WE SMASHED LIVERPOOL + ARTETA STATS YOU SHOULD SEE (long read)

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Arsenal DESTROYED a Liverpool team that was trying to break a Premier League points record.

The approach was simple.

  1. Convince Liverpool that we were utterly, utterly shit with a messy opening 20
  2. Concede a shocking goal, to solidify the thinking
  3. Press from the front and get two goals
  4. PRAY

Jokes aside, what happened yesterday was not sexy. It will not be put in the hall of fame for ‘tactical executions gone right.’ But it yielded 3 extremely vital points and a much-needed jolt of confidence ahead of a very crucial FA Cup semi-final this weekend. It also might have Arteta reconsidering his team selection for that game. Rob Holding started shakily, but he grew, does that give him a shot over Kola? It should do. Do we want to give Cedric another go, or did AMN do enough? Who knows.

The glaring issues we’ve faced all season were still there. Our midfield simply isn’t good enough. We don’t have the power, creativity, or the concentration to be truly effective. Our tactical approach seemed to consider that. We basically setup as though we knew there was no chance of dominating the middle of the park. Lacazette was tasked with dropping deep as the #10 Steve Bould always said he could be. It wasn’t sexy or productive. It gave us one shot off target all game. Grim reading.

The defence was also all over the place. Their goal saw a weird challenge from Soares, he hurt himself jumping, couldn’t trackback, Holding was pulled in two directions, and we didn’t do well enough with the cross. We’d been battered up until that point. We were chasing shadows. But, the reality is, this is Liverpool, when aren’t you chasing shadows?

I thought we’d collapse. Reiss Nelson had hardly touched the ball, then he hustled VVD, forced him into a bad backpass, Laca steamed in, took the ball ahead of Allison, and slotted home. You can call it good fortune, or you could notice the pattern > Our forward players press the defence hard and it keeps producing.

I don’t think anyone was expecting a second goal, but it came. This time, Reiss Nelson charged down a TAA throw back to the keeper, the pass was fluffed, Laca picked it up on the right, passed to Nelson who cushioned his first touch and swept home beautifully. Again, it’s not a fluke if it’s an instruction.

Liverpool were a mess. They’d gone from utterly dominant, to playing like, well, Arsenal in their bad moments.

I thought we could have capitalised further, but our front three had trouble holding onto the ball. When you looked at the first half stats, despite the perceived battering, Liverpool only managed 2 more shots on target than us. Granted, theirs came from free-flowing open football and ours came from defensive lapses.

The second half was OPEN SEASON on our backline. The context though was clear, they are better than us, we knew it, and Arteta went into protection mode. We didn’t want to give them anything. We were the Spartans in The Battle of Thermopylae. Everyone knew their role. Defend, defend, defend. There was a moment that reminded me of the Invincible season where we defended a freekick in our penalty area from a backpass and the whole team threw themselves at it like it was a grenade going into a school. The prize at stake was a little less dramatic, but the desire for not conceding looked the same.

Liverpool had 17 attempts at our goal in the second half, but importantly, they only hit the target 4 times (same as the first half). Really, the best chance they had came late on when TAA struck a shot off the bottom of Saka’s boot, it deflected awfully, skidding up off the floor, and somehow, Super Emi tipped it wide. That happened in the 95th minute.

We saw out the game and took the three points. We are still a long shot heading into the last two games, but we have a chance at finishing anywhere from 10th to 6th. To be in with a chance is nice because most, no ALL, thought we’d have no chance. If we win our last 2 games, we’ll finish on 59 points. 11 off Emery’s first season, where he had a 22 game unbeaten run going into December, versus the worst start in 38 years Arteta picked up.

So what are the concluding thoughts?

I think most of the positives came from grit, determination, and belief. The players didn’t collapse under the onslaught, they took their opportunity, and they held onto a lead which was a positive considering the stat everyone has been obsessing over this week. We shithoused the Champions. The outrageous open Pep G football we thought was coming to Arsenal hasn’t. Arteta builds from the back. He’s more George G than Arsene. I think we’re all pleased about that.

There are some worries. I want to say this really quietly, but, you know… is Nicolas Pepe the real deal? He was very meek again. He makes a huge deal about shielding the ball and loses it, he played in a counter-attacking set up last night, which was supposed to suit him, and he offered nothing. He looks meek. I feel that it was a mistake to sign a player that has one foot, it makes him kind of predictable. I hope he comes good, but he looks like a bad signing at the moment.

