SWANSEA AWAY THREAD

[SteveO 35]

A lot of good points on here, people need to chill with the insults we are all Arsenal Fans.

Bottom Line The Arsenal are being run like a corporation with a Profits at all costs mentality with football being a minor issue.

We have seen a policy of continued asset stripping, we have been a selling club for a few years now. A complete change of managemnet and owership is required over The Arsenal if we are ever going to seriously compete on the football pitch.

Arsenal fans need to organise protests and start a continued finacial boycott of the club untill the necessary changes occur. Don't give the thieves who own our club your money.

Agree wholeheartedly but you're shouting into a void on here. Some people like to whinge and moan but when Uncle Ivan gives them some old blarney over a cup of coffee they all renew their season tickets and buy the latest kit. They're like the people you meet who moan like shit about the way the country is being run and then when you ask them how they voted they reply "I didn't bother, what's the point"

[SammyDroppedHisShorts]

I just want my Arsenal back......

And for ALL Gooners to get on......calling people a poor excuse of an Arsenal fan is wrong....we are all following the same name....the once great name. ARSENAL FC


I just want MY Arsenal back.......not sure I will though.....

[storrmin571]

He got me a ticket, so fair play to him - he even put up with my nagging texts - My mrs was nagging me so I thought I'd share the fun.

Didn't realise you were there - should have said.

i swap a ticket with arsenalmorris I was in block 31, right next to the away fans - had some good banter with them and a tasty looking young lady standing/sitting to my right

Cant have been a Jack girl then.

[Rosie_titters]

He got me a ticket, so fair play to him - he even put up with my nagging texts - My mrs was nagging me so I thought I'd share the fun.

Didn't realise you were there - should have said.

i swap a ticket with arsenalmorris I was in block 31, right next to the away fans - had some good banter with them and a tasty looking young lady standing/sitting to my right

Cant have been a Jack girl then.

nah wasn't a jack fan - boyfriend looked a bit jewish to me, felt sorry for her, she looked like she wanted to be somewhere else

[MK Gould]

A lot of good points on here, people need to chill with the insults we are all Arsenal Fans.

Bottom Line The Arsenal are being run like a corporation with a Profits at all costs mentality with football being a minor issue.

We have seen a policy of continued asset stripping, we have been a selling club for a few years now. A complete change of managemnet and owership is required over The Arsenal if we are ever going to seriously compete on the football pitch.

Arsenal fans need to organise protests and start a continued finacial boycott of the club untill the necessary changes occur. Don't give the thieves who own our club your money.

Good post.

I've been financially boycotting the club for the last few years - no programme, drinks, food. And this season the boys joined in and agreed no shirts.

The "only" thing we still buy is tickets. Step too far to give that up after all these years.....

[Step]

So glad that Mr Houlier took the predictably brave decision to play Arshavin ahead of Chamberlain. We could all see that coming.

When I saw the team I said that they would be beaten.

Starting with walcott wide on one side and Chamberlain the other would have given us great pace and given them something to consistently worry about.

#As for bringing on Rosicky before Chamberlain well you have to laugh.

Wenger is killing this club off.

My Spuds tkt is going on the exchange soon as I can't bear the thought of them efficiently disposing of us in a couple of weeks time.
We have now let in the most goals in the premier league this season. How can that be allowed to continue for a club of Arsenal's supposed stature.

Someone please take the necessary action and remove Houlier.It is becoming increasingly embarerassing.

And a school team could have held on to the draw for more than 16 seconds.

Utter crap but thoroughly predictable.

I keep flicking on Sky sports News hoping that there will be breaking news about Wenger going but to no avail.

[franksav63]

Our midfield was diabolical today, really really poor, particularly Ramsey and Song, constantly caught in, or giving away possession. Worst of all, Wenger didn't do anything about it for over an hour and then brings on Roshitsky? That superbly creative, Goal scoring midfielder of ours.
Every time Djourou is challenged on the ball, he just turns his back and tries to shield it - watch him! He shouldn't be at the club he is so shit!

So many things wrong with Arsenal FC and so many are the fault of Arsene Wenger. I've said it before and I'll say it till I'm blue in the face, this man is destroying Arsenal.
Pathetic man management
Pathetic tactical decisions
Pathetic squad management
Pathetic training methods
Pathetic transfer dealings
Wenger - a poor poor excuse for a football manager, will fuck Arsenal over then leave.

Rosicky was one of the few players that tried to make things happen once he came on. Let's not go overboard here.

Roshity is one bottling , useless fucking c**t, there was a challenge on the half way line that he should have slid in for and he just let the Swansea player take it by him, I really can't stand this c**t and to say ''he tried to make things happen'' well you must be on a wind up pal..

