Arsenal Banter Archive February 07 2015

 

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07 Feb 2015 22:12:33
C'mon everybody.

Stop getting upset about today.

I was upset this morning when I found out my freezer broke.

But that's all water under the fridge now.

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I went to the garage this morning and said to the guy my battery was flat. He took one look at it and said, it looks ok to me mate.

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I've stopped using garages for that reason, I had a pucture this morning and I asked the bloke to fix it and he said that I needed a new tyre, I knew this was rubbish as it was only flat at the bottom!

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07 Feb 2015 21:54:09
Thierry Henry tweeted a great response to the result today. What a legend. I uploaded it to the Arsenal sightings.

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07 Feb 2015 23:00:37
Love it Paul.

Thierry, you legend.

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Excellent

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True legend, we should get him on here, anyone on twitter please tweet him the link! If he's any good at jokes there could be a space for him (don't tell dags).

P.S Love the use of the word 'us' a true Arsenal fan, Love you TH14

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07 Feb 2015 21:05:07
Spurs, contenders or pretenders?

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07 Feb 2015 21:36:34
To be fair, they looked good today (as opposed to us looking bad).
Credit where its due.

They had a game plan.
They pushed us back and kept us deep by pushing their left and right back forward.

Their tempo was far superior to ours and they broke with width and pace.

Contenders? Nope.
Top 4? Nope.

But they are not far from being there or there about.

They could have a say where the titles goes and if I'm being honest, I'm glad we don't have to play them again.

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Contenders for what, they will never win the league, but at the moment neither will we. Top 4 yes along with about 5 or 6 others for 2 spaces. We normally only have one team to best for the 4th place cup but this year there are a few more teams.

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I don't even think Top 4, Feb, March and April always seem our time of year Steve.

I even think 2nd place is up for grabs and have thought that for some time.

What will stop us is Wenger thinking he is a master at tactics .

I can understand not playing theo when Sanchez is fit along with Ox but to not start with any of those 3 was a mistake.we had no pace at all.

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I did'nt get that he didn't start Theo either, we all know that Theo and Ozil don't offer anything defensively but the difference with Theo is that he is always on the move and keeps the full back busy, Ozil stands still allowing them to attack.

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Spot on 337

Very odd, we were left without pace

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BG, we all know that attack can be the best form of defence, which is why I give you such a hard time :-)

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07 Feb 2015 21:02:42
Liverpool's next 3 fixtures are
spurs, Southampton and M City. so good news for us.

spurs next 3
Liverpool, W Ham and Chelsea with Fiorentina x2 crammed in-between .

Southampton have W Ham, Liverpool and W Brom

Man U have W Ham, Burnley and Swansea.March is a tad harder for the Mancs with Newcastle and Liverpool away and spurs between those at home.


Interesting

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07 Feb 2015 21:42:39
And we have

Leicester h
Palace A
Everton H

Boro FAC and Monaco CL sandwiched in between.
3 very winable games.
In fact, must win games.

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Just between me and you Banbury our next 9 fixtures in all comps are very winnable. Or is that being too optimistic.

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07 Feb 2015 23:05:41
Have I just read correctly?

The words Steve.r and optimistic in the same sentence?

Only joking Steve.
You are forever one of my fav posters.

Your feet are always grounded and you post with your head not your heart.

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Well that's what I have been saying based on our next few run of fixtures I think it makes for a very intresting race to the finish, I am still optimistic about 3rd. Not sure how many others are.

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I agree, I posted a few days back, our run of fixtures are very good, just disappointed after being 1 up.

They are games we should win, .just hope the defeat doesn't do any damage to the confidence.

ARSENE DO NOT RUSH SANCHEZ BACK

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Go on Steve predict a big 5-0 win in one of those I dare you :-)

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337 i'm not greedy, nine 1-0 wins will suffice.

