daggy_333

There are a few people on here who would moan no matter what formation or players were selected.

I'm going to drive there using my lucky route, park in my lucky space, buy a hot dog off a specific vendor and go through all the lucky rituals

I've even started letting the people at the church by villa park to talk to me and give me a leaflet in the vain hope it'll assist us somehow!

Oh yes, my error. The points tally I have stated remains the same though.

PS. I am not your pal. Never met you and never want to.

Wow what a delightful little cretin you are.

That's a blow as Roberts can be a physical handful

On the attendance I think about 30,100

30100? That's a bit specific lol...

Not really, we were playing 4231

Yesterday was more of a 4141

Yesterday was not a 4141 at all, sat on the half way line of the Doug Ellis Stand i get a pretty good view of the formation and yesterday was definitely a 4231.

A crazy statement. Could you talk us through the highlights then? Nah, neither could the pundits. There werent any. Thats why they were talking about Martin O'neill resigning when he hadnt actually.

Holmans rocket goes in - an 8? Wow. What games a 9 & 10 then? What score would you give the game last week v Man Utd?, The 6-4 v Blackburn? Bayen Munich 1 - 2 Man Utd in the champs lge final? Are you saying that at best, they are only 2 points above yesterdays game had Holmans shot gone in? Like I said, a crazy statement.

i appreciate that 0-0s can be exciting, and people see it differently, dependent on how/where they watch it. However, this was a very poor/dull game with very little quality from either side.

Well i was at the match and i thought that for a 0-0 it was a decent match, neither team really deserved to lose so a draw was a fair result.

He is injured.

Any timeframe?

I don't understand the love in for Bannan, if that performance is one that we're happy with then it's no wonder we are where we are in the league.

What's going on with Chris Herd at the moment?

Is he still injured or just not making the match day squad?

I'd like to see him play against Reading as a CB if Vlaar/Baker are unavailable.

I think that twice in yesterdays game he jumped and turned away from the ball when an Arsenal player was shaping to cross the ball which led to them turning inside him. If he can stop doing that i'll be happy.

Looking like a bargain signing so far though!

Good performance against the Arsenal but we can no longer take draws at home as an acceptable result.

We have four easier games coming up against Reading, QPR, Stoke and Norwich and we should be getting an absolute minimum of 7 points from a possible 12 from these games and even then it will leave us on 17 points from 17 games which is quite a poor return. The period leading up to Christmas and throughout the festive season is mainly against tougher teams (on paper anyway) so it is likely that not many points will be yielded there.

At best I can see us finish 2012 on 24 points from 21 games which will leave us with 17 games to get the 16+ points to take us to/over the magic 40 point safety target.

It's going to be a tough nail biting few months until May.

The Norwich game is in the Capital One Cup pal....

Thought he did ok.

Bottled a few tackles but generally kept the ball well and has the ability to get the ball out wide quickly and accurately.

I think his backing out of tackles has annoyed me more than anything from today, his passing is quite often crisp and precise but it seemed a bit wimpy to be backing out of tackles so often!

What did the Arse fans do to Wenger?

Started chanting " You don't know what you're doing", when he took Giroud off for Coqulin(sp)

Well anyone who's read this thread will know i'm a big fan of Bannan. And I think he's really performing well at the minute. Credit where credits due, had a fantastic game today.

I'm starting to think that my opinion must be tainted by where i sit in the ground lol. I think i counted 3 occasions today where he wimped out of making a challenge, the fact that he is starting week in week out now is a sad indictment of our current squad. (In my opinion)

Just got back from the ground, very pleasing performance on the whole.

Just one thing though, I can't understand the praise for Bannan, i think i counted 3 occasions where he wimped out of making a tackle-thought it was a joke when he got MOTM in the ground :-/

This is answered in this thread already.

Just read back through the posts (apologies for not doing it first off).

It's only the Randy Lerner Thread that i'm having the problem with-non of the others that i've tried are giving me any grief.

Tap the star in the topic list, not the topic title. If may be that your mobile is interpreting the former as the latter.

Tried that this morning as you suggested and still no joy...

Being the neanderthal that i am, my better half does my washing for me, she assures me she's been washing it at 30 degrees and also inside out.

I just hope they allow me to exchange it!

Ive had the new shirt since September and the macron logos have started to peel off. As i've had it for a while are they likely to exchange it or am i stuck with it?

Not sure if anybody else has had this issue, but when accessing the site off my mobile i sometimes find that when i try to enter certain forum topics i'm directed to the very first page of the discussion rather than the last and as there is no option to select the newest page i either have to click through every page or just leave it.

Any suggestions?

Or we could all turn into Happy Clappy's and pretend everything is ok

It's not a case of being happy clappy, i can assure you i'm not sat here smiling while i beat my hands together, it's a case of not believing everything is as bad as morons like you paint them to be!

Worst start to the Premiership ever. Maybe now in the bottom three and being hammered 5-0. Yep patience is what we need.

I guess we should all turn into Morpheus clones now and sit and moan day in day out from our armchairs...

it's all about context isnt it. 9 points from 12 games for a team playing under their 6th manager since 2012 that's heavily comprised of young players. doesn't look pretty, but the context of the thing is that for the first time in a long time we're actually playing football, looking dangerous and have some semblance of a gameplan. things are coming together, have some **** patience for christ sake

Don't feed the troll

What a calamity this club is

Are you trying to piss people off in here?

So where are the people who said there were positives from the United game now huh?

Wow are you always this smug? Heaven forbid some people should try to find some positives out of a defeat...