With respect redharry,there is no comparison between Ted and Eddie, one was a very good goalscorer a long time ago who moved on to a bigger club when an offer came.
The other is Eddie Howe, a man who took a club who were happy being size of Leyton Orient for eternity in L1 or 2 whilst getting milked by conman after conman year after year whilst people felt sorry for us. He saved us the -17 season, transformed us forever and took us up 3 times to the promised land of the PL, he then kept us there for 5 phucking years whilst playing in an large shed against the most expensive assembled teams in the world. He made massive teams take notice of us by beating them using players from L1 to play amazing for him and jump through walls for him, And he did all of this whilst carrying freeloaders on the board and behind the scenes, carrying people clearly not qualified for their jobs because he was a kind person, he even carried Bournemouth Council and got them the attention they wanted but didn't deserve. Some people go on about how some of his signings didn't work out but alot of the important ones did work out very well and for good value prices which we are still reaping the rewards from right now. 1 Billion pounds came through this club because of Eddie Howe, all the TV money, all the sponsorship, exposure, all the record profit sales Ake, Mings, Rambo, Wilson, Danjuma.
We are currently 2nd and close to promotion because we have parachute payments to pay bigger wages over other teams and have players like Solanke who can make a difference in this league because of Eddie.
Where's the phucking statue? There's a Ted Stand and a Fletch Stand lol
After we beat Everton but got relegated no fan in their right mind wanted him to go. Some fans may have said he needs a break or a long holiday because the job consumes him but the day he left a part of me died, did all that for us, wanted the best for us, got lied to constantly about infrastructure, the training ground which never happened and the overall development of the club off the field.
And to top it all off after doing all this greatness for our club, his last conversation here was likely with that rat Neil Blake telling him he can go and it will be made to look a mutual agreement.
Deserved better and now he's managing the richest club in the world in the PL and has kept them up when they had 0 wins at Christmas.
I don't think anyone else connected to this club has made the club over £1m using their own initiative/ brain let alone £1 billion.
Jeff Mostyn likes to always go on about how he saved us out of the kindness of his own heart when we were close to death but for context I'm pretty sure The Devil also offered Jesus similar terms as he lay dying on that cross, in exchange for his soul of course. "Yeah I'll save you mate".
Jeff took a risk on money he could afford to lose with his good relations with the banks and all his contacts and his risk paid off and got him back money five times over lol. Some fans probably think he's still a saint.
I know we have to move on but it was the biggest mistake we ever made compiled to all the other major mistakes made in the past which seem like smaller mistakes in comparison.
Anyway I hope we go up, nothing against Parker if he sees it out even playing this safe brand of football I'll be overjoyed. But the last game i saw that we truly played well for the whole 90 mins with total domination was Bristol City away back in October when we had some momentum and even then I was concerned about how we missed so many chances and 1 on 1s and weren't clinical enough and how we should've won 8-0. Some of Parker's post match interviews I also do think he's lied to himself a bit about what is the definition of a good performance, just be honest.