Canaries V (what proved to be) the Arsenal light-weights

[Kvltman]

Bring in 2014...I'm pretty sure there won't be as many, if any, pathetic capitualtions like today with a new manager in charge.

A new approach is needed. The club is stale.

[donaldo]

Outplayed by Norwich thats all you need to know.Ruddy could have had a deckchair in his goal for all the shots we had on the Norwich goal.We got away with only a 1-0 defeat.A gutless and shameful performance of which we have become used to under Wenger in the last 7 years

Its time for everyone to get real we are not a good team.We rely on one player Cazorla and if he doesnt play well we are clueless.Gervinho is a pile of shite who shouldnt be anywhere near an Arsenal team.

Everyone said we needed a back up keeper in the summer but that Wenger knew better

The truth is we got into the top 4 last season because of one man RVP

[g88ner]

That was awful.

You can't pass the ball around THAT slowly and expect to get anywhere. When we pass quicker, opportunities present themselves as it allows time and space for others, but at the pace we were passing it? pfft. a blind football team would have been able to track our movement.

It was boring, predictable and lacklustre. Deserved nothing and got nothing.

Oh, and we're as error prone at the back as we've ever been. The goals we're conceding are so so poor.

[tel]

The time for change was a long time ago. Wenger out. Outplayed and outfought by a side who simply wanted it more.

[mcdowell42]

Wasnt it last season when we drew 3-3 at home against them, might not be as easy as some think

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[REB]

what a load of shit.

[defleppardisking]

i hate the fact that we are stuck with wenger and the fans refuse to do anything about it

[clockender1]

oh, the only bright spot was the effort and positioning of Jenko.

and i just got reminded that Naaarich did clear one off the line with the keeper beat.

still shite tactics though.

[SteveO 35]

Well lets be honest, that really was as awful as anything we've seen against clubs from the bottom six over the past few seasons. I've seen us perform like that every year for seven years now whether its Hull, QPR, Norwich, Blackburn, Bolton. No doubt we'll all be reading on Arsenal.com how we're determined to bounce back and how injuries and the international break disrupted us and how we'll learn from the lessons etc etc.......and we'll beat QPR at home, then limp to defeat at OT, get ourselves to the brink of the top four once more, qualify from the CL group, and somewhere round the corner when it looks like we've improved again there'll be another repeat of today's sorry debacle. That is what it means to follow Arsenal these days - a chilling simplicity that we're good enough for top four, and nowhere near good enough to win anything meaningful (whilst showing contempt for competitions we could win)

All the same faults are there - a goalkeeper that any of us (but not the condescending manager who has worked in football for 30 yrs) knew was shit 5 years ago and who should have followed Almunia out and took Fabianski with him. As I said after the City game, he'll cost us at least 10-15 points with individual errors this season, but so far we've heard Wenger talk about him glowingly and I quote "his time at Hull has given him the mentality of a number 1"

We still have an overpromoted Ramsey giving the ball away at will when if he'd joined Manchester United instead of us, he'd have been limited to a Tom Cleverley support role whilst learning his trade, but no at Arsenal he's a 40 game a year man

People continue to convince themselves on the back of the French Lee Chapman's solitary league goal from 4 yards against the Shammers that we've bought an unpolished diamond, but tonight as with 90% of his other performance he looked more Elizabeth Duke reject than diamond. In an age where we have supposedly £40m available we sell one of Europe's finest and replace him with an unproven 6'4" powderpuff with the pace of a disabled tortoise but who wins the odd header

We've got the Goodyear Blimp filling in at left back and a 6'6" centre half with an allergy to jumping, preferring instead to leave Holt, Carroll and any other physical forward to the clutches of his 5'11" partner, preferring instead to do the easy work on the deck.

And without Walcott and Oxlade Chamberlain we again look like one of the slowest teams in the League. I watched the Chavski v Spuds game and the pace from both sides was breathtaking. In comparison we looked like a wheezy chested old lady pushing her shopping trolley up a hill in the ice

Dreadful stuff yet again, but is anyone surprised anymore. This is Arsene-all, and we're all stuck with it till 2014 at the earliest and in reality 2017 when the inevitable contract extension gets signed

[armchair]

Wasnt it last season when we drew 3-3 at home against them, might not be as easy as some think

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Mc D - you are truly a visionary.

[Kvltman]

This is Arsene-all, and we're all stuck with it till 2014 at the earliest and in reality 2017 when the inevitable contract extension gets signed

In total agreement with everything you said but the above is the most chilling part of all.

