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As you may have seen from my twitter, I fucking hate freshers.


I don't think I was that much of a cunt a year ago, if I was then I deserve to be killed in a mass execution.


Either way freshers don't have any impact on our result tomorrow which I think we'll win.

Ba k to fortress county ground.

2-0 Swindon. Ferry and Williams to score.
Done.

COYR.

Sounds like you didn't get a sniff tonight Sws but don't be bitter. They're probably all lesbians or something......

Anyway, 3-1 today. Williams 2 and Ritchie.

absolutely naff all.

Fucking fresher lesbians.

I have a kebab, it's fine.

I'm doing a scorecast of 2-1, Williams first scorer.

A nice comfortable 3-0 win TAH,Williams and Roberts and hopefully something to cause Mitchell to lose it and end up ranting on radio 5 tonight

All of this

I am not going, but will have the radio on. Therefore 0-1 to Bournemouth, with some Russian bint in stilletos running on the pitch at the end in a Di Canio stylee.

If we don't lose or draw we may win

2-0, Williams, Ritchie

2-0 Matt Ritchie x 2, just to show why we kept him and they couldn't afford him.

Muff have a few players out hopefully today's game is to early for Barnard but tubbs and grabban will pose a threat, we should win this, a good game with a 3-1 victory Williams 2 but Roberts to open the scoring. Coyr  :beers:  :clap:

And the ref seems to like his cards too.   :cry:

3-0 today I think Ritchie, Williams 2

First game in over year today.  2-1 Town.

2-1 defeat.

I've got a bad feeling about this. 2-1 defeat.

2-0 to us.

I fancy a few goals today we are good going forward but a bit loose at the back.

4-2 Williams hat-trick + Ritchie

Just about to leave, hoping for a better performance (than Orient) & a win, 3-1!

 I'm going for a controversial 0-0....despite the array of attacking talent on display, it'll be "just one of those games"

 I think it's possible that we've had more 0-0's v Boscombe than any other club...DV will know.

The last one being a totally forgetable Boxing Day match...a few years back, when I made a manic journey from the east of England, to arrive at the CG for 2:58pm, to discover the TE was shut. Cunts. Still don't know why.

Fuck me looked this one up and it was 11 years ago...tempus fugit

Going to be a tough one today, battle of the unsustainable, going under, big spenders and all that.

I think we'll sneak it 2-1, Roberts and Collins on the scoresheet

Will `arry be there this afternoon? Difficult one to predict this.....head says 2-2 heart says a win 2-1 um.....not sure.

Bound to be...

I am going with this, crowd of 8'921

We will win this

3-0 Town. Williams hat trick. Crowd of 9022.

2-1 win, Rooney and an own goal. 8,860.  Nice day for a few beers before and after :pint:

With Roberts back, Williams scoring and hopefully Archie in the side, I'm going for 4-1!

....or 2-2 if we play like we did in the last home game!

3-0 Town

Benson hattrick

One nil(Ritchie) Williams to start another 9 match goal drought.

I think that this is going to be a comfortable 2-0 no silly last 10 minutes this time a Benson brace to  be good enough

Matt Tubbs hat-trick, and fatbury to jizz himself to death

1-0 Town win (ritchie) crowd 8179

Depends on which our defences turns up.

2-1 Swindon. COYR Hopefully we will see a solid performance and normal service will be resumed at the county ground after the blip against orient.

i take it that you don't rate him?

Wish I could go today but I'm just too skint. 2-0 to town today with a Ritchie goal thrown in

He does everything right,up to the time he shoots.

Just woke up and I'm hanging out of my ass

3-1 town. Please be a bit quiet today, my head hurts

I think we’ll see Williams and Rooney start up top today, but I’d quite like to see Bostock start just off the front man or alongside Miller or Navarro. Ridiculous amount of options and like Di Canio, I have no idea which is best.

