comment by Pep The Final Straw!! (Formerly WB2) (U8276)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 39 seconds ago
It's the equivalent of putting Theo upfront and then hardly ever playing any ball in behind. Without the ball in behind, you remove the best weapon in his personal Arsenal. It wouldn't be fair to expect Theo to thrive without balls being played in behind.

Exactly.....the same goes for Theo as well. Shows you that we have problems but the least problem is with our strikers.
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In fairness, I'd not be too irritated if we signed a CF this summer, just because Walcott and Giroud have both annoyed me greatly this season. The issue for me here is the excessive slating of Giroud and yet again claiming he's worse than he actually is and total denial of blatant facts elsewhere in the team which have had a direct impact on his performance and results.
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Fully agree with you WB2. I am not against a new worldie upfront either and I agree with some that Welbeck at the moment should play. The overboarding critics Giroud gets at every occasion is why I want bring people to look beyond their narrow minded outlook of the real problems we have.

I thought you had made your last post to the article, Gunther. Why still waffling on here in defense of your imaginary lover? Again, my entire post about Giroud and his shortcomings which any idiot can observe, you posted not one substantive rebuttal beyond waffling about Wenger. I guess nobody on a football forum should comment on football if they never played or coached Arsenal. Your reflexive defense of Giroud anytime he's mentioned on this forum has turned you into a rather bizarre self-parody that every Arsenal and opposition fan here laugh at but you don't have the self-awareness to see how it makes you look. You need serious help and therapy. Bizarre and embarrassing. And pathetic.

The overboarding critics Giroud gets at every occasion is why I want bring people to look beyond their narrow minded outlook of the real problems we have.
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A shed-load of Arsenal players get plenty of stick: Mert, Gabriel, Chambers, Debuchy, Flamini, Arteta, Ramsey, Ox, Campbell, Walcott, Welbeck, Alexis. Even Ozil has been ripped apart in the past. Why do you turn any criticism of Giroud into some bizarre personal matter? Why do you feel a psychotic need to respond with utter rubbish to EVERY SINGLE comment about Giroud?

Not scoring enough is a real problem we have
And this article is specifically about Giroud, so why would people go off on a complete tangent to talk about all the problems we have?

comment by Sheriff John Brown - bring back David Dein (U7482)
posted 17 minutes ago
I thought you had made your last post to the article, Gunther. Why still waffling on here in defense of your imaginary lover? Again, my entire post about Giroud and his shortcomings which any idiot can observe, you posted not one substantive rebuttal beyond waffling about Wenger. I guess nobody on a football forum should comment on football if they never played or coached Arsenal. Your reflexive defense of Giroud anytime he's mentioned on this forum has turned you into a rather bizarre self-parody that every Arsenal and opposition fan here laugh at but you don't have the self-awareness to see how it makes you look. You need serious help and therapy. Bizarre and embarrassing. And pathetic.
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Do you think you add something decent? This is a post of an immature spoilt brat.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 minutes ago
Not scoring enough is a real problem we have
And this article is specifically about Giroud, so why would people go off on a complete tangent to talk about all the problems we have?
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Not scoring is not the same of being shiiiit, is it?

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 35 seconds ago
comment by Sheriff John Brown - bring back David Dein (U7482)
posted 17 minutes ago
I thought you had made your last post to the article, Gunther. Why still waffling on here in defense of your imaginary lover? Again, my entire post about Giroud and his shortcomings which any idiot can observe, you posted not one substantive rebuttal beyond waffling about Wenger. I guess nobody on a football forum should comment on football if they never played or coached Arsenal. Your reflexive defense of Giroud anytime he's mentioned on this forum has turned you into a rather bizarre self-parody that every Arsenal and opposition fan here laugh at but you don't have the self-awareness to see how it makes you look. You need serious help and therapy. Bizarre and embarrassing. And pathetic.
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Do you think you add something decent? This is a post of an immature spoilt brat.
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And no...I didnt even read you full bollox comment

And no...I didnt even read you full bollox comment
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I never credited you with great reading skills. Your non-sequitur waffle and one-liner responses have always suggested you don't know or understand what you're rambling about half the time. Just reflexively jump in to any comment bout Giroud and end up spewing utterly irrelevant crap. Get help, sunshine. You really need it.

This article is absolute trash.

If he gets knackered after a few games he's simply not up to scratch.

Once again, awful nonsense article

1 star

I also like how you think anyone takes your smileys seriously. No one who spends half his day writing defensive, apologist twaddle about Giroud can be healthily happy.

