Stan Bowles match

Hi guys

As said earlier, I was also at the match, in the Upper loft. Not been up there for ages and loved it.

Great tribute to Stand Bowles, it did bring a tear to my eye seeing him taking a tour around the ground, and great respect from the Bournemouth fans.

It was a shame we only had 9,000 fans, for such a occasion you would have though more would have atteneded.

For the match, There was some nice bits, but like others have said - Goal threat from open play was poor, think we played better when Matt Smith and Washington came off. But lack of movement and urgeny in attacked stood out.

Scown looks good, really liked the way he put himself around the pitch.

Pavel is no Wingback, Perch played as a 3rd central defender in the first half, but Pavel is not a wingback.

Thought Robinson and Freeman linked up well, and they did put in a decent cross, but then Freemen seemed to wonder around the pitch and they did not link up so much, but that did look promising.

Perch - he scares me - though he did look better in the 2nd half when played more centeral and Lynch went off.

Robinson - He looks good in the first half, really put himself in the firing line and blocked loads of crosses, but in the 2nd half particularly he pulled out of a 50/50 when a loose ball fell towards him, he definitely pulled out of attacking it and noticed Holloway speaking to him afterwards.

Massimo - I am not sure what his role was, but I was not impressed with him, he had a few chances to launch a quick counter attack, and just wasted it.

smithie - Good Keeper, but boy his distribtuon was really poor. Even punting it towards Pavel who always missed it. The only time he did a good couple was for Freeman and Robinson, and a good ball in the second half. But I thought it was poor in general.

If Holloway wants to play 3 at the back - 1 we need more defenders as Matt Goss went in CB when he came on and I don't think that is his position - though he did nothing wrong there. But more worring we have no more cover. Also we need a proper Wingback, as I said Pavel is no wb.

We enjoyed the game, would have been nice to score a goal for Stan the Man, but think we will struggle this season.

oh I forgot to ask, I was a bit confused by Bournemouth.

I did not notice in the First half, but in the second half, when the Goalkeeper was doing goal kicks, both fullback where level to him, and as soon as he kicked it, they would then start running up the pitch.

Not noticed this kind of tactic before and found it a bit strange. Did anyone else notice this? or was I seeing things lol

Any other team doing this?

What is the purpose of it?