Arsenal Banter Archive January 13 2016

13 Jan 2016 23:20:03
Disappointed, but overall a point at Anfield is decent.

We pushed and pressed Liverpool when we were behind, but once we gained the advantage, we took our foot off the pedal and dropped back. Why?

Credit to Giroud and Campbell. Walcott and Ozil were poor.

And why did Mertesacker turn his back on Joe Allen when he was about to pull the trigger?
Take one for the team mate, like John Terry use to do all the time.

13 Jan 2016 23:52:06
I mentioned the other day about Walcott, people moan about Giroud but is Theo actually setting games alight?

'pools second goal was stunning, not a lot you can do about that, I would question Cech though over the other two. could he have done better?

I'd have settled for a point before the game but when you are 3-2 up so late in the day. you expect to win.

13 Jan 2016 23:54:20
Just to say. were Liverpool 'That' depleated.

13 Jan 2016 23:56:05
Defenders who turn their backs are not defenders. What has gabriel done wrong even arteritis gets on before him ( guess who ) yes you gotcit dags.

13 Jan 2016 23:56:49
Not arthritis dags, the answer.

14 Jan 2016 05:43:54
Banbury when you have kolo toure in defence you are depleated. They aren't the best liverpool team of recent times, without skirtl coutinho sturridge etc they were supposed to be toothless.

14 Jan 2016 08:33:28
Arthritis. love that :-)

14 Jan 2016 09:10:00
Theo is a liability when things don't go his way. He gave possession away dribbling out of his own box for the second goal.

Serious case for dropping him and playing Campbell when sanchez is back?

14 Jan 2016 10:04:05
Welcott didn't have a good game and ozil didn't had the support needed behind him. With liverpool injury crises I thought we would score that many goals and maybe more but our defence let us down, if you look at paper they had no threat going forward but we made it hard for ourselves.
Per did well but he always somehow manages to mess things up.
The ox made somw bad decisions and introducing artita wasn't the right decision, I thought I could have been better using gabrial or chambers instead of gibbs and artita, so I completely agree with steve here.

14 Jan 2016 10:08:47
With Gabs i just think you don't want too many defenders on the pitch, so the call i feel was right.

14 Jan 2016 10:51:01
Banbury Gooner. yes we were very depleted .
Great game though. Football played the way it should be.

14 Jan 2016 12:40:02
Mystifier we were so deep that it would have been better with a defender on the pitch, last few min if a team is behind inevability at any level teams are going to put balls into the box and cause mayhem so you want big strong headers of the ball on the filed and arteta is not one of those. Liverpool threw a defender upto and we put a ageing small midfielder playing deep on. it was 100% the wrong decision.

13 Jan 2016 22:09:41
Would have taken the draw before the game, awesome game to watch, Giroud and Joel Campbell were immense. We'll learn a lot from this, I still this we have Sanchez to come back and we can win the title. Believe:)

13 Jan 2016 22:30:26
A depleated pool, a goal up, changes by the manager to secure the win ( which failed ) our own leaky defence. Sorry i'm not as confident. Teams that win titles have great defenses and learn to make it hard for the other team. A draw may have been a good result, but not in these circumstances. The chance to push on spurned again.

13 Jan 2016 22:47:33
1-0 down, came back, 2-1 down, came back 2-2, then went ahead 3-2 and they poked a last minute goal. Anfield away is not an easy one, we could have collapsed in the first 20 mins they were all over all. We came back 2 twice which is the mark of champions. The major issue is the DM issue, I agree. But watching the work done by Joel Campbell and Giroud hitting some form, all is ok. The defence has been poor but that is just the DM. Cech has the most clean sheets in the league this year I think. As always, not quite as gloomy as the disappointment would have people think. People just think if you don't win, you're rubbish. Not always the case.

13 Jan 2016 23:58:04
Well at least one of us is going to be right.

14 Jan 2016 00:12:27
A depleted Liverpool team, seriously, no wonder they couldn't beat us missing Coquelin, Sanchez and Cazorla. Oh no wait that's who we were missing.

Jesus you are one sad old moaning git. :-)

14 Jan 2016 03:55:28
And a good day to you too dog.

14 Jan 2016 03:57:33
Dog you really don't like opinions, except your own of course.

14 Jan 2016 08:14:35
Steve you talk about a depleted Liverpool with zero acceptance of the fact we are arguably missing three of our best players in Sanchez, Coquelin and Cazorla.

So a balanced view or opinion rather than a slate everything or negative outlook is much more my thing.

Even when you praised Iwobi the other day you couldn't help but finish it on a negative.

Good day to you too, I hope somewhere during it you can actually crack a smile because shortly it will be 2016, in the am that is. :-)

14 Jan 2016 10:05:07
I agree with dog was a great game of Footy and a good result how Liverpool played they deserved a point.

