Hello fellow sufferers,
This has been a difficult start to the season. Not only that we lost the opening game at home, but that we are subjected to one interruption of the season, after another. Phew, you’d say, thank Dennis those blasted internationals are over, only to realise (or be told in Micky’s case) that there are no games between 10th and 23rd November!! Whole 2 weeks with no footy. It might be good if we beat Man United away, but it could be tricky waiting for the team to recover. But let’s not even go that route, bad luck.
So, we have 4 games in the next 10days, across 3 different competitions, but more importantly we have Chavs, Pool, Borussia and United between end of October an 10th November. Whatever you do, don’t book your holidays then, or you may miss the time of your Gunner’s life.
I am optimistic,
Well fairly, but that’s just before the Norwich game. After that I will probably go to DHS looking for a large sofa to hide behind.
Anyway, let’s have a go at predicting the results of the next 10 fixtures, which will take us nicely to the end of November.
I will collect the answers and announce the winner and the loser at the beginning of December. The winner can simply gloat, but the loser will have to write 3 posts on a chosen Arsenal subject. Simples
The fixtures are as follows:
Norwich EPL H
Borussia Dortmund CL H
Crystal Palace EPL A
Chelsea Capital One H
Liverpool EPL H
Borussia Dortmund CL A
ManUnited EPL A
Southampton EPL H
Marseille CL H
Cardiff EPL A
Have fun!
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Thanks for the post Evonne, if we think it was tricky enough filling up this interlull with a new post each day, we only have about 3 more weeks before we have to suffer the whole thing again. 😦
If we manage to get a draw or a win at Old toilet we will go into the interlull in higher spirits, assuming the previous results go fairly well, the home matches against the ‘dippers and Dortmund being the trickiest 2.
I’ll be going to the Chavski game so you can have the pleasure of sitting next to an “angry Chary” then Evonne ha ha.
Having said that I’m not too bothered if we don’t get through to the next round of the Milk Cup as long as we put up a good show and we avoid a Maureen-yo knee slide in front of the West Stand.
No brainer
Arsenal win all of those.
Thanks Evonne, as you rightly point out, a true test of our new-found mettle over the next month, but we have nothing to fear, so I’ll stick my neck out and go with the following:
Norwich PL (h) Win
Dortmund CL (h) Win
Crystal Palace PL (a) Win
Chelsea C1C (h) Lose (only because we don’t take it seriously)
Liverpool PL (h) Win)
Dortmund CL (a) Lose
Man Utd PL (a) Draw
Southampton PL (h) Draw
Marseille CL (h) Win
Cardiff PL (a) Win
Fantastic, Evonne, well done!
Yes, we should really win all the matches. Yes, it will be a tough test, and we will come out of it with flying colours. But just because there is the law of averages, we might manufacture a loss in one of the 10 games. Dortmund away seems as good a guess as any other.
Cannot wait for the real side of the business to commence again!!!!
well done to the ladies. Go on The Arsenal!!!!
Nice, Evonne.
Do you think this’d be big enough?
Win all and draw away to Dortmund
Cheers evonne, good stuff.
Looking further forward, the unwelcome interlull in mid November is the last one of the season. England (presumably like other national teams) have a friendly scheduled on 5 March (ours is vs Denmark). That is midweek and without impacting proper, club football.
However, as others have observed before, Feb to early April contains a heavy concentration of demanding fixtures for us: big games in the PL, plus potentially big games in the other comps, including possible long distance travel. Squeezing international friendlies into all of that is going to be interesting.
My prediction for the coming ten:
Norwich PL (h) Win
Dortmund CL (h) Win
Crystal Palace PL (a) Win
Chelsea LgeC (h) Win on pens
Liverpool PL (h) Draw
Dortmund CL (a) Draw
Man Utd PL (a) Win
Southampton PL (h) Draw
Marseille CL (h) Win
Cardiff PL (a) Win
Hi Evonne,
Nice one. Although the title might have read ‘Lethargy’ rather than ‘Hysteria’ as most sites seem to sparsely populated.
My forecast? All wins.
Hey, 26, chuckled at your 11:08 last night. Forthright? Much! Lol
Something I had to say about the Woy “space monkey” Hodgson row – who is the snitch in the dressing room who ran to the press about this non-story ?
