The Banter Thread

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BaZ87 said:
Banned for 4 months? 3 months have been suspended and the 1 month ban he's serving was back dated to 23rd May. He'll miss 0 games of club football and all it's done was stop him sitting on the bench for the under-21's (I doubt he'd have played).

I'd love to know how the FA determine their bans. Why was it 4 months and not x amount of games?
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he withdrew himself from the under 21's. really is a non story imo. i can see why the FA frown upon these things don't get me wrong but the punishment and they way they've planned it, is baffling.
 
I know he withdrew himself, that doesn't explain why the ban was a time frame and not a set amount of games though. And I have no idea what he actually done, only that it's linked to betting so it's difficult for me to say whether the length of the punishment is fair or not.

Agree that the way they've given him the ban is strange though. At first glance the headline figure of 4 months seems huge but when you look at it properly, he's not going to be suspended for a single game.
 
Paul Tyrrell has resigned as Everton's Director of Communications. Thank god for that, absolutely useless waste of space. Dave Whelan will probably go for the job now!
 
Azza said:
Paul Tyrrell has resigned as Everton's Director of Communications. Thank god for that, absolutely useless waste of space. Dave Whelan will probably go for the job now!
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I wonder whether that's linked to his detective work, during his time at Liverpool, being made public.
 
Brazil could've spanked us 4 or 5-2 and they've dropped three places so that puts in to perspective how bad we are. In all honesty I'd expect us to drop even further once we fail to qualify.
 
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While it will make my argument less strong in general, individual errors, like aerial duals or 50/50's won are entirely subjective. Ask 50 people to watch 10 games and give you the number of 50/50's a player won, and you'd get 50 different answers, same goes for individual errors. So often a player will be "guilty" of an individual error because someone else made a mistake, put them in a vunerable position and they then make an error that only happened because of the other persons mistake.

But in general, people are talking about an increased quality defence for Arsenal, and its bogus, we conceded less because some seasons you concede less, some more, thats luck, thats down to the striker on the opposition having bad games, or not getting penalties they deserved, or pure luck. If a GK has 8 great games and 30 crap games, one season the 8 will make all the difference in the world, another they'll be in games where you concede 5 instead of 8 goals and it makes no difference.

Arsenal have been worse at the back and Kos isn't at all bad, Mert is a bit of a joke, Sagna has gotten worse(but not much), Gibbs is rubbish defensively and cost us goal after goal what, around/before xmas and his injury. Obviously to a degree that individual error as I said is subjective and I don't trust any of the guys who do stats to get half of them right, hence it weakens my argument, but in general Arsenal have had a higher count of individual errors, and for quite some time.

Verm often looked terrible, because he was rushing back to make up for Mert rushing out and absolutely fluffing a tackle, Verm made MANY excellent last ditch tackles in those situations, and many mistakes, that happens when you're covering others mistakes.

Kos, I think he gets done for less individual errors because he has a habit of rushing out like Mert, but unlike Mert, he usually demolishes a player to kill the attack :p In fact, he does that an awful lot, better than coming out tamely like Mert does, who runs out of position, fluffs his tackle, and leaves us incredibly vunerable.

Its been this way for 5-6 years now, at least, and it hasn't improved this year under Bould :(

If we need a new defensive coach, new players, or just for Wenger to let go, who knows. Many rumours from ex players/general people at the club who say Bould isn't being allowed to coach how he wants, and its Wenger who tells him what to do, which would explain why absolutely no change in the defensive style despite different coaches, in which case Bould without Wengers tight leash around his neck might work, maybe Bould just isn't good enough.
 
Bit surprised with that, but Arsenal are a striker and a few good defenders away from challenging for the prem. Wenger just doesn't do anything about the mistakes his team make defensively, just ask Stewart Robson about that.
 
Stewart Robson is a plonker of the highest order.

Quite surprised by that table but as DM says (the bit I read) stats of how many individual errors can be very ambiguous so I take this with a big pinch of salt.
 
lucarocks92 said:
Bit surprised with that, but Arsenal are a striker and a few good defenders away from challenging for the prem. Wenger just doesn't do anything about the mistakes his team make defensively, just ask Stewart Robson about that.
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Stewart Robson?? the guy who was sacked from the official website?? and recently voted the biggest bell end of the season?? that Stewart Robson??.


LOLStewart Robson just LOL
 
Yas786 said:
Stewart Robson?? the guy who was sacked from the official website?? and recently voted the biggest bell end of the season?? that Stewart Robson??.


LOLStewart Robson just LOL
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I watch him on ESPN a lot and he's excellent. He got sacked for telling the truth about Arsenal and Wenger not being good enough. Obvioudly Arsenal fans dont appreciate him saying not so nice things about their team.
 
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