Cherry Chimes signing out!

Well, here we are. The final post on Cherry Chimes! I must say I have thoroughly enjoyed writing posts on AFC Bournemouth for the past eight years and it was a hard decision to stop. I have been able to consider departing, unlike Eddie Howe, who left quickly last August or Jason Tindall, who was quickly removed in February. My mind was really made up though when Eddie left the club, as the blog started with Eddie, which led to the Eddie Had A Dream book. I am lucky that I had the Disrupted Season (2019-20) book to promote in the last few months and that gave me a good reason to keep up to date with the happenings at AFCB, even though I didn't renew my season ticket this season.

I'm sure you'll still see me giving out the odd tweet about AFCB

My two boys have grown up and have either gone to University or started their career job and with them both having girlfriends, the weekends were looking very booked up for them. I still hope to make a visit to one or two away games next season, when COVID-19 has hopefully becomes more manageable.

I must give a huge thanks to the advertisers that have been on Cherry Chimes over the years. I couldn't have done as much without that financial support. So, a massive thanks to all of them who supported me. And of course a huge thanks to you the readers who have managed to read through my pieces and for many of the thank you emails I have received about Cherry Chimes stopping and how you feel you will miss it. I hope you don't miss it too much as my aim in starting the blog was to make AFC Bournemouth better known and to help the club see more coverage, and get more people wanting to be fans of the club. I think there are a good number of websites and podcasts now that really help to keep fans captivated on every bit of news about the club.

When we reached the Championship in 2013, the blog took a big step up and to reach the Premier League was amazing. It has been incredible to be writing on the Cherries during this period and I'll not forget the many enthusiastic comments when the club had great results in the past few years.

Now it is time for a new chapter. There will be a new manager again, after Jason Tindall, and I'll follow it all closely. We may even see AFCB get to a semi-final or final of a domestic cup competition, wouldn't that be something! I might have to come back for a day if the club did get to Wembley. My thoughts at the moment are just hoping that AFCB beat Nottingham Forest today.

I have my fingers-crossed that AFCB can still get promoted this season. It would be a great moment for the club to go back up. I think it would cement AFC Bournemouth as a real force in English football if it could then build a strong platform for the second time in the top tier. I am still hoping that one day there is a new stadium that I can get a season ticket for in my old age, but until then UTCIAD!

If you want to recap what Cherry Chimes has been all about, check out the Archive on the blog and pick your way through the posts from 2013. There are, of course, also two books for you to read from Cherry Chimes that are available on Amazon (see below). Fifty per cent of the author proceeds now go to Julia's House Children's Charity. And thank you for those who have already bought a copy of Eddie Had a Dream and/or the Disrupted Season (2019-20) – now £9.99 – a big thank you. You have helped give some children a much better life.

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Bournemouth had to make the change - but who is in next?

Jason Tindall's record probably doesn't sit too badly against some former AFCB managers who won't have had the chance to have managed in the Championship. But when the Chairman and owner told the fans before the season began that promotion was the goal, then Tndall had to fall on his sword with the promotion places slipping away and four defeats and one draw in the last five league matches.

Taking the manager's job is always a gamble
and it just didn't work out for Jason Tindall.

After 27 games, 11 wins and nine draws it is the seven defeats that have shot up in recent weeks that have seen the end of JT. The logic of sacking Jason now is probably not that great having just had a window and let him pick the players he wanted to come in. Arguably the decline could be seen at the end of December and Bournemouth should have acted then, but Jason's long history with the club probably gave him more time.

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Now the club must look forward. It has been a tumultuous last eight months with Eddie Howe and Jason going along with many senior players. The club needs a new standard to get behind and an inspirational manager. I know that Johnathan Woodgate, as interim manager, is in the prime position to take the role, but I don't see that as lighting the excitement flame with the players and fans. It's the steady option that won't cost a fortune, so Woodgate is rightly favourite to move things on.

