Ok for the first time this season I hope and pray that Wenger puts out a young side in order to experiment for the ManU game that we all expect to lose, but in reality must win if we want to have any sort of a sniff of the Premier league come May.
I’m not sure who’s injured and who’s banned but I expect he’ll play Robin up top and I hope he puts Carlos Vela alongside him, I hope Ade will be fit for the Mancs and if he is I expect him to play Diaby in the hole and play 4-5-1, by blooding Vela he gives himself an option to play Vela and Bendtner up front and play a 4-4-2 and maybe surprise Ferguson, but he has to give it a go tomorrow.
Where I hope to see changes are in midfield and at the back. If fit I hope we have a midfield which accommodates Nasri, Diaby, Cesc and Theo, if Theo’s out then I would hope for Wilshere to take his place, I read that Bischoff was a star against Fulham but Banfield says he’s not ready, but I would sooner see Bischoff in the mix than Song and if not Diaby then put in Ramsey.
At the back it’s time to bring on Djourou with Gallas, or Djourou with anyone and the full backs of Clichy and Sagna or Clichy and Eboue if Sagna doesn’t play, and finally, drop Almunia and give Fabianski a go, Almunia needs a bit of competition as his last two games have been complacent or shit, you choose.
We created nothing against Stoke and that’s a worry, Wenger’s selection bordered on ‘I’m the greatest and whoever I pick will work’. That’s not good enough, it didn’t.
In his last two games, he has blamed his team for being unintelligent and lacking maturity, the lacking intelligence was him and his crazy substitutions and the lacking maturity was again him for not buying, that said he has a chance to try out some of the young players we know can make a difference, Wilshere starred against Madrid and we all know that Djourou is a stopper that can head the ball and Ramsey chose us over the Mancs and he will be up for that game.
Vela could work with a number of players and I bet Nasri is chomping at the bit, we know we’ll qualify in Europe but we can’t afford to lose to the Mancs, so Arsene pick a team that can score, the team you picked against stoke couldn’t have SCORED IN A FREE WHOREHOUSE, so make amends tomorrow, the chances are running out and the cupboard is bare.
Bring on the real kids and not those whose name begin with SONG. Song may not be a bad as I say, but the team doesn’t function well when he’s in it, it’s as simple as that.
Time to make us look attractive again and start having a pop, if there’s anything we can learn from watching the Spuds, it’s have a shot, sometimes it works, three of their four goals all came from shots outside the box.
Set pieces are clearly not for Kolo, he looked like a spanked child when the Delap throw went over his head, the Mancs will chew us up if he’s in the back four, make amends and see what happens before our season ends, please.
Have a great day Grovers and pray for Djourou, Wilshere, Ramsey and Vela, the Saviours of Our Season… …SOS.
London
I was just quietly switching the tele channel to ESPN, eating my toast, when all that cheating happened with liverwurst, I blew a gasket.
No I didn’t,
What was Charlie doing? Mowing the lawn with thongs or barefeet?
Have any of you seen that show Shameless? Is that in Liverpool or Manchester. I can’t watch it, coz its is so, so scummy.
…………..hey by the way, I didn’t see any poms mention the fact that NSW & Queensland wiped England like a dirty arse @ Thugby League. Shit game anyway.
Ok I’ve calmed down now, off to try and make a $ or 2.
Gnarley this is England where I live (well 2 miles away)..
http://www.endtoend.freeuk.com/images/perranporth_beachclouds4x3.jpg
We only talk F1 and NY marathon.. Gnarley!
avenell
Thats a nice looking beach/coast
This will be the view from my shack, if i ever get the bloody thing built.
http://www.tasmainland.com.au/images/bicheno_six.jpg
Thought i posted a response…
Wow gnarley that’s nice. !!!
Just a quickie from me – thank you Roma, the Chavs deserved nothing form that game and let’s hope a home league defeat and a CL defeat will burst their bubble, the Chav scum.
Cnut faced John Terry probably thought his handball goal was the start of the revival – NOOOOO you mug.
Sweet dreams all.
I can understand johan has looked solid in the games he’s played , but bare in mind he has only made an appearance Vs average teams at best … and has had pretty irregular appearances at that !
I wouldnt pin your hopes on the young lad to do it all .. it might ruin his career …
i seem to remember a lot of people end of last season singing the same tune to ‘song’ !
now look at peoples opinion of him .. I think johan should be a regular 70 minute sub ..
introduce him slowly and get some fresh legs in defense . it might work for us ..
im sure it will be sagna/eboue – toure- silvestre – clichy .
if you ask me GG9 , wenger is too predictable .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glsaOQka-Mg
good watch considering in a time of such shit football, that all we really have to enjoy at the moment.
ethan
You may be right about JD20, but @ least you conceive that he has some part to play which is all I/we here on Le Grove want; to give the Big Fella a chance to show what he’s got. He may turn out to be a flop(some how I doubt that) but @ least we will all find out, coz so far he has ticked all the boxes required that are associated with being a big bruising style CB come DM if required.
