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.
Brightonnxtround wrote:Agree with above once Ramsey was unavailable the dragons teeth were removed
Like chomping through a steak with your false teeth out
Are you posting shyte and saying silly things in order to wind people up - Or is that the sum total and limit of your ability to communicate in the written form whilst your carer is assisting you?
Course not sheep shagger
That's Mr Sheep Shagger to you little boy. However, if you are going to resort to name calling as a means to answer others you may find that others will begin to ignore anything you say. You recently escaped being Banned purely because the mod you told to 'Fuck off' gave you the benefit of the doubt /a pass (any other site and you'd be history) - You seem to think you are 'funny' and having demonstrated your lack of wit and a desperation to be liked by everyone it really is becoming wearisome.
ps: I would suggest you find another way and means of posting & answering rather than name calling (btw we have all been through that phase - except for Arseofacrow and Top Londoner - they're still in it ) - Perhaps a constructive riposte or well informed argument, but hey! Please Feel Free.
Ok bard boy your obviously top Shakespeare on here , but step out of line with your hurtful comments and I'll be on ya boyo
Henry Norris 1913 wrote:in that context i understand why they feel they should have some sort of celebration but a parade? just what are they parading? usually it's an open top bus and the lads are holding a trophy and showing it to the fans, in this case they're just sat there waving! bit weird
But how else are they (The Team/Coaching Staff and the many thousands of fans) meant to celebrate (Together) - Without doing a 'Parade' - I fully get it that a 'Parade' is meant to parade a trophy - which we have not achieved/won - What the team have achieved is help unite and lift the spirits and hearts of the whole nation and restore their Pride in their football team - Till now we have only had that expression through Rugby and Boxing - But the football team by means of their playing, passion, effort, results and something we have not seen for ages - a very decent football team and coach playing as a 'Team', so I think the parade is a means by which the fans can be allowed to 'celebrate' and give their thanks to the team & coach for what has been achieved.
Brightonnxtround wrote:Agree with above once Ramsey was unavailable the dragons teeth were removed
Like chomping through a steak with your false teeth out
Are you posting shyte and saying silly things in order to wind people up - Or is that the sum total and limit of your ability to communicate in the written form whilst your carer is assisting you?
Course not sheep shagger
That's Mr Sheep Shagger to you little boy. However, if you are going to resort to name calling as a means to answer others you may find that others will begin to ignore anything you say. You recently escaped being Banned purely because the mod you told to 'Fuck off' gave you the benefit of the doubt /a pass (any other site and you'd be history) - You seem to think you are 'funny' and having demonstrated your lack of wit and a desperation to be liked by everyone it really is becoming wearisome.
ps: I would suggest you find another way and means of posting & answering rather than name calling (btw we have all been through that phase - except for Arseofacrow and Top Londoner - they're still in it ) - Perhaps a constructive riposte or well informed argument, but hey! Please Feel Free.
Ok bard boy your obviously top Shakespeare on here , but step out of line with your hurtful comments and I'll be on ya boyo
CloakedGooner wrote:Have to say the tournament has been fairly devoid of excitement thus far. Most matches have been pretty boring in my opinion! Hopefully the last 2 matches can make up for it. I think France will go through to the final tonight and most likely beat Portugal as well
I know I support Wales - But, I thought the games of Wales vs Belgium and the England vs Iceland were excellent.
Fair enough! Tbh, I missed the Wales v Belgium game but I did hear it was pretty good
Rugby Gooner wrote:I don't think that it is a good idea for the welsh to have an open top bus tribute around Cardiff for finishing 3rd or 4th,(depending on the play off if there is one), as it may give Wenger and the club ideas for "celebrating" our 4th place trophies in future.
Was that parade for Wales even discussed? Amazing if it was....
No way, it couldn't have been. Could it??
If so then;
It's tomorrow.
Certainly not something I'll be going to but you have to look at the context of not having qualified for a major tournament for 58 years.
Although you would hope Wales will start qualifying for more tournaments (and will be assisted by the self-perpetuating cycle of FIFA rankings and qualifying seeding) it's not likely that they'll match this achievement in my lifetime.
Don't mind them NB123 - yes a parade doesn't seem right for a 4th place finish, but by the same token the players and the fans are entitled to show their appreciation at an outstanding euro 2016 campaign In an ideal world it would be less of a celebration and more of an acknowledgement, if there was a welcome home party at the airport, but it would create havoc at the airport and seriously affecting people going to and from flights. As you rightly pointed out, it is 58 years since they qualified for a major finals, and they had never reached the semi finals, so the welsh people are perfectly entitled to celebrate the achievement People on here sometimes cant see that quantifying success is relative, and while a team/nation like engerland might really expect to be one of the main challengers and would view the semi's as the bare minimum, a country like wales would rightly view this as over-achievement and should celebrate it
CloakedGooner wrote:Have to say the tournament has been fairly devoid of excitement thus far. Most matches have been pretty boring in my opinion! Hopefully the last 2 matches can make up for it. I think France will go through to the final tonight and most likely beat Portugal as well
I know I support Wales - But, I thought the games of Wales vs Belgium and the England vs Iceland were excellent.
Fair enough! Tbh, I missed the Wales v Belgium game but I did hear it was pretty good
Belgium had no defence they made Wales look a lot better than they actually where
Are you posting shyte and saying silly things in order to wind people up - Or is that the sum total and limit of your ability to communicate in the written form whilst your carer is assisting you?
