get a decent player in who doesn't disappear in big games.

Every post like that just serves to increase your bitter retard quotient up a notch.

[Cripps_orig]

Glad i missed it tbh.

Anyway its not the results v Spuds, Liverpool, Man Utd etc that will keep us up.

We have to beat the teams around us and did that with Bolton and Swansea although we had the shocker v Blackburn

Oh well. On we go to next week

[Niall_Quinn]

Oxo has only featured in 3 games. Chill with the hype. A second division English team and a Greek team is totally different to playing against a Prem side in the league.

We know what we get with Walcott and increasingly we're seeing the same sort of result with Gervinho. They look bloody clueless when trying to beat their man. Get Oxo in now to capitalise on his good form, give the other two something to compete with. Not that I think there'll be much competition because Oxo is already on another level, but we'd only be able to see that if the kid plays. Not even on the bench today, a joke. What did Benayoun offer? Arshavin? Even on the strength that spud defenders would be facing something unknown he should have played. Maybe the board are angry about their next payday being out for 22 weeks and don't want the same mistakes made again.

[Gubby Allen]

Not sure if it's been said already, but Wenger's substitutions were dire, albeit 1 of the 6 decisions was forced on him. Long gone are the days of us replacing a full-back or a CM with a striker when we need a goal and finishing with 4 or 5 attackers on. I't's now just tedious like-for-like drivel regardless of the game situation.

We ended the game with a more defensive side than at any point. When 4 of your front 6 are Coquelin, Ramsey, Benayoun & Arteta it's a hopeless task.

Walcott & Gervinho were poor again & ordinarily deserving of coming off but Arshavin (and/or Park) should've been on for one or both of Coquelin & Ramsey, or even a full-back.

Yet what did we have? Mertesacker & Szezeny up front trying to claw a draw.

[Niall_Quinn]

Every post like that just serves to increase your bitter retard quotient up a notch.

It's incredible that some would rather see the team in the shitter with zero quality players YET THIS FUCKING BOARD STILL IN PLACE, rather than kick the fucking board out and get someone in who would invest the resources that might convince players like RvP to stay. We've lost enough players on this train, shop-window and flog policy, time for the culprits to walk.