:cech: Drugs are very bad 
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We would even won the Champions League :hipster:
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You fundamentally misunderstand what prolific means in footballing terms if you believe that. But you donāt, youāre just trolling of course.
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I think itās a fair point to make, if Theo averages a goal or assist more often than pires did then thatās not too shabby is it? Pointing that out doesnāt mean your saying Theo is better than pires
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Robert Pires scored 62 league goals for Arsenal in 189 appearances. Theo Walcott has scored 65 league goals in 264 appearances.
Twist things however you like but their names donāt even belong in the same sentence.
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Notice I said IF in the post above yours, Although minutes played would make these figures a lot closer
Do you know how many goals/assists pires averaged per minutes played by any chance?
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I was going to point out those exact statistics @JakeyBoy but didnāt bother as its obviously just a poor attempt at trolling by @BigWeng_4LYFE
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I wasnāt replying to your post specifically and no, I donāt have goals and assists per minute for Pires, I have no idea if such reliable statistical information exists for as far back as the early 2000s.
My point is just that putting the two in the same sentence in such a fashion to imply that Walcott is better than he is is just pure fanboyism, boring trolling.
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If people are insisting Walcott is absolute dog shit I think itās fair to point out that his goals/assists ratio strands up to comparison with a player that was so good for us their is a common trope for straight male arsenal fans to pretend they are gay for him
Again thatās not saying he is as good a player as pires itās just saying lay off the guy and the critism dosent stand up to scrutiny
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Whoās saying heās complete dog shit ? Iām of the thinking that most Arsenal fans think heās a decent impact player when used sparingly. But yeah heās complete dog shit in comparison to Robert Pires, who was the best winger in the Premier League for a good 3 years and one of the top 3 or 4 in Europe.
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This is where stats start to ruin football discussions. There is simply no comparison between Pires and Theo yet someone like A4TT will try to make the comparison based on stats without factoring in the fact that Pires played on the wings in a traditional 4-4-2 whilst Theo has played as nothing other than an advanced forward in 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 and 4-5-1.
And it also doesnāt factor in how useless some the goals and assists a player scores can actually be. Player A might have grabbed a key goal or assist in a season defining game but thatās mitigated by Player B scoring in back to back games against relegation fodder long after it became apparent we arenāt title contenders anymore.
Simply using stats to try to support your argument is very flawed. Most people will never accept Theo is anything other than a decent player because of what weāve seen over the last decade.
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Theo actually is probably our most reliable big game goal scorer.
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Theo is probably our most reliable big game goal scorer.
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You do realise Sanchez has scored in our last 4 cup games at Wembley right ?
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Comparing Theo to Pires 
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Whatās hilarious about Walcott is how his 2017 fans try and make out that this is some kind of unappreciated hero of the last decade and thereās some kind of agenda against him.
This is without doubt for me the most overrated player of the Wenger era. The majority of fans would blindly sing his name based on nothing, overrate the impact of his pace and overrate his finishing ability.
Itās only in the last few years when weāve had players like Ozil and Sanchez compared to players like Podolski and an aged Rosicky that people have started to see heās clearly a couple of steps below the required level.
A player with the stats he has shouldnāt be given up on by his fans, yet the fact that many of us have given up on him should show how disappointing he is. Iāve never really liked him so Iām happy to be called biased, but Iāve watched ordinary fans start to turn on him and itās clear that itās not bias on their part, itās taken a long time but itās what people are seeing with their own eyes. Heās not rated because heās not that good.
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Pires was wanted by Real Madrid.
Walcott would be lucky to get a game for Real Oviedo.
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Podolskiās better than Ćzil too 
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Jenkinson than Koscielny 
Heās become a scapegoat for our mediocrity. Everyone talks about how crap he is, no one is calling him top draw but heās a good contributer and our second top scorer last year. In 15/16 he was turgid but he did well enough last year. Heās a good rotational player. He has the best movement of any forward in our team.
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