Some BRUTAL watch-outs on the fixture list

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WHERE ARE THE PLAYERS, RAUL?

WHAT IS GOING ON?

Oh, it’s only early June… I see… calm down, right?

There’s quite a lot of work to be done this summer, my main concern is that focus has been on exiting someone from the business, are we still moving things along elsewhere? In business, is it actually possible to do more than one thing at a time… I’m sure we’ll learn.

The other worry I have is Edu hasn’t been confirmed, nor has he sacked in this silly job he has going on over in Brazil.

There has been a lot of conjecture about whether Edu will be able to deliver in Europe. From what I’ve heard, Edu is a very impressive character and he’ll be no Raul shill. He’s coming in as a technical director because he’s literally very technical. He’s not just here because he knows Arsenal, he’s coming in because he has a fantastic reputation, he’s a student of the entirety of the game, and he’s clearly obsessed enough about life after football because he retired rich and jumped into the next phase immediately and moved through the ranks. I also reckon he buys elite fragrances. Probably mixes them up as well. Definitely smells expensive. I’d be dropping a Joe Biden on him if I were let loose near him.

Brazil might not be dropping World Cups on the regular, but remember, they aren’t mugs. Bullsitting your way to the technical position over there is no easy feat.

What I like about the hire is it’s an unknown. I’d much rather take a punt on someone who could be the future, versus someone who was a big deal 5 years ago. I’d rather work with someone on the ascension, than at a crossroads (Emery/Monchi). I’m also happy that the technical director understands the DNA of Arsenal, and not from a 100-year past perspective, but looking at the next 100 years we desire.

Namely, we want to play beautiful football, win trophies and maintain all the bits that make Arsenal special as a football institution.

I want class to be a byproduct of how we operate, not an excuse for why we fail.

Anyway, I’m excited about Edu, I just hope we don’t fuck things up before he arrives.

The fixtures are in and they aren’t kind. Champions League finalists in the first 4 games.

Ooof…

  • Newcastle (A)
  • Burnley (H)
  • Liverpool (A)
  • Spurs (H)
  • Watford (A)

All three of those away games are problematic.

The real stinger this year is the mid-December onwards grouping of matches.

  • West Ham (A) (Dec 7)
  • City (A) (Dec 14)
  • Everton (A) (Dec 21)
  • Bournemouth (A) (Dec 26)
  • Chelsea (H) (Dec 28)
  • United (H) NYD

We’ve had a savage December run in the past, but the major concern this year is that we’re playing mostly teams with big squads over that period. The crunch is usually easier to deal with because the shit kicker teams can’t hack the pace because of the lack of depth, so they usually play weaker sides and take their chances on easier games.

The other challenge with the fixture list is we have a lot of our tough away games in the back half of the season… so we could very well fall into the same Emery trap we did this season… do the business at home then absolutely tank when it matters.

We’ll see though, let’s see what a reimagination of our squad does this summer. Let’s also see what a new Head of High Performance brings to the table, hopefully, it’s Shad and we don’t have to go through a complete rebuild of the backroom team and have to transition with people that don’t understand the league.

I also think Emery has to put the Europa safety blanket to one side this season and be realistic about cups. We don’t need to send our best players away to Quarabag. We don’t need to go big in the early rounds of the cups with key players, the rewards just aren’t lucrative enough to merit loading up fragile legs with pointless minutes.

I can forgive last years mistakes, but Emery will not be given the same chances this season… we have to hire in players that are fast, powerful and mentally strong. We don’t want Sevilla worker bees, we need to remember that this is the Premier League, we need exceptional talent that can grow. Not a bag of 28-year-old journeyman right out of the yellow sticker bin.

We also need to be careful with how head into the winter, because if we’re fucked like we were this year, we are in deep shit because that run of games will end our season.

