AFC Bournemouth v Liverpool - Sunday 4.30 pm

Another thing....you know people say it wasn't a '4-0 game'....it bloody well was...or hang on, was it ? .. .4 goals went in the net....in half a game !
...a 4-0 forty five minutes !
 
Mossy1 said:
Watching Skysports PL they should have renamed it the 'Liverpool F.C. show.'
But with muppets Carragher and Redknapp jnr. as pundits it's no surprise.
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The pre-match and half time chat was getting ridiculous, apparently it was Liverpol v Liverpool on TV today.
Someone needs to have a word in baby Redknapp's ear just to remind him he's not a scouser and was born and bred in B'mth where AFCB was his first football club.
 
Johnny Comelately said:
I thought we matched them in the first half but looked very scrappy in the second. Lots of individual mistakes; Neto retreating to his line and forcing the defender to put the ball out for a corner, Scott daydreaming for their third, were two that stood out for me but there were so many misplaced passes. Shame, but you can't win them all, especially if you're playing either of the top two teams.
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Just watched the goals on MOTD - the defending looked even worse than it did from the North Stand today … Back to the bad old ways , especially the third and fourth goals .
 
There’ll be no excuses once the safe standing is in. Bad atmosphere? Thing of the past :rolleyes:

For tv a lot of it will be where they place the mics. To me it sounded great on the TV today
 
Sandman2 said:
We always seem to end up just rolling over and having our tummies tickled by the top teams. That's now 0-4 Arsenal, 1-6 City and 0-4 Liverpool. The three bottom teams in this league are shite but they all seem to at least try to make life hard for the top teams when they play them.
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Unfortunately that's what happens when you play the best teams you let in more goals, the high press is at it's most vulnerable against top teams that are rapid on a quick turn- a comfortable ball player good in confined spaces that gets past the first man press that takes out half the team and you then find yourself 3v3 situations against the best and pacey attackers in world.

We Could've prevented a couple today, probably over played too much and tried too smart when it wasn't needed. They did get some outrageous luck on all 50/50's deflections and the third goal.

And we did beat the biggest team in the World at Old Trafford 3-0 last month, I know they're not what they used to be or the same level as City and Liverpool but it was still a historic result and they did still have technically better players in the line up than us but we won 3-0.

I think City in a few weeks is certain to be a familiar 4-0 aswell but hopefully we just make the most of all the other fixtures and push as high place possible.
 
Considering the makeshift nature of our defence, I thought we gave a good account of ourselves in the first half. Second half, Liverpool took their first decent chance and we couldn't up our game enough but they could : )

I honestly don't think that was a 0-4 match. I can't recall the XG for last season's game but it wouldn't surprise me if they're similar to this one. They took their best chances, last season Mo Salah missed them. Such is the life of following a club like Bournemouth. Could have had a couple of consolation goals at the end but it wasn't to be. Their centre halves showed their quality. Liverpool are going to push Man City a lot closer this season, than last : )

Liked the Jaidon Anthony song on 32 minutes, well done whoever started that : )

The "Shiit Andy Carroll" song was funny, until he scored : )

Not a big fan of away fans in the North Stand. Just seemed to be more of them this match and they're getting more brazen. Clapping Liverpool players out for the second half and after the match. Taking their phones out to film their corners in the first half. What's next season's idea, get the Tinpot Band to play "You'll never walk alone" before kick off : )

Overall it was great to be back at Dean Court, saw two people in the DC lounge that hadn't been able to get to a match since August. Loads of other familiar faces about. The fact we kept going 'til the end is encouraging, I feel there's so much to like about Andoni's style of play, even in 0-4 defeats ( just like that Eddie chap's style). I think come the end of the season we'll have "who's the best A.F.C.B. Premier League manager" debates, when we do, we'll be a lucky fanbase : )
 
New Old Cherry said:
We have to get that Stadium built....and get a bigger, better working class crowd in ...then these games can be played without the Tinpot Aura hanging above it.
We need a Middlesboro standard roar..from the crowd every time a Cherry player moves forward with the ball...throughout the entire 95 minutes..if we are to challenge the likes of West Ham or Brighton for the Euro places in the near future !
All I could hear today albeit it was only on a screen, was the Liverpool fans bawling !
And ..and the 'corporate' crap is not doing us any good if opposition supporting tossers are allowed in...get rid !

Oh dear....that's two defeats on the trot now where we feared the opposition... 1 goal for ..7 against ....how bad is that Bluto ? ( Popeye is at sea this week ! )
....today's game was bigged up by the Media as 'A Test For The League Leaders'...some test eh ?

