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Bournemouth have played villa, city, arsenal and liverpool. They beat Villa, lost the other 3. I would take those results if i was a fan of the club. Feels like parker/the owner had bad blood.

We played good football the season we got into Europe then lost Defour to injury and never spent enough to replace him and develop the team. You might remember this goal for instance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6sXRc_BgE

If Everton had got Dyche a few years ago rather than trying to placate the fans who thought he wasn't good enough for them I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be in the current position they're in.

@Soul the first time I've heard that one. I think your source may be having you on.

Feels like parker/the owner had bad blood.

Think it was mainly related to Parker publicly pushing for the owner to spend more money. Not sure whether this is related to the current Russian sanctions.

@Soul the first time I've heard that one. I think your source may be having you on.

Definitely a reliable source imo. Either way, even if it's false, I've heard it repeated by people involved in the club at Albion so fiction has become fact.

A thoroughly decent goal, albeit against 10 men. Hence why we weren't exactly pressing you with much commitment there (that and the fact we were, and remian, quite shit). Ashley Williams in defence * shudders *.

Dyche is a perfectly decent manager, as is Sam Allardyce and if avoiding relegation and general stablity is your goal they are fine. Is he better than Lampard? For sure. Do I want him to replace Lampard? Of course not. If we're shipping out lampard we want someone to come in a build a bit of positivity and play nice football. Graham Potter has shown what you can do with a tight budget but a good set up. And I'm a fan of people like Marsch and Postecoglu who've built good teams in other leagues.

If Everton had got Dyche a few years ago rather than trying to placate the fans who thought he wasn't good enough for them I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be in the current position they're in.

You can essentially say "if everton had/hadn't" to almost every decision we've made over the past 8 years. So while you're not wrong, there's a ream of other mistakes we made which put us in the position where not appointing Dyche at some unspecfied time was a bad call. And TBH it's entirely possible that we'd be including 'Everton appointing Dyche to fan's ire' in the 'mistakes everton made' category right at this point in time if it had happened. That's how much of a calamity club we are.

Graham Potter has shown what you can do with a tight budget but a good set up.

Brighton might have a tight budget on the Everton scale but they're still losing hundreds of millions of pounds. It's an unknown at the moment how Dyche would do with a decent budget, although there were some decent signs before we cut transfer spending, but he's definitely a manager who can inspire some positivity.

I've never heard anyone even mention it and, unsurprisingly, I know a lot of Burnley fans including a fair few at the club.

When we were discussing where Dyche might end up West Brom were pretty high up on the list as seeming a good fit for him, although most popular suggestion was Forest when Cooper gets sacked around Christmas.

Oof, just had a look. You're not wrong. Guess they don't make much on TV and sponsorship.

I think the Bournemouth management have ideas way above their station. As you you say losing to city, liverpool and Arsenal is to be expected. The end of last season was pretty good for them, the radio said he has. 51%win ratio, Arteta has 54%.

They've put the club in a real short term mindset now, instant results or get out, which is a dangerous place for any club to be in.

It's clearly nothing to do with results, read the club statement.

Not sure that matters much. I think Bournemouth are destined for league 1

this season is bonkers

Some big kante and rudiger shaped cracks in chelseas defence at the moment. Played well until Southampton scored then the confidence went.

Referee getting his Kloppage time bonus tonight.

Gerrard out.

Newcastle shocked all the time they spent pretending to have cramp was accounted for. Love to see it.

A work colleague from Preston was telling me today how they were getting on this season.

Their record so far (as of this evening, where they doubled their season's goal tally) is impressive:

P:7 W:2 D:5 L:0 GF:2 GA:0 Pt:11

A couple of other teams in the top 4 divisions have also only scored 2 (although none of them have played as many games), but no other team has yet to concede.

Imagine being a fan who's seen every game - one goal for every 315 minutes of football.

City are pretty good. Best side I've ever seen live, but then tbf I'm only comparing against clubs like Walsall, Crewe and Derby.

Erling is just going to score loads and loads, wondering if he can break the premier leagues goal scoring record for a season, in his first season…. ?

100%, things getting worse and he’s just thrown everyone under the bus (you’ve told them but they aren’t listening because you’re fucking clueless).

No idea on who next (not Scott Parker, not that fucking cardigan) but keeping Gerrard in will mean things just get worse

Particularly impressive tonight to be fair. Alvarez looks like a superb player, not getting hyped due to Haaland.

He’s gotta go.
A former legend as a player with zero transferable skills to management.
It’s like when Shearer tried management and thought all he needed was a suit.

You feel if Villa get in a decent manager then they’ll be fine. The team has a good squad and plenty of goals in them. Naturally I’m hoping they keep Gerrard till well after Christmas.

Pretty impressive list to be referenced against in recent times. I’ll take it.

We’ve been pretty close to this this season. Teams not really able to break us down, but we have a striker who is lacking in confidence and needs a goal to get going.

The only loss we had was away to Charlton where we basically should’ve been 3 or 4 up at half time then let them nick a goal in the second half.