90th minute Sheffield Wednesday winner heaps more misery on the Cherries

Match Report

AFCB 1 v 2 Sheffield Wednesday

3 February 2021

AFCB have lost their way - a managerial change coming soon?

Bournemouth are still finding it hard to put away opposition in the bottom half of the table. They found Sheffield Wednesday in sharpshooting mood and Begovic had to make a few saves before the mistake by Mepham let them in for their goal. Tindall was clearly not happy with the team and replaced three players at half-time. Wednesday continued to fashion chances but it was the quickness of Surridge that led to the penalty and Stanislas put away his ninth goal of the season from the spot. It looked like the Cherries might go on to win the game from there but a break in the last minute of normal time saw Jordan Rhodes head Sheffield Wednesday in front again. This defeat is going to see some soul searching. It will have drained the players and if they were low before the game, they will need something special to pick them up now. I'm afraid we may be saying goodbye to Jason Tindall very soon.


UPDATE: This morning Jason Tindall has indeed been sacked by the board at AFCB.

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Bournemouth gave a first start to Jack Wilshere since his new contract and Lloyd Kelly returned from injury and Junior Stanislas was also given a starting place. Ben Pearson was on the bench after signing for Bournemouth in the January window.

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Match Description
The Cherries got an early warning of their need to defend their box well in the first few minutes as Elias Kachunga found himself clear in the box with only Begovic to beat. Luckily the Sheffield Wednesday player slipped and hit his shot at Begovic.

Lewis Cook was looking most likely to create something with Solanke trying to get past the last man, but Soanke didn't time his run well enough to be onside.

Bournemouth's loss of possession saw Sheffield Wednesday counter and Barry Bannan's shot from outside the box brings out the best in Begovic with a superb save to keep the game goalless. Calum Patterson then blazed wide following the corner.

The Cherries finally won a corner after 23 minutes. Kelly got in behind and his pul back to Danjuma saw a deflected shot go for a corner.

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Adam Reach then went close with a shot from distance that Begovic saves. Stacey plays a good pass to Brooks who cuts inside but he's fired just wide.

A mistake at the back and Callum Paterson has scored for Sheffield Wednesday. Mepham passed it straight to the Sheffield Wednesday player instead of finding Begovic. A costly slip.

Brooks fires wide again, before the half closes with Bournemouth trailing 0-1.

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Second half
Lerma, Smith and Surridge replace Wilshere, Stacey and Solanke. Kelly and Danjuma link well Before Brooks fires over at the near post.

Paterson them comes off for Jordan Rhodes to come on. Sheffield Wednesday force another corner. and Tom Lees heads wide.  Rhodes heads on to matt Penny, but the shot is high and wide.

Bournemouth force a couple of corners, but nothing is happening for them in front of goal. Adam Smith plays a ball through to Surridge and he goes down - penalty! Stanislas makes it 1-1 on 66 minutes.

Josh Windass replaces Kachunga. Lewis Cook has a shot saved. Lerma heads wide after a cross from Danjuma. Mepham plays a long ball and Brooks has a shot saved. It's all Bournemouth now.

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Dunkley replaces Urhoghide, Harris is on for Palmer and Luongo comes on for Pelupessy on 79 minutes. Dunkley brings down Surridge when he was through, but it's only a yellow card. Stanislas goes close with a 30 yard Drive that Westwood saves.

Riquelme is on for Stanislas. Kadeem Harris gets down the wing and Spurs in a cross to the far post where Rhodes has made it 1-2 t the visitors on 90 minutes. Lerma has a chance but it's saved by Westwood for a corner.

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Summary
Another home defeat for the Cherries and to the second bottom team. Wednesday have done the double over Tindall and with two different managers. This defeat will hurt more than the first one and while Bournemouth made changes they still made mistakes and got punished. I suppose the team is lucky they haven't got a crowd watching them in the stadium. They just can't put a performance together and you have to ask why not by now? Tindall has to come up with some answers if he is given the chance to. It's just not going to happen if the team continues to drop points like this. Losing a game in the 90th minute make sit all the more harder to swallow. We may be looking for a new manager this week as the pre-season target of promotion is looking more distant than ever.