So keeping Giroud fresh is the key to us winning the title... a few weeks ago you were saying we need a pacey mobile striker and that Giroud cost us the title

comment by Sheriff John Brown - bring back David Dein (U7482)
posted 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
I also like how you think anyone takes your smileys seriously.No one who spends half his day writing defensive, apologist twaddle about Giroud can be healthily happy.
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I see ....I wound you up. I feel sorry. Take my deepest apology

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
Not scoring enough is a real problem we have
And this article is specifically about Giroud, so why would people go off on a complete tangent to talk about all the problems we have?
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Because some of those other problems we have, have a direct impact on Giroud's performance. It's one thing to criticise him for his actual flaws, something else entirely criticise him for situations arising as a result of other players deficiency. As I've said DJ, several posters on here like to greatly exaggerate Giroud's failings. To listen to some of you talk, you would not think you were talking about a regular in the French national side. Not good enough for any national side the way some make him sound.

Girouds performances have a direct impact on the proficiency of other areas of the team, and in making up for his flaws we lose qualities in other areas of the team.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 11 minutes ago
Girouds performances have a direct impact on the proficiency of other areas of the team, and in making up for his flaws we lose qualities in other areas of the team.


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Football is a team sport you know.

comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 2 hours, 32 minutes ago
So keeping Giroud fresh is the key to us winning the title... a few weeks ago you were saying we need a pacey mobile striker and that Giroud cost us the title
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Actually what I said was continually playing the now exhausted Giroud would/has cost us the title. I stand by the statement that the pacey mobile striker is the best option. But Wenger hasn't done it has he? The entire post is my take on Giroud's role in the Arsenal team. I clearly state that he can COMPENSATE for the lack of pace and mobility, when fresh and in form (that's why he still gets the goals he does). But doing so taxes him physically more than it would any of our other players. As I've said, the post is in no way saying Giroud is a better option than someone pacey and mobile. Simply an observation of how Wenger could actually have gotten more out of the player over the years had he just used him in a better way.

But posters have been far more concerned with saying he's rubbish than actually debating how we could get/have had better from him.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 11 minutes ago
Girouds performances have a direct impact on the proficiency of other areas of the team, and in making up for his flaws we lose qualities in other areas of the team.


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Football is a team sport you know.
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Yeap, and when individuals in the team are not at the standard required the team as a whole suffers

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 11 minutes ago
Girouds performances have a direct impact on the proficiency of other areas of the team, and in making up for his flaws we lose qualities in other areas of the team.


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Football is a team sport you know.
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Yeap, and when individuals in the team are not at the standard required the team as a whole suffers
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Thanks for your insight comment.

Sorry "football is a team sport" is so forward thinking I could not compete

Giroud is average.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 6 minutes ago
Sorry "football is a team sport" is so forward thinking I could not compete
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You're very welcome. Always...don't hesitate to ask me.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 14 minutes ago
Girouds performances have a direct impact on the proficiency of other areas of the team, and in making up for his flaws we lose qualities in other areas of the team.


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Because the team makes no adjustment in playing style/strategy when he is in the side Come on DJ think about it we had an in form Walcott (when he got injured). Then switched to Giroud and there's no change in team strategy/passing channels/approach play??? Seriously, in what bloody world can you play the exact same way using Giroud as you did/do using Walcott or Welbeck and expect it to work for any real length of time?

Try and play the same way with Giroud that you do with Theo and you just get:

Opposition back line camped at halfway

The MF overrun

Giroud in Alexis' way

Our FBs pinned

And Ozil taken out of the game as all passing is disrupted and he doesn't do defence.

But what the hell do you expect if you're going to play a game tailored for a striker who can run the 100 in 11 secs, using a striker who can barely do the 100 in 15 seconds. It's the dumbest sheet ever man. Any other manager would change the way we play slightly, to suit the striker we used but not Wenger. He just ploughs on with the same approach and you lot blame Giroud for it.

That sheet wouldn't happen if we had separate and different strategies for the so clearly different types of player.

Giroud is obviously an asset to our squad but he's not an elite striker who is going to win you titles. That's been obvious since the day he joined us. Always said that Wenger not signing Higuain would go down as one of his biggest ever mistakes and was laughed at for saying it, ironically by most people on here who know we aren't winning anything because of our lack of firepower up front.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 11 minutes ago
Girouds performances have a direct impact on the proficiency of other areas of the team, and in making up for his flaws we lose qualities in other areas of the team.


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Football is a team sport you know.
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Yeap, and when individuals in the team are not at the standard required the team as a whole suffers
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But in this case, the individual in question could well be up to standard if the incredibly talented team around him would simply change a couple of things to suit him, when he was in the side. Contrary to what Wenger seems to believe, there is more than one way to play a game of football.

His teammates can make him finish the easy chances he misses.