Arsenal Banter Archive December 14 2014

14 Dec 2014 22:16:40
I didn't know Emile Heskey plays for Liverpool.

Oh wait, its Raheem Sterling.

My bad.

Dags,,

just because he's taken the dribble to a new dimension,, there is no need to be so veracious!

YNWA

{Ed025's Note - i think hes great mick...just dont tell anyone i said so..

14 Dec 2014 22:49:05
Lol, sorry Mick.

I like him really mate.
Just feel sorry for him at the moment because you have only offered him £80,000 per week :-)

Please Dags don't do this you know this will come back to haunt us next week,
I remember people laughing at man u at Milton Keynes earlier in the season

Your mellowing Ed, it must be christmas!

i concur, great talent in the making, but he's carrying a huge load of expectation which should be being managed better.

All of a sudden he's our talisman!

With all that's going wrong for us at the moment, that's a burden many would struggle with, let alone a boy of just 20.

Someone needs to show him the tape of ronny rosenthal to cheer him up!

YNWA

{Ed025's Note - i agree mick the kid has bags of skill and potential mate, but he does need better players around him, and a manager who will treat him properly and rest him when he needs to...maybe he could sign for us?.. :)

14 Dec 2014 23:05:58
Fair point G62 :-)

And what would you expect to get paid Dags if you had 16 kids.

YNWA

{Ed025's Note - 4 viagra and a pair of ear muffs?..

Well if you can flog your stadium in time Ed "who knows"

YNWA

{Ed025's Note - we would be lucky to get 49p for it mick..

I think he's had enough muffs Ed, leave his ears alone.

YNWA

{Ed025's Note - like it mick..

14 Dec 2014 23:38:24
Blimey Mick,

No wonder he always complains of being tired mate :-)

14 Dec 2014 19:27:14
Bredan Rogers will ideally want to get 3pts on Sunday to relieve the pressure on himself especially at home but he certainly won't want to get beaten at Anfield in front of the kop.
So how will he set up against us?
And
How do we best go about coming away with all 3 pts?

{Ed025's Note - its a good time to be playing them G62, they are low on confidence, and well to be honest...crap!, sanchez should scare the pants off them, and for me the only way you will drop points against them is if you try to sit back, my advice to arsene would be go for the jugular from the start, quieten the crowd, and tear that leaky defence to shreads...please.. :)

14 Dec 2014 20:04:30
Agree with Ed,

Do to them what they did to us last season.

Get them on the back foot for first 20 because they are low on confidence.

14 Dec 2014 20:19:42
The chance to redeem themselves and release the pressure was today against United, their biggest domestic rivals and they failed miserably.

Balotelli confirmed exactly what a waste of space he truly is, their backup keeper was all over the place and right now they're lost.

It is a case of exactly do to them what was done to us, fragile confidence in any team has to be taken advantage of.

I'd like to see Debuchy hold his position as CB next to Mert and Bellerin remain as our RB with speed against Sterling.

Sanchez, Welbeck, Giroud and the Ox to run them ragged.

{Ed025's Note - if it goes as i expect it to red dog, they will have to score 3 to get a point off you mate...and even their deluded fans cant believe they can score that many..even against hartlepool..

Like you Red I'd let Welbeck Sanchez Giroud backed up by Ox and Carzola run at them but I'd remind Flamini and both full back's of their defensive duties and not getting sucker punched on the break was very much their No1responsibility and getting forward very much a secondary role first 45 at least.
Disaplined demolition rather than naive all guns blazing for me

14 Dec 2014 20:57:13
It's about keeping the belief ed, start as we did against the toon, right now are attacking strength is our defensive strength.

When you think we have no Ramsey, no Ozil, no Wilshere and no Walcott its shows that when we finally replace just Arteta and Mertesacker, and I'm not hating on them, we will be a team to be reckoned with again.

Liverpool, Qpr, West Ham, Southampton and Stoke, 5 games to do us the world of good before City on Jan 18.

Taking nothing for granted, they have to go out and take it.

{Ed025's Note - you cant get frustrated like you did against utd though red dog, if you had scored early against them, i have no doubt you would have won 3 or 4 nil, its important that you take one of the early chances im sure you will get, sanchez has the ability to tear skirtl a new one mate but it has to be done early, the longer it stays at 0-0 the more it will suit liverpool..

