All three games so far have one thing in common

Frustrated opponents , even when the team went down to 10 men , frustrated opponents . 41 games into the Premier & were at the point no one wants to come at us when we have the ball . Now I'm sure that will change soon enough but for now , it's just an astounding effort by new & old parts of the team that just didn't get time to gel because somehow they already were . We can't keep improving forever .... can we !!

 

I've been thinking along the same lines - no you can't keep improving forever - but my gut feeling is top 10 this season, which will still be an improvement on last. Inshallah.

Hey, my browser shows this post above the op - howdid I do that?

 

How much cover do we have Breezy! Issue at left back now, and Chico out for 3, how good is that Bartley? do not know much about him, is he a CB, doesn't seem to have done much at Arsenal, very worrying when Tate the cavalry comes on, way out of his depth at this level...................

 

He did make a great block near the end though - I think it was him.

 

Yes it was him, my ass was twitching every time he had the ball

 

You been reading my mind or something aswandam ...

 

The thing I find all three games have had in common is that our second half performances have been far better than the first. Is this ML giving a good talk after assessing the first half ?

Regarding Tate - exactly the same here - everytime the ball came near him I was ****ting in my pants.

 

I hate to state the obvious phil but when Caulker couldn't play last season , who replaced him for 14 games and had 5 clean sheets . I wish people would stop looking past Gary Monk , he'll do the job that has to be done Rangel , Monk , Williams , and Davies or Jazz . And there are others that might take there chance too .

 

Good point Breezy - I found myself skipping automatically over him when I was thinking who would play. Completely unfair - he was very good last year.

 

Monk and tate may not Prem quality over the course of a season but they'll give their all and provide cover where needed, after all that's what squads are for.

 

......Well said that man!.......................

 

I thought Monk is out with his back again

 

Same here, had to cover my eyes at one point, hoping he wouldn't do an Ash back pass.

 

Absolutely right.ML would not send Tate on if he could not do the job.......he has played well for the limited time he has had and if ML is happy with him then that's good enough for me..