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Arsenal in Australia…A view from the fans

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18 degree’s with clear blue skies over Sydney Harbour today and 1st port of call was the Fortune of War on the Rocks, where quite a few of the old seasoned Warrior’s from The George were gathered.

Aย few bars later and we’re on the rattler to the Olympic Park from Central station, with the customary missing kick off, despite a pretty decent rail system in place with express trains taking about 15 mins.

The ground ain’t that bad for a modern stadium and plenty of help on hand. Lifts and escalators were a God send for those on the 6th tier.

The ground is pretty much similar to the Bowl, and like the Bowl, I am afraid to say the atmosphere was shit.

Considering some of the younguns present were probably seeing The Arsenal for the first time, a bit more effort wouldn’t have gone a miss. At least Arsenal America are happy to have learnt B’jesus said Paddy off to a tee.

Beer in ya seat’s was a bonus for a game that threatened to come to life in the first half. Walcott truly had a game to forget (or should that be a career?)!!!

$100 for a perch in the gods was disappointing. Will be interesting to see where $200 gets us on Saturday.

The two biggest cheers of the night came with our new number nine bagging on his debut and the other being the skill shown by Bruce in the back row getting his paper airplane on the pitch.

Expecting a livelier atmosphere from the West Sydney chap’s on Saturday…….flares at the ready.

RF

Arsenal resign former starlet โ€“ and immediately sell him on

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Arsenal are set to resign former โ€˜next big thingโ€™ Wellington Silva from Brazilian side Fluminense, before selling him straight on to French side Bordeaux, in an odd transfer outlined by Tim Stillman in an interesting series of tweets.

https://twitter.com/attwood10/status/885406804024414209

Keenos

Arsenal set to give 1st teamers run out in U23 friendly

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Having left 16 first team players at home, Arsenal look set to give some of them a run out in upcoming U23 friendlies.

On Friday, Arsenal U23โ€™s play Brighton at the Arsenal Training Centre (aka London Colney) in a behind closed doors, invitation only, friendly. Usually a behind closed doors game screams out two things:

  1. Trialists
  2. First team players set to play

With Wojciech Szczesny, Mathieu Debuchy, Kieran Gibbs, Carl Jenkinson, Lucas Perez & Chuba Akpom all fit and left at home, we could see a whole host of players be given a run out against Brighton. It will be an opportunity for them to show visiting scouts that they are fit and ready to go for the new season.

On July 27, Arsenal’s traditional meeting with non-league Borehamwood is set to take part. Usually an U23 fixture, rumours are that Arsenal could play up to 5 first team players, as they continue to put those who are not wanted in the shop window, and ensure that their fitness levels do not drop โ€“ putting at risk a potential transfer.

With the Borehamwood fixture set to be open to fans, it is a great opportunity, in the summer holidays, to take your kids and see a mixture of first team players and some youngsters who will be bloodied with an eye on the future.

If they have not yet left the club by July 27th, Kieran Gibbs, Carl Jenkinson, Mathieu Debuchy, Lucas Perez, & Chuba Akpom are almost certainly set to play a part. The only one likely to miss out is Wojciech Szczesny โ€“ who has recently cleaned out the closet in his house ahead of a move to Juventus.

All 5 players will be looking to put themselves in the shop window and show that, despite the lack of match time last season, they are not overweight, they are injury free, and would be ready to join pre-season training at a new club.

Get down to Borehamwood with your kids on July 27th to support a non-league club with heavy links to Arsenal, and to see some senior players (who might be leaving Arsenal) play.

Keenos