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Good idea, then we can all dig out our George graham era songs like "1 nil to the arsenal" love that song, lyrical genius

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07 Feb 2015 20:41:36
Raver
I might be mistake, but I only thought you one a game today
Yes one the day you played better
But all this talk about top 4. Europa,
Mate when have you won something,
Yes you have had the reserve cup (Carling cup)
20 yrs. tells me you will crumble,
Hope you come back at the end of the season and ask for forgiveness.
But you enjoy your day, as that's all it is a day,
On Harry Kane its good to see an ex gooner doing well, Never seen a kid smile so much in an arsenal shirt
Raver your always welcome here mate
but you will be now know as the jester, because you do make as smile.

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07 Feb 2015 22:04:38
Well said Welsh :-)

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07 Feb 2015 22:42:34
You have read way to much into the media hype that Kane once was a arsenal youngster mate as surely you can understand that every player has to start somewhere regardless of the team he supports. He's spurs through and through always has been and I believe he always will be.

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Until Madrid come calling with a bigger paycheck right?

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08 Feb 2015 03:20:23
Loyalty in football is a dyin breed admittedly but if he does stay then give him the respect he would rightly deserve because any player who plays for the love over the money is what the sport needs more of. I don't see him going unless we want him gone but it's possible I could be wrong.

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07 Feb 2015 20:39:10
Bad performance today but there's an awful lot of overreaction to it on here tonight.
We were brilliant against city and Villa and Le Coq's arrival has certainly made us a more mature side.
city in bad form and Villa a poor side? let's not start belittling the good things and milking the bad for more than there worth people.
We have had a good start to 2015 let's not completely write off our improvement because of one bad day at the office even if it was a big day on which to have one

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07 Feb 2015 20:37:05
Just wanted to come on and say unlucky today guys, reading comments on here you accept you were beaten by the better team on the day and didn't deserve the win. I would've been on to congratulate you if you'd won so this is not a bragging message like u might expect as I had a gentlemans agreement with gunner that I would and he would if we won. The guy kept to his word and swallowed his pride and gave us the credit we deserved. The guy is a real gent. I've read your page a few times over the last few months and I have to say I'm envious that your page reads better than ours. Lots of good comments and discussions on here as opposed to people just moaning on ours. Keep your heads up guys there is a long way to go and I'm not going to count my chickens just yet. I've always enjoyed the banter with Arsenal fans (I have a lot of arsenal mates so used to being ripped lol) and even though we are direct rivals I don't mind le arse. Hope we finish above you of course but if not I will return to congratulate you guys on getting your fourth place trophy, that last part was of course a joke. Best of luck for the rest of the season, may the better team finish higher in the league (us of course)

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Excellent post

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Top bloke and you were better than us today. Just think your squad is not strong enough to carry you through. No no moaning on this page. This lot don't know what moaning is.

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Top man 85 enjoy match of the day mate, think I might give it a miss tonight, once is enough:-)
Total respect to you mate, oh and hope you trash the chavs again in your final

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07 Feb 2015 21:48:42
1985,

I have spoke to you before on the spurs page.
You are a gentleman and a true supporter.
Always a pleasure talking to you.

To be fair, The Raver comes on here and gives it the big 'in, but he's a good lad too, unlike your boy Spurski lol.

Its all good banter mate.
PS, enjoy finishing 6th lol.

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Guys I am a sore loser, can we stop sucking up to the spurs boy please?

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Spurs 1985 = true class. cheers mate. spurs fully deserved to win today. Harry Kane excites me as an England supporter.

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08 Feb 2015 03:35:54
Thanks for not being bitter guys and treating me with respect, you all on the most part show a lot of class. Have to say cannot understand what you didn't like about the game I very much enjoyed watching motd haha.

Dags, yes we have spoke before and much respect my friend you do talk some sense. Raver is a good'n no doubt bout that he is starting to be one of the better ones on our page. Spurski tho, not sure how he conducts himself on this page but on ours he is the only 1 other than myself who doesn't constantly moan.

