Bournemouth match thread

[KevC59]

Gone a bit early on this one, but after today's defeat to Boro, anybody still think Bournemouth are not there for the taking? No win in 6 for them now, I have been saying that second automatic place is up for grabs for a while now, they are really struggling so it's a great time for us to play them I think, remains to be seen if we come out of this 'mini break' in any sort of form, but hopefully our key personnel will all be back, refreshed and raring to go

[LoftusRoadLad]

We need to puff what Blackburn are putting in their pipes !!

[MINCER]

Not fully convinced by Blackburns recent good run but Forest look like they are on an definite upwards trajectory and expect them to be pushing the top 2 places come the end of season.

[SheepRanger]

Isnt one of Blackburn's star attacking players rumoured to be heading off to the premiership in Jan? Thought I read something.......?

[KevC59]

It's going to be a battle from here on in,( when is it not!!), There are maybe some unexpected play off contenders coming to the fore at the moment, it's going to be vital that we get back to somewhere where we was in November which was a stellar month for us, there are so many factors in play with players who are fit etc, a win and a good showing against Bournemouth would get us back on track.
I really think that Stoke was a blip for us, and that game could have gone completely the other way for us and ended up 4 or 5-1 on another day the way the game went.
I guess we will know a lot more around 7pm on the 27th December, but it's not the be all and end all in our season ,long way to go yet, there will be more twists and turns for sure

[Shania]

Isnt one of Blackburn's star attacking players rumoured to be heading off to the premiership in Jan? Thought I read something.......?

Yepp, I read the same story.

[cross it Dave]

Is there an update on our walking wounded?

[KevC59]

Nothing much really coming out of the club at the moment

[72bus]

We looked jaded against Stoke . Beat Bournemouth and we back on track . Going To be lots of changes between here and may

[dave58]

Not playing probably not done us any good. only + maybe is that some of the walking wounded are fit Stoke was a poor performance, not sure how some may have recovered from the covid that's hit the club, didn't really think Bournemouth were that good, we played well against them, 2 very poor mistakes gave them the chance all over them 2nd half.

[Abseits]

The Stoke game was massive but we fluffed our lines I'm afraid. Both the automatic spots are up for grabs for several teams - just needs a team to string wins together. We need to beat Bournemouth in order to mount a charge but I don't see our current squad as having the resilience to win 4+ on the bounce, we seem to lack a driving leader on the pitch - a Shaun Derry or a Clint Hill character. As for the game itself, I cant see us keeping Cherries out for 90 mins, they look like they have a goal or two in them. This means I reckon we need to score 3 so somebody will need to have their shooting boots on. I'll predict a 5-goal thriller.

[Dono77]

When was the last time we drew 0-0?

[cross it Dave]

Sunderland in the League Cup, up till 90 minutes anyway.

[Ronnie Rangers]

The Stoke game was massive but we fluffed our lines I'm afraid. Both the automatic spots are up for grabs for several teams - just needs a team to string wins together. We need to beat Bournemouth in order to mount a charge but I don't see our current squad as having the resilience to win 4+ on the bounce, we seem to lack a driving leader on the pitch - a Shaun Derry or a Clint Hill character. As for the game itself, I cant see us keeping Cherries out for 90 mins, they look like they have a goal or two in them. This means I reckon we need to score 3 so somebody will need to have their shooting boots on. I'll predict a 5-goal thriller.

Hopefully thriller and back to winning ways, still have everything crossed, although it's doing me Driving no good (car) not a Golf man, that we will put an amazing run together, with a spell of form to make us salivate, Dreaming is free still at least.
Come on you Super Hoops.

[KevC59]

Didn't the Government ban dreaming? Sure I read that somewhere