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I don't think the knee thing is that fair. Players play through that type of stuff all the time, and he was still very effective while not being at his explosive best.

Tbf, we still missed Bruno. He's an incredibly effective passer through lines, maintains tempo very well, and does fantastic defensive work.

Thought he looked really good, like.

We didn't look any better when he went off Thought he again showed real promise on the ball but naive defensively.

Because they've not been at the races at all in the game. Fair enough, some will rightfully tire after 60 minutes or so, but a few have either been invisible or very poor for the entire match. Not tracking runs, lazy legs in.

Lazy.

Say what you want about injuries, I think there have been some canny lazy performance from a few.

Need Longstaff and Willock to step it up and help us get a proper foothold.

I don't work in ticketing but I've sat in on meetings that have involved ticketing discussions including commercial people at clubs and not one of them has really given a fuck about it outside of hospitality expansion. Quite a few clubs have Directors of Ticketing/equivalent for this reason who look at issues both commercially and operationally. The commercial teams are all about, probably rightly by how they're paid, sponsorship & partnership opportunities at scale and selling LED minutes. Our board are smart and they'll see the net result. A small-ish buffer to the bottom line isn't worth it if they've got to expand supporter services due to disgruntled fans and handling reputational damage. I think it's definitely possible that he got info from former colleagues because the NUFC team is still canny light from what I can tell, I just don't think the ballot thing would've happened directly under him at Arsenal. To my knowledge, ticketing systems are usually worked on in-season for preparation for the next, so I think this work would've happened during 22/23. Random allocations is probably a feature ticketing providers are actively upselling - e.g. I believe Leeds had ballots and random seating last season (perhaps for only certain category fixtures) but not sure if they continued it. I expect next summer will see big changes if pressure keeps up but it'll be small updates in the interim.

Balloting isn't uncommon and Ticketmaster is Arsenal's ticketing provider, not SeatGeek. My view is that it's a wider strategic decision across multiple people at clubs, potentially triggered by ticketing tech offering new systems. Not driven by one all-powerful individual. I seriously doubt Silverstone or Eales spend much time on ticketing at all, tbh - I imagine a bigger problem is that they're not across it enough and delegate to others who are poor at managing the operational impacts of decisions. The NUFC commercial team are back-and-forth to SA a lot.

Arsenal's Director of Ticketing was there the entire time that Silverstone was bar a few months, we don't use the same ticketing technologies, Silverstone's replacement started in late 2021 and he was likely doing fuck all for the last few months of his tenure. Also, balloting in some form is common across 'big clubs'. Arsenal have a fairly massive business & tech team with suppliers at their beck-and-call - their commercial strategy won't be on the whim of one man, especially one who left a long time ago.

Silverstone left Arsenal in January 2022

I'd have had no complaints with it being a sending off but there's one angle of it that doesn't look as bad/shows how glancing it is. Still could've easily been a red for intent alone, imo.

Got a strange feeling that Wilson will be fine for this. Sneaking suspicion that a certain A Isak will be on the bench too but only in case of emergency. Pope Tripps Jam Schar Tino Sean Jo Joe Miggy Wilson Gordon If no Wilson, Hall comes into mid as one of Gordon/Jo takes the CF mantle.

I'd consider resting him on the weekend, like. Feel like Tino & Hall is a good enough combo to be competitive against Bournemouth.

Good effort across both legs. As has been said, we just didn't do it in the key moments. If Joelinton buries that header then I think we have a real chance of going on to win there. With all the context of a short squad, I'm not too disappointed.

Woeful to be that exposed. Really poor.

He was doing it on the weekend again as well. He started waving that play should continue when we dared to take time on a free kick after they'd spent time fannying about timewasting, I was sure I saw him gesturing for a card too.

This is absolutely embarrassing from Chelsea.

Fucking hell

He was. Joelinton was monstrous but Bruno did the technical stuff so well, he played 3 passes that I don't think anyone else on the pitch could. Not necessarily because the passes were that difficult, but his ability to create the openings by using his skill on the ball and then to then play others in.

The weird thing about Arteta is that I'm sure he was nothing like this as a player.

Bruno's looks bad from one angle but not as bad from another. Could've feasibly been a red or a yellow. Mad that he got nothing for it though.

Aye, he should've done a lot better when Miggy put him through. He's got a decent left foot so should have confidence in it in those positions. I think he has 5 goals in his last 12 PL games for us?

Gabriel should be stronger. Ne chance Big Jam is getting done there if the situation is reversed.