AFCB Subs: Dennis, Smith, Rico, Carter-Vickers,
Lerma, Pearson, Billing, Riquelme, Surridge.

Sheffield Wednesday: 1 Westwood, 2 Palmer (Harris 79), 6 Hutchinson, 15 Lees,
19 Urhoghide (Dunkley 79), 14 Penney, 10 Bannan, 8 Pelupessy (Luongo 79), 11Reach, 5 Paterson (Rhodes 55), 45 Kachunga, (Josh Windas 67)

Sheffield Wednesday Subs: 7 K Harris, 13 Börner, 16 Green, 17 Dele-Bashiru, 18 Windass, 20 Rhodes, 21 Luongo, 23 Dunkley, 28 Wildsmith

UPDATE: This morning Jason Tindall has indeed been sacked by the board at AFCB.

Sheffield Wednesday are in the bottom three but it's Bournemouth's form that is dire

Bournemouth will need to find away to get back to winning games. It has been a shocking run of results in January that has put Bournemouth on the verge of falling out of the play-off places having been in an automatic promotion place in December. A change of face and voice may be a help on the training pitches as Graeme Jones' position has been taken up by Jonathan Woodgate.

AFCB desperately need a win - will it come tonight?

Sheffield Wednesday are just the sort of team likely to be a problem for the Cherries. They have already beaten Tindall's team at Hillsbrough back in November 1-0 and the odds of them doing the double should not be that large. The Owls have won three of their last five games losing just one, but their points have come from home matches. On the road they are suffering more than Bournemouth with one point from their last five games.

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Bournemouth in comparison have hit rock-bottom in their form. Even at home they have just picked up one point from their last two games. The goals have also been in short supply with just two goals in their last four league matches. Tindall can't afford to be afraid of making changes now. Bournemouth have been floundering. He has to pick a side that is going to work hard and generate far more chances than of late.

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It is likely that Ben Pearson will get a debut at some point during the game against Sheffield Wednesday, but Jack Wilshere may be thrown straight in at the start. I'd like to see him paired with Lewis Cook but Tindall may prefer a bit more height in the team, so Lerma will likely be kept in the side. I'm expecting Junior Stanislas to start having scored last game. It's perhaps time for David Brooks to rest for a game. Bournemouth need players that are hungry for a win. I still feel Surridge has been underused and yet I expect it will be just Solanke upfront with two wingers in support. Well, that was my feeling until last night when Shane Long was signed from Southampton on loan.

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What Tindall does at the back is also up for grabs now. I have a feeling that things will stay the same though as the back four in the last game. Steve Cook seems undroppable, but with Mepham and Carter-Vickers available, it is still likely to be Mepham that gets the nod to join the captain. I'd like to see Jack Stacey also start again on the right ahead of Adam Smith. On the left side it has to be Rico and Bournemouth need him to find his crossing form that was once so good.

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Bournemouth's Home Form
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Sheffield Wednesday's Away Form
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Possible AFCB lineup

AFCB Subs: Dennis, Smith, Carter-Vickers, Pearson,
Brooks, Riquelme, Billing, Surridge, Long

In other news, Nnamdi Ofoborh has joined Wycome Wanderers on loan for teh rest of the season. Jack Simpson has joined Rangers on a permanent deal, Josh King has completed his long goodbye by joining Everton for £5m and Shane Long has joined Bournemouth on loan until the summer from Southampton.

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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Was Steve Cook unlucky to be sent off at Sheffield Wednesday?