Hartlepool Ed .

Thanx mate.

Gonna have to take a viagra to get up from that one.


YNWA

{Ed025's Note - sorry mick...but i have to have a kick while you down mate, its my job :) no doubt you will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, but until then....

Its about balance for me, yes we want ideally to be pressing them from the off and get an early goal but we mustn't give ourselves a mountain to climb in the second half by getting exposed on the break as so often has happened to us.
Losing the bad habits that have cost us so often in the past while retaining as much as possible of what we do best, its that fine balance we need to establish

{Ed025's Note - very true..

14 Dec 2014 21:46:32
g62 and ed think you've between you hit the nail on the head, disciplined demolition and patience.

We are defending better as a whole unit with Santi even working hard.

We really could do without another false dawn but we do seem to have up'd our game.

{Ed025's Note - santi does seem to have got his act together red dog, or maybe because its nearly christmas i can say...maybe santi has a clause in his contract :)

14 Dec 2014 21:55:36
Ed,

Why do I get the feeling you have a very very very small dislike of Liverpool? :-)

{Ed025's Note - moi?...never!...well never small.. :)

14 Dec 2014 22:11:58
Santi clause?

Jeez Ed, and you have the cheek to moan about my jokes? Lol

{Ed025's Note - i can only describe it as ...like smelling your own fart dags..

14 Dec 2014 22:12:36
Back of the net ed, read that and weep Dags. Lol.

The first half of last season we were at times unplayable and receiving accolades by the dozen but at other times we were winning ugly and people were saying we had added this string to our bow, oh and we were top too.
The city game at 6 3 was seen as just one of those games but it was Anfield that we really lost our self believe, let's hope Sunday we spot where we left it and bring it back home with us and keep it in a very safe place

{Ed025's Note - that was a totally different side to the liverpool of now G62, without hannibal they are a shadow of last seasons nearly men..

14 Dec 2014 22:36:35
Speaking of farts.

A woman walks into a very high class jewellers.

She spots a beautiful bracelet in the glass cabinet, and as she bends over to inspect it, accidently let's out a big fart.

Feeling embarrassed, she looks behind her to see if anybody notices.

She spots the salesman.
Being the ultimate professional and pretending he didn't notice, he asks, "Madam, can I be of any assistance?"

Relieved, she asks, "How much is the bracelet?"

To which he replied, "if madam farted just looking at it, you would s**t yourself when I tell you the price".

{Ed025's Note - i liked that dags..

Benitez or klopp to replace rodgers then

14 Dec 2014 22:52:38
Unfair Derby,

I think Rodgers is doing a brilliant job :-)

Got a feeling Ed will agree with me.

{Ed025's Note - give the guy a job for life i say..

Totally agree Ed Mr nibbles turned a 7th place team into challenges and a very fortunate manager into a one season wonder.
But Anfield is where we lost our self belief so is a very good place to find it, its the place more than the opponents

{Ed025's Note - yes mate it was once a fortress, i remember vinny jones and dennis wise writing on the sign "THIS IS ANFILD"...SO WHAT!...quality..

We like to do things the right way Derby,

so we will be interviewing his brother klippity!


YNWA

Was dennis wise on vinny's shoulders then Ed!

If not, that's a porkie.


YNWA

{Ed025's Note - its true mick..they got slated for it...but they were known as the crazy gang mate..

I remember them well Ed, fruitcakes the lot of em! if only they could have faced us a few years earlier, they would have come up against a midfield consisting of kennedy, case and souness!

Now that would have been interesting.

YNWA

{Ed025's Note - any one of them 3 would have wiped the floor with the crazy gang mick..proper hard men them mate..

14 Dec 2014 18:37:07
Richard Keys and former Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini need to concentrate on what's important

Santi has an obligation to AFC not the society of young keepers

I think a Panenka’-style penalty is better than the Chelsea diving antics!

Let's get Saturday into perspective and stop the Arsenal bashing

A talented confident player like Santi shouldn't care about the development of a keeper from another team! Great penalty, should be proud of his performance.

14 Dec 2014 14:30:34
Think we need to give the manager and the players a lot of credit for yesterdays performance. Newcastle came in to the game in great form and whilst they also have plenty of injuries, they also had a good break between matches.

