Match Thread AFC Bournemouth v Everton Saturday 28th November 3pm

[ijjysmith]

AFC Bournmeouth fan in peace.

Interesting read, thought it was a good match and on the balance of play a draw was probably a fair result. I've no idea why we didn't sub off Cook or Federici when they both got injured in the first half as you completely dominated in that period. Both came off at half time and we looked a different side in the second half, although you could equally argue that your levels dropped off significantly when McCarthy went off injured.

Having seen Smith try to shoot on quite a number of occasions the bemused look on his face when it went in the top corner was probably because he thought it was an optical illusion and, in fact, the ball was safely slotted into it's usual safe spot after a shot from him in row Z. Still, I thought he gave your full back an absolute roasting from the moment he came on so maybe deserved one to go in for once.

My take on the injury time is like this. A minimum of 5 minutes indicated which doesn't mean 5.00 but could equally mean 5.59.

Barkley scored on 4.45. So between 15 and 74 seconds to go. Normally the clock would keep turning for the celebrations but if there's a pitch invasion the ref will stop the clock and won't start it again until the ball is back in play.

So when we kicked off instead of there being the 0 seconds left there would have been if your fans had stayed off the pitch, there was 15 to 74 seconds left. I think we scored about 30ish seconds later and straight after the new kick off he blew up.

I'm not blaming the fans as you can understand them getting a bit excited having got out of jail a little in injury time but I think if they'd stayed off the pitch we wouldn't have had the chance to score.

Some have said he added time for the invasion and I don't think it's that, it's that he stopped the clock when the invasion started.

As an aside, I thought it was a bit lacking in class from Martinez to claim it was a hopeful punt into the box when Daniels has landed a cross right on Junior's head. Probably just irritation getting the better of him though.

We've had some absolute shockers from refs this season already (them lot up the road from you absolutely got away with it against us, good goal for us disallowed and a goal so clearly offside for them but given that the PL sent a letter to all the clubs saying it should have been disallowed, Swansea got about the softest penalty you'll see this season last week and so on) and some horrible luck/players not taking their chances (absolutely battered Newcastle, should have been 5-0, but somehow contrived to lose, dominated Villa with the same result and more again). Add to that an insane spate of injuries to key players that you're probably bored of hearing about which has meant major tactical changes since the start of the season with which we're only just starting to get to grips but that corner is now turning. All of which is to say, I don't think come the end of the season you'll view a point at Dean Court as badly as some of you rate it now.

I'm genuinely surprised how poor some PL teams are. I thought we were going to get spanked most weeks but I actually feel at this point pretty confident we'll stay up. Unless we get another three cruciate injuries...

All in all though, football eh? Bloody hell.

Good luck for the rest of the season. One game aside, of course.

I really hope you guys stay up. Play football the right way and haven't changed just to try and stay up.

 

[Kurt.]

We already have The Special Olympics.

Bit sick that yeah ...... but if you find it funny hey ho.

 

[deipnosophist]

Hubris was our nemesis. Well done to Bournemouth though

 

[maccavennie]

AFC Bournmeouth fan in peace.

Interesting read, thought it was a good match and on the balance of play a draw was probably a fair result. I've no idea why we didn't sub off Cook or Federici when they both got injured in the first half as you completely dominated in that period. Both came off at half time and we looked a different side in the second half, although you could equally argue that your levels dropped off significantly when McCarthy went off injured.

Having seen Smith try to shoot on quite a number of occasions the bemused look on his face when it went in the top corner was probably because he thought it was an optical illusion and, in fact, the ball was safely slotted into it's usual safe spot after a shot from him in row Z. Still, I thought he gave your full back an absolute roasting from the moment he came on so maybe deserved one to go in for once.

My take on the injury time is like this. A minimum of 5 minutes indicated which doesn't mean 5.00 but could equally mean 5.59.

Barkley scored on 4.45. So between 15 and 74 seconds to go. Normally the clock would keep turning for the celebrations but if there's a pitch invasion the ref will stop the clock and won't start it again until the ball is back in play.

So when we kicked off instead of there being the 0 seconds left there would have been if your fans had stayed off the pitch, there was 15 to 74 seconds left. I think we scored about 30ish seconds later and straight after the new kick off he blew up.

I'm not blaming the fans as you can understand them getting a bit excited having got out of jail a little in injury time but I think if they'd stayed off the pitch we wouldn't have had the chance to score.

Some have said he added time for the invasion and I don't think it's that, it's that he stopped the clock when the invasion started.

As an aside, I thought it was a bit lacking in class from Martinez to claim it was a hopeful punt into the box when Daniels has landed a cross right on Junior's head. Probably just irritation getting the better of him though.

We've had some absolute shockers from refs this season already (them lot up the road from you absolutely got away with it against us, good goal for us disallowed and a goal so clearly offside for them but given that the PL sent a letter to all the clubs saying it should have been disallowed, Swansea got about the softest penalty you'll see this season last week and so on) and some horrible luck/players not taking their chances (absolutely battered Newcastle, should have been 5-0, but somehow contrived to lose, dominated Villa with the same result and more again). Add to that an insane spate of injuries to key players that you're probably bored of hearing about which has meant major tactical changes since the start of the season with which we're only just starting to get to grips but that corner is now turning. All of which is to say, I don't think come the end of the season you'll view a point at Dean Court as badly as some of you rate it now.

I'm genuinely surprised how poor some PL teams are. I thought we were going to get spanked most weeks but I actually feel at this point pretty confident we'll stay up. Unless we get another three cruciate injuries...

All in all though, football eh? Bloody hell.

Good luck for the rest of the season. One game aside, of course.

