Gooner Wembley mash-up special guests a rugby league team

[DB10GOONER]

Wigan will have looked at our last few games on video and will plan accordingly. They will defend against our few strengths and they will attack our weak points. Because their manager, mad bastard that he is, will do some research, will do some planning, will use something called "tactics". And, you know what, I don't think he has been working as a manager as long as Wenger has. Certainly not 30 years.

The ONLY thing that can save us is if their players don't turn up on the day. Because if they do, and you add that to a pragmatic tactically sound approach, we are proper fucked.

[LDB]

Wigan to win 7/1 and the 90 minute draw at 7/2

Cracking bet

[skizz_b]

Podolski has been dire every single game he's played up top. I would start Sanogo in this. Yes, seriously.

sanogo put the ball in the net with his only chance yesterday (granted it was offside but Howard didnt know), would you bet on Giroud doing the same thing?

Ox, Ramsey, Sanogo ALL have to play this game, potentially Gnabry as well. massive change is needed and while there isn't masses of experience in those last two names they at least look like they give a shit.

[augie]

To just what depths can we really sink to is the question?

This barren spell has churned out some harrowing moments but I think defeat here would represent the lowest point in our entire history, as far as I'm concerned.

Can you imagine the ensuing sh*tstorm?

Wenger and co. would have to evacuate London.

I've been unwilling/unable to even entertain the notion of defeat: the repercussions would be seismic beyond belief - I don't think we'd ever live it down and I doubt this batch of players would ever fully recover. We'd probably have to wait for another era of players before picking up a piece of silverware due to such a traumatic defeat.

I don't even want to think about the match, imagine we somehow go a goal down...

There is nobody more critical of the current regime than I am, and I do agree that we are in an awful fcuking meltdown, but believe me this meltdown is not anywhere near what it would take for us to lose or draw this game. Yes a lot of their players have won more than ours and maybe their manager will have a tactical gameplan but their result at citeeh will have taken away the element of surprise and it would take a lot for them to replicate that result.

The more likely outcome is that rosicky and cazorla show the difference in class and the ox shows a level of intensity that they wont be able to live with. The loss of ben watson will be a big blow for them as his ability to break from midfield and score vital goals has been huge for them

[Gunner Rob]

the fact is that were we to lose 0-5 to Wigan, Wenger would still receive the backing of the owner.

[Theoperator]

I think Gnabry is listed as having a knee injury

[Wengerballs]

We'll beat Wigan, win the F.A. Cup, get fourth, Wenger will sign his new contract. End of.

[Gunner Rob]

We'll beat Wigan, win the F.A. Cup, get fourth, Wenger will sign his new contract. End of.

thats a bit of a deluded thing to come out with.
I take it you didnt watch the match yesterday.

[topgoon]

We'll beat Wigan, win the F.A. Cup, get fourth, Wenger will sign his new contract. End of.

Bit early to be drinking isn't it ?

[augie]

We'll beat Wigan, win the F.A. Cup, get fourth, Wenger will sign his new contract. End of.

thats a bit of a deluded thing to come out with.
I take it you didnt watch the match yesterday.

Deluded or realistic ? Every soundbite coming out of the club says that le cock will sign a new deal and us winning the cup plus evertons tougher run in all add up to wengerballs statement.

[DB10GOONER]

We'll beat Wigan, win the F.A. Cup, get fourth, Wenger will sign his new contract. End of.

I wouldn't be surprised if we did all of the above tbh. Also wouldn't be surprised if we lost the FA Cup final. We have no real consistency beyond getting well beaten by top 6 sides. Everton's tougher run-in will probably dictate us scraping 4th on the last day.

[Gunner Rob]

We'll beat Wigan, win the F.A. Cup, get fourth, Wenger will sign his new contract. End of.

thats a bit of a deluded thing to come out with.
I take it you didnt watch the match yesterday.

Deluded or realistic ? Every soundbite coming out of the club says that le cock will sign a new deal and us winning the cup plus evertons tougher run in all add up to wengerballs statement.

oh I totally agree about the new contract. if he wants to continue then he will.
I can't see us getting 4th though now. up until now Wenger has only had to beat David Moyes and various Tottenham managers. This is the first time he has been up against someone better than him and he doesnt know what to do.

[GranadaJoe]

AW seems intent on playing the same formation irrespective of who's available, so we end up playing 'wide' players who can't dribble, aren't fast and can barely cross (leaving aside the fact that there's a solitary, outnumbered, ineffective striker in the box to aim at).

Given that we can't bring in any new players we have to find a way of producing a goal threat. I'd like to see Pod playing centrally off of a main striker (probably Giroud), a central three (probably Rambo, Rosicky and the Ox, with Flamini sitting deep.
It's not a team that excites me, but we've got to try something other than this numbing shit we've been dishing up for months.

[augie]

AW seems intent on playing the same formation irrespective of who's available, so we end up playing 'wide' players who can't dribble, aren't fast and can barely cross (leaving aside the fact that there's a solitary, outnumbered, ineffective striker in the box to aim at).

Given that we can't bring in any new players we have to find a way of producing a goal threat. I'd like to see Pod playing centrally off of a main striker (probably Giroud), a central three (probably Rambo, Rosicky and the Ox, with Flamini sitting deep.
It's not a team that excites me, but we've got to try something other than this numbing shit we've been dishing up for months.

With the exception of billabong, flamoney must be the worst DM ever at tracking opposition midfielders - for me he was at fault for bayerns 2nd goal at the grove and in the 1st half yesterday he ran back with one of theirs but then fcuked off and left him alone on the edge of the box to receive the pass and shoot

[StuartL]

AW seems intent on playing the same formation irrespective of who's available, so we end up playing 'wide' players who can't dribble, aren't fast and can barely cross (leaving aside the fact that there's a solitary, outnumbered, ineffective striker in the box to aim at).

Given that we can't bring in any new players we have to find a way of producing a goal threat. I'd like to see Pod playing centrally off of a main striker (probably Giroud), a central three (probably Rambo, Rosicky and the Ox, with Flamini sitting deep.
It's not a team that excites me, but we've got to try something other than this numbing shit we've been dishing up for months.

Exactly GranadaJoe - we could get an awful lot more out of the players we have if we change the formation. not play the same ineffective way week in week out, making us sooooo predictable. If we had our full complement of players, ie Walcott / Ozil we would be more dangerous but we don't and Wenker hasn't managed to come up with a different plan all season, so he sure a shit won't start now.