As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
armchair wrote:Giroud has answered his critics and Wenger has proved us all wrong.
Yeah but those comments in GQ were pretty scathing about his barnet, but he persisted with the poor styling and after 15 attempts proved them all wrong as he got the combination of product and style just right in time to book his place at the Euros
Of course, one of the best qualities a striker can possess is an ability to use left and right. It makes them more unpredictable. Giroud has this quality.
As seen here, he is equally comfortable cupping both left and right ears to taunt the fans :
northbank123 wrote:Didn't watch the game but did note that in a typical show of wisdom Savage berated him at half time for not holding up the ball enough and then said he had been excellent all game at full time.
Robbie Savage - the stupid man's ItchyBaba.
Is it cos he's Welsh.
Racist.
Wow, it really is THAT easy to flip out the old inappropriate race card. Wow.
northbank123 wrote:Didn't watch the game but did note that in a typical show of wisdom Savage berated him at half time for not holding up the ball enough and then said he had been excellent all game at full time.
Robbie Savage - the stupid man's ItchyBaba.
Is it cos he's Welsh.
Racist.
Wow, it really is THAT easy to flip out the old inappropriate race card. Wow.
wibble wrote:
DB10GOONER wrote:
northbank123 wrote:Didn't watch the game but did note that in a typical show of wisdom Savage berated him at half time for not holding up the ball enough and then said he had been excellent all game at full time.
northbank123 wrote:Didn't watch the game but did note that in a typical show of wisdom Savage berated him at half time for not holding up the ball enough and then said he had been excellent all game at full time.
Robbie Savage - the stupid man's ItchyBaba.
Is it cos he's Welsh.
Racist.
Wow, it really is THAT easy to flip out the old inappropriate race card. Wow.
wibble wrote:
DB10GOONER wrote:
northbank123 wrote:Didn't watch the game but did note that in a typical show of wisdom Savage berated him at half time for not holding up the ball enough and then said he had been excellent all game at full time.
Clash wrote:Of course, one of the best qualities a striker can possess is an ability to use left and right. It makes them more unpredictable. Giroud has this quality.
As seen here, he is equally comfortable cupping both left and right ears to taunt the fans :
We need a Gooner who is skilled on the ole animatron software to have him doing that ear cup thing and have the gay hornpipe music playing as he jigs to and fro....
In years gone by a perennially underperforming striker with that level of arrogance would have had all hell rain down on him from the terraces for that sort of gesture. Sums him up that rather than even a passionate fuck off or finger up to the crowd he opts for a smug childish gesture like this.
I guess demanding that our forwards score goals died out along with the right to criticise the manager - not long after they demolished the old North Bank actually.
i'm sure that he'll be cupping his hand once he taps in our goal against villa today, as if scoring in an end of season snoozefest like today counts for anything at all. coincidentally going missing for several months during the crunch of the season wasn't a big deal as the fans made out and scoring today is the pinnacle of achievement.
oh and the fact that he did that after welbeck scored v norwich, as if welbeck showing him up as the shit finisher he is should be something he himself takes credit for. then again we have a precedent for that at arsenal, as wenger has i'm sure crowned himself the moral league winner
He's still crap, but Wenger loves him so even if he didn't score today, he would have still been our number one striker for next year because he scored last week. Oh yeah and Wenger loves him.
A final day hatrick against the worst team in the league does not make up for a 15 game drought at the crunch point of the season, but yet as Cas says we'll go into next season with him as our no1 and i'm williing to bet £50 (i don't have) that the same will happen next season if he is not replaced
GoonerMuzz wrote:A final day hatrick against the worst team in the league does not make up for a 15 game drought at the crunch point of the season, but yet as Cas says we'll go into next season with him as our no1 and i'm williing to bet £50 (i don't have) that the same will happen next season if he is not replaced
Exactly.
Wenger just never learns. He makes the same mistakes over and over again
Don't know how many times I (and plenty of others) have said that we are never going to win the title with him as our main striker. I just don't understand how some people can't see that.
He has been our lead striker for 4 years now and he's getting worse if anything - largely because his attitude stinks. In that time every side who has challenged for the title has had a striker banging in goals every week against any opposition - van Persie, Kane, Costa, Vardy, Suarez and Aguero all banging in about 25-30 league goals in those respective seasons.
It's no coincidence that having a striker who scores goals all year helps you challenge for titles. Forget anything else - if we don't get a serious upgrade on this arrogant prick then any title hopes for next season are gone before a ball has been kicked.
I hope now all the Giroud haters and doubters will hold their hands up and admit they got it wrong. Very very wrong. THAT was the REAL Giroud yesterday - a hat trick in a vital end of season crunch game that we HAD to win.
He is what he is: a bang-average striker whose flashes of brilliance are overshadowed by his habit of going missing for months.
He averages around 15 league goals a season with us and isn’t going to drastically improve anytime soon. The bloke must have won some kind of lottery as he is on a fortune and has no pressure on his place.
