I'm confused. I thought we were having a good start but we appear to be behind both Manchesters, Spu

[Paul Davis' Left Hook]

rs and Everton and have almost half of Chelsea's points total. Better than last year but not really all that is it? http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/sherlock.gif

[canary dwarf]

Just wait until those three have to play in the Arctic too. We will be fine. Guaranteed 60 points from the next 20 games now those toughies are out of the way.

[Mack]

[JJSB]

As someone said recently, for all the hype about Arsenal we've won just two league games! Hard run of fixtures admittedly.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I am correct here I think, knives out for the lad AVB not long back??

[Pat Vegas]

then we beat Liverpool and everyone got the horn.

followed by a thrashing of ****ty Southampton. We were now title contenders.
The ooh look a draw with City. still on the way.

OH we've lost to Chelsea we are crap again.

[Monty91]

optimism that we're good enough to stay in the top four in spite of losing our best player is jusified, based on the evidence so far.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

remember now and still finished in the top 4.

[Dorset Gooner]

[Monty91]

our most recently departed best player, in view of him having what is commonly known as "no game".

Personally I'm not sure how you can measure these things. I'm certainly not clever enough to do so.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

It would be one hell of a team, on paper at least.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

we'd be a further 3 points better off.

*The apparent awimb consensus.

[Mack]

I make you right btw http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/smile.gif

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Reading AWIMB.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

How we could be deemed to be weaker as a result of van Persie’s continued employment with the club is beyond me.

I know it’s only a matter of weeks since we were heralding Podolski as the new left footed goal sensation and asking ‘Robin who?’ but that was all a bit silly and generally high spirits.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

If we had retained some of the top class talent that left in recent years then we probably wouldn’t have some or all of the new indispensable heroes we now have. If we did then they wouldn’t all fit on the piece of paper.

[Pat Vegas]

[Ashberto]

champions of Europe and struggled for a half against the champions of France. Against this we looked good enough against the champions of England, but despite defending better in open play we are still vunerable at set pieces and not very good at taking our chances. We have a fantastic midfield but if they're off the boil we suck.

[Pat Vegas]

[Ashberto]

Otherwise we'd all turn into dour Scotsmen.

[Monty91]

which only adds to the frustration.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Not for this man allowing what I thought was a below par performance all round on Saturday deflect from what has been a very encouraging start to the season.

I would perhaps take issue with Monty’s earlier assertion that we cannot compete for the title as I genuinely don’t see why not. We lost on Saturday to a very god team but the defeat was helped by very poor defending from the likes of Vermaelen and poor finishing by Giroud, small things that can hopefully be improved.

Our lack of real title challenging in recent seasons has not been a direct result of losing to the top sides, moreso silly results against the so called ‘lesser’ sides.

[Ashberto]

Perhaps we shouldn't have lost it, but we certainly didn't deserve to win. I also don't think Chelsea were as bad as many people said.

I notice that Santi had been reading you posts and has swapped his feeble pearollers for wild blasters.

[Monty91]

We are set up to attack, in personnel and philosophy. Apparently at Anfield Gibbs, on average across the 90 minutes, was further forward than Podolski!

The trick is that in games where we concede weak goals (which we always will) we're good enough going forward and infront of goal to at least not lose the game.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I would respectfully suggest that at that time we are set up to defend.

Your claim which has merits still doesn't fully explain the goals conceded in recent games.

[Monty91]

[Curly]

Made it far too easy for Mata to put a dangerous ball in

[Monty91]

[Curly]

Wall,pull them out to the 18 yard line (ish) http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/shrug.gif

[Steve-OH]

[Curly]