Pedantic Pete

But did they outspend us? We spunked millions and millions on players who didn't make the grade. This suggests we spent more than them over any period I choose. (perhaps I have the settings wrong?) https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/einnahmenausgaben/wettbewerb/GB1/plus/0?ids=a&sa=&saison_id=2015&saison_id_bis=2019&nat=&pos=&altersklasse=&w_s=&leihe=&intern=0 If you are talking net spend then this article suggests that from 2015 to 2019 Bournemouths net spend was the 11th highest in Europe and more even than Liverpool's..Does that mean every other team in Europe (apart from those 10 higher) should be embarrassed?- Including Liverpool who went on to win the league..I bet their fans were thinking, this is nice but I would rather that we had finished 12th and spent more! 🙂 https://www.football365.com/news/europes-biggest-net-spends-since-2015-bournemouth-leapfrog-liverpool

Not being funny or belittling your opinion but that is crazy IMO. You are saying worth is only measured in the value of the transfer fee paid? So you would rather we had spent 25m on Lermer than the 20m on Ings just so you can boast to a Bournemouth fan that our record transfer fee is higher? Would you be happy if we had paid 26m on Carillo just so we had a higher record transfer fee? It's an interesting concept.

Its the inevitable conclusion of the pursuit of cash- since the formation of the premier league-which has eroded competitiveness to an extent that the league is won by a very few teams, often by April, obtaining nearly or over 100 points.

I don't find that embarrassing at all? How many seasons have they finished above us? If I was a Bournemouth fan, I wouldn't be on an open top bus ride because we had a higher transfer fee..I would be concerned over who is higher in the league table!

This has got me excited..I hope those clubs, pack up and leave and we can just have a football league less built around money. Even if it means remaining premier league teams going bust and a new order of sustainable teams from lower in the pyramid taking over, it's got to be better from a sporting viewpoint? Perhaps I am just a dinosaur but in recent years I have found the premier league more and more boring anyway. I haven't watched MOTD for three years, I cancelled sky sports at the same time and would rather just enjoy a good day out in a well fought mid/bottom table clash than seeing one of the top sides come down with the plastic fans, big egos etc etc. Perhaps I am alone in that but I certainly won't miss the so called top 6 one bit.

Is the question that if they do ban everyone posting anything racist, is that going to eliminate racism or just stop people posting racist comments?

I think there was one game in each of the last two season's which impacted on that quite heavily!

Could we combine this thread with the "who can we buy off the relegated teams" thread? We could sell our players and buy all of West Broms when they go down..That would set us up nicely for next season!

Personally I think they team in the VAR room should be allowed one extra look in normal speed, no lines drawn etc. If it isn't obvious there's an error from the one look you go with the decision already made. It was brought in to stop those "OMG that's so obvious moments" not to forensically examine every detail of every decision..Giving them another option of "in all probability" will just mean we end up with an even longer debate about what's right and wrong.

It's funny that some people are suggesting Eddie Howe... If our possible 70 stat is a bad..In Bournemouth's best season in the prem they conceded 61 goals, the other seasons they conceded 65, 67 ,67 and 70 goals. Ironically it wasn't the year they conceded 70 that they went down!

Absolutely just like we try to get murders down to zero too!

I had something on in the background not really listening the other day, so for the life of me I can't remember what it was. However I took notice as they were arguing about someone who had said that you couldn't completely get rid of racism and they were slating the person. I must say that I agree, you can't eliminate anything completely. Look at murders..You'd think in all the years we have had laws people would have learned by now but there are still hundreds? or is it thousands of murders each year in the UK( as an side I think read there are 30,000 gun related deaths in the US per year? that's mental! ). So i tend to agree, you can do as much as you can do but ultimately some idiot will do what they want anyway be it racism, murder, nicking a car or dropping some litter!

Thomas Frank is interesting comparison when talking about replacements... Brentford P 137 W 64 D 33 L 40 W% 46.7% Ralph Saints P 105 W 40 D 22 L 43 W% 38.1% However arguably Ralph is in a more difficult league and at Leipzig he had a win% of 48% so stats wise is it much different? (not my figures they are from Wiki...so if they are wrong I apologise)

Back in the day it was awful in the stadiums but now people are less tolerant it has improved a lot, still work to do but it is less acceptable. I hope that now people are less tolerant on social media it might get better, as the first step is that awareness.

Or perhaps it's always been there but people are more aware of, or sensitive to it now?

TBF everyone knows we were never the top 4 side that that run suggested But what If we had spread the last two seasons results out better would people be happier with Ralph?.. So if we hadn't had this bad run currently but lost those 12 games or whatever it is over the two seasons more evenly especially during that 38 game run? What have we had? 88 points over the two seasons with 7 to play. Most people would probably accept that. For reference over the same period Palace have 81 points, Newcastle 76 points, Burnley 87 points, Brighton 74 points, Everton 97 points, Villa 79 points, West Ham 94 points, Sheffield 68 points, Wolves 97 points. I think the truth probably is Ralph isn't the world beater that run suggested but he isn't as bad as the run we are on now suggests.

No Saints fans attending may be a blessing looking at the negativity on here. It's a one off game so anything could happen, that's why the cup is so good, or was before everyone gave up on it and just want survival/top 4 instead. Personally I think we will win this but we might get hammered...so just like every game in the last 40 years then!

Yeah I do get that but there's no guarantee that the next manager will be better. Personally over the last two years we have shown enough form to suggest that he can keep us up- although often teams which finish really bad do start really bad the next year so I can see the risk. Hey and if the worst happens and we get another 9-0 defeat, at least no one will ever beat that record for the same manager!

I think (hope) the board stick with Ralph. If he goes the odds are we would churn through dross over and over like we have done previously. I think some people think we should be challenging at the top end of the table because we were top for one game but in reality we are roughly where we should be.

Klopp has also gone off the boil..is there some sort of conspiracy?

👏Well done you get it at last..just signing a petition won't do anything either!

Wouldn't it actually be 135 as the first game was November?

How does not condoning it make it any better for those suffering? that's my point..Do something about it..stop getting a TV licence and tell the BBC it's because they are going to show games from Qatar. Boycott any company that does business with them. But you won't it's all hand wringing and virtue signalling. Action is too hard.

Hold on why should they be different to anyone else?..You can't have a clear conscience these days unless you are doing the latest empty gesture to prove your wokeness?

That Russia had just used a nerve agent on British soil? We still went to that world cup! 🙂