Finally, Martin Ziegler has a piece in The Times that states an Academy Coach called a teenage girl reffing an under 9s game a ‘little prick’ and made her cry. He is still with the club. Is that Arsenal class? Does that behaviour make the fans proud? Fuck no. Where are you Vinai? The brutalising of kids on the sidelines is bad enough in Sunday League, but attacking a teenage referee is absolutely beyond the pale… that sort of behaviour from someone raising the next generation of kids should never be tolerated. I don’t care what anyone says, respect for referee should be absolute at all levels, so this sort of thing needs to be nipped in the bud.

Right, fun game we’re playing on Twitter.

Name Wenger’s 5 biggest mistakes:

  • Not leaving after his FA Cup wins, particularly Chelsea
  • Asking Zlatan for a trial
  • Waiting 2 seasons for Chamakh
  • Passing on Hig at £32m
  • Silvestre being ‘You will like my surprise’ of summer 2008

GO GO GO

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Valentin

Dissenter,

Read the interview, Emery did not want Ramsey to play. He relented and that was a mistake. Even Emery admits now that was a mistake.
So contrarian that now you are defending Emery’s admitted mistake!

Answer honestly that question. If Ferguson or Mourinho had said to a player, I am resting you, because you are at risk of injury. Do you think that any of their player would have said: No boss I am playing!

Receding Hairline

“Pep/Klopp/Zidane/Allegri/Simeone/Poch/Mourinho/ Ancelotti/ Ferguson etc etc would have been thumping on SK’s door demanding answers.”

Answers to what exactly?? What happened to the club’s finances?? Kroenke has nothing to do with the waste of funds we all witnessed over the years

Why the owner will not pump in his own money for shiny new players ?? Not a requirement for owning a football team

Dream10

Barça want to sell Umtiti despite him wanting to stay. Hope we don’t sign him because of his injury record. Also, don’t think he’s a game changer for us. Quality player though. Let him go to PSG, Juventus.

Pierre

Marc
“Can’t believe people are having an argument over whose fault it was Ramsey got injured.”

Neither can I , it’s obvious that Emery is culpable…..weak management I’m afraid.

Marc

Pierre

Fucking hell Pierre you need help. With Ramsey’s record he would’ve contracted Dutch Elm Disease by getting a splinter in his backside if he’d been put on the bench.

He was an injury prone player who no longer play’s for us who cares. If a mistake was made – and they do happen as long as Emery learns from it end of.

Marc

Receding

I don’t know how many times we can post the facts – 3rd highest net spenders over 5 years etc etc.

The problem wasn’t how much we spent – it’s what we spent it on. I can’t really blame Kroenke for being cautious about putting more money in with the recent track record.

Nelson

I am afraid that the club is indeed skint.
– KSE’s Christmas message was requesting every department to save
– There was no money for the Jan. TW
– There is an operational loss this year for the first time for a long time.

I am scaling back my expectation for this TW. Just like the hope to play in the Champions League, It hurts more when the team bottled it.

Valentin

Barcelona wants to get rid of Umtiti, because they already have a player of similar calibre in Clement Lenglet and because Umtiti still has a high market value. However if Lenglet suffers an injury like Umtiti did, they have nobody who can play on the left side of their defense. I have not checked but even if Thomas Vermaelen is still there, He does not have the same quality. From an Arsenal’s point of view I would rather we spend money on Upcameno who despite being right footed can play on both side of the defense. The problem is convincing… Read more »

Marc

Valentin

“The problem is convincing him to join us without Champion’s league.”

Well that’s what Sanllehi is being paid to do and we’ll find out over the next 2 summers what he’s made of – by transfer’s going both ways.

