(Matchday 5) Arsenal @ Hull City

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  1. DaPrince84

    DaPrince84 Member+

    Aug 22, 2001
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    you guys are buggin.

    Cazorla has no legs and doesnt defend well enough. Most of all he is not a goal threat.

    Let your weird Ramsey bias go. He is perfect for the position Coquelin has played THIS season.
     
  2. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

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    You're right, it's completely mind-boggling. Maybe it's some stupid legacy contract issue? But it's hard to imagine they couldn't resolve that if they really wanted to help their customers!

    Luckily I have Cablevision and they've always covered the LiveExtra channels. But in the past few weeks, in their infinite wisdom they killed the HD version of LiveExtra1. So now all my LiveExtra's are in SD, which really does suck resolution-wise on a modern TV.
     
  3. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

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    Connecticut
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    Anyone have real info on why Giroud is either in the doghouse or simply not fit? I'd say this whole saga has become a significant issue for Arsenal now.
     
  4. DeltaSig

    DeltaSig Member

    Mar 7, 2007
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    Uhh maybe the stupid red card in the PSG game? He has had a few in the past as well.
     
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  5. BigEffingGooner

    BigEffingGooner Member+

    Apr 25, 2012
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    [QUOTE="BIGHMW, post: 34587880, member: 180058"
    What's worse, Olivier Giroud has now developed himself a rather bad reputation and has long been known to draw red cards, so he is now a marked man and you can bet that the Hull City Kitties are gonna try and agitate him into pulling any kind of shenanigans like he did away to PSG last night and if he does then it may be "bye-bye" for Ollie and us being reduced to 10 men before you can say "Jack Wilshere".[/QUOTE]


    2014-15 1 red card
    2015-16 1 red card
    2016-17 1 red card

    That's hardly a Robbie Savage history there. He does get stupid cards at timez, yes he has been red carded before, but acting like he is prone to reds is reeeeeeeaaaaaallllllly stretching it.


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  6. BIGHMW

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    Oct 10, 2010
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    You forgot to mention that Olivier Giroud had one red card SO FAR this season, and here we are only in Matchday 5 in the EPL, and just completed UCL matchday 1. I seriously doubt that he won't pick up yet another one this season in any competition. But either way Hull will try anything they can to agitate him into picking up that next red card, like the stupid one he picked up back on Tuesday away to PSG.
     
  7. BigEffingGooner

    BigEffingGooner Member+

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    And again what history is there that he would give in to those attempts or get another one? You sound like a crazy person. You went to the Trump school of making sh1t up. There is no evidence to support him being some wild red card machine, good lord you would think we were talking about Costa or Vinnie %#$@ing Jones ...

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  8. elessar78

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    May 12, 2010
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    Nothing real just my conjecture, but the guy is just so disrespected. He's a decent forward, not great. The French are underwhelmed by him, we are underwhelmed by him. He's not Benzema, but he also beat out Lacazette. He's not Henry, but we've also struggled for various reasons to find someone better.

    I think it's good for Big Sexy to play with a chip on his shoulder.
     
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  9. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
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    Gigi, I think the rest of us, rather intentionally, try to treat certain posters with kid gloves.
     
  10. BIGHMW

    BIGHMW Member+

    Oct 10, 2010
    Port Townsend, WA
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    You bet I am crazy, although if you actually met me in person, you would think otherwise, as do most of my fans, but back to the crazy theory, If you do read Question 6 on my Q&A page on BIGHMW.com http://www.bighmw.com/site/page/qa you would know that I do happen to have a combination of ADHD, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, and something called Pervasive Developmental Delay, as diagnosed by The Amen Clinic Northwest (in Tacoma, WA) back in 2005.

    [​IMG]

    Hey dude, I'm actually voting for Hillary (I wish we could go off the board and vote for Bernie Sanders and he would win in a landslide), because I DO NOT trust Donald Trump to not send civil rights back to the 1950s.

    As for me "making shit up", I happen to be somewhat unimformed/underinformed on certain things/issues (living in/letting your brain rot in an isolated small town like here in Port Townsend will do that to you) so I do have that tendency of jumping like that.
     
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  11. daedalus

    daedalus Member+

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    i may be remembering incorrectly but i feel like wenger tries other people out at the start of every year before injury (or other such things) forces his hand and he switches to giroud.

    at which point, he plays giroud ALL. THE. DAMN. TIME. until he is sufficiently tired to be shit.

    then we get back to the "giroud is shit" routine again
     
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  12. crazy150

    crazy150 Member+

    Aug 27, 2006
    North Cuba
    I hope you are right prince. I think we will see it at some point. I'm just worried about him being the outlet for the CBs. He can maintain possession, but moving the ball quickly and driving past a bank of defenders doesn't seem like his strong suit to me. But as skeptical as I am, I want to give home a shot. What's your ideal pairing behind ozil?
     
  13. SaratogaGooner

    Nov 23, 2009
    Clifton Park NY
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    Olivia needs to start. He needs to play and claw his way to a goal. The only way his "bad behavior" will settle down is if he's scoring goals. His rather large ego requires this. So I say he starts and does everything in his power ( short of yellows or red) to score. He tends to get on rolls so when one goal comes, more follow. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here. The guy frustrates me to no end also but I don't think sitting him will help the situation and like it or not we do need him.
     
  14. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

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    There may be something else as well....He seemed particularly edgy in Paris.
     
  15. DeltaSig

    DeltaSig Member

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    Alexis up top today somethings up.

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  16. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

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    COYG!
     
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  17. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
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    Wtf
     
  18. daedalus

    daedalus Member+

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    paired with the right partner (like xhaka, not coquelin), ramsey does not need to be the outlet for the CB. his job is to run - forward to overload the offense and backward to help out the back 5.
     
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  19. darcgun

    darcgun Member+

    Jan 11, 2008
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    arsene doesn't learn or he doesn't care...i tend to the latter.
     
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  20. DeltaSig

    DeltaSig Member

    Mar 7, 2007
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    Well Ox is on the bench at least...

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  21. daedalus

    daedalus Member+

    Apr 24, 2004
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    why did we spend money on xhaka?

    y'know, i can almost tolerate that attacking unit if he would just rotate them: iwobi up front, sanchez on the left (because that's where he'll play ANYWAY), and walcott on the right.
     
  22. darcgun

    darcgun Member+

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    0x has been poor, but theo shouldn't be anywhere near the team.
     
  23. casoccerdad47

    casoccerdad47 Member+

    Mar 31, 2006
    He obviously wants Santi on the field and the only way to do that is to play Coq beside him. He may run Santi into the ground, at which point he will be forced to make the change.
     
  24. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

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    Our line-up continues to puzzle. Giroud & Xhaka can't get a place in the XI. Not to mention Elneny. Arsene knows???

    In any case, there's always this...


    COYG!!!!
     
  25. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

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    That's what I was thinking. Which is great for those of us who like Santi. But man it does seem a little stupid from a rotation/preservation point of view.
     

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