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Jumpers For Goalposts wrote:Walcott is the most over-rated player in the Premier League. He's an athlete with some football ability and his priorities are :-
1. His wallet
2. His image
3. England
4. Arsenal
He sums up the current Arsenal - nowhere near as good as he thinks he is!!
Never a more accurate post on this forum
With respect, it is innaccurate.
If you had met him you realise the bloke is a professional, just not been given the correct coaching.
Could it also not be interpreted that the fact he was so polite and cordial with you shows that working on his image (point no.2 by jumpers) is going well ? I'm sorry, am in a bad mood (who isnt ? ) but being polite and friendly to fans is a long way below putting in good performances on the pitch with a good work ethic and on a consistant basis for me and this brainless clown has never showed an ability to do that. To make matters really worse he has decided to turn up with a real attitude this season as well which is totally unacceptable for a guy of his standing imo
I've heard people say this before on here, "he thinks he's earned the rights to bollock his team mates" ect ... But at least hes trying to show some balls unlike most of them. When i hear people slating him like when he bollocked carl jenkinson vs man utd, i thought good on him. Jenkinson was a fucking disaster that game, someone had to tell him so theo did. Seems whatever he does is wrong, weather he zips his mouth or not. ..Football should be played verbally so i think in that sense we should cut him some slack.
Cockerill's chin wrote:Walcott gets too much stick for me. Some people on here make a beeline for him when (like today) he was poor but so were a large number of the team. He has made some important contributions in a terrible start to the season.
As for whether he will ever be the type of player who can consistently take a game by the scruff of the neck I doubt. But then again there are only a knife jugglers' handful of players like that in our league.
If Walcott had gone to manure instead of Young this summer I firmly believe that their discipline and coaching would have done every bit as good to Theo as it has done for Young. We are no longer a coherrent team. Theo is just another ill-placed cog in a dysfunctional machine.
I wish Walcott would just piss off somewhere else - he is a player that doesnt work, doesnt try, doesnt make an impact on any game of importance and lets the team down time and time again.
An absolute joke of a footballer - and it takes a lot for me to say that about one of our own.
QuartzGooner wrote:I do not think he hides. I think he is a hard working player who has not developed as he should under Wenger.
Obviously very fast, can put in decent crosses and is more creative than people give him credit for.
As a midfielder I think he works better cutting in from the left, and would like to see him up front at times in a two man attack, though this must be practiced in training first.
He is unpopular on this site, but I regard him as a valued member of the squad who can and I believe will improve.
I have met him and he was very down to earth, polite and intelligent and was happy to sign autographs.
If we were to sell him in the summer, I reckon he would flourish at another club.
i aggree with most of this post i also aggree with the fact that walcott would flourish at another club but then again so would most players in the team as with another manager they know they would get a bollocking if they turned in performances like they do for us and could you imagine what fergie would do to the likes of walcott,arshavin,rosicky etc he'd either bully them into playing well or sell the c**ts.
I have long defended Walcott but I am finding that I am running out of faith.
I do have some sympathy with him, he has said he isn't a wide player and Mr Knows has said the same himself yet rather confusingly continues to play him there.
There were signs of improvemnet but they seem to have fallen away with the slump in form suffered by the whole side.
He is running out of time and he now has to prove himself in a side full of negativitgy and low on confidence.
You do have to wonder why he hasn't pushed on though and I would say the kid has got the intelligence and the desire to better himself so questions have to be asked why his potential has not been realised yet.
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Percy Dalton wrote:I have long defended Walcott but I am finding that I am running out of faith.
I do have some sympathy with him, he has said he isn't a wide player and Mr Knows has said the same himself yet rather continues to play him there.
There were signs of improvemnet but they seem to have fallen away with the slump in form suffered by the whole side.
He is running out of time and he now has to prove himself in a side full of negativitgy and low on confidence.
You do have to wonder why he hasn't pushed on though and I would say the kid has got the intelligence and the desire to better himself so questions have to be asked why his potential has not been realised yet.
) but being polite and friendly to fans is a long way below putting in good performances on the pitch with a good work ethic and on a consistant basis for me and this brainless clown has never showed an ability to do that. To make matters really worse he has decided to turn up with a real attitude this season as well which is totally unacceptable for a guy of his standing imo
..Football should be played verbally so i think in that sense we should cut him some slack.