Ishola70

The main thing about those fixtures is that there doesn’t look to be a period early on where the team can go unbeaten like last season. Just the two games in last season with that difficult start against Man City and Chelsea and then it was onto that unbeaten period. Looks more problematic this time and could well be a case of stop and start . Early transfers for EPL sides and they are going Belgian League. Aston Villa sign Brazilian Wesley forward from Brugge and Southampton sign Malian Djenepo winger from Standard Liege. Djenepo looks the more interesting signing… Read more »

Valentin

Nelson, I think that the operational loss is what really spooked them. This way of Asking department to save is ridiculous when the biggest expenditure is the players salary. It reminds me of the bank I used to work. The same week they scaled back the mailroom budget, forcing every employee to walk and queue to retrieve their mail, it hired a new trader without checking first that his trading license with the FSA was suspended for six months. His guaranteed salary during his suspension would have cover the entire cost of the mailroom. At the end of his suspension,… Read more »

Graham62

RH

I know, you’re right.

That’s why I finished with “Then again, a top manager…….

My biggest gripe with Kroenke is his inability to show a genuine interest in the club. Shite, I don’t think he knows anything about the game.

If he did, Wenger and Gazidis would not have survived as long as they did.

They both played on this for their own personal benefit but, regrettably for us, to the detriment of the club.

TheLegendaryDB10

My 5 AW biggest mistakes: 1) Encouraging a laxist attitude among the players whereby finishing 4th was OK. 2) Allowing average players to be overpaid creating a situation whereby players are happy to show little ambition or even in some cases nothing, such as Gibbs and Jenkinson. 3) To have never changed his backroom staff allowing a backdated methodology of training to carry on for 10+ years. 4) Selling RvP to Manure, fully knowing that this would gift them the PL trophy. 5) Having helped in recruuting a spineless dick become CEO in the knowledge that he would not rock… Read more »

Marc

Valentin

You really wonder some times!

Ishola70

Upamecano reminds a little of Kolo Toure in his younger days.

I understand that many young French CBs are rated highly and this certain one is seeing playing time at a club in a respected league who are doing well in said league but do I think Upamecano individually will elevate this Arsenal defence from the get go? Not so sure really. What you can say about him without any doubts is that he has great strength.

salpardisenyc

Whose giving Emery his season end appraisal.

Cork City Gooner

1. Leaving Highbury. 2. Starting A.Cole in the Champions League final . 3. Breaking up the Invincibles too soon. 4. Not signing a striker during summer 2015.

Valentin

Marc, What I described happen more often than not. Mid level management being promoted above their level of competence. So they either hide and let their underlying do all the works without taking any risk or they try to micro-manage. Quite often they make decision that are ridiculous in the grander scale of things because they are afraid of attacking the real problem. In that bank, it was the mailroom budget when the trading floor was hemorrhaging money. At Arsenal it was asking the department to save money instead of dealing with the inadequate playing staff. That even has a… Read more »

Ishola70

On the subject of RB Leipzig agreed with the poster who mentioned Jean-Kévin Augustin. Mentioned him on here a while back.

Shame that the kid is wasting away atm due to his own attitude problems.

Has all the talent there.

Graham62

TheLegendaryDB10

Great top 5!

Infact, your top 5 goes top 5 in my top 500.

Freddie Ljungberg

“The majority of the Gunners squad see the meetings as a positive with Emery pointing out what he liked and disliked as well as other aspects the players could work on.”

Yeah, sounds terrible.

Valentin

Show me on this doll where the bad man touched you.

Bob N16

You mass have a semi on with all these top 5s Graham.

Marc

Valentin

The only thing I’d point out is we will be dealing with the over paid / underperforming players. We just couldn’t do it over the winter, I also doubt if it can be done over just this summer.

Ishola70

Emery of course should be looking at himself as well.

If he can’t rinse improvement out of this team defensively then it is all rather pointless I’m afraid.

Ishola70

Liverpool away so early in the campaign will again tells us what we need to know.

Yet another drubbing there and a walkover for the scousers and we will know early that the team again are not on any sort of road back.

