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Ladygooner

Ladygooner

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Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > Isn't he one of your former players?

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> He is Jah


Tell me this isn't true? Nice enough fella but not Arsenal material. Excited to hear we might be in for Di Maria

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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Ladygooner Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > > Isn't he one of your former players?

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> Tell me this isn't true? Nice enough fella but

> not Arsenal material. Excited to hear we might be

> in for Di Maria


He's not a bad player, and has had a steady season in La Liga. I don't know if it's true but it's all over twitter. I hope Remy being at the last game of the season was a sign, but who knows.

maxxi

maxxi

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Despite the names of Koeman, Poyet and Moyes being bandied around, the departure of Joe Cole (after being totally ignored by Allardyce or shoved out on the wing to be another provider of long balls in) and Morrison looking like joining Swansea seems to point to BFS being kept on.


Another season of: Thump - "Get on the end of it! ... Big strong lad... importance of a clean sheet..." beckons

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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> Fair play. A cracking cup final. Gotta say

> Ramsey's finish for the winner was world class. I

> like him. He's some player you've got there. You'd

> better hope Real Madrid don't come calling. He

> certainly wouldn't look out of place in their

> team.


He's a talented lad and grounded, which I like a lot. Thought Giouds back heel to set it up was good play, as for Cazorla's free kick, quality. Well done to Hull for making it a great game to watch, well form the 45 minute onwards anyway. I went with my son and 2 of his mates to a pub in Holloway Road to watch it, and had as much booze poured over me as I got down my neck. I know people like to celebrate, but don't they know how bloody dear a pint is these days?

Alan Medic

Alan Medic

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I think the dilemma of the owners at WH is that they have to stay in the PL with the move to the Olympic Stadium happening. They know SA will deliver that with his record. However, what manager could they get who could ensure PL status and get WH playing the way they think (or their fans at least) they should be playing? Add, on a budget, to that. Perhaps Moyes would?


I missed the FA Cup Final as I chose to watch Barca v AM. That was fantastic but so it seems the Cup Final was, which is fairly unusual.


The CL Final should be good.

Ladygooner

Ladygooner

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Having just watched the highlights I have to say that I thought the refereeing was pretty poor at the FA Cup. There were 3 good penalty shouts for Arsenal and every time Huddlestone took a free kick he move it a good few years forward - 8 yards in one case highlighted by the ITV cameras. I hate to whinge about referees but really they need to get better on these big occasions.
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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I think the dilemma of the owners at WH is that

> they have to stay in the PL with the move to the

> Olympic Stadium happening. They know SA will

> deliver that with his record. However, what

> manager could they get who could ensure PL status

> and get WH playing the way they think (or their

> fans at least) they should be playing? Add, on a

> budget, to that. Perhaps Moyes would?

>

>



That may be the dilemma for the board - and I think it's moot that he'd keep us up on last year's show anyway. But for fans, paying ?800+ for a season ticket for absolute dogshite football, with a manager who insults us and our club, has been linked with dodgy deals around our best player, who he won't now play as Morrison 'grassed him'...I don't care he's a fat cooker and i and most of us want him out whatever the consequences, millionaire pundits with their patronising shite on MOTD haven't a clue about proper fans...

Alan Medic

Alan Medic

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Whatever the consequences.........be careful what you wish for. You could plummet down a division or two. Having worked at UP for 6 months and seen how ruthless the current regime was about people who had worked there for years, I have no time for the owners or their very senior representative. What you've written is emotional but not rational. It's not your club and you haven't been insulted. Frankly if you played beautiful football you wouldn't care if the mafia ran the club. Would you?
maxxi

maxxi

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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I think the dilemma of the owners at WH is that

> they have to stay in the PL with the move to the

> Olympic Stadium happening. They know SA will

> deliver that with his record.


Even if this were true - which isn't a given by any means - the result might be the club and BFS moving to the Olympic Stadium but the fans staying away.


Don't think the porn bros. will be too keen on crowds of under 20,000 in a massive shite stadium (for watching football that is - and yes I've seen all the drawings - fans are too far away, it'll be crap) especially watching the thump and run that will have been played for the intervening years.


However, what

> manager could they get who could ensure PL status

> and get WH playing the way they think (or their

> fans at least) they should be playing? Add, on a

> budget, to that. Perhaps Moyes would?

>


If a man like Pulis can change his spots and start a team playing exciting football then almost ANY manager should be able to attempt it without the disaster that most ill-informed commentators seem to predict as an inevitability. Any except a stubborn "My bloody way or the bloody highway" old sod who has a muscle for a brain.



Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Whatever the consequences.........be careful what

> you wish for. You could plummet down a division or

> two. Having worked at UP for 6 months and seen how

> ruthless the current regime was about people who

> had worked there for years, I have no time for the

> owners or their very senior representative. What

> you've written is emotional but not rational. It's

> not your club and you haven't been insulted.

> Frankly if you played beautiful football you

> wouldn't care if the mafia ran the club. Would

> you?


They used to! We've always had arseholes as owners/chairmen etc so the poisonous Brady bunch are nothing new - what is new is that clubs NEED to attract fans now more than ever and if the fans say 'stuff it' the club is in trouble.


It is not all or nothing. Clubs will be relegated and come back up as they always have done and if that happens it won't be a disaster if the club is playing good football. They will get back into the PL and probably have an increased following as has happened in the past. If they get relegated playing Sam's way then they lose PL status AND fans.

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