For the sake of some filthy lucre from the gutter press he has disrupted the dressing room unecessarily, I sense it;s a player on the fringes of the first XI who has nothing to gain with dressing room harmony.
Possible candidate for who is the snitch? Step forward one Thomas William Cleverly.
Just what you’d expect from a sulky, ManUre scummer.
Haha, Cleverley accused, tried and convicted in two sentences. 🙂
Well done Evonne, It’s going to take me some time to make my predictions, no wait a minute, what am I talking about? The next ten games? We’ll win the lot!
Sincere apologies to all AAers, I just couldn’t find enough Arsenal related news to make a weekly roundup.
I’ll try harder next week.
You know me Chas, always fair when it comes Gollum’s team.
That’s two people who have predicted a draw with Southampton at home, why? I don’t get it?
LB,
Haven’t you seen the swingometer?
The Saints are predicted to not drop another point for the rest of the season, so saying we’ll get a draw is being optimistic. 🙂
Wow, a Post from evonne – a rare treat 😀
OK evonne, the thing is this: you have to look at the merits of each game on a case by case basis; there’s the strength of the opponents; you must take into account a certain proportion of injury absence from key players; maybe throw in a suspension for Flamster or Kozzer. Then there’s the relative form of our opponents and what sort of schedule they have immediately before and after playing us; also whether they are badly affected by injuries. What their home and away form is like. Obviously the referee dimension needs to be considered as well (we all know that our likelihood of a win is much lower with certain refs officiating).
So… having done all that, I have come up with the following prediction:
Win
Win
Win
Win
Win
Win
Win
Win
Win
Win
I thank you.
😆
Great stuff guys, you are real sports! I was worried that nobody will even bother replying, but I should have known better.
I am collecting the results and will announce the winner and the loser in December.
Now Rocky, I have a little story to tell you. You know that me and fairies don’t always see eye to eye? Well as soon as I wrote the above conversation starter, where I mentioned that if things go tricky I will need a sofa to hide behind, I received an SMS from DFS with offer of great discounts on new sofas!!!!! Spooky or what? I forwarded the SMS to Chas and Peaches as proof that I am not telling porkies; didn’t have LD’s phone number which is a shame as he likes to hide behind couches 🙂
Hey FHWP….stick me down for ten wins please. Thanks
SSG
No, no NO SS, that’s not fair!!! Proper predictions please
Embrace the numinous evonne…
🙂
no, not even you can convince me 🙂
Ok, lets start playing guess the team.
Absolutely no need to be over defensive tomorrow so no need for both Flamini and Arteta.
———–Szezceny
Sagna, BFG, Koscielny, Gibbs
—Ramsey, Arteta, Rosicky
—-Ozil, Giroud, Cazorla
This is the team I would put out but I expect Wenger to do this.
———–Szezceny
Sagna, BFG, Koscielny, Gibbs
—Flamini, Arteta, Wilshere
—-Ramsey, Giroud, Ozil
I am assuming that Walcott is still injured.
Hi Evonne, thanks for a great Friday teaser.
Head/heart heart/head …….. hmm, I think win every game bar 2 draws in the league (no losses) and go out of the CC against the chavs …. who cares about that one. We’ll still be top of the league and in the 3 most important comps 🙂
Norwich PL (h) Win
Dortmund CL (h) Win
Crystal Palace PL (a) Big win
Chelsea C1C (h) Lose with 3rd choice squad
Liverpool PL (h) Win
Dortmund CL (a) Lose
Man Utd PL (a) Win
Southampton PL (h)Win
Marseille CL (h) Win
Cardiff PL (a) Draw
That all made sense until you came to Cardiff.
And by the way, our squad is looking a lot stronger and all those players who are not playing every game will expect to start against the chavs, so the idea that we will field a third string team is not as automatic as some people seem to be assuming.
——————Fabianski
Jenkinson, Mertasacker, Vermaelen, Monreal.
——–Eisfeld, Flamini, Wilshere.
——-Gnabry, Bendtner, Rosicky
It could even be stronger that this.
The bench of course will be awesome.