Dissenter

Ishola
I think it depends on the type of summer window and preseason we have. There’s no reason why we don’t start strong.
If we do our transfers early enough, we could be off to a good start.

englandsbest

There is only one requirement for buying a football club. Money. Anybody with enough money can buy pretty much any football club. But there is an obligation if it is an elite football club. And therein lies Stan’s epic misjudgement: his ignorance of the obligation. Something he will ultimately learn to his cost if he carries on the way he is. His stroke of luck so far is that the Arsenal season ticket holders are a humble docile bunch. Imagine if the Club was, say, Liverpool, or Bayern, or Real M or Barca, or even Man U. Would their fans… Read more »

Valentin

@Freddie,

Don’t project your personal issue on me.

Valentin

EnglandBest, There is absolutely no obligation. There is expectation by the fans, but a bad owner can mess a club until liquidation and there is nothing English fans can do about it. As long as the owner does not do anything illegal or contrary to the FA rules, the FA will not do anything to help fans. The club is considered as an asset and its owner has full control. Look at Portsmouth, Sunderland, Blackpool, Charlton, Coventry. Historical clubs whose owners are destroying the spirit of the club. Stan is rich enough to support a lot more pain than others.… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Valentin I’m not the one doing daily mental gymnastics and fabricating stories just to try and make someone look bad. That would be you. I had very low expectations going into this season so I’m pleasantly surprised at where we ended up and not shocked in the slightest at our end of season collapse. Unless we got Gandalf as manager this squad was never going to do much better than it did. Whine about tactics and man management and all the small details as much as you want, make up your own conspiracy theories about every article you can find… Read more »

englandsbest

What puzzles me is how easy it is for some to list a catalogue of Wenger’s multitudinous faults. and yet forgive Stan for not recognising them. If they ate an expensive meal in a restaurant, and the food was lousy, the service was awful, and the manager took no notice of their complaints, they would surely blame the owner.

I suppose the answer is that they can rage at the cook, the waiters, the manager, whereas the owner is never there. Very much like the multi-globals that are taking over the world.

Freddie Ljungberg

Looks like Schubert, Saliba, Carrasco and Claude Maurice are the ones that are most advanced right now. Would be a solid start to the window, about 60m spent if they all go through and our goalkeeping department sorted out for the future and our attack looking much better. Would like another top CB but if we don’t have to send Saliba back on loan I could live with him Holding and Sok being the main CBs with Mavro and Kos/Monreal as backups. He looks like a beast and already has some top level experience, don’t think the physicality of the… Read more »

Ishola70

Dissenter “I think it depends on the type of summer window and preseason we have. There’s no reason why we don’t start strong. If we do our transfers early enough, we could be off to a good start.” Yeah course. But can’t keep going to places like Anfield and getting walked over and just shrugging it off saying they are a very good team. Got to start competing better at such places and if you do go down at least by what is seen as some sort of respectable scoreline and that Liverpool have thought they have been in some… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

Schubert, Saliba, Claude Maurice and Martinelli to get things going certainly suggests a long term plan with a focus on the future of the club.

Carrasco is an opportunistic gamble worth taking.

Ishola70

Freddie Ljungberg
“not shocked in the slightest at our end of season collapse.”

That’s the thing Freddie.

We can all be disappointed at the end of season and the failure to get top four and the manager and team did fail but if any Arsenal supporter would claim to be “shocked” at such events then they are being economical with the truth.

You can’t be shocked. Not with this current team.

Freddie Ljungberg

CA

I think Martinelli is already a done deal, just waiting for his passport before we announce, that’s why I didn’t mention him.

Love it if we’re going for excellent young players on the verge of breaking out and take occasional gambles on players like Carrasco, exactly what we should be doing.

Paints a very different picture to what some wants us to believe.

Rauls contacts, Emerys old players, Banega this and Suarez that.

Ishola70

And for those that took too much stock in that unbeaten run then that is their own misjudgement.

It wasn’t even a case of the unbeaten run looking better on paper than in reality. The fixtures in that period especially away from home just fell very nicely.

Marc

Freddie

Gandalf turned us down mate – wanted a bigger transfer kitty.

