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Chippy wrote:
Red Member wrote:Why were my comments deleted?

The manager has said Chamberlain was tiring which I agree with
If Arshavin had scored the winner then everyone would be saying Wenger was a genius

He is paid a lot of money to make tough decisions like that
Don't forget he made a good decision to START chamberlain
Please just fuck off back to the Red Cafe.
Is this guy the Monostitch that folks on here have been talking about?
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Red Member wrote:Why were my comments deleted?

The manager has said Chamberlain was tiring which I agree with
If Arshavin had scored the winner then everyone would be saying Wenger was a genius

He is paid a lot of money to make tough decisions like that
Don't forget he made a good decision to START chamberlain

ffs, what a load of crap. if something aint broke (chamberlin) dont fix it. if something is broke (walcott) fix it, simple as. one things for sur walcott certianlly was suffering with fatigue :banghead: :banghead: .
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Red Member wrote:Why were my comments deleted?

The manager has said Chamberlain was tiring which I agree with
If Arshavin had scored the winner then everyone would be saying Wenger was a genius

He is paid a lot of money to make tough decisions like that
Don't forget he made a good decision to START chamberlain
Chamberlain was "tiring". He'd just made a brilliant run and pass to RVP to slot in the equaliser, he was one of our most dangerous players, he's only 18 ffs and he didn't look tired to me.

It was a lame excuse for a terrible decision.
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The hatred towards AW when that sub was made was a turning point for me.
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Chippy wrote:The hatred towards AW when that sub was made was a turning point for me.
He deserved it.
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Red Member wrote:Why were my comments deleted?

The manager has said Chamberlain was tiring which I agree with
If Arshavin had scored the winner then everyone would be saying Wenger was a genius

He is paid a lot of money to make tough decisions like that
Don't forget he made a good decision to START chamberlain
I have to say Red, you are becoming the funniest poster this forum has ever seen. The irrelevant 8-2 and bringing Denilson back were quality but to stick this one up here today with the way everyone's feeling is the best piece of WUM posting since Monostich packed it all in :D
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Chippy wrote:The hatred towards AW when that sub was made was a turning point for me.
In what way? As in when you see the fans momentum against Wenger really takes off? Or something else?
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A turning point in what direction Chippy? :?
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As MK Gould said on the match thread, that was the first time I witnessed the stadium turn on Wenger. It was very clear that the boos were for Wenger. As soon as people saw the 15 on the board the reaction was instant and very negative, no pre-planning just the emotions of the crowd. At that point I think AW lost the crowd.
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Just to be clear I reckon that a good few thousand wavering AKBs became WOBs at that stage, and a good few 10s of thousands on the box.
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Chippy wrote:Just to be clear I reckon that a good few thousand wavering AKBs became WOBs at that stage, and a good few 10s of thousands on the box.
The amount of anger among the lot I drink with in Club Level was amazing (2 out of 8 of us wanted Wenger gone at Everton, 7/8 at HT today, the other thinks he's a board stooge) and coming out of the ground I heard more anger than I can remember in 12 years of going Arsenal! Unbelievable. :shock:
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Well I am certainly going to be flamed, but I thought we played ok overall.

Defensively we looked good (apart from Djourou) with Vermaelen and Kos in particular making several good challenges.

In midfield Rosicky played well and I thought Ramsey was ok as well.
Song did well when breaking up the play but at everything else he was terrible (distribution, clearances etc.)

Up front, the interchanging movement between Walcott and Ox was a delight to see (I felt we played more 4-3-3 than 4-5-1). Walcott was the least effective of the two, but it did make them almost impossible to mark.

As for RvP, that was an absolutely shocking miss. He can't even say he was off balance, he just...missed.

One of the biggest problems for me though was when you saw United's team, you saw goalscorers (Rooney, Welbeck, Nani, Valencia, Giggs even) apart from RvP who could be really classed as a goal threat? (Ox will be I am sure but he needs games to prove this)

Final mention to Yennaris. Came on as a sub for the woeful Djoruou and looked solid. 2nd game where he's looked good for me.

I have already commented about the idiocy of the substitution
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Chippy wrote:As MK Gould said on the match thread, that was the first time I witnessed the stadium turn on Wenger. It was very clear that the boos were for Wenger. As soon as people saw the 15 on the board the reaction was instant and very negative, no pre-planning just the emotions of the crowd. At that point I think AW lost the crowd.
Agreed - and how humiliating for an experienced manager to get the decision so, so wrong when 30-40,000 fans knew full well what a bad decision it was!

The timing was crazy. We had momentum, we'd just scored and were ready to push on... then bang, Wenger sticks his ore in, and all of a sudden Van Persie, and probably others, are frustrated and bemused, the fans turn on Wenger, we lose all momentum, ManUre gain the upper hand, and Arshavin does nothing but defend badly...

In every way, it was a terrible, terrible substitution.

What a pity the owner was probably a few thousand miles away not giving a shit :roll:

2014 can't come soon enough.
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Richpye, you know this is the Oxo thread don't you? The game thread is somewhere else. :oops: :D
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Is Wenger not going to get any credit for starting with the ox?
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