Bournemouth scoring record!

[The Fifth Column]

Bournemouth's top league goal scorers this season

Callum Wilson
11
Brett Pitman
7
Marc Pugh
7
Matt Ritchie
6
Harry Arter
6
Yann Kermorgant
6

Its enough to make you cry isnt it? Oh just to have one midfielder or striker with that record let alone 6 of them. Tommy Elphick and Steve Cook playing in the PL next season??

 

[Icy Gull]

Get a good manager, spend some money making sure you replace the players you sell with ones of equal quality and evolve the team rather than offload your best players every season. Ignoring FFP probably helps as well though.

It won't last longer than this season but what great ride they are on

Better than us under Poyet both in style and goals so far this season.

*jealous*

 

[martin tyler]

They play with a lot of freedom and almost have the mentality of we will score more than you. They have a decent defence as well so they don t let to many in. Best of luck to them. They have been very good so far and at the moment deserve to be top. Long way to go still

 

[The Fifth Column]

Get a good manager, spend some money making sure you replace the players you sell with ones of equal quality and evolve the team rather than offload your best players every season. Ignoring FFP probably helps as well though.

I thought they passed FFP? Are they still in the mix when the full results are published?

I find myself mightily jealous of them but fair play to one of the smallest clubs in this division for doing so well. can you imagine the effect promotion to the PL would have on them?

 

[Stat Brother]

Yet one of our better performances this season was at Dean Court.
On another day that could have been 3 points.

The story of the season, so far.

 

[sir albion]

Get a good manager, spend some money making sure you replace the players you sell with ones of equal quality and evolve the team rather than offload your best players every season. Ignoring FFP probably helps as well though.

It won't last longer than this season but what great ride they are on

Better than us under Poyet both in style and goals so far this season.

*jealous*

Yep
Our style of play is a big issue and needs to change

 

[scooter1]

The thing is, if they don't get promoted then they'll be plundered for their best players anyway, just like we were. There are very few teams(Derby may be the exception) who manage to hang on to a winning team in this division

 

[pasty]

Bournemouth's top league goal scorers this season

Callum Wilson
11
Brett Pitman
7
Marc Pugh
7
Matt Ritchie
6
Harry Arter
6
Yann Kermorgant
6

Its enough to make you cry isnt it? Oh just to have one midfielder or striker with that record let alone 6 of them. Tommy Elphick and Steve Cook playing in the PL next season??

6, yes count them, 6 players who've scored more than our top scorer, who is a center back.

 

[matbha]

Love bournmouth had some great holls there ,good luck to them !

 

[stevejoneslegend]

Get a good manager, spend some money making sure you replace the players you sell with ones of equal quality and evolve the team rather than offload your best players every season. Ignoring FFP probably helps as well though.

It won't last longer than this season but what great ride they are on

Better than us under Poyet both in style and goals so far this season.

*jealous*

We didn't ignore FFP, we kept to it and 'passed' it completely... Almost everything else you mention is 100% spot on, and is the key to our success... Eddie Howe bought most of our current first XI when we were in Lg 1, 3 seasons ago... He has bonded them into what we see now, week in week out... The only 2 additions are Boruc and Wilson (Surman was on loan to us in lg 1)...

We have not bought our way to the top, we have developed a close-knit side that want to play for Eddie Howe and are the best passing side outside the Prem Lg (and I bet we'd give the bottom few in the Prem a good game also)... Lets not forget, the Burnley we see now is largely Eddie's purchases and team that he was 'developing'...

The only other thing I would question is why you think it wouldn't last longer than this season... 'IF' we got promoted, we would invest in a few more players and hopefully develop the ones we have, in the same way Eddie has turned them from Lg 1 to top Championship players... If we got relegated, we would bring in shedloads of cash and hopefully build for a better future...

My one worry is as Scooter1 says, if we don't make it... will we get picked off for some of our players... Whist many of us recognise that we are not ready for Prem football (infrastructure etc. etc.) this could be our one shot... We have several of our players rumoured to be watched already, for the Jan window... I have every faith that w'll hold onto everyone, to see if we can achieve promotion... But failure could result in these players being prized away for big money moves...

However, in saying this, Eddie has managed to replace like for almost better so far... so I trust him to continue to do this...

 

[e77]

Bournemouth and/or Brentford getting Premier League payments then possibly parachute payments would be game changing for both of them.

 

[Lifelong Supporter]

The thing is, if they don't get promoted then they'll be plundered for their best players anyway, just like we were. There are very few teams(Derby may be the exception) who manage to hang on to a winning team in this division

Very much this and also how ambitious is the manager ?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Its enough to make you cry isnt it?

Yep

Tommy Elphick and Steve Cook playing in the PL next season??

Yet apparently both are earning more than they would have here on crowds of 10,000. Hmmmm, and it makes you wonder.......

 

[The Fifth Column]

J

Yep



Yet apparently both are earning more than they would have here on crowds of 10,000. Hmmmm, and it makes you wonder.......

Well they've been very lucky on the injury front so far this season, a few key injuries might expose the depth of their squad and see them lose a few games. I'd be happy to see them replace Palace in the Prem although how they would sustain PL football on gates of 10000 and with a low overall fanbase and no global identity is anyones guess. I know a few small clubs have managed to do it for a few seasons, most notably Wigan (with much larger attendances than Bournemouth) but You can't maintain PL football on the Sky Money alone, I think they would really struggle and they would need to be careful they didnt start chasing the dream and spending money on stadium expansion and players etc before the inevitable relegation and being left with a half empty stadium and all the best players gone. i'm sure most Bournemouth fans couldn't care less about all of that right now but as I've said before, the best bit about the Premier League is the journey there, the reality once you have arrived is pretty miserable for teams like Bournemouth and Brighton.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Yep



Yet apparently both are earning more than they would have here on crowds of 10,000. Hmmmm, and it makes you wonder.......

They don't earn more than our centre backs. Stop being petty, credit where it's due Howe has done an awesome job.

 

[Guinness Boy]

They don't earn more than our centre backs. Stop being petty, credit where it's due Howe has done an awesome job.

They earn more at Bournemouth than they would here. You should listen to the Albion Roar.

 

[Guinness Boy]

A thumbs down from the board's Bournemouth troll. You were funny once but don't push it.

 

[jay d]

They don't earn more than our centre backs. Stop being petty, credit where it's due Howe has done an awesome job.

Agreed. Get him in, and bring the players with him.

 

[Questions]

We had better centre backs than Elphick and Cook when they left. Now we don't.
I always thought Cook could be pretty good but Tommy has surprised me especially after that bad injury.
If Bournemouth go up they'll probably replace them with better and so it goes on.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Their ambition is higher than ours. This was evident while we gave Sami "time" which was the most ludicrous decision since Hitler decided to invade Russia in winter.