Yeah I saw the same passage of play. But, that doesn't change a thing. I really don't know what you expect me to say....you can pick a negative point in every single player that ever steps foot on a football pitch. My point remains, Rosicky came on and was there in the attacks making things happen. It's too easy to sit there and bang on about the one time you got pissed off with him, but the key is not to let that cloud the fact he came on and was an overall positive change to the team. Take a step back, analyse performances properly and then have a go at a player if need be, but half the time you'll find there's really no need to be labelling our players as "useless fucking c**ts". We should be better than that on here.

He does it every fucking time he plays, he is a player built in the image of the manager, a big time bottler and he should have been sold years ago, he had one goodish season in his first year, but how long ago was that ? and why does he keep persisting with that turn he does in nearly every game that even 5 year old's forget, also, I labelled him a bottling, useless fucking *word censored*...and that's exactly what he is.

[Eboue-Why?]

I have nothing to say about our team that hasn't been said before after gutless, spineless capitulations. I could just cut and paste any of the post match rants going back to Hull at home and ending up with Fulham away. The players change, the one constant is the tactically inept, stubborn goon that picks them

Well played Swansea City for exposing the one remaining myth he clings to i.e. "we play good football". Outpassed and outclassed apart from the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes. They've got a bright young manager and play fantastic football. We were lucky to beat them at home earlier in the season. Nothing bad to say about them - two direct wingers with genuine pace, skill and shooting ability, a tireless centre forward, a great passing midfield without star names and a solid back line. Good luck to them

As always Steve, spot on. Swansea were top drawer today. Never once did they try and kick Arsene's precious babies off the pitch but were just miles better, end of. 11 players that played like a team, ran their arses off for each other, kept the ball brilliantly but above all had that cutting edge on the wings and up front. Wenger would hopefully have learned a lot today ( ) There is no point in having 65% possession unless you have an end product. Swansea have, sadly Arsenal don't. Oh and for those fans who ask 'who would we replace Arsene with?' Well, if you see a team play like that today, give me a good reason why you might not want to give someone like Brendan Rogers a go, or David Moyes for that matter or.............


Oh but hang on, I forgot, Arsene knows.

[TeeCee]

I just want MY Arsenal back.......not sure I will though.....

I fear that is a few years away at least Sammy!

[SammyDroppedHisShorts]

I just want MY Arsenal back.......not sure I will though.....

I fear that is a few years away at least Sammy!

That's what is important..not the bitching

[armchair]

"Special circumstances" got another run out today.

[worthing gooner]

Surely wouldnt be our fault... That would mean somebody who earns a shed load of money not doing their F@@@ING job properly!!
Just easier to pass the buck, keeps the Karma.

[SteveO 35]

"Special circumstances" got another run out today.

In what context exactly.....I went out straight after the final whistle so didn't hear our Dear Leader's words of wisdom

Would it be the "special circumstances" as in getting well and truly outclassed by a newly promoted team , to go alongside the previous "special circumstances" of getting rolled over at Wembley by a team now incapable of getting in the play-off spots in the Championship and the "special circumstances" of conceding eight goals for the first time since Loughborough Town managed it

[QuartzGooner]

He got me a ticket, so fair play to him - he even put up with my nagging texts - My mrs was nagging me so I thought I'd share the fun.

Didn't realise you were there - should have said.

i swap a ticket with arsenalmorris I was in block 31, right next to the away fans - had some good banter with them and a tasty looking young lady standing/sitting to my right

Cant have been a Jack girl then.

nah wasn't a jack fan - boyfriend looked a bit jewish to me, felt sorry for her, she looked like she wanted to be somewhere else

What a "bit" Jewish?

Half a leg?

As for the team, what does anyone expect with two fullbacks who are not fullbacks, and the lack of a top notch defensive midfielder ever since Vieira left (though respect to Coquelin who has looked very good for his age this season).

We all know the flaws in the squad, and that they have not be redressed for far too long.

Either the board lay down the law to Wenger, or Wenger redresses them.

But if they continue to be flaws, there will continue to empty seats at the Grove.

One thing about Rosicky.
I was a few rows back at Wembley for the League Cup final last season, as opposed to my regular seat at the Grove a lot further back.
I can tell you that Rosicky was literally shaking that day.
From the cold?
Yeah it was cold that February afternoon, but he is from the Czech Republic, and that is a colder place than London in the winter.
From fear?
Just maybe.
Maybe he is sort of shell shocked after his injury, and his fighting heart has gone?
It happens to Sumo fighters. One day they wake up, feel the fighting heart has gone, and cut off their warriors pony tail, and stop fighting.

[Offside]

"Special circumstances" got another run out today.

There's nothing "special" about Arsenal's ineptitude anymore. What sort of team concedes straight after scoring?