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Dutch

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  1. 100%. Not as sweet as the 2021 but way better than their usual.
  2. Saw these during my last grocery run, laughed, then decided to give them a try. Pretty tasty. The Funyun powder works surprisingly well on a chip.
  3. THIRTEEN!!! A great actor who elevated everything in which he was cast. Fifty eight is way too young. Damn. Requiescat in pace.
  4. It’s Rawe Ceek, boys
  5. Plenty of positives and growth this year, but damn it is ending badly.
  6. Fifty points from the first 19 matches; 31 in the 18 since. We didn’t hit the wall, it slammed into us. Plenty of lessons, brutally painful lessons, from these final 9 matches; hopefully everyone at the club learns from them.
  7. Saka’s played 3k+ minutes. That’s 1-1.5k more than most. Mik can’t keep overcooking him. Lose the League to City if they close the season with 14 straight wins? Ok. They’re the finished article and know how to close a season. Finish strong on 90 points and set a tone for next year. But to collapse and check out mentally like we’ve done in the past two matches… man it’s worrisome.
  8. The guys have checked out and are already on vacation.
  9. He gone, and it makes me a bit sad. Mik and Edu better have a replacement in mind, because Zinny’s injury record isn’t great, and Nuno Tavares ain’t a backup for a title challenger. Yes, Kieran didn’t play well last week, but who did? It’s going to hard watching him for another club, bombing down the wings and whipping in crosses for waiting forwards to head in, but it’s what he’s great at. He’s not an inverted LB, which is how Arteta wants to play, and it’s obvious that’s not his skill set. He (and we) played well when Zinchenko was hurt in the 1st half of the season, had having a change of pace guy seemed a good option to have.
  10. Hell yes we are. Ramsdale us in games this year, and he’ll hopefully iron out the mistakes. Goalkeepers reach their peak after age 28; he’s gonna be great.
  11. The longer we go without “Saliba agrees new deal, final details being sorted, Arsenal to announce soon” the more nervous I get. His agent is absolutely doing the right thing for him, as his value to the club was made starkly evident after his injury. He’s gonna get paid. But we do not want him to enter his final year w/no extension and have that hanging over next year. Easy for me to say since I’m not signing the check, but
  12. Watched it last night on Prime and very much enjoyed it. Damon and Affleck are always great together, and the soundtrack, basically every awesome song from 1984, fucks. I it got me interested enough that I watched The Last Dance episode that covered the shoe story; forgot he wore the Jordan 1 at his final game in MSG.
  13. Very true that you don’t want to be leading that metric, but being last by a bit isn’t good either. We can do with rotating a bit more to keep guys fresher at the business end of the season. That balance isn’t easy to find, though. Hopefully adding in the summer will get us closer to it.
  14. Will be hard for Pep to top this season. Treble, closing on a near 20-match win streak. He should probably “mic drop” and leave on a high note.
  15. PL: Also PL:
  16. Don’t blame Xhaka wanting to move on & leave on a high, and it would have been fitting for him to play Champions League football in our shirt after struggling through the down years. But we could have used him next year as depth and cover in MF. We CANNOT be last in this metric again next year.
  17. Great with a deep squad isn’t enough. You have to be damn near perfect. Arsenal would have needed 95 points (or 94 with a cyborg scoring 55 goals) to win this year. In other words: 1. The fifth best point total in PL history. 2. More than every ManUre title winner. 3. More than every Arsenal title winner. 4. More than every Chelsea title winner except 2004-5, who also finished on 95.
  18. “Is this a collapse? Arsenal have lost/are losing/will lose the league because they dropped nine points in four games across 17 days in April, when they kept scoring but just couldn’t keep them out. They collapsed/choked/lacked character because the squad wasn’t deep enough to allow for the loss of a key defender, because their best attacking players have no rotational backup and have grown weary in the last few weeks of an endless season. Above all they are an ordinary, mortal, very good team. As opposed to a generational winning machine treading its own path towards something entirely new. Near-perfection is the standard now. City have completed their 11th straight league win, doing all this at a point in the season when your average stretched and faltering champion team starts to tie up and feel the burn.“ Good article on how we didn’t “bottle it.” We just weren’t close enough to perfect. Yet. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/may/14/arsenal-brighton-manchester-city-premier-league
  19. Our “Plan A” with our best XI is pretty damn salty. It’s enough to see off most clubs most days. It’s apparent, though, Arteta needs to get better at Plan Bs, when injuries hit and/or other clubs have a good plan. Hopefully another good summer window plus Jan 2024 will allow more rotation so we aren’t on vapor in April.
  20. Hopefully Pep gets bored after winning the treble and leaves. City only won two PLs before he arrived. It’s not just that they spend; it’s that they spend smartly and have the best manager of his generation whipping them into a machine.
  21. This fucking sucks, dropping 12 of 21 points, getting absolutely run at home. It was a hell of a season, and a successful one. We aren’t deep enough or experienced (players and manager) to win the League yet. Yet. But we will be soon. Add 3-4 difference makers this summer and go again next year.
  22. Guess y’all will just have to take three points from City tomorrow.
  23. Worst case: Bayern & Madrid. Best case (relatively speaking): Feyenoord and Leipzig. Hopefully, this will be our last entry through Pot 3 for long while.
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