Disagree, he knew exactly what he was taking on and nothing's changed.

Bring back Brolin

So sh*t! It reminds me of the few occasions when I've played a football computer game and I've no idea what the buttons do!

People are massively overreacting. Calm down.

We were never likely to win today. And we were beaten by an absolute worldy from Giroud.

No, Benteke isn't crap. He's an exceptional premier league striker. He's proven that with Villa and he's already looked mustard for us at times. But what do you expect him to do with the service (or lack there of) that he's getting. If he gets 3 chances, he puts at least one away. But when he gets one half chance header and he misses, we can hardly slate him. He gets long aimless ball after long aimless ball pumped at him and is expected to hold off some of the league's best defenders, whilst bringing the ball down and finding a pass. Give the guy a break.

Sometimes getting the armband brings the best out of a player. Sometimes it distracts them. Clear it's doing the latter for Dann. He needs to be stripped of the captaincy and focus on defending.

Give Ward a break too - he's being played out of position and has been a consistent and great performer for us for years.

Wilf is incredible - can't believe people are slagging him off. He's asked to basically play wing back for an entire game...and does it. And still has the energy and endeavour to storm up the wing and counter for us...surrounded by 3 or 4 defenders.

Remember, we were McArthur-less today. One of our most important players, out.

Hennessy looking really decent.

Chungy made a massive difference when he came on. He's way better than most give him credit for. Should start in my opinion.

Just some thoughts from me

Of course, he's been our best player this season but out there today, you know that game we just watched, he was poor. Lost the ball I don't know how many times, was slow to get moving, didn't play some obvious passes and had a couple of tantrums when he didn't get the foul. I think those are fair observations.

I think that is basically fair. Benteke looks like he is lacking confidence but is still a threat. Wilf and Townsend were playing as wing backs because our full backs are so poor. When we pushed up a bit more once we went to 0-2 they both looked ok. Cabaye wasn't great and we were a better team when he went off as Punch came into the game a lot more. Cabaye is a good player but not in our system and Punch is just not the same when both are on the picth. If Jimmy is back on Tuesday I'd start with him and Flamini with Cabaye on the bench.

Edited by JHB (01 Jan 2017 6.23pm)

I thought it was very good of us to take the Arsenal 1st team squad for training today. I think they could have played that game again straight away.