[SteveO 35]

I'm glad that everyone is so highly confident that we're going to steamroller Norwich. With comedy Mannone in goal and fat boy Santos replacing Gibbs, I'm not so sure that we'll be stable defensively

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[Chippy]

Well lets be honest, that really was as awful as anything we've seen against clubs from the bottom six over the past few seasons. I've seen us perform like that every year for seven years now whether its Hull, QPR, Norwich, Blackburn, Bolton. No doubt we'll all be reading on Arsenal.com how we're determined to bounce back and how injuries and the international break disrupted us and how we'll learn from the lessons etc etc.......and we'll beat QPR at home, then limp to defeat at OT, get ourselves to the brink of the top four once more, qualify from the CL group, and somewhere round the corner when it looks like we've improved again there'll be another repeat of today's sorry debacle. That is what it means to follow Arsenal these days - a chilling simplicity that we're good enough for top four, and nowhere near good enough to win anything meaningful (whilst showing contempt for competitions we could win)

All the same faults are there - a goalkeeper that any of us (but not the condescending manager who has worked in football for 30 yrs) knew was shit 5 years ago and who should have followed Almunia out and took Fabianski with him. As I said after the City game, he'll cost us at least 10-15 points with individual errors this season, but so far we've heard Wenger talk about him glowingly and I quote "his time at Hull has given him the mentality of a number 1"

We still have an overpromoted Ramsey giving the ball away at will when if he'd joined Manchester United instead of us, he'd have been limited to a Tom Cleverley support role whilst learning his trade, but no at Arsenal he's a 40 game a year man

People continue to convince themselves on the back of the French Lee Chapman's solitary league goal from 4 yards against the Shammers that we've bought an unpolished diamond, but tonight as with 90% of his other performance he looked more Elizabeth Duke reject than diamond. In an age where we have supposedly £40m available we sell one of Europe's finest and replace him with an unproven 6'4" powderpuff with the pace of a disabled tortoise but who wins the odd header

We've got the Goodyear Blimp filling in at left back and a 6'6" centre half with an allergy to jumping, preferring instead to leave Holt, Carroll and any other physical forward to the clutches of his 5'11" partner, preferring instead to do the easy work on the deck.

And without Walcott and Oxlade Chamberlain we again look like one of the slowest teams in the League. I watched the Chavski v Spuds game and the pace from both sides was breathtaking. In comparison we looked like a wheezy chested old lady pushing her shopping trolley up a hill in the ice

Dreadful stuff yet again, but is anyone surprised anymore. This is Arsene-all, and we're all stuck with it till 2014 at the earliest and in reality 2017 when the inevitable contract extension gets signed

Great post. Now where's Highbury JD to explain it all away?

[mcdowell42]

Well lets be honest, that really was as awful as anything we've seen against clubs from the bottom six over the past few seasons. I've seen us perform like that every year for seven years now whether its Hull, QPR, Norwich, Blackburn, Bolton. No doubt we'll all be reading on Arsenal.com how we're determined to bounce back and how injuries and the international break disrupted us and how we'll learn from the lessons etc etc.......and we'll beat QPR at home, then limp to defeat at OT, get ourselves to the brink of the top four once more, qualify from the CL group, and somewhere round the corner when it looks like we've improved again there'll be another repeat of today's sorry debacle. That is what it means to follow Arsenal these days - a chilling simplicity that we're good enough for top four, and nowhere near good enough to win anything meaningful (whilst showing contempt for competitions we could win)

All the same faults are there - a goalkeeper that any of us (but not the condescending manager who has worked in football for 30 yrs) knew was shit 5 years ago and who should have followed Almunia out and took Fabianski with him. As I said after the City game, he'll cost us at least 10-15 points with individual errors this season, but so far we've heard Wenger talk about him glowingly and I quote "his time at Hull has given him the mentality of a number 1"

We still have an overpromoted Ramsey giving the ball away at will when if he'd joined Manchester United instead of us, he'd have been limited to a Tom Cleverley support role whilst learning his trade, but no at Arsenal he's a 40 game a year man

People continue to convince themselves on the back of the French Lee Chapman's solitary league goal from 4 yards against the Shammers that we've bought an unpolished diamond, but tonight as with 90% of his other performance he looked more Elizabeth Duke reject than diamond. In an age where we have supposedly £40m available we sell one of Europe's finest and replace him with an unproven 6'4" powderpuff with the pace of a disabled tortoise but who wins the odd header

We've got the Goodyear Blimp filling in at left back and a 6'6" centre half with an allergy to jumping, preferring instead to leave Holt, Carroll and any other physical forward to the clutches of his 5'11" partner, preferring instead to do the easy work on the deck.

And without Walcott and Oxlade Chamberlain we again look like one of the slowest teams in the League. I watched the Chavski v Spuds game and the pace from both sides was breathtaking. In comparison we looked like a wheezy chested old lady pushing her shopping trolley up a hill in the ice

Dreadful stuff yet again, but is anyone surprised anymore. This is Arsene-all, and we're all stuck with it till 2014 at the earliest and in reality 2017 when the inevitable contract extension gets signed

Great post. Now where's Highbury JD to explain it all away?

He posted earlier in the thread about how if we lose it wont be wengers fault but the players fault,so by my reckoning it will go along those lines dont know why i put emoticons it just goes over his head

[Henry Norris 1913]

Wasnt it last season when we drew 3-3 at home against them, might not be as easy as some think

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heres a rumour to start your jan 2013 thread off with...

your a *word censored*