I keep watching back the challenge that Steve Cook made on Josh Windass of Sheffield Wednesday to see whether it should really have been a penalty or not. The decision could easily have gone either way, but referees are primed to give attackers the advantage when they have a clear sight of goal and I can see why the penalty was given, even if I think it was unlucky for Steve Cook to be sent off.

Steve Cook is punished but rightly feels unlucky to be sent off

The way that Cook used his shoulder to try and put pressure on the attacker was not clumsy it was calculated to nudge Windass sufficiently enough that he would gain control of the ball. A shoulder charge anywhere else on the pitch I would argue would be unlikely to see a foul called. But when an attacker goes down when he had looked favourite to score, it is going to give the referee a decision to make and if he judges there was excessive contact and the attacker has not dived he will point to the spot. Personally, I thought the decision was harsh as Cook used his shoulder. But that is football.

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Steve Cook will be annoyed with himself even if he looked disbelieving when he was sent off. Had the decision been the other way around I am sure our fans would have been baying for the penalty. I am not sure we would have been demanding that the defender be sent off though. The referee seemed a bit card happy in the number of cards he produced on the night, but I was expecting a red card for two yellow card offences, not a straight red for what was considered a professional foul. The irony of the issue is that VAR might have saved Cook in the Premier League, but there's none of that in the Championship.

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So, I would say Cook was unlucky to be sent off. The attacker made the most of it but it was an annoying way to give one side the advantage in the game. The real worry for Tindall though should be how come Windass could make that run and our defenders look so flat-footed and behind the play, which gave Windass a couple of yards on the defenders enabling him to beat Begovic and potentially score? Bournemouth need to solve that problem in upcoming games rather than dwell too long on the actual foul as it was called. Steve Cook wouldn't have had to make such a challenge in the box if he had been more aware of Windass' run.

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The defeat was coming

Jason Tindall was rightly annoyed by the performance of his team against Sheffield Wednesday but he used very strong words that didn't hide his annoyance.  By saying that "One team was fighting for their lives here tonight, and I think there was another team that turned up here tonight that tough their ability would be enough to win the game and I think that is the lesson we have got to learn from today," Tindall was making no doubt that the players need to step up their game.

Bournemouth look to have misplaced confidence going into games.

Bournemouth have been starting slowly in far too many games and it happened again against Sheffield Wednesday. The team is being too casual and not showing the hunger that has driven the team before. Bournemouth need that terrier hunger that we used to see from players like Harry Arter, and while the players at the club are arguably of a higher standard now, they haven't been showing the full package which needs a desire and work ethic to win games.

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Jason Tindall was consistent in making late changes to the team in the second half but there wasn't enough intensity about Bournemouth's play to get them a goal. While Sheffield Wednesday found it easy to play the ball in behind Bournemouth's defenders there was little attempt to remedy the problem and that is ultimately what led to the goal. Winning second balls should be some of the basics of the game, but Bournemouth's players are far too relaxed about it.

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The defeat was coming and it has been on the cards for the last three or four games. But the players couldn't react this time. That is what is ranking fans I think. We could all see it despite the unbeaten run. Bournemouth have been found out. They are not fully at it. Playing with calmness is more a case of overconfidence.

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Jason Tindall can say it is not his strongest side, but the fans know it was just about the strongest side he could put out. There are no major injuries. The players are just short of being mac sharp for whatever reason. The question is will Tindall's words have any impact on the players and will we see a better performance at Birmingham? Now Tindall has the option of starting Rodrigo Riquelme and even Cameron Carter-Vickers. The defeat could be a blessing in disguise - Bournemouth don't need passengers.

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10-man Bournemouth run out of saviours at Sheffield Wednesday

The Cherries failed to excite in this game and went down to 10-men when Steve Cook misjudged an attempt to get back to Josh Windass and put him off from putting Sheffield Wednesday ahead. With Barry Bannan scoring from the penalty Bournemouth tried reshuffling the deck, but this time there were no late saviours. Sheffield Wednesday also went down to 10-men as well in the last few minutes, but Bournemouth couldn't find a leveller for the scorebaord.

