1.) Exactly how much practice time is spent on defense? What drills and situations are practiced? I hear all the time about how Arsenal work on offensive drills which teach close control, quick passing, working in triangles, etc. This season is not the first in which the Gunners have been vulnerable to set pieces and counter attacks. Do you drill the players on how to defend a breakaway? Knowing of course, I’m sure, that the offensive setup with fullbacks pushing up, midfielders breaking into the penalty area, and even center backs encouraged to join the attack, will make your team vulnerable to counter attacks. What about corners and free kicks? Because however you’re practicing, it doesn’t seem to be sinking in.

2.) How do you adjust your tactics, formation, and personnel based upon opposing teams strengths and weaknesses? Because to my untrained eyes, it seems as if the tactics used for Bolton are not much different than for Chelski or ManIOU. To my uneducated mind it seems that Kevin Davies is a different player than Wayne Rooney or Didier Drogba. I think that Rooney or Drogba are better players than Kevin Davies and more likely to finish gilt edged opportunities on the break. It seems to me that Chelski and ManIOU are better teams than Bolton and that changing your tactics for stronger teams might be prudent. After being badly exposed by ManIOU, I’m sure you adjusted your tactics against Chelski. Or perhaps the the tactical changes you made were too subtle for my unsophisticated understanding. If so, I’d love for you point to how you adjusted your tactics.

3.) Exactly what was the medical evaluation done which gave you the confidence to extend Robin van Persie’s contract and rely on his availability for most of this season? For the previous three seasons, he’s played in 65 out of possible 114 EPL games. Some of those were substitute appearances. I think when he’s healthy, he’s one of the top ten, maybe five forwards in the world but he seems a tad injury prone. I know his current injury was a terrible tackle but it seems to me that trauma which another player shakes off, he’s out for game or two. Injuries which other players heal from in a week, he takes a month, and trauma which might put another player out for a couple of months, end his season. And you were convinced that a forward group consisting of a supremely talented but known to be injury prone RvP, a young, talented but not quite ready for prime time Bendtner, and Eduardo, coming back from year and a half absence from the game, was going to get us through the season?

4.) In general, exactly how badly does a player have to perform to get dropped? Just asking.

There’s probably others, but those were at the top of my head.