Fusillade 3: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

by Thomas Wachtel on Jan 23, 2012 11:09 PM EST in Fusillade, An Arsenal Podcast

So it's Monday night and you know what that means: I'm ridiculously tired and I have a headache! In a completely unrelated matter, it also means that this week's edition of Fusillade is out. So, uh, here it is.

Obviously we talked quite a bit about the Manchester United loss, because, you know, if we didn't there wouldn't have been much to talk about. As it turns out Michael Owen didn't end up playing nearly as big a role as we had all hoped. We talked at great length about the performance of young winger and budding cult leader Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and what it might mean for some of the more experienced players in the club for the rest of the season (or at least until Gervinho comes back from the African Cup of Nations). We also have a frank discussion about the booing that accompanied the Oxlade-Chamberlain/Arshavin substitution, which is almost entirely serious, in a minor departure for us.

Two notes: First of all, Paul wasn't on because of family obligation-type stuff (not for more nefarious reasons). Secondly, I apologize about the sound quality. I don't know what was going on, I guess our Internet connections weren't as good as they usually are. I DID WHAT I COULD, OKAY?

We didn't get to any questions this week, but remember that if you have things you'd like us to answer or talk about, shoot us an email at fusilladecast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, and we will do our best to get to it. No really, I promise.

Fusillade 3: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Where do you guys find statistics like tackling percentage? I need a good soccer resource, like the equivalent of FanGraphs or BBRef.

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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jan 23, 2012 11:29 PM EST reply actions

whoscored.com

Some of their stats are meaningless, but some mean more.

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by Aidan Gibson on Jan 24, 2012 6:37 AM EST up reply actions

Thanks

Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

by GrahamCrakalaka on Jan 24, 2012 6:41 AM EST up reply actions

To be fair my family is somewhat nefarious

by pdb on Jan 23, 2012 11:53 PM EST reply actions

itunes?

by Adnan Ilyas on Jan 24, 2012 12:39 AM EST reply actions

We're trying

The approval process can take a while.

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by Aidan Gibson on Jan 24, 2012 6:37 AM EST up reply actions

No point really...

Just download the file from Podomatic, and just drag it to iTunes, it even gets recognized as a podcast right off the bat

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by bmasson11 on Jan 25, 2012 11:11 PM EST up reply actions

iTunes automatically downloads when the podcast is updated

by Adnan Ilyas on Jan 25, 2012 11:43 PM EST up reply actions

Robin van Persie has an official statement on his Facebook page about the Ox substitution.

Scroll down

Its long

Carter Jurica!
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jan 24, 2012 6:18 AM EST reply actions

shoulda called it the Boooooosillade

by pdb on Jan 24, 2012 12:09 PM EST reply actions

Booooo salad

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by Ted Harwood on Jan 24, 2012 12:29 PM EST up reply actions

Johann

Booooooooooroo

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by 3k on Jan 24, 2012 12:35 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Dummy Question

This might be a silly question, but is there a RSS feed for the podcast that I can subscribe to? I didn’t see one on the pod-o-matc site.

by TakeTheBlack on Jan 24, 2012 3:46 PM EST reply actions

I'll defer to Thomas for the ultimate answer since he does all the work on the back end, but I don't think there is

I know we’re working to get it into iTunes, though, maybe that’ll help?

by pdb on Jan 25, 2012 12:24 PM EST up reply actions

That will help. I’m addicted to soccer podcasts on my phone and use google reader to catch all the podcasts I’m subscribed to. I like this Arsenal specific one better than another one with nasaly and overly apologetic hosts.

by TakeTheBlack on Jan 25, 2012 11:50 PM EST up reply actions

http://fusillade.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

by Scrupio on Jan 26, 2012 2:55 AM EST up reply actions

Excellent conversation.

It’s nice to listen to you guys talk Arsenal at work. It actually makes me, somehow, more productive.

by docjay0 on Jan 25, 2012 12:12 PM EST reply actions

On the topic of making Ox a starter:

He’s good clearly, but can you make a starter out of someone who can’t play 90 minutes?

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by silverace99 on Jan 25, 2012 12:38 PM EST reply actions

Sure you can

and then you build his fitness up to the point where he can play 90 minutes.

by pdb on Jan 25, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions

If you start a player who you know can't last, that means you have to plan ahead that you MUST use a substitution on him

Which is not a desirable situation. Wouldn’t you want to continue playing him as a sub and give him more games before you make him a starter?

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by silverace99 on Jan 25, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions

It's kind of a catch 22 at that point

if you only ever play him as a sub, would he ever get to the fitness level needed to stretch out for 90? I don’t know the answer, but it seems like it’d be easier to play someone 70 min a week for a few games then push him to 90 than it would be to play him for 20/week then get to 90.

by pdb on Jan 25, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions

A fair point

And I’d like to see him over Arshavin anyway… I just worry about the tactical disadvantage it causes. Since we know we’ll have to sub Ox out every game for the next x games, we’ll constantly be playing with effectively only 2 tactical substitutions until Gervinho comes back.

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by silverace99 on Jan 25, 2012 4:13 PM EST up reply actions