Arsenal Banter Archive February 08 2014

08 Feb 2014 23:34:31
Walcott, Rambo and Flammini were big misses today! As were gibbs and Podolski who should be starting in my opinion.

08 Feb 2014 23:12:38
Arsene Wenger is THE best thing that ever happend to Arsenal football club .
Argue for or against that but the best things that have ever happend to our club have happend on his watch on and off the field .
Some of us remember pre Arsene Arsenal
Our only ever CL/ European cup final is under?
The invincibles built by who?
Who is our second best ever manager?
How good was his teams compared to Arsene's?
How is his record compared to Arsene's?

Whats that saying, be careful what you wish for?

Here here
sign lord wenger up
Wenger is a top man who would replace him,
welsh gooner

G62,
I think everyone on the page will agree that Wenger is the best thing to have happened for Arsenal ever.

But, the thing with him is that you can clearly divide his career into two sections - the successful years until 2005, then the trophyless years from then up until now.

This is because he hasn't evolved as a manager.

He refuses to change his tactics at all - employing the same game plan against literally every single other team we play.

This is turned him into a manager, who I fear, can only get Arsenal into the top 4, because people like Mourinho will always be 1 step ahead of him.

People moan about his transfer policy etc. but I think there is a greater problem in his actual management of tactics in big games.

For example, yesterday - he could have set us up to really keep it watertight in the opening 15 mins and make it our absolute priority to not concede, then break and grow into the game.

But, we came out without any recognisable plan and were blown away by an albeit exceptional attacking force.

I'm all for Wenger staying in, but he needs to change for us to become serious big players again.

Hear what you're saying G62.

I have been fortunate enough to have been a season ticket holder since 94' and went and watched many games prior to that from the mid 80's (can't go any further back as too young!).

Without doubt AW has been great for us in so many ways (with being so influential in the building of the emirates and teams he created, style of play, etc he has succeed Herbert Chapman imo).

I have my frustrations with wenger though, but I do recognise what he has done for us (I have some insight as my brother has worked in the financial dept. at AFC for about the past 12 years, so I know a little about how financially things have been tight, until recently).

I hope the team can respond and go on another run now- is it possible? Yes absolutely- I just hope AW can pick the team up and our season doesn't implode though- our biggest fear.

Whatever happens this season, the summer will be most telling for me- we all know we need a top class CF and someone like Lars Bender as well could make a big difference to this team.

AW deserves a change to create a competitive team, where he no longer has to look to sell players and has good money to spend in the TM.

He proved when we were still at Highbury what he was capable of as a manger- can he do that again, now he doesn't have one hand tied around his back?

That is the big question. Or will he turn out like Winston Churchill, great war time leader (or building of the emirates and taking us through huge financial upheaval etc) but not such a good peace time leader (now having the money to spend to build a competitive team).

I think next season we will start to get some answers.

Putney I must admit I am frustrated by some of Arsene tactics and decisions too, his stubbornness in the past has made me doubt his capability to change with the modern game.
But I have felt this season he has been prepared to change, defensively solid, more prepared to concede possession and hit teams on the break as well as dominate games too

LG your bang on this summer is Arsene's biggest ever, if he gets it right happy days if he doesn't its going to be a long long season 2014/15

08 Feb 2014 22:10:36
Hi guys new to posting but been reading and enjoying site for 2 years. I used to watch team regularly but circumstances changed meaning I am a tv and internet supporter usually now. I would just like to add my views. First of all I have always and still do think we are only top 4. Why. Well giroud is the worst striker we've had since kev cambell. Would not make bench for any top team. We haven't got a proper winger left or right. When was the last time we actually showed a turn of foot and got behind. We send the right and left back forward and when did sagna actually miss the player and get a cross in. The balance is so wrong that's why ozil isn't flourishing he's got no one to hit behind. Who really is the holding midfielder technically very good but lacking true strength. And finally tactically we are not top three. It has been mentioned why didn't we break the bank to get a striker in January. Wenger is reactive not proactive. Improve from strength not weakness.

08 Feb 2014 20:47:07
Banter please Ed's.

Liverpool fan here in peace,

I'm not going to talk about the game today. I do however want to say a big thank you to you Gooners!

The way you have acted gracefully today and towards us all season in fact is a breath of fresh air.

I have a lot of time and respect for you guys!

