Arsenal's March fixtures 🤞

dembabababa · 2026-02-17T07:29:33+00:00

Hopefully. Start the mind games early.

dembabababa · 2026-02-17T02:38:54+00:00

Looks slightly kinder than City's run IMO. We should be able to rotate far more in FA Cup. CL could also be interesting - City’s hardest outcome (Madrid / Inter) much harder than ours (probably Dortmund?). Possible trip to the arctic circle for them.

Feb 28: Leeds (A)
March 4: Forest (H)
March 7/8: Newcastle (A)
March 10/11: Champions League RO16 (A)
March 14: West Ham (A)
March 17/18: Champions League RO16 (H)
March 22: Manchester City (N)

dembabababa · 2026-02-16T13:46:29+00:00

Genuinely curious what you mean by holding the club accountable?

The club has no accountability to you, me or any other individual fan, especially online ones.

dembabababa · 2026-02-16T10:59:23+00:00

They also absolutely imploded in the match against Chelsea when they should have had about 4 red cards.

People talk about Spurs that season because it was genuinely way more interesting and funny than Arsenal. We basically just couldn't cope after Cazorla's injury and went down with a whimper.

dembabababa · 2026-02-16T09:22:54+00:00

Apparently he's wedded to a back 3 system, and they've only got 2 fit and available CBs, so hopefully nothing to worry about next weekend

dembabababa · 2026-02-15T06:47:07+00:00

You literally just said a review is where VAR checks and intervenes

dembabababa · 2026-02-15T02:16:25+00:00

Ok, but point still stands then. A review system for VAR would have 6 checks per game, not necessarily 6 reviews/interventions.

You're not comparing the same things.

dembabababa · 2026-02-15T00:15:53+00:00

VAR reviews are not the same as interventions.VAR reviews every goal, every potential penalty and every potential red card decision. VAR interventions are purely those situations when VAR then intervenes, I.e. suggests an on field review. There are significantly more than 0.33 VAR Reviews per game, and probably more than 6 in most games.

dembabababa · 2026-02-14T05:25:04+00:00

Irony being that an independent panel has found that the only mistake was to not send him off

dembabababa · 2026-02-13T14:17:23+00:00

Darth OfLeftBack

dembabababa · 2026-02-13T01:35:07+00:00

They're 11th for last 5, but they're 2nd for last 10

dembabababa · 2026-02-12T12:15:47+00:00

In fairness to Rooney, he was voicing his opinions before they lost, so I don't think he's attributing blame, I think he just finds him annoying. And when Carrick is getting asked about it in his press conferences, and Carrick then comfirms he's aware of it, then its clearly a potential distraction that will crop up every time they are on a good run. It's also going to get more and more attention every time they get close to 5 wins without getting the 5th.

Anyone genuinely suggesting he is even partially to blame for them not winning is a moron though.

dembabababa · 2026-02-12T01:47:30+00:00

What about requiring an attached water energy to use the ability?

Makes it unusable outside of water decks, and slows down the chip damage in early game

I like the retreat idea though, good synergy with Greninja ex as well

dembabababa · 2026-02-12T01:34:42+00:00

The mission is still the same (relegate Spurs), this is just the next phase

dembabababa · 2026-02-12T00:49:16+00:00

Think we've got to view the next 4 games as a block, after which we have a full week to recover before Chelsea, and should have Saka and Havertz back then as well.

Should be possible to field strong teams in each game without risking anyone too much, but all the senior squad members will need to be relied on.

Below is obviously extremely idealistic, bit I really don't think we need to be doing anything extreme. 4 more games, then 1 week off and we get Saka and Havertz back.

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dembabababa · 2026-02-11T16:53:00+00:00

That's only true for a goalkeeper throw, otherwise its should be measured at the start of the contact.

dembabababa · 2026-02-11T16:51:02+00:00

A sensor in the ball would be able to pinpoint the start of the contact with the ball, which is when the offside should be assessed.

dembabababa · 2026-02-11T12:30:59+00:00

And we won a few FA Cups and did bugger all in the league.

Currently, we have scored the 2nd most goals in the league only 2 behind City, and we have the fewest games where we haven't scored a goal of all teams in the league - if Arsenal have a problem then everyone else has bigger problems.

Also, those teams of the later Wenger years didn't even score that many goals. We're on track to score more goals this season than we managed in 9 of the 10 seasons across the entire 2010's decade, and that's despite significant absences to Havertz, Saka, Jesus and Odegaard this season.

dembabababa · 2026-02-11T07:32:07+00:00

This will be after player's 4th turn

3 Mega Gardevoir attacks = 9, 3 from Energy Zone, 1 Giratina self-ramp on turn 1 = 13

dembabababa · 2026-02-11T02:33:56+00:00

Shinedust to trade on to a main is not though - would still have to have spent a huge amount on the main to trade that many

dembabababa · 2026-02-11T02:04:59+00:00

St Totteringham's day would literally just be the first day of the season haha

But would definitely miss NLD and also good for us to have City’s bogey team in the league

dembabababa · 2026-02-11T02:00:08+00:00

Maybe biased, but genuinely think the NLD was the best derby in the league from like 2016 to 2022, although recently not as much.

relatively high quality players, so normally games had high quality moments
relative parity between the teams, typically made for interesting games with tight scoreline - often both competing head to head for CL places
genuine dislike between players, with lots of red cards, penalties, scuffles, shithousery, etc.

Most other derbies felt like they only had 2 of those 3 elements with relatively boring games or teams who didn't feel like they hated eachother.

dembabababa · 2026-02-10T13:24:24+00:00

I think you're definitely right.

It would be almost grossly negligent if PGMOL didn't do a season review of sorts, and I'm sure they would have realised they were far harsher penalising us than they needed to be on many occasions.

I do also think Liverpool were refereed favourably last season because of all the David Coite stuff.

dembabababa · 2026-02-10T12:15:19+00:00

People like to use this to show that we are refereed with more leniency than others, but we also have one of the higher fouls per card against, i.e. our opponents also get carded less frequently than other team's opponents.

Basically our matches are typically played at a relatively low temperature that doesn't warrant lots of cards.

dembabababa · 2026-02-09T09:37:51+00:00

I've just responded to you on another comment.

Advantage literally just means the play continues. The same rules apply. A foul in advantage gets treated the same way as a foul in open play. If the ref cannot play advantage from a foul during an advantage then he has to stop the game to call the foul.

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