Huntelaar? Thanks but no thanks. Good news for me IMO.

Reason is simple. If we were still on the 4-4-2 formation I'd snap him up in a heartbeat. However our current 4-3-3 and style does not suit him at all. If we were to buy a striker it would have to be someone in the RVP mould as well. We need someone who can drop deep with a first touch and ball retention skills as good as RVP. A striker that can play in teammates as good as RVP does as well as someone quick enough who can keep up with our attacking midfielders to join in the attack after releasing the balls from deep.

Don't get me wrong I do still rate Huntelaar as one of the best finishers around but he just simply won't fit in.

Its no coincidence that Arsene still persists with Andrey down the middle even with Dudu fit.

This post has been edited by sigheart: Jan 3 2010, 12:26 AM

Fixed

Silvestre

Lol anyways I can't say I'm too bothered even if we join Man Utd in the FA Cup bin. Well of course I want us to win just that I don't think I'll be losing any sleep over this one if we get knocked out.

If anything Silves was more at fault IMO. That was very very lazy defending there. He had two options then which was 1. Deal with Diamanti or 2. The lazy option of just pushing up in hope the flag will go up and unfortunately he chose option 2.

Traore is on the bench

Stoke vs Arsenal next round....2nd time in a row away to a BPL team wtf

Btw does anyone still want Matthew Upson?

This post has been edited by sigheart: Jan 4 2010, 02:54 AM

Arsenal vs Bolton no LIVE tomorrow morning....ESPN showing Stoke vs Fulham instead....

I hope they've got a LIVE telecast. Curious to see how well we can cope without Song.

Sigh chances of a LIVE telecast for the Bolton match looks very slim indeed IMO. I've got Astro Byond in my house and one of the new features is we can check programme information as well as future programmes for the whole month and it isn't listed. They will be showing a football match but its a repeat of an FA Cup game. Even in Sportscentre it doesn't state there is a LIVE telecast.

Guess streaming is the only option then for those who want to catch the game.

Game is called off. Official. Can go sleep

Soccernet

Official statement on Arse.com

Arsenal vs Bolton postponed due to Sh*t load of snow

This post has been edited by sigheart: Jan 6 2010, 11:55 PM

Yes but we can also play Bolton later when they've got new manager syndrome as well as with FA Cup and Champions League games to juggle at the same time.

The match postponement is an opportunity missed to get a perfectly winnable game out of the way in my book.

This post has been edited by sigheart: Jan 7 2010, 04:25 PM

Oh great. If we buy him and he plays well enough we'll be losing him every 2 years for a month or so to a useless cup which frankly nobody cares but the africans =/

This post has been edited by sigheart: Jan 7 2010, 07:53 PM

Well, Man Utd have done it for many years.

What about his run and assist for Tomas' equaliser ? Or you only choose to remember his faults and not his contributions ?

Traore was the best we could afford today. Donovan would have ran rings around Silves.

I don't see how that would make a difference because if Silves were to play at left back he would have been far out left manning his designated position and Everton's long balls and aerial threat were all down the middle with the likes of Fellaini and Co., unless you expect Silves to abandon that left hand side and drift into the middle taking part in the heading fiasco.

And as for the pressing it will be even worst if Silves is pressed. I don't think I need to elaborate anymore on how quick Silves' feet are and how good his ball control actually is.

Saying Everton employed anti football tactics is a classic case of sour grapes. If playing a closing down and pressing game is anti football, then what do you expect Everton to do? Just let us waltz through and strut our stuff? Sometimes you just have to acknowledge the fact that at times opponents can outplay you.

As for Peter Walton he had a great game. Many tackles from Everton, Fellaini in particular were hard but fair. We only have ourselves to blame on losing the ball and even giving the opportunity to the Everton players to even attempt a tackle with our lads taking a century to decide what to do after receiving the ball.

Many complaint bout the snow but the snow didn't stop Everton from bringing their work rate and desire to win the game did it? Lets face it our players didn't even look like they wanted to play and given the chance would have preferred to sit at home and sip a hot cup of cocoa by the fireplace. At times I found the body languge of the players shocking to say the least.

The first goal was a total fluke and our equaliser came only after the frustrations and jeers from the crowd were increasing in decibels towards the final whistle did they decide to exert themselves a little in the last 10 and as someone mentioned, Fergie time. Everton would have been slaughtered had the lads decided to turn up from the off.

Very disappointed with the result, appalled with the performance but relieved with a point.

I feel for the groundspeople and everyone else who worked so hard to make the game happen only to witness a performance like that. A weeks wages should be deducted from the players and given to them as compensation IMO.

Oh so I suppose the weather and conditions isn't a factor then in your most "eye soring" football match Hoping for a good football match or display in that sort of conditions is wishful thinking at best. The referee did his best in letting the game flow and I found that most of the tackles were hard but fair. The referee had a very good game in my book.

Daily Mail reporting we have resigned Sol Campbell. Hmmm interesting Oh well just have to wait and see if its true

Sol Campbell re-signs for Arsenal on a free transfer

This post has been edited by sigheart: Jan 12 2010, 11:50 PM