Tuesday, 22 December 2020

It's a Boxing Day wipeout for the Cherries

Checking up on the official AFCB website yesterday, I was gutted to see that the match against Millwall has been postponed due to COVID-19 illness in the Millwall squad. Let's hope those players recover quickly. But it's a pretty rotten Christmas for everyone with Tier 4 in many places and now no football for the Cherries until 30 December 2020 when AFCB take on Brentford.

AFCB have to wait until the end of the month for their next game.

So, we have just one game left this calendar year. It has been quite a year with relegation, managerial change, a strong start to the Championship and COVID-19 making everything very difficult for everyone. I suppose 2020 will be remembered for sure, but it has been less than satisfactory for football supporters.

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Even with supporters getting back to games in some capacity, the match day experience is hardly normal. yet. I wonder if 2021 will be much better? 

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For Jason Tindall and AFCB the problem will be of keeping players tuned on during the Christmas period. It is probably the first year that many of the players will be able to spend Christmas and Boxing Day with their immediate families, if Tindall allows it. Perhaps they will have to train on Boxing Day but Christmas Day could surely be free in their calendars. I suppose that is at least some consolation for some Bournemouth players. But they will have to be fully ready for the Brentford match which should be very competitive with both teams in the top four. 

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Building some momentum is what will be needed. Bournemouth have been doing okay at home, but having scored so many goals against Huddersfield has seen the team then struggle against Wycombe and Luton and it is better to win games by a small margin than to have a big win and then a dearth of goals. 

Preparations for the January will now take precedence I would think. We might not see too much movement in but there are a few players that Jason Tindall will now have to fight really hard for to keep at AFCB. It has been made a little easier by the fact that Bournemouth are in a good position for a possible promotion, but Premier League sides that are not in danger of the drop will be tempting prizes for a few of AFCB's players.

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