FFS All doom and gloom in here isn't it?

[Superjay]

Sick of it to be honest.

 

Not as if arsenal played us off the pitch was it? Support.... your havin a laugh aren't ye?

 

At points today we made arsenal look very very ordinary.

 

Thats the best mascher performance i've seen.

 

I'm a bit p155ed to be honest but thought we had the beating of them today and some bad injuries ncost us it.

 

Thought sami was poor mind but as the game went on looked a bit like his old self.

 

Give over ffs. We're building and building.

 

I've never said this on here before but i do believe this season is our season.

[Guest GrandpaSimpson]

Made Arsenal look ordinary??

 

We're Building??

[Guest Si]

I wish we were as ordinary as Arsenal.

 

They played us off the park. Only our grit kept us afloat today.

[dorgie]

If you look closely enough, I think you'll find a lot of positive posts around too.....far from all doom & gloom mate.

[Guest Ant]

I Don't have to prove to anyone my level of support for my club.

 

I'll express my opinion if I want to, I don't slate the players I give constructive criticism and I deserve the right to do so...

 

If I am worried that we are six points off top with only one win at home out of a possible four, where two out of three of the draws came against sub standard oposition. Let me be worried.

 

As I have said you keep on saying so and so did good, and I'll keep on pointing out the faults.

 

I personally don't think it's good enough, but if you think it is, then fair credit to you....

[Nebraska Red]

it's not all doom and gloom , but there is good old fashioned playground behavior at times.

 

Arsenal played us off the park at times and they should have had more than 1 goal based on the 2 open goals they missed and hitting the post. the only thing ordinary about them was thier finishing.

 

as for building and building, i don't see it quite frankly. we put out a side today that looked like an attacking dream, instead we played a formation that saw us creating very little. some starnge selection choices given the way we were told to play.

[Falconhoof]

I'm glad you think we're building Jay, thats great, i'm not seeing it.

Results wise we're a bit better off than this stage of last season but nothing points to an overall improvement. To be champions you've got to play like it, no not every week, but we've seen enough of the season by now to know that things aren't right. The players are on different wavelengths, the tactics aren't right, we're preferring injured and out of form players to the others in the squad.

We looked a bit better today but Arsenal were the better side at our place and thats not good enough.

[Guest chabby]

We defended like lions today, as we always do. That's the one thing you can't accuse Rafa's teams of is lacking in effort and determination, but we need more quality. And that doesn't mean going out and buying every Portugese winger in existence, it means getting our best players back fit and in form and changing our approach and mindset to a more offensive one.

 

We certainly missed Xabi when he went off, who at least trys to get the ball down and play.

[Guest chabby]

I'm glad you think we're building Jay, thats great, i'm not seeing it.

Results wise we're a bit better off than this stage of last season but nothing points to an overall improvement. To be champions you've got to play like it, no not every week, but we've seen enough of the season by now to know that things aren't right. The players are on different wavelengths, the tactics aren't right, we're preferring injured and out of form players to the others in the squad.

We looked a bit better today but Arsenal were the better side at our place and thats not good enough.

 

Stiop talking s****. Alonso and Torres had to play.

[SkippyjonJones]

Stiop talking s****. Alonso and Torres had to play.

 

 

I think you need to stop dictating to people on the forum

[Falconhoof]

Stiop talking s****. Alonso and Torres had to play.

 

What the f*** are you on about ? Stop and think for a f***ing second and you might remember Pennant playing through injury when we had Babel sat on the bench.

[ZZZZ]

Agger is a huge loss. Yes we can pick a game or two for Sami, but to play week in week out is not good.

Alonso and Torres injured early second half and coming back from injuries.

 

Team 'not playing well' and going through a dip.

 

And yet we draw with Arsx, who are in form, and are still unbeaten and a few points off top but yet its doom and gloom.

 

Too many people taking too much notice of the media I think.

 

Ok arsenal played great at times but we could/should have been 2 up.

 

We are not that bad and I am confident we will be up there at the business end of the season.

[lawrie]

Agger is a huge loss. Yes we can pick a game or two for Sami, but to play week in week out is not good.

Alonso and Torres injured early second half and coming back from injuries.

 

Team 'not playing well' and going through a dip.

 

And yet we draw with Arsx, who are in form, and are still unbeaten and a few points off top but yet its doom and gloom.

 

Too many people taking too much notice of the media I think.

 

Ok arsenal played great at times but we could/should have been 2 up.

 

We are not that bad and I am confident we will be up there at the business end of the season.

 

Agreed, given the circumstances I'm relatively pleased with the point.

[_00_deathscar]

Arsenal played us off the park, but we could have won that game. Some go your way, some don't.

[boohog]

Torres played injured, Xabi off the pace and later injured, Agger out etc etc. We had 2 forced substitutions and Mascherano injured for the final 20 mins. Its no wonder we looked tired.

 

Firstly, because of that its no wonder we struggled to keep pace. However, we had MORE chances on goal than they did. Sure they hit the post twice and missed two open goals off the rebounds but they were both hard chances and both initially hit from outside of the box. Hardly like we were cut to ribbons.

 

The Fabregas goal and maybe one other time when they were played throughwere the only really great chances they forged. We had at least triple that.

 

Sure, they played some great passing in the centre of the pitch and nto the wings, but once they came near to the 18 yard area that usually fell apart because they were compressed. The main worry eary on was Finan getting skinned over and over again by their flat track bullies, but after about 15-20 mins we shifted the midfield across to cover him and for the most part it didn't happen again.

 

So despite Rafa having most of his substitutions enforced we still made a good show of it unless you believe the skysports nonsense. And those of you saying we shouldn't have played Xabi and Torres. That's clearly b****x - you know we had to play them and you know you would have panned Rafa if he didn't.

 

Finally - Voronin was bobbins. Crouchy looked much better. That is my only complaint.

[_00_deathscar]

The Soccernet report was actually fairly balanced, but then I haven't read the other reports.

[ManxRed]

Made Arsenal look ordinary??

 

We're Building??

 

Aye lad, we've come a long way since last season's errr, ummm 4-1 demolition of them. Ummmm....