100% Overrated

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Justin-the-Gooner
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100% Overrated

Post by Justin-the-Gooner »

Okay I will try my best to keep this short and sweet but it is a huge possibility that I will not be able to hold much in so this could be quite a long post. My main point is that our Arsenal squad is far from good enough and we can not put out a 100% fringe team out anymore because they do not get beaten they get embarrassed and it can not go on anymore.

Let me go back to last season. Now at this point I would much rather be in the position this year then what we were last season but let me go on. Last season our young team got to the final of the Carling Cup and our squad players were as good as the first team. This season the players that were supposed to improve may have gotten worse. Where our youngsters capable of being blown out of the water by 4 or 5 goals last season? I definitely feel that we would not. I also plan on naming and shaming the guilty players before I sign off this post.

As I now look up at the television seeing Man Utd beating us 4-0. They are also not at full strength. Simple thing, our squad is not good enough and in the whole game we created about one chance and it could have in truth been more then four. That is not Arsenal. No matter how badly we play, we always create chances.

Would this have happened last season? I feel not. Last season we could beat anyone and would not be embarrassed even if we finished fourth (As I said I do prefer what is happening this season). But last season we could beat anyone, mainly the big teams, but we lost to the small teams. This year it is the other way around. It is all because of the overrated fringe players of course and as I just recovered from the thrashing at Tottenham and thought it was a stepping stone for the youngsters to mature. Now it has happened again and thankfully up to this point I am not used to Arsenal being thrashed but now it is becoming a familiar sight.

As I was saying last season we dropped out of four competitions. Now I feel it could happen again. We should have signed in January and I donâ€

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Post by stearmaster »

that was short and sweat....fukkin hate to see ur long posts, ps not read it yet as currently havin dinner lol :lol:

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Post by Yorkshire_Gooner »

I wouldnt go as far as saying 100% overated i think we have a good bright future ahead of us.

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Post by Justin-the-Gooner »

Yes but they are overrated for now.

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Post by onemoreminute »

Justin, fair post in the light of what we have all just witnessed, i think we are all proper fucked off after today, lets just hope those who are not quite up to it either deliver or fuck off quickly

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Post by Justin-the-Gooner »

Why didn"t I just post that. It would have saved time. Thanks. great pose

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Post by corkbarry »

Just read your post, a lot of truth in it. It makes you wonder what the score could have been if manure had their full team out :?: The players you named were shite on the day, the rest did not perform as we know they can. The only consolation is that they cant get any worse :roll: This kick up the arse will surely make the players realise that they are not as good as they think they are if they dont show commitment and a bit of controlled aggresion. I have a feeling that Mr Gallas could be serving a suspension soon for his stupidity in kicking Nanni,what was he thinking of,did he not know that nothing escapes the tv eye.

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Post by donaldo »

I have said all season our first eleven is a match for anyone but we just dont have good enough back up players.

Gilberto has been shit all season.Will we regret selling Diarra?
Hoyte and Traore not good enough
Senderos and Djouro the jury is still out
Theo !!!!
Bendtner when is he going to start producing on the pitch to back up all his big talk in the press?

We cant carry on making excuses for them

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Post by QuartzGooner »

Thing that bothers me is that Denilson, Diaby, Traore all seem to have regressed from last season.

In the Carling Cup Final they were immense.

Walcott though is still developing.

Hoyte is ok, cannot understand why people say he is slow, he is actually a very fast player. He needs to improve positioning though, but without a regular run in the team it is hard on him.

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Post by Justin-the-Gooner »

Sorry about that post wrote it in anger. It was hard to watch.

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Post by Red Gunner »

Justin-the-Gooner wrote:Sorry about that post wrote it in anger. It was hard to watch.
Well, hopefully tomorrow night you'll be writing a thread called "100% Underrated" :wink:

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