But a baby who might squirm around and
start playing with things in the headboard or fall off... it is just completely unappealing.
As far as the marketing goes, it is easier to make a splash and to be noticed and you can
start playing with these things like the Permafree, the $ 0.99 and the promotions if you have more than one book out there.
Not exact matches
So, to see if his recommendations held any weight, Cramer checked in on the golf cohort,
starting with Callaway, the maker of all
things golf and the largest «pure
play» in the industry.
Just because a great many so - called rules deserve a stake in the heart, doesn't mean you should take
things too far and
start playing totally fast and loose
with language, however.
Actually it's Wenger fault.He knew that next season we will be without Sanchez and ozil, so this season he should have built team for coming seasons
with players that want to
play with our club.Sanchez has made some good memories
playing for us and he wants new challenge nothing wrong in it.Hope this Sunday
things turns in our way and we
start winning games.
Fair enough, I just wonder if he'd still be
playing top flight football if he had been at United from the
start with such a horrendous injury record, Fergie would have shipped him off ages before his eventual recovery, dare I say he was destined to win the Premier league the season he won it
with United anyways, he was the hottest striker in the league for those two seasons, the only
thing we lacked in his final season at Arsenal was enough creativity behind him and a lack of suitable replacement to take ocassionally take the load off him, but then Cazorla, Poldi and Giroud had been brought in for re-inforcements, he
played with a patently inferior team to Arsenal's that season at United,
with the exception of Rooney of course, he single handedly carried them to the title, what away to show loyalty.
Hopefully
with Theo back
things will change and he'll
start to
play theo and sanchez on the wings.
Game 2 would
start about 10 minutes later and when
playing back to backs
with the same Teams, momentum is always a funny
thing..
I've always maintained my stance that Arsene Wenger loves French players in his team than any other players.No matter how average you are once you're French and once you're in the first team he tends to give you so many chances to prove yourself.I can
start mentioning them if you want me to but I know you know them.If Lucas Perez was French he wouldn't have been out so early believe me.I just don't know where to begin.Was Giroud bought to become a super sub or to be the leading striker?Having giving us many sesons of failure people are now content
with him being a so called super sub.A player like Giroud is not built for that kind of role.He ws a super sub in 99 % of those matches because he was not
played when he was supposed to and we needed presence in the air.The funny
thing is people are using only this season to label him as a super sub.There were so many matched that Wenger should have
started Giroud but for some reason didn't
start him.I only see Arsenal as the top club who'd be crying over Giroud.If a good offer comes we should sell.
This guy is the closest
thing to a complete striker (since Henry left) pending he
starts being clinical so yeah we have a lot of expectations for him if not this season than the next one because if not it's just another player
with lots of talent / ability to
play the way AFC like
with work rate and occasional goal but nothing else...
im not defending jack but the blame should go the england manager for selecting him for the euros, the guy was injured all season and had
played 2 games at most before the
start of the tournament, no matter how hard you train the only way to get back match fitness / sharpness is to
play competitive games same
thing with henderson and to another degree sterling for not being a starter
with his club & lacking self confidence by not having
played well, do you agree??
Things then hit the skids in January as conference
play opened,
with UConn losing five of seven games to
start 2012.
This hot
start has shown that they'll be in the thick of
things for at least the next few months, and they'll need everyone to
play at their best in order to keep pace
with the Nationals all season.
Your squad above to me as well is the best though I would give Chamberlain a rest bringing him and Rosicky on late; but
start Akpom (I think Welbeck will likely be
playing against his old squad though... expect big
things either way) instead... he will, in my mind
with Sanchez on the other side coming in attracting a lot of attention will give Chuba all the space he needs.
*
Playing Theo is the hardest thing to watch, would rather gamble with Neilson * The Ox would do a better job than Bellerin at RWB * Kola should be playing LWB * Ramsey is a different player when he starts & being an impact sub * Giroud & Laca should start together especially physical (away) games * Ozil is good but... well maybe should rotate with Iwobi * Xhaka should work on reducing costly errors * can't trust Monreal, seems like a target for our opponents wherever he plays they wan na go thru
Playing Theo is the hardest
thing to watch, would rather gamble
with Neilson * The Ox would do a better job than Bellerin at RWB * Kola should be
playing LWB * Ramsey is a different player when he starts & being an impact sub * Giroud & Laca should start together especially physical (away) games * Ozil is good but... well maybe should rotate with Iwobi * Xhaka should work on reducing costly errors * can't trust Monreal, seems like a target for our opponents wherever he plays they wan na go thru
playing LWB * Ramsey is a different player when he
starts & being an impact sub * Giroud & Laca should
start together especially physical (away) games * Ozil is good but... well maybe should rotate
with Iwobi * Xhaka should work on reducing costly errors * can't trust Monreal, seems like a target for our opponents wherever he
plays they wan na go thru him!!!
start giroud and perez to freshen
things up now that we are in to the last 16; try to find our french strikers head from open
play like Sanchez to ozil, one
with head and into the ground volley.
