(The not-so-temporary quite-official) Gooner Thread

I always get nervous with Westham, experienced pain too many times, especially at their ground at night for some reason. 

Almost tempted to try and shut it out and just look up the score at 11am... 

I don't think they're the same threat they were at Upton Park.

I still regret the 1980 Cup Final

A sad morning

interesting line up to say the least 

Cech

Maitland-N, Nacho, Kos, Bellerin 

Jack, Xhaka

Iwobi Ozil Sanchez

Giroud.

I'm guessing this formation.

team for WH is:

                       Cech, 

Bellerin, Koscielny, Monreal, Maitland-Niles, 

           Iwobi, Xhaka, Wilshere, 

                  Ozil, Alexis, 

                     Giroud

interesting to see how jack and iwobi go in the midfield. 

very tempted to put Giroud in my tips?

Compulsory 3 points here lads

also that lacazette is on the bench.... 

Can't see us playing Christmas Tree

That said Vaelo and I didn't want 4-2-3-1 with GX and JW

Valeo, sorry. 

No Per, no Holding

I assume Chambers is CB cover

Goal Rush

For crying out loud

FWP 

Iwobi next to ozil and Alexis would more make sense, but that does leave us a little exposed with Xhaka and JW.

what ever their setup, i just hope a)we win, b)we play well...

geez that was lucky...we need to put in the back of net soon to take the wind out of them. 

that was a 2 v 5

Absolutely atrocious 

You can't win anything with 'defending' like that. 

iwobi is honking up the place at the mo

and hes been dragged for Welbz

fudgeing trying to throw it away at the end. just everyone switching off. 

I hope Wenger has the balls to drop Sanchez for the Liverpool match. F*cker is infuriating.

very shark

Ozil and Jack awesome

Otherwise a waste of my morning

Losing serious ground now - Loss and two Draws in our last 3.

Gotta get this sh*t back on track asap. 

Hard to play when they park 11 men behind the ball, but we also just played far too slow in transition and all we wanted to do was cross to giroud, which WH figured out and then marked him accordingly. We had no plan b. 

Also after seeing that, Im more convinced that we need to loan iwobi for a season and bring some one else in that can do a better job in the short term. And that we need to start looking for a new #1 keeper for the start of next season. Cech isnt maintaining a level we need to him to. 

good to see jack in the team, i forget that he is 25 some times. He looked very good on the ball and has a place in that formation. 

It's like deja vu all over again.

Again.

if we go 4 at the back 

Then bench GX and pair Elneny with Jack. 

Serious lift required 

Jack one of the few bright spots this morning. Sanchez is horrifically out of form, park him on the bench and if he doesn't like it I'd take 20 million for him in Jan rather than nothing in June. The only thing is we wouldn't find anyone with quality in Jan, so we'd have to keep our hands off the 4th place trophy for another year.

The NLD game feels like years ago now. For me it highlighted the potential of this team, what a new manager could do week-in week-out, if only it was so obvious to those working on the inside of the club too.

Don't worry guys, at least we'll make sure not to take advantage and drop points again too.

Will be interesting to see the rotation for Liverpool. Monreal, Kosc, Bellerin, GX, Ozil, Sanchez all played 90 minutes x 2 in 4 days, surely they can't be up for it again on Saturday.

Let's just beat Newcastle first.

Fark me, I'm clearly losing the plot. 

Didn't watch the game in the end. Recorded to watch after work but ended up seeing the result by accident - forgot I was avoiding something and went on Facebook, not the first time I've done that. Doesn't sound like I missed an awful lot though.

what a lovely volley by ozil. but really we should have had soo many more. 

credit to newcastle though, the threw their bodies into everything and blocked a lot of shots. 

Liked what we saw from sanchez this morning, i havent got the sens that he has had his head in the game for most of this season, but today he was putting himself about, closing down, making runs. Hope this level of effort continues and he adds the final product to it.  

yes good goal

I see the player who said we are soft was red carded for a thuggish tackle this morning. 

3 points was great in the weekend, jack looked solid again. Ozil has been really great last few games

Must say i was expecting Xhaka to be a lot better now, i like his passing game but his tackling and errors do scare me

xhaka would be my most disappointing player of the season so far... if it wasn't for sanchez's performances. 

I get the strong impression Xhaka is becoming this seasons scapegoat. Could he be better? Yes, but he's also regularly exposed as the last midfielder which doesn't appear to be his game. He's a deeper lying playmaker, someone to keep things ticking over and defend a little but he's not an enforcer/play breaker like Coquelin - which is what we need more of next to Ramsey in the 3-4-3.

He can't be blamed for the fact that in front of him Sanchez is woefully out of form, or that behind him Koscielny, Monreal, and Mustafi have all had brain farts leading to goals.

To be fair he's having his fair share of brain farts. Some of his giveaways have been very bad, under little pressure with multiple passing options...

looks like our game isn't on TV

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really hope we smash ox this weekend :P We need defence to be REALLY good from the START against liver

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