Delighted with the 7-1 win and it was great to see us being ruthless for once. I hope very much that we’ve turned the corner, but as has been mentioned before here, “I can take the despair, it’s the hope I can’t stand.” Sunderland away will be very tricky, and especially with the trip to Milan coming up, I was very surprised that with half an hour to go, VP wasn’t withdrawn having notched his hat trick. If that wasn’t an opportunity for Wenger to rest him as he’s apparently in the “red zone” and introduce Inamoto, sorry Park, when is the right time? I fully endorse everyone complimenting Coquelin. Even playing out of position, he’s now far more capable than Jenkinson will be, and like Park, Mertesacker and Santos, those are four purchases that make no sense when others were available for similar prices. Finally, those who take exception to truegooner- just ignore him. He’s this site’s troll and gets his kicks from winding people up and getting attention. He’s been banned before and if you don’t rise to the bait he’ll have nothing to say and disappear.

Robin, last comment marked as spam as copy and paste from another site!

Let’s no too carried away. It was a very good performance but let’s be honest, Blackburn are very, very poor. Much bigger tests will present themselves very soon.
Got to love the Ox!

Whilst Blackburn were VERY poor yesterday, we were good. I think that it is this kind of performance that is, in a perverse sort of way, annoying. We all know that the team has the ability not perhaps to win the league, but to at least be there or thereabouts. To go from scoring no goals against Bolton, who have the most woeful defence, and have lost their “best” defender in the last coupple of weeks, to scoring seven against a team that won at old trafford is inexplicable to me! However for those who love to think that they know it all three points: 1) Two years ago there were people on this site that were ANGRY because Arsene Wenger would not spend a bit of money and bring in Chamakh, with him rather waiting to bring the player in on a free. Are those individuals now glad that Wenger didn’t waste that money? things aren’t always as simple as they seem. Look at the money Liverpool and Co have spent, was it £100,000,000 they spents in the summer? and they still do not have an outfield player that they brought with that money that I would want at the Arsenal. 2) There were people on here a few months ago slating Wenger because he had spent money on a player for the future, OX, and we needed a player that would make an impact this season. For those people, from what you have seen thus far, would it have been better to have brought in Mata? I know that both would have been even better, and it annoyed me to distraction that we missed out on him, but the reality is I think, that history will show that we got the better player out of the two! 3) The manager actually has a number of very good players, it is his job to motivate and set them up to achieve what they can. It is OUR job to motivate them too! Is there a reason why 40K people in Sunderland can make more noise than 60K people at the Arsenal?

By jove,by jove…Wenger popped into his local newsagents last week for his weekly footie mag.”Your usual ‘World Soccer’ Arsene?” asked the shopkeeper.”Non,I’ll try ze ‘Shoot’ magazine if you don’t mind!” replied the beleaguered Gunners’ boss! -

Chelsea at home to Utd tomorrow, Newcastle at home to Villa and Liverpool at home to Spurs. If Utd, Villa and Spurs can take points from their games, a win for us at Sunderland next week could see us go 4th. Would be a huge lift if we can go into the Milan game in 4th place.

Debs – the club do need to process and read every letter, so sending a letter to the club will help… but it won’t achieve anything.

In reality, we as fans can only show our discontent by not going to games.

To todays game though – line up and predictions?

I think:

Szsz, sag, verm, kos, gibbs, arteta, song, ramsey, ox, theo, van persie

Score – 3-0.

Interesting article Debs.
You say what the majority of fans think!

@ Deb : whatever needs to be done to be heard you do it. Your being upset about the protest makes me feel like you don’t want a change. The bin bag or whatever u call it protest is a way of showing discontent. Who doesn’t want success, maybe you don’t want Deb but fans are fed up of being bitched around.