Reiss Nelson did his job yesterday. He worked hard, pressed Liverpool’s backline, and was rewarded with a goal and assist. Well done to him. He turned up in a big game. Brilliant. That finish for the goal was superb.

Emi Martinez. I can’t praise him enough. He has shown up like a hero in nearly every game. He made some world-class saves last night, his distro was pretty good, and he showed that once again, he can be counted on.

Tierney was also elite. He has incredible work rate, he never stops, he loves to defend, he sets the tone for the team. A pure professional.

Let’s also credit Lacazette. He put in a huge shift last night and made the difference. He scored a brilliant goal where his perseverance made it happen. The same personality trait also ensured the second goal where he was sharp, following the plan, and decisive. He also made 4 successful tackles, the most of the game. That is focus. Great performance.

Final point on the game, I feel like we have hired the right manager, regardless of what happens at the weekend. He has made a bit of a statement with this squad and it is clear that if he had better players, we’d be doing better things. I think this quote put a lot of the ‘he’ll be meek’ folk on the backfoot (again).

“It’s a big concern. You can see how [Liverpool] build their squad and there is no magic, you need to improve the squad with quality, quality players. And we need a bigger squad to compete in this competition. That is the challenge.

“It’s a massive job. You only have to look at the difference between the two teams – it’s enormous. The gap in many areas we can’t improve it in two months but the gap between the accountability, the energy, the commitment and the fight between the two teams is now equal.

“Before it wasn’t like this. I’m very proud of that. The rest will take some time but at least we’ve got that now and my message to the players is with that we can create something.”

For the second day in a row, he’s calling on the owners to invest, and why not? Didn’t we criticise Wenger for not demanding funds? Did we like having a manager in Emery who couldn’t get the players he wanted? I like that he’s demanding. He wants to go to the top and he is asking for the club to invest in players in a very depressed market. Will he get them? Doubtful. But at least the comments lay to rest the idea that he thinks the talent he currently has is winning the Champions League next year.

Finally, someone said I was a data guy and I was letting myself down with hype over Arteta. Well, let’s talk about data because I think the story is gaining clarity.

The big talking point before tonight was that we’d dropped 15 points from leading positions in the league. If we’d bagged those points, we’d be 3rd right now. This particular stat doesn’t look good for Mikel, but only if you ignore our reality prior to his arrival. We had our worst start in 38 years this season, we had players people thought were uncoachable, our defence conceded 51 goals under Emery in his first season (Wenger only did that badly once in the season he was sacked). We have been terrible at defending, so how did standard suddenly shifted to ‘WE MUST SEE OUT ALL LEADS’?. Sorry, can’t have that. We can do better, we did last night, but unlike others, I see this stat as an opportunity. Buy the right players, get a midfield, upgrade, upgrade, upgrade, and we make those points up.

Back to real data. What does the league table look like since Mikel took over?

5th. Clear of Jose, Nuno, and Carlo. Emery was fired after the longest winless run since 1992. Arteta picked the club up in late December, Jose had Spurs after the November international break.

Arteta goal difference. +11

Emery: 1.38 goals per game, 1.46 goals against per game
Arteta: 1.61 goals per game, 1 goal against per game.

He’s reduced goals conceded by 31.5%. Arteta has 10 clean sheets at Arsenal (7 in the league), Emery managed 10 clean sheets in the league in 51 games.

Arteta has increased scoring output by 16.6%. He is scoring 16% more points per game.

Also, Arsenal fans getting into a rage about comparing Klopp’s start to Arteta’s. Why? Both picked up a shit show, Arteta’s worse in my opinion… but the point is, if the best coach in the world had a similar impact in his first 17 games as Arteta, why not call that out? (before yesterday)

Klopp picked up a squad that had finished 2nd under Rodgers 18 months before. Arsenal hasn’t finished second since 2016. Klopp went from 8th to 8th in his first season and he’s the best, so let’s be honest about what it means to pick up someone else’s mess midseason.

So, has Arteta improved us by the numbers? Absolutely, yes. Remember, he hasn’t had a summer transfer window yet.