Chin up guys

Btw, do us all a favour and win the league if we don't :)

Take care

I'm one of the fans that wasn't gracious in defeat, but since I've calmed down (just) is like to say, fair play you deserved to win and we had it coming.

And we will try to win the league for yous ;)

After todays turn up i'm concerned about winning again if they play like that, no disrespect you guys played well but I can't help feeling we contributed significantly to our downfall

08 Feb 2014 22:05:43
Another Liverpool fan in peace.
Would much rather you guys win the league than Chelsea!

Here here Bennett jr mate, the gooners fans on the whole are a class act!

Thanks Bennett, true gentleman.

Let's face we were beaten in every area of the pitch today plain and simple, we were awful and came up against a side that were at thier best.

I've said all season that if we don't win it I liked to see Liverpool win it just for Sir Alex, haha!

08 Feb 2014 20:15:37
Just like to add that I think a major problem we have against the big clubs, is in my opnion AW does not let our players go at it from the off.we lack belief.In a couple of games when we have done this i.e.Napoli and Liverpool at home.we were totally dominant.Also I agree with the text
about Poldi being first choice, no disrespect to Olly.
Heybridge Gooner

08 Feb 2014 19:46:45
Just a thought, after the 3-1 to Villa we went on a long unbeaten run.

After we lost to Manchester United we went on a good run again. After losing 6-3 to Man City we won something like 7/8 games out of nine barely conceding a goal.

So, I guess in adversity again we rise up and go on another unbeaten run starting with a massive 3pts on Wednesday.

Bring on Mata, RVP and Rooney. Seasons are defined by how teams respond to setbacks.

Good point Greeny, If there is anything about them as professionals, individually and collectively they should play like there possessed by the devil. I'm actually quite pleased we've got united on Wednesday. No better occasion to put in a performance, and if we get beat it answers a lot of questions as to where we're at, and will confirm to others what they've been saying all along.
Flybo

Agreed Flybo.

By 10pm Wednesday the critics will have officially ruined us out of the title race or we'l be back in the hunt!

I pray it's the latter.

08 Feb 2014 19:37:27
After todays result Wednesday is a must win game, not only to win but to win in style.As the Dagenham Gooner as already said we have lost two players that were scoring goals, but AW chose not to buy, the window has closed and brackets(WE)must live with the consequences if there are any.I think todays game was a alround bad performance and from what I have seen the scoreline could have been worst.Just like to mention Ozil.We paid a lot of money for him and I know it takes time to gel.but the next couple of months are massive and I would like to see him take the game by the scruff of the neck and impress his class on the game, because so far we have only seen glimpses of what he can do.If we don't bounce back strong.we just might be running around Carrow Road celebrating Champions League spot, which in my opinion is not just good enough.Just one last thing, if it all goes horribly wrong do you see AW pressing to sign the new contract or do you feel the board might think enough is enough.Any thoughts anyone on the scoreline Wednesday.
Heybridge Gooner

Without getting in to the 'transitional' mantra, and 'lack of finance' spiel. I do question if Wenger still knows what it takes to win a league. He doesn't adapt and doesn't change tactics depending on the opposition. He believes his 'philosphy' can conquer all on every occasion. I hate Mourinho, but he is a master tactician.

Also one of the things that has changed about Wenger, is I remember a time in the early years where if you wanted a manager to spend 5m 10m etc, you wanted it to be Wenger. Now I'm not so sure

If there is any justice and if the soo called law of averages evens out you will get lots of bad luck every game and slide down the table. Another season without a trophy coming at ya.

Spot on Flybo. I can't stand mourinho but look what he did in January with the acquisition of Matic. It's as though he got him in specifically for the game against city to nullify yaya toure which he did superbly. It's signings like that which win titles.

I'm a lpool fan but spurski you just sound like an evertonian, bitter at your better rivals, Arsenal as a club andcfans show you up in every department!

Spurski - forever in our shadow so jog on

08 Feb 2014 19:22:50
Banter please Eds,

After going to see '12 years a slave' at my local cinema, I now know how it feels to be exploited and robbed of your dignity by ruthless, mercenary overseer's.

I mean, £4.20 for a Pepsi Max, come on.

I cried more today than in the movie.

I had a look recently at the list of movies for the best picture oscar and I don't doubt 12 years is a solid fav

i can't believe dallas buyers club is so far out in the betting, another film to really open your eyes and brain to the suffering

we suffered today but end of the day its a game

08 Feb 2014 17:50:31
I'm not one for knee-jerk posts and I'm not going to start now, but

I'm not going to point the finger at any of the players (well almost), but I think Wenger is to blame.