The times I've seen you, you've done decent mate and certainly if you can avoid any more injuries you can stay up I reckon. You were absolutely robbed at the RS and the pen last week was a farce. Done well not to let your heads drop 2nd half against us and got what you deserved which was a point. Shame we took the win for granted as we had done all the hard work 1st half.

All the best for the rest of the season mate, as a Crimbo gift I'm sending Tim Howard down your way

 

[orly]

AFC Bournmeouth fan in peace.

All of which is to say, I don't think come the end of the season you'll view a point at Dean Court as badly as some of you rate it now.

After watching Villa and Newcastle win there?

Gerroff back to Tory Blackpool

 

[macdog]

There's also talk of a DVD but they're worried that might be a bit over the top if we don't actually win anything.

Ha! That wouldn't stop the Kopites!

 

[mlyons]

AFC Bournmeouth fan in peace.

Interesting read, thought it was a good match and on the balance of play a draw was probably a fair result. I've no idea why we didn't sub off Cook or Federici when they both got injured in the first half as you completely dominated in that period. Both came off at half time and we looked a different side in the second half, although you could equally argue that your levels dropped off significantly when McCarthy went off injured.

Having seen Smith try to shoot on quite a number of occasions the bemused look on his face when it went in the top corner was probably because he thought it was an optical illusion and, in fact, the ball was safely slotted into it's usual safe spot after a shot from him in row Z. Still, I thought he gave your full back an absolute roasting from the moment he came on so maybe deserved one to go in for once.

My take on the injury time is like this. A minimum of 5 minutes indicated which doesn't mean 5.00 but could equally mean 5.59.

Barkley scored on 4.45. So between 15 and 74 seconds to go. Normally the clock would keep turning for the celebrations but if there's a pitch invasion the ref will stop the clock and won't start it again until the ball is back in play.

So when we kicked off instead of there being the 0 seconds left there would have been if your fans had stayed off the pitch, there was 15 to 74 seconds left. I think we scored about 30ish seconds later and straight after the new kick off he blew up.

I'm not blaming the fans as you can understand them getting a bit excited having got out of jail a little in injury time but I think if they'd stayed off the pitch we wouldn't have had the chance to score.

Some have said he added time for the invasion and I don't think it's that, it's that he stopped the clock when the invasion started.

As an aside, I thought it was a bit lacking in class from Martinez to claim it was a hopeful punt into the box when Daniels has landed a cross right on Junior's head. Probably just irritation getting the better of him though.

We've had some absolute shockers from refs this season already (them lot up the road from you absolutely got away with it against us, good goal for us disallowed and a goal so clearly offside for them but given that the PL sent a letter to all the clubs saying it should have been disallowed, Swansea got about the softest penalty you'll see this season last week and so on) and some horrible luck/players not taking their chances (absolutely battered Newcastle, should have been 5-0, but somehow contrived to lose, dominated Villa with the same result and more again). Add to that an insane spate of injuries to key players that you're probably bored of hearing about which has meant major tactical changes since the start of the season with which we're only just starting to get to grips but that corner is now turning. All of which is to say, I don't think come the end of the season you'll view a point at Dean Court as badly as some of you rate it now.

I'm genuinely surprised how poor some PL teams are. I thought we were going to get spanked most weeks but I actually feel at this point pretty confident we'll stay up. Unless we get another three cruciate injuries...

All in all though, football eh? Bloody hell.

Good luck for the rest of the season. One game aside, of course.

I don't think anyone here begrudges Bournemouth the point. It was a hell of a comeback, and all credit to your club's mentality. Most of us have even begrudgingly accepted the referee was probably justified in allowing that last attack. We're all just upset at the way our club fell apart.

 

[TheAlmightyFloater]

Finally managed to stop cringing about the pitch invasion.

Oh no wait, there it is again.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Bloody annoying two points dropped though !!

 

[argietoffee]

The pitch invasion was class. I loved it. Reminded me of Sharpie at Anfield and the fella with th diffle coat and the specs.

Reminded me of Southampton game in 84.

Pity we did not hold on to win.

Pity it was Bouremouth and not Liverpool.

 

[mrb85]

The pitch invasion was class. I loved it. Reminded me of Sharpie at Anfield and the fella with th diffle coat and the specs.

Reminded me of Southampton game in 84.

Pity we did not hold on to win.

Pity it was Bouremouth and not Liverpool.

Yep, I've never realised before just how much we put our whole mid 80s revival in jeopardy before it was born when we all piled on to the pitch after Inchy's last minute winner.................

 

[chicoazul]

Without Mccarthy on the field Barry is massively shown up for what he is, a near 35 year old given the duty of trying to outpace young lads often 10 years+ younger and shielding the back 4. Been good this year but he'll struggle without McCarthy doing the leg work.

Coleman for me gets away with alot as his defending is often average but he doesn't even contribute going forward to make up for it now. Kone isn't the answer on the left and Galloway has done well playing out of position but gets done too many times by pacey wide men (waves at Zaha/Bolasie).

Thought Barry done well against lads ten years younger tonight like.

 

[a bell maul]

Can we all agree beforehand. A point is not a good result?

...by that touchstone, it wasn't a good result.

 

[ianefc]

Little bit if talk on Twitter that the club are set to hand out indefinate bans for anyone caught invading the pitch on Saturday after the Barkley goal. Hope its not true.

 

[mrb85]

Little bit if talk on Twitter that the club are set to hand out indefinate bans for anyone caught invading the pitch on Saturday after the Barkley goal. Hope its not true.

They better hadn't. No harm done. Can't remember them initiating witch hunts when dozens invaded Villa Park in the semis in 84 and again in 85. Oh, but I forgot, we were a good enough, savvy enough, team in those days not to then blow it!