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northbank123 wrote:Monreal took most of the blame on MOTD for losing his man but imo Sagna was more at fault. As he did against Newcastle a few times instead of closing the man down on the touchline where if he fouls or gets skinned it's unlikely to be too costly, he backed off and backed off and the bloke was able to cross the ball from the corner of the box without even skinning anyone. If he then puts a good ball in it makes it very difficult to defend.
Funny you should say that but I remember a few years ago when we were going for the league we lost away to dirty Leeds in exactly the same circumstances - they scored a late winner when one of their cuntbag players (could have been hasslebank ) got across vivas at the back post (yeah vivas was playing left full ) to score from a right wing cross. After the game wenker publicly blamed vivas which I felt was bang out of order especially as his international right full (Dixon) was backpeddling at some pace and allowed them to cross it in the first place and a player of his experience should know that supply has to be cut out at source Sad to say that defeat cost us the league (think that was the night o'leary gave it the big me on the pitch at final whistle )
markyp wrote:a good win but reading were dire.one thing that this game illustrated was how fucking slow we are now when we have possesion,everything is sideways and backwards especially when jacks not in the team,another thing too is although we bagged four it managed to disguise how desperate we are for some real quaity up front,i know forehead scored one and set up another but in general he is sooooooooo fucking wasteful and as per usual giroud nets when the game is done and dusted.had reading faced utd or city today they would have been looking at possibly a record prem defeat,we let them off due to our woeful forward play at times.nice to bag another 3 points but we are a shadow of our former selves
Really......what was the score when manure played reading a couple of weeks ago
markyp wrote:a good win but reading were dire.one thing that this game illustrated was how fucking slow we are now when we have possesion,everything is sideways and backwards especially when jacks not in the team,another thing too is although we bagged four it managed to disguise how desperate we are for some real quaity up front,i know forehead scored one and set up another but in general he is sooooooooo fucking wasteful and as per usual giroud nets when the game is done and dusted.had reading faced utd or city today they would have been looking at possibly a record prem defeat,we let them off due to our woeful forward play at times.nice to bag another 3 points but we are a shadow of our former selves
giroud scores when game done and dusted as per usual?
he put us in front v coventry
equalized at west ham
pulled 2nd back at reading in the league cup
put us in front and equalized v fulham
put us in front home to west ham
put us in front twice at brighton
pulled 1st back v liverpool
put us in front in munich
Beck you're confusing opinion and reality
its only your opinion all those things happened, statistics and events are just twisted propaganda
you can prove anything with history
reality is Giroud is worstest player ever
because posters on here and/or Adrian Durham say so...
highburyJD wrote:Beck you're confusing opinion and reality
its only your opinion all those things happened, statistics and events are just twisted propaganda
you can prove anything with history
reality is Giroud is worstest player ever
because posters on here and/or Adrian Durham say so...
Giroud has some spectacularly bad games but he's not as bad as some on here think (don't know what Durham thinks, I don't pollute my ears with crap from bitter c**tbags on Talksh**e) but he's not a prolific scorer. I do wonder what he would be like if we were as creative as we used to be.
The most I think we will ever get from him is 15-20 goals a season max, but not a bad return.
markyp wrote:a good win but reading were dire.one thing that this game illustrated was how fucking slow we are now when we have possesion,everything is sideways and backwards especially when jacks not in the team,another thing too is although we bagged four it managed to disguise how desperate we are for some real quaity up front,i know forehead scored one and set up another but in general he is sooooooooo fucking wasteful and as per usual giroud nets when the game is done and dusted.had reading faced utd or city today they would have been looking at possibly a record prem defeat,we let them off due to our woeful forward play at times.nice to bag another 3 points but we are a shadow of our former selves
giroud scores when game done and dusted as per usual?
he put us in front v coventry
equalized at west ham
pulled 2nd back at reading in the league cup
put us in front and equalized v fulham
put us in front home to west ham
put us in front twice at brighton
pulled 1st back v liverpool
put us in front in munich
and his perfromances against chavski,city,united,and many champs league games have been non existent,thats my point.as mentioned before he is the french hide and seek champion
markyp wrote:a good win but reading were dire.one thing that this game illustrated was how fucking slow we are now when we have possesion,everything is sideways and backwards especially when jacks not in the team,another thing too is although we bagged four it managed to disguise how desperate we are for some real quaity up front,i know forehead scored one and set up another but in general he is sooooooooo fucking wasteful and as per usual giroud nets when the game is done and dusted.had reading faced utd or city today they would have been looking at possibly a record prem defeat,we let them off due to our woeful forward play at times.nice to bag another 3 points but we are a shadow of our former selves
Really......what was the score when manure played reading a couple of weeks ago
that was a far better performance from reading that day,against us on saturday they were as bad as anything ever seen at the emirates,a really good side would have murdered them,my point being we are so wasteful and inept in the final third at times
markyp wrote:a good win but reading were dire.one thing that this game illustrated was how fucking slow we are now when we have possesion,everything is sideways and backwards especially when jacks not in the team,another thing too is although we bagged four it managed to disguise how desperate we are for some real quaity up front,i know forehead scored one and set up another but in general he is sooooooooo fucking wasteful and as per usual giroud nets when the game is done and dusted.had reading faced utd or city today they would have been looking at possibly a record prem defeat,we let them off due to our woeful forward play at times.nice to bag another 3 points but we are a shadow of our former selves
giroud scores when game done and dusted as per usual?
he put us in front v coventry
equalized at west ham
pulled 2nd back at reading in the league cup
put us in front and equalized v fulham
put us in front home to west ham
put us in front twice at brighton
pulled 1st back v liverpool
put us in front in munich
and his perfromances against chavski,city,united,and many champs league games have been non existent,thats my point.as mentioned before he is the french hide and seek champion
Giroud only played well in the games he played well in
in the games he didn't play well apparently he didn't play well
wow
blinding us with science here... thanks for the clarification
how do you think vanStaplecunt has played this year BTW
Just because you didn't score, doesn't mean you haven't played well. Likewise, just because you scored a goal, it doesn't necessarily mean you had a good game. HOWEVER, when you are a striker you are judged by the amount of goals you score and the matches in which you produce the goods. Giroud is doing relatively okay on the first point but has struggled on the second.
Will he get better next season? You'd like to think so, but there is no hiding from the fact that he has major weaknesses and the abilities he does possess are unlikely to lift us up to the higher level we aspire to be competing at.
I do have a caveat: and that is that a change in system and playing with a partner up front might produce more output from his strengths and may result in more appreciation for what he does/could contribute, as opposed to the current system which just exposes the many deficits in his game.
) got across vivas at the back post (yeah vivas was playing left full 
) to score from a right wing cross. After the game wenker publicly blamed vivas which I felt was bang out of order especially as his international right full (Dixon) was backpeddling at some pace and allowed them to cross it in the first place and a player of his experience should know that supply has to be cut out at source 
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