Bornemouth panic!

[rememberhalifax]

Paull Parker sacked at Bournemouth! bit knee jerk after 9-0, which could happen to anyone! Come in Wareham for your views!

[gas2]

Joey Barton is favorite for the job says all the bookies

[warehamgas]

I am surprised and I bet that most of the press will be critical of the AFCB board but to those who are real fans I’m not sure they will be too unhappy. Since Christmas, or even earlier, the style of play was fairly mundane. They scraped draws when they weren’t the better team and teams that I saw at Dean Court had worked out how to play AFCB and come away with a point or more. Parker kept saying they need to be patient which I can sort of understand but he was set in his ways tactically and rarely changed tactics or formation and kept doing the same thing and then wondered why it wasn’t always working.
Whereas you always knew that if they were behind or struggling at half time Eddie H would have changed things and made tactical or player changes. Parker rarely did, just carried on doing what he did.

In the days ahead it will be portrayed as a panic/ knee jerk reaction but I think it’s more of a “let’s give ourselves a chance” and make the change now. I’m not sure it will work, and as it stands, I’ll be surprised if they avoid going down. But with Parker gone I think they have a better chance to stay up which makes me sound pretty heartless given the decent job he did. Of course it will depend upon who they bring in. I was talking to my youngest this morning about it and I said I hope they have someone lined up and he just said it didn’t matter if they didn’t Parker had to go after criticising everyone else about the results. He then said if that had been Eddie H he would have taken responsibility, kept all criticism in-house and tried to sort it out.

And I’m afraid that is the real dilemma for any manager of AFCB...they will not be Eddie Howe. He was a god and he remains a god to all AFCB fans (or al least 90%) and any in-coming manager had better realise that. Whilst they won’t be EH they had better realise that they survived 5 years in the PL by building a strong unit with decent players who all got better under EH and who would never criticise or moan about AFCB basically being what they are, a small club with a small budget in the world’s biggest league. Players loved EH and would do anything for him, he would have called them out as all those who watched knew, but he would never do it on MOTD or publicly and would never infer that they weren’t good enough as Parker did and does. Max Denim is a good guy but he’s never going to spend his way to safety and when the manager turns round and criticises him and the board I don’t think many fans will side with the manager, they will agree with Denim, imo. Parker may have been honest but he knew full well the situation AFCB worked within.

I’m sure the new manager will try to sort it out and I can’t imagine they haven’t got anyone ready given there are 3 days left of the window and they really do need some replacements. I’m going tomorrow night v Wolves which should be interesting at least, my first match since they beat Villa. ( I was at Pompey when they played Arsenal) Come on Bournemouth!! 😉 Tin hat on.

UTG!

[eric]

Aug 30, 2022 8:55:13 GMT rememberhalifax said:

Paull Parker sacked at Bournemouth! bit knee jerk after 9-0, which could happen to anyone! Come in Wareham for your views!

They really should be beating the likes of Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool !!!

[aghast]

Aug 30, 2022 8:55:13 GMT rememberhalifax said:

Paull Parker sacked at Bournemouth! bit knee jerk after 9-0, which could happen to anyone! Come in Wareham for your views!

Paul Parker?

[rememberhalifax]

Aug 30, 2022 15:04:50 GMT warehamgas said:

I am surprised and I bet that most of the press will be critical of the AFCB board but to those who are real fans I’m not sure they will be too unhappy. Since Christmas, or even earlier, the style of play was fairly mundane. They scraped draws when they weren’t the better team and teams that I saw at Dean Court had worked out how to play AFCB and come away with a point or more. Parker kept saying they need to be patient which I can sort of understand but he was set in his ways tactically and rarely changed tactics or formation and kept doing the same thing and then wondered why it wasn’t always working.
Whereas you always knew that if they were behind or struggling at half time Eddie H would have changed things and made tactical or player changes. Parker rarely did, just carried on doing what he did.

In the days ahead it will be portrayed as a panic/ knee jerk reaction but I think it’s more of a “let’s give ourselves a chance” and make the change now. I’m not sure it will work, and as it stands, I’ll be surprised if they avoid going down. But with Parker gone I think they have a better chance to stay up which makes me sound pretty heartless given the decent job he did. Of course it will depend upon who they bring in. I was talking to my youngest this morning about it and I said I hope they have someone lined up and he just said it didn’t matter if they didn’t Parker had to go after criticising everyone else about the results. He then said if that had been Eddie H he would have taken responsibility, kept all criticism in-house and tried to sort it out.

And I’m afraid that is the real dilemma for any manager of AFCB...they will not be Eddie Howe. He was a god and he remains a god to all AFCB fans (or al least 90%) and any in-coming manager had better realise that. Whilst they won’t be EH they had better realise that they survived 5 years in the PL by building a strong unit with decent players who all got better under EH and who would never criticise or moan about AFCB basically being what they are, a small club with a small budget in the world’s biggest league. Players loved EH and would do anything for him, he would have called them out as all those who watched knew, but he would never do it on MOTD or publicly and would never infer that they weren’t good enough as Parker did and does. Max Denim is a good guy but he’s never going to spend his way to safety and when the manager turns round and criticises him and the board I don’t think many fans will side with the manager, they will agree with Denim, imo. Parker may have been honest but he knew full well the situation AFCB worked within.

I’m sure the new manager will try to sort it out and I can’t imagine they haven’t got anyone ready given there are 3 days left of the window and they really do need some replacements. I’m going tomorrow night v Wolves which should be interesting at least, my first match since they beat Villa. ( I was at Pompey when they played Arsenal) Come on Bournemouth!! 😉 Tin hat on.

UTG!

Good stuff Wareham, good to get the 'inside' story, must admit to not hearing Parker post match, probably been better if he had written it off as 'just one of those days', on the face of it one win from 4 seems dismal but when you look at the fixtures it's not surprising. I know they did wobble last season and staggered over the line , as you say the E.H factor is huge there and it's some big boots to fill!