Galatasaray Away Match Thread

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Henry Norris 1913 wrote:
VAVAVOOM 14 wrote:
northbank123 wrote:Missus is over so I'm going to pretend that I'm desperate to watch this game and am making a huge sacrifice if I don't do so. Little victories.
:lol:

Brownie points! :barscarf:
are you suggesting northbank's missus is gonna let him take her up the shitter :shock:

fair play :barscarf:
I am a bit concerned that we havent heard from NB123 since the start of last evening.

Can one of the mods arrange a search party please :rubchin:

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DB10GOONER wrote:There really are some dullards on here. :roll: :lol:

Get it through some of your thick heads; Podolski is a striker. He's not a winger or an attacking midfielder. He's not a number 10. Tracking back is not his strength, and it's not something he should have to do. Scoring goals, clinical finishing is his strength. A decent manager who is not past his best would see that and play him as part of a 2 up front. The amount of cracking goals he has scored whilst hardly getting a sniff of first team action (never mind an actual regular run in the first team) is simply astonishing. Strikers work on confidence, on a run of form; they get that by playing, not by sitting on the bench looking at a spastic giraffe falling over and still getting picked ahead of them.

Podolski with a regular run of games and played in a proper system will score you 20+ PL goals a season. Wenger's misuse and waste of Pod is one of the worst crimes of his latter years with us.

As for the game; some of you need to fuck off and do something else if you can't take any joy in smashing the stabbers in their "infamous" :oops: ground. "Welcome to the hell"? My hairy hole. "Welcome to our net!" more like! :lol: 8)

Ox is far better through the centre and again if Sith Lord Venger would give him a regular run in there we'd see even more quality from him.

Ramsey has been appalling this season but his strike against the orcs (forgotten in the ensuing recriminations) was quality and his first last night was cool, controlled and very very good. His second was goal of the season. 30 yards out, on the volley, like a rocket and with a nice bit of shift right at the end. Simply beautiful, stunning strike. Worthy of Bergkamp, Messi or Pele. But probably more importantly, he seemed to cut out alot of the bullshit last night; less backheels, less un-needed outstep and flicks. Is he starting to refind his form? Maybe. Hope so, but the jury is still out.

Thought Campbell was poor tbh. Lot's of honest effort but runs with his head down and tries to pass through oppo players. Of course he's rusty and a run might help him but I was unimpressed with him last night. Also, he's a moaning whiney bitch, isn't he? Never stopped blaming other players for his mistakes and giving out when they didn't give him the ball.

SaNoGoals couldn't be stealing a living more if he turned up in a balaclava with a shotgun and a bag marked "swag". :roll: :oops:

A nothing game in the bigger scheme of things and we'll get molested out of it by Madrid in the next round, but some good stuff to watch last night and humiliating the stabbers in their dump is always fantastic. Fuck them. 8)

This. Yes. Podolski will be back on the bench this weekend and those after it. Wenger going on about how it's hard to play him due to the competition. He'd play well with hyperactive Alexis and will get far more goals than Welbeck or Giroud. So he will be off either in January or the summer. Pisses me off as much as anything le Muppet does.

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If merging players was as easy as merging threads.

Podolski's finishing, Giroud's strength and back-to-goal ability, and Welbeck's speed and work rate.

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QuartzGooner wrote:If merging players was as easy as merging threads.

Podolski's finishing, Giroud's strength and back-to-goal ability, and Welbeck's speed and work rate.
Thats TH14 isnt it Quartz 8)

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QuartzGooner wrote:If merging players was as easy as merging threads.

Podolski's finishing, Giroud's strength and back-to-goal ability, and Welbeck's speed and work rate.
Aguero, Cavani, Suarez, Higuain, Benzema...to name five with those capabilities.

Strachan's description of Podolski was spot on, when he said he takes two passes out of Arsenal's attack as when he sees the goal, he goes for. That's probably the exact reason why he doesn't get picked too often as if he is anywhere in the 18 yard box with a sight of goal he will shoot. No doubt Ramsey got a bollocking and a club fine for having a shot from outside the box as he didn't play it out wide...what a goal that was. No Jack in the team and Ramsey starts scoring and performing again... :rubchin:

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Nos89 wrote:
QuartzGooner wrote:If merging players was as easy as merging threads.

Podolski's finishing, Giroud's strength and back-to-goal ability, and Welbeck's speed and work rate.
Aguero, Cavani, Suarez, Higuain, Benzema...to name five with those capabilities.

Strachan's description of Podolski was spot on, when he said he takes two passes out of Arsenal's attack as when he sees the goal, he goes for. That's probably the exact reason why he doesn't get picked too often as if he is anywhere in the 18 yard box with a sight of goal he will shoot. No doubt Ramsey got a bollocking and a club fine for having a shot from outside the box as he didn't play it out wide...what a goal that was. No Jack in the team and Ramsey starts scoring and performing again... :rubchin:
I understand the logic of lots of passing; move the ball often and the opposition will in theory lose their shape, which in turn should present opportunities to walk the ball into the net.

The problem is we usually do it too slowly for it to be really effective.

That and goals win games so if the shot's on, take it. :barscarf:

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Nos89 wrote:
QuartzGooner wrote:If merging players was as easy as merging threads.

Podolski's finishing, Giroud's strength and back-to-goal ability, and Welbeck's speed and work rate.
Aguero, Cavani, Suarez, Higuain, Benzema...to name five with those capabilities.

Strachan's description of Podolski was spot on, when he said he takes two passes out of Arsenal's attack as when he sees the goal, he goes for. That's probably the exact reason why he doesn't get picked too often as if he is anywhere in the 18 yard box with a sight of goal he will shoot. No doubt Ramsey got a bollocking and a club fine for having a shot from outside the box as he didn't play it out wide...what a goal that was. No Jack in the team and Ramsey starts scoring and performing again... :rubchin:


Le cock was interviewed after the game last night and he said that his first reaction when ramsey shot was that he shouldn't have done it - winning 2 nil in a meaningless game and he still wants his players to pass the ball to death :roll: If you don't buy a ticket you wont win the lottery you dumb French c.unt :banghead:

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i didn't realise that was with ramsay's wrong foot, wow.

Pod btw has the highest goals to minutes ratio in the squad....

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Meaningless game, awful opposition but given the circumstances you couldn't ask for much more from those that went out there.

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