You lot have been busy. It's almost like a real forum.

Anyway, it's not a disgrace to go out to Monaco. That kind of thinking and attitude is what lost us the first leg. It's a disgrace to play so badly at home, nothing to to with Monaco who should have been afforded proper respect but weren't. Their manager and players picked up on it too and it pissed them off, and probably fired them up. We still think of ourselves as a big team, but we don't have the record to prove it. A little more humble is what we need, feet back on the ground and every opponent taken seriously.

Giroud is the ultimate hot and cold player. Will sometimes fight for every ball, other times will wander around looking at the sky. He's not top quality and he costs us as much as he helps us. But of late he seems committed to the cause and he's fought back from a position where it looked certain he was out the door. So he needs to get credit for that. But does anyone imagine if we had Aguero up front we wouldn't be safely in the CL QF now? For now though we have Bif and he should be good enough to mount a title charge if the others pull their weight. Forget the FA Cup, we need to be pressurising the chavs and gypos now. Nothing else will do.

Wenger. What can you say? His record in Europe speaks for itself. It's impossible to defend that record. He's the one constant, he's the one putting out the teams, setting the tactics and calling the shots. He's been getting it wrong for almost 2 decades. That's a fact that can be accepted, danced around, but it can't be denied because the evidence is there. Even last night when we dominated the opposition and should have won by more goals I feel the performance was down to the players despite Wenger. People say we did well, not being gung-ho, being a bit patient and conservative. Fine, we should have done that in the first leg. But needing 3 goals, the low tempo, negative selection, wasteful inclusion of Welbeck when he had no purpose in that setup - all down to Wenger again. The one gamble he did take was a stupid and unnecessary risk. Bringing Coquelin off was idiotic. Yes, it meant we had more up top with Ramsey, but we didn't need to sacrifice the midfield to do that, Welbeck could have been brought off as he had no role anyway. Even if we grabbed the 3 I was thinking we'll pay for that sub because they'll exploit the space and nick a goal back in the last minute. They didn't need to.

Then we have this stupid desire the play everything through a congested centre. I hate it. We have all seen we are far more potent when exploiting pace and width. This one touch ricochet wing and a prayer football through defensive walls is amazing when it comes off, 1 time in a 100. But to break down defences consistently you move the ball fast and over the full extent of the pitch to pull the defence around. Liverpool did it brilliantly when they had Suarez pulling it all together. Walcott, Ox, Alexis, Ozil, Welbeck - you think we couldn't play like that? Remember Liverpool's first instinct when they got the ball in the centre? Hit it into the channels for Sterling and Suarez. Why were there channels available? because everything was happening at pace. Think about us when we get it in the middle. Back. Sideways. Now the defence is massed and we play it wide but into congestion. Back it comes. Painful stuff. We aren't utilising the abilities of the squad. That's Wenger again.

Seems harsh to criticise him after we go to Monaco and win. But it's far from being about that one match. This has been going on for years. Same thing.