Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
I'm going to keep this fairly short. Bournemouth is not a club I have a lot of love for. They have had some pretty astonishing referee decisions against us in recent seasons (Surridge's no penalty, Surridge again with a goal disallowed last season, and Wily Boly). I've found their fans unpleasant; not on Brentford levels obviously, but still very definably so.
They have done well under their new manager, after a terrible start and now sit six points clear of us. And they've done that by winning their six pointers. They have won five of their six pointers so far, including a completely undeserved win at the City Ground that was daylight robbery.
We have won one all season. Which wasn't even a six pointer because Blades are gone.
Nuno has played two of these games and lost both. Both to conceding three absolutely diabolical goals that no side wanting to stay in the league should be conceding.
So it's time to shit or get off the pot. We don't have a full squad back yet but we are close enough. Elanga and Taiwo can play a part. Niakhate is back. No excuses. We cannot lose this game. We can't afford to draw it really.
I said it last time and it proved all too true, and I'll say it this time as well; stop Dominic Solanke. That's all you need to know about Bournemouth
Bournemouth Style
Bournemouth are, like most in the lower reaches who do well, a team that uses short passes and then well judged long balls to exploit skilful play down the wings to devastating effect- exactly like us when we are at our best. We have both scored a similar number of goals (their 29 to our 27) and it's a huge surprise to me to see we have both conceded the same (40).
They have really skilful players in attack; Alex Scott, who predictably is back from injury to play us, plus Tavernier and Semenyo. But ultimately it's all about Solanke, with his 13 goals. No one else has any numbers worth talking about.
Stop Solanke.
Bournemouth Formation
Is almost certainly going to be this. They have pretty much their full team available, in contrast to us of course.
Bournemouth Players.
Bournemouth have spent about £180m on players since promotion, and sold absolutely no one; which puts them on a higher net spend than us I believe. This coming after spending heavily in the championship January transfer window and keeping Solanke for two years on Premier League wages. But hey ho.
The upshot being, they have good players and in fairness to them, probably have a higher hit rate than we do
In attack, it's all Solanke with the goals. 13 for the season, next best is Semenyo on three. Only 8 of their current players have been on the scoresheet (10 for us). Solanke scored three absolutely disgraceful goals at the CG from our point of view; brilliant striker goals, but diabolical defending for all three of them, particularly in the air. Stop Solanke and you largely stop Bournemouth.
Behind him is Alex Scott, who they bought for £20m from Bristol. He's only started 5 games due to injury, but is a great player and many on here were keen for us to try to sign him, and rightly so. He has performed best this season from the pivot role, but can do absolutely everything.
We know about Marcus Tavernier. He didn't impress me like I thought he would at the CG. His performance numbers looked amazing then (2 goals, four assists) but since then they haven't actually improved. He remains their second best performing player over the season, but apart from their game against Spurs, he has been fairly meh in performance recently.
Antoine Semenyo caused us problems at the CG as I said he would. 3 goals, 1 assist and typically he is Ghanaian so the curse of Chris Hughton's shitness strikes us yet again and he is here to play against us.
Let's not forget their other options. Phillip-fucking-Billing who has been an absolute bastard to us for season after season 2 goals, 2 assists.
They also have Justin Kluivert who has a couple of goals and has looked really good at times playing up front.
Most likely from the bench will be Luis Sinisterra, who has a couple of goals and an assist from the bench and came on against us.
Most likely in the pivot will be Lewis Cook and Ryan Christie. Cook is more an outright DCM in his strengths while Christie, a 28 year old Scot, is a great player who can tackle, dribble, pass, advance, everything. Both are right near the top of their performance charts.
Can't be arsed to do their defence other than to point out that in Neto, they have a goalkeeper who somehow manages to avoid giving the opposition a one goal subsidy in every game through his own shit mistakes.
Oh, and Adam Smith, the cheating **** who stamped on Boly and then pretended he'd been shot to get him sent off.
Here is the full squad
Form
This is not their overall form (overall it has been good but they just lost to Spurs and Liverpool, no disgrace there); it is their away form in the PL.
They have taken advantage of weakness here. They have played a lot of sides at a really good time and taken full advantage, winning a lot of 6 pointers.
Nuno take note; we are going to have to replicate this if we are going to survive in this league. Because we don't have enough winnable home games to do it at the CG. We are going to have to win the six pointers away.
Starting today.
Who's the w*****r in the black?
Today we have the Premier League's new female referee, Rebecca Welch. This will be only her second ever Premier League game, but I can confidently say she has no chance of being worse than Rob Jones.
Welch has never refereed Forest before. She could start well by finding a reason to give us only our second penalty of the season if she likes.
On VAR is Peter Bankes, not sure what his history with us is. But his name is not Rob Jones, so it's a tentative
Head to Head.
Pretty grim
The first game on this list was actually the first time we had played Bournemouth since 1951 in the Third Division South.
We actually did the double over them under Pearce and Freedman in 14/15. But apart from that, these are a real bogey team for us and we've never been able to get anything out of them.
Weather
The fact that we still have loads of players out and they do not means that Bournemouth has managed to escape hurricanes, tornados and typhoons for this weekend and their ground thus remains safe from a loose advertising hoarding forcing it's closure.