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I'd like an expressive and progressive manager. Frank Lampard has been linked but his wage bill is going to be high and his aspirations are no doubt much higher than seeing AFCB return to the Premier League. He has good recent experience though with Derby in this league and I think he would inspire people at the club with fresh ideas, but he'd also bring the media circus with him as would John Terry.

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There will be some who will hark back to Eddie Howe and another return but Bournemouth need a fresh face now and a real desire to win games. I hope board looks carefully at up-and-coming managers perhaps in the Championship or League One. Too often the club looks internally to make appointments and this is a chance to shale things up. I also think Slaven Bilic would ruffle a few people and get the players working hard, but the style of football might be less than desirable for the fans. Gary Monk could be a safe pair of hands who plays more attractive football, but like Tindall he might just be too nice a guy for a team that probably needs a few truthful words said to the players in their 'overly quiet' dressing room. It's a shame Chris Houghton joined Forest in the autumn, I think he is the kind of manager that would have worked well at Bournemouth.

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Can we expect Howe back in management in January?

Bournemouth's previous manager must be getting itchy fingers and feet by now. Eddie Howe left AFCB last August and while he has done a spot of punditry he has kept himself pretty much out of the picture for future jobs. But with January approaching and opportunities popping up all over the place, I think we can expect to see Eddie Howe back in football in 2021 and perhaps even as soon as in the next few weeks.

Will we see Eddie back in football very soon?

What we don't know is at what level Eddie would look to come back into the game. He loves working with youth more than anything so clubs with young squads are likely to be high up on his list as well as a strong family club. Looking at the struggling teams in the Premier League we can expect teams like Fulham, Sheffield United, Brighton and WBA candidates for managerial changes if the picture doesn't improve for these clubs. 

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My guess is that Eddie would want to manage a club that is perhaps bigger side than AFCB at least in the way of a fanbase. In that respect, he has potential interest from Newcastle United, or at least their fans. But he may even see a slight chance of getting in the frame for the job at Arsenal if Arteta can't turn things around at the London club. That might be too big a shift up though for Howe and he may be attracted to a club like Crystal Palace who he has turned down before but might feel the time is right now, as Roy Hodgson can't afford too many more heavy defeats.

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There are big clubs though that Howe could look at that would give AFCB fans more immediate concern. He could at the Championship sides that are up against it like Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest, or Derby if Wayne Rooney does not work out. I don't think the Championship or League One would worry Howe if he had a big club to manage with the capability to win promotion. 

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If we look at the players and connections Eddie Howe might have at clubs, I'd put Sheffield United up there as a really strong potential. Lys Mousset and Aaron Ramsdale may have thought they had seen the last of Eddie but a link up there would not be that surprising. There are a good number of players now-former AFCB players at Nottingham Forest with Harry Arter, Lewis Grabbon and Lyle Taylor on the books. Eddie came back to Bournemouth to be reunited with players and I can see him liking the opportunity to work with players he has already done a lot with who can help pass on his ideas.

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Of course, Eddie Howe probably doesn't have to work. he could walk away from football having achieved a great deal. But Eddie is a person who always wants to improve day on day and I still think he could one day get a national club job, such as the England manager. But he has to get back into the game to achieve that, so I am not expecting his phone to stay quiet for long.

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Has Asmir proved he is Premier League class?

The return to form of Asmir Begovic has been quite miraculous. When he has gone out on loan in Azerbaijan, I never expected him to return to play another game for the Cherries. He was a flat as he could have been, and had perhaps fallen out of love with the game. But his time in Azerbaijan and at AC Milan turned his fortunes around, and under Jason Tondall he has just kept improving.

Begovic is back to his best

To do well in any league you need a top-quality keeper. The experience that Begovic has is really second to none in the Championship, and at his best he is surely good enough to be the top Championship keeper. The question is would he be good enough to play in the Premier League next season if Bournemouth did win back promotion? I think he would start games, but Bournemouth may need some extra cover in that position. While Bournemouth have had a conveyor belt of keepers in recent years, the age of Begovic is on the higher side and they'll need to give Mark Travers more game time at some point if they are to keep his interest at AFCB.