After a tough and stop -
start season so far the Ox really stepped up and
played with great energy, drive and skill and that long range inch perfect pass to Bellerin in the build up to Ramsey's goal was a
thing of beauty.
I first watched Arsenal in 1976 and have been following home and away ever since NOT 2006, I also don't use twitter and don't
play fifa, for the record I really am bored
with the insinuation that if you criticise an Arsenal player, the owner or wenger then you don't support Arsenal, are happy
with everything that's been going on since say the move to the grove?do you not ever think
things should be done differently?did you never criticise a player?if you say no then I don't believe you.I make no hesitation in saying I'm very much on the side of the wenger out brigade, but never would I come on here and write what you've just done, for a
start in might upset my seventy year old dad who is very much a AKB.I think you're just a keyboard warrior some how.Regardless though credit where credits due good performance today, and yes I did go
See how poor nacho monreal was today yet people never criticize him.Gibbs should
start over him next week.Yet people would say
things like Gibbs is shit despite him being very consistent for arsenal.The only problem to me
with Gibbs is that sometimes in some matches he gets caught out too much apart from that he is a better left back than Monreal and when both are at full pelt Gibbs is still better.I just do nt get it i watch the two of them
play and i do nt know what makes Monreal better than him.
Funny
thing is the gentleman who i think is most suited
played in the pre-season game, they call him the LITTLE MAGICIAN, SANTI CAZORLA, welcome back, in the earlier part of our game our passes were going astray losing the ball too frequently, then santi
started drifting back closer to Xhaka and Coquelin and
started to get the passes going, which then provided us
with chances.
At some point i had
started doubting Jack's usefulness @Arsenal but later on realised it's the managers fault not his, same
thing with Ozill, Carzola n» podolski (
playing them out of position)
The problem is when you have an average defensive midfielder then your backline can never be at rest.Coquelin should have
started this match.Some people think he's average but I feel he's been
played out of position and being tasked
with doing too much like a box to box player.How can someone who bases his game on tackling and interception lose that ability all of a sudden and you tell me nothing's wrong but bdcause he's average.Are we fans going to ignore what is plain to us?Let's just pretend
things are alright.Then after we win the cracks will be papered only for them to be exposed another day.
The sad
thing is is that we shall only get a few more years out of Monreal at his highest ability, before age
starts to
play a part on his style of
play, at which point Arsenal will have to consider whether Gibbs (if he's still
with us) is ready to retake his position, or if a new player is needed.
Thank you Arsene For all the good times we enjoyed during your time as our manager.You made us one of the best teams
playing beautiful football.You have been a legend however the later years
thing started to go wrong but you will always be remembered for taking a team who was struggling to keep pace
with the big boys to being one of them.
I agree
with you that AW has done some astounding
things for the club, but he has also made some reall balls ups and week in week out it seems he is not able to offer up a tactical plan B or utilise key players in key positions against the relevant sides we
play, (not
starting with Rosicky and Walcott on Saturday was one such instance) I realise that no team wins all their games and I know that we have been under the cosh for quiet a few years now, but what annoys me more than anything else is the lack of Visible ambition, we spent three weeks messing around
with Beliek and only just managed to get Paulista who was an uncertainty due to a work visa.
You can't say that it worked hypothetical if he had
started we could of won it's all ifs and buts...... 1
thing is for sure we look a more cohesive unit going forward
with a target man to
play off.
I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate
with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole
thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that
starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of
playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do
with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even
start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision
Suppose we have a very direct game
with no set - pieces for either side, then what to do
with Giroud... He is no John Terry, he have the physicality but not the technique and the brain... I want him to be on the bench and I am gonna support anyone in his place (bar slow Mert), I feel bored
with Giroud leading the line and I bet Ozil, Sanchez feel the same
thing... I barely get relief when Wenger
started to
play someone else upfront...
We need all our players this is a big game, don't know if wenger will
play Alexis and bench wellbeck, but whoever
starts need to justify it by
playing well, we might get thrashed or win the game,
thing is
with arsenal you never know, I hope we win though..