It will be dull down there, hopefully not from us on the pitch though.
They have done well under their new manager, after a terrible start and now sit six points clear of us. And they've done that by winning their six pointers. They have won five of their six pointers so far, including a completely undeserved win at the City Ground that was daylight robbery.
We have won one all season. Which wasn't even a six pointer because Blades are gone.
Nuno has played two of these games and lost both. Both to conceding three absolutely diabolical goals that no side wanting to stay in the league should be conceding.
So it's time to shit or get off the pot. We don't have a full squad back yet but we are close enough. Elanga and Taiwo can play a part. Niakhate is back. No excuses. We cannot lose this game. We can't afford to draw it really.
I said it last time and it proved all too true, and I'll say it this time as well; stop Dominic Solanke. That's all you need to know about Bournemouth
Bournemouth Style
Bournemouth are, like most in the lower reaches who do well, a team that uses short passes and then well judged long balls to exploit skilful play down the wings to devastating effect- exactly like us when we are at our best. We have both scored a similar number of goals (their 29 to our 27) and it's a huge surprise to me to see we have both conceded the same (40).
They have really skilful players in attack; Alex Scott, who predictably is back from injury to play us, plus Tavernier and Semenyo. But ultimately it's all about Solanke, with his 13 goals. No one else has any numbers worth talking about.
Stop Solanke.
Bournemouth Formation
Is almost certainly going to be this. They have pretty much their full team available, in contrast to us of course.
Bournemouth Players.
Bournemouth have spent about £180m on players since promotion, and sold absolutely no one; which puts them on a higher net spend than us I believe. This coming after spending heavily in the championship January transfer window and keeping Solanke for two years on Premier League wages. But hey ho.
The upshot being, they have good players and in fairness to them, probably have a higher hit rate than we do
In attack, it's all Solanke with the goals. 13 for the season, next best is Semenyo on three. Only 8 of their current players have been on the scoresheet (10 for us). Solanke scored three absolutely disgraceful goals at the CG from our point of view; brilliant striker goals, but diabolical defending for all three of them, particularly in the air. Stop Solanke and you largely stop Bournemouth.
Behind him is Alex Scott, who they bought for £20m from Bristol. He's only started 5 games due to injury, but is a great player and many on here were keen for us to try to sign him, and rightly so. He has performed best this season from the pivot role, but can do absolutely everything.
We know about Marcus Tavernier. He didn't impress me like I thought he would at the CG. His performance numbers looked amazing then (2 goals, four assists) but since then they haven't actually improved. He remains their second best performing player over the season, but apart from their game against Spurs, he has been fairly meh in performance recently.
Antoine Semenyo caused us problems at the CG as I said he would. 3 goals, 1 assist and typically he is Ghanaian so the curse of Chris Hughton's shitness strikes us yet again and he is here to play against us.
Let's not forget their other options. Phillip-fucking-Billing who has been an absolute bastard to us for season after season 2 goals, 2 assists.
They also have Justin Kluivert who has a couple of goals and has looked really good at times playing up front.
Most likely from the bench will be Luis Sinisterra, who has a couple of goals and an assist from the bench and came on against us.
Most likely in the pivot will be Lewis Cook and Ryan Christie. Cook is more an outright DCM in his strengths while Christie, a 28 year old Scot, is a great player who can tackle, dribble, pass, advance, everything. Both are right near the top of their performance charts.
Can't be arsed to do their defence other than to point out that in Neto, they have a goalkeeper who somehow manages to avoid giving the opposition a one goal subsidy in every game through his own shit mistakes.
Oh, and Adam Smith, the cheating **** who stamped on Boly and then pretended he'd been shot to get him sent off.
Here is the full squad
Form
This is not their overall form (overall it has been good but they just lost to Spurs and Liverpool, no disgrace there); it is their away form in the PL.
They have taken advantage of weakness here. They have played a lot of sides at a really good time and taken full advantage, winning a lot of 6 pointers.
Nuno take note; we are going to have to replicate this if we are going to survive in this league. Because we don't have enough winnable home games to do it at the CG. We are going to have to win the six pointers away.
Starting today.
Who's the w*****r in the black?
Today we have the Premier League's new female referee, Rebecca Welch. This will be only her second ever Premier League game, but I can confidently say she has no chance of being worse than Rob Jones.
Welch has never refereed Forest before. She could start well by finding a reason to give us only our second penalty of the season if she likes.
On VAR is Peter Bankes, not sure what his history with us is. But his name is not Rob Jones, so it's a tentative
Head to Head.
Pretty grim
The first game on this list was actually the first time we had played Bournemouth since 1951 in the Third Division South.
We actually did the double over them under Pearce and Freedman in 14/15. But apart from that, these are a real bogey team for us and we've never been able to get anything out of them.
Weather
The fact that we still have loads of players out and they do not means that Bournemouth has managed to escape hurricanes, tornados and typhoons for this weekend and their ground thus remains safe from a loose advertising hoarding forcing it's closure.
It will be dull down there, hopefully not from us on the pitch though.
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