Recent content by daveyboy19

I have never been prolific tend to read a lot of thought about games/players and occasionally get involved but generally too busy to keep up with it. My name gives away when I joined which is rather scary being in my thirties!

We were by no means perfect but quite a few encouraging performances first half. But another 10 minutes of madness and stupid errors and we’ve gifted another team a win. Looking a over reliant on Dom to score and time to give Neto a break.

I think it’s easy to say players aren’t trying after a few bad performances. I’ve said it before but I think confidence is arguably the most important factor in the team. What we desperately need is a good start and no stupid mistakes early in the next game. All of a sudden we could have a...

Senesei I would call an entertaining footballer, all action and interesting to watch. Not a quality I personally like for a centre back. Mepham and Kelly when fit for me.

I think the fixture list has screwed us more than just being a hard start. Confidence in football is huge and it’s clear a lot of players are very low on it. How often have we seen the same players look brilliant after a win or two after looking terrible in other periods. Also surely people can...

Being a Bournemouth fan I'm afraid I don't have enough of a data set to make any conclusions about any form of punditry from the national media.

I remember years ago getting a phone call from the club doing a survey and asking questions about would I know other people who would go to games in a bigger stadium. I wonder if they have any of that data still (albeit about 5 years out of date). I know several people who would go to games but...

Net spend stats always get thrown around and on its own it’s a pretty useless metric (along with many on their own) trying to tell a story to suit someone’s narrative. Squad value gets mentioned sometimes which would give it some support , wage bill over 10 years I think would be very...

Sad to lose Anthony, always willing him to do well. But the first few games of this season probably showed a season in the Championship might not be a terrible idea. Let’s hope he’s their player of the season scoring double figures as they finish 7th missing out on the play offs by goal...

The winger stock pile does seem odd. Even if some play as a 10 realistically that's about 3 out of about 10 players who can start at the moment. Unless he see's some as back up number 9's is seems a bit imbalanced. Especially when you think how exposed at the back we'd be if Kelly left.

Would be a disaster if we sold now with no replacements. Our main centre back and left back cover, would leave us incredibly light.

Goals for 3 wingers, hopefully a good confidence boost!

I actually agree with that I think the discussion is great.....but it's only come about in the context of targeting Kelly. It has been good to highlight others who could of done better for those picking on him. Twitter is much worse than here. I remember live thinking Christie was the wrong...

I don't think we spend this much effort trying to find fault for goals by other players.

Most of his abuse all stems from him being slow to play out, and distribution. These are valid points and weaknesses in his game, however it's become a point where every time he gets it and doesn't pass straight away the crowd go mad. So it's the sort of situation he's going to struggle to...