Hello
Just watched a good interview with Denis berkamp on sky sports news
The man is a legend
Norwich EPL H Arsenal win
Borussia Dortmund CL H. Arsenal win
Crystal Palace EPL A. Arsenal win
Chelsea Capital One H. Arsenal win
Liverpool EPL Draw
Borussia Dortmund CL A draw
ManUnited EPL A. Lose
Southampton EPL H. Arsenal win
Marseille CL H. Arsenal win
Cardiff EPL A. Arsenal win
29 million batchelors in China!!! Watching it on channel 4 to see if any of them are Gunners that like cooking 🙂
Worth a look.
Evonne
I’m on my knees with knackeredness, and wouldn’t bother commenting if it wasn’t your post.
Well done, and I’m joining the “win ’em all camp”, so you are going to be a very busy girl dishing out all the real first prizes 🙂
As for the Chinaman thing, for god’s sake noooo.
Chas
That is such a cool vid. Superb.
So surf was good but very tiring?
ha ha
cheers Micky 🙂
Chas – what are your preditions? 10 x W ?
Arnie and Chary – can you tell me exactly, it is very important that I get it right 🙂
I won’t be sitting next to you Chary, because you are going with my ticket 🙂
Enormous, and tomorrow even bigger. Thing is, we also have off-shore winds, so the waves are clean as a whistle. Not often you get these perfect conditions.
So good, I’m going to miss the game live tomorrow. It’s unmissable.
Oscar is motionless on the floor right now. An usual state for him 🙂
When you say cheers, Evonne, was that the advice to stay away from Chinamen?
Right lads, I’m getting some sleep.
Mind you, that means I’ll be awake by about 4am 😦
Oscar is motionless because he’s blissed out or worn out?
Evonne, I always find it hard to go more than one game ahead.
If we had to lose one, I hope it’s in the C1Cup.
Soz.
Micky – i think I would do well in China. Very white, tall women with pointed chins are very much in demand. Oh yeah, and preferably under 25 yr virgins.
Eva-va-vonne – it’s alright you can sit on my lap in your seat 🙂
predictions wise I say we win all except ManUre away(draw), Marsielle home(draw)and Chavs(Lose) in Coca cola cup.
But don’t worry about my pessimistic predictions guys, I never win competitions so I’ll deffo be wrong on those.
I have forgone using my swingometer to predict so these may be way off the mark 😀
Norwich EPL H 2-0
Borussia Dortmund CL H 3-1
Crystal Palace EPL A 10-0
Chelsea Capital One H 3-1
Liverpool EPL H 2-2
Borussia Dortmund CL A 1-1
ManUnited EPL A 3-1
Southampton EPL H 3-1
Marseille CL H 2-0
Cardiff EPL A 2-1
Arsenal scores first obviously so 8 wins 2 draws, top of the league, qualified for knockouts and in the COCup Semi Final (or quarter final…..whatever round comes after Chavs)
Very late to be putting this out there, but I’ve just found out I can’t go to the game tomorrow. If anyone thinks they may want a seat (West Lower, halfway line), let me know. Then we can talk logistics.
Evonne @ 8:49PM. Ha ha, I will be in Dundee/ Edinburgh tomorrow.
Silly Arnie! your predictions not your whereabouts
PING
Eyes wide open
Funny thing about Evonne competition is that I put win ’em all, because I always think we will win a game.
So I just had a really good look, and tried to come up with at least some variation and I’m really struggling.
If we beat Dortmund home and away we’ll have 12 points and Marseille becomes pointless, but then again it would be for them also.
I do get why some people are opting for a draws against Soouthampton and Cardiff, as it would be quite Arsenal like, and it adds variation to Evonne’s game without losing or drawing to Utd, Pool and so on.
So Evonne, if it’s not too late
All wins except draws at Dortmund away, and Cardiff.
Ooops wrong one
Check out the look in his eyes at the end of 2nd vid. Utterly insane.
That wave is unbelievably close to the rocks, and if he fell before getting out of the side of the wave, he’d be jam.
Teeny little white water, ha.
How big are the waves at yours at the moment, Micky?
10 feet, 15 feet? I’d love to see some photos.