Now let’s talk about observations. We beat a team above in the league away from home for the first time in 5 years. We just beat the Champions. We also beat Southampton and Sheffield United away from home (one beat City, one smashed Spurs).

We are tactically fluid. We use different systems, we change during the game, it hasn’t been perfect, but it’s a far cry from Iwobi asking what the fuck he’s being asked to do on the touchline in the Europa League Final.

We are difficult to beat. The middle of our park is no longer a free for all. We are much better off the ball. Everyone knows their role and they try and deliver to it. We can shithouse these days.

The squad are putting in a shift. We press for the full 90. Players look like they care about clean sheets. We have 5 goals from keeping/defender errors.

There is a discipline at the club. If players don’t hit the standards, they don’t play.

As for the attack, well, plenty of work to be done there, but that’ll come with a better midfield.

Things are looking up people. We have a good coach, we have lots of talented young players, all we need to do is invest well this summer. That’s a big if but, at least we know the coaching that was preached is real, and if we make the right moves, we’ll move up the table.

Next up, City. A HUGE GAME. Pray to the shithousing gods (Davies/O’Shea/Pulis/Catermole) right away. EUROPA LEAGUE THURSDAY NIGHTS HERE WE COME (maybe).

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Marc

CC

No idea what that means?

Marc

Un

Did you just say I’m a sophisticated Gooner?

Wasi

Cc We already have Torreira and Cenallos who you can put in the same class with Douglas Luiz or slightly above. Xhaka is definitely better than Luiz and going by the looks of it, we are looking to upgrade on Torreira / Xhaka/ Ceballos who imo are as good as or better than Douglas Luiz already. So loading up on 3/4 average quality players is not the best idea imo. I think we should go all out for better quality players. Partey has been linked for an eternity. Villa are most probably going down and that will drag Grealish’s price… Read more »

Marc

Un

On a serious note EL places will go down to 7th unless we win the FA Cup in which case it’s irrelevant anyway. It won’t be easy but any increase in income is going to be critical over the next 12 – 24 months – if we can nab 7th or better I’ll even say something nice about Pedro.

Wasi

Also Marc,
You said after the Southampton game we’ll get 4 points in our next 6 games.
I said we’d get around 10,11.
We got 13.

Marc

Pedro

“Un, always have the fear we’ll lose our last two games.Gotta pray the bonus money speaks to the players.”

Sorry but you are not allowed those fears – most of us are but you are not. If Arteta is half the coach you sold us he should be able to motivate a squad on one of the highest wage bills in the PL to beat 2 teams who are rooted to the bottom end of the table and who could both be relegated (by us technically!).

Marc

Wasi

So I sold your first born to the Football Gods – no need to thank me!

Wasi

We need 2 teams out of Spurs ,Wolves and Sheffield to drop points to make 7th. Considering we win the next 2.
And if finish on same points with Spurs, Wolves we need to increase our GD. Currently Spuds, Wolves both have +11gd, we are at +8.

Marc

Pedro

Do you actually think really think I ever want us to lose any match?

Do you really think I wouldn’t have been there last night cheering on the team if fans were allowed into the stadium?

Do you really think I wouldn’t have been ecstatic if Arteta had got us top 4?

Wasi

‘So I sold your first born to the Football Gods – no need to thank me!’

Dont have one yet :p. Maybe you can credit the coach this time around.

Marc

Pedro

I took time off because you were being a twat – tough love etc!

Marc

Wasi

I didn’t say there was a time commitment on the deal!

Marc

Un

Fuck knows but I’d love us to manage it.

St Totteringham’s Day would cheer me up no end.

Champagne Charlie

“We already have Torreira and Cenallos who you can put in the same class with Douglas Luiz or slightly above“ When I say his class I mean his profile of player (good talent, suitable attributes) in a price range that could see us add a few vs 1 or 2. Im not talking about adding average quality – I don’t agree with that label re: Luiz. Also don’t think Ceballos or Torreira are particularly well suited to where we want to go. Unless Real gives us an unreal discount I wouldn’t bother, much rather Coutinho on loan. Our midfield is:… Read more »

Marc

Pedro

What’s on me? Arteta’s results are still mixed – it’s so frustrating I’ll take last nights result and the luck that came with it but a few of the other results being better and we’d be on course for 4th.

