Comments on: Rope-A-Dope Gunners Are Contenders Again

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:51:41 +0000

Guessing Wenger is fuming now since Wolves are playing their reserves against Man Utd. 10 changes since the game that beat the Tiny Totts. Wouldn’t it be great if all bottom-10-teams always played ten reserves players against the top four. Would kind of make the top four stay the top four wouldn’t it? I’m all for playing a side that is “strong enough” for the opposition and rest a few important players for a big game, but play just the reserves? This early in the season? If Wenger isn’t fuming at least I am. Just hoping Wolves will do us the same “honor” when they play us…

PS. The rule we’ve all seen time and time again but here it is once more: “Section E, rule 20 says: “In every league match each participating club shall field a full strength team.”

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:09:25 +0000

Don’t know if you remember Adriano’s antics all along his career in Europe but if we get him he will make Adebayor look like a Zen master. We could perhaps use him on the pitch but there could be a huge price to pay in the dressing room and in training. A very big gamble.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:06:44 +0000

A good beeb article about the ACN: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/8389588.stm
It’s between January 10th and 31st.
Chelski will be with 4 players (Essien, Drogba, Obi Mikel and Kalou) just returning when we meet them on Feb 6th (we’ll get Song and Eboue back).

Interestingly Man United and Pool don’t have a single african player.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:58:42 +0000

‘Holic: Been away for too long to know what’s off-putting about Birmingham. I just have respect for what McLeish is doing there on a shoestring budget. With Larsson.

chippy: actually they aren’t exactly the same to be honest. We have more young “football manager”-type fans than them. Lots of older/more traditional types at Pool. I just didn’t include the “stay behind the team” kind of postings but there are plenty of them.

By: jt

jt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:10:15 +0000

SO Saha playing in the ‘Europa’ cup doesn’t disqualify him from playing in the Champions League this year? Not a terrible idea. The semi-lateral thinking of getting Adriano out is not so bad either, though who knows what his mental state is like these days. Would still like to see a big guy come in who scores a lot of goals (to add another dimension to the team, and provide continual squad competition when RVP returns) but they don’t come cheap – also unlikely to be available for europe this season, but at this stage we can still win the league!