Morning all,

As a regular blogger I sometimes get carried away.

Like you, I read peoples posts and comments and if you have strong views on some things like I have, you sometimes put your foot in your mouth and trust me; I have done that on more than one occasion.

I have criticised other peoples comments before I have thought things out, I have commented on what I believe to be right but on many occasions I look back and realise that I may have hurt somebody’s feelings with my response.

However, sometimes we all know we have left it too late to make amends….

The point of this post is to highlight that we all have different views and talking as we do on these here on Highbury House or other Arsenal blogs is actually very informative.

We all believe we are experts until someone more knowledgeable comes along and some people’s knowledge is unbelievable – then I feel a right plank, but people’s views are still important.

We debate about The Arsenal, it’s the one thing we all have in common.

Whether Wenger is the best manager or the worst in the world doesn’t really matter when somebody can log off, yet be left feeling that someone has had an unfair β€˜go at them’ …

I am guilty of that and the people I have upset know who they are and I apologise, I may not agree with your view but because I am a staunch supporter of Wenger I tend to get my collar up when he gets a bit of stick.

Perhaps a lot of people are looking at what we haven’t won and in all honesty they do have a point and I can argue all day long about the reasons why, but most of you have heard all of the excuses and it does get very boring.

I like to think there is a silver lining just round the corner as I’m always trying to be positive and I always want to look for the positives in everything Arsenal do.

Being that way has made these last few years bearable for me.

I look to the immediate future and read that supporters believe a change in manager and members of the board may make the difference but when I view the same situation, I look at the players we have and look to see if they can change our fortunes.

I think about Chamberlain, Ryo Miyaichi and Ju Park and wonder when these players will be used as they offer great excitement. I have seen clips on You Tube and they look impressive in the short clips I have watched and I look forward to getting all our best players together and see just how good they can be.

I am optimistic, I honestly believe we have a good squad.

Can we win things with this squad?

That we will have to wait and see but we have definitely got the potential and I am not just saying that to be positive, we have had a lousy start but we have had players out from the start of the season and as soon as things start to look brighter we have another setback.

Law of averages suggests that we should soon start getting our players back and although we have had a few bad results, we can still get back into the groove we cannot get worse only better.

Having these injuries has shown us that we still have problems in certain positions and I am now thinking that Wenger and the board know that too. I like to believe that they will have players lined up for those positions in the January window and I we won’t have to wait until the end of the window either; we seem to be in a much better financial position to sign players straight away.

I doubt there will be multiple signings as Wenger will only buy what the board believe we can afford and I think they will still be holding onto the purse strings.

We can manage a few decent results, of that I am positive and we will move ourselves steadily up the league and as our players recover we will just get stronger and stronger. I keep my fingers crossed that the injured players will not suffer any setbacks and our confidence will come back, then we will have a full flowing river of players full of exuberance and gagging for every game.

We have many talented players and with everybody back in their positions, this can only help their skills come out.

We are a team, our medical staff have to do their bit and then we’re on our way COYG

Written by Steve Palmer