An extra £50 odd million in the kitty would be borderline game changing this summer.

GunnerDNA

Pedro just seen 1 of the 2 replys from your 60+ followers on twitter when you try to tell them to have a look on your post 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

“Arteta is shit and you continually praising him will make you lose your readership who only read cos you were Wengerout now you’re an AKB spounting nonsense about a shit manager and it’s deleting any credibility you once had”

Marc

DNA

And I didn’t even know i was on twitter!

Champagne Charlie

GunnerDNA

Yea I’m sure Pedro is properly worried about balanced stuff like that from someone who joined twitter in July and has yet tweeted nothing but #ArtetaOut stuff hahaha

prvhc

GunnerDNA
His twitter followers know what’s up !

The Backpass

So Martinelli out for the year…shame

rollen

Good win for the future. Great to see Tets demands investment in the team.

Marc

“people have been saying I’ll lose readers every year for whatever my narrative is… and it never happens.”

If only they’d said you’d lose your marbles they’d have been spot on.

Champagne Charlie

That’s a blow for Gabi, good touch from us to extend and give him that confidence. Be a good boost for Jan

Marc

I thought Martinelli had tweaked his cartilage? To be out for another 5-6 months doesn’t sound good.

The Backpass

Un

“This is how it started with jack”

Hopefully, he doesn’t follow thé same injury path.. Injury similar to Laporte’s this season, praying he comes back stronger.

Upstate Gooner

Un
“You don’t rate Grealish or old school jw? You don’t deserve to be a gooner”

LOL… Jackie boy was my 3rd least favorite Arsenal player of all time. Santos was 1st… 2nd? Arteta.

GunnerDNA

Pedro, “The negative post on my article… follows 6 and has 0 followers. GunnerDNA paying bots to troll me. The absolute shame” Remember I offered you help to get your Pod or whatever you trying to do popping? Before fans was trying to be famous was a thing, we was already as doing numbers. So no need trying to troll you big fella, I just have a look and I realize other fans seeing through the bs you be on lately. I saw Claude crying on the internet today at age 70+ because he’s booted from a fan channel and… Read more »

Calypso

I think Emery’s downfall was blooding in the kids too soon, from that moment on it all went tits up.

Marc

DNA’s revolution starts here and it will be blogged!

GunnerDNA

Marc,

“DNA’s revolution starts here and it will be blogged”

😂😂

MidwestGun

Wow.. Pedro shows any sign of positivity and the doom and gloom merchants are out in force, all over that shit like rats on cheddar…

Yes everyone needs to suffer in your black pit of misery with you because Arteta isn’t as bad as you want him to be.

SpanishDave

There’s nothing to suggest that Arteta has anything special, picking Kola in the back three said it all.
He’s not using Pepe correctly nobady is working with him.
Artetas subs have been poor and too late in the game.
He’s got a lot to learn but can we wait that long, living in hope!

GunnerDNA

Cal,

“I think Emery’s downfall was blooding in the kids too soon, from that moment on it all went tits up”

His downfall was the fans overrating the squad and eventually turning on him. What’s hilarious is that the team is playing the same football now and they have to watch it while been quarantined. If it continues when they’re back, it’s a fact that they will turn again

Kenyangunner

“Douglas Luiz is good but not Arsenal levels imo”

This statement lost meaning ten years ago. Any player who can kick the ball is at Arsenal level

Marc

” Any player who can kick the ball is at Arsenal level”

If they can managed to make it go to one of our own players and run faster than an asthmatic snail they’d be our new Vieira!

Champagne Charlie

Look at the state of VAR for Man United again there.

That’s not what it’s all about

MidwestGun

Yep CC. So much for clear and obvious.. CP fucked by VAR.. getting out a tape measure from an angle that isn’t straight down the line. Maybe a millimeter offside if that.

Marc

But isn’t Arteta the coach who made Sterling a better player?

Why wouldn’t he want to work with talent?

prvhc

Champagne Charlie July 16, 2020 19:53:34
GunnerDNA Yea I’m sure Pedro is properly worried about balanced stuff like that from someone who joined twitter in July and has yet tweeted nothing but #ArtetaOut stuff hahaha

Chumpagne
You should be the last one to talk about balance. You shilled for Wenger, and now you’re shilling for Arteta.
You’ve been stinking out this blog with your ‘balance’

salparadisenyc

Imagine having a Trump and Emery poster, got feel for that.

