Last weekend Eddie Howe past the six-year mark from when he and JT returned to the club for their second spell in management. One look at the tables today and to see only five clubs above Bournemouth in the whole pyramid system is quite something, considering Eddie and JT returned to a club struggling near the foot of League One in October 2012.
The games can't come fast enough at the moment. The international break might have interrupted the team's rhythm, but we know from the Burnley game that whenever their is a set back we tend to see a response in the next game. Southampton's point was unexpected and we could hear in the post-match interview of Steve Cook that it was a blow to the players that they hadn't taken all three points. In previous seasons AFCB would have been calling it progress to take a point off of the Saints. But such are the aspirations and targets that Eddie and JT set for the team that even 17 points from nine games can be considered very satisfactory, and yet might have done better! That is what I love about AFCB. They are always striving for more. Even when 0-4 up on Watford the players were trying to score more.
While only Simon Francis took to the field on Saturday as a survivor of the team that beat Tranmere six years ago, Marc Pugh and Charlie Daniels are still very much apart of the first team. We can reflect on the progress the club has made. The players though must look to the future and what can still be achieved. Who knows where AFCB will be six years on from this point? Whatever the future is, no one can take away from what AFCB and Eddie and Jason have done in the past. But I'm excited about the future, too.
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| Eddie Howe passed a six-year anniversary back at AFCB last weekend. |
Bournemouth won 3-1 against Tranmere Rovers on 20 October 2012 with goals from Harry Arter and Simon Francis, plus an own-goal for Tranmere, after a Marc Pugh free-kick sealing the win against a team that had been unbeaten and were top of the league. Upsetting the odds is something Eddie Howe has been doing ever since, but to be battling among the country's elite in the Premier League has given Bournemouth fans a real belief that they can stay in contention this season.
The games can't come fast enough at the moment. The international break might have interrupted the team's rhythm, but we know from the Burnley game that whenever their is a set back we tend to see a response in the next game. Southampton's point was unexpected and we could hear in the post-match interview of Steve Cook that it was a blow to the players that they hadn't taken all three points. In previous seasons AFCB would have been calling it progress to take a point off of the Saints. But such are the aspirations and targets that Eddie and JT set for the team that even 17 points from nine games can be considered very satisfactory, and yet might have done better! That is what I love about AFCB. They are always striving for more. Even when 0-4 up on Watford the players were trying to score more.
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While only Simon Francis took to the field on Saturday as a survivor of the team that beat Tranmere six years ago, Marc Pugh and Charlie Daniels are still very much apart of the first team. We can reflect on the progress the club has made. The players though must look to the future and what can still be achieved. Who knows where AFCB will be six years on from this point? Whatever the future is, no one can take away from what AFCB and Eddie and Jason have done in the past. But I'm excited about the future, too.
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