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.
Gunner Rob wrote:Giroud's comments after the game sum up everything that is wrong at the club.
"These last few weeks I tried to set up goals. [Alexis’ goal] was my sixth assist but I’m happy to score too and help the team to reach our target and qualify for the Champions League. That is a great present."
I hope you bloody well are happy to score goals you It is your job!!
As for "our target" Spurs are unhappy at finishing second, whereas our lead striker is happy to have made it into the top 4
It is indicative of how truly rotten to the core the club now is. We have an owner with zero interest beyond the money, a manager with the "ambition" of finishing in the Top 4 but ONLY if he can do it playing his brand of Barca-Lite tippy tappy, and players with zero ambition beyond their £100K a week and whatever the golden goose in charge tells them to have.
Nos89 wrote:I don't understand the plaudits...the game I watched saw Giroud score then spend more time falling and lying down on the floor when the ball came near him...
Then I have no idea what game you were watching!
Look, it's fine criticising players when they deserve it but it's also right to praise them when they deserve it, even if you hate the player. Giroud was miles better on Sunday than he's been for months. Still not good enough to be first choice striker but if you couldn't see the improvement there on Sunday then I give up!
We were battered in that first half, he didn't retain posession and kept falling over...I must have missed his motm performance...
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.
Nos89 wrote:I don't understand the plaudits...the game I watched saw Giroud score then spend more time falling and lying down on the floor when the ball came near him...
Then I have no idea what game you were watching!
Look, it's fine criticising players when they deserve it but it's also right to praise them when they deserve it, even if you hate the player. Giroud was miles better on Sunday than he's been for months. Still not good enough to be first choice striker but if you couldn't see the improvement there on Sunday then I give up!
We were battered in that first half, he didn't retain posession and kept falling over...I must have missed his motm performance...
Ridiculous comment. Who on here said it was a MOTM performance? Who anywhere in the world has said that - apart from Wenger's loose and silly allusion to it being the "real Giroud"?
He did what a lone striker in our shit inept system should do; show for the shit lobbed ball, take it on the head or chest and try lay it off to a midfield runner, link the play in and around the box, score a goal. He did that on Sunday and he did it much better than he has done for months. But one swallow does not a summer make and no one has claimed otherwise. How you get anyone claiming it was a MOTM performance out of that is beyond me.
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.
15 league matches without a goal but who else would have been able to convert those opportunities in that period, that's why he kept faith because no-one else better was available
Wilson wrote:I always say we are an unprofessional team and club. And this is why. Wenger is happy 'Giroud has answered his critics'. What critics are these, the ones who said Arsenal couldnt win the league with Giroud, as he isn't prolific enough. 13 league goals in a season, and a 15 game goalless streak which coincided with our title challenge going tits up - id say the critics were absolute spot on. So what planet is Wenger on when he talks of Giroud silencing the critics? This is an analysis not grounded in reality. Imagine picking a stock, and over a 3 month period it goes down say 50%, but on one day is bounces back 10%. Would you say - 'see, I told you I was right' (your down 40%). Well the same concept applies with Wenger and Giroud - why is Wenger saying Giroud answered the critics?
How can you have an honest discussion with Wenger, when he thinks Giroud 'answered the critics'. It is LITERALLY the other way around, Giroud performance this year has vindicated the critics analysis. Yet Wenger just throws truth, reality, and sense out the window and says the opposite.
How can a serious football team be, when its manager is either delusional, or a serially dishonest person who blatantly lies, knowing the media refuse to call him out.
exactly, one game and hes answered his critics? the papers said the same. what crap. one dead rubber makes up for half a season of absolutely dross and half of averageness
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.
It is your job!!
Spurs are unhappy at finishing second, whereas our lead striker is happy to have made it into the top 4