Radio Raheem

Madrid win La Liga

Radio Raheem

They’ll give City a better match than the first leg.

salparadisenyc

Zidane just rolling in hardware.

Pedro

Zidane a genius

Guns of SF

Gabby out… bummer. Must have been serious damage.
I hope he does not lose his speed.
Another Arsenal player with a bad knee injury

Radio Raheem

If Clint Eastwood was a football manager he’d be Zidane.

Yeah you’ve got to credit Zidane winning the league from their poorish start and without Ronaldo.

salparadisenyc

Does 7th place not qualify for Europa league if a champions league club wins the FA cup, believe thats how Wolves go in last year.

salparadisenyc
Guns of SF

we should be looking at getting a CAM/LW just in case….
a player than can do both….

Who would be Saka back up there? Nelson?

Anyway….. I think we need a CAM very badly
Coutinho is worth a punt

MidwestGun

I’m more of a High Plains Drifter… dude.

The Backpass

“They’ll give City a better match than the first leg.”

Maybe, but i don’t think they would qualify with Ramos suspended.

Upstate Gooner

Madrid win La Liga…

And LOL at Barcelona for losing to 10-men Osasuna

Radio Raheem

Sal

Clint was so cool he spat ice cubes ❄️😄

What a movie that was not so much for the story line more fore the presence of the actors, the music, cinematography… simply cool.

salparadisenyc

Mid,

Lets not complicate greatness, considering Ennio just past he deserves the plaudits.

Radio Raheem

I don’t get all the excitement over VAR. Surely, everyone knew what we were getting into. If not we should all know by now. You’re either offside or not, being a boner offside is still offside.

Upstate Gooner

Leeds are one point away from returning to EPL with 2 games left

Northbanker

Great post Pedro I don’t need stats to see the obvious – Arteta is getting a great return out of a shit selection of players with the slight sprinkling of decent players The numbskulls posting on here who think there are better coaches who can somehow polish the turds we have is laughable MA is the best we can hope for and will with time prove to be elite. Sure he will make mistakes – who doesn’t? Some sub decisions are not great but It just isn’t possible to know exactly what will happen when you replace one player with… Read more »

MidwestGun

Ok Sal.. HIgh Plains Drifter.. Eastwood. Cool Hand Luke… Paul Newman Bullit.. Steve McQueen, Horse Soldiers.. John Wayne. My Mt. Rushmore of Bad Ass Cool dude movies.

The Backpass

“Some sub decisions are not great but It just isn’t possible to know exactly what will happen when you replace one player with another. No one has the benefit of foresIght. these aspects are minor in the grand scheme of things”

OMG 😂 😂 😂

Guns of SF

Take this Midwest
SF hasnt changed all that much…. took the family for a drive through the city the other day… great weather right now..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no7XR7s8Z7o

MidwestGun

Nice Guns!… Growing up my family had a Green Mustang.. very much like that… and of course they sold it before I could drive.. Im still psychologically scarred by it.

salparadisenyc

I could eat 50 eggs.

MidwestGun

Nobody can eat 50 eggs.

salparadisenyc

QUALITY list Mid.

I’ll add Butch Cassidy, Point Blank w/ Lee Marvin, Get Carter, The Wild Bunch and of course Dirty Harry.

What we got heres a failure to communicate…

MidwestGun

Yep.. had to narrow it to 4. Lee Marvin in his day was a bad ass.

salparadisenyc

Have we signed Thiago yet?

Champagne Charlie

Shhhhhhhh… we’re going to gazump Liverpool any moment.

God, have you never done eBay?

Valentin

Liverpool are sniffing around Thiago Alcantara whilst Arsenal are trying to entice Thiago Silva.
😁🙊🙉🙈

salparadisenyc

Love it Edu / Raul sitting a room installing the snipe tool…. Pedro they may need help.

Champagne Charlie

On a real note, where’s the next Thiago? I’ll have him at the club pronto

salparadisenyc

CC

Just watched Roma – Brescia on replay, Zaniolo looking pretty silky coming in as sub. Watch out Mesut.