Steve Cook gets his marching orders.

Bournemouth were at full strength to take on Sheffield Wednesday. In came Josh King, Dan Gosling, David Brooks and Jefferson Lerma. Dominic Solanke, Lewis Cook and Junior Stanislas moved to the bench, while Philip Billing didn't make the squad.

Match description
Bournemouth attack from the off and win a corner. Lloyd Kelly has to concede a corner to Sheffield Wednesday at the other end. Steve Cook heads clear and Danjuma attacks.

Lerma through to Brooks and he has a shot that goes wide of the post. Kachunga does well and crosses but Chris Mepham clears. Steve Cok blocks well.

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Begovic concedes another corner. Rico is fouled by Kachunga who receives a yellow card. Adam Smith concedes a corner. Bannan crosses but Börner heads wide.

Plenty of early pressure from the home side. Bournemouth need to get more control. Gosling fouls Odubajo on the right-wing. It's pretty even in terms of possession so far. Bannan takes the free kick and Begovic just does enough as Liam Palmer heads wide.

Pelupessy has fouled David Brooks. Josh Windass shoots inside the box and Begovic saves. Danjuma is fouled before Bournemouth win a corner. Adam Smith fouls Windass.

Kachunga, already on a yellow, is living dangerously fouling Lerma. Lerma does well in midfield but can't get the ball to King.

Brooks does well to find Danjuma, but the Dutchman slips when he was just about to put Gosling through. Kachunga misses a header near the centre of the box. Gosling has won a free kick.

Sheffield Wednesday break but Windass is offside. Kelly fouls Kachunga. Lerma has fouled Pelupessy and is booked. Windass shoots from the direct free kick and misses the goal. Bournemouth win a corner off of Iorfa. Five minutes to half-time. Another poof first 45-minutes by AFCB. Mepham has put his headed effort wide from the corner. A shot of any kind is a rarity from AFCB this half.

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Pelupessy is carded for a foul on Lerma. Plamer has now got a yellow card as he takes out Brooks who was heading to goal. Two minutes of added time. Rico shoots wide from outside the box.

Danjuma takes aim and his dipping shot is tipped over for a corner.

AFCB possession 60%, shots 7, shots on target 1, corner 4, fouls 6
Sheffield Weds possession 40%, shots 6, shots on target 0, corners 3, fouls 11.

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Second half
Kachunga still hasn't stopped his fouling as he catches Mepham. Brooks and Danjuma are linking well. Smith gets the ball to King in the box, the cross is hit hard and Rico can't quite get to it at the far post.

Josh King is getting on the ball. He finds Brooks but the shot is blocked. Börner concedes a corner. Lerma heads it past the left post. Bournemouth are gettng closer.

Sheffield Wednesday's corner and Kachinga heads across the box but there's no Wednesday player around. Palmer goes close with a shot in the box but it goes wide.

Adam Smith crosses and Josh King heads wide. Rico is fouled by Odubajo. Börner is carded for a foul on King. Lerma fouls Palmer.

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Adam Smith wins a free kick and Danjuma's shot is deflected for a corner. Bournemouth have most of the possession but this game is in the balance.

Bournemouth substitute Brooks and on comes Solanke on 67 minutes. Windass is in the box against Begovic and should score but Steve Cook intervenes, Windass is down and Sheffield Wednesday have a penalty. Steve Cook has been sent off. Wednesday go 1-0 up after Barry Bannan scores from the spot on 71 minutes.

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Lewis Cook comes on for Danjuma and fouls Kachunga. King almost gets through but Palmer defends well. Wildsmith parries the corner and Gosling misses the chance to stick it home in the six yard box.

Paterson replaces Kachunga and Stacey replaces Rico on 80 minutes. Brown replaces Reach on 84 minutes. Adam Smith has fouled Pelupessy. Paterson's shot is saved. Bournemouth break and Kelly wins a free kick. Mepham misses with a header.