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Begovic doesn't seem ready to hand over the shirt just now though. He has been playing as if his life depended on it to keep clean sheets and keep Bournemouth in games. He has put himself in the frame to be a strong candidate for player of the season, and perhaps his calming influence has been good for the younger players at the club who know they have a reliable keeper behind them at the back.

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What the future holds for Begovic is really what he makes of it from what I see. He could go on to win many more starts for the Cherries, but he has to stay consistent. That is what he lost under Eddie Howe, but he has a second opportunity now and is looking to make the most of it.

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Did Eddie Howe misjudge Asmir Begovic?

When you watch Asmir Begovic this season you do wonder why he went so out of favour during Eddie Howe's time at AFCB. I am not sure if Asmir was the main reason Bournemouth conceded a lot of goals in 2018-19 as Bournemouth were consistently doing that during their time in the Premier League when Artur Boruc and Aaron Ramsdale were in goal. At the time, I was in favour of Howe making a change in goal, but now Asmir looks dedicated and full of concentration to be as good as he can between the sticks. What's changed?

Asmir lost form under Eddie Howe but he has managed to refind his skill between the sticks.

I don't think this is simply because of the managerial change that Asmir is playing better, although it might have helped him get more of an opportunity. The thing that I believe has helped him is being away, first of all in Azerbaijan for Qarabang, where he could play and get back to enjoying the game, and then by getting a fantastic loan move to AC Milan which must have seemed like a dream coming true to play in the San Siro. What's not to like?

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Once he started to play well and feel that he was making a difference to a team, he got his mojo back and while he didn't start the first game this season for AFCB, he didn't waste any time in wrestling away the jersey and securing his place in the team. Begovic was among the players nominated for player of the month in October, and he is playing as well now as he ever has for AFCB. He needs to have a target for clean sheets, and if he can get into the high teens for clean sheets then he may well play an important part n AFCB's promotion push.

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I think it is hard for Begovic in that he has Marc Travers pushing him and Will Dennis, but he is the senior keeper and will feel that he can be the only one that can put real pressure on himself. He will perhaps be thinking ahead to whether he could play for Bournemouth in the Premier League again. He should have two or three good years left at the highest level, but will he win over the fans and manager over enough to be considered AFCB's number one for the next two years? I still think he may find Bournemouth will want to strengthen in goal, if they go up, considering how they shipped so many goals in the top league last season and that was with a goalkeeper who is probably going to be one of the best new keepers in the country.

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What I can say is I have been impressed by the way Begovic has come back and proved lots of people wrong. He has done himself proud.

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Are Bournemouth in good enough shape to attack the Championship now?

Bournemouth have played 11 games in the Championship and are now well acquainted with the relative standard of the Championship again. While an automatic return to the Premier League is everyone's hope, can Bournemouth consider the first 11 games as a good platform to press on or should they be concerned with how some of the games have gone?

AFCB are in the right area to make a charge at 
the Championship's automatic promotion places.

I think it is easy for us as fans to think not much has changed at AFCB since Eddie Howe's departure. After, a lot if not all the routines and framework of the club have been build by Eddie Howe's time at the club. But Jason Tndall is not Eddie Howe and he has his own ideas on how he can get more from the players. Taking the club back to the next level though is not as simple as carrying on as if Eddie was still there, and his legacy is all around the club. I think that is not necessarily a bad thing. Eddie's time was successful and it should inspire people at the club to try and do even better.

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Getting back to the Premier League at the moment is probably Bournemouth's best chance of doing it. It will only get harder in future seasons if it is not accomplished now. But the Cherries can only be competitive at the moment, which they have managed and to keep in the race for automatic promotion. The challenge ahead is to be more consistent and to play better and better football which other teams can't live with. There appears to still be enough quality in the squad to win most games at this level, but if the first 11 games have taught us anything it is that it is possible to get stuck in drawing games, and that while Bournemouth might not lose too many games they have to find ways to break teams down with more success.