The team has played heroically this season, thus far, but we needed to freshen up in January window. Why didn't Wenger strengthen? We have lost 2 players who give us a lot of goals, Theo and Ramsey, so why didn't we buy?

I love Giroud but he will not win us the league. I have posted many times before that he is good for the type of game we play, he holds the ball up very well and leads the line for our mids to run past him but until he scores 25/30 per season we won't win anything, except maybe one of the cups.

Ozil. I love the guy and he's a good player but he is not, I repeat, he is not world class.
Ronaldo, Messi, David Silva, Suarez, Aguero are all world class. Why? because they change games, they win you games, they constantly influence games, they win you points from a losing situation. Ozil doesn't do that. I'm not talking about the odd brilliant performance away to Stoke or at home to Crystal Palace, I'm talking game after game after game.

A world class price-tag doesn't mean you are a world class player, and for me, he is not, but hopefully next season.

Positives?

Man City drew and we are 2nd behind Chelsea, so we are still in a healthy position but we have to start performing against the big times and stop bottling like we have done for the past 4 years.

DG I respect your opinions mate but I think your wrong about Ozil he is world class mate and we will see that next season.
January? Yes we could have done with some class signings and I have to believe we tried to get them but along with others found it difficult to get players mid season, no way would Chelski have sold us Matta.
As for a striker of course we need a top class finisher but who mid season could we have got realistically.
We are all disappointed by today and a bit worried about the coming weeks but hey ho we have always known top 3 would be an improvement to build on I the summer

Liverpool fan here. I think your spot on with ozil. Don't think he can change a game on his own. It's ok him having the highest assists in last 3 years but look at the players he had to assist. Arsenal don't have the strike force to take the chances. Centre forward needed big time. Unfortunately, think your season is about to unravel, best today, think you will draw against utd. Get beat by us again and if think Bauer will beat you 3 zip in CL which will mean tie over. Might be a nearly season for you guys again. Could be wrong but that's my opinion.

DG I understand what you're saying about not signing players in the jan win, but (see a reply below to a post by TG).

I can appreciate what you're saying about Ozil also, but I don't fully agree.

Ozil's strength's are his vision, creativity, intelligence, ball control, etc. He can at times be inconsistent, yes go missing and doesn't posses great physical strength. BUT

to quote Mourinho:

"There is no copy of him – not even a bad one. He is the best number 10 in the world. He makes things very easy for his team-mates with his football vision and the decisions he makes".

But I think his strengths rely on other players, particularly players with pace and off the ball movement, etc., (imo). So he is not going to have the same type of impact of the players you mention.

But that doesn't mean he isn't "world class" at what he does best, does it? (in much the same way a player considered world class in these positions gk, cb, def mid, etc that may save you points and influence a game, etc but they might not change a game either in the same way the players you mention can- but can they still be considered world class in where their strengths lay?).

I think Ozil is just another piece of the puzzle and we are still a few pieces missing. I also think he is still adapting to the PL and our system (some players do take longer).

I think we haven't seen the best of him tbh.

G62 and LG1,

You are probably correct Gents. Guess i'm just pi55ed off about today's result.

08 Feb 2014 17:36:25
Avoided coming on here til now as I was far too stunned/angry/frustrated etc.

Didn't see the game and can't bring myself to watch the highlights later. It won't make pretty viewing I'm sure.

Don't really care about playing the blame game. Collectively it wasn't good enough and as other posters have commented, we've not exactly been ripping up trees in games recently. Getting the job done and that's about it in the last few games.

Fair play to Liverpool, they played really well by the sound of it, coupled with being 4-0 after just 20mins which is inexcusable.

Anyways, this does mean however that Weds is literally a no excuses, must win match against Man Utd.

Small mercies: We had a two point game which is now still only a 1pt deficit.

Man City drop more points.

That's it!

Chins up fellow Gooners and Goonerettes!

Fair points Greeny, good post.

08 Feb 2014 17:08:38
Some of you shot me down after the transfer window pantomime for again calling for an end to Wenger's clownish behaviour. we had a chance; if we strengthened and I still expect some more defeats coming up now we are facing top opposition.
Hope I am wrong but if not the fans need to finally call for a change

TG, Arsene ain't going anywhere and the window is closed mate.
Your fighting a losing and lost battle, we are still having a good season so let's enjoy what we can of it, who knows it may we'll prove to be a great one yet

For whatever reasons we didn't strengthen in the jan win- whether that was down to players AW would've wanted either not being available or not wanting to move or both (world cup year and all that).