Artetauphillclimb

Great job Arteta and the team yesterday. Superb tactical thinking – a Wenger team couldn’t do that. Happy that Arteta can mix it up!

Champagne Charlie

Sal

He’s their jewel isn’t he? Been a while since Italy produced a proper midfielder on the world stage. Verratti holding down the fort but hugely underrated in the mean time.

Keen for us to sculpt a new midfield with players of that ilk.

salparadisenyc

CC

He’s coming back from a torn ACL, which he did in early January I believe. Way ahead of schedule on recovery looks to be missing nothing from the injury, impressed he’s already playing and scoring.

Huge ceiling.

RockyRoe

Didn’t see the klopp vs arteta start before today, must say that gives me comfort.

I only wish arteta stop making obvious mistakes like playing kola in a back 3 and that he learns from his mistakes quickly, like playing kola again in a back 3 after a shit performance vs the foxes..

But if can be do for us 70% of what klopp has for pool ill be eternally grateful.

Just Another Customer

if he’s still making silly rookie mistakes he got to go

Arsenal and PL is no PL for some newb training

unless the sauce is not false

Just Another Customer

next season that is

dropped points shows that he still has to learn to finish the game off regardless of circumstances

be ruthless in defending the league just like how we score against the run of play or on the counter

first half vs Leicester or first half vs Liverpool I’ll take both ways if you get what I mean lads

Pedro

JAC, this is football. There will be dropped points.

Guns of SF

I hope for the best against city
However I doubt we can replicate the pool game

It would be naive for arteta to get the team playing the same way

City are the better team with tested And rested killers

We cannot got 2 or 3 down

Sterling and Debruyne need to be slowed down as much as we can

Shit … I would love a win but feeling not so good

Aussie Gooner

Arsenal face missing out on target Malang Sarr because they delayed making their move to sign him this summer.

Where have I heard this before?

“The Gunners have approached the representatives of the France Under-21 international to see if he would be interested in making the move to Emirates Stadium.

But Sarr, 21, has already been sounded out by clubs in Italy and Germany about a free transfer deal and it is understood the Arsenal interest has come too late.”

Guns of SF

Aussie
We have no one who is on top of this
No chief scout

Only rauls Rolodex

Tony

“Last year, record readers, comments, and W’s for me.”

It’s the least you deserve, Pedro, especially the way you drive the comment traffic. Always makes me smile to watch the way you drive certain posters to making multiple posts that others can’t resist in furthering the discussions/arguments.

However, I often wonder how many alter ego posters you use to further the blog’s ambitions.

You certainly have my thanks and admiration for your hard work and time in producing Le-Grove and being the Machiavellian flip-flop king of the Internet, which is a compliment rather than insult.

Aussie Gooner

And so it goes!

“ARSENAL have reportedly lodged an offer for Lille centre-half Gabriel Magalhaes – but face a battle to sign him.

According to French newspaper L’Equipe, Napoli are leading the chase for the 22-year-old Brazilian.

Another club interested in Gabriel is Arsenal’s Premier League rivals Everton.

There are another two unnamed clubs monitoring the situation too.

Foot Mercato has previously reported that Napoli were prepared to pay £20million for the defender.”

DivineSherlock

Aussie

Arsenal are waiting to see where we finish before making a decision. Dont expect deals to be done before season ends.

Aussie Gooner

Divine

Yes, but it hasn’t stopped other teams securing their ‘want’ list! The transfer window opens in 10 days time – most of the desirable players will have already been tapped up.

Tony

Divine
“Arsenal are waiting to see where we finish before making a decision.”

Why?

I assume you have this on good authority from your attendance of the Raul/Edu & Arteta meetings.

DivineSherlock

Tony

Its out there if you bother to check it and Arteta has said plenty about how he has plans on every possible outcome on where we finish. Dont be a mug.

DivineSherlock

Aussie

Thats what happens when you have a limited budget.

Guns of SF

There is the wish list and the realist list

We need to do our business early

Keoneke needs to take a loan 100m to help us

Sid

Expecting Pepe to be electric in this team is the same as expecting Serge Gnarbry to shine in a Tony pulis team

Aussie Gooner

Devine

As you say we have a (very) limited budget – therefore we should be working smarter and have our scouts working overtime to unearth the talent before the window opens. We are always so slow off the mark compared to other clubs!