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Alex Scott back on the bench for Bournemouth 

5 minutes ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Midfield is always an issue at this club. When didn we ever have a player who scored 25 yard screamers? Josh maybe the last one to a degree. We must sign a creative midfield player, we are weak. 

Makes me think of Marvin Elliott’s screamer against Stoke back in 2007/8, will never forget that goal 

with 16 goals conceded, second only to Leicester, who have conceded 10 goals.

This is ironically the area where we have suffered worst with long term injuries to McRorie and Atkinson, and also the injury to Vyner. So, hats off to Dickie, Vyner, Pring and Tanner as that is an excellent achievement.

However, outside of the bottom four teams we have scored the fewest in the league with 16.

This is a stark contrast with the 21/22 season where we conceded 77 and scored 62, and had to rely on high scoring 3-2 type wins to not get relegated.

The point is, Manning doesn’t actually have to change that much for us to be a real contender for the playoffs. We just need to figure out a system to get the most out of our attacking players. If we can maintain the same defensive foundation but see even a modest improvement in our goal output I see no reason why we shouldn’t make the playoffs this season, even if it is by consistently winning games 1-0.

Hopefully this will be the area of focus this international break, as I see no need to change anything about a defence which is clearly working.

I thought the co-commentator was obnoxious and disrespectful particularly talking about how he would be better than half the players, and was particularly rude about Lyndon Dykes, who he said was atrocious and barely a football player. Made the coverage much worse in my view 

7 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

agree that they were a bit “playskool” after James.

Does that include yours?

Anyone know who is taking training this morning? 

4 minutes ago, Riaz said:

When city fans say we've gone for the "cheap option" Such a dumb thing to say

There is no such thing!

A bad manager will cost a club millions in the long run

In fairness the internal promotion of Holden was genuinely the cheap option at the time, not the case here though 

No point fawning over an ex, plenty more fish in the sea 

Just now, brad blit said:

You want to exploit pace by taking off Sykes? 

Correct

I would take Weimann and Sykes off for Bell and Mehmeti, try to exploit the man advantage with pace particularly down the sides 

The response continues…

I don’t think the audio works for the last few mins of Fleming’s press conference 

7 minutes ago, chowie said:

Zak says 'split the fanbase'" I'm not seeing that.

He was only restating the words put to him by the journalist 

10 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

How exactly are AFC Bournemouth ‘chasing promotion’??  Aren’t they in the premier league? Where do they go when ‘chasing promotion’ from the premier league?

I think he probably assumes they are going down this year 

I still think Pearson was lying  

TGH getting slaughtered on this forum and putting two diagonal perfect balls in, one which leads to the goal

Andy King is what we need to unlock the defence 

Just now, Jose said:

If you not going to play Mehmeti now I don’t know when you will.

Wouldn’t be surprised to see him Kane Wilson’d to be honest 

On a positive note anyone else think Cornick is having a good game linking up the play? He looks comfortable in the middle

I feel like a quadruple substitution would be more appropriate for this game rather than the last one to be honest 

How sad to have your wife pass away aged 27. One of the most poignant minutes’ applause I’ve seen I think

Home crowd are so quiet, it’s like they don’t want to be there 

2 minutes ago, Curr Avon said:

This team gets more middle class with every game.

Dickie Naismith.

James Williams Knight.

Who next. Charles 'Charlie' Charles up front and Wing Commander Snetterton behind?

Abraham would have fit right into this team 

31 minutes ago, 2015 said:

Fletch is terrible. Dramatises everything. Almost as bad as the Sky EFL commentator

If you’re talking about Gary Weaver that is blasphemy, he spends all his time talking about away teams planting their flags on opposition soil as if it’s a civil war re-enactment, it’s excellent