Course not sheep shagger
That's Mr Sheep Shagger to you little boy. However, if you are going to resort to name calling as a means to answer others you may find that others will begin to ignore anything you say. You recently escaped being Banned purely because the mod you told to 'Fuck off' gave you the benefit of the doubt /a pass (any other site and you'd be history) - You seem to think you are 'funny' and having demonstrated your lack of wit and a desperation to be liked by everyone it really is becoming wearisome.
ps: I would suggest you find another way and means of posting & answering rather than name calling (btw we have all been through that phase - except for Arseofacrow and Top Londoner - they're still in it ) - Perhaps a constructive riposte or well informed argument, but hey! Please Feel Free.
Ok bard boy your obviously top Shakespeare on here , but step out of line with your hurtful comments and I'll be on ya boyo
Is that a Threat?
That can be anything you want it to be ..............but don't call me boy
CloakedGooner wrote:Have to say the tournament has been fairly devoid of excitement thus far. Most matches have been pretty boring in my opinion! Hopefully the last 2 matches can make up for it. I think France will go through to the final tonight and most likely beat Portugal as well
I know I support Wales - But, I thought the games of Wales vs Belgium and the England vs Iceland were excellent.
I agree,I think that they have been the best games so far.
CloakedGooner wrote:Have to say the tournament has been fairly devoid of excitement thus far. Most matches have been pretty boring in my opinion! Hopefully the last 2 matches can make up for it. I think France will go through to the final tonight and most likely beat Portugal as well
I know I support Wales - But, I thought the games of Wales vs Belgium and the England vs Iceland were excellent.
I agree,I think that they have been the best games so far.
wHAt england v iceland was shite england
Particularly shite
As well as the whole 58 years thing, you have to think about the wider context of football in Wales.
As much good press as Wales fans have got during this tournament, the national team hasn't been well supported. A decade ago I was going to games at the Millennium Stadium where they would only sell tickets in the lower tier behind the dugouts, because that was opposite the camera and a crowd of 7,000-8,000 in a 74,000 seater stadium looked less embarrassing until the camera panned around.
The FAW have made some big mistakes with keeping fans engaged and people here have to put up with the self-crowned best rugby fans on the planet bleating on every Feb/March about the Six Nations and wall-to-wall coverage every four years for the World Cup and to a lesser extent the Lions tour, even though most of them know fuck all about rugby.
When I was a kid you could get cheap season tickets for qualifying campaigns - a dad could take his two sons to watch all 5 qualifying games in a packed Millennium Stadium for £100. After the Euro 2004 near miss they got greedy and after hiking up the prices found that nobody wanted to go and watch Wales stumble to distant 4th or 5th placed finishes at those prices.
This qualifying campaign was the first one in over a decade to be played in front of a full crowd. The whole rugby being he national sport thing is a bit misleading - Wales doesn't have any fewer genuine football fans than anywhere else in the UK, they have just been the disengaged masses. So whilst some of the stuff has been a bit cringy, the FAW are absolutely right to do whatever they can to ride the crest of this wave and get people behind the side which is hopefully going to start qualifying for more tournaments - starting with the World Cup in 2018!
On the whole the quality of entertainment in this tournament has been poor - but it has been the same for the last few Euros. I don't know why people always seem to forget that the euros largely sees cautious European sides cancelling each other out, with the painful omission of the flair and quality of the South American teams and the hell-for-leather attitude of the African sides.
Not got high hopes for tonight. Germany don't want an exciting game - they want to strangle the game and impose their superior technical ability in tighter spaces. An open game suits the likes of Pogba, Payet and Griezmann far more than heir counterparts.
That's Mr Sheep Shagger to you little boy. However, if you are going to resort to name calling as a means to answer others you may find that others will begin to ignore anything you say. You recently escaped being Banned purely because the mod you told to 'Fuck off' gave you the benefit of the doubt /a pass (any other site and you'd be history) - You seem to think you are 'funny' and having demonstrated your lack of wit and a desperation to be liked by everyone it really is becoming wearisome.
ps: I would suggest you find another way and means of posting & answering rather than name calling (btw we have all been through that phase - except for Arseofacrow and Top Londoner - they're still in it ) - Perhaps a constructive riposte or well informed argument, but hey! Please Feel Free.
Ok bard boy your obviously top Shakespeare on here , but step out of line with your hurtful comments and I'll be on ya boyo
Is that a Threat?
That can be anything you want it to be ..............but don't call me boy
Well it was you who said it so either it is or it isn't. Also, some I know would consider the term 'Boyo' to be racist.
OneBardGooner wrote:
That's Mr Sheep Shagger to you little boy. However, if you are going to resort to name calling as a means to answer others you may find that others will begin to ignore anything you say. You recently escaped being Banned purely because the mod you told to 'Fuck off' gave you the benefit of the doubt /a pass (any other site and you'd be history) - You seem to think you are 'funny' and having demonstrated your lack of wit and a desperation to be liked by everyone it really is becoming wearisome.
ps: I would suggest you find another way and means of posting & answering rather than name calling (btw we have all been through that phase - except for Arseofacrow and Top Londoner - they're still in it ) - Perhaps a constructive riposte or well informed argument, but hey! Please Feel Free.
Ok bard boy your obviously top Shakespeare on here , but step out of line with your hurtful comments and I'll be on ya boyo
Is that a Threat?
That can be anything you want it to be ..............but don't call me boy
Well it was you who said it so either it is or it isn't. Also, some I know would consider the term 'Boyo' to be racist.
In an ideal world it would be less of a celebration and more of an acknowledgement, if there was a welcome home party at the airport, but it would create havoc at the airport and seriously affecting people going to and from flights. As you rightly pointed out, it is 58 years since they qualified for a major finals, and they had never reached the semi finals, so the welsh people are perfectly entitled to celebrate the achievement 
You a pink floyd fan onebard ????