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WinterburnsRightFoot · Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:30 pm

Well we're probably hoping for that from Theo but he's obviously not quite there yet.

Burnsjed · Post by **Burnsjed** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:45 pm

Rosicky has never scored more then 6 goals a season in his career, and Fab's best tally is 5, not sure I know from that they can both score enough.

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:00 pm

Both did better then Giggs managed last season

Rosicky got into a good habit last season of making little run inside to the far post when ball came across, he picks up on that again and he will score more then six and Cesc should score more then 5, he gets forward enough, can finish but last season he missed a lot of open goals which I don't think he will do again. Cesc certainly should get more then 5 this time

Burnsjed · Post by **Burnsjed** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:03 pm

They all SHOULD score more but will they, thats the question!

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:09 pm

It shouldn't be possible to go an entire season unbeaten in the Prem

With Arsenal, it is all potential at the moment, we have to take it to the games and be consistently great, always a difficult task but I trust Arsene and I'm filled with pre season hope.

Cesc is God · Post by **Cesc is God** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:47 pm

Just have to imrpove our away record agains the dirty northern bastards!

Burnsjed · Post by **Burnsjed** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:52 pm

Magic Hat wrote:Both did better then Giggs managed last season

Though if Giggs did score 4 league goals last season, it is still better then the 2 Fabregas got in the league, or the 3 that Rosicky got.

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:48 pm

Aye, sorry that was silly of me to compare the two's best against Giggs last season.

Cesc is God · Post by **Cesc is God** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:53 pm

Compare it against Makelele then?

Post by **Belfast Boy** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:36 pm

Good thread this, a lot of positive posts, and I am in agreement cos even if the team hadn't improved, it would probably still be impossible to suffer a year like we did last season, but there is absolutely no doubt that there is a feelgood factor at the club!
IMO this is made even more significant by the fact that we HAVE just sold our captain/talisman and the greatest player ever to grace our club the premiership and arguably the planet as well, I mean surely if we take the time to think about the implications of that fact we can begin to see things from AW's perspective before we judge!
Le Boss came to the conclusion probably quite a while ago as did some or most of us that we were actually a better TEAM without the presence of our No. 14 and that the best player in the world was actually slowing us down!
Now we all know that the boss is no mug and the fact that he is so confident in the team that he let TiTi go, and has so far been proved right with pre-season has surely got to be reason for optimism!
We were always more prolific when the opposition were the same as our resident pessimists, in that they didn't know where our goals were coming from

so I'll put money on the fact that every single member of our team will score more goals than he did last year, which I know some will say that's not hard, but we only scored one less than Chav$ki, but IF we hit form, watch out!
Finally as has already been touched upon, when AW brought Bobby to the club I can remember everybody wonderin why he bothered, cos he couldn't tackle (in fact his tackle on Paddy at home to Juve in the CL was the exception that proves the rule - it only took him 6 yrs

) he only scored 4 league goals and was reported many times, critisizing it for being far too physical yet he went on to become a legend!
There has been no such moaning from any of the current crop, they are aware that it's a tough league and are determined to make it, and that's why I have no doubt we will see a big all round improvement this year cos the skill level is very high and I think that we are now learning to be combative, and if that is the case it will make a massive difference