Marriott comes on for Windass. Six minutes of added time. Kadeem Harris is red carded for a foul on Lerma. It's 10 v 10 but times has almost run out.

Lewis Cook crosses and Gosling heads well but it's saved. Lerma fouls Paterson. 

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Summary
Well the unbeaten record goes which was perhaps becoming a burden. Bournemouth didn't start well again and the flat first half wasn't so easy for Tindall to turnaround this time. Bournemouth held most of the possession, but the shooting was wayward and with Steve Cook unlucky to be sent off Begovic couldn't save the penalty. It was a poor night and many of the players will be disappointed with their performances.

AFCB line-up

AFCB Subs: Travers, Stacey, Simpson. L Cook, Riquelme, Stanislas, Solanke

Sheffield Wednesday
28 Wildsmith, 2 Palmer, 27 Iorfa, 13 Börner, 22 Odubajo, 8 Pelupessy, 10 Bannan, 7 K Harris, 11 Reach (Brown 84), 45 Kachunga (Paterson 80),18 Windass (Marriott 88)

Sheffield Weds Subs
5 Paterson, 9 Marriott, 17 Dele-Bashiru, 20 Rhodes, 24 Brown, 25 Dawson, 29 Hunt

Previous post on Cherry Chimes - AFCB have to be wary of Sheffield Wednesday

Fixture excitement at the challenge ahead for AFCB

I was waiting with anticipation, not about the fixture release, when it came through, but for the reaction form Bournemouth fans. The mood was quite chirpy as for many they could see Bournemouth striding through some of the games, and for once we might even see some clean sheets. But the Championship is a long race and the first three fixtures look pretty tough to me.

A full fixture list ahead with or without supporters.

Playing Blackburn Rovers at home for the first game is a good way to judge what shape Bournemouth are in, with Blackburn Rovers finishing in a mid-way 11th position last season. A home game always gives your club a chance to make a good start and, with Middlesbrough away and Norwich City at home to follow, Bournemouth would put themselves in a very strong position, if they can beat that kind of quality in their first three games.

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Easier said than done though. Watford and Derby will be big matches in October and November looks a particularly good month with some grudge matches against Reading and Nottingham Forest and a tough visit to Sheffield Wednesday. Whether fans are getting to games by this point we just don't know, but the December games are certainly ones that fans will want to enjoy with so many games. I am expecting Swansea away to be a hard match along with Preston at home, as both sides did well last season. Boxing Day should be fun with Millwall in attendance and Brentford, just before New Year, will be a great time to see their new stadium.

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I am not sure how many will want to brave Stoke in January, but the crazy ones will take on the weather and I think January could be a crunch month with the quality of fixtures. Watford and Cardiff will be big matches to try and win at home in February and there are long journey's up north to Preston and Huddersfield in March. April looks like it could be a strong month for the Cherries as a the run-in goes and a finish at home to Stoke City could be a great way to go up. Let's think positively.

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Here are some of your views:

#afcb. We havent got enough players for all those fixtures ...... 😲

— Paul James (@paul18280) August 21, 2020

Yes, eight games in December! 🍒🍒🍒 #afcb

— Steve Jacobs (@jacobsinskidby) August 21, 2020

It's really weird seeing the AFCB fixtures list and seeing different teams😫 #afcb

— Elena♣ (@Elenaa_xox) August 21, 2020

Tummy tingling. REAL football is back! #afcb

— Sean (@_Salvatori_) August 21, 2020

Quietly confident #afcb

— Berren (@Berren_luc) August 21, 2020

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AFCB should hold out for a high price on Murray

While there is plenty of cash incoming at Dean Court it does not hurt for the club to be a little wiser with any of its assets that it chooses to off load. Glenn Murray only joined the club last September for some £4m and he has shown that he can still score goals against top teams like Man City and Chelsea in the Premier League.

