Hello there, welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com. How are you?

I hope you're well. Thank you for being here as always and thank you as well for all the kind words on the episode we did midweek a bit extra curricular. I think you would say, but it felt like we needed to discuss all the bits we discussed with David Ornstein from the BBC. I'm so glad.

So many of you enjoy that episode, even if content wise, you know, it could have been more cheery, could have been a bit more upbeat, but that's not on us. That's simply the circumstances. That is the arsenal world that we live in at this moment in time. But some good news.

Good news, everyone. Football is back. That's right. Football is back after two weeks of introspection, two weeks of wondering where it all went wrong at Amfield. Two weeks of wondering what the fuck are we doing in this transfer window at all? Well, it wasn't actually two weeks wasn't because the transfer window closed midway through that international break, but it was so fucked up. It felt like two weeks. I think I think that's fair to say.

But tomorrow we look to get ourselves back on track a home game against Bournemouth.

To be fair, to be fair, you could have had worse. It could have been an away trip to Stanford bridge, for example. But that's next week. And we'll worry about that on next week's arcs.

For now, we'll concentrate on what's going on this weekend. And that is of course the visit of Bournemouth to the Emirates. We'll have some team news a bit later on.

Arson Renger was talking at his press conference yesterday. He was asked about all the things he would expect him to be asked about. He was asked about Alex Oxley Chamberlain and said that his departure could open up the door for Reese Nelson and Joe Willock. So that's good news.

He talked about Alexis Sanchez and said, he thinks Alexis will be fine. He's no questions over his character or commitment or anything like that, but refused to be drawn over the whole story. You know, that whole thing where we, you know, tried to sell him right at the end of the transfer window. He didn't really want to discuss that too much as you.

As you might expect, he talked about Macedos and his criticism of Arsenal legends and said, hey, some of our legends there, their weaknesses too. Why can't we all just get along like one big happy family.

He also talked about wanting to fans to be on side and to support the team. It's very early in the season, etc.

Which of course it is. He said fans, you know, it shouldn't jump to conclusions about what this team is capable of even though they can look at the Liverpool game. And yes, we played terribly against Liverpool, but you know, we've got to get behind the team. And I think during the 90 minutes and during the game, fans will, if they can see that the team is putting the effort here, they will get behind the team, but you know, you can't.

You can't expect people to be too understanding of that display against Liverpool. And then he was asked if a win against Bournemouth might get the fans off his back.

And the back of the club to an extent. And he said, and I quote here, you work very hard to get our fans on our back.

I think he was talking about the media in general, rather than specifically the dude who asked the question, maybe he could have been being that specific, but you know, you work very hard to get our fans on our back.

So I think we should point fingers at the media because they were completely wrong to choose Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, a right wingback over Hector Bellarm when, when the media knew that Alex Oxlade Chamberlain was leaving for Liverpool, having already told the club and the media.

Well, they decided to drop Alexandra Lackazette. Did they not the club record signing from Liam 46, 48 million pounds, whatever it was, a lethal striker.

The man you might use in a game against the top team to, you know, score goals, the media fucking bastard media. They left him on the bench and the other new signing say, call a scenic.

They left him on the bench as well. When we could have done with a bit of grit, a bit of power, a bit of tank action down that left hand side.

Stupid media not telling those players what way they should play, making them unfamiliar and confused with a system that looked a bit lopsided.

And if you ask me, it's media out media out. They're going to keep fucking up our team selections like this. Well, then I want no part of it. I want a different media is the transfer window for media closed.

It's a bit much, isn't it to blame the media, the journalists and everything else, even if we know they're prone to, to hyping up bad situations, we know that's the case.

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