Anyway I'll leave you guys be for abit whilst daywalker licks his wounds (I understand they must be very deep haha jokes) been a pleasure visiting the enemy and will pop back occasionally to chat football If you all ok with that?
All the best guys, going to be a great end to the season.
Last point, I'm so happy Kane has shown the doubters wrong and is continuing to prove people it's no fluke so much so even you guys recognise his quality 22 goals vs soldados 2 but still our fans think soldado it going to come good.
Much love people chat soon

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07 Feb 2015 20:31:27
I think we need to relax and stop loosing our heads, tottenham play pool next away, I don't see them getting a point there, we play Leci at home which I expect us to win, SH were lucky to get a goal today against a managerless side. City go to stoke and have been off form of late, so some people ask why were 6th, I would ask you what's the pt difference between 2nd and 6th the answer is 7, which is simply 2 games.

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No one is loosing their heads but relax and arsenal don't go together.

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Your logic is a breath of fresh air hood. Your posts are a work of a genius.lol.

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07 Feb 2015 20:27:13
Also if we are going to sit that deep we need pace on the break. Giroud ozil Caz will not give u that.

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07 Feb 2015 20:22:05
We need to ban Caz and ozil playing together. Just doesn't work never will. Welbeck upfront or not at all.

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07 Feb 2015 20:50:02
How does it not worked. Seemed ok against villa

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Its villa mate. If you think them two playing together helps us against the big boys you have lost the plot mate. No one can tell me ozil is a left winger or left side player

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When I saw Welbeck and Ozil on the teamsheet, I knew it wasn't going to end well. If we're going to play on the counter start rosicky and walcott ffs.

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Exactly lemon

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07 Feb 2015 18:53:39
We got what we deserved today.

Nothing.

Credit to Spurs, they played well and got the points.

I can't think of one player who played well, they treated the game like a training session and not a NLD.

We played too deep and invited them to attack us, and they did, big time.

It worked against City, and we were comfortable against them, but Spurs played a much higher tempo than City, and that caused us massive problems.

Still, onwards and upwards.
We need to remain positive and get a good result against Leicester.

We have been on as good run. Today was a bad day at the office against a team who were, unlike us, up for it.

Chin up people, we are still on track.

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07 Feb 2015 19:17:16
templegoon it could be a dvd about us being the first club to do it all. and banbury I meant the europa not ueafa cup.

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We turned up expecting a win no matter what and feeling we could just switch on a performance if and when needed but we were wrong.
Hey ho if we get back to working hard and playing smart on Tuesday its a wake call not a earthquake early warning siren

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07 Feb 2015 20:05:32
dags we are on the up mate. poch is turning us into a top side. the future is good in kane mason and bentaleb etc. I think you have had your day. you used to come to spurs and win easy and now you pray for a point. surely if you go from champions to 4th you have fallen away. 1 trophy in 11 years says it all

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Yes

Course you did Raver

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07 Feb 2015 21:20:50
Raver,

Credit where its due, you played well and you are a decent team.

But, over the last 20 years, you have beaten us 6 times at home in PL, but have failed to finish above us in the league.

Today's result doesn't change anything.
We will finish above you, as per usual.

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07 Feb 2015 18:47:36
welshgooner. piers morgan matt lucas your boys were chasing shadows. I said harry kane was coming for you are you laughing now. arsenal parked the bus at the lane that's how far you have fallen away. I told you nobody comes to the lane for a easy game as you and chelski found out. in a cup final in the top 4 and we will win the ueafa cup its great being a spurs fan. shall we make a dvd lol

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Great credit to your team Raver but not you.

In a Cup Final.not won it yet

Top 4. season not finished yet.

Ueafa cup . WTF is that, well one thing for sure is you won't win it.why? because you aren't playing in it . you cockney muppet

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Lets hope it's not a DVD about the trophies you have won. Blink and you'd miss it

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07 Feb 2015 19:10:26
53 years. That is quite an achievement

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07 Feb 2015 19:27:21
Raver,

Just like Tottenham, you have had your day.

But one day doesn't make a season.

You will still finish below us, just like the past 20 years.

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Raver. Your team beat us good and proper TODAY, end of.