Please Town, keep my blood pressure down. 3-0 win, back to our old ways. TAH back, McCormack back to his usual self, Williams double and yet another fantastic Ritchie strike.

You reds.

1-1 tubbs for them wiliams for us.

Town: Foderingham; N Thompson, McCormack, Ward, McEveley; Ritchie, Miller, Navarro, Roberts; Collins, Williams

Subs: Bedwell (GK), Archibald-Henville, Benson, Bessone, Coke, Ferry, A Rooney

Surprised to see Collins start after being taken off so early on Tuesday.  Ferry only on the bench, I wonder if he's carrying an injury?  Devera not even on the bench?

Never change a winning team, guess that's what PDC's thinking today.. 2-0, back to clean sheets and Fortress County Ground... COYR!


- 1st post from ex-swindonian currently living in Denmark  :bye:

As always I'm listening to the game on STFC Player.

As always I have to listen to the away commentaries because the Swindon stream cuts several times a minute. Do you have the same problem with the Swindon-stream ALWAYS ??

COYR!

og lordy, Alan Mc co-commentator today

hei! Hvordan går det? Hvor i Danmark bor deg?

Well done on your norwegian, Sonic Youth. Du instead of Deg - but almost perfecto!  8)

I do. It's crap......

i have the same problem but only when i use my laptop, it doesn't cut out nearly as often on my PC

Changed to IE from Chrome now, and seems to help actually!


... no it didn't... still crap!

Always!

Hej Sonic! Det går fint tak. Jeg bor i Fredericia ;)

NorwayRed, spot on ;)

Yesss Ritchie

STFCWorld is worse than usual today.


Ooooooh get in

MATT RITCHIE - GET IN!!!

Twitter says we've scored. Player says we have a throw in.


Oh, we've now scored. YAY

bit too early for my prediction but fuck it-YEEEEEEEEES!

Sure is!

How's life in Lillestrøm?

Fuck me, Risser's scored for Stevenage

Get in there Ritchie! Showing Muff what they missed out on last season!

Ikke så verst, takk! Litt kaldere enn er vanlig for meg i høst. Jeg var i Lillehammer for to uker side, svogeren min har funnet en leilighet endelig. Neste gang jeg besøker han kanskje vi kan har en pils på Storgata?

Ollie Risser's scored for Stevenage!

My hovercraft is full of eels

Så bra! Send en PM neste gang du skal til Lillehammer! Snart vinter! :o

Get in you beauty!

WILLIAMS is now on fire!

Wahey!

2-0 Williams marvellous

I was wrong-but I dont care!My namesake scores again

We better not let this slip now after Di Canio said that if we go 2 nil up then we win the game

Charlie Austin is on fire. Will be interesting to see if he will come back to haunt us tuesday!

Just moved into my uni house and found out we're winning. Today is a good day!

Player is really getting on my tits now... argh.. Cant stand the bournemouth commentators either

Well, what a half. Ritchie's goal was something else, took the ball, turned and hit a rocket from 25 yards into the top far corner. Williams was a cracking diving header from a cross on the left but I think Collins was there also if he missed it.

Player of the half for me is Thompson, winning every tackle and going forward is overlapping and looking strong. Having seen Ward at Oxford I can tell you he's a different player today and playing it simple.

Bournemouth are no slouches and look good up front but they can't cope with our attacking.

8/10

Flint, Rooney and Bostock wandering along the back of the Arkells wondering where to sit for the second half?

Ward looked steady first half.  Interestingly it was him who seemed to be directing the defence and sorting out positioning rather than McCormack.

Mine....is...cutt...ing....up...al..l...the....tim...e

Mi..ne....t....o....o......!

Since that post, it's stopped. Maybe because of this post it will start again

Spend about 5 mins ignoring the game to discuss Harry Redknap then end with "he's not actually here today though"


At least thats what I thought they said between cutting out.

Brilliant commentary.

Collins off. Didnt hear who was coming on - Rooney?