13 Jan 2016 22:05:29
Listened on player tonight, missed the chance to beat a depleated liverpool. When are we ever going to learn to control a game and not just take off three attackers and bring on three bang average at best defenders to try and see it out. Ok ox not defensive but not the best Defensively either. Missed gilt edge chance to create some daylight to citeh.

13 Jan 2016 22:07:47
Good grief Steve.

13 Jan 2016 22:18:58
We should have wrapped it up with Giroud chance but he was awesome throughout

We need to sort centre midfield out and how to keep cool when Ozil comes off. It changes us so much.

They wanted it a bit more at the end which was a shame as we showed great fight, character and class.

We have to start taking maximum points from mid-table teams.

We need to get maximum points over the next handful of key games

A key transfer would be a welcomed boost that and a smile from Steve.

13 Jan 2016 22:34:15
Sy4 stop being silly. I smiled in 2001. that's one minute past eight by the way.

13 Jan 2016 22:50:04
Lol Steve.

13 Jan 2016 21:36:41
Great game from Joel -well played son!

Looking a bit shaky in centre midfield.

13 Jan 2016 16:09:09
Stan kronke just got the nfl to approve the move of his nfl team the St. Louis rams back to los angeles. They will build a state of the art stadium and enter a larger market. I wonder if this means anything in regards to his ownership of Arsenal? Eds you guys have any ideas?

13 Jan 2016 16:45:27
Yes it means Wenger will be extending his contract until 2022 at which point he will leave to manage the LA Rams.

We will get a star quarter back in return who will adapt to play the spot vacated by Coquelin when he finally moves to Madrid after winning a number of titles with the Arsenal.

That's what I read in my tea leaves anyway. ;-)

13 Jan 2016 16:59:40
I just looked at the tea leaves in my cup, its not good news.
Mainly because I was drinking a Cappuccino.

13 Jan 2016 17:12:01
Love it red dog! And le coq will go to madrid for 200 million squid. Wenger will call for the nfl rules to be changed as he cannot play possession football (American) with only 4 downs!

13 Jan 2016 18:02:28
Looks like the 200 mill in the kitty will be winging its way over the Atlantic.

14 Jan 2016 00:24:07
It's a good point JK. Kronke is going to need a lot of cash and time and effort with this change. It may be tempting knowing he could take his profits by selling out to Usmanov or someone else.

13 Jan 2016 14:31:47
Ed,

Perhaps one for the banter section.

Finally making a trip to London, finally able to afford a ticket to the Emirates. Just wondering: is it best to register as a supporter and get a crack at a ticket (£35) , or should I just go through stubhub? We're playing Watford.

Any inside from the lads would be appreciated. Thanks.

13 Jan 2016 15:53:05
If its a one off, yeah try stubhub.
If its a fairly regular thing (ish) , might be worth registering mate.

13 Jan 2016 16:00:36
Arsenalex if you go outside the ground they will be giving them away for nothing. Also worth buying a kinder egg as the do put arsenal tickets inside them now instead of the little toy lol.

13 Jan 2016 17:03:35
Haha nice one Raver,
Is that the same kinder egg you got your season ticket from? :-)

13 Jan 2016 17:37:50
No dags I got my golden ticket from my wonka bar.

13 Jan 2016 18:22:29
You sure you meant Wonka? :-)

13 Jan 2016 20:46:46
Thanks gents. Stubhub it is.

13 Jan 2016 13:37:07
With all this waiting for Elneny to sign, I know now what it must feel like to be a Chelsea supporter waiting for Hazard to score.

13 Jan 2016 11:48:01
Interesting fact.

We have scored first (14 times) , than any other team this season in Prem.

13 Jan 2016 10:04:22
After being linked with every man who has every touched a football so far in the last 10 days, we should celebrate the actual signings we have made in january i have it on good athourity that we have in fact signed
1. sue. sue is a new cleaner apparently used to work for the chelski but decided to move to the arsenal as it was easier to get to
2. steve and dave smith 2 bothers who will work as stewards, as there dad dave senior is a lifelong arsenal fan
3.big tony who will be serving you hotdogs at half time. tony has expeirence working in mc donalds so he is one to look out for in the future
4.penelope who will be working in the ticket office . penelope used to follow king bentner on instagram then came to her sences, and started to follow giroud, a job in the ticket office was announced shorty afterwards.

13 Jan 2016 10:54:21
That made me chuckle mate, good one :)

13 Jan 2016 11:22:30
Love it Rick :-)

13 Jan 2016 18:57:21
Won't believe it til they are pictured on Arsenal. com 😜😜.