Kitman

CT's picking him up at the airport Tuesday, innit

It's a dangerous game of brinkmanship, being last minute merchants. It's no good to us if we end up with no-one worth having.

sure, sure

He looked absolutely knackered though. Unless he's one of those players who look knackered from the kick off

Had a great pre season and scored a few (iirc, which I usually dont) I don't think he's played in the prem much if at all though? Wouldn't it make more sense to bring him on from the bench, rather than throwing him in the deep end in an untried formation with a load of new players? Same goes for Gosling imo.

thats a little harsh imo. Very harsh. I think you have to bear in mind who we were playing, their possession play and the fact it was his first game in English football and the fact that he's hardly played with Tiote, if ever? You don't have to bear any of that in mind. If the game passed him by, it passed him by regardless of any of the above. I'm not writing him off or anything, I'm just giving my opinion that he was well off the pace. Which is how it looked to me on the telly too. He'll take a bit of time to settle into English football and get fitter.

But is Vukic any good?

He'd have a hard job considering hes never played for Lyon. That's my fault. I said Lyon above when I meant Lille. Or some French team beginning with L

Want another go? No thanks. The seats had the club crest on. Alan Pardew caught putting imaginary traffic cone on his head

What did you have? Bottle of Bud, Becks Vier, Pint IPA, Carling? Emerald Banquet: Missed out a couple of bottles inside the ground and a lemonade at Sleepers after getting off the metro. Glass of milk before bed. That's a lot of gassy drinks

Not at all just bemused by your inability to discuss football stuff. See you've now started though so well done.

What did you have? a heart attack

Until we get a new LB we need a LW who can track back. Raylor was terrible and I'm surprised they didn't make more of his lack of pace second half. I can remember his arse being handed to him by Gervinho 2 or 3 times first half, I'd be seriously worried if we persist with him there. Might be better to play Jonas at LB than him

Shola was gash. I'd start Obertan instead of him.

Fantastic stuff. Their sweet little heads are just....so confused by driving. Thank God hubby can take over....

Meh-di A-bed

He's had one match in the premier league and yet you've already written him off? Gosling's only had 20 odd league appearances in 3 seasons, the vast majority of which have been with Everton. He's also missed an entire season injured. Not sure why he's considered a superior option to someone who was a first teamer with Lyon?

Odd that he started and played 90minutes for PSV today then eh? To be fair Deano didn't say which game .....or who told him. Could've been his hairdresser. Or his nana. ITKs are so unreliable.

I think it's premature to write off Cabaye. As many have said on here, he'll need time to settle into the club and the league. Hopefully he and the team will get better the more they play together. Similarly Ba needs more service.

Re Barton, would've been very easy for the ref to send both of them off. It's my ignorance of the rules really but is it up to the ref to decide whether an incident is a red card offence? Barton was very aggressive and instigated the scuffle. Not that I'm defending Genrvinho the cheating bastard.

What happened to Marvellous Marvin Marveaux today? Didn't even make the bench did he?

Just watched the match. The football was quite boring and we never looked like scoring. To be expected with all the new players I suppose. Colo was fantastic, Taylor did well too, Simpson was average and Raylor was crap. Cabaye looked anonymous and will need time to adapt. Jonas felt the lack of Enrique imo, nothing up the left all match. Ba and Amoebi were toss, Best seemed to offer more. Obertan had a good debut I think. Barton's delivery from set pieces was poor. The main thing that struck me was how poor our passing was and how we still give the ball away. No hold up play and Tiote's passing was off. Song deserved to be off for the stamp but Barton was lucky to stay on. Gervinho should have been sent off for his bizarre hair/head before the slap on Barton. Usual petty Arsenal fouls and cheating. Neither team deserved to win. Our bench strength is pathetic. Desperately need reinforcements.

meh

This sort of thing pisses me off. Complete tools.