The Kraken

Beautiful from the corrupt and utter cunt Nadhim Zahawi. At 9pm tonight. Just a few short minutes later.

We can’t, she’s said she’s going to run as she thinks the members deserve it. She likely won’t get to 100 though.

Her hangover tomorrow is going to be absolutely monumental.

I’ve seen plenty of Arsenal fans whinging about the physicality of our defence (and that the ref let them get away with it). Good.

I feel for him a bit. Well, a lot. Yes, his quality is perhaps not there, but he’s a striker who looks like he would benefit playing regularly in a two off someone like a Lambert or a Pelle (a striker who has the creative ability to drop deep, turn, and spot a run through the lines). Che Adams isn’t that, Broja wasnt really that, and Armstrong will struggle to make something from nothing on his own. He’s playing out of position and giving it his all, but I don’t think goals are going to come for him while playing where he does. Like you say, Edozie seems to have a bit more about him in terms of creativity, though AA’s workrate has been what’s kept him there.

A game of two halves!

What on earth has happened to our hard press? Completely gone. Now we just stand off and let the passes and crosses just come in. Weak all over.

Weak start so far.

Good luck and all the best to him, he’s doing very well at Burnley. The step down a level helps. Also, at that level, Burnley are a good side and he’s surrounded by players who are often better than their peers. He’s also being played to his strengths, wide left/right in a 4-3-3. In pre season we played him as a central striker, which was mad. Playing wide in a 4-2-2-2 / 4-2-3-1 isn’t ideal for him imo, hence why he struggled with us. He’s showing he’s a valuable player at that level, if we go down then we’ve got him, if we stay up then he may have earned a chance, and if it’s a different manager with a different team shape it may suit him more.

Dan Hodges is more often than not a tory lickspittle so perhaps some truth in these.

This Tory party member seems like he *might* have factored in Sunak’s skin colour when thinking about who to vote for.

Brighton have been very impresssive in this game. Given City a lot of problems and have some very good spells. They knock it around nicely and their pressing game has made sure City have been pegged back at times. Good to watch. I think the first goal was fine, Haaland was just too strong. The penalty was very weak though.

I get the feeling that we’ve made an agreement with him that he won’t be played at full back. Nothing to support this, just an opinion. When at Arsenal and looking at loan moves he stated he really wanted to play in midfield. This is what the Athletic reported that Sam Allardyce said about him from him loan spell all West Brom: Despite being an admirer of Maitland-Niles’ qualities as a box-to-box midfielder, the West Brom manager admitted that: “If I were him, I’d play wherever the manager picked me — and I’d never turn it down because if you can play in a number of positions, then you are going to get more games than if you had one position and one position only.” Sounds like he just might have refused to play full back before.

So assuming KWP is out, what’s our options? - Flat 4, Perraud RB, Larios LB - Flat 4, Lyanco RB - Back 3, Perraud and Larios wing backs - Back 3, gamble on Elmo or Diallo at RWB - Something else? We don’t have the luxury of shifting JWP from CM.

Don’t think he can play as it’s Arsenal.

So assuming KWP is out, what’s our options? - Flat 4, Perraud RB, Larios LB - Flat 4, Lyanco RB - Back 3, Perraud and Larios wing backs - Back 3, gamble on Elmo or Diallo at RWB - something else? We don’t have the luxury of shifting JWP from CM.

I did think he was excellent when he came on. Kept the ball well in some difficult positions. I still think that, to keep it solid, a midfield 3 of Lavia (when back fit), JWP and Diallo is our best option. Without Lavia having Diallo there might mitigate the weakness of AMN’s defensive side of his game.

Think this one will have a runaway winner.

20 minutes to go and it’s everyone behind the ball, panic stations football.

The co-commentator just said ‘it’s been a cracking half of football’. Maybe he’s watching a different game to me.

Dopey booking from Perraud. Good save from Bazunu, offside anyway though.

Meet the new team, same as the old team. Shows how shit our lack of options are. Can only see a home win tonight, if we can get a point it’s a success.