Cesc Appeal

Freddie

I completely agree.

It really is a matter of seeing what we do, especially as this is a difficult window for us. A lot to get done, not much money and nothing of value to sell whilst still needing to actually sell.

I think Martinelli is being announced on 18 June, I think, when he turns 18.

Really would be excited by Saliba. Some serious potential there.

Freddie Ljungberg

Marc

Would have been great against the Orcs though

englandsbest

Valentin

I am talking about a moral obligation not a legal one.

But your list of clubs destroyed by their owners – and I could add more, like Leeds U, Glasgow R – adds weight to the point I was making. If Stan doesn’t mend his ways, recognise his obligation, that is the direction our Club is heading.

Freddie Ljungberg

CA Think we were too cautious last summer but probably didn’t want to rush into too many changes with so much going on in the backroom and a new manager onboard for the first time in 22 year. Definitely need to do more this year with regards to outgoings. We should be able to scrunch up some dough by selling Mustafi, chambers, Ospina and one of Kos/Monreal (looks like we took up that extra 1 year option) Elneny and Xhaka will bring in some cash, Mikhi if a team in germany wants him, probably not much because of his wages… Read more »

MidwestGun

1.) Like a new signing. Or if we sign Xabi Alonso it will kill Denilson.

2.) The first trophy is to finish top 4.

3.) I did not see it…/ Why you look at me?

4.)Mental Strength/ Handbrake on.

5.) RVP will score goals for Man. U.

Marc

“But your list of clubs destroyed by their owners – and I could add more, like Leeds U, Glasgow R ”

Wow – Someone using those two clubs to criticism Kroenke’s lack of spending when it was over spending that destroyed both clubs. Like it or not but the self sustaining “method” is there to stop precisely what happened to those clubs happening to Arsenal. The fact that the money spent sent us backwards only strengthens his position to be cautious.

Marc

Freddie

£11 million for Jenkinson? Where on earth did you hear that. At best a typo meant to read £1.1 million and most likely a complete shift in decimal points to £11,000.

TR7

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https://youtu.be/f8YEiCAPAbg

MidwestGun

I would like to see more outgoing.. If I have to see Miki, Mustafi, and Xhaka again next season.. then it will kill my buzz of anyone we sign…

I would add Ozil to list.. but it seems like selling ice to eskimos. Damn near impossible.

And Monreal can’t be a starting LB or Kola. If we are going to reset we need to focking reset. Get some wingers and drop the 3-4-1-2 formation. Lots to do.

Cesc Appeal

Freddie I’m not sure how much we will raise through sales, I think about £40-50 Million if Mustafi, Chambers, Elneny and Mkhitaryan all went. More if we sell Kolasinac and Kozz. As you say, some players like Jenkinson might be better used in part exchanges. No way we sell Ozil, as you say the best we can hope for is we give him away or loan him and pay half his wages for 2 years. I’d really like Tierney, I think we need a RB as well as Bellerin is out until October and who knows how he comes back.… Read more »

salparadisenyc

Great 5 MUDWEST

What was that characters name whom kept calling you that?

MidwestGun

Sal-

Hahaha I don’t remember now… we have had some crazy mofo’ up in here.

MidwestGun

Has Cesc Appeal been binned yet… ? Bastard has been trolling me for years..

salparadisenyc

Mid

I wanna say Revvin Kevin but could be wrong.
It took a sturdy man to navigate for sure.

Cesc has always been a troller, started with PEA back at St Ettienne, hasn’t stopped.

Freddie Ljungberg

Marc I was sure I read it somewhere this week and was shocked at that valuation. Can’t find it now though so could have just been a weird dream. CA Yeah something like that, maybe a bit more if we’re lucky. If we’re going to fix our midfield Xhaka needs to leave too and that would free up some money as well. Rabiot is another gamble that I think we should take. A top class player with attitude problems ch is the only reason he’s not already at a bigger club. Has been very quiet about Fekir so far, Lyon… Read more »

Graham62

englandsbest

“Imagine if the club was say Liverpool, Bayern, RM, Barca or even MU. Would their fans have put up with what we had from him these last ten years”

No.