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Big Kane fan

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Raver
Your ground ain't big enough to park the bus.
Its was lovely to see your soup kitchen crowd have a smile,
You have one TODAY, and we have lost, That can't be changed now neither can our supremacy over you .You will allways be the small north London club, Known for the riots

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07 Feb 2015 20:54:01
Raver has only just realised that as a spurs fan you do not always have to be negative. Be easy on him he's only just learning how to be happy supporting his team he hasn't learnt how to be a gracious winner yet. Baby steps and all that. I have a good feeling about this season myself but I'm aware there is a long way to go and will be back to do my bragging when I have something to brag about. Until then best of luck for the rest of the season. Oh yeah 2-1, Kane did a number on you today (well in fairness all the players did. Point and case, a reason to brag so I'm sure you guys can accept that haha.

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07 Feb 2015 21:22:08
Derby,

After today, I can see why.

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07 Feb 2015 23:08:39
1985,

No harm in bragging mate.

Its all good banter.

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Dags even wenger is bigging Kane up now. For me he's what you get if you put giroud welbeck together into one with a cherry in top

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How do you spurs boys stand watching your team every week with that hideous man upfront? Not a bad footballer, but his face hurts my eyes!

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08 Feb 2015 03:59:17
Dags it was a joke mate, I'm sure Raver knows that. He's one of the better guys on our page. Much love Raver good to see its not just our page you chat sh*t on haha jokes bud.

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07 Feb 2015 17:24:35
People will say knee jerk about the result. We have a massive battle to finish 4th . small talk recently about a late title push forget it. We will still be having the same conversation in a years time

Offtopic. I see simeone at city next season.

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The thing is Derby, I don't, I even think Arsenal will finish 3rd maybe, the run of fixtures is very good for us and is the reason behind my thinking, we don't play Chelsea or M Utd until near the end of the season. Chelsea is a few days after the CL quarter Final and M U is the last but game.

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People on here say i'm a moaner, fine, suits me, but people on here say we are a better team than before, we are title contenders, we have world class players, we have the best manager, we haven't the money to compete with chelski etc. If that is the case, please tell me why we are 6th, struggling to get to fourth, constantly failing in important games when the chips are down against good sides. All this after last season when we were only a handful of points (as people have said ) and have spent close on 100m. Sorry for moaning but where is the improvement.

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I think it is me and you against the rest mate.

We haven't improved. NO WE HAVEN'T guys,

I find it interesting to see 100% said we would beat spurs.clearly over confidence is evident.

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07 Feb 2015 19:13:56
No Steve, it's not personal. And for me the answer to your question is injuries, experience and mental strength, and sometimes tactics. Sorry if I was a bit hard on you boys, it is frustrating but we all have to move on. I still think the team is stronger this year than last, and hope this is a blip. We still have the CL and FA Cup to play in, so it would be just nice to see us play well consistently

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07 Feb 2015 19:15:33
ps: steve, I can only assume you love the dry moaner type of person as you have a Jack Dee avatar:)

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07 Feb 2015 19:20:46
Agreed - you do moan

Disagree - I don't believe we are title contenders, rather aiming for 3rd this season.

Disagree - I didn't get carried away with Citey win, except that Wenger showed he can put out a defensive side and listen to Bouldy plus players to make us stronger.

Agree - everyone has a valid opinion but why are you always negative? Why do others think we are world beaters because we put a few results together - don't know, may be because of all the nonsense from Wenger out club.

We are a decent side with a great but sometimes stubborn manager who has a team which misses something because it blows hot & cold. But we aren't far away from being real good.

Agreed - we all want the best for our great club but we all have slightly different views on how we get there. That's the beauty of sport.

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Sy4 I can only assume you read what you want to read, because i'm not always negative at all, just realistic.

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Fair shout SY4

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Good debate people

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Ozil, you should know by now, moaning is the spice of life. I wish though I didn't have as much to moan about. Victor Meldrew lives.

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SY4
well said mate

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07 Feb 2015 17:08:38
Ozil let's also look at the last 6 games. Again today we have been done away to a rival

Hull H Stoke H M City A Brighton A and Villa H

They aren't taxing fixtures Ozil and I would expect not to lose them .

