Arsenal v West Ham United FC

Diame and Potts coming on ?

Bloody embarassing 12 minutes. We can't deal with pace. First spurs & now this mob. Mind you, tomkins was fouled for the 2nd.

I think it may have gone all tits up

We're in trouble.

Potts is in a bad way

Dont look too good for Potts , hope he,s OK

Hazard sent off for the Cheats for kicking the ball boy

he is in big trouble

bugger me, did not take long for the first joke too

FootyHumour ‏@FootyHumour
Have you been hit by a Hazard at work that wasn't your fault? You could be entitled to compensation

Campo wrote:Hazard sent off for the Cheats for kicking the ball boy

he is in big trouble

bugger me, did not take long for the first joke too

FootyHumour ‏@FootyHumour
Have you been hit by a Hazard at work that wasn't your fault? You could be entitled to compensation

Poor Danny Potts I wish him well soon.

What an awful end to an already dreadful night of football.

Can't be arsed to watch anymore. Couldn't give a shit if they've scored another five, six, seven or more.......sorry

Nite nite x

A crazy 10 or so minutes it all went tits

Hope young Potts is ok, but 20 mins out for the count will take some recovering from.


Fooham next

WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE BY BIG SAM !! I dont blame the players today i blame BIG SAM !!! Why would you start with diame,j.cole and jarvis on the bench when you know full well they are the ones who will create chances for us it just doest make sense ... hope the two davids go metal at sam for this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What did Fat Sam expect fielding a side full of Championship players and leaving Jarvis, Diame, Diarra and Joe Cole on the bench? He has to take full responsibility for this

Fuming

Was there a game tonight?

Time to start scraping for points. This makes the QPR result worse now

Not sure why he was resting players when they've got a week off anyway. If they can't recover in a week they can't be up to much.

Johnny K wrote:Not sure why he was resting players when they've got a week off anyway. If they can't recover in a week they can't be up to much.

Precisely. We have no game at the weekend so there was no excuse for not playing Jarvis, Cole, Diarra and Diame. NONE WHATSOEVER

Off to look at the Bum of the Day photo to cheer myself up!

Tony P wrote:

Johnny K wrote:Not sure why he was resting players when they've got a week off anyway. If they can't recover in a week they can't be up to much.

Precisely. We have no game at the weekend so there was no excuse for not playing Jarvis, Cole, Diarra and Diame. NONE WHATSOEVER

Off to look at the Bum of the Day photo to cheer myself up!

dude, thats your sister

alfiehammer wrote:

Tony P wrote:

Johnny K wrote:Not sure why he was resting players when they've got a week off anyway. If they can't recover in a week they can't be up to much.

Precisely. We have no game at the weekend so there was no excuse for not playing Jarvis, Cole, Diarra and Diame. NONE WHATSOEVER

Off to look at the Bum of the Day photo to cheer myself up!

dude, thats your sister

It's really not !!

It was not a nice second half to endure - and, yes, as a true fan I stayed right to the final whistle. I didn't walk out on my team with half an hour to go. We had defended well in the first half and even taken the lead. Everything Arsenal touched turned to goals at the start of the second period, however, and that was game over. They're an exceptional side and they can do that to teams.

I could understand Big Sam's thinking behind the starting line-up. Keep it solid, work hard, defend well and see what we can nick. If it works, Arsenal have to push the more the game goes on, so we send on Diame and Jarvis to exploit the space at pace. We needed to dig in and hope for something off a set-piece and for 45 minutes, we did that exceptionally well. I was pleased to see Collison come in as he can work hard and he does have a goal in him, which was vindicated.

Arsenal did what Arsenal do though in the second half. We can't compete with that, when they are that incisive. I thought we missed Collins' organisation at the back - individually Reid and Tomkins are assets but, as a pairing, they are naive at this level. They need an experienced head in with them, which is why I've been championing Ginge all season. We looked a lot more compact with Diarra on the pitch.

As an aside, is it too much to ask for a goalkeeper to save a long-range shot every now and then? Taarabt, Cazorla, Johnson, Gardner and Podolski have all left our Finnish Failure picking the ball out of his net - I don't know if it's footwork, positioning or what but it would be interesting to know the percentage of shots on target from 20+ yards that have beaten Jaaskelainen. I believe he has a generally decent shots-to-saves ratio but, having defended well for 25 minutes tonight, it's galling to see another belter fly past him. I don't believe he could necessarily have done much with this one but I have been disappointed with him on others. Perhaps I've been spoilt by Rob Green.

A frustrating, disappointing and fruitless night but Arsenal are a top side and, for ten minutes, they were right at the top of their game and it did for us. On to Fulham and the hope of picking up at least a point.

Finally, best wishes to Dan Potts for a speedy recovery.

P.S. Maybe this is out of place, and apologies if it is, but some of the language in this thread really is unnecessary. Emotions run high in a game, of course, but this is surely a family board?!

Maybe that will teach me for winding my Gooner boss up after we scored ( is he really a gooner , didn't even know they were playing ) . Not very happy with Sam and his selection last night , just don't understand his thoughts , why ?
We really do need to start getting points on the board , the bottom is getting closer and we still have a few games left .
Have to agree with you on the language Dan and I am one of the guilty parties , maybe it's time to introduce the word sensoring again , will look into it tonight when I get home

First of all looking back through this thread like admin I to would like to say sorry for my language !
secound thing I still looking back at it dont understand why he started Diame,J.Cole,Jarvis on the bench ?!?!? If them 3 had been on the pitch from the start then there is NO WAY ON THIS PLANET that the score would of ended 5-1 and whos knows we may even of won
Fulham next away from home next wednesday going be tough after last night but I expect us to go out there and give them a beating !

Ok shit 10-15 mins in the second half and we end up on the back end of a 5-1 to the Arsenal

this time last year it was Ipswich

They were so much better than us at everything, it is very demoralising [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Hugely disappointing. Listened to it on Radio London driving home and got thoroughly depressed. I can't see the sense in fielding that initial side either, even if you think it's maybe a lost cause you still put your best side out and see how they match up against a class team. We just got outclassed from front to back. Maybe BFS got over-optimistic after our performances against ManPoo. Anyway, that has demonstrated our weaknesses in graphic detail, we just have to hope and pray that some sort of improvement can be made.
I think what makes it worse for me is that the Arse play like I want the Hammers to play, but currently we are so, so far from being capable of doing it.

well there is an excuse for 2 of them, Joe and Jarvis carrying knocks