HillWood

If you’ve got BT Sport they are showing old Arsenal – Spurs matches
On now it’s 1974,
Great old time names and views of Highbury

MidwestGun

Sal-
CG has a touch of the Rev Kev….. but I don’t think its the same dude. Rev Kev… would never go full on T-roll…. Just liked to argue.

I used to know dudes by their little colored avatar thingy… it never changes. But I lost track over time… and people changing their names… over and over.

Marc

Freddie

Are you sure it wasn’t Chambers? Someone mentioned £12 million for him the other day.

MidwestGun

My Satellite tv company dropped Bein sports… really annoying actually ,, Justin Rose and Tiger Woods playing US Open with Jordan Spieth upcoming so watching some of that..

Graham62

TR7

Your obviously not old enough to remember the Borg/McEnroe/Connors era.

Tennis in the late seventies early/mid eighties was special.

Freddie Ljungberg

Marc

Nah. It was the ole corporal Jenks.

Lazio can do one with that 12m nonsense, we can get more from a PL club. Italian clubs always trying to be sneaky.

Freddie Ljungberg

Shoutout to Björn Borg and his wooden racket

MidwestGun

Yep agreed Graham.. Sprinkle in some Agassi… Pete Sampras,Boris Becker.. used to be fun to watch.

5am

Adding to Wenger’s biggest mistakes:

Out of pride not taking Anelka back for peanuts and instead letting him go to Bolton….

That season with TH still in the team before heading to Barca would’ve torn up opposition goal nets!

Henleygooner

1. Not buying Hugo Loris
2. Bringing on Gilberto and Denilson as subs at that game at Birmingham (Eduardo injury game)
3. Sanogo
4. Playing the kids at Cardiff v Chelsea in LC Final
5. Diary renewed contracts

TR7

Graham

I was born in late eighties. So I have only read about Borg/McEnroe/Connors era and watched their videos on YouTube so yeah I never have had a real feel of or association with that era or their rivalry. I started following tennis in Sampras-Agassi-Rafter days and have followed it ever since.

Graham62

McEnroe was a special special talent.

Singles and Doubles record was exceptional.

No other top player was able to mix the two.

Made tennis worth watching.

Absolute legend.

salparadisenyc

The Mac and Borg Netflix doc is a fantastic look into that era.

Cesc Appeal

MidWest

With no Ben Affleck around either to distract me you better watch yourself.

I’m picking on Pedro’s new friends anyway, likely be banned soon.

Freddie

Yeah I’d like Rabiot.

I don’t think we will sell Xhaka, I just don’t think there will be the interest in him at a price that would make us willing to sell.

I think we have to face the last load of Wenger buys are either going for small sums or are here until their contracts are done.

Marc

I used to really enjoy Wimbledon – couldn’t get into any other tennis but then that miserable jock cunt came along and fucked that up as well.

Was really hoping he wasn’t ever going to play again, maybe someone will run him over or something.

MidwestGun

I’m picking on Pedro’s new friends anyway, likely be banned soon.
_________

Yeah Pedro ghosted us all… for awhile.. and now he is drinking Oat Milk… Midlife crisis maybe… I blame Arteta because it’s fun. 😀

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

This clearout should start soon.

We need to have chat with ozil agent
Lay the deal to him

He’s man’s out

Marc

Midwest

It’ll be interesting to see how Pedro’s love in with Arteta fares with Pedro going bald and Arteta consuming 3% of the global hair product market.

Marc

RSPC going Tony Soprano on Ozil’s agent.

Not actually a bad idea.

salparadisenyc

Make if an offer he can’t refuse, otherwise he swims with the fishes.