Glenn Murray may see the Championship as his future.

So why sell him cheap? Glenn has a three-year contract and while he has found it difficult to fit into a style that works with the team and has found himself down the pecking order I wonder if any one has considered that Glenn might still be with AFCB come next August? It is most likely that if AFCB hold out and the offers they receive are not enough that Glenn could go out on loan but perhaps Brighton can't afford to take that risk when Fulham are also said to be interested in taking the striker even if Sheffield Wednesday may have cooled their interest.

For once AFCB are not in a bad position. While Murray's wages will be the main concern, he is not a bad player to have on the bench and he is the only striker of his type at the club. AFCB seem more interested in attracting more pacy forwards at present with Millwall's Mikael Ndjoli said to be prime target number one for AFCB's U21 squad, according to the Daily Express.

AFCB fans of course will be hoping to see some big names come into the side this summer but that may depend very much on what happens to players like Glenn Murray, who may have to leave if AFCB want to fund more signings without throwing money away.

Wiggins move completed and Allsop on loan to Wycombe

The transfer deadline day may not have been overly busy for AFCB, but the re-signing of Rhoys Wiggins is an intriguing one. Eddie Howe has a good memory and knows exactly what he is getting with Rhoys. The Welshman is already saying the right things to try and appease disgruntled fans who did not want to see him wear the red and black again, and I guess fans should realise that sometimes that football is business first of all.

I am more drawn to the fact though that Eddie believes Rhoys can be a good signing for the Premier League. It will be a step up for him like it was for most of AFCB's players and the manager is putting a lot of faith in Rhoys and his ability to surprise people. I like to think that Eddie is in someway rewarding a player he knows well and was an important player in the early year's of Eddie Howe's managerial career. AFCB need left back cover and at least Rhoys will know many of the systems that the Cherries play.

I think it is a brave decision also be Rhoys and I hope he does really well and fits in, because the Cherries need everyone pulling in the same direction. The fee of £200,000  makes a change from the millions being spent and to have the security of a left back that will be eager to be a part of Bournemouth's Premier League season and beyond – it's a two-and-a-half-year deal – is reassuring when the club has had so many injuries.  

One player who has been allowed to go out on loan today though is Ryan Allsop, who has gone to Wycombe Wanderers until the end of the season. It will be good for Rocky to get some games as he has not really had much taste of first team football, except a few minutes against Everton. 

Meanwhile, Alessandro Cannataro and Tomas Andrade have also had their contracts terminated by mutual consent. Andrade returns to his parent club River Plate.

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Cherries agree fee for Rhoys Wiggins

I woke up this morning somewhat shocked and had to rub my eyes a couple of time before re-reading the headline on the Bournemouth Echo that the club was said to be in for Rhoys Wiggins at Sheffield Wednesday. It has been apparently clear all season that AFCB have been missing a left back with Tyrone Mings being injured so early on, but Wiggins was not a name that immediately came to mind as a stand in although Eddie Howe likes plucking players who have played for the club before and in Rhoys Wiggins he may not have picked the most popular player with the Cherries' fans.

Rhoys was keen to get away after the play-off defeat with Huddersfield Town in 2010 and his transfer request was not much liked by the fans. He went to Charlton and has since played for Sheffield Wednesday but has struggled to get in their side.

AFCB have made a bid for the former Bournemouth left back and that has been accepted by Sheffield Wednesday. On the pitch, Rhoys has a talent for making attacking runs and whipping in lots of crosses and committing defenders with his pace. Always received as the biggest boo boy by AFCB fans in the last few years it will be interesting to see how he gets on when he comes back and if he is forgiven as Eddie Howe certainly has faith in him that he can do a good job if called upon in the Premier League.

