Will we bottle the Fa Cup ?

[GP]

Shut up big nose.

LDG eunt domus

[AFC Leveller]

Regarding our progress, it's difficult to gauge, on the one hand we were up there for much of the season, on the flips side we've received some real thrashings and it has to be said we were woeful last season so improving on that wasn't hard. Our defence has certainly been better although having been beaten convincingly and fallen to pieces a few times there's still some questions that need to be answered there, our attack on the other hand hasn't been as good, it's been 4 months since we played well but there's a few games where we've played some good football when we've played counter attacking football

If we end up 4th is that really progress, I'm not sure. Winning the cup would be fantastic and certainly an achievement for us, but due to circumstances we wouldn't have had to play those crunch games (I know we played Liverpool but that's not usually the stage we struggle it's usually when we get closer to winning something). and thus it still wouldn't necessarily answer the questions about our ability to win games against the top sides when it matters, if anything we've so far proved we can't.

Had we put up respectable shows in the big games and won the cup it would have been a decent enough season, the embarrassing results raise some real questions for me though, how can a side who are supposedly challenging get battered in the way we have as many times as we have.

We had a pressure situation in December when we had a chance to go well clear and we stumbled badly, we then had this run in February and March which was going to define our season and it's not been great to be honest, again we've collapsed somewhat.

I'm just not convinced the manager can do it anymore, I was shocked to see him do nothing when Liverpool were 2-0 up at Anfield and we were being taking apart, he sat there out of ideas and didn't even try to change things, I just can't understand this, it's his job to manage and adapt to the different situations and he clearly doesn't.

Can we develop anymore under Wenger? IMO no, a few years back we were in a similar situation and collapsed and we just haven't really progressed from there, we went backwards and have now gone full circle and still have the same problems we've always had. In addition I just don't trust him in the transfer market, whilst he does find good players, rarely are they in the positions we need and he time and time again fails do the necessary. The Ozil signing was a fantastic signing, however being critical he wasn't a player we needed (though I'm happy we got him) and some might disagree but in my mind the signing was in no small part due to the pressure the fans put on the club, it reminded me of the panic buying after the 8-2 defeat a few years back, albeit that it differed in the sense we signed one top quality player rather than 5-6 good players.

I think he's had his chance now and I just don't believe in him and IMO neither do the players judging from their performances in the big games recently.

This.

[Letters]

People called LDG they go the house?

[Niall_Quinn]

People called LDG they go the house?

Correct. Now type it out 1,000 times.

[Injury Time]

got tickets for Wembley

I was at Highbury when Wigan dumped us out of the cup...we're fucked

The bottle is on

[Marc Overmars]

I keep telling myself the cup is safe but I just don't know anymore.

[Niall_Quinn]

I keep telling myself the cup is safe but I just don't know anymore.

I would definitely avoid telling yourself it is safe. It never has been, it's the cup. If Wigan can beat the gypos they can beat us. We'll have to play well to win it, not just walk up and wave entitlement forms.

[Munchies]

Whoever wants to change their vote now, you can

Updated the first post.

[Power n Glory]

You'd think this team would have the common decency to turn up after the weekend's pummeling. Banking on this team to turn up for the FA Cup....it's 50/50.

[Niall_Quinn]

You'd think this team would have the common decency to turn up after the weekend's pummeling. Banking on this team to turn up for the FA Cup....it's 50/50.

Bit pessimistic.

52/48 in our favour.