Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Notes in OP 24/08

Nemeses2050

Oranage2 wrote: »

I use to love the old Carling cup seeing our wonder kids destroy championship sides 4 nil with the courtesy Carlos Vela chip.

+1,

I think we hammered Sheffield couple of times with the Greatest striker ever to have played :rolleyes: and were in wonderland...:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fk1dizfOHw

jonneymendoza

am going to the match tonight :P

Fuzzy_Dunlop

extra gravy wrote: »

And who can forget that comeback at Reading...the craziest game I think I've ever seen.

That match was as mad as a bag of spiders.

Awesomeness

GavRedKing wrote: »

Just on the sterams lads and something that even slipped my mind, ye cant post about them on the forum.

You can however discuss them via PM if ye like but not in the open forum.

So that covers asking or telling people you have them, thanks lads.

When I saw you posting about streams I was waiting for that disclaimer:pac:

GavRedKing

I half forgot myself TBH.

Between streams and gifs its a nightmare, I;m just going to delete/card/ban everything to make it easier :pac:

Ken Shamrock

Didn't see a match thread and never made one before so said i'd give it a bash, here.

Awesomeness

Hope its an entertaining game. Gonna be wrecked tomorrow staying up to watch this.

Ken Shamrock

Awesomeness wrote: »

Hope its an entertaining game. Gonna be wrecked tomorrow staying up to watch this.

What time do you normally go to sleep at!? Oh wait your living foreign aren't ya??

Awesomeness

Bob.Carcass wrote: »

What time do you normally go to sleep at!? Oh wait your living foreign aren't ya??

Yeah 2.45 am kick off then to work for 10.

Luckily nobody realizes how much my productivity drops after midweek arsenal games:D:D

Ken Shamrock

Awesomeness wrote: »

Yeah 2.45 am kick off then to work for 10.

Luckily nobody realizes how much my productivity drops after midweek arsenal games:D:D

Dedication right there, 7 hours ahead must be China or something?

SlickRic

this made me lol.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/16298/9484898/alan-smith-abou-diaby-return-could-be-defensive-midfield-solution-for-arsenal

great player when fit, but you couldn't rely on him to be around for more than 2 weeks.

surely Wenger can't actually rely on him to get back and lift Arsenal's midfield?

Fuzzy_Dunlop

SlickRic wrote: »

this made me lol.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/16298/9484898/alan-smith-abou-diaby-return-could-be-defensive-midfield-solution-for-arsenal

great player when fit, but you couldn't rely on him to be around for more than 2 weeks.

surely Wenger can't actually rely on him to get back and lift Arsenal's midfield?

He's also not a defensive midfielder

greendom

SlickRic wrote: »

this made me lol.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/16298/9484898/alan-smith-abou-diaby-return-could-be-defensive-midfield-solution-for-arsenal

great player when fit, but you couldn't rely on him to be around for more than 2 weeks.

surely Wenger can't actually rely on him to get back and lift Arsenal's midfield?

Hope springs eternal

Awesomeness

@Arsenal team to play Southampton: Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Hayden, Coquelin, Rosicky, Diaby, Wilshere, Alexis, Campbell, Podolski

@Arsenal subs: Martinez, Ajayi, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Akpom #AFCvSFC

wandatowell

Diaby!

DildoFaggins

Live feed from the emirates in the warm up

fulmer1984

There had to be bookies out there giving odds on Diaby getting injured in this game....

tayto lover

Diaby has been very steady and is a very good passer of the ball.

Quazzie

tayto lover wrote: »

Diaby has been very steady and is a very good passer of the ball.

Ozil has been too quiet for my liking. I barely heard his name mentioned at all. He's such a lazy player.

:pac:

tayto lover

Quazzie wrote: »

Ozil has been too quiet for my liking. I barely heard his name mentioned at all. He's such a lazy player.

:pac:

]Why has Wenger moved him even further left than usual?
He'll not score from out there.

CatInABox

Quazzie wrote: »

Ozil has been too quiet for my liking. I barely heard his name mentioned at all. He's such a lazy player.

:pac:

tayto lover wrote: »

]Why has Wenger moved him even further left than usual?
He'll not score from out there.

He's been totally invisible so far.

greendom

So Capital One can't afford foam?

tayto lover

tayto lover wrote: »

Diaby has been very steady and is a very good passer of the ball.

Diaby really doing well in front of that back four and teams are not opening us up down the middle. Very impressed with Bellerin. Fast, good in the tackle and decent crosser. Rosicky and Campbell are poor tonight though. Ospina probably dived too quick for the penalty but i think it might be harsh having a go at him for the second. As well as power, it had a swerve on it.

Alfred Borden

Podolski is one of our highest earners lol

greendom

greendom wrote: »

So Capital One can't afford foam?

The football league runs the Carling cup whereas the Premier league brought in the shaving foam. Id say the FL will probably adopt it down the line but for the love of me i cant fathom how it isn't introduced from the very top (FIFA) down. It seems FIFA cant force any other league to implement it.

Raf32

Raf32 wrote: »

Podolski is one of our highest earners lol

Hasn't really got much of the ball tonight tbf to him.

Ken Shamrock

Lovely spell get sanchez on that free

greendom

4 minutes ! Taggart's cramp lasted longer than that

Soups123

Zero tempo to the game, good to see a few fringe players get a run out.

Pod and Rosicky struggling to get a game these days and after tonight they are even further away. Rosicky in particular was awful.

Thought Chambers and Belerin did well and Coq was ok. Most others just meh.

greendom

Disappointing result but not a whole lot to be disappointed about to be fair.