Collins made an error and was immediately replaced by Rooney.  It looks like Collins is the new Connell.

Today's attendance - 8,533 (752 away fans)

That is a poor number of away fans as its not that far from Bournemouth

Pox 1 down

Seconded

Thirded. If that is a word.

Yessssss 3-0

If I ever meet Matt Ritchie I may accidentally kiss him.

Who did Ferry come on for?

Pox now 2-0 down

Navarro i think

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

 :bye:

Lost interest now. Game over. Am off.

Have fun chaps

as it stands we are in 6th place now.

5th

Williams is very very quickly becoming my favourite player.

He really is awesome.

4-0 says twitter..


YAY

And now player says so to!

ROONEY

YAY

Haven't scored on commentary yet

and on sky?

not on player!

yay get in town

At least the Bournemouth Chairman can take comfort in the fact that PDC isn't his manager

Well, this has all been rather comfortable.

Off to mow the lawn now.

The delay has got worse and worse over the weeks. It was on SSN for about 20-25 seconds before the goal went in

Thompson gets man of the match, which sounds very deserved according to twitter at least.

good result town

Buzzing.

I'm now going for a pint.

Pleasure.

Great result. Well done Town

Don't want to tempt fate or anything but we've got what should be 5 pretty easy fixtures coming up now. Hoping by December time we're firmly in the mix, good times!

Nice result, another clean sheet, normal service resumes

Well done lads,very easy and very enjoyable listening.Now for a rant,why the xxxx does swindon player spend so much time cutting out when the other teams player never has the same problem.If Norman Collier was a football commentator,he'd work for swindon player,what a shambles.Glad to see Nathan Thompson getting a run,he looked devastated after being injured at Bradford City after waiting so patiently last season and its great to see our own youngsters coming through

Just to put the icing on my particular cake, I've got to look in at our yellow friends forum.

I reckon meltdown just isn't strong enough

Thompson did play very very well, but Bourenmouth were not playing with wingers. Encouraging signs though.

First time i've seen Roberts and Ward. Both looked very good. In general, bar a scrappy 10 minutes before we scored the third we played pretty good I thought. Williams looked very lively, but tried to be a bit too clever in front of goal.

Although that performance should be praised, it should also be said that Bournemouth were fucking dreadfull. Absolutley dire.

We win 4-0 and only 8 pages?

Plus Di Canio hasnt said or done anything to sent the mongs off either...

But...but...but they won their cup final, and now they want their manager out after only a few weeks

http://yellowsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=11214&page=4

It's actually very amusing what is happening to them after they fluked the johnstone's paint win. Still let them fester in league 2 as we continue our progress forwards!!

Started off a bit unsure of how it was going to go. Though it was a bit soft in the middle it felt fresh and es pleasantly satisfying. An improvement on last season.

Enough about my chicken burger.

That was comfortable, good and despite a slightly lower standard at the start of the second half we were never in trouble.

My youngest first game today, not a bad start. My eldest first game was a 6 0 too

Pretty comfortable, bar them having decent chances either side of half time.

Should've had 2 pens, the first one blatant pull on Williams after Thompson puts a lovely ball across the 6 yard box, and less blatant for handball soon after.

We hit the woodwork twice, and it could've been 8, with very decent chances in the first couple of minutes. Roberts looked threatening on the left all game.

Loved PdC waving his foot when the TE asked Paolo for a wave !!!

Looking forward to Tuesday.

Was he wearing 'Batch 8' on his shirt? If so I saw you.

Pissed all over them. Bournemouth should be delighted it was only four.

So many positives from that game, Thompson's performance at full-back in particular.

Outstanding performance from us, we made them look shit and knocked the stuffing out of them.

Everyone was on top of their game today, none more so than Nathan Thompson. An absolute rock  and he had Lewis Grabban in his pocket from the off, so much so that they switched him to the other side of the pitch.
Can see why Paolo took Collins off, he was quiet and also a little wasteful in possession. He worked hard though but some times that's not enough.
4 well taken goals, clean sheet, good performance, good night.

