So how about Joel last night eh?

[Jake]

Top move making sure he's fresh for Saturday :nod:

[Monty91]

The booing when he was subbed showed how profoundly thick our fans are.

[Jake]

It was a poor decision and you know it.

And then Sanchez off for Walcott, vintage.

[redgunamo]

[In Arsene we rust]

No.

Why didn't he start Welbeck (2 goals in 3 games) and Campbell together?

Arsene knows... :banghead:

[Monty91]

That it was the right decision?

It was a decision grounded in logic. Booing a logical decision before you even know whether it's worked or not is cretinous.

[gco40203]

To be fair he had a good first half and was beginning to fade in the second. However he was looking no more jaded than anyone else on the pitch and frankly neither Wellbeck nor Walcott did anything meaningful after coming on.

In principle I can understand the thinking of bringing on fresh legs down that side of the pitch but it was probably 10 minutes too early as Campbell was doing OK.

['Neg]

...because the f**king SFC has benched him for weeks in favour of Theo and that c**tox.

[Monty91]

instead of Campbell and he'd hit the woodwork twice and was full of energy heavily involved in most of our attacking play until the final whistle.

2) Wenger is being cautious with Wellbeck after his injury and didn't want him to play twice in 4 days. Had he been fully fit, I'm sure he'd have started ahead of Giroud.

[Jake]

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

cost us badly as the Ox/Theo combo contributed very little in a number of crucial games. This isn't hindsight, I spoke of this as soon as it happened and if a layman like me can see it, then I'm sure a professional like AW could too. It was favoritism of the worst kind. Ok,he hoped Theo would return all guns blazing, fair enough. But the fact is Campbell was only back in the side due to Oxlade's stupid injury and Theo being the opposition's 12th player on a regular basis.

[Monty91]

by putting him in the team in the first place.

[redgunamo]

This is football; everyone accepts you can't have it both ways. Campbell might have stayed on and rescued the game for us.

[Monty91]

And in a game like that, you want to keep your aerial strength on the pitch for the inevitable set pieces and long balls in the final minutes.

['Neg]

[Rich]

[Monty91]

argued that Campbell was a viable option and could play an important part in our season, they were ridiculed.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You simply latch onto whichever name is being bandied about in the media.

One day Aubameyang, another day Lacazatte, another day Cavani.

In summary you are a simpleton, an idiot, a fool.

I agree with you on Giroud.

[In Arsene we rust]

This isn't a time to be cautious, if a player's fit then he can play.

You can't not start a player because you think he 'might' get injured, if that was the case then you wouldn't consider half the Arsenal squad for selection! :hehe:

[Monty91]

:-|

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A player who did very well, yet was utterly removed from playing, when others returned, others more senior. In itself no crime and of course a selection policy that many other managers would follow but hardly one that suggests an unflinching confidence in the player.

By the way a player who (if reports are to be believed, though we both know you cannot) would have been allowed to leave the club last summer had agreements been made.

Let’s be honest, you are so steadfast / blinkered in your defence of Wenger, which you are entitled to be, that you probably give him credit for the emergence of Coquelin in the first team.

[Jake]

And who immediately moved to the left when TJ came on.

Inspired.

[redgunamo]

that happens to go right. God knows, they get enough ****e for whatever goes wrong.

[Monty91]

[Monty91]

Our fans disagreed, but by booing the substitution they acknowledge they were wrong and that their judgement cannot be trusted and the only sensible option is to, as general rule of thumb, support Wenger's decisions.

[Jake]

Give it up m, you're exhausting yourself.

[redgunamo]

Instinctive, intuitive genius is often what's wanted.

Actually, of course, answering my own point; logic is *precisely* for when whatever it is you did didn't work :homer:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Human emotions all the same, difficult to restrain oneself especially in an environment such as football where one is so emotionally invested.

Rough times M, 3 defeats on the bounce.

What a simultaneously perfect and terrible time for a NLD to pop up.

[Monty91]

You judge substitutions on whether they had a positive impact on your general level of play, not on the end result.

After all, if Welbeck had continuously taken on the entire Swansea team and passed to Giroud who kept fluffing it, then would you still say the substitution didn’t work?

[redgunamo]

while wishing, overall, he were actually a different player entirely.

Giroud, for instance; we all love him while yearning for him to actually be Gerd Mueller instead.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Can't stand the f**ker to be fair.

[redgunamo]

Now it's only about results, winning. Everyone already knows we are a decent side, that we can play.

[Jake]

[redgunamo]