Match Reaction v Spurs

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh please. We've seen it over and over, even when the ball is dished up to Walcott or Giroud on a silver platter they fuck it up. Shite, the pair of them. Jack and Santi certainly had off days which didn't help but let's not single out the couple of players who have a bit of talent to apologise for the dickheads we have up top.

As for the defenders, Mertesacker is total, utter shit, he really is. Wherever he played before he came to us he must have had great support around him. The really frightening thing is Vermaelen is worse and as a captain he stinks. I defy any player to come into the team and try to get to grips with our suicidal defending. Maybe Moreal is shite, maybe he's not. But anyone is going to look shite in that back five. Who's our best defender, Gibbs? He's not even that good is he? It's a disaster zone back there.

It's weird because our defensive record is far from being the worst in the league. But it's the individual mistakes that kill us. Whether this is because the players are fundamentally no good or they are stretched to the limit and always bound to break due to terrible tactics is hard to pin down. Probably a mix of both. It's not just a new manager required, we need better players too.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fuck him being a ****. Hard to come up with a name in the modern game that has his vision and incisive passes. Plus he scores his fair bit.

Come home Cesc.

Seriously? The ****s cashed in on him big time (for them), not so big for the club in general. But still, I can hardly see them getting the chequebook out to bite back into their profits. Cesc is done and dusted, mission accomplished and money in the bank.

[Marc Overmars]

I would have Cesc back in a heartbeat. We shouldn't underestimate how hard it is to find technically sound players who also excel at being GHEL. He'd walk back into this team and become one of the best players in the league again.

A part of me hopes that one day he'll grow tired of playing 2nd fiddle at Barca (which is no great shame), but he's in his comfort zone now so I don't see him leaving that anytime soon.

[Power n Glory]

Oh please. We've seen it over and over, even when the ball is dished up to Walcott or Giroud on a silver platter they fuck it up. Shite, the pair of them. Jack and Santi certainly had off days which didn't help but let's not single out the couple of players who have a bit of talent to apologise for the dickheads we have up top.

As for the defenders, Mertesacker is total, utter shit, he really is. Wherever he played before he came to us he must have had great support around him. The really frightening thing is Vermaelen is worse and as a captain he stinks. I defy any player to come into the team and try to get to grips with our suicidal defending. Maybe Moreal is shite, maybe he's not. But anyone is going to look shite in that back five. Who's our best defender, Gibbs? He's not even that good is he? It's a disaster zone back there.

It's weird because our defensive record is far from being the worst in the league. But it's the individual mistakes that kill us. Whether this is because the players are fundamentally no good or they are stretched to the limit and always bound to break due to terrible tactics is hard to pin down. Probably a mix of both. It's not just a new manager required, we need better players too.

Theo and Giroud were on a good scoring run despite the odd occasions where they screw up good chances but if we're going to blast the strikers for not putting the ball away we can't excuse the midfield for not threading them through when it's a major part of their job. They should really be carving out more chances than what they are. There is a lot of hesitation to release the ball in the final third and it's costing us.

As for Merts, he gets such a raw deal on here. He's not a bad defender at all and not utter shit. With a better partnership and more organisation he'd be better. He's usually aware of what's going around him and smart with his tackles but his pace is the one thing that let's him down. But all you have to do is look at Kos and Verm to see that defenders with pace won't help much if nobody in that backline is organised and drilled. We've had a variety of CB's play in this team and if and if they were to play anywhere they wouldn't be made to look half as bad.

[Niall_Quinn]

Theo and Giroud were on a good scoring run despite the odd occasions where they screw up good chances but if we're going to blast the strikers for not putting the ball away we can't excuse the midfield for not threading them through when it's a major part of their job. They should really be carving out more chances than what they are. There is a lot of hesitation to release the ball in the final third and it's costing us.

As for Merts, he gets such a raw deal on here. He's not a bad defender at all and not utter shit. With a better partnership and more organisation he'd be better. He's usually aware of what's going around him and smart with his tackles but his pace is the one thing that let's him down. But all you have to do is look at Kos and Verm to see that defenders with pace won't help much if nobody in that backline is organised and drilled. We've had a variety of CB's play in this team and if and if they were to play anywhere they wouldn't be made to look half as bad.

Whatever the truth of it all I'm sick of it. As far as I'm concerned we don't have a football team any more. We talk about the same things all the time but no fucker at the club is listening. It's pointless. I'm gong to start watching crown green bowling instead. At least the grannies are competitive and have a bit of ambition.

[Power n Glory]

We're all sick of it.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

i have just watched gary neville's analysis on mnf

our defence is a fucking disgrace.

kamikaze defending at all times. absolutely no organisation, shape or understanding between any of them. monreal, who was supposed to be a quality player in spain before he came to us, has gone to utter shit within 3 games. it really comes as no surprise why most our players regress, its because they fall victim of the disease that engulfs out squad. when we dont address the issues the players that come in fall victim of the issues. a sweeping disease throughout the squad.

and the most laughable thing about this is that some people will still sit there and say a new manager wont improve us

get a grip.

First time I've seen this and I am just astounded by how accurate Neville is. Nails it completely. A complete fucking shambles as it has been for a long time now.

Ach is right, he was a complete dickhead on the pitch but as a pundit he's the best around along with Dixon.



With social media these days I wouldn't be surprised if some of our coaches and players have viewed it by now. The problem is that Wenger seems too petty, stubborn and just proud to even admit that this is a problem let alone, god forbid bring in outside help to try and fix it. Unless there is a change at the managerial position I doubt we'll ever see this fixed.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

noone can sit there and say we train the defence because as neville says, you simply do not perform like that if you are training and addressing the issues during the week. that leads to the next question, how can a new manager not improve us? unless a new guy is also as stubborn as wenger, and lets face it, that is extremely unlikely, then bringing someone else in will instantly improve us. noone apart from wenger would fail to address the issues because they'd have some common sense. which leads to the third question, does wenger have common sense? why is he acting like this? for someone supposedly so intelligent he sure knows how to make himself look like thicko.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

noone can sit there and say we train the defence because as neville says, you simply do not perform like that if you are training and addressing the issues during the week. that leads to the next question, how can a new manager not improve us? unless a new guy is also as stubborn as wenger, and lets face it, that is extremely unlikely, then bringing someone else in will instantly improve us. noone apart from wenger would fail to address the issues because they'd have some common sense. which leads to the third question, does wenger have common sense? why is he acting like this? for someone supposedly so intelligent he sure knows how to make himself look like thicko.

As I mentioned it's a combination of arrogance, pride and stubbornness based on his rigid dogma of how football should be played.

[BOBN]

i have just watched gary neville's analysis on mnf

our defence is a fucking disgrace.

kamikaze defending at all times. absolutely no organisation, shape or understanding between any of them. monreal, who was supposed to be a quality player in spain before he came to us, has gone to utter shit within 3 games. it really comes as no surprise why most our players regress, its because they fall victim of the disease that engulfs out squad. when we dont address the issues the players that come in fall victim of the issues. a sweeping disease throughout the squad.

and the most laughable thing about this is that some people will still sit there and say a new manager wont improve us

get a grip.

Wish neville did this 3 years ago in his "magnificent debut season", wouldnt have had to listen to people bleating on about the biggest defensive fraud in premiership history in vermalean. Hes always been shyt, but now people wanna act like it just happened. Funny guys.

and this vid sums up why all this talk of wilshere carrying the team is so ridiculous. You only had to look at his stats to know this, but still, an attacking midfielder who consistently fails to play the killer ball is not a proper player. Midfielders have always got a pass at every level of the game so thats nothing new. they never get the blame for anything.