The match should be good today.
Norwich don’t really know how to play park the bus.
Santi and Mesut in the same team.
0-0 is 18 to 1 against at Coral. 🙂
Something for you and Oscar to try today.
I still like the way he says devil lopping.
You’re very sub tull at Sky.
What about Gloucester Road?
Love the pizza clip
Photo of surf from yesterday coming up
Great photo.
http://bit.ly/H9f7RW
Chas
Their live cams are broken
Go down to “this morning”
Those are yesterday. Says 4ft, it was actually around 5ft. Remember, that is measured at the back of the wave, so the face is around 10ft. The important bit is wind as offshore holds the face up
http://www.zumajay.co.uk/surf-check-widemouth-bude-webcam/
4ft Clean
Rating Pumping.
🙂
Go to bottom of this site. That’s what they looked like yesterday. Same this afternoon, hence missing the Norwich game.
My money says you will click on top left. North Devon Surfer Sophie Hellyer 🙂
http://www.eyeballhq.tv/surfcheck/westward-ho/
When body surfing in Goa, the little Indian lads seemed to be able to tell which waves were dumpers. I could never quite work it out.
A 10 foot face sounds scary
She is stoked. 🙂
Waves look superb.
Kelsey just grinned at me on twitter.!
https://twitter.com/robinsbigtoe
You watched her, didn’t you?
Better go shower and get my matchday clobber on. 🙂
It’s that flex in the knees that gets me every time.
Full Kit is it today? ROLF
Actually, you and Ant are the only two grown up men I forgive for wearing replica shirts.
Right then, morning session over methinks. Have a great day all, especially if you’re going.
I’ll enjoy the BR PM from the car. Happy Days.
struggling to see us not losing in 10 games, with BD, Pool, Chavs, United on the trot? I don’t know…. No Micky, at 5am is not too late for anything
If I had a list ‘Things to do before I die’ then surfing 60f waves would be one of them. Just as well I don’t 🙂 Out of this world stuff. See Chas, THAT I understand why someone would want to do
Two grown up men. ROLF
Things to do a couple of seconds before I die, surely?
does Dennis play golf? I am sure he was on TS radio at 4am this morning.
2 grown up men is a joke indeed 🙂
Dennis is on Football Focus apparently.
morning all.
Chalk me up for 10 wins also Evonne.
All 6-nil to the Arse. 7-nil against Manure (extra is own goal from R-V-Judas)
Weirdest “goal” ever.
If you look closely you can see which part of the net is broken.
hello there Oz 🙂 try to make it more exciting, surely you can pick a game that we are not going to win?
same goes for you Chas
Love the surf chat this morning.
To do that stuff with your son has got to be up there with one of the best ways to live a life.
That clip at 5.51 is something special.
Nothing more exciting than an Arsenal win Evonne 🙂
Arsenal lose? Blasphemy!!! We’ve got Ozil!
oh dear, I clearly talking to the wrong mob
morning LB
jesus riding that wave would be one almighty adrenaline rush. I’d hate to fall off though, you’d be spinning for days
we’ve never been the right mob
Membership pack arrived…..a properly long scarf, longer than any sold in club shop….. And something to cheer the club historians:
They are 6 lapel badges….know which one GM will be wearing
That goal reminds me when I was beaten at the near post 😳 in a game I played.
The ref awarded a goal kick and suggested it had gone under the side netting, it definitely hadn’t so I ……… took the goal kick like anyone else would. Respect the ref
Morning all
Has anyone seen Raddy, there’s no pre-match in the cupboard 😦
I’ve got that badge on today. 🙂
I think he sent it on Thursday to nuts
Peaches. I sent it to arsenal nuts……
If it’s gone missing, we have a problem as I am off out.
COYRRG
Thanks chas I’ll have a look xx
Ok found it, be back in bit. It’s not in his name doh
The pre-match has arrived …………
…………..New Post ………………….
Hi Evonne, thanks for a great Friday teaser.
Head/heart heart/head …….. hmm, I think win everyu game bar 2 draws bin the league (no losses) and go out of the CC against the chavs …. who cares about that one. We’ll still be toip of the league and in the 3 most important comps 🙂