My eldest was yes.

At the rate they are going, we can soon change the Constable song :

Constable, Constable,
He stayed at Poxford,
To play Conference football !!!

Thought it must be. I thought you were Maurice Malpas for a minute  ;)

When you consider the quality of the players who couldn't make the bench today things are looking pretty good! :pint:

Yes we can, if we no longer care about scanning.

 :D Now you've done it...

All of a sudden everyone thinks they are Simon Cowell

I heard a bloke shout gary roberts was shit.

What a cunt. Hope you get ill.

I'd just like to say that Ward had a good game today. Credit where credit's due! Roberts and Collins were a little dissapointing but did okay. Oh, and Thompson was brilliant. Who needs Paul Caddis!

I hope some of those giving that were Ward shit on twitter feel like fucking idiots.

Absolute cretin behind me slating Andy Williams today "Do something right for a change", "You're fucking shit Williams". I gave him a look but refrained from commenting (as I'm a pussy).

Was he fat and ginger?

Great result and although Bournemouth were shit, I thought they were better than Pompey. The difference in the 2 games was that we didn't drop down a gear towards the end and let them in.
Ward was much better today and seemed a bit more composed. Thompson looks the real deal, can't see us missing Caddis at all.

Quality performance and fantastic result...it could and should have been more than 4-0! It flattered them!

Williams ran his socks off, Ritchie was immense down the flank and I thought our defence looked more than comfortable at dealing with Tubbs and Grabban. Special mention to MOM Nathan Thompson, great to see a local lad not only get in the side but to play superbly as well!

Blip, what blip?...Onwards and upwards! We owed Bournemuff a stuffing and to see their manager stood up and not move for 20 minutes tells me I don't think he'll be there much longer if things don't change, especially with a certain Mr Redknapp waiting in the wings!

p.s-Had to have a chucked at the Lazio fans in the Town End, great to see!

did they make monkey noises at some of the players?

Cunt.

:)


Really? Nice to see indeed.

 :D Sorry

A good sign methinks.

Winning has become (almost) habitual.

Did anyone else see PDC going fucking nuts over the subs watching the game and sending out the fitness chap.

Didn't go today but delighted with the result. Glad to hear Nathan Thompson is doing well. He's been a pro for over 2 years now with little opportunity. Nice to hear he's taking the chance now given to him. Williams also getting amongst the goals his all round game deserves is another major plus imo

Missed today....just back from Scotland(work)

What a great win....made the last two hours very bearable.......the sun rising over Cumbria first thing was a sight to behold as well.

It's ok I was there to keep an eye on Boo

Good on you Dave.....you picked a good one.

Few Desperados?....or did you drive.

Drove, a B'mth supporter from work came with me. To his credit he saw the team they were putting out and said "We're going to get a pasting today"

Glad he was right then.

Tough to read too much into as Bournemouth were dreadful, BUT...

Thompson's performance was very encouraging, had Grabban in his pocket first half hour.

Williams is very fast and quickly becoming my favourite player, works hard.

Matt Ritchie is good at football.

I thought that was to get rooneys attention to say he was coming on as he wasn't happy with Collins.

Pretty much sums it up, very enjoyable game. Really impressed with Thompson.

Ward is starting to look a lot more solid as well.

this is the start of a good run I can see us starting to close down the top two teams, PDC seems to be settling on his team a bit more now and there is such strength in depth to change things if necessary its looking good

That really was a very good performance, all over the pitch. I'm not sure if Muff are shite but we certainly made them look it. The first goal was a goal of the season contender - Ritchie picked the guys posket, one touch and boom. The second was a greart cross from Roberts. The third one their keeper should be embarassed about. The fourth was great team work but Muff had given up after the 3rd.
Thompson was deservedly MOM and its good to see a player in a red shirt fly in with the tackles - particularly when he times then so well.
When Roberts and Ritchie really get flying its going to be happy days.
A word also for Ward today. At Scumland he was absolte dogshit. At Pompey he looked better but still a bit rusty. He played really well today.
I also Macca was back to his best as he has looked pretty ordinary so far. 3 of his long passes out to the wing were top drawer.
The main thing though was we looked like a team again.

