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11 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Dream signing.

Why the hell would they be open to selling him?!

2 hours ago, gdm said:

The guy is just giving his opinion. As terrible as that opinion is he’s allowed it and telling him to jog on & fuck off hardly makes the place seem welcoming

Welcoming?! 

This place is welcoming in the same way your first day on a new cell block is welcoming. 

I'm in two minds about Trippier. On the one hand he's one of the best in his league on his day but on his off days he's catastrophic.

Tino has proven himself to be first-team ready, and better defensively than Trippier. With no European football, he'll spend most of another season on the bench, and I can see him getting rightly pissed off.

If we've got a last chance to cash in on Tripps, I wouldn't be that gutted if he left. Something I thought i'd never say at the start of last season.

This is the worse I’ve seen City play for years. WTF?! 

Cheers City you fucking dicks!

3 hours ago, KingArthur said:

And Gallagher is a player we absolutely do not need at the moment

It depends really. He could be the number 6 we don't have or a superior replacement for Longstaff.  I think he's one of the players we'd warm to very quickly if he played for us. 

On 21/05/2024 at 14:04, PauloGeordio said:

 

Seems like a really likeable lad. Hopefully he gets a chance here

13 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

 

Pleasant surprise to open a link like that and not be met with AIDS for the eyes. The Chronicle could learn a thing or two

Get those two in early and then you would hope our focus is spend heavily on 2 right wingers, one top drawer and one quality understudy (unless we're planning on utilising Minteh for the latter).

Then wait to see who snaps up our cast-offs and play the market as it comes.

26 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

If either of them sign, they're showing no ambition or desire to play football and surely that's not what we want - players happy to just sit on their arses doing fuck all.

Not to mention then fact they're both far too shit to be part of our squad

We are so easy to play through ffs! 

33 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

I don’t think this is an unreasonable take personally. Definitely lines up with my recollection of December in particular. 
 

I do think however at that point in time the injuries we had were unprecedented and we were running on absolute fumes. 
 

It’s fine to have doubts and reservations as well. I would suggest we get behind the side and see what next season brings though because no matter what we will have a more accurate gauge at that point. (If we suffer the same amount of injuries for example we have to link this our training and conditioning methods etc). 

There was an interesting point made about this on Talkshite yesterday - just someone throwing out a speculative question, which was 'could the amount of time players are standing around waiting for VAR decisions be one of the contributing factors to the huge increase in muscular injuries throughout the PL this season?'

It seems far fetched that it could be responsible for so many injuries (and i'm not sure it has any bearing on ours really) but at times players are going from running at full tilt to standing around for 3-4 minutes, to running at full tilt again, so it would interesting if someone looked at how many injuries throughout the league occurred shortly after a 4-5 minute VAR stoppage. Might be a nail in the coffin for the absolute dogshite debacle.

15 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Do you think all things being equal we’ve underachieved this season?

Yes, not by much but yes. There was a run of games where we were so defensively woeful, we dropped points we shouldn't have. That period where we were conceding 3-4 goals per game and Eddie wouldn't change anything was probably the difference between 5th-6th to 7th-8th. So, not a huge drop but potentially significant to which European competition we're in next season (if any).

1 hour ago, Groundhog63 said:

Haha

 

Rolling out the Bournemouth legacy stats ??????

 

Hang me now

Ok, just explain to me your reasoning behind not looking at someone's previous track record as an indication of what they're likely to do going forward. Genuine question, so try to keep it civil if you can (I appreciate it's rare on here and beyond the capabilities of many).

We use people's track records to judge their likely future performance in every walk of life, especially football. So putting any personal bias aside, why wouldn't we do it with Eddie in this scenario. History suggests he isn't good at the defensive side of the game (in the PL at least), and every season barre last season supports this. 

35 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Let’s just agree to disagree, you’re entitled to your opinion but think you’re talking shit personally.

Thanks pal. Right back at ya 

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

By that logic you can’t judge him on this seasons mistakes either then.

So let's agree that these two seasons cancel each other out, right? Then we need to look at more evidence/information. Bournemouth were consistently in the top 5 for goals conceded during their time in the Premier League under Eddie.

18 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

You don’t have faith he can build a solid defence, despite the fact for most of last season and the back end of the one before we had close to the best defence in the league ? Even before the injuries this season we where rock solid (go back and watch the Arsenal home game).

No, i don't. One swallow does not make a summer

I know i'm in the minority here, and I fully understand the consequences of saying anything that doesn't toe the party line on this forum, but if there was a young-ish proven winner available, I wouldn't be devastated to see him replaced. Winning teams are built on a solid defence and I just don't have faith in Eddie to be able to deliver that consistently. 

Last season we were exceptional at the back, but history tells us that this season is more Eddie's norm than last.

Despite our injury crisis, the one area we've consistently had options (until the past 4-5 games) was in defence but all-too-often, even when we fielded our full strength line-up, we looked shambolic.  The Burn debacle was nothing short of negligent at times.

I appreciate the players in front of the defence contribute to goals conceded as well, but there has rarely been any attempt to shore that side of things up to help the defence.

I love our attacking prowess under Eddie, I love him as a person and I love a lot of what we're about under him, but I don't think he's the man to take us into the upper echelons of the Premier League consistently. You don't win anything conceding 2-3 goals per game. We got in the Champions League last season by having one of the meanest defenses in the PL, and that's what it will take every season if we're going to challenge.

FWIW, I would genuinely love him to prove me wrong.

On 06/05/2024 at 00:13, ryanegg said:

His only qualm here is not being first choice I think. Where is he gonna go that he’ll be first choice? Nowhere that’s challenging for Europe I can think of in the Prem. All teams know they need to manage his minutes too. I’m biased as he’s one of my favourite players for us, but really hope he stays. I trust whatever the club has to do. 

Somewhere like Leicester feels like it would be a good move for him. He'd be a regular starter for a decent sized club who could easily punch above their weight as a newly promoting team.

53 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

 

Don’t know anything about him but this is exactly the kind of signing I love.

Could be world class, could be shit.

I reckon the players know Ten Hag is on the way out. None of them seem to give a shit

I don't get people talking about the defensive side of his game. I thought he did great defensively yesterday and he was excellent going forward as well. He's surprisingly good in the air for someone of his size. There was one occasion where he dwelled on the ball and had it knicked off him, but that's the only mistake I can remember him making.

Pretty telling that since Dan Burn stopped playing left back, the number of goals we've conceded has reduced by about 250%. In part due to how well Burn has played at CB admittedly, but actually having a proper mobile full back playing full back makes a world of difference. 

Whatever Kompqny just said to his players seems to have made them even worse. Top management! ?

1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said:

The Arsenal links are hilarious for two reasons:

 

- they haven’t got anything like the money it would take

- they aren’t Real Madrid

 

Isak’s going nowhere; the papers should simply knock it on the head

Thing is, I totally agree he's perfect for them but they can suck a spikey dick.

"His representatives have held talks with a number of Premier League suitors, with Newcastle looking increasingly likely to beat off competition from Manchester United, Tottenham and West Ham to land the centre-half."

Love beating off the competition! 

Fair play to Palace, they’ve done a proper number on us tonight. Played it perfectly. 
We’ve been terrible but I think some of that is down to Palace executing a perfect game plan. 
Ref has been a joke but what’s new?! It’s foolish to expect anything different these days. 
On to the next game! Hopefully Burn back at CB, Hall back at LB and Murphy sat at home.