And before anyone beats the " we beat M City drum " let's be realistic and see how they are performing currently

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Disillusionment is a bitter filling but sure worth having

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07 Feb 2015 16:42:25
Banbury, my point is that there are a number of people on here who just moan. How can "injuries" be Wenger changing the team for the worse. You would also moan if Santi, who was player of the month, was dropped.
The team had pace, as shown by the first goal.
We gave the ball away cheaply - that's the issue.
There are people who just moan if we don't change tactics, then moan when we do. Say player X deserves to keep his place, then moan when he does keep his place.
Then when the result goes against us and the manager even says we were crap - all the moaners group together to celebrate that they were right. Not saying celebrate the result but that they were right - which is BS. The team was good enough on paper to win. We had some injuries which removed a little pace / passion BuT we lost because we did not keep our shape well enough and gave the ball away too cheaply. This put Spurs ( who aren't a bad side at home ) in the driving seat and positive momentum
It was a crap day in the office and one where by every fan needed us to have a great day. We all have them, today we got punished - the anti and the pro wengers are all in the same spot. uNHAPPY with the result because we love arsenal.

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Vaild SY4

All I have said is people have got too carried away by the win at M City . A new lease of life and all that.

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Agreed sy as always

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Sy4 we moan as you put it because we can see we are not going anywhere. i'm not going down the wenger out routine, because for me I've made my mind up, he's behind the times now. For me we are dropping, bit by bit by bit, because our manager possibly like pellegrini, is over the hill.

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Sy4 no one is celebrating, quite the opposite.

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Agreed Banbury.

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07 Feb 2015 16:10:23
Cannot argue with spurs win they played really well and we were fortunate to be one nil up at halftime.but I can have a rant a bt sports sh*t. Coverage they show replays while the game is going on they show people in the crowd while the game is on, but by far the most annoying thing Michael Owen's commentary the man talks complete ballocks

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Owen has to be by far the worst on TV, forget today's chat from him but all season, the bloke is a twit

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07 Feb 2015 15:27:01
Bad day at the office nothing more nothing less.
Gave the ball away far to easily and were possibly a little over confident, but they can't all be good days and spurs deserved the points on the day
Its not what happens its how you react that matters most in the long run

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Agreed gunger, however you need one of your analagys on the end of every post please, I'm still waiting for your wife's tights to arrive as my fan belt is still broken, bloody royal mail!

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07 Feb 2015 15:23:42
Got what we deserved, they didn't have to defend at all and there full backs got forward for fun as a result. Ozil out wide is pointless. I think Arsene lacks the bottle to drop him. Not because he has been poor because he hasn't, its just in a game of that intensity is not his forte. Walcott would have given Walker something to think about other than bombing on. Welbeck was v.poor in first half. Puzzled by Wengers team selection AGAIN! I thought spurs did well winning so many non free kicks while we were again punished for staying on our feet, 5 or 6 bookings and the only bad challenges came from spurs players.

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Me too

Why not start with Walcott and get him on the back foot?

Maybe Wenger got lucky at City. . . . . going on Hull's point there, probably did

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How did Mason only get a yellow at the end of the game? Coulda been sent off in the first ten minutes alone. Awful performance by us and I ain't saying we shoulda won cause we shouldn't have, but I thought the ref had an absolute shocker.

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07 Feb 2015 15:14:07
I think today shows that we need ore balance between our 2 styles of play. We are experimenting with the defensive game which worked very well against Citeh and in the 1st half today. But we still need to keep our precision and focus on the ball - today we were very poor in that department, kept giving away possession and making incomplete passes. Only Welbeck really created danger. It's all well and good blocking the other team out, but we need to do more on the ball when we play in this style. We needed more from Ramsey and Cazorla particularly today.

The other issue is that we conceded a goal from a corner due to dodgy marking. The other one Kosc could have done better but it was an excellent header from Kane who really is very good. Slight issue on the right as well with Rose's first half runs and eventual cross for the goal - Bellerin was often beaten with Welbeck not covering.

Basically Wenger has made big tactical changes recently and the team is still learning. We need to find a mid ground between defensive and offensive tactics. I think it is much about game plan as players.

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07 Feb 2015 14:43:28
We got what we deserved, pathetic is an understatement.

