The definitive deadwood thread

[greengoonerie]

With Arshavin out of favor with Wenger, Ox struggling to regain his last season form and Wenger thinking of easing back Gervinho after ACON, we may need to sign a winger.

After last nights performance, you left out the smiley in your comment!!

You NEVER change a winning team.

Same 11 on Saturday, same positions, same tactics, same effort, same performance.

Sod the squad rotation. I want Arsenal to win matches, not to have players being played by Arsene to justify his purchase of them.

We had our best AVAILABLE 11 out last night.

Yes, we should have beaten Reading regardless, but we did, and we hammered them, Gibbs giving them two goals notwithstanding.

The invincibles had a core group of players who played all the time, unless injured. We need to restart that with this group.

Keep playing the same 11 as last night Arsene.

[Massa]

^ agreed

[Arsenal~Fanatic]

With Arshavin out of favor with Wenger, Ox struggling to regain his last season form and Wenger thinking of easing back Gervinho after ACON, we may need to sign a winger.

After last nights performance, you left out the smiley in your comment!!

You NEVER change a winning team.

Same 11 on Saturday, same positions, same tactics, same effort, same performance.

Sod the squad rotation. I want Arsenal to win matches, not to have players being played by Arsene to justify his purchase of them.

We had our best AVAILABLE 11 out last night.

Yes, we should have beaten Reading regardless, but we did, and we hammered them, Gibbs giving them two goals notwithstanding.

The invincibles had a core group of players who played all the time, unless injured. We need to restart that with this group.

Keep playing the same 11 as last night Arsene.

You have got the intention of my post completely wrong. I am referring to squad depth which we will need especially towards the end of the season with fixtures flying right left and center. Injuries are something you need to be prepared for. Didn't you see how Cazorla and Arteta went completely out of steam when they were playing constantly almost every minute. Rotation for the sake of it is not good but you need to be prepared for injuries and player fatigue which is going to be a norm for every team and teams with the best squads tend to compete better. Have you forgotten the 2010-11 season which arguably lost cos of lack of depth. Yes you try to put out your best best eleven as much as possible but you simply cannot ignore the injuries and fatigue issues.

[Pudpop]

Gibbs giving them two goals notwithstanding.

?

You can blame him for the first, even though we got unlucky with Wilshere slipping, but you can't blame him for the second.

[greengoonerie]

Gibbs giving them two goals notwithstanding.

?

You can blame him for the first, even though we got unlucky with Wilshere slipping, but you can't blame him for the second.

Sorry Pud,

1st Goal

Have a look at it again.

The pass to Wilshere was 5 yards away from Jack and went straight to the REading Player. Jack slipped when he tried to TACKLE the guy that Gibbs passed to. Gibbs gave the ball away from the off.

2nd Goal.

Have a look at it again.

Who runs back like a headless chicken, having been caught out of position defensively and then plays the Reading Attackers onside??

You guessed it....Gibbs...

He paid no attention to the defensive line and ended up a yard behind Verm/Mert.


He's crap defensivey and great going forward.

[Pudpop]

Fair enough, I didn't see the offside thing last night. I did say you could blame him for the first, but IMO whether or not he played the striker onside the midfield and centre backs failed to tackled one guy between all 4/5 of them.

But I guess I can't really defend him, he was horrible last night defensively.

[FourSix]

I'm pretty sure it was Podolski who played Kebe onside for Reading's second goal... and there were more mistakes like Kebe being in that much space and the defence failing to cut out the run a pass in the build regardless of who played him onside. Anyway, overall Gibbs had a good game and had a lot to do with our first half 3-0 lead.

As for the deadwood, Squillaci is definitely first. 5th choice, 32 and not that good. Chamakh & Arshavin cans till be useful so many calling them deadwood is harsh but they're definitely closer to being deadwood than consistently contributing anytime soon. Don't think anyone else deserves to be in this category.

[billie86]

Gibbs giving them two goals notwithstanding.

?

You can blame him for the first, even though we got unlucky with Wilshere slipping, but you can't blame him for the second.

Sorry Pud,

1st Goal

Have a look at it again.

The pass to Wilshere was 5 yards away from Jack and went straight to the REading Player. Jack slipped when he tried to TACKLE the guy that Gibbs passed to. Gibbs gave the ball away from the off.

2nd Goal.

Have a look at it again.

Who runs back like a headless chicken, having been caught out of position defensively and then plays the Reading Attackers onside??

You guessed it....Gibbs...

He paid no attention to the defensive line and ended up a yard behind Verm/Mert.


He's crap defensivey and great going forward.

it was podolski not gibbs who played kebe onside

[Arsenal~Fanatic]

ARSENAL have turned down a £2.5million bid from Galatasaray for flop Andre Santos.

The Gunners want to recoup £5m of the £6.8m they paid Fenerbahce for the Brazil left-back, 29, last term.

Marouane Chamakh could also be off, with former club Bordeaux interested.

But Arsenal’s chase for Klaas-Jan Huntelaar looks over — the striker wants to stay at Schalke.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... s-bid.html

[Hypergooner]

Most of our players are young and haven't hit their peak yet so deserve time. Our deadwood is the board and their un ambitious policies.

[Goonerfromafrica]

Why do we say no?

[Zedie]

ITS HAPPENING

BENDNTER AND PARK RELEASED

100K OFF THE WAGE BUDGET

ITS HAPPENING


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... er-3599997

[Cripps]

End of an era

[Zenith]

[badup]

Goodnight, sweet princes...