Bournemouth (A) - FA Cup | Post Match Thread

Keeper! said:
Marmoush's attitude is so positive, the smile so refreshing to see.

He looks like a guy that would play for free, he just loves the game, great to see.
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He's lovely ( said from a female pov slightly objectifying him:-)).

His positivity is so refreshing and I agree you can tell he just loves playing.
 
mancboy said:
The player pulled bk a player who had gone past him on the attack by any metric thats a yellow surely?
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There should be an offence simply called 'cheating'. No semantic loopholes to hide behind.

Just give a referee/VAR carte blanche to caution/send somebody off whenever they consciously decide to break the rules.

At every corner, give a penalty for shirt-pulling (which has always been a foul, but for some stupid reason is overlooked these days, but only in the area?)

There'd be tedious bleating about it for a few weeks with matches finishing 9 v 9, and then everybody would just have to grow up and learn to play by the rules again.

Sick of seeing Erling mugged every corner, with zero protection
 
Just watched the post match presser with Pep.
Very intriguing.
He seems MUCH more relaxed. Almost zen.
I wonder what's going to be in those memoirs?!!!
 
Thought we were brilliant second half. I reckon Pep must've gone ape shit at half time because from the zero effort they put in the first half to the press FINALLY making a comeback in the second half.

Did want to point out that I said before the game Stuart Atwell is the worst referee I've ever seen and he did nothing to change my mind. The guy is awful and shouldn't be near city matches in future. Even when Haaland goes off injured he's making them play on and he gave the free kick the other way in the first place. Absolute, Grade-A, Helmet!
 
Stelea said:
Referee was terrible today, particularly 1st half. The amount of times he penalised City for pull backs/pushes compared to them was mad
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The booking for Khusanov was ridiculous. The bias extended into the commentary of course - when they broke up a promising attack, the commentators referred to it as text-book play in breaking up an attack; whenever our players used to do anything similar, 1. We get a booking, and 2. They always used to refer to it as the "dark arts."

Lee Dixon: the most boring pundit on Earth. A modern day Eric Olthwaite. Soporific.

Very pleasantly surprised at that 2nd half turn around after what I thought was an awful 1st half - even though Earl could have had a hat trick before we gave them their goal. Credit to Pep and the players.

Onwards and upwards?
 
noseve said:
There should be an offence simply called 'cheating'. No semantic loopholes to hide behind.

Just give a referee/VAR carte blanche to caution/send somebody off whenever they consciously decide to break the rules.

At every corner, give a penalty for shirt-pulling (which has always been a foul, but for some stupid reason is overlooked these days, but only in the area?)

There'd be tedious bleating about it for a few weeks with matches finishing 9 v 9, and then everybody would just have to grow up and learn to play by the rules again.

Sick of seeing Erling mugged every corner, with zero protection
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Remember them showing a replay and the commentator saying, 'shove in the back on the City player there, nothing wrong with that'

Since when was pushing someone in the back allowed?
 
CC1 said:
That is so true.
To those this applies to -
Are you reading this ……you know who you are :-)
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What about 'internet' watchers who represented their town, their county, the South of England and their country at schoolboy level?

Is their opinion uninformed?
 
Keeper! said:
Foden used to be the same, sadly this season he looks like he would rather be fishing than pulling on our shirt, hopefully a summer break and he will get his mojo back.
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I nearly referenced Phil in my post. He used to remind me of an over enthusiastic labrador bouncing around and looking for the ball and just simply enjoying playing.

I have no idea whats with him this year be it physical, mental or off pitch issues but I wish him well and hope he can regain his mojo as soon as.
 
I think Dias has struggled playing the LCB roll and that has at times affected our build up in general. First half that was incredibly pronounced. Josko barely saw the ball because of how awkward Dias is when he receives the ball on that side. Best he could do when pressed was square it back to Khusa. The big obvious thing from the moment the second half kicked off was that it was much much easier to progress the ball with Josko stepping into the LCB roll and him and O'Reilly being much more in tune with each other both from an attacking sense and also defensively.

A lot of criticism of the first half performance which I don't think is fair. Bournemouth were always going to come out intense and swinging, and we restricted their chance creation whilst also creating some big chances of our own. On another day City score 2 in that first half. Think Gundo, KDB, and Phil were much better in the second half because the build up was better as we played through the Bournemouth press a few times. This dropped them as a team and when that happened the game felt over.
 
noseve said:
There should be an offence simply called 'cheating'. No semantic loopholes to hide behind.

Just give a referee/VAR carte blanche to caution/send somebody off whenever they consciously decide to break the rules.

At every corner, give a penalty for shirt-pulling (which has always been a foul, but for some stupid reason is overlooked these days, but only in the area?)

There'd be tedious bleating about it for a few weeks with matches finishing 9 v 9, and then everybody would just have to grow up and learn to play by the rules again.

Sick of seeing Erling mugged every corner, with zero protection
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"Sick of seeing Erling mugged every corner, with zero protection"

The Haaland of yesterday was shockingly poor, his hold up play was non existent and simply not good enough, when the big fella is bullying CB's he is different gravy.
 
noseve said:
There should be an offence simply called 'cheating'. No semantic loopholes to hide behind.

Just give a referee/VAR carte blanche to caution/send somebody off whenever they consciously decide to break the rules.

At every corner, give a penalty for shirt-pulling (which has always been a foul, but for some stupid reason is overlooked these days, but only in the area?)

There'd be tedious bleating about it for a few weeks with matches finishing 9 v 9, and then everybody would just have to grow up and learn to play by the rules again.

Sick of seeing Erling mugged every corner, with zero protection
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I would love to see an automatic yellow card for any player who claimed a throw in / goal kick / corner which could never have been theirs.
 
colorado blue said:
Decent second half that. Once we scored you could see the confidence coming back. Surprised we didn’t score a few more. Jack looked sharp again but would be nice if he took a shot once in a while.
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Dead right - a couple of times yesterday the situation was begging for a shot, with the keeper unsighted.
I do like him being on the pitch, though
 
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