Naive and inexperienced - the truth

[Zuben]

I'm fed up of Arsenal always giving the excuse they have a young bunch of players, they are inexperienced, blah blah blah. Everytime they mess up with have to endure that crap and the media tout the same old rubbish with them.

Well lets look at the two teams that played on Wednesday:

Almunia 31
Sagna 25
Silvestre 31
Gallas 31
Clichy 24
Walcott 19 (Eboue 25)
Fabregas 21
Denilson 20
Nasri 21 (Song Billong 21)
Van Persie 25 (Diaby 22)
Adebayor 24​

Gomes 27
Hutton 24 (Gunter 19)
Corluka 22
Woodgate 28
Assou-Ekotto 24
Bentley 24
Modric 23
Jenas 25
Huddlestone 22
Bale 19 (Lennon 21)
Pavlyuchenko 27 (Bent 24)

These ages may not be exact as I have estimated quickly from their DoBs but a few quick calculations show that:

- their starting 11 average age is 24.7
- our starting 11 average age is 24.1

- including the subs who played their average age is 24.3
- ours is 23.5

PROOF definitely we have a younger squad; a less experienced starting 11 then then scum but do you hear us moan about it all the time? God I hate them.

(even if the ages vary slightly it shows our average is less or more or less the same as theirs, so Arsenal SHUT THE FUC* UP PLEASE).

 

[PYiddy]

And yet their oldest player is their biggest cry-baby.

oh the ironing

 

[Zuben]

I hate all their players ... except perhaps Nasri but that's probably cos he hasn't been there long enough to have been infected with the scum bug.

 

[Dougal]

I hate Nasri. Gooner

 

[Zuben]

I hate Nasri. Gooner

Yes my young condom hat wearing friend you make an undeniablely good point.

 

[Dougal]

Condom hat? What a strangely shaped penis you must have

 

[robbiesavagehasbreasts]

And yet their oldest player is their biggest cry-baby.

oh the ironing

hahahaha.

 

[worcestersauce]

It's just wengers way of shifting the blame away from himself.

 

[Kendall]

This thread has already been done and I challenge it.

IF we were as good as Arsenal, then you may have a point. We are younger (just) but they are leagues ahead of us. They ARE naive and inexperienced, it is a fact. That's not to say we aren't - we definitely are, in fact we are more naive and inexperienced hense why we are bottom and lost to sunderland, middlesbrough, hull and stoke.

I'm not sure what your point is really. If we were sitting pretty at the top of the league and hey were making the same excuse then I could understand it.

 

[Zuben]

Ignore the league positions this is just between us and them. They were playing against a team of similar age and experience. Excuses based on that reasoning are not applicable to their result against us.

And even if we apply it to the league then our position is further proof of how scummy they are. We don't have managers who harp on about a lack of experience and youth as excuses as to why we are the bottom of the league.

 

[Kendall]

well I don't know. they can still blame the fact that they are young on the fact that they drew. They sat back at 4-2 after pretty much tearing us apart at will - that is the sign of naivety. The fact that we are younger doesn't make the point any less valid.

 

[worcestersauce]

well I don't know. they can still blame the fact that they are young on the fact that they drew. They sat back at 4-2 after pretty much tearing us apart at will - that is the sign of naivety. The fact that we are younger doesn't make the point any less valid.

But they took their que from wenger taking off Walcott and Van Persie what other message is he sending them by doing that?
I don't say you are wrong Kendall but I don't think we can call wenger naive.

 

[jamesc0le]

well we should have taken of the hudd in the second half that was pretty obvious

(even though bent wouldnt have got his goal)

 

[CaptainCat]

Corluka is only 22? Fucking hell, I thought he'd be late 20s at least.

 

[Zuben]

Corluka is only 22? Fucking hell, I thought he'd be late 20s at least.

I knew he'd be pretty young since he's just signed for Bromley (my team) in my 9th season of Football Manager. Very highly rated in that game. Got Taraabt too - he's a star. Oh and Modric. And Bale.