Walker is the only Prem player

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sums it up perfectly, nothing more needs to be said, anything else is hot air and waffle.

Yesterday mon ami, I watched this year's EPL winners, a Rolls Royce of a team, physically fit and quick to boot, slick as an oil slick in the North Sea, well drilled, well coached with a manager who has had a billion quid plus to spend over his six year tenure in the Gunners hot seat. Well supported, the team are a bit too theatrical for me in the diving department, but it will be one heck of a team who finishes above them season.

Just to be on the same pitch giving it a good go was plenty for me, shame a lot of others do not share my enthusiasm.

On a different note, how are Clitheroe doing this season?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

A different perspective:
Really think Scott Parker needs to be more ambitious playing against the big dogs �� All the substitutes and especially Hannibal played better than the starters so why not starting them and playing all the time so defensively �� You are going to loose anyway against Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool/Man City/Man Utd/Tottenham so try to score and do not fear the opponent by playing 8 players in defense and defense midfield but rather try to play and be more audacious �� Hannibal played 15 minutes and created more danger than the whole team during 75 minutes �� We ask Parker to stop being stubborn. This is Premier League and not Championship ��
#hannibalmejbri #burnleyfc #Clarets

[ballcock]

A different perspective:
Really think Scott Parker needs to be more ambitious playing against the big dogs �� All the substitutes and especially Hannibal played better than the starters so why not starting them and playing all the time so defensively �� You are going to loose anyway against Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool/Man City/Man Utd/Tottenham so try to score and do not fear the opponent by playing 8 players in defense and defense midfield but rather try to play and be more audacious �� Hannibal played 15 minutes and created more danger than the whole team during 75 minutes �� We ask Parker to stop being stubborn. This is Premier League and not Championship ��
#hannibalmejbri #burnleyfc #Clarets

Hannabel nearly cost us a goal as per usual by losing possession just outside is own box in injury time, he always costs us a goal and should only ever be used has a substitute against the better sides

If Hannabel and Edward's had have played from the off along with another wide man, I can confidently say that we would have conceded 4 at least.

Did you lot not learn anything from the Kompany premier league season? We just aren't good enough to go toe to with the likes of Arsenal who have 100 million pounds players

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Post 22# was taken from a Facebook page to show a different opinion.

Football chucks up more divergent opinions than either religion or politics.

In my own opinion, anybody who actually thinks we should have gone toe-to-toe with Arsenal is soft in the head.

[ClaretinBudapest]

Nobody wants the team to go toe to toe with the Gunners-they just want us to show a bit of ambition besides how to keep down the number of goals conceded.
0-2 or 2-4 makes for the same goal difference.For 70+ minutes yesterday all I witnessed was damage limitation with zero ambition.We did not have a attempt on target in 90 minutes FFS.

[sinkov]

Why did we bother even having a go at all - pointless

Not my point at all army, which actually is that we can pontificate all week about team selection, formation, tactics, substitutions, Foster up top on his own or with Flemming, JBL out right, or not, Laurent too slow, not PL standard, or not, 4-4-2, 4-5-1, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, attacking subs, defensive subs, on after 60 minutes or maybe 70 minutes, and it's like sticking ear-rings on a pig, it isn't going to make a whole lot of difference, against Arsenal after 90 odd minutes, we lose.

[sinkov]

On a different note, how are Clitheroe doing this season?

Funny old game football mon ami, on their day they will beat teams from the division above, if it's not their day they'll lose to the bottom of the League. Last Saturday they beat Stockton from the top end of Premier League in the FA Trophy quite comfortably, on Tuesday night they just about managed a late equaliser at home to a bog standard D1 team in Sporting Khelsa. You just never know which Clitheroe will turn up and our star left-back has just jumped ship to Southport. To be honest, I'm not convinced by the manager, but he seems well liked and has the board's confidence. We'll see.

[ballcock]

Nobody wants the team to go toe to toe with the Gunners-they just want us to show a bit of ambition besides how to keep down the number of goals conceded.
0-2 or 2-4 makes for the same goal difference.For 70+ minutes yesterday all I witnessed was damage limitation with zero ambition.We did not have a attempt on target in 90 minutes FFS.

Well I will put it another way.

Playing the likes of Arsenal is not the type of game when you throw caution to the wind and go all out attack, or you will conceed 7 or 8

[wmdave_b]

Just watched the Citeh Bmouuth game. As soon as Citeh went 3-1, 2 goals up, BM manger made immediate changes. Progressive not passive?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Like SD famously said, "Stay in the game". It's not pfhucking rocket science is it?