*~*~* Arsenal v Sunderland match thread *~*~*

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Don't think any of our centre-backs are Championship standard never mind able to cope with Arsenal. The less said about Hume the better.

Positives; We looked good on the ball at times, lovely goal and kept going. Great support as always. We move on.

 

[TZMouk]

Pritchard tonight. Take a bow son.

Defensively I think we are either poor or weak but further up the pitch we look pretty good. Im still not Embleton's biggest fan but I'll leave the jury out.

Doesn't help that we have no fully fit fullbacks.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

First half we were class imho.
Second half their quality shone through

They were clinical, and the score flattered them really. The are PL teams looked worse against them this season (Leeds for one)

 

[Wrenthorpe Mackem]

Don’t get this “we should be proud of the lads”, we’ve just been mullered again and shown for what we are, a badly organised defensively League One team.

5 1 embarrassing. Last 20 mins we were stramrollered. Tbf up to 70 minutes played well.

 

[North Yorks Mackem]

We played well. Pressed high and always going to be tough second half with the effort going in. Generally positive play and we did alright. We're short of quality upfront though. Once Broadhead went off the bench offered nothing comparable to replace with and Gooch is not good enough to play that high.

Overall it was a good test we did reasonably well at, but we look no better than a bottom third Championship side. Still lots of work to do to improve the side.

We looked like what we ultimately are at the moment. A play off league 1 team. Great to see the effort and some neat attacking play in the first half but we're still way short of where we have to be.

If we don't invest in January id be very concerned.

 

[Windypants]

Arsenal were quite good in the second half. We played some decent football in possession which was pleasing and which was also a positive. We didn't shoot ourselves in the foot and didn't get humiliated.

We all know that we're a League One club rebuilding from the ground up.

 

[The Great MES]

We had some decent spells in the first half. I just think we'd have have them more of a game if the substitutions had been better.

 

[Cream Soda]

Don’t get this “we should be proud of the lads”, we’ve just been mullered again and shown for what we are, a badly organised defensively League One team.

a league 1 side beaten by a top 6 Premier league side and your pissing your parachutes u clunge get a grip

 

[Crispy32]

Be about a month

Hopefully 3 weeks if it's a low grade tear

 

[Nelson!]

Clipped his own ankle for the free kick.

Yeah. No different to the one on Stewart. You just want consistency.

 

[RokerStoker]

LJ feeding Hume to the lions as payback for f***ing us about with his contract

 

[Smartin]

Brilliant effort tonight from at least 5 or 6 lads tonight, credit to the club.... and 5 or 6 who simply couldnt be bothered to show up for a major cup quarter final.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Don’t get this “we should be proud of the lads”, we’ve just been mullered again and shown for what we are, a badly organised defensively League One team.

f***ing hell.

 

[McGregor]

Sky are really bigging Nketiah up with those stats like, ffs he's played in the league Cup all season.

 

[SAFC Wilks]

Nketiah with a proper Josh Maja style answer there about his contract situation.

 

[chuckyroll]

Brilliant effort tonight from at least 5 or 6 lads tonight, credit to the club.... and 5 or 6 who simply couldnt be bothered to show up for a major cup quarter final.

Don't think it's a case of not showing up merely not good enough

 

[Ohnonotagain]

Hopefully 3 weeks if it's a low grade tear

Double that.

 

[tenpins]

Don’t get this “we should be proud of the lads”, we’ve just been mullered again and shown for what we are, a badly organised defensively League One team.

They hammered Leeds at the weekend man.

 

[Rokerparkpies]

No one has mentioned Pritchard..the lad ran his heart out tonight..gutted we lost but a learning curve for a few...still love Sunderland...they give a right go but quality shone through...proud of the lads!!
STID....HTL....FTM....

 

[redflagflyinghigh]

Brilliant effort tonight from at least 5 or 6 lads tonight, credit to the club.... and 5 or 6 who simply couldnt be bothered to show up for a major cup quarter final.

people rinsing hume for not being on a par with a player worth more than i'd earn in 100 lifetimes is a bit much imo