AFC Bournemouth v Crystal Palace

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Yet another bad day at the office for the management team, lightweight midfield against a physical hard working team, no tempo, slow passing backwards and sideways, no movement off the ball.

No goals, no attempts on goal in a must win match.
 
Eddie looked lost towards the end - really sad to see this. What was his Plan A let alone Plan B? We were incoherent tonight, so where does he go from here, especially if King is out.

How about Surridge? - and how about taking some risks in midfield ... Kilkenny? Can they really do worse than this evening's bumbling efforts?
 
Palace fourth win without conceding a goal.

Should Roy have been shielding? ;)

He had his team up for it and very organised, credit where it’s due, the ‘old man’s managerial experience showed tonight.
 
Eddie looked lost towards the end - really sad to see this. What was his Plan A let alone Plan B? We were incoherent tonight, so where does he go from here, especially if King is out.

How about Surridge? - and how about taking some risks in midfield ... Kilkenny? Can they really do worse than this evening's bumbling efforts?
Best post of the evening!
 
....our ponderous and transparent style of play is killing us and the players are not performing...Howe must see that and if he is to be the potential England manager that I think he can be, then he MUST change some of his current ways of playing and find some more penetration without doing this we will be down very soon!
 
The worst part is watching the game knowing what we will play like.It seems the same shite every week.I was hoping our strongest squad,Eddie has said this,would be more passionate and fluid in their play,like SDD said,it's terrible to watch.
 
Pity they couldn’t have seen the attacking and entertaining football we have seen from our team in the past

The BBC's first-ever Premier League game attracted a peak TV audience of 3.9million viewers on Saturday.

BBC One's broadcast of Bournemouth's defeat by Crystal Palace was the first top-flight match the Beeb have shown live since 1988.

A record TV audience had been expected to tune in to watch the action from the Vitality Stadium but the figure fell just sort of the 4.04million who watched the Manchester derby in 2012.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ence-3-9m-tune-BBCs-Premier-League-match.html
 
3 days for Eddie and the team(?) to absorb the fallout....if the reactions do not make them angry...that's Wolver-hamptoned Over and Out... End of it.
Apart from maybe Steve Cook I think its 75 to 25% against anger about their performance being in the mix!
Eddie and the main body of the squad are far to hippy and laid back....IMO.
 
Disappointing. Positives were Brooks and Danjuma who both brought a lot and played with a real hunger. Everybody else...meh.
Can’t help feeling that Eddie needs to up his tactical game. It’s all very well having a game plan in training but when the game calls for something else you need to be able to switch things around. We really have become too easy to play against. Teams realise that we lack the movement once our attacking play hits a packed defence. We exacerbate this by often inexplicably slowing down any breaks we make with unnecessary sideways or backwards passes. When we break we need to be quicker and braver. When that doesn’t work we need to find a way to create goals when the opposition is sitting back. I would suggest a few potshots from range, hoping for a deflection or the chance that the ball falls to someone for a tap in.
Would still prefer us to be quicker and braver in attack though. Anyone who passes sideways or backwards during a promising break should get his wages docked ;)
Eddie needs to sort this out and maybe add a few different ways of playing to our repertoire to make us more difficult to neutralise.

He gets paid enough, now he needs to get it sorted.
Come on Eddie, time to get creative !
 
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Disappointing. Positives were Brooks and Danjuma who both brought a lot and played with a real hunger. Everybody else...meh.
Can’t help feeling that Eddie needs to up his tactical game. It’s all very well having a game plan in training but when the game calls for something else you need to be able to switch things around. We really have become too easy to play against. Teams realise that we lack the movement once our attacking play hits a packed defence. We exacerbate this by often inexplicably slowing down any breaks we make with unnecessary sideways or backwards passes. When we break we need to be quicker and braver. When that doesn’t work we need to find a way to create goals when the opposition is sitting back. I would suggest a few potshots from range, hoping for a deflection or the chance that the ball falls to someone for a tap in.
Woukd still prefer us to be quicker and braver in attack though. Anyone who passes sideways or backwards during a promising break should get his wages docked ;)
Eddie needs to sort this out and maybe add a few different ways of playing to our repertoire to make us more difficult to neutralise.

He gets paid enough, now he needs to get it sorted.
Come on Eddie, time to get creative !

It tells us a lot that the only decent players on the pitch were the two who have been out for ages with injuries.
The rest just couldn’t be bothered to up their games , despite the situation we’re in .
As said elsewhere, a few know they’ll be off regardless so aren’t bothered , and the rest just look clueless and disinterested tbh .
Eddie, Jase and everyone on the bench , the staff just look resigned .
 

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