Like Lewis Grabban, Rhoys is a player that may not have been seen as crucial for the club to be reunited with and yet if it is these former players that make Eddie Howe and the team feel more secure and rekindle the fighting belief that they feel they need to stay in the Premier League then I would hope that everyone gets behind the whole team including any signings. They are playing for AFCB and trying to achieve something that has not been done before for the club. We need to be in this together and we back the manager and his signings. UTCIAD!  

Last season seems a long time ago - want the DVD?

I am expecting news about the 2014-15 season DVD to be announced pretty soon now. There will be some great clips on that of course and hopefully the players will enjoy reliving the many memorable moments of the greatest season in AFCB's history when they look back over events. Yes, there'll be the 0-8 game against Birmingham, the 1-6 spanking of Blackpool and the 1-5 away win at Fulham among many other fabulous results, but the Cherries have left those days behind them and I am pleased that as fans we can now move on to what we hope will be an even more exciting period of AFCB history.

Everyone knows where Bournemouth is now.

While every fan will have their own special memories from last season I am one who will be glad that the final tension of the run-in is well behind us all. It was a marvellous time and the heart was pumping at every game like Brighton and Reading away and the home games against Middlesbrough, Sheffield Wednesday and Bolton Wanderers, but the team got there. No one can take that away from AFCB's players and fans now and no matter how pleasing that was to witness there is a bigger job on now.

It's a bit serious preparing for the Premier League. For some exiles like myself, who probably won't have been back at Dean Court since all the developments over the summer, it will be quite a big thing when visiting the ground again for the start of the new season. Things will have changed from the sponsors on the stadium to the new building work and the taste of the Premier League being in the air. It's been all change and has all happened very quickly. Overnight the club has grown up if you like from rebellious teenager to a full adult that has even more ambition to make its name known worldwide. It's always going to be important to remember the past, but AFCB should also now look forward with confidence and optimism as the club we have been building is now ready to take its place at the highest level and it's time for us to be ready for that.

The moment when Sheffield Wednesday made AFCB's day

I was busy writing my match notes at The Valley, being pressed by people on either side of me and  watching the game intently being played out in front of me while I had one ear listening to the radio with an ear-bud that suddenly burst out something that I could not quite take in. "What was that?" "Some thing's happened -Shhssh, Shhssh," I said. "Wednesday have scored! Wednesday have scored! We're going to be champions!"

The faces around me all asked question - "what was that?" 

"Look at the West stand," I said. The AFCB fans were rocking, the whole stand was jumping up and down. It was true Wednesday had scored at the death at Vicarage Road and had virtually swiped the title away from Watford and given it back to Bournemouth with only minutes of our game left to play against Charlton in which we had just gone 0-3 up!

There's a sudden excitement in the ground - 
something has happened at Vicarage Road.

It wasn't quite how I had written the script a few weeks ago when I had been asked by Reading's Tilehurst blog how I saw the final day of the season panning out, but the outcome was the same. Callum Wilson had scored on the final day but I had not expected a 0-3 scoreline and yet I had put some funds on Matt Ritchie to score the first and for Watford to draw and even for the Cherries to land the title from as early as last November. It might have been misplaced hope but it didn't turn out to be at all misplaced as the Cherries were undoubtedly the very best team in the 2014-15 Championship and the exact moment of Sheffield Wednesday scoring was brilliant - I'll cherish that!

Earlier we had seen some nervousness from AFCB fans with plenty of banter with the Charlton fans as a few AFCB supporters were evacuated from the home stands having been revealed to have bought tickets in the Charlton end. They probably found it a bit hard to keep their celebrations low key when the Cherries had been so dominant in the game. The AFCB fans had also been chanting: "Wednesday, Wednesday - always mid-week!" at their frustration that the owls were not doing their part in taking points off of the Hornets, but in the final minutes it was clear that AFCB fans could party before the final whistle knowing that the Cherries were about to receive some silverware in front of them.

Apologies for any foul language, I get a bit jogged
at the final whistle but I was hardly surprised and just kept the camera rolling anyway.