MidwestGun

Marc-
Yeah… Arteta has Lego Hair for sure.. perfectly painted on .. That all comes to an end though for everyone.. I mean look at Giroud now… Shaved his head like a 3rd World prisoner. But if Arteta would have just fought harder for the Arsenal job Pedro would be drinking normal milk and not sweating his hair loss.

Marc

sal

Maybe we should work that on Gazidis and get Milan to buy the fucker!

Marc

Mid

So that’s me, you and Cesc banned!

Marc

Mid

The worst thing Pedro’s managed lately was his justification of “hipster” milk as not going off for weeks.

He works really long hours and must earn – for fucks sake man buy a fucking fresh pint you lazy bastard!

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Marc

Only way

Football ain a sport no more it’s a business

Capache

Cesc Appeal

MidWest Marc

We will start our own blog!

We will invite Kwik to put up the picture below the title everyday.

Say provocative things about N5, Romford Pele etc until they come out of hiding and face us like men.

MidwestGun

Yeah I’m disappointed in N5 aka shit Batman. I know he is lurking.

Anyhow I could never start my own blog… I don’t even know what day it is half the time let alone remember to write something.

Cesc Appeal

Wonder if the American girls go for the ‘I drink oat milk’ line.

‘I drink oat milk, drive a Prius and think Arteta would be a great President.’

‘Is that a retro backpack and converses you’re wearing?’

‘Yes it is’.

Marc

RSPC

Worst thing is some years ago a Federal Judge who was over seeing some case about FIFA being dodgy etc actually used a phrase along the lines of “the mafia aren’t that bad”.

Marc

Cesc

Yeah it all goes pear shaped when she say’s “it’s unusual for a guy in his early 40’s to be losing his hair”.

salparadisenyc

Sos long as the Essex accent is in play, American girls with go for anything.
Even Oat Milk.

Cesc Appeal

Marc

He can recover and say he’s doing it ‘ironically’ or as ‘social commentary’.

Marc

sal

I live on Hertfordshire – does that work!

MidwestGun

Sal has a point ever since the Megan Markle thing… American girls think you dudes all live in a palace and buzz about the world working on social issues.

Put on the Prince Harry accent and it’s game on.

Marc

Cesc

That’s about all he’s left with.

Cesc Appeal

‘Sal has a point ever since the Megan Markle thing… American girls think you dudes all live in a palace and buzz about the world working on social issues.’

Don’t you dare tell them otherwise!

Marc

“buzz about the world working on social issues.”

Does that include getting some?

MidwestGun

Ok but I know the truth…. Y’all are sitting around playing video games and drinking an unhealthy amount just like everyone else.

I suppose lack of sex could be a social justice issue.. maybe.

Cesc Appeal

MidWest

We do not!

We spend our time serving the queen.

Being painfully polite.

Queuing.

Riding carriages through a fog filled London lit by gas light and writing great works of fiction that explore the human condition.

Marc

“and drinking an unhealthy amount ”

It’s on my doctor’s orders – admittedly I drink with my doctor and he told me it was my round.

MidwestGun

Pffft Yeah… and I spend my time in the great outdoors… riding my horse with my Stetson on and spending my nights writing cowboy love songs round the crackling fire.

Marc

Cesc

On a completely unrelated topic I’m currently reading the Karla trilogy by Le Carre. They are great books and I’ m thoroughly enjoying them but some of the scenes set in 70’s London just seem so removed from today.

MidwestGun

Back to the Footie…

How do you all see the team shaping up next season…
Am I crazy to think…

New dude…. Laca/Auba ….. New Dude

New Dude…. New Dude…. LT

New Dude.. Holding… Papa…. New Dude.

……..Leno..

I know only 6 new starters.. hahaha

Marc

Midwest

Why are you writing love songs to cowboys? I mean each to his own and all but you could have kept that to yourself. No Oscars awarded on here mate.

MidwestGun

Hey man.. Cowboys need love too.. they have been discriminated against for far too long.