I realise that the AST questionaire isn’t gospel, most polls are just from that direct moment in time and many Arsenal fans were pretty unhappy at the given time.

On Jack and Cesc, no doubt about it Wilshere is a fantastic talent and should by all accounts be a real world star someday, but for me he just isn’t there yet.

Cheers for the comments and looking forward to conversing with you again.

In reply to your clarification on the stats, I will gladly withdraw the overally passsionate dismissal of bogus stats. However, the stats presented in your peice are still misrepresented in context.

They contain no explanation of the fact that the questionnaires were sent to 850 members of the AST with only 382 responses , representing 45% of the membership. Not the entire Arsenal population by any strech of the imagination.

However, I would still like to withdraw the accusation of the peice being inaccurate. More clarity was just needed.

In response to my second gripe, and Fabregas, I feel, like many Arsenal fans that Wilshere is a direct, ready made replacement. As your co-editor Neil pointed out; blogs contain opinion, as do their comments.

And yes I do feel your article was well written. I would not criticise your writing capacity simply because of differences or clarity issues.

-or-

He doesn’t want to sign a good centre half because it would be an admission that his last defensive signings were wrong.

Sorry Kieran, but the article is correct and proper.

The statistics you dismiss are as being ill-informed are taken from the Arsenal Supporters Trust Survey form end of season 2011.

Just because you did not know about them does not mean they are spurious or made up.

“Or do they wait until deadline day for the £40 million and hope to replace their captain with whoever is available? Because no matter which way you look at Wenger’s squad, there is no ready made replacement for the Spaniard.”

Is there a direct replacement for Fabregas at Arsenal?

Absolutely not. There is not one single player as good as the Spaniard at the Emirates and possibly the EPL.

Wilshere is a replacement, not a direct one.

Glad you thought the ill informed and innacurate piece was well written.

But seen as we have established that your two gripes are wrong, well, that means it was just well written so.

I disagree, as will 99% of football fans. Just because Jack Wilshere may take Cesc Fabregas’ position does not make him a ready made replacement.

Is he as good as Fabregas? Of course not. That is the point I made. Arsenal do not have anyone ready made to step into Fabregas’ boots and keep Arsenal at the same level.

The statistics are from the Arsenal Supporters Trust, whom I believe are made up of shareholders, fanshare members, season ticket holders, and overseas supporters.

We’ll beg to differ on squad strengths.

On the website being Anti-Arsenal.

I beg to differ. You won’t find blinkered top 10 fan stuff on BPF. This is one of the few sites that doesn’t actually have an agenda other than producing well written football opinion.

We don’t always agree but that is one of the great things about football.

The survey was completed by shareholders, Arsenal Fanshare members, season ticket holders, red members, and overseas supporters.

http://www.arsenaltrust.org/uploaded/astsurveyexecsummreport2011(1).pdf

750/1 I believe.

You might be better off with MUFC, MCFC, CFC, and LFC finishing in the top 4 at 11/4