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I believe the team now know where they have been falling short and against Birmingham City the layers actually had fun out there. That is what they really need to feel. Once the players get those smiles back on their faces they can get control of the Championship. Coming back from two weeks away for some of the squad is going to be hard, but they have to focus on the job of winning games. In away I'm glad that it is Reading in the next game as that will be seen as a real test and should get the players up for an exciting game next weekend.

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Will Eddie Howe look at the vacant Sheffield Wednesday position?

Yorkshire Live has stated that Eddie Howe along with Tony Pulis, Paul Cook and Nigel Pearson are among the front runners for the vacant position after Gary Monk was sacked on Monday after being in the job for a year. Bournemouth fans haven't heard a lot about Eddie Howe since it went so wrong for him last season, and his statement to leave the club, but he is a manager that lives to work and he may just fancy a job that is not under quite as much scrutiny as the Premier League.

Eddie How could already be in demand again.

Eddie Howe is a man who likes to test himself. He throws himself whole-heartedly into his work and so when he commits, he really puts everything he can into his work to get a club moving in the right direction. Sheffield Wednesday is a sleeping giant that has a big fan base and they are starved of success with the other half of Sheffield seeing Premier League football. I imagine it would be a good test for Howe if he felt that he had been away from the game for long enough, but there are likely to be other jobs coming up soon.

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If Eddie wants to remain in football and a manager of a Premier League side he might not get much choice, and would need to pick up one of the floundering clubs if for instance Fulham, Sheffield United, Brighton, Burnley or WBA came under more pressure. A return to Burnley might be a bit too painful for him and with the task of turning around a club that is already unprepared for the Premier League, Howe might decide that a job like the Sheffield Wednesday one is a more comfortable way back in. If he could stabilise the Yorkshire club this year and go for promotion in 2021-22, I say it was a pretty good fit. However, when you consider Gay Monk was sacked after accumulating four points from his last two games, having lost the three before that, it is hard to see the board at Sheffield Wednesday as anything less than highly demanding when he might have just been turning things around. Perhaps the style of football is something that Monk couldn't deliver.

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My doubts are about whether Eddie really is that keen on managing another club having left Bournemouth and having little to prove. If he wants to enjoy his young family, taking on another pressurised football job is not going to be high on his agenda. But if he wants to stay in football he can't decline too many opportunities, because managers can soon be declared unemployable when they have drifted out of the game.

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I think the job Eddie Howe picks will have to be a challenge that he thinks will test him, but that has good prospects with young players and the chance to build a good side. Whether that is Sheffield Wednesday we will have to wait and see.

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An extract from The Disrupted Season: Eddie Howe needed a remedy

As it is the international break, Cherry Chimes is going to release a series of extracts from the new book release - The Disrupted Season 2019-20. The aim is just to give a little flavour of how the book covers the season, moving from one game to another and month to month as Bournemouth looked to stave off relegation from the Premier League. This first exert comes just after the defeat at home against Leicester City and the start of the international break in September last year.

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The team was also leaking goals and a remedy was needed. But how would Eddie Howe find a remedy with most of his first-choice players at the back, needing time in the treatment centre?
       ‘The holes in the team are starting to show. Eddie Howe keeps shuffling the pack, but as soon as he does, another player picks up an injury. Yet, we are only just a month into the new season, and teams that get a lot of injuries usually struggle to pick up points. We are starting to see that scenario at Bournemouth. It does seem unfair that wherever Howe looks to strengthen his team, he finds that injuries pop up in places where he least needs them. Last season it was in central midfield and now it is in defence, where it is worse when players drop out of the team, as the whole solidity of the side comes under pressure.
       ‘If Bournemouth were a blanket, it would be looking more like a patchwork quilt at the moment, but the problem is that quilt doesn't cover the pitch very well.’
       I was wondering where Eddie Howe would find the positivity to take the team forward. ‘The need to see Lewis Cook and perhaps Junior Stanislas putting on their shirts again is something that Bournemouth fans might not have felt was that pressing at the start of August, but the team needs a bit of quality and new energy and these two players just might provide some of that.’ 
      We all knew what Howe needed but would the players return quickly? ‘If Howe can get a couple of players back though by the end of the international break, and I include Simon Francis in that, then the mood in the camp might well pick up as might the results,’ I commented. 

