Arsenal v Aston Villa F.A. Cup 4th Round Post-Match Thread

[Dan England]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

Tell that to MON...........

[PeterWithesShin]

Have we ever had a pair of full backs who have been so consistently shit and given away quite so many goals in a season as Warnock and Hutton?  Truly the direst comedy double act since Cannon and Ball.

They are terrible all right. How come we can see it and AM can't ?

I would imagine he does, but with no money to spend there's not much he can do. I wasn't overly enamored when we signed Hutton but have been shocked by how poor he is so often. I thought we were getting a player than we have, probably so did AM. As for Warnock, he's showing JLS levels of deterioration in performances.

Until we have some money to spend and/or Lichaj and Enda can be called upon there's not much AM can do as what are the options?

[Greg N'Ash]

Why are the vast majority of your posts on here made when we lose?

Haven't been on the last week legion but to be fair i thought we fluked wolves as well. defence wasn't much better than today

Apart from 30 mins in the first half at Wolves I thought we played well.

They're just a shitter version of us from the midfield onwards. You could swap our back 4 with theirs and neither side would show any improvement

[James]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

We don't have any other full backs, so as utterly useless as Hutton and Warnock undoubtedly are, we don't really have any alternatives.  The whole club is a shambles.

Yes, we do! One of whom AMc signed himself! Let's play Eric and Edna against QPR, they really can't be any worse!

[James]

A cup run would have been nice. A beacon of hope amongst the general mood. We'll just play out the season now finishing 12ish.

I admire your optimism. If we play out the rest of the season like that 12th will be very fortunate indeed. I don't subscribe to the theory that we're 'too good to go down' because, tbh, we really aren't, are we?

[myf]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

Tell that to MON...........

Nzog doesn't seem to be flavour of the month with AM though either

[Legion]

He's injured.

[Risso]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

Tell that to MON...........

Nzog doesn't seem to be flavour of the month with AM though either

That's because he's rubbish.  N'Zogbia that is.  Well, and McLeish actually.  A rubbish player, bought by a rubbish manager.

[Greg N'Ash]

N'zogbia has never convinced me. He may be skillful on his day but he doesn't put the work in. People like Young, even when they were playing crap always worked hard. Rather we'd had finally done away with the wingers and spent the money in central midfield

[dave.woodhall]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

Tell that to MON...........

Nzog doesn't seem to be flavour of the month with AM though either

That's because he's rubbish.  N'Zogbia that is.  Well, and McLeish actually.  A rubbish player, bought by a rubbish manager.

Or because he's injured.

[James]

Managers normally play their signings in order to justify them. Hutton will be a regular whilst AMc is in charge....

Tell that to MON...........

Nzog doesn't seem to be flavour of the month with AM though either

That's because he's rubbish.  N'Zogbia that is.  Well, and McLeish actually.  A rubbish player, bought by a rubbish manager.

Appointed by a rubbish owner!

[Legion]

Think back.

[dave.woodhall]

Think back.

Don't be daft - he's always been rubbish. They've always said so.

[Chris Smith]

A cup run would have been nice. A beacon of hope amongst the general mood. We'll just play out the season now finishing 12ish.

I admire your optimism. If we play out the rest of the season like that 12th will be very fortunate indeed. I don't subscribe to the theory that we're 'too good to go down' because, tbh, we really aren't, are we?

I think he's being realistic rather than optimistic. We're a mid table side and as such are seeing mid table results; some good, some bad but mostly somewhere between the two.

[gervilla]

Well I thought N'Zobia looked pretty useful at Wigan and I thought Hutton looked good in the few games I saw him play for Rangers and Scotland. I also thought Shorey looked good at Reading and Curtis Davies looked quite classy at Albion, possibly the new Paul McGrath.

Then again I'm not a highly paid football manager who isn't just seeing these players on the telly.

It's not just AM that has bought us some stinkers.