Post match v Southampton

[LDG]

The site is ready to pack it in. Old age. GW has Alzheimer's.

There is no sense of humour left anywhere on here.

It used to be such a giggle, and nobody minded if they got a bit of stick.

Can't even banter anymore

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I think as the season goes on we're seeing more holes in the squad. At first it looked like we had the depth and quality but it's looking as though that's not the case. The cup is unimportant but the game does tell us something more about this squad. We lack cover and quality in a lot of areas.

Perhaps, although i'm willing to bet that many of these players would be performing exponentially better under a better manager. Don't get me wrong i do think players also need to take responsibility for their own performances, but i don't believe structure and guidance is forthcoming from Arsene Wenger let alone a tangible game plan.

[Power n Glory]

There is no sense of humour left anywhere on here.

It used to be such a giggle, and nobody minded if they got a bit of stick.

Can't even banter anymore

Sign of the times. I hardly talk Arsenal with any of my mates at all these days. I don't think any of them bothered to catch last nights game. Not even a text to scream about the result. Weary.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Sign of the times. I hardly talk Arsenal with any of my mates at all these days. I don't think any of them bothered to catch last nights game. Not even a text to scream about the result. Weary.

Yep pretty much, the more interesting and amusing conversations on here tend to be non football related.

[Power n Glory]

Perhaps, although i'm willing to bet that many of these players would be performing exponentially better under a better manager. Don't get me wrong i do think players also need to take responsibility for their own performances, but i don't believe structure and guidance is forthcoming from Arsene Wenger let alone a tangible game plan.

That team that played last night? It was a piss poor team. Not one exceptional player there that you could build a squad around.

[adzzzbatch]

I would have liked us to win but I'm not going to wet my pants over a defeat in a competition I'm not that bothered about when neither side put out a first choice team.
The important thing is we don't let it affect our league form.

I don't think you were saying this when we got to the final and you went to Wembley in 2011.

[Letters]

What happened?

Last thing I posted was a joke at your expense (which is par for the course, sorry).

Didn't see what happened after

I'm sure it was hilarious
Jof just said that GW was lacking a little bit sharpness but it's showing great spirit.

GW

[Letters]

I don't think you were saying this when we got to the final and you went to Wembley in 2011.

I was absolutely livid when we lost that
It had been a long time since a trophy and it was our opportunity to get that monkey off our back.
Of course I'd have been pleased had we won. It's a trophy and if you get to the final then you might as well win it.
It's hardly the stuff of open top bus parades though, is it?

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

That team that played last night? It was a piss poor team. Not one exceptional player there that you could build a squad around.

Exceptional? No.....but they are all reasonably competent professionals and I think fairly decent squad players. They aren't world beaters, but we didn't need them to be

Ramsey the best you can describe him is inconsistent, he has been terrible lately.....and i'm not inclined to blame Wenger for that i think it's time for him to be offloaded

But Elneny, Holding, Gabriel, Gibbs, Perez, Coquelin, Iwobi these are all solid professionals, who are far better than the tepid watery effluence they produced last night.

Just to put it in context, this is Southampton....Southampton at home......so yes i did expect the players that went out last night to be able to despatch them with a decent game plan and actually having an understanding of their opponents. Rather than this rigid Barcelona light one size fits all plan that you would be right in saying that these players don't have the ability to execute (but given that they are squad players and only one or two of them at any one time will be required to fill in to understudy a rested or injured player they don't need to be).

[Marc Overmars]

That team that played last night? It was a piss poor team. Not one exceptional player there that you could build a squad around.

It was shite, a complete mash up of players.

What sort of understanding are Holding and Gabriel supposed to have? They don't even speak the same language. Jenkinson we know is poor, Elmo and Coq are limited, too soon for Jeff, Ramsey is horribly out of form and Perez looks nothing like the standard required 17m or not.