A couple of those first time cross field balls showed exactly why he would be hard to replace. Sublime.

Been out today, but just read this thread start to finish.

Love football.

It was about 5 mins before that, bloody funny.

Me too - that was a first, pure Paolo!

Yeah I saw this too. By the looks of it he gave the fitness coach a rollicking for not noticing it, of which the fitness coach passed it on. The players warming up certainly had a lot more urgency about them afterwards.

Thought the game was great today and hats off to Nathan Thompson I thought he had a stormer, especially as they targeted that side for a while until the realised that the kid was quite useful, soapy tit wank

Still no sign of flint though, that's my only concern as a quite rate him. Hope he's not on his way out. Also no room for Luke Rooney either.

I wouldn't say Muff were a bad side for the first 25 minutes. Lets not forget Fodds back to his best and that amazing save. Games turn on those situations.
After that Swindon showed their class.

Pleased for your Thompson....great game and Roberts gives us that extra balance which has been missing on the left. Good game for Ward and Navaro. Whilst people will talk about Williams and Ritchie I thought Tommy Miller mastered the middle of the park this afternnoon. Nothing special but done the right things.

Enjoyed the game.

........oh and of course my local team had a good result against the mighty Bantams :)

He scored 3 last Saturday and 2 today, meaning his Burnley and career scoring ratio is now 0.5 (a goal every other game). It's actually a lot more impressive than that if you take in to account the actual minutes he's played, reckon he's been a sub or subbed in a quarter of his games.

Flint ,Bostock and Rooney sat just down in front of me at the top of the Arkells .

Really chuffed after today's performance, some great individual performances (Thompson, Williams, Ritchie, Miller), some improved efforts (McCormack, JayMac, Ward, Foderingham) but best of all a decent team effort.

Enjoyed telling Bournemouth they would never sign Matt Ritchie, and he and Roberts look like doing what most of us have predicted. Williams first touch is sublime at times, he buys himself an extra yard and has pace to burn.

So encouraging for Tuesday night, wonder who will have the job of looking after Charlie?

Just got back, 12 hour round trip but what a cracker.  Read some of the thread & most points have been covered.  I don't think Bournemouth are that bad, but that we were as good today as I've seen us under PDC.  Thought the back 4 were solid, Wes made an outstanding save just before HT which could have made things interesting.  Macca was class today (back to his best) & it was great to see him play well with Ward, who was equally solid.  Young Thomson was exceptional! In my opinion his inclusion has given Richie more attacking freedom & he's looking back at his best.  Miller was very good today & the front 2 chased everything.

Great goals, great performance, a bit of tippy tappy & loads of passion, best game I've seen under PDC!

I'm not sure if it is worthwhile reading much into which players didn't make it on to the bench - a squad with as much depth as ours has means that some will always miss out

Did you cycle?   ;)

I'm wondering if Flint and De Vita were the 'disruptive influences'. I can't understand why De Vita's not even on the bench. Rooney's out of form and perhaps Bostock isn't fit.

As you say, someone has to miss out with the size of our squad.

How many players did we use in total last season? Which players were in and out of favour on at least one occasion? RDV didn't get a look in towards the end of the season.

Everyone will play their part no doubt.

Enjoyed that today. I actually thought Bournemouths heads dropped even after the 1st goal and by the 3rd they looked like they didn't want to be out there. Really pleased for Thompson and agree with the mom decision, Can't remember him putting a foot wrong today. A real solid team proformance. Looking forward to Tuesdays game under lights, should be a cracker.