There is one
thing not
playing some players who are out of form, but when Wenger
starts with other players when they're not in form is another
thing.
Momentum isn't a real
thing, but it appears Rory is
playing with some of that same form to
start Friday's round.
A few
things: the maturation of
starting point guard Brian Shaw, whose strong preseason
play has helped ease the strain of his rancorous summer - long contract wrangling
with management, and of
starting two - guard Reggie Lewis; the addition of rookie point guard Dee Brown, a legitimate burner; and the democratic touch of Ford, who has the respect and attention of Celtics veterans Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish.
But the
thing was, Jack Haley fought harder and
played better than the Bruins»
starting center, senior Brad (Not All) Wright, who semiterrorized DePaul
with two points and three rebounds.
We get Jim to drive up
with the kids and all that, and we have a basketball hoop in the front yard in the driveway and we were going to
play a little game
with the kids and we just
started shooting around and next
thing you know it was a 4 - on - 4 game.
Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even
playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who
played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these
things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even
started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his
starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship
with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded
with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene
We might even see them
play as a front two if
things get desperate but I assume it will be the usual 4 -3-3 to
start with.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option
with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray
with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of
things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the
starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong
with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign...
with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him
with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or
with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly
start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of
play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers
with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree
with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great
things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
Minus some flashes from both Sead and Iwobi, and a workingman - like effort from Elneny, we learned very little... so here are a few of my observations from today's game, which highlight my concerns about this team moving forward... the fact that Mertz
started this game, regardless of our injuries or those being «rested», should be a serious red flag for any true Arsenal fan... if Wenger is preparing to use Mertz
with any regularity then the whole
thing is a moot point because we are in deep shit... the fact is no quality team would ever have this tin soldier anywhere near there
starting eleven except to groom their youthful players, who in turn should be
playing in this type of game instead... I can only hope he was simply throwing him a bone for the FA appearance and for agreeing to stay on following the season, but I think the most likely answer is that Wenger's fragile relationship
with the fan - base can't be ignored so he felt his experience was a safer bet... unfortunately not a positive choice for a team trying to move forward (same old, same old)
«When the migraine
thing came out, some buddies
started calling me, giving me s — , saying, «You can't
play with migraines?»»
With Arsenal having got off to a fairly shaky
start to our latest attempt to win the Premier League title, the last
thing we needed was for our big EPL rivals to get off to a fling
start themselves, but that is just what has happened and now the Gunners are
playing catch up to the big three of Manchester United, Chelsea and Man City who all have the maximum nine points from their three games so far.
Obviously, making the talent better is the goal, and that
starts with two simple
things: Getting the team to
play hard, and getting the team to
play together.
yes, football is very unpredictable and instances in games CAN actually change the whole course of a game (kos penalty & 1st potential red card of the game)... but this is NOT an exuse for Ozil not
playing with fire, him
playing on the left, carzola substitution, ox not
starting perhaps amoungst other
things!
The first and most important
thing we should do is bfing a DMF into the lineup.This means Coquelin or even Niles should
start from now on.Wenger has left it too late as we should've been
playing with a proper DMF early in the season to this time.
A win would go a long way but
with Spurs in the cage after this only
thing we can expect is to
play with the strengths and allow Alexis to
start scoring because he will want to do anything to win today.
A year ago, Xavier handed Marquette a home loss in their first match of the Big East season, and it seems the Musketeers are comfortable
playing in the McGuire Center as they
started this match off keeping
things close
with the Golden Eagles.
Facing one of the surprise on this early part of season, La Viola were not having
things easy though Vincenzo Montella's men did made a bright
start on that encounter
with Borja Valero opening the score after just five minutes of
play.
But after a virtually silent pre-season,
things are
starting to warm up and
with a couple of acquisitions in the right places (namely a striker), we could just break into the
play - offs.
The key
thing here is although I feel or rather I hope that this is a strong enough team to beat Newcastle, I do feel that Wenger has not only
started to
play mind games
with other managers, but now
with the fans of Arsenal.
Rosicky was the one player who always seemed to make
things happen; he
played several good one - twos
with Olivier Giroud, and he
started to look like the player that was part of Arsenal's surging run to claim 3rd place last season.
However,
with none of the above matches
played and pre-season yet to
start we can conclude that the only
thing it is safe to say about the fixture list is that we will face each of our nineteen opponents twice next season, once home and once away, and, while optimism might look odd in the bigger Villa picture at the moment, pessimism would be counterproductive.