Southampton look like an excellent taem

WoollyRedHat

Capmbell was good as well I thought, made some nice runs.

Chamberlain also displaying his quality tonight, should get more games.

Alfred Borden

Not much to take from that. Thought Diaby and Coq were solid and Ox was brilliant when he came on. Rosicky, Podolski and Campbell were useless. Dont really like Sanchez up top by himself but he did ok, Wilshere has to be the most frustrating player to watch in our team. Hayden impressed me a lot more than Bellerin.

UnknownSpecies

Positives: Back 4 with three 19 year olds did pretty well. Diaby had a tidy game and didn't get injured.

Negatives: Players that we may need to rely on ie. Rosicky, Campbell, Podolski, didn't step up tonight. Hopefully it's just rust from those guys but it's a pity because that game was ours to lose after going 1 up.

tayto lover

The midfield was poor with the exception of Diaby. Good to see him back.
Coquelin can debutise at LB if we're stuck.

Looper007

Once again when a team gets a little tough on us. We crumble.
We had enough on the field to win that game. Only one clear cut chance in that whole second half, at home. While they had 5 or 6.

Once again Inconsistent=Arsenal

Rosicky was muck all game, didn't look bothered. The Same with Pod.
Campbell was indifferent. Our defence look like they would let a goal in at most of their attacks. Wilshire tried but it never came off for him. Belerin looks out of his depth.

That's why no one will take us serious as Title Contenders.

omega man

greendom wrote: »

Disappointing result but not a whole lot to be disappointed about to be fair.

Southampton look like an excellent taem

Disagree. That's one trophy gone already and it's only September.

Looper007

The only positive to come from the game. Diaby came out without a Injury and we have less games to play meaning players can rest up before League and CL Games.

Looper007

greendom wrote: »

Disappointing result but not a whole lot to be disappointed about to be fair.

Southampton look like an excellent taem

We made them look good to be fair.

UnknownSpecies

Looper007 wrote: »

Once again when a team gets a little tough on us. We crumble.
We had enough on the field to win that game. Only one clear cut chance in that whole second half, at home. While they had 5 or 6.

Once again Inconsistent=Arsenal

Rosicky was muck all game, didn't look bothered. The Same with Pod.
Campbell was indifferent. Our defence look like they would let a goal in at most of their attacks. Wilshire tried but it never came off for him. Belerin looks out of his depth.

That's why no one will take us serious as Title Contenders.

Categorically disagree with the bit in bold. I thought we looked comfortable enough at the back to be honest. It's always going to look a bit panicky or last ditch when we went a goal down and started pushing forward. Also thought Bellerin played well.

I wouldn't say it's inconsistent either considering this team hasn't had any games together in which to build any consistency. Only the Capital One, I won't lose much sleep.

greendom

omega man wrote: »

Disagree. That's one trophy gone already and it's only September.

With our thin and creaking defence, I'm pleased we're out tbh.

Soups123

Looper007 wrote: »

Once again when a team gets a little tough on us. We crumble.
We had enough on the field to win that game. Only one clear cut chance in that whole second half, at home. While they had 5 or 6.

Once again Inconsistent=Arsenal

Rosicky was muck all game, didn't look bothered. The Same with Pod.
Campbell was indifferent. Our defence look like they would let a goal in at most of their attacks. Wilshire tried but it never came off for him. Belerin looks out of his depth.

That's why no one will take us serious as Title Contenders.

You've got to be taken the mick here?

Soups123

It's the Carling Cup lads FFS now the trophy monkey is off the back we should have no interest in.

The saved games means more for me

Looper007

dorgasm wrote: »

Categorically disagree with the bit in bold. I thought we looked comfortable enough at the back to be honest. It's always going to look a bit panicky or last ditch when we went a goal down and started pushing forward. Also thought Bellerin played well.

I wouldn't say it's inconsistent either considering this team hasn't had any games together in which to build any consistency. Only the Capital One, I won't lose much sleep.

I know but I hate losing to be fair cause you know they will slaughter us in the press more so then the other top teams.

Looper007

Soups123 wrote: »

You've got to be taken the mick here?

Why are the points I made here wrong?

UnknownSpecies

Soups123 wrote: »

It's the Carling Cup lads FFS now the trophy monkey is off the back we should have no interest in.

The saved games means more for me

Definitely. It would be grand if we had the squad depth to mix in 50/50 seniors and youth, but we don't so I don't see the point of risking our league players for the sake of staying competitive in the least important competition we're in.

Soups123

Looper007 wrote: »

Why are the points I made here wrong?

We crumbled? Really?

Belerin out of his depth?

The looked like scoring every attack?

It was half a team at best and you expect consistency?

UnknownSpecies

Looper007 wrote: »

I know but I hate losing to be fair cause you know they will slaughter us in the press more so then the other top teams.

I'm the same. It's ammo for the media and other fans. Just have to try and take a logical view of things. I'm not going to say we're better off being out of the Capital One cup, but we certainly won't be worse off for being knocked out.

bad2dabone

Cheer up looper.


Liverpool play Real Madrid soon.

AdamD

We have an awful knack of players who never score, scoring wonder goals against us.

Looper007

Soups123 wrote: »

We crumbled? Really?

Belerin out of his depth?

The looked like scoring every attack?

It was half a team at best and you expect consistency?

One chance in the 2nd half they had. They had far more. We had Internationals out there enough talent on the pitch to cause more trouble then we need. We won't agree on this Soups.