Its time Mr Wenger took a good look @ our “goals against” 12, compared to Romans,
I mean Chelsea’s 4 goals against, then admitted that its not working for him @ the back & he must change that before its too late.
Without sounding too disco/night clubby, its time to give Yo Yo-a-go-go. I used to enjoy watching the likes of Big Sol, Tony A & Martin K (bould was a bit whoosey IMO) especially when TA6 would strut forward for corners
Those little blokes just don’t instill the fear of God into the opo, IMHO
OBAMA!!!!!!!!! OBAMA!!!!
TOMORROW IS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN KENYA.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
predictions for the line up tonight??
TBH i would like to see us play a very attacking 4-3-3 tonight, but also resting Cesc, Almunia and Nasri ( I would have added Sagna to that list, but Eboue being injured puts a spanner in that plan) It would then line up like so:
Gk: Fabianski
Rb: Sagna
Lb: Clichy
Cb: Silvestre
Cb: Toure/Djourou
Rcm: Ramsey
Dm: Toure/Djourou
Lcm: Diaby
Rw: RVP
Lw: Vela
ST: Bendtner
This would be with either Toure or Djourou playing in a slighlty withdrawn role behind Diaby and Ramsey, and with Vela and RVP given the license to play off of Bendtner, but then filling in to make it a 5 man midfield when we haven’t got the ball. At the weekend this again could be used but with Nasri/Theo coming in for RVP, and Cesc coming in for Diaby or Ramsey.
Benno i like ure optimism but i cant see him NOT playing Denilson or Song in there, and he wont divert from a 4-4-2
Well we can hope
but yeh i kinda titled that wrong should been, my preferred line up tonight
Nah i reakon thats an awesome line up/formation! but u kno our manager gotta persist with what doesnt work……….
Benno, JD20, Like it! Like it!
GG9
your right ..
we have troubles throughout however all over the park !
midfield woes .. striker woes .. i think the defensive area is just being made prominent because wenger preseason hi-lighted the issue ! yet did nothing about it ..
really we haven’t had the bottle to go ahead GOAL WISE convincingly all season .putting more pressure on our defense , due to a weak offense . and our midfield rhythm is no where near as fluent or productive as even last seasons , yet alone improved upon .
One thing is for sure wengers current team selections have been poor , and theirs no point including johan – jack-ramsey-vela in particular (who are always fit) yet under utilized in the squad , if you are never going to use the feckers ..
But if you look at the squad on experience our defense is the best part of our squad ..
defense – gallas – toure-silverstre – clichy – sagna )backups song- eboue-johan)
thats not bad …
look at the midfield denilson – diaby – theo – nasri – cesc .. OK but some weak links in the chain … and definitely missing some experience .. (jack – ramsey never used ! )
well strikers .. shit do we really have too look at them ?
ade ##$@#@#$@#$ fuck !
RVP ok – injury prone
bends – potential this season nothing more
vela – never played
my point is … strikers and midfielders really need to be addressed !
but totally agree that whilst gallas is injured johan should see some time ..
also this game isn’t that important … short of something unheard of happening we are thru to the next stage ! I cannot for the life of me understand why wenger rested key players for stoke !!!
fucking useless !
Kenya
No offence but that is the most overrated example of democracy I’ve ever seen. The election has taken 3 years
for fucks sake. Down here they call an election 3 months before polling day, then its over so we can all settle back to some serious sport watching.
a lot of errors in those line ups
just to remind you all
Sagna is not available
Eboue is not available
Gallas is not available
Clichy needs rest…really !!!!!
Adebayor is not available
Song should not start…at any cost unless it is as CB
Cesc might enjoy a mid week break more than anything
We need fresh legs against Manure….
i would really enjoy seeing Song/DJ pairing with Martian and Toure as RB
Gibbs should come in a s change for Clichy midway and Cesc should not play more than 40-50 minutes
Ramsey for Cesc
Toure for Sagna
Gibbs for Clichy
Vela for Walcott
Song/DJ for Gallas
Fabianski for Almunia
GG9, JD20 should of been in the team all season imo, at the start of the season and in pre season when JD20 and Gallas played together we actually resembled a solid back 4, then Toure was rushed back into the team (i say that in the meaning that 2/3 week complete recovery from Malaria and gaining full fitness after not playing for 2 months is highly unprobable) and has by his own high standards failed to produce an performance anywhere near the level we have come to expect of him.
