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goonerk wrote:Fabianski is all about confidence. He has that now and is showing it on the pitch. Best performance from an arsenal keeper for years. and before anyone points to mannone against fulham - no, that wasn't a great performance, the lad just got lucky. fabianski claimed impecably. produced 2 or 3 outstanding saves and distributed well. well played son!
Almunia is finished (about 4 years too late)
Fabianski is looking good. He comes for crosses fearlessly and when he punches he tends to punch it away from danger. His reflexes are good and the saves are sticking at the moment..
But... how many mistakes has one man made? I was watching a re-run of old games on youtube last week, and he's been making clangers since day one. Using a rough tally I would say he's made about 10 absolutely high-profile goal conceding clangers.
I take the point about confidence, but can we really rely on a guy who loses his confidence that often. The main attribute of a keeper is his decision-making and mental strength. I don't think this guy's the answer.
Pepe Reina...come on down.
£20m in January - done.
Last edited by frankbutcher on Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Wenger MUST continue to play him. Wenger destroyed Manninger by dropping him once Seaman was fit again. He simply has to stick with Fabs and ship that shit spanish c*nt out the door in january!
He's been growing in confidence and the performances are coming. Maybe we're seeing the same LF21 that Wenger has been seeing in practices for the last few years.
Anyway let's hope that he keeps it up. I'm sick of seeing cunty Almunia's face.
Was there today and up close he looked very confident! Was always in contact with the defenders and looked like a man out to prove a point! He was always chuffed when he had the ball as well!
he fills us with no confidence flappy flappy
flaps his hands on request flappy flappy
come on have a shot, ur bound to score
his nicknames flappyhandski, need we say more?
Fab-i-an-ski arsenals number 1
nah, being honest, he's looked pretty good in recent games but im just anticipating the next flappy moment, i cant fully trust him, as much as i want to get behind him
goonerk wrote:Fabianski is all about confidence. He has that now and is showing it on the pitch. Best performance from an arsenal keeper for years. and before anyone points to mannone against fulham - no, that wasn't a great performance, the lad just got lucky. fabianski claimed impecably. produced 2 or 3 outstanding saves and distributed well. well played son!
Almunia is finished (about 4 years too late)
Fabianski is looking good. He comes for crosses fearlessly and when he punches he tends to punch it away from danger. His reflexes are good and the saves are sticking at the moment..
But... how many mistakes has one man made? I was watching a re-run of old games on youtube last week, and he's been making clangers since day one. Using a rough tally I would say he's made about 10 absolutely high-profile goal conceding clangers.
I take the point about confidence, but can we really rely on a guy who loses his confidence that often. The main attribute of a keeper is his decision-making and mental strength. I don't think this guy's the answer.
Pepe Reina...come on down.
£20m in January - done.
Biggest problem with that is the European availability nonsense - don't think he'll be available for the champions league knockout phases so imo no point going back to our back-up keeper for that. Let's hope Liverpool crash and burn and get him cheaper next summer - best stick to what we've got for the season and get behind 'em.
Firstly, credit where it's due, great performance yesterday, does this mean he has turned the corner? Only a sustained run of form will prove this, also how he reacts when he does make a mistake, which all keepers do.
So far though he is unrecogniseable from the timid nervous wreck we saw at Blackburn last season. If he does prove himself then it will be the most unlikely goal keeping metamorphosis ever seen.
Just sorting out my dream team at work. Didn’t realise that Flappy only played 360 mins of football in the league last season. That’s 4 games in total, in that time he got 15 points.
Maybe we didn’t give the guy a chance. So far this season he has been outstanding and looks very confident. He did say in an interview he would love to hear the crowd sing his name. I think he deserves it.