AFC Bournemouth v Blackpool

We switched on to cruise control (went to sleep) and paid the penalty ! Lot more work needed on the midfield and cut down on all the fancy go nowhere sideways BS at the back ?
 
According to stats at HT we had five attempts with two on target.
FT stil five attempts ,two on target.
That old problem of not creating chances coming back to haunt us in second half.Have to do better.
 
Threw that away totally. Had opportunities to make it 3-0 which we didn't take then gave away a silly free kick from which they scrambled one in.

Learning experience for the youngsters today.

Ibsen Rossi was very lucky to get away without being booked for diving in on a challenge and taking out his man only for the ref to play the advantage and then forget to go back and give him a card. Then a few minutes later dives in again to give away a pen.

The second half was school time for Zemura. We know he has great energy and link up play going forward but was exposed quite a few times defending or misjudging the bounce of the ball in the second half. He needs to watch back the video and dissect that. He'll improve on the back of it.

Kilkenny hit some gorgeous cross field passes in the first half but struggled at times to be the link man between our defenders and forwards when we were knocking it around. Also lacked a physical presence and was a little careless in potentially dangerous places with some short passes.

The lack of fit options on the bench showed again today. I actually thought Mepham, on a purely defensive level, had done very well today. A CB at right back that wasn't often exposed is a good showing. Crazy situation that we had to take him off and put a LB there.

This is the conundrum. Having a slew of young players start because you're missing 8 first team players is one thing but the risk is there will be games in which they will learn things and that can cost you.

We desperately need Smith or Stacey back. Kris Temple said Smith was there and that's hopefully a good sign.

One more league match until Lerma is back as well. I think Kilkenny will do much better if he has Lerma or Pearson alongside him.

I can pick holes in the performances of other players but at the moment it's all about the young guns and gaining an understanding how much we can rely on them.

If we want automatic promotion, this was a game we would have expected to win. Especially after going 2 up. Still, on to the next one.
 
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Mossy1 said:
According to stats at HT we had five attempts with two on target.
FT stil five attempts ,two on target.
That old problem of not creating chances coming back to haunt us in second half.Have to do better.
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Lol you suggesting we had no shots and none on target in the second half lol
 
It seems certain teams like playing away at certain grounds.

Our side enjoy trips to play Birmingham and it seems Blackpool enjoy visiting Dean Court.

In their last six visits to our ground they have W 3, D 2, L 1.

Again today after being two goals down after 19 minutes to Solanke goals, they came back in 3 second half minutes to go home happy with a point.
 
Come on you Elite...get yer Blames in...could be a field day...what with Yemser's Crawley gettin' Trolloped 6-3.

We thought we'd sewn up the Div after NF. and Brum.

So far ...we've thrown 2 points away to THE WORST team that'll come here this season!
...oho there will be worse than The Blackpool and one of them will get all 3 points.

Football...funny ol game...and not an exact science...so....
 
Puzzling that Brooks and Anthony remained on their opposite touch lines. Why not bring Brooks into the middle once it was 2-2?

Last few minutes so much faffing about at the back.
Both Billings played today, a half each.
We were wasteful in the extreme.

Proper game of 2 halves that.
 
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