Debuchy looked pretty good as a CB let alone a last minute stand in - especially as he was pretty exhausted after his last match following such a long layoff.
Bellerin appears to be getting better by the game. He is a better user of the ball when he's up front than many of our full back options.

Alexis just did his stuff - what a great signing!!
We now see why Giroud gets Arsenes backing.

Danny Wellbeck to me is a true Arsenal player. runs and harries and also has plenty of skill with a lot more to come from him.

Santi is still a real handful but needs to get regular play even if all the other options are fit we need to keep him match sharp

Gibbs had one of his better games - think the confidence of getting england starts is making him a better player when he gets their side of the half way line.

Every one else had a great game as well.

BTW I've finally become convinced that AOC will become a proper top player - seems all he needed was time on the pitch.

sorry to take up half the planets supply of data space but I've been having a lot of system problems and been unable to post much at all!

14 Dec 2014 17:16:29
The Ox is starting to remind a lot of Eden Hazard and at 2yrs younger it would be great if he stepped up to the level Hazard is currently at over this season and next.

Only Sanchez has out preformed Ox this season, he was my tip for the top at the start of the season and needs to be starting 8 out of 10 games .
He is ready beyond question and most important he consistently proves it in games

14 Dec 2014 10:00:47
Even though I personally believe that Arsene should call it a day come the end of the season whether it be basking in glory (Top 3 finish) or (Cup) or (CL) or a blaze of fire (Top 4 or less) and (No cup) I have to say it was refreshing to see the majority of the stadium chanting his name and getting behind him yesterday.

Not for one second do I believe that every fan signing his name yesterday is a pro Wenger fan at the moment but it just goes to show the respect and unity we have for each other. He has a contract for 3 more years whether we like it or not and I for one am glad to see us get behind him while he is still at the helm.

As I've said time and time before although we are inconsistent, as long as we can sustain strong morale in the dressing room, fans backing our club and gain a little confidence from each performance we have the squad to match anyone on our day whether that be City, Chelsea, Madrid or Munich. We need to keep our heads high and keep believing in our ability.

14 Dec 2014 13:16:04
With you all the way until you said we have a squad to match

So sheeny are you saying that on our day with a fully fit squad we couldn't beat any team put in front of us? The ability is there and we can certainly beat anyone in a one off game. Keep the faith.

{Ed025's Note - im with you VDG..

16 Dec 2014 06:20:02
We've shown time and time again that we can't. "On our day" means maybe 1 in 5, but any mid table team could do 1 in 5 on their day

{Ed025's Note - i believe arsenal have the 3rd best team in the prem sheeny, maybe thats not good enough for most supporters, but you are the only viable challengers to the big 2 in my eyes, uniteds luck must run out shortly, they are riding a wave at the moment and getting results that to be honest their performance does not warrant, but i suppose thats football mate..

13 Dec 2014 22:28:51
Two very good wins on the bounce and now they absolutely have to be turned into a hatrick of wins at Anfield next week, not easy I know but its where we were so terribly exposed last season and our trouble's really began so would be the perfect place to announce and prove we have truly turned the corner this time

14 Dec 2014 08:16:22
Absolutely 62, look what a run of 5 wins has done for a woeful United.

G62 I can't see us not beating Liverpool at Anfield next either. Sure they are tough at home but they are in more dire straits than us at the moment and if we play half as good as we played yesterday the 3 points and a bag full of confidence will be returning to the Emirates!

{Ed025's Note - i think thats half the problem VDG, you go in to games thinking you are going to win, and when you dont its a bitter disappointment, that goes for players and supporters..

I agree Ed 100 per cent. We build ourselves up and can't take it when we get knocked down again. Most fans of any club are guilty of this though I would assume.

We have realise that as much as we don't like it other teams refuse to read our script and play the part we have given them to play, its almost as if they think its all about them, cheeky monkey's :-)
A bit cuter and a lot less arrogant at times would serve us well from now on, its not about fear its about respect.
Usually a point at Anfield would he great but we need to start winning back points we lost earlier in the season so it really has to be 3pts to continue the momentum and make up lost ground

14 Dec 2014 13:21:50
Ed has it. And VDG I think we are the worst culprits particular the team themselves. They approach the minnows with a sense of entitlement a lot of the time particularly if we're on a run.

That arrogance has cost us big time in seasons past. Our best teams never did that. We've been at it maybe 5 years now.