Recent content by Will Dance For Chocolate

Really? You've already forgotten last weekend when the ball pinballed off someone into the shoulder of a defender and got given a penalty for it then... Then VAR used inconclusive angles to overturn a penalty against you.

Alex Scott looks to be a wonderful young footballer but hasn't in any way been the catalyst for the change in form. He was out injured for the first five of those seven matches. He came back and on as a sub after 29 minutes to replace the injured Lewis Cook, who very much has been key to the...

Proof, if it was still needed, that Sherwood hasn't got a clue what's going on in a football match even when his one job is to sit there and describe what is going on in a football match. There was nobody even remotely close to Lockyer, and the AFCB players sprinted over when he collapsed and...

No gloating from me, I'll just enjoy the moment. Reminds me a little of the earlier Howe days in the Premier League where too many teams underestimated us and assumed they could rotate and still cruise to the points. Bad call from your manager to play Martial, you looked so much better when...

As I said, Iraola has a totally different approach. O'Neil was all about defence first and hoping something happened to get us a goal. Which was frustrating because the few times he took off the leash the team looked much better. It was so dull though. Iraola is about thinking of attack, even...

Sorry, don't come here all that often so I missed this. Scott and Adams were both injured when signed. Both came back from those injuries and then promptly both got injured again. The Adams one was related to the original injury and he'll be out until February or later, but with Scott it was...

Individuals only get you so far. It's unlikely we're ever going to have a team of top half players and therefore what is more important is how the manager forges the eleven into a team. The players you mentioned were Ake, a reject from the top half, Wilson, a young player signed from League 1...

As an AFCB fan who watched every minute of our matches last season I'll say it was the right decision. What are you basing your take on, apart from some pundits who rarely have even the faintest accurate clue about teams that aren't part of the Big Six? O'Neil got lucky because the bottom third...

A few thoughts from the other side. For all his faults, one of the things that O'Neil has been good at is turning us around after a poor performance. Yes, we lost to Chelsea but we probably should have won that game on the chances we created and missed. There was also, yet another, clear...

It wouldn't be that hard to devise a system that would allow for investment for smaller clubs, stabilise finances in football and make for a more competitive and exciting league (on that, I'd say the Premier League is the most boring league we've ever played in since the top is essentially a...

I forgot about this forum after we went down... relatively long time and all that but here I am again. Maybe I can add a little perspective to things. Feels like I should actually create a separate AFC Bournemouth thread but this is where the discussion is so here I go. First up, Parker wasn't...

Not quite how it worked. He was signed for us as a left back alternate to Daniels but did his major injury in his first game (the same match that also ruined Gradel's knee...). Since then he's been seen as a centre back. Maybe that was always the long-term plan and they decided to accelerate it...

Caveat was that if he carries on at his current trajectory. If he does, he'll be a proven and effective creator and scorer of PL goals, homegrown and in his early 20s. In a season or so it will definitely cost more than €50 million before we'd accept. That's just the market whether you like it...

Maybe I can clear things up a bit. When he joined us it was very much with an eye on the future as Ibe was one of our best players last season and the expectation was he would spend some time adjusting to our system whilst being fourth choice out wide behind Fraser, Ibe and Stanislas. However...

Had to rejig as Lerma was suspended and Gosling and Adam Smith injured so it was 5-4-1 breaking in attack into a kind of 5-2-3 Begovic S Cook Mings Ake Francis Daniels Surman L Cook Fraser King Wilson As...