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Bit strong there, the game could have gone either way and we were missing our best player!

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Agree nobody can argue we would have been very lucky to get away with a point in that one. Spurs totally dominated the midfield area and totally dominated the game really.

I though we sat back too much to play on the counter maybe the that way we played against City had a influence but it did not work today. We gave them too much encouragement and too much confidence. We were too Out numbered and lacked physicality in midfield to get in their faces more. Our only players that played to a decent level were our defenders but we were under so much pressure it was bound to tell in the end.

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We offered NOTHING going forward . They deserved to beat us, we can have no complaints, they were far superior to us today .

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Ryanp, absolutely spot on that mate, we sat back far too much, if we won we would have been saying how we won not playing well, but we got over run in midfield, Ramsey chasing shadows, wellbeck giving the ball away cheaply and Santi not in it today, ospina I like him but he does parry the ball out too much, the consolation is Spurs still will drop points against lesser teams, but got to say Kane is some player. Move on is all we can do now.

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337

Please don't use that as an excuse, bloody hell mate .

Where are all these people promoting 2 and 3 nil wins gone.

We shouldn't need to rely on one man and if we do or have. more fool hose of you who do

we got exactly what we deserved

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^^ Stop moaning, as per your logic at the moment hull are world beaters.

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How that a moan?

Don't tell me you said 4-0 to us did you

Hilarity.

Some on here need to wake up, I have seen comments about how we are a different side since we won at M City, so did 'boro and today Hull get a point, it is a knee jerk reaction.

Look who we have played since we lost to Southampton. Phew that is a
list of clubs.

Just accept people don't post what you want to hear .

Good, well listened :)

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No excuses BG, like I said it still could have gone either way, if Santi and OG were on form we would have been 3-1 up, but we lost, simple that's it.

You honestly think if Sanchez was there instead of welbeck we would have lost? C'mon he's been our best player all season he would have made a difference.

As for spurs they played well

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337, it could have gone either way, is a slight over statement.

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07 Feb 2015 14:42:22
SY4

Steve is one of the realistic posters in here amongst many dreamers

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Maybe we should get him a badge then? Fans that love Arsenal through and through, may get a little excited but it's nothing to be proud of that people think it's some sort of achievment that we lost and they were right.

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Thanks Banbury, ihave always said I say what I see, I don't say i'm always right or wrong. I do let my head rule my heart and I know some let their heart rule their head, neither is right or wrong. Believe me I want us to win as much as anyone.

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07 Feb 2015 16:30:12
If you boys let your heads rule your heart you would know we have not lost in 6 games, we have been playing well, lost to a good goal with time running out in a derby game.

That's logic for me. We were weak on the right side all game, poor passing, Welbeck was poor apart from the goal, Mason worked hard in midfield and we allowed them too much domination in possession. As someone else said, a balance of our possession passing game and this new defensive game away from home will reap the rewards.

Reality is, most of us are annoyed that we are no-where near the title and fighting for 4th, but all we can do is take a defeat like men and come back stronger. spurs are not pushovers - they buried Chelsea. You can tell a lot about how people take defeat and how gracious they are in victory. Those of us who are old enough to have lived the GG days, the invincibles glory days and moved from Highbury know this team is as good as any team of the last 30 years, with the exception of possible a centre foward a la henry, a viera type and a world class keeper

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Your opinion ozil, but i'm sorry this is not a great team, far from it, too many issues to be a great team. Great teams are great when they win things good teams battle for the champions league, this is not a great team. We are a good team and we have a good manager, great is not a true description.

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Betting than sticking your head in the sand 337 and predicting a 3-0 win every week like some do on here and then say people are negative because they don't forecast a win

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07 Feb 2015 17:28:05
IF you think Wenger is a good manager, then that is your opinion, true. But remember he has brought more success to Arsenal FC than any other manager in our history, he has been the factor which has allowed us to economically be stable while building a 400 million stadium while keeping us competitive while other hugh clubs like Liverpool, dare I say Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester United have fallen out of the top four or worse.

