Arsenal Banter Archive March 28 2015

28 Mar 2015 18:29:35
What time is the semi final has it been confirmed yet

28 Mar 2015 19:07:06
April 18th 5.20 pm.

28 Mar 2015 20:03:56
Haha, imagine...

28 Mar 2015 08:21:44
Think we are all going the wrong way with the ideas for making the England team better by making the Premier League clubs falsely balance their sides.
By insisting on filling all the clubs with English players we will just keep encouraging those players to be mediocre.

A lot of home grown appear to be happy to attain the mid ground where they can earn an absolute fortune and still enjoy all the pleasures of the flesh - as opposed to making sacrifices to get to the top.
If you look at the players AFC have had over the years who looked like world class potential - ending up playing lower leagues.
(but also having a great life and lotsa money)

28 Mar 2015 09:20:56
Compulsory English players isn't the answer because all that will do is force down standard's, casting the net further so as kids from Cornwall Norfolk and less fashionable fishing pools have as much chance as kids from a bigger towns or city who are local to big teams.
Making the dream more attainable for more people has to be progress, look at tennis pretty much an elitist sport that gives opportunity to very few but how many could have been Wimbledon champions who lived in social housing never picked up a racket because of not having a real opportunity.

28 Mar 2015 10:47:32
Liverpool and Cornwall have the same population but only two Cornish players have ever played in the premier league Nigel Martin and Mathew Etherington, I'm not sure how many Liverpool born players have appeared over the last 25 years for various clubs but at a guess 50+?
If we could give all kids an equal shot across the country we might have a premier league that's not only the best league in the world but also one that's heavily dominated but players who qualify for England too.

28 Mar 2015 12:21:40
G62 the problem with the cornish is, every time they get in there tractor, they get as far as Devon.
And you can't beat a good pint of scrumpy:)

28 Mar 2015 13:35:47
I know they've a reputation of being a bunch of pasty's but given a chance I think they might be some hidden treasure in them there coves MgM lad

28 Mar 2015 14:42:29
im from exeter and teams down here are dire, there's just no money for them and very little support, which i don't really understand because there's very few teams to choose from so you would think everyone would support them. but growing up you have to support a big team if you want to be able to watch football. exeter were in the conference when i was growing up so no tv coverage and dreadful to watch.

28 Mar 2015 15:15:26
eden what do you reckon if Torquay were in a partnership with say Arsenal and Plymouth say Liverpool and the Scilly isles with man u, to encourage youngsters to keep playing beyond discovering the opposite sex and alcohol. Do you think premier league involvement and spread across places like Devon Cornwall Norfolk would make a difference to kids attitudes to playing apposed to just watching the game.
I mean what about Yorkshire? What would they make of the premier league, no lace in the ball and the keeper not having a flat cap on :-) but seriously I do think big clubs having several academy's up and down the country would be good for the national game.

28 Mar 2015 17:14:11
I wouldn't really know much about that but it would be good to have a better pool of players for Exeter, I hope no one touches Plymouth and they slip away into obscurity :) in january Exeter sold Matt grimes to Swansea for a club record 1.75 mil hard to know if we could of got more if kept him for another year and maybe we might of been closer to the play offs we've dropped off since. But then can't stand in the way of a kids big move. And 1.75 is a massive amount to Exeter probs won't get another player like that for 5 or more years so would probably be good for Exeter if they had a partner with better players to call upon

28 Mar 2015 20:17:14
But if we sent wilshere or diaby to Exeter we'd never find them again, I got confused to f going around the hospital.

Maybe that's where diabys been all these years not injured at all.

28 Mar 2015 23:43:20
But how many prize winning Pasties have come out of Liverpool? How many welly wangerlers have come out of Manchester? How many Londoners can down 15 pints of farmer palmers best farm made scrumpy and then shear the odd field and plough a few sheep before sun down? Exactly!

28 Mar 2015 02:22:20
Reports that Welbeck has picked up a knee injury. I hate the International break, all they do is return our players injured or fatigued. Whilst our next opponents Liverpool have managed to pull out quite a few players 'injured'. It will be interesting to see how many miraculously turn up against us on Saturday. I hope Welbeck's injury doesn't keep him out too long.

28 Mar 2015 15:08:48
I got slated for saying I was glad arteta is injured. For me welbeck is no great loss

27 Mar 2015 21:53:41
Morata the one that got away

{Ed007's Note - There's always one, mine was Martine McCutcheon, Ed025's was Jimmy Corkhill.}

28 Mar 2015 07:31:26
007,
Trust me, 025 has a thing for Bella Emberg.

Bless him.

{Ed025's Note - i know how to get bella into bed dags..its a piece of cake.. :)

28 Mar 2015 08:19:21
Just out of interest is he the 1 or simply 1 of the 374 others that have got away so far this season. ;-)

28 Mar 2015 08:38:23
Lol Ed,

Funny enough, Mrs Dags made me a cake the other day that tasted so disgusting I threw it back at her.

She went mental.
Hell hath no fury like a woman sconed.

{Ed001's Note - you and Ed025 should have a joke off, though on someone else's site so that you drive all their posters away on to here to escape you......}

28 Mar 2015 09:11:32
I'd of taken him red dog . I know real have a buy back clause and that's why we said no but I can't see him getting back into Madrid team ahead of Kane . :)

28 Mar 2015 09:58:31
I think most of us would have taken him Derby, he's made 9 full appearances with 14 as sub for Juve and got 7 goals. Not prolific as yet, but definitely has the attributes.

Be interesting to see how he gets on. Re Kane he is on a fantastic run and given the chance has grabbed it with both hands and to think they were going to let him go.

Could be a ready made replacement for Rooney if he keeps it up.

28 Mar 2015 14:02:05
Lol, thanks Ed001 :-)

28 Mar 2015 15:11:01
I'd send kane with the u21 . Barkley too. Stones also