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Gooners are as thick as 2 short planka's! Ive not seen enough of him but I think maybe he needs beefing up some. Ive just said summet similar about Tammy as somebody stated he wasn't big enough to handle the PL. I think this is something the majority of our yoof suffer with - IF suffer is the right word.' We all know how physical the PL can get and these kids - ALL players, need to either be able to take a kick, be good enough to avoid the kicks, or big enough to give them back when needed. We do have a few feeble looking players resembling any smack head Ive ever known. Jorgi,CHO even Pulisic are on the thin side. And with Sarris avoidence of weights they need to beef up some other way I think.

I understand exactly what you mean and I think thats 1 subject that the academy should look at. We dont produce very strong lads in general. But is the top of the Championship that much different to the PL? I;m sure they could give a lot of the PL a hard fight when it came down to it. Yes he needs buiding up - do does AC, Jorgi,CHO. I'm in no way saying to start him but as a backup AND HG I can only see a win win. The guys in the Championship are the same size as the PL. Its not a different country. If he can get kicked around there he can take a few bumps here IMHO of course. I would maybe trust him more than I do Barks or RLC. Neither have proven themselves more than a couple of times. OK I know I've never thought RLC upto it but have always HOPED he would come good. And no I dont take the injury excuse. He wasn't hot before it. BUT I do think he is our current best chance of goals in that position. I am praying to anyone or thing that cares to listen that we get a shit hot ACM before a ban. We need one badly.

Have used FF for years. Switched from Chrome and never looked back. Never given me any problems on here or anywhere. Not tried DLing on me mobile. Tho I did sign on to here with it using my WiFi. But soo farthe 'new' phones just been used for calls/Txts. Still very much old school. So when peeps have said about probs here it must be different on diff browsers. I will check them all next time I see someone make a post about it.

Firefox mate. I was wondering why you talked to me about Torbrowser in a msg a short time back. Presumed it was about VPN's?? IF I ever need to do something on the low low I use Opera as its got a very good FREE VPN that GOOD private tracking sites suggest.

I must be in a hot spot cause I've had no probs at all.

Ohhh Believe me bud so am I!! I am still up for a complete overhaul of the players and the club from top to bottom. But the old saying of 'You can't make a silk purse from a pigs ear' is meant for us under Sarri. Not that the player we have are totally shite but they are a mishmash of a team put together by our previous managers to suit THEIR particular, more defense orientated, style. You cant expect them to fully adapt to a totally different type of football system and manager with a forward posession based thinking. He needs to be given a different kind of player. More offense minded. Apart from us needing to upgrade several of the lads Sarri needs to change and adapt to the PL also. We have seen this season that the system Sarri playe HAS worked. We just need to back it fully and give him the right tools to do the job. If then he did fuck up and somehow Roman wasn't happy we would at least have a group of players of a good quality for the next manager to use.

Wonder if they need a Waterboy too?

He's sounding almost human and feeling apathy with Sarri! That Bein interview was back in Jan and he got paid £120k for it! Jose Mourinho explains when Sarri-ball will really start to work at Chelsea The former Blues boss has been speaking about Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/news/jose-mourinho-explains-sarri-ball-15915046

Will take your word on it Mrs

So we loan him out - in the hope of him getting the regular experience he needs to better himself - to hopefully benefit us or himself so maybe we can sell him and make money to hopefully buy new players to strengthen the 1st team. But what he does is play for some other development team at a lower level. We really need to look at our academy and work out exactly what its purpose is. Is it for the benefit of the player , to make money from their sales or to use in the 1st team? We need to create a proper structure for them. To define some sort of path to integrate them into the 1st team. Either to train them in house, practicing,playing with them. Or send them on a 2 year loam to a trusted club where we know they will play regular. Then if they still dont reach the standard we need them to be at to come into the 1st's then we sell them. None of this loanagoround BS. Its just plain daft/

Would YOU play him over Dave? I admit i don't know him very well but defending wise he looks very good. Doesn't seem the best passer in the world but does get forward

Thought he was generally off yesterday and pretty shakey. Happy belated birthday tho matey