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Looking back, it does seem that even in September that fans were looking for a pick me up, or at least Cherry Chimes' hoped that the return of a few players for injury wold see a new surge in form. The importance of injuries and recovering from them was never made more clear than last season for AFCB and let's hope the team does better in that department in 2020-21.

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To order your copy of The Disrupted Season (2019-20) in paperback for £11.49 click on the link here. I have decided to support Julia's House Children's Hospice again by donating 15% of my author's earnings to the charity, so AFCB fans will be supporting the Charity to which Eddie Howe is a patron if they buy the book.

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There is also an ebook version of The Disrupted Season (2019-20) which has a final chapter giving the match stats rather than a player index, which is found in the paperback version, The ebook also has live links to the Cherry Chimes blog. Of course, you will receive the ebook instantly when you order it and it can be read on a laptop or mobile phone – it is available to download here for just £9.99.

In other news, with the transfer window about to shut AFCB has been linked with a bid for QPR winger Bright Osayi-Samuel.

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The Disrupted Season (2019-20) - out next month

If you find it hard to believe the last season of football for AFC Bournemouth you will soon be able to read over it in some finer detail to see how things unfolded. The Disrupted Season (2019-20) captures events as they were happening, as I followed the Cherries through the optimistic first few months and then tried to puzzle out where things were going wrong, as the results started to slide away from the Cherries. Little did we know that COVID-19 would stop the Premier League and that Bournemouth would have a massive fight for survival with a dramatic last nine games.

The ebook is price at £9.99 and
has direct web links to Cherry Chimes.

My second AFC Bournemouth book will be released as an ebook for £9.99 on 12 September on Amazon and it will be in paperback format later in the month. I'll soon be providing links to where you can get hold of the book and will be sharing some of the text to give you more of an idea of what is inside.

Like The Eddie Had A Dream book, I'll be donating 15 per cent of the earnings to the Julia's House Children's Charity for which Eddie Howe is the patron.

When I started writing the book I didn't expect it to be Eddie Howe's last season at AFC Bournemouth. I'd hoped it would be a great season with Bournemouth pushing towards a European place or at least on the verge of the top 10. Fearing the worst was always in the background of the games as they were being played out, and it taught me that as fans we do everything we can to instinctively try and hold on to anything that might turn results around.

There were still plenty of high moments for me during the season, and I'll remember 2019-20 for being a very strange season more than anything else with the impact of COVID-19. There were a lot of arguments over whether the season should even have been completed behind closed doors. Picking over the non-football months were some of the most challenging chapters to write, but this extended season was unique for all of us and my aim was to capture the tensions and sense of hope that things would work out okay.

Bournemouth fans soon found that every game became bigger and bigger towards the end. The pressure on Eddie Howe was felt by all Bournemouth supporters and however raw emotions were on 26 July 2020 when the season ended, I hope the book makes fans look back on the season and feel it was an important season to be recorded.

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I hope you enjoy the book. It gives fans a quick visual picture of the recent past Premier League games. I am sure we will compare last season to this new 2020/21 season and we will surely make comparisons between Jason Tindall's management and Eddie Howe's last year, no matter how hard we try not to. It will also put supporters back at Dean Court and remembering visits to some great football grounds in the country which we have enjoyed over the last five years.

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The main thing is we should be proud of our history and what the club has achieved. A fifth year in the Premier League was just another remarkable rollercoaster season for AFCB fans. We shouldn't forget those days.

You can read more about the new book release here on the blog. Look out for more links to the new book in the next few weeks on Cherry Chimes.

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What is Howe's legacy at AFCB?