These things need saying.
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We've got a tiny stadium mostly full of old people sucking on their Werther's Originals, so its never going to be the most lively of crowds.
We all hope the new stadium will certainly be a big improvement as a venue. However, with Uncle Bill already limiting the increase to a thoroughly unambitious 18,000 capacity, he's in for a shock if he thinks there will be an improvement in the atmosphere if that increase in capacity is mostly taken up by an extra 3,000 people eating lobster and drinking champagne and any remainder is mostly given to a bigger away support.
The atmosphere will only improve if we get more youth into the stadium, but I fear the Americans just don't understand that and will price them out of it.
 
afcdibby said:
Keep this between us. GARYafCb has convinced himself, he's the loudest and best AFCB fan walking this planet.
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In the lower leagues days he clearly had that mullet so people would give him attention and recognize him.
He used to shout and swear at the fresh air alot in the NS but he was nowhere to be seen whenever a physical altercation took place.
I think a 60 year old steward went up to him on one occasion just having a quite word and he was pretending he was really scary shouting back at him.
 
Midnight musings :

Not a good day that..was it ?

Thing is.. Liverpool should win the title now...but if they don't... their swanky swaggering fans will be a lot more deflated than us... in the event that we didn't make the top Ten.. I think we would, albeit reluctantly, handle most scenarios 17th and above..well some of us would !

It certainly brought us back to Earth
...whereupon we wouldn't want Swansea to cash in on a confidence loss. Bugger me No.

O' Neil's mob only lost 1-3 to Liverpool..a lot more respectable performance that...certainly puts the...
.....Iraola v O'Neil debate back into the frame.

Some dozy dinlow being interviewed by those Boscombe Back of the Net twerps...came out with that effete notion of 'Oh it was a Free Hit after all. .."
Sorry Sunshine...it was 3 points flushed down the friggin' Stour River. .we want to move up this infernal bloody table not swan around with Pistol Callous and Brentfools....
 
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Sandman2 said:
We've got a tiny stadium mostly full of old people sucking on their Werther's Originals, so its never going to be the most lively of crowds.
We all hope the new stadium will certainly be a big improvement as a venue. However, with Uncle Bill already limiting the increase to a thoroughly unambitious 18,000 capacity, he's in for a shock if he thinks there will be an improvement in the atmosphere if that increase in capacity is mostly taken up by an extra 3,000 people eating lobster and drinking champagne and any remainder is mostly given to a bigger away support.
The atmosphere will only improve if we get more youth into the stadium, but I fear the Americans just don't understand that and will price them out of it.
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I think 20k to start with, with option to go up to 25k. 3k away fans, 17k home.
We aren't going to get 30k every week in our lifetime though, Too many people who live down here aren't local originally (councils fault) and that plays a massive part in the club you choose to support and that's on top of the high number of Southern born plastics who support United and Liverpool.
When we took nearly 40k to Wembley in 98 at least 15k of those people weren't outright Bournemouth fans there was lot of big club plastics there.
I think the 19k that went to Cardiff was best comparison and the max we could do at the time but that was 20 years ago and we have grown alot since then.

When the new stadium plans are drawn up and submitted to the Council I'm fully expecting some nimby prat whose lived here for 3 years in one of those nearby houses near the NS and ES to object and make life difficult, plenty of Elaine Findlays about which is why I'm not getting my hopes up til it's getting built.
 
Our defence is looking exposed on both flanks. Senesi will be back which kind of will sure up the centre, but Aaron's now looks to be crocked, and Kerkez/Smith, unsure when they are back.

Kelly can fill in well if he's staying, but having two of the wide players in the back 4 either coming back from injury or making their PL debut against the top team, it was unlikely we would get anything from the game, despite everyones optimism before the game.

Mepham, Hill, Aaron's and Kelly, all a game far too early against the league leaders, but AI had no other choice.

Against lesser opposition we may have got away with it, but none of our squad played particularly well today.

Cook and Christie got found out. The amount of times they turned inside and got tackled showed Klopp out predicted AI.

Tavernier is way off the pace, and Solanke got destroyed, as he always does against top defenders.

One of those games, and after a break we never seem to do well.

If we had played Liverpool after a 2 or 3 game winning streak, with no interlude, it would have been an entirely different game.

Not having a meltdown, but the gulf between the squads was evident today.

I expect Andoni will evaluate the game well, and have us much more competitive next week.

But we are looking very thin at the back and need a couple of loans perhaps, depending on how far Kerkez and Smith are.

This AFCON is a shambles....everyone asking how Liverpool will do without Salah????

They have enough quality whereby someone will try and take Salahs place in a Liverpool squad.

For teams like us we just have round holes we try and fill with square pegs.

Just a game to forget, but kind of highlights we are very unbalanced in many areas.
 
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