Hard to please bruv! But game of 2 halves really. Started good. Clean sharp,quick passing. I thought even Willian and Ede released the ball quicker than they normally do. But we were cream crackered in the 2nd half. We dropped back which de motivates the forwards IMO. We either buy into keeping the high line and the high pressing completely or it won;t work. We also have to give Fulham some reps. We knew they were going to be a bunch of honey badgers fighting for their PL lives. Specially trying to show their new boss they still had pride. BUT at the same time they are 2nd from bottom. We should be killing teams like this. I expected Emerson to have played better given his start and wanting to show he could do it. We need to look at this for the next season. Not happy with either LB. TBH I thoght all the defense looked a bit shakey. Rudi too. Expected more from both him and AC. AC needs to get some balls and man up cause hes getting knocked about.. Should give Ampadu some time tho hes smaller. Jorgi had a very good game. Organizing play, good passes and the goal was well taken. It will do his confidence a world of good.. Getting a good partnership going with Higs. Specially putting balls over the top to him. Higs had some Morata type chances but took the goal well. Will only get better. Was strange to hear how much Lineker liked him. I know how hard it is to do it. Seeing hes our best player, we are fighting for top 4 etc but Eden shouldn't have played IMO. He didn't give us much and looked out of it. MAYBE he was feeling the knock v Spuds? But it was the perfect time to bench him for CHO. This is one thing I wish Sarri would do more/ Tho Eden wasn;t at his best what I do think was helpful was how Fulham had 2/3 players on him. He drew them like a magnet for that pass to Jorgi. So in that respect he was handy. Pedro coming on for Eden SEEMED logical but he was of no use at all. At his age it was obvious after the running he did and his work rate v Spuds he was going to need a rest. I dont know what CHO has to do to get time. Who knows? Maybe Kiev? Very disappointed in Barkles. His passes are very poor. RLC now hes recovered should be the starter. He was at least trying to do summet after he came on. Only plus side I see for Barkles is hes HG.Thats something we need to look at and not just players like Green. But the main thing in the end was we took 3 points from a hard local derby after a bad splell and playing some big games. I'm happy.

Still not sold on him taking over from Luiz. We need a stronger more WC name.

Made a mistake and the goal left him flat footed but he made some very good saves from a desperate, fighting for their lives team.

Had a good game yesterday. Was happy for him. Didm't deserve the stick he got. If you watch him he is always pointing when he is off the ball and directing traffic. His confidence will only get stronger with the goal too.

I'd start off with a normal strong Lineup and hope we can bring in the B team soon. But would start CHO/RLC/Emerson MAYBE AC for Luiz

We don't really want either to win. Just get a 0 - 0 be good. Maybe get a dose of equine flu or some 3 month lasting virus that wipes their teams out. Which is opposite to how I normally feel as I always think we have to beat the best to be the nest. And theres no pride beating a weakened team. This season i'll take it any way we can!

LOL Waterboys hit his twilight years premature then eh. Hes getting a hellova wage for not even warming the bench. Not sure if he is in the wrong for taking it or us for giving it him.

With Dave here till 2022 and Alonso another year after him I really cant see either leaving unless something big changes things. And I feel a bit of a cunt for knocking Dave cause hes always been a fave player abd dependable since he joined. Plus the fact hes given 7 assists so far. (Dont really see why Pedros pass is included as an assist tho) And as Dave could be of good use as a CB OR in the event of new manager and formation. But I cant help but wonder how much difference it would make with 2 stronger, more dynamic FBs I know its a hard thing to say (and probably unfair for him being so strong in previous seasons and may well be again IF the formation/manager is altered) but having 2 attacking FBs would make a big difference for us. Plus add a good strong partner for Rudi.

Anyone know whats going on with Malcom? He went for weeks as a none starter. 5 games playing less than 10 minutes. Yet he starts against RM the only time Ive watched Barca/RM in ages and has an amazing game. Scores and gets MOTM. Hes been on the bench ever since. I know they aren't short of class but it does seem a waste of his talents.

Nah. Makes far too much sense and too strong. Would be nice to stick a good striker in the middle and a red hot ACM behind them.

Wasn't knocking him. More of a question of what you considered Twilight years. As we have a few currently reaching a particular age.

MAYBE if he had better options to choose from he would? Wat do you consider twilight years - Giroo? Willian,Pedro,Luiz?