Also, I suspect AW already has a short list of players he wants to sign in the summer and is saving his "pot" for them (rather than paying over the odds in the jan win for players which may not have been his first choice anyway).

We simply don't know.


On the whole, is that worthy of AW being sacked? Really?

Personally, I don't think so.

I hope you are both right and the best happens.

Feel like I've been fighting this losing battle for years
Let's look at this end of the season. If it gets worse it has to be change time.

08 Feb 2014 16:48:54
From watching us today there are two things that need changing! Zonal marking and allowing teams to come at us! Zonal marking for me doesn't work, surely sitting around an area invites the opposition to attack even more because they have a free run at goal but also how can u stop a centre back charging at his marker leaping I. The air when the marker starts from a static position, it just doesn't work! It's simple just mark your man! Secondly we never apply pressure to teams, we just invite them! Like Liverpool today they never gave us a moment to look up, they pinned us back, this is something we should be doing rather then sitting back, we need to be hungrier! All in all shocking performance, wenger has some explaining but still feel we will beat utd and Liverpool in the return to the emirates! The season is not over!

I agree. Zonal marking doesn't work. The opposition is still free to move around. It's much more difficult for the opposition to make contact with the ball if a man is next to him, and even if the player loses the man, it's still as if it's zonal marking (if that makes sense). My club team does a mixture of zonal and man marking. We have 1 or 2 playing zone across the six-yard box then we mark up man on man

Id love to see mert man mark. I mean wed lose by 6 every game but yeah

08 Feb 2014 16:40:14
Very disappointing and not what we expected.

I don't see the need for pointing fingers.

On the whole, our team has been great this season and have shown a lot of the qualities of which many will undoubtedly criticism them for not having today (if that's the case they have defiantly overachieved, haven't they?).

Liverpool were fired up for this and scored an early goal- I am pretty certain if it was a clean sheet after 15-20 mins, it would've been a different result. Pool' were fantastic today, we weren't at our best- have to take it on the chin and move on.

The season is NOT over- many said "that's it" for us after the city game and ironically we didn't lose another game until today.

Sure we have some big games to play and I hope the team will respond as they have done, in fairness, on every occasion after a defeat this season.

I think many of us know (deep down or otherwise) that we are still 2/3 top players away from being the "real deal" and therefore also recognise how will the team has done so far this season (we are 17 points up on this time last season).

Yes hugely disappointing, but still a long way to get yet.

08 Feb 2014 15:29:58
Gutted by our performance today, but I'm not going to slaughter every player as we win and get beat as a team . What gets me is that in big games we are always slow to start . Now I'm no expert on football but our players should have expected a battle today . We need to fight for the right to play the slick passing game, not expect to just turn up and play . Liverpool were fantastic today and I can't fault their performance . I would just like to see some players with a killer instinct that shows no mercy to other teams . In other words, winners who have an unbeatable will to win .

08 Feb 2014 15:16:33
If only Kallstrom wasnt injured.

Haaahhhhaaaaha actually cracked up reading that!

Then I'm guessing they wouldn't have loaned him to us haha

08 Feb 2014 15:04:29
poor very poor today but we can get revenge next week and dump them out of the fa cup

08 Feb 2014 15:41:51
You can have the FA Cup. it's not worth a carrot!

This was the biggy for us.

08 Feb 2014 15:00:13
today we have to pretend it never happened, we need to forget it asap. we were pants and were let down by players that didn't have the heart to go toe to toe with a decent Liverpool team. we are top of the table and acting as though we are champions elect, today was a wake up call, smell the coffee lads, you've got the best chance in years to win something and we basically pranced around like a bunch of namby pamby fairies. they're was no running back no tackles. nothing.!
where do we start, the defence was blitzed in the first 20 minutes, the so called best defence still had their heads in the sand before they realised we were 4-0 down! we have no midfield base that protects the defence, arteta as I have said before is a liability, he slows us down in attack and defence. monreal is not as good as gibbs and was found wanting. kosci and merti were like the chuckle brothers, this is supposed to be the best defence in the league for gods sake. fair play to Liverpool they destroyed us. it could have been more if not for szecsney.
ozil needs to grow a pair and put in some fight or wenger needs to bring in some muscle to protect him and give him space. ox and jack fair play to them put in some fight and tried to keep face. santi was also non existent and how wenger must rue not buying a forward because today giroud didn't turn up and was pants.

