yea well... we dont seem to have the ability to break down teams when they play ultra defensive. we have players who can play a defence-splitting through pass, but if there's no space to run into we can't play that way. if the passing game cant be played usually a team will try to breakdown the opponent using individual brilliance (dribblers), crossing (crossers and a target man), long shooting and long balls. i dont see any dribblers in the team, crossing has been awful all season long, and long balls really do not fit in wenger's ideology. only santi seems to be attempting long shots at goal.

poldi's been rusty for a while now. well i might be comparing him to his fantastic early season burst where he was our goal revenue and that might not be entirely fair to him, but he's been quite poor for quite some time.

This post has been edited by Thumpy Ick: Oct 21 2012, 10:27 AM

to put it simply, it's too early to flap your hands up and wave the white flag. but yesterday's performance was terrible, no excuses. we're in no championship form that's for sure.

please make QPR go all out attack.

although tbh, no team wants to attack arsenal at their home turf. they'd do well to park the bus and work on their counter attack.

tho i have a lingering feeling that, despite that, we can well see a few goals... from podolski...

demn rvp got falcon punched.

i've heard enough from the past few seasons to take any links of a proven player with a pinch of salt. benzema's class, tho if we're talking about strikers outside EPL i've always been a fan of edinson cavani.

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Added on October 23, 2012, 9:45 pmapparently an english-german kid playing in schalke is a fan of arsenal, and is hoping jack will play so he can square off against our no.10.

This post has been edited by Thumpy Ick: Oct 23 2012, 09:45 PM

poldi would love to be back in germany. hope this invigorates him

^ le damn, made a mistake

well, well...

feels like the october of past seasons, that i can say.

rofl chamakh getting a golden boot...

is the team sheet out yet? i wanna see if ollie or gerv gets the ST position.

missed the entire first half cuz went beraya. but seems like i missed nothing. from the looks of it ramsey's been dismal and wilshere's been a breath of fresh air?

should be able to run it off, the lad

looking for ppl to follow rvp, SAF?

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Added on October 27, 2012, 11:05 pmSAF's scouting the game personally, we're playing them next.

This post has been edited by Thumpy Ick: Oct 27 2012, 11:05 PM

haha, you get the feeling wenger's gonna bring off pods dont ya?

damn ramsey just headed a ball straight towards the opposition. cmon man!

great offside trap.

SAF's main tactic from this game is probably to stifle jack's every move

cmon cazzzzzzz, that's mild

the crosses just cant seem to reach giroud can it, poor guy

giroud takin it? fer real?

granny needs another yellow card

when will i ever get a curled cross meeting giroud's head? i need to see that once, cmon sagna you got the best crossing ability