johnbob wrote…
Well, that was horrendous, I felt sorry for all the fans who don’t usually get the chance to go. I had a feeling we did not want to progress, but when is AFC Bournemouth head coach Scott Parker going to change our style of play as I getting fed up with all the side ways, back passing. Have they been trained to not shoot?
Audenshaw Cherry replied…
It wasn’t so much the sideways movement that annoyed me tonight, but we do mess about at the back too much in many games.
No, it was more the lack of enthusiasm, speed going forward, the failure to get the ball into the box and the apathy shown by the players, particularly in the first half. It did improve in the second but the quality remained poor…
I would particularly pick out Jamal Lowe, who showed no energy, a lack of movement and interest and his positioning was just poor. – Join the conversation, click here.
Man of the match against Boreham Wood
Davis
Woodman
Anthony
Christie
Cantwell
Someone else
No one
MB1980 wrote…
I’m reserving judgment until after new signings have played a few games (league games).
Parker has just been backed in the window. Can understand last night being disappointing for many, but we know how things tend to go in cup games for most teams doing well in the league. Manner of the defeat wasn’t great, to say the least, but remember that former manager Eddie Howe put out some diabolical displays in the cups over the years – players looking like strangers, half-hearted etc.
To be honest, I’m glad we’re out of it, a midweek trip to Everton sandwiched between league games may have been a distraction to the promotion campaign, which has to be the priority. 3 points over Birmingham is much more important in my opinion. – Join the conversation, click here.
Neil Dawson said…
Rumours that Lewis Cook was taken off because he was the player that shot in the first half are as yet unsubstantiated.
We were good earlier in the season because we were playing differently to a Bournemouth side had for a while and opposition tacticians and managers were struggling with not enough evidence sussing it out. They then sussed it and we started to scrape results rather than win convincingly… then a few teams beat us and everyone studied that and copied it.
Our problem is our manager is stubborn. Most people would change it up at this point but he values his system over everything. All of his ‘No plan B’ comments smack of arrogance. Today he went again with the same wallpaper football by numbers textbook approach and even a counter plan with Conference players was comfortably enough. By the time he finally went to two forwards and crossing the ball it was too late. Start that way and we’d have won.
My biggest issue is boredom. I don’t care much about results, I wouldn’t have supported us for years If winning was my everything. I’d have sky sports and support a giant if that was what mattered. Like everyone I just want to have a laugh and be on the seat of my pants and energised.
Any manager that values their dull system ahead of fan entertainment shouldn’t be at a football club. Having 80% possession with no meaningful shots is no different to having Pulis lump the ball the length of the pitch and regrouping. It really isn’t. – Join the conversation, click here.