I am a long term person, and know Utd for example won nothing for a good 30 years before their renaissance, foreign money changed the game to make it almost impossible to have a level playing field, and yes I still look at Sanchez, Ozil, Ramsay, Theo, Ox, Wilshere, and think we have a team as strong as any in the prem.

So I guess as you say, you can have opinions, but I like opinions to be backed up with a mix of logic, reason, a touch of faith and patience and facts.

I am not even a Wengerin guy, I just recognize with all his faults he is one of the best in the world. Better than Van Gaal, Guardiola, and a raft of others. Those clammering for Klopp, or Roberto Martinez, for me Mourinho, Ancellotti, Fergie, and Wenger can be spoken about in the same sentence even if tactically he is not as strong.

If you can be bothered to compare our team player for player with any in the league, I think the clouds of depression might part. Take it easy

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Firstly I predicted 3-1, secondly I never mentioned 'negative' I simply stated that people shouldn't be proud that we lost and they were right, we are capable of beating any team 3, 4 or 5 nil today we lost!

My issue is solely the fact that spouting a post about how right someone was that we lost, is going to wind fans up.

We have to get on with it, regroup and win the next game, Chelsea were lucky today against the team we battered 5-0 last week, that's football!

Just because some of our passionate fans like to fire themselves up by predicting comfortable wins doesn't make them dreamers, it makes them 'fans' and this is a 'banter' page so it's all good 'banter'

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By the what 337 ozil and sy4 I predicted 1-3, not negative there. Just a little slip in my positive Ness

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07 Feb 2015 14:40:49
spurs deserved that one. We didn't really do much, just move on. None of our attacking players really turned up

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07 Feb 2015 14:39:46
Well I knew it would be tough, I have to say to some of you, you really need to think with your heads and not your hearts .

Those on here thinking it would be comfortable with 2 or 3 nil wins .bluntly, you don't really understand Derby games or even the PL.

We won and M City and some of you are thinking the tide has turned and we are world beaters?? Does that mean Middlesbrough are as well?

I see nothing has changed IMO we are still several players short.

Looking at the stats we have been out played here today.

I'm disappointed but I am not surprised.

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07 Feb 2015 15:01:10
Knee jerk stuff. Same with most people on here, if we win we are title winners, if we lose we are dreadful. Reality is, spurs turned up, we didn't.

I'd rather hear dreamers than listen to the moaning on here, which is a constant drill - truth is, we have a great team, just got beaten. It happens. Suck it up

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Well several players short is pushin it a bit too much, our midfield was on top of the game and cldnt control posession well when we had the ball. We missed pace but that's down to injuries.

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OB it's not that simple.

Excluding the goal, we were piss poor, no bite in the midfield, no real urgency or intensity going forward apart from the one chance that led to a goal. Welbeck had his moments but was still quiet for most of the game. Spurs dominated the midfield and dominated us.

This is because. once again. Wenger got the tactics completely wrong! Surprise, surprise! As nice as it is to have a change from 2 yard passes outside the box and getting done on the counter, its also nice to have tactics in place that actually work and function against the team we're playing!

This isn't a simple case of having a great team and getting beat. We do have a great team on paper, but what is that worth if we can't get 11 of the set up to work properly on the pitch?

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Agreed Ozil 100%

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And just to add we pretty much know what a derby is, and all here know that beatinf city makes us no world beaters, we have beaten barca, bm before so that makes us world beaters. Ofc not stop your moaning, we beat city instead od givin it some credit u refer to that game as dreamers and give eg of boro pathteic!

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Ozilbaggins, wouldn't say great team mate, A good team for sure, a great team really ought to be challenging for the premiership in what is to be fair full off just good teams I would say excluding Chelsea.

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07 Feb 2015 14:31:44
Giroud is a joke. Needs sending a harry Kane dvd

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07 Feb 2015 14:30:20
Kane again. The guys dangerous.

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07 Feb 2015 14:02:12
Steve - you were right. That goal was coming :(

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Theo on now, he WILL score!

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Maybe not, too late :-(

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07 Feb 2015 13:40:32
Too quick in midfield for ozil and caz at the moment. Giroud anonymous. Need to get control and break on them with pace. Hopefully later in game it will slow down and we can catch them. If we don't sort it, we will concede.

