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The YouTube Thread

lorddulaarsenal

niiiiiiiiice boxers

Clrnc

Just chanced upon this vid here, showed Walcott 4 years progress with us here, just dawn on me that his best season with us was still back in 07-08, linked so well with Hleb and Ade. Has he really even progressed?

Rex

A quick look at his stats for this season confirms what at least I can see with my eyes; this is his best season for us.

Timbob

His best season was this season, and he was one of the best right wingers in the league.

But he should be playing through the middle as a striker. He's got 20 league goals in him playing up top.

lorddulaarsenal

felt more threatening last season

Clrnc

I think he was more involved in goals in 07-08, and the runs/goals/assists were more impressive imo.

goon

This was his best season by a mile.

Nela

This was by far his best season, despite the usual injury interruptions.

Theo makes me want to pull out my hair sometimes, but his season is being underestimated by a lot of people.

Theo
25 starts, 13 subs, 13 goals, 9 assists

Nasri
39 starts, 7 subs, 15 goals(includes penalties), 4 assists

Young
38 starts, 2 subs, 9 goals(includes penalties), 13 assists

Bale
37 starts, 2 subs, 11 goals, 3 assists

Klaus

Theo had a quality season. Would've ended up striking double figures if he had been injured a little less. Apart from van Persie and a fit Cesc he's our most productive player and the only wide man to provide a constant goal threat at the club. We need more like him.

Mirth

This was hands down Theo's best season.

kamikaze

Tim wrote:
But he should be playing through the middle as a striker. He's got 20 league goals in him playing up top.

imo, that would only work if we play on the counter. playing on the counter would require us to be able to defend. and we can't defend.

Claudius

Still a 12th man for me. Too inconsistent both within a game and throughout the season.

est

You can't say he's inconsistent when he consistently produces the goods. His goals/assists per games ratio is very good.

If anything, he's too unreliable, fitness wise.

Don Pacifico

Those stats do provide an interesting comparison point and it does surprise me. I definitely feel Theo can be a very useful weapon but his performances still feel very patchy. Whilst I think his movement is consistently good (something that seems to go unnoticed), his decision making is still very immature. Some defenders also seem to read him very easily thereby nullifying him for the entirety of the game.

I do wonder when/if well move him centrally. It still feels like it ought to be his eventual destination but I wonder if he'd be able to handle CF in our current setup (probably not).

y va marquer

As with too many of our players Theo's development and progression has been interrupted far too often by injury.

All the issues that he has surrounding his somewhat dodgy decision making would surely be improved upon if he had a good injury free season?

Klaus

I've always thought that Theo was made for the kind of role he's currently playing. He's not really a centreforward but he's got potential to be so much more than a box player.

est wrote:
You can't say he's inconsistent when he consistently produces the goods. His goals/assists per games ratio is very good.

If anything, he's too unreliable, fitness wise.

I think his dodgy fitness is behind any inconsistency too. Every time he's had a run of games in the past few seasons he's been productive. People praised van Persie during the second half of the season but Walcott was very good too at a time when the rest of the attacking players caved in. I'm surprised that people are surprised by his stats.

goon

I think Theo should do what Thierry did, start in the middle and drift out wide rather than the other way around. It would bring more out of his strong points and put less demand on his weak point.. in theory.

kamikaze

i disagree, we dont have the kind of widemen who make the diagonal runs into the center to exploit henry dragging the CBs wide. well, we do, but theo is one of them and nasri is the other. the teams with henry were also much better equipped to play on the break - this team is poor at that, and theo would not get the kind of space that henry, vieira, pires and bergkamp enjoyed and exploited so well. against a parked bus, you still need a focal point for the attack, and bergkamp was fully capable of playing with his back to goal. van persie can do the same, but that'd mean we'd have to play 4411, and i dont see that happening when we are committed to a 3-man central midfield.

theo's fine out wide, especially since his natural instinct is to play forward more, while nasri's is to push back to midfield - it creates a natural balance.

Ricky1985

Nasri made those diagonal runs runs all the time for the first 4 months of the season, and with great success, too.

I think Theo's best positions are as a striker playing on the shoulder of the last defender - which in the right team could be very effective, but is obviously a very limited role, I think his best position though is as a roaming forward, similar to what we play now, but with more freedom and positioned a little further forward - so more Barcelona with Pedro/Villa than what we do here.

Watching that video above made me remember just what potential the kid has.

Nela

Speaking of Theo, I'm watching the England-Spain U21 game and with all the fuss about Wilshere I realized that isn't Theo technically eligable for this tourtnament?

Yet Pearce, England and the media didn't say a peep about him not going. It never even seemed to be a remote consideration that he would go.

I assume Pearce wouldn't even try since he mistreated Theo the last time. But it's funny that it's been completely ignored.

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