Kris Temple asked what was AFC Bournemouth's legacy having left the Premier League after the last game at Everton, but now we have an even bigger question of what has been Eddie Howe's legacy after nearly 26 years at the club. He leaves, of course, with the club in a much better place than when he joined as a YTS trainee or as a manager for the first time, but have we learned any lessons from Eddie's time at the helm?

Eddie Howe won three promotions at AFCB and kept them in the top flight for five seasons.

While materially the club might not look any different from the outside, it's reputation is significantly enhanced. Go anywhere in the world now and if they like football they'll know about AFC Bournemouth and Eddie Howe. Eddie was the great story though behind the club and people signed up to that not only for the way the team played, but because of the man. He remains ever young and has an ability to motivate and achieve. There aren't many coaches that can inspire the way Eddie Howe has done over the years and now we will see how priceless he has been.

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If anything Eddie's legacy is to all the other lower league clubs, who have aspirations to get to the Premier League - it can be done. Young managers can also succeed in this business if they are given the opportunity. But managers like players come and go.

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For AFC Bournemouth, we may have just lived through the best years that the club may have ever. There might not be a return to the top flight and it could soon languish in the lower divisions again. All we would be left with is the memories. But without another catalyst for success, the odds are not in favour for a quick return for AFCB to the Premier League, now that Eddie Howe has departed. The stability needs to be rebuilt and it will need a special person to do that or may be several people over the next few seasons.

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Eddie's legacy is for us all to try and do better, every day in whatever we do. If we all take that on board then we can smile whenever we think about the Eddie Howe years. It may not be a time that is remembered in bricks and mortar, but we got to the Premier League and we thrived when we were there. Enjoy the past and embrace the future. We know there won't be anyone as good as Eddie Howe, but at least we have had some of the best times and we thank Eddie for that.

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Cherry Chimes will release a new book on Eddie Howe's final season at the Cherries this September/October - keep an eye on this blog for more news about the Disrupted Season 2019-20.

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Could JT and Purches take AFCB's story forward?

With the departure of Eddie Howe still is a raw reminder of how swiftly things can change n football, I wondered if Jason Tindall could become more than a caretaker manager of Bournemouth, perhaps with the support of Stephen Purches as his assistant manager? Jason has been at Eddie's side all the way through since 2008 and it is interesting that he has stayed on when Edie decided to call it a day.

Has Tindall got a different message to get the players performing better?

Jason knows the club inside out and there are a lot of former players at the club serving on the staff such as Stephen Purches and Steve Fletcher that know inside out how Eddie Howe worked with the team. They know the situation with the first team and being on the inside they know a lot of the difficulties that Eddie will have been working to improve over the last few years. If Bournemouth's directors want continuity, this is surely where they have to go.

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The fact that the team is now in the Championship takes the spotlight off the manager a little more than if the club had been in the Premier League. But, results will matter and the board will have to work out if Jason Tindall is capable of getting results. They also nee dto consider if there are better options out there who are interested in the job. Jason is the 4/7 on favourite for the position now and it is clear that the club has had an awful lot of turmoil in the past week, so it may be sensible to stop the hurt by appointing Tindall sooner rather than later.

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Most of the other contenders from outside the club are at long odds wth Chris Houghton leading the rest of the pack at 6-1. Bournemouth don't look like a big enough club for Pochettino and there aren't many star names, John Terry apart, who are in the top five or six names.

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My only worry is that if Tindall is the new manager, will he be his own man? Would we be simply be getting more of the same with Eddie Howe's philosophy? That could be a good thing if we consider the success that Eddie brought the club, but the last season has seen Jason Tindall go through the same run of results as Eddie and he will have done all he could to try and change that sequence while at Eddie's side without any success.

So, I hope the board think very carefully about the next appointment. Bournemouth fans need a feel good factor. It is a shame that Tommy Elphick isn't looking at manager yet as I think Bournemouth need a character with that kind of leadership and positivity to shake things up after the Eddie Howe era.

In other news, Artur Boruc rejoins Legie Warsaw.

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