RVP is so mentally weak that he got himself sent off to avoid the manscums…
Wouldn’t it be ironic if after all the hallaballu we’ve made about The Club this year, Arsenal wins the Champions League. I mean stranger things have happened, & with Eduardo & Rosicky to return they could be big pluses @ the business end of that comp. Make no mistake Rosicky is a match winner, just hope he can get match fit
aye that it wud GG9, i seem to remember the last Champions League final run didn’t come in the best of seasons either, finishing considerably off the pace of united and chelsea by some 16 and 24 points respectively and also 15 points off the pool, whilst only narrowly making the the top 4 by 2 points from the scum, even blackburn only finished only 4 points behind us that seaosn and the games lost column stood in the double figures (more than the scum).
Dev, i see it more as RVP showing his frustration about the poor perormance, which is good to see even if he did show it in the wrong way.
gday all, how is everyone a few days later from the debacles?
im feeling ok’ish now because i havent thought about football since sunday.
evo
I was a bit like you until I watched the last 2 minutes(injury time mind) of the liverwurst penalty joke. It certainly sparked me into fooball mode.
im hearing about that at the minute, apparently very controversial as per usual
just saw the highlights of those cunting bastards Rangers also getting an equaliser against dundee in injury time. some clubs have all the bloody luck
we used all our luck up in the 03/4 season!
i used to have a scottish girlfriend when i lived over in the UK and during that season her old man (who supported Man Scum) used to joke all the time during that season “what is it just play until The arsenal win these day”?
and thinking back to that season when we went unbeaten there were a lot of times when we got wins dying seconds…
some seasons the footballing gods are with you, other times not. i wish they would come back for us, we really need it at the minute!
Evo, take it you don’t like rangers
Also don’t you just hate it in the footy season when the clocks go back, not only is the footy ridiculously late at night now, theres never anyone on Le grove for most of the day.
Yes benno……..this daylight saving business is kinda lame…………..
yeah not a big Rangers fan i must say….
just saw the clichy goal for the first time, bloody amazing that went in, it seemed like it was moving through all the bodies in the box for ages, like slo-motion!
great set play though, lay off from cesc.
Took 3 deflections on the way if I’m not wrong…..
Shame that his first arsenal goal was at THAT game…….
He can def redeem himself scoring the winner against the mancs though
fuck yeah iceman, that would be glory days. i take any type of goal in that game, even an henry header after the 90 mins
that henry header was one of my fave goals he ever scored, just because it was off his head against the mancs…hoo sed he couldn’t head??
I really believe that it pays to respect your opo, coz it can come back & bite you, speaking of the football Gods. Thats why I was so pissed off with the spuds game coz people were so over confident & its bad karma.
So please everyone do not carry on pre game as if we are going to wipe the floor with the next opposition.
Remember coming from the clouds in ’98. “it was unbelievable, we didn’t expect that”
…..& the last Cup The Club won. Wenger had the players practice penalties & Ferguson didn’t. We won on penalties. & Paddy’s last kick for The Club was the deciding penalty. I’ve got the programme for that F A Cup.
that was a cunt of a game, but it was glorius to beat those bastards that day!
the penalty shoot out was a ripper! Lehmann was king that day!
Morning boys
Plaese do not mention the Rugby League (poofs game!)
He was, evo he was
Big Raddy
It had to be said after the ribbings I’ve got lately from you poms, but yes, Thugby league is a sad sort of an affair. Played by meat heads
agreed Raddy, it is a shite game!
scholes was crap, lehmann king!
Thinking of luck Evo, Did you see any of the Bindippers game last night. The penalty decision in the 95th minute was a complete joke. Plus there were 2 nailed on pens not given to Athletico.
Please let us have some of the same on Saturday
havent seen the footage Rad, but read about it, typical horse shit, always going their way
I really am sweating on liverwurst failing. that penalty was a disgrace. I’d go as far as asking, was the ref paid off to give it? Only asking so i can’t be sued.
Has the bear gone into hibernation or something. He doesn’t appear on here much nowadays?
I guess he is working. He was on for a while yesterday.
NEW POST!
There are some strange decisions given. On the w/e AC Milan were given a penalty at home in the 89th minute that was a complete joke, and smacked of corruption. (allegedly)
test
no new post today?
what came first..
chicken kebab or Sunny side up?
The result of Wenger’s refusal to buy decent strikers last summer is that when our overated and underplaying rubbish main striker (Ade) our main choice to rplace him is an even less talented and just as overated (if only in his own mind) player in Nikki B. Time and time again over the last year I have berated this sad pair and got stick from some other grovers …. but seriously these are not players that win titles and as long as Wenger keeps faith in them as two of our main strike force then the likes of Man u and Chelsea can sleep easy knowing we won’t pose a threat to their domination. Why not Vela tonight at least he shows skill and talent that Nikki B will never achieve.