David Edgar

He really did struggle to get a coherent message across. Like father like son.

Mike Ashley's mouth piece.

If Matt Ritchie says it was full, it was full. End of story.

(very relaxed about it)

And yet Bruce has sanctioned every single transfer

Bruce junior wading in to defend his old man only to offer contradictions to what his Dad said The Bruce family don't appear to be the sharpest.

Doesn't it make sense to swap Martial in this week and then cash in on that price rise next week?

Oh and the reason Longstaff and Schar looked off the boil today was because the plans to which they used to play to, with their passing games, are no longer in effect. Players are playing with freedom and not running the channels and moving into or out of space like they used to. So their options are reduced or they are completely cut out of the possession. I've said it half a dozen times, but S-M coming on and wandering around the pitch, without any thought for the importance of making the correct runs as an attacker, constantly dropping behind the ball so he could get 5 yards of space was embarrassing.

That incident in the second half where our 3 central midfielders all charged to the right side to press tight and left the entire centre of the pitch open Imagine the pure rage on Rafa's face if that had happened last season

I can't believe we've lost a manager who was slowly building a very functional 25 man squad - despite being on a shoestring budget and severe restrictions on the type of player he could bring in - and ended up with a yes man who will happily take the players signed by the club to flip for profit without any consideration as to whether they will form a balanced squad/team or not. Absolutely sickening and it is going to lead to relegation, again.

Tell me how? First half we played fairly well...plenty of good spells with no end product.our attacking play lacked the structure from last season. A lot of effort went into each attack, at the expense of retaining our discipline to avoid being counter attacked. Under no terms did Rafa allow us to play without the positional control needed. There were numerous occasions where we were exposed, but luckily Arsenal were without 3/4 first team attackers and we were not punished. Second half we struggled to get out of our own halfyup, there was no clear strategy to counter Arsenal's growing possession. In the past, Rondon would be very effective at holding up the ball. Ayoze and Almiron would run the channels well and the defence and midfield would play to plan. Obviously, we would need some luck to score enough to win/draw against clubs who have budgets 2/3x what we had, but at least with Rafa you could always see a smart plan in action. With Bruce, the plan was not clever and his in game management turned out to do more harm than good., but still managed one or two half chances. I literally do not remember these?There was many a game under Rafa where we barely had an attempt, and you know there was.yup Stop trying to rewrite history.what?Some of those games were frustrating as fuck, just like today.we were never as ill disciplined as today under Rafa so stop trying to rewrite history.

Today's performance bore no resemblance to how we played under Rafa against the big teams. Nobody in their right mind would say so.

On watching Joelinton and S-M, we 100% have not replaced Ayoze's general play and teamwork. We've lost a player who knew how to attack and defend in equal measure.

First game is never easy to judge a striker. I always think back to Demba Ba playing like Bambi on ice for the first few games and he turned out to be a class act once fit and up to speed. But I can already get a sense of why Rafa was against spending £40m on this guy. It wouldn't surprise me if he ended up with similar or slightly higher goals + assists to Rondon across the season, but without contributing as Rondon would elsewhere. With Rondon we had a leader, an example and someone who put his heart and soul into every facet of the game. Joelinton didn't show any of that today - and I actually thought his holdup play was definitely inferior to Rondon's. For instance, there was a corner in the second half where he proper half-arsed his marking job and the Arsenal player got the header in. No way would Rondon allow that. £16m on Rondon and the rest would strengthen the weaknesses in our squad which have remained untouched.

Frank Lampard's Chelsea getting pasted.

We need to keep a log of all these little incidents. Will be quite the list come the end of his tenure.

This is spectacular. The man is a fucking moron.

Pissing myself at Bruce not only wanting to shift Ritchie into the midfield three, but also failing to communicate that to the player he brought on.

I don't think anyone is struggling to explain the woeful second half I mean the substitutions were baffling. I could quite clearly see why it went to shit. Steve Bruce is the answer.

I don't think anyone is struggling to explain the woeful second half

Saint-Maximin did it better.

I wonder if he asked to have a chance in midfield.

Will laugh all day if Saint-Maximin keeps ignoring his positional responsibilities.

That was a perfect second half showing. Someone ask that Telegraph journalist how he intends to defend Bruce in his next tweet.

This mouth breather is a tactical dinosaur. His changes in the second half significantly weakened us and played a huge part in the Arsenal winner. He made three subs that included both positional swaps and formation changes. Consequently the players looked more and more lost as the game went on. So once Arsenal scored, the game was over save for a moment of luck - which never materialised. And the players he subbed on did not look like they had a fluid understanding within the team. Saint-Maximin had no fixed position and wandered everywhere, which lead to us being even more disjointed in attack. He all too often dropped deep and that meant we didn't have players stretching the Arsenal back line to allow us the space to move forward. It genuinely didn't look like he had been given a specific instruction on where and how to play. To be honest, it didn't look like we had any clear strategy to get at Arsenal all game, but by the end we looked like a Sunday league team with players just doing what they wanted. The complete opposite to how Rafa had us set up. I have no idea what Bruce thought would happen bringing Willems on into midfield. None of the midfield three knew when to stay or move. And then I think he pushed Willems out left and Ritchie came into the midfield three? The guy didn't look match sharp and didn't look like he knew what to do in the system. There is a running theme here with players looking lost. And talking of the midfield. How many times did everyone press at the same time to leave huge gaps in the midfield? There was one clear as day moment where the midfield three sprinted to the right wing to press and Arsenal casually passed it out. I just laughed. Last year, we always looked to have control over space on the pitch, but today we looked ragged. Later on, Almiron ended up in midfield and looked totally ineffectual in both attack and defence Compare that to how much he offered both going forwards and without the ball when Rafa had him playing wide left. What an absolute disgrace this club is.