Arsenal v Bolton

Henry Norris 1913 · Post by **Henry Norris 1913** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:01 pm

we'll win and all will be rosy in the flash garden

A dallying Gus Caesar · Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:03 pm

antgel wrote:
A dallying Gus Caesar wrote:My two penneth?

I say there is no way that anyone can seriously come on this thread and feel confident about any prediction they wish to make. It is currently not possible to call any game in which we feature. We are the new coupon buster.

Therefore Saturday's outcome is a total mystery.

Only certainty is that Wenger is finished unless he was to get Dein back, and even then I think it is probably all too late now.
I have to agree with this, it came up in a conversation I had today with a Man U fan (from London of course). We are shite, no doubt, but it's always possible that we could put a run together. Perhaps the signings will settle in, blah blah. I said I could see us finishing 5th-15th, but couldn't predict with more accuracy than that.

Hi Antgel

My dad has been making money betting against us for a couple of years now. He hates it but when you see some of the 'bargains' offered he just cannot refuse such value.

I worked out that if you bet against us in every league game for the last couple of years, over the season, you would have made a tidy profit. Funny thing is that we have been so poor that now the bookies are reducing the odds of our opponents.

Post by **Barriecuda** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:32 pm

2-1 Arsenal, with a shaky last 10 minutes.

Lee1 · Post by **Lee1** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:09 pm

Can't go-tickets remain unsold on tx exchange and will do. That in itself speaks volumes for how it might go. Obviously hope we win but think they could ''bully'' us right out of this unless we show some heart. Not holding my breath we will though which really saddens me.

1989 · Post by **1989** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:29 pm

I want Franny Coquelin to start. He's brilliant imo.

Post by **flash gunner** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:29 am

1989 wrote:I want Franny Coquelin to start. He's brilliant imo.

Brilliant

SteveO 35 · Post by **SteveO 35** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:05 am

Rarely are our encounters with Bolton straightforward affairs (are they against anyone these days ?) and with confidence being so fragile, I can see the 2-1 predictions with a few scrapes and scares being par for the course.

I don't subscribe to the view that "someone is about to get hammered by us" because our defending doesn't warrant that view. If hammering is 4 goal plus then we'd need to score 8+ to ensure we hammered someone. Davies always causes us problems and our defending up at the Reebok last year at set plays was truly awful - something they are bound to target. The truth of the matter is we can talk as bravely as we like about "togetherness and spirit" etc but the type of goals we concede are not an accident. I listened to Gibbs saying that "every mistake we make at the moment is punished" and that it gets "overlooked" when other teams make such mistakes.

Well Kieran my old son if that's what you truly believe then we really have got problems. Every mistake at the back certainly wasn't punished in the 1-0 home win over Swansea, nor the 1-1 in Dortmund, and unbelievably even the 8-2 at United ! There has been some rank bad defending in those games left unpunished.

The fact of the matter is with Vermaelen out, I don't have confidence in any of our centre halves, and the man we should have there is playing for the opposition and will sign a pre-contract deal with a higher wage payer in January.

Us to win......just. Palpatations from every defensive corner and free kick - you bet !

supergeorgegraham · Post by **supergeorgegraham** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:51 am

Arsenal will be nervous. Bolton will know that and look to exploit our weak defending.
I think this will be a really close game and Bolton have nothing to lose unlike us.

1989 · Post by **1989** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:35 pm

flash gunner wrote:
1989 wrote:I want Franny Coquelin to start. He's brilliant imo.
Brilliant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh60eUyCdKA

I know it's against a League 2 team etc etc but the ability he's got is obvious.

Best player at OT and when he came off we totally collapsed.

Far more passion than that fucking gimp Song.

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:36 pm

arseofacrow wrote:

Glitch33 · Post by **Glitch33** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:29 pm

Score draw having been in the lead and bottled it.

Bring Back Pires · Post by **Bring Back Pires** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:51 pm

Hoping Bolton turn us over and AW gets sacked by 7pm.

arsenalmorris · Post by **arsenalmorris** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:37 am

1989 wrote:I want Franny Coquelin to start. He's brilliant imo.

Me 2 I ya went to see Shrewsbury he was quality made frimpong look shit. And was best player we had at man u till he got subbed

Also would like to see chamberlain who was quality against the shrews and I believe he has earnt a start

You may say it was Against a league 2 team but no a cat in hells chance ***** bag Walcott would have stood out like that.

rodders999 · Post by **rodders999** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:49 am

I had a dream last night that Bolton beat us 7-6.

selsdon · Post by **selsdon** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:58 am

Did our season start Tuesday nite against Shrewsbury or is it starting today does anyone know?