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To much careless loss of possession today making it difficult for us and encouraging them to fancy there Chance's

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Once Wenger in trying to Fit Ozil in the side is having a dertremental effect on the team balance. Not saying Ozil is a bad player but I just don't see him fitting well into this 4-3-3 Formation we use. Walcott should have played instead of Ozil.

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Ryan I know he got the goal, but apart from that, he was a spectator, spurs ran rings round him.

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07 Feb 2015 13:34:41
What a dreadful refereeing display that was!

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Tough one to ref mate, lots of passion and more than a few con men impersonating victims

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If it's too hard for him Then he shouldn't be a ref

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07 Feb 2015 12:20:22
Little concerned about the team. Slowly wenger taking pace out of team again andcreverting and reverting to technical. Attacking on the break as worked forcus, not sure it will today. Ox, walcott and sancez, replaced by technical players, with less pace. Personally would have preferred walcott and welbeck, more workrate.

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07 Feb 2015 13:32:14
You are a moaner

Sanchez is injured and I am sure Danny is quick? Could be wrong :).

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07 Feb 2015 13:37:05
Think one of those technical slower players scored the opening goal for us

May be AW is adapting team for opposition - which I am sure you wanted him to do? Better tactics. .

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Sy4 I think i'm pointing out the obvious. Sorry for the opinion.

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If you can't see we are gettingvthe run around because we have giroud ozil caz and to some extent ramsey, the pace is being taken out again a la earlier in thecseason.

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Steve has called it correct tbh. I also think over time we will see ospina isn't a top4 num1. He pushes the ball back into danger zone

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07 Feb 2015 14:49:24
This was a game we REALLY needed Sanchez running his donkey off today! We looked sluggish for the entire 90 minutes. Something tells me he would have been the difference.

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CiG I agree, but is sancez just a sticking plaster covering the cracks?. Today we were well and truly exposed again away from home and we never changed anything all game.

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07 Feb 2015 10:45:18
What a difference Le Coq makes, 24 little interceptions.
Putting out fire's before they get started, and the difference is him

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G5TR1NG, are you saying he has a part time job as a fireman as well? What a trooper!

Glad to see him sign a new contract

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07 Feb 2015 11:03:25
"Putting out fires before they get started".

Love it G62.

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When you hear that fire bell chime fireman Coq is there on time.
He always sits and holds, see we don't leak no goals.
You can not ignore, Le Coq is the DM we all adore

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G69, you really need to get out more!

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07 Feb 2015 13:30:23
G5TR1NG?

Love it 337 :-)

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Me too Dags :-) its Kool stuff from 373

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GUNGER69, can you make us a little song now to cheer us up after that result? I come from a family of Spurs fans and I am really going to get some grief now

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07 Feb 2015 08:28:25
I say that because he is consistently busy a shot in the top left hand corner is a shot in the top left hand corner regardless of what boot it comes from.

He is a top top keeper, i'd have him here at Arsenal like a flash.

He certainly is better than PC at Chelski. ok not sure about the other bloke who is good, that's your lot though.

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07 Feb 2015 11:05:24
I would have him in front of Sczezny but, although still early days, not in front of Ooooooooospina.

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07 Feb 2015 01:04:30
Enought of the negativity guys, should be a comfortable win for us. £20 on walcott to score anytime and £20 for the halftime/fulltime win. you can thank me tomorrow afternoon😉

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07 Feb 2015 11:07:37
Comfortable?
Hmm, not sure about that mate.

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07 Feb 2015 11:49:17
2 for walcott, 1 for cazorla and 1 for kane. 3-1 = comfortable win.

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07 Feb 2015 13:31:34
I pray you are correct Mac.

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06 Feb 2015 23:23:45
Not arsenal related but massive respect to the lads wearing the red rose who emulated st George and slayed the dragon tonight in Cardiff proud of you

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I hate ruby but love comic relief so massive respect to anyone who support's them in any way shape or from.
A £10 donation for every goal we score today anyone?

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