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.
King_Kolo wrote:Fucks sake people let's have some perspective shall we. I guarantee if we'd put out a strong team tonight and lost Cesc or Clichy to injury, everyone would be whingeing about Wenger not resting players, and we could just as easily have lost. The fact is we qualified with a game to go which in our current sitiation is more than acceptable in my book. Plus some of our bright young stars got an invaluable experience on a big Eurpoean stage instead of the pointless Carling Cup. It doesn't matter anymore whether you finish first or second, I personally think we play better against big sides anyway so I'd rather get a Barcelona or a Juve. We know some of the players out tonight aren't good enough but they are squad players, you can't compare them with te first team of 4 years ago, it doesn't make any sense. Don't forget we also had the likes of Luzhny, Cygan, Stepanovs etc. Lets just be grateful we're in the draw.
lets be grateful attitude is real progress
our 1st team would have beaten that lot
too many kids against a CL opponant - madness
may have well have saved our poor fans all that journey - cuase if we wanted to finish 2nd why not just award them the points and bot bother to play the game
King_Kolo wrote:Fucks sake people let's have some perspective shall we. I guarantee if we'd put out a strong team tonight and lost Cesc or Clichy to injury, everyone would be whingeing about Wenger not resting players, and we could just as easily have lost. The fact is we qualified with a game to go which in our current sitiation is more than acceptable in my book. Plus some of our bright young stars got an invaluable experience on a big Eurpoean stage instead of the pointless Carling Cup. It doesn't matter anymore whether you finish first or second, I personally think we play better against big sides anyway so I'd rather get a Barcelona or a Juve. We know some of the players out tonight aren't good enough but they are squad players, you can't compare them with te first team of 4 years ago, it doesn't make any sense. Don't forget we also had the likes of Luzhny, Cygan, Stepanovs etc. Lets just be grateful we're in the draw.
utter bollocks....utter utter bollocks. Grateful my arse.
That performance was a fucking disgrace and if useless *word censored* like Bendtner, Song and Eboue are considered good enough to be squad players even, then I'm a purple banana
Basil is a Gooner wrote:And what were those boots?
Spud - only got a yellow one mate -will that do?
and before some PC tosser says 'so what about the boots?' - it's not about the boots, it's about a player who is worth 2 bob trying to put on this over flash act altough he hasn't done anything yet.
King_Kolo wrote:Fucks sake people let's have some perspective shall we. I guarantee if we'd put out a strong team tonight and lost Cesc or Clichy to injury, everyone would be whingeing about Wenger not resting players, and we could just as easily have lost. The fact is we qualified with a game to go which in our current sitiation is more than acceptable in my book. Plus some of our bright young stars got an invaluable experience on a big Eurpoean stage instead of the pointless Carling Cup. It doesn't matter anymore whether you finish first or second, I personally think we play better against big sides anyway so I'd rather get a Barcelona or a Juve. We know some of the players out tonight aren't good enough but they are squad players, you can't compare them with te first team of 4 years ago, it doesn't make any sense. Don't forget we also had the likes of Luzhny, Cygan, Stepanovs etc. Lets just be grateful we're in the draw.
utter bollocks....utter utter bollocks. Grateful my arse.
That performance was a fucking disgrace and if useless c**ts like Bendtner, Song and Eboue are considered good enough to be squad players even, then I'm a purple banana
So would you have preferred us to play the first team then? Despite the fact we'd probably have lost anyway as they knew they'd already qualified. And you wouldn't have complained if we'd lost Clichy/Sagna/Cesc or whoever for 6 games through the inevitable injury they would have picked up??
So would you have preferred us to play the first team then? Despite the fact we'd probably have lost anyway as they knew they'd already qualified. And you wouldn't have complained if we'd lost Clichy/Sagna/Cesc or whoever for 6 games through the inevitable injury they would have picked up??
hes not asking for the first 11 to be played
hes complaining that the squad players are total and utter shite
So would you have preferred us to play the first team then? Despite the fact we'd probably have lost anyway as they knew they'd already qualified. And you wouldn't have complained if we'd lost Clichy/Sagna/Cesc or whoever for 6 games through the inevitable injury they would have picked up??
hes not asking for the first 11 to be played
hes complaining that the squad players are total and utter shite
and hes right
I agree but we knew this already!! The fact is we're through and we haven't lost anyone to injury. Some of those playing tonight were purely out there for experience. Ok, Eboue, Song, Bendtner - they've had plenty of chances and are clearly not good enough. But Ramsey, Wilshere, Vela, Djourou - tonight would have been good for them whatever the result. They will hopefully be playing teams like this for years to come so it's only right Wenger used tonight's game to break them in.
Oh Well it was a good 8/9 years to 2004/5. i think we now can be sure we are the 90s liverpool of the next few years. On the edge of things and very inconsistent. Loads of false dawns to wind us up. At least its not as bad as the 80s (yet ).
Bright side we should get rid of the glory hunters.
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