the subs were onto a loser and couldn't change the game. we lost it in the first 20 minutes.

the doom mongers will be out but hopefully yes just hopefully these players will see their crap performance on tv and realise what they have done today. destroyed arsenal and put more pressure on wenger! if they don't lift themselves for the next 2 months with our big game heavey schedule then imo they don't deserve anything and should stick to filling in their twitter accounts where they seem to spend most of their pampered time. I feel sorry for the supporters today who had a long trek too see this poor poor arsenal team. they deserve better. and the hard thing is that arsenal are good enough to beat any team but today they beat themselves up.

come on arsenal get your ar*es in gear and come back and show what your made of.

hulk hogunner

I came on to say very gracious of the majority of your fans and especially dags but I seen your name and had to comment what a great name totally original and 1 plus for you guys man city did nothing good luck for the rest of the season

Thanks Giblet

Thanks giblet

08 Feb 2014 14:44:56
Chins up boys, lost a battle, but still in with a chance to win the war. Self pity, finger pointing is for total losers, we are ARSENAL and we live to fight another day. Well done Liverpool, well deserved win.

08 Feb 2014 14:44:20
No-one on that park in an Arsenal shirt showed any commitment at all today other than Jack Wilshere. I'll also omit Szczesny from criticism as well.

With the way we've been playing recently, you can't say it hasn't been coming. Shocking!

Sorry I have to disagree and say wilshere didn't play well and you can't put a goalie that has conceded 5 either

we were collectively poor no fight no pace no guile

almost walking round like we had lead boots

I didn't say they played well. I said that they at least stood up and showed commitment to the cause. You can't blame Szczesny for any of the goals and it would have been 7 or 8 at HT if it wasn't for him.

08 Feb 2014 14:26:43
I have resisted saying this but Ozil is s**t.

If he hadn't of come for 42.5 million with a reputation would we be so patient waiting for him to come good?

Girouds been pants for about 3 months as well

Time for podolski and rosicky to get a run in the team. Get Gibbs back on the left and get santi back in his best position

Seriously, do you think you might be reacting badly after today's terrible loss? Because I do.

Yeah ok, maybe not at his best, but to say he's s**t in general is simply ridiculous.

Ozil has contributed this season and of course we are waiting for him to come good - for all the reasons you suggest.

To be fair I might have been a tad hasty that's what this game does to you!

I just hope his class makes the difference in the next few months. As fans we have been starved of ready made world class players and with such high expectations recently he's brought very little to the party

Although I thought Ramsey was crap this time last year- shows what I know!

maybe he needs a world class forward to feed the balls to. I love giroud for his work ethic, but we are missing a game changer in that position - suarez anyone?
That said it was the defensive side that was so poor today

08 Feb 2014 14:16:20
At least we don't have to play Liverpool until, oh sh*t!
Flybo

Quality Flybo!

08 Feb 2014 13:58:03
I tell you how bad it's got. I'm agreeing with Piers Morgan.

08 Feb 2014 13:48:59
Giroud is not a Arsenal standard player, it could have been 1-1 if he had tried to take the shot when it was 1-0, apart from hold up play he has nothing to offer, can't dribble, can't finish, can't run, against big teams he is totally useless.Missing Podolski on the pitch

Giroud is a decent player but defenders kno how to deal with him he'd be better if we played 4-4-2 but if we play what we do know he's not good enough this isn't a reaction just after the Liverpool match as for podolski he's not proved nothing and I would expect him to be moved on in the summer really missed theo 2day Liverpool were good 2day but I think most goals were self destruct

08 Feb 2014 13:44:31
Pathetic performance really embarrassing 2 set pieces what a joke! Could of been 1-1 if giroud had a better touch not blaming him also tactically Wenger messed up again we need a battler in midfield flamini is ok but we need a matic or yaya toure a pacey striker is a must this season is slipping away again

08 Feb 2014 13:39:51
Ozil who?

That's the kind of comment that could come back and bite ya on the apse, try a bit of humility mate, surely as reds were above that?

