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Was going to say that... looks he drifted into the comfort zone this game.... very poor. Needs a stint over on the right

Ljungberg about to come on it seems... good chance of him taking a tumble in the box and winning them a pen I'm sure! All he's good at these days.

Plain and simple, hes a burden. Last two games it's looked like it. Annoying if we have to sacrifice 10 minutes every game for him to realise he's fucked and has to come off.

It's a fine line when you play in that position, but you have to contrast it with the Boro game. Great goal there, but very poor overall. Today, brilliant.

HT. Cracks showing in Zoggy as a left back in this game must say... can't fault the effort, but dodgy positioning at times. Just shows what we could be missing with him in a more purely attacking role, about time to stop the nonsense and just have him in left midfield already. Another reason is we really really need Milner out on the right! Anyone else for once really hoping Smith does get booked, that would be 5 and a suspension on the way

Kick up the backside, we are forced to create something again now... looks like it might be tough.

Annoying how clearly it was coming. Not winning anything in the air defensively. Can't afford to lose challenges like that in the box... first ball, second ball, third ball, of course it's a goal afterwards

Oh well that makes it OK then, and far more fair than football Well actually.... yeah!

Don't think I was even aware Danny Murphy played for Fulham now!

Aye, but they accpet it's part of the fun and just get on with it. Wish there was a lot less BS in football too.

How is it not though?

The way a lot of them act on the pitch makes it pretty hard to defend football at times though. I can understand the annoyance some people have about football though. It's not really a case of "If you don't like it ignore it, or don't bother saying anything" because it's on all the time (pretty much every day of the week now) and is talked about all the time. Even moreso in a city like Newcastle! Having lived there for a short while, it must be daily murder if you don't like the game I'm just glad I do like football.

Take a wild guess

Because he used to be poor, would get the odd goal but overall would hold up play because was too slow to catch on, would give the ball away too often, overall costly to the team. Compltely different player now though.

Said for a while he isn't nearly as bad as people make him out to be. He was poor at first though for quite a while... but come a long long way in the last few months. Guess it's a credit to the Arsenal recruitement and training system.

3 for Adebayor... impressive! Rich man's Ameobi tag well and truly shaken off!

Fucking Derby

from .co.uk any time soon apparently.

That is one thing in particular I just cannot comprehend with Shola. No matter where the ball goes, where it bounces, how it bounces, whether it takes a deflection or not... he almost always seems to be taken off guard by it. He never expects the ball to do what it actually does. Not only is that a sign of a poor sportsman, it's also the sign of an idiot.

"we're going to take a couple of pictures, Charles" Zog: "What?" "Say Cheese..." Zog: "Huh?" http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7470/zogop0.jpg

Ohhh... very classy!

For the next game: yes. But indeed no one should be automatic over a whole season.

however tanked Bolton away, dominated the Wigan game and should have won the Smog game too. Come on man, get a grip. Its a brand new team with loads of new players. Things dont happen over nnight, no matter how short sighted you are. aye, and it was great to watch the efforts from the Wigan game all go to waste.

I think we have every right to be disapointed, even angry about the way we lost to Derby. Team selection especially is very worrying from Sam. Even for a team "in the making" or "gradually getting there" which we are, it was as if right from the start we were deliberately putting extra hurdles out there for us to jump over. You have to mirror that result with the Villa home game. We could have won that, but at the same time it was a performance from a team far from being a finished article it was disappointing, yet there were plenty of positives... Can't really see much positive to take at all from Monday night. Just a question of forgetting it and thinking of the next game. I hope Sam doesnt forget though, and adjusts some of his tactics accordingly.

There you go... you're falling into the "big man" trap aswell! The man can't jump, having him as keeper would worse than having Martins in goal