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.
GoonerMuzz wrote:I've never known a player spend so much time on his arse as Giroud, would be nice if he actually tried to beat players rather than try to get stupid fouls which he's never going to get
Somebody should start counting. He needs shin pads on his arse.
His time on the floor is usually accompanied by frantic arm/wrist/hand-shaking as if his ankle's been broken.
GoonerMuzz wrote:I've never known a player spend so much time on his arse as Giroud, would be nice if he actually tried to beat players rather than try to get stupid fouls which he's never going to get
Somebody should start counting. He needs shin pads on his arse.
His time on the floor is usually accompanied by frantic arm/wrist/hand-shaking as if his ankle's been broken.
Thought that his time on the bench behind Walcott earlier this season might have taught him some fucking humility and reminded himself that he is M. Average but clearly not.
One thing which you could never fault when he joined was his workrate. Sadly he seems to have lost that now - to be fair to Ozil and Ramsey both of them try hard to press opposition defenders in possession when we're at home but Giroud makes it all futile by lazily sauntering around barely making a token gesture to try and press.
Just another player who seems to have won the football lottery. At a reported £130k a week he earns at least twice as much as he would anywhere else. He wouldn't get much game time at any other club around our status, never mind being unchallenged for years as lone striker.
FOUR FUCKING SEASONS NOW HE HAS BEEN OUR LEAD STRIKER. Has anybody on here at any point during that time thought that he was good enough for that role? Anybody defending Wenger to the hilt should be shown a reel of Giroud endlessly fluffing opportunities, falling over and gesticulating in a pained manner until they see sense.
AS for the Newcastle game, probably as dire as the Sunderland home match recently. Struggled over the line.
I thought our worst player by a mile was Oxlade-Chamberlain, shouldn't be near the starting line up at present and seriously drifting out of contention in term's of his position at the whole club.
Robin_L wrote:^^ Giroud's having a more than decent season, you ignoramus
Honestly, where do you get these people from
It's like the stupid person's go-to line of choice. Things aren't going perfectly, blame the striker.
Giroud's probably been our 3rd best player this season after Ozil and Cech.
More than decent - by what benchmark? By the benchmark of an average PL striker if you're being generous. Not by the sort of striker that leads teams to PL titles - Henry, Bergkamp, Drogba, Ronaldo, Rooney, van Persie, Aguero etc.
Is he good enough to be our lead striker in our system? No. Has he ever been? No. It's a fucking travesty that three and a half years down the line we are still plodding along with him up front.
He's not up to the mark and no amount of your posturing or WUMming will change that. If we had Aguero instead of him we'd coast this league.
Robin_L wrote:^^ Giroud's having a more than decent season, you ignoramus
Honestly, where do you get these people from
It's like the stupid person's go-to line of choice. Things aren't going perfectly, blame the striker.
Giroud's probably been our 3rd best player this season after Ozil and Cech.
More than decent - by what benchmark? By the benchmark of an average PL striker if you're being generous. Not by the sort of striker that leads teams to PL titles - Henry, Bergkamp, Drogba, Ronaldo, Rooney, van Persie, Aguero etc.
Is he good enough to be our lead striker in our system? No. Has he ever been? No. It's a fucking travesty that three and a half years down the line we are still plodding along with him up front.
He's not up to the mark and no amount of your posturing or WUMming will change that. If we had Aguero instead of him we'd coast this league.
Spot on nb Giroud is at best a back up,hes midtable standard.
Robin_L wrote:^^ Giroud's having a more than decent season, you ignoramus
Honestly, where do you get these people from
It's like the stupid person's go-to line of choice. Things aren't going perfectly, blame the striker.
Giroud's probably been our 3rd best player this season after Ozil and Cech.
More than decent - by what benchmark? By the benchmark of an average PL striker if you're being generous. Not by the sort of striker that leads teams to PL titles - Henry, Bergkamp, Drogba, Ronaldo, Rooney, van Persie, Aguero etc.
Is he good enough to be our lead striker in our system? No. Has he ever been? No. It's a fucking travesty that three and a half years down the line we are still plodding along with him up front.
He's not up to the mark and no amount of your posturing or WUMming will change that. If we had Aguero instead of him we'd coast this league.
Spot on nb Giroud is at best a back up,hes midtable standard.
We've been lucky that since the Southampton debacle we've had two home games because if we'd played like we have in those games away from home we'd be getting a good fucking again. Cech outstanding, if any of the other duds we've had between the sticks over the past few years were in goal today we'd have lost that.
Giroud's problem isn't scoring goals because he does occasionally score some excellent ones, it is the number of chances he squanders time and again and selfish inability to link with other players at times that says he is never going to be a world class striker.
Giroud should be an impact striker who comes on against tired defenders because he is far too immobile to lead the line effectively for 70 mins week in week out
Robin_L wrote:^^ Giroud's having a more than decent season, you ignoramus
Honestly, where do you get these people from
It's like the stupid person's go-to line of choice. Things aren't going perfectly, blame the striker.
Giroud's probably been our 3rd best player this season after Ozil and Cech.
More than decent - by what benchmark? By the benchmark of an average PL striker if you're being generous. Not by the sort of striker that leads teams to PL titles - Henry, Bergkamp, Drogba, Ronaldo, Rooney, van Persie, Aguero etc.
Is he good enough to be our lead striker in our system? No. Has he ever been? No. It's a fucking travesty that three and a half years down the line we are still plodding along with him up front.
He's not up to the mark and no amount of your posturing or WUMming will change that. If we had Aguero instead of him we'd coast this league.
By the benchmark of his goals to games ratio, which is comparable with at least 3 of the players on your list. Do your damn research.
Giroud got another assist today, simply put we wouldn't have scored without him. 15 for the season, good stuff Giroud.
GoonerMuzz wrote:Giroud's problem isn't scoring goals because he does occasionally score some excellent ones, it is the number of chances he squanders time and again and selfish inability to link with other players at times that says he is never going to be a world class striker.
Giroud should be an impact striker who comes on against tired defenders because he is far too immobile to lead the line effectively for 70 mins week in week out
That selfish inability for #2 against Bournemouth was infuriating.
Actually cannot believe Giroud is the scapegoat and barely a mention of how woeful Oxlade-Chamberlain was today. Walcott not great either, Ramsey similarly poor, although the latter is having a decent season overall.
Cech, Ozil, Giroud are the reason we're on 42 points and not down with the scum /United / Liverpool looking upwards at Leicester fucking City.
Giroud is at best a back up,hes midtable standard.