08 Feb 2014 13:35:04
Tactically we cannot cope with their formation, as well as a few bad attitudes being shown by the key players

Dont like to blame individual players but were look are far more solid side defensivly when Flamini plays instead of Arteta. The 3rd and 4th Goals were left wide openwith players running at our back 4 without protection, where was Arteta then. Also Liverpool are really exposing Monreal as a weak link but to be fair he is getting little help from Cazorla in front of him.

We often seem to start flat and we needed to start with the intensity Liverpool started with.

08 Feb 2014 13:24:53
conceding in the first minute - not a disaster - plenty of time to regroup. even at 2 - we take this is unacceptable. why does this team have no fight?

08 Feb 2014 13:18:50
This is embarrassing, i'm shocked at how lazy our team looks. Are they tired? Is the squad not big enough? i'm disgusted by the lack of fight.

Wenger should have freshened up in January, Its a shambles!

Top of the league, Your definitely having a laugh!

08 Feb 2014 13:17:37
WTF!

Sorry for a minute I thought we were top of the league, great squad that's why we didn't need any players in Jan, have I just woke up from a bad nightmare?

08 Feb 2014 13:17:15
What is it with us and losing the huge games? We haven't beaten Chelsea, Man City or United since two seasons ago, and now we are losing to a side which has Jon Flanagan in it. Wenger always seems to get found out by decent managers because he plays the same tactics every game.

I'm just hoping and praying that this isn't the start of our spiral down to fourth.

Id take flanagan over monreal or gibbs i'd even play him at cd over mert but i'm a reds fan but on todays performance you would love flanno in your team

08 Feb 2014 13:12:53
here's my 2 cents and it's not even 20 mins in! Liverpool have just shown our next 5 opponents how to beat us, as we have played the same way for the last 15 games or so! play with pace in the first half as we don't start playing until the second half! u can't win them all but seriously lads well well fecking done!

08 Feb 2014 13:12:35
i'm sat here thinking WTF has gone on, did we get off the coach and this is a warm up match liverpool A versus liverpool B?

please tell me i'm dreaming 4 f**king nil in 25 mins i'm dreading this

and ffs just kill me now before monday I can't face work with all the scousers

08 Feb 2014 13:10:55
Shocking. Just shocking.

Mertesacker at fault for first goal but got to do better on the free kick.

Monreal left 2 on 1 by Santi, corner conceded, got to do better on the corner

Next 2, Ozil's fault, lost the ball twice. Is it possible to get a refund on our 42.5m? Been utter gash since his first 3/4 games.

Hopefully he will improve next season. He seems to be too lazy and won't defend, Ramsey should be behind him to make up for his mistakes when he's back

08 Feb 2014 13:09:06
this is all Wengers fault, Wilshire not match fit, Ozil lazy, Arteta keeps getting caught, complete rubbish

I'm trying to stay off the 'Wenger's fault' bandwagon but I can't see anyone else to blame either mate!

When you take a look at how Mourinho stole the show against Man City for that tactical masterclass, and how Wenger has set his team up is an utter shambles! Why did no one that could make a difference come in?!

No back up/ replacement for Giroud, Özil's weaknesses have been exposed here and we need to get the wingers playing like Chelsea's; tracking back and full of energy.

Seriously p**sed off

08 Feb 2014 13:08:07
WTF!!

08 Feb 2014 12:03:19
Does anyone know of any streams for todays game?

Don't know about streams but we look like we are up **** creek without a paddle at the moment

I'm trying to find a way to cause a power failure in pool with the hope we can blame the light, cause sure as f**k we can't blame anything else but the players and manager here. its like we're ill or something or never played together

08 Feb 2014 06:48:54
Woke up at sparrows fart this morning. Bladder was full, so emptied it then tried to get back to sleep. Then I had a thought that swept in to my head which was "big game today". After that thought the chances of me 'getting off' was as realistic as Susan Boyle at a speed dating event.

With Podolski driving the coach up there, I'm hoping we arrive with a certain ruthlessness and arrogance that come with a genuine championship contender. Per and Kos need to be on it, and the midfield need to be superior which they are. Hope Giroud can cause their centre backs havoc. Any chances created need to be taken!

I haven't exactly said anything mind blowing, just needed to get it off my chest before the game. We need 3 points so let's go get them. COME ON YOU GOONERS
Flybo

I think you said it all perfectly Flybo, I hope you didn't wake Olly to early and left him alone last night, he needs his strength today

Think he might have woken the whole god damn team :) they playing like they fooking asleep