Paul says:

Very impressed with Coquelin in both the Spurs and Shrewsbury matches. I think he’s not just slightly, but very much better than Frimpong at the moment. Which really is the difference between a full seasons loan and a full season on the sidelines injured.

So many of our players seem to lose form after one injury or another. Djourou, Na$ri and Walcott are examples of last seasons players who dipped after injury. I think Ramsey is still in that below par performance area at the moment. He has patches during a game where he is brilliant but then will make very basic areas that concede possession.

Maybe on TVs return, Coquelin can keep his place alongside Song with Arteta behind RVP. Or maybe leave Song at the back with TV and leave Mertesacker at home. I never thought he was the defender for us before we signed him and can’t see anything to change my opinion. Much in the same way that Brede Hangeland was never for us.

Hopefully Wenger can help our problems by buying Cahill.. or solve them by buying Hummels! And Hazard! And either Gotze or Eriksen! And sell Arshavin, Walcott (to a foreign team), Squillaci and Chamakh!

Oh, I can but dream!

Bongo says:

I’ve been avoiding blogs for the past couple of days because frankly I’m sick of the doom and gloom ‘Wenger out’ crap.
It’s nice to see there are some fans out there with the same view as me. We can turn this season around. Considering the kind of players we’re missing from injury and the fact that we never have the same 11 playing in any kind of consistent way we’re not doing too badly at the moment although I’d prefer wins.
Sagna is a huge loss though and I’d rather see Santos play RB than Jenkinson who has bags of potential but needs a loan season to be blooded.
Look I know we lost through sheer bad luck in this one. Maybe Sagna could have done better to deny VDV the chance but the ref got two decisions wrong in that piece of play. The other goal was one chezzer would normally have saved and we were not outplayed even though our team was very makeshift, in fact we defended quite well at times and we did well in the midfield too which we haven’t really been doing this season.
All I want is for the team to still be in the Champions league and in a position to fight for a champions league spot in the league by January. I think we should relegate the FA cup and Carling cup to games our reserve team play.
I’d much prefer Benayoun played instead of Ramsey. I think Arteta and Benny should be our two first choice midfielders because Ramsey has been doing a Denilson on us all season. He plays with too much fear and no endeavour anymore. I remember a player who before his injury was audacious, took risks, pulled off impossible little feats of skill, took on other midfielders, defenders and wasn’t afraid to run at people and get forward.
Wenger should have to tried to stop all our players going international and just spent the next two weeks drilling players in the attack to defence switch and vice versa.
Above all this is time we fans should up and support our team, we’re in the race now, we can’t buy new players and changing manager is not going to happen nor should it. We have to do everything possible to show our support and lift our team, because hopefully this is just a reverse of usual end of season fade and we can just keep growing stronger.