Was that O'Kane fella playing for them? The one too good for us according to the Torquay fans after he was constantly linked our way.

I bloody love you Swindon Town! What an era for this club. Beat Burnley and I could proper lose it.

He was on the pitch, didn't do a lot though.

Really enjoyed Thompson's interview on the radio, seems like a really bright lad, with his head screwed on.

Reading through the posts, some have mentioned squad members missing from the match day squad. Here's my take on it..

In regards team selection for the matchday squad, PDC has obviously made the team fight not just for the starting 11 but for the 18. I think this mentality goes astray at most clubs with players thinking "I won't start so I'll be on the bench". PDC though has made our lot think "I won't be starting so I'd better make sure I make the bench" This way you have 18 tuned in players for match day and not 11. It breeds confidence throughout.

We're seeing at the moment that once you're not picked for the bench (Flint, Rooney to name a couple), it's hard to get back on it and even more difficult to break through to the starting XI. This mentality increases competition for places, makes each and every player train even harder than the previous session and the results (I hope after yesterday's performance) will continue in this positive manner.

Roll on Burnley and hope PDC does give some of the "outsiders" a chance to see what they've got on Tuesday night.

PDC doesn't often get appreciative posts (I wonder why!) but here goes from the AFC Bournemouth Forum

I gave up watching the football after about 75 mins yesterday and thought I'd watch Di Canio instead. Incredible. Whatever people's opinions are of him one thing you cannot deny is his charisma and passion. He was non stop yesterday, arm waving, gesticulating shouting, arguing with the 4th official, at some points he was 4 yards onto the pitch but he was so watchable I was envious of the Swindon fans having someone like that to sing about. At the end of the match he ' high fived' every single one of his players and then shook hands and said a few words to everyone of our players as they left the pitch. Groves was nowhere...saw very little of him during the game..leant against his dugout out of view and when the final whistle went he just turned tail and disappeared down the tunnel. Now i know that the supporters sang for his head and want him out but he could have acknowledged the away fans at the end. He acknowledged nothing. 750 fans the journey up there and i think they deserved some reaction from him after that performance. He's lost the dressing room and he's lost the fans. I wish we had a ' Di Canio ' .
Read more: http://www.bournemouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=52936&posts=1#ixzz27I4tkGDc

Oh god I totally forgot about PDC going on to the pitch, I thought he was going to kill someone.

I didn't twitter but I did say ward was shit at Oxford and...he was.

Yesterday he was v good.

Bmuff had that coming.....any team that can deny the legend of Dossevi a perfectly good goal needs punishing.

Bmuff lucky it wasn't more. A few more deflections our way and it would of been.

No he didn't, not all of them, he kicked Ritchie up the arse! Seems to be becoming a bit of a "love pat" thing between the two of them :)

Funnily PdC kicked Collins up the arse in the Stoke game...and he hasn't scored since !!!

PDC kicked him up the arse after he had scored his and our second.

So he has scored since.

I've just remembered we hit the post and the crossbar also, my that was a smacking.

They certainly don't pull any punches in the Bournemouth local paper today when assessing Groves' performance on Saturday.  Get a load of this.  I would imagine their Chairman will be delighted.

Cherries: This is what you should have said, Paul (http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/9944920.Cherries__This_is_what_you_should_have_said__Paul/)

And I wonder whether 'BBC Radio Solent's Andrew Hawes' managed to keep a straight face when conducting the interview with Groves?   ;D

That's marvellous  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

This is the pick of the comments following the article, left by a very testy Bournemouth fan.  It's a great piece of writing.


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pauls55 says...
8:15am Mon 24 Sep 12

I was one of the 752 who made the trip and have never seen such a spineless, passionless, inept performance from any Cherries side. Sure the team would have been a lot different if it wasn't for injuries, but the regular players were the most guilty.

Grabban was presented to us as a wide forward but to date I have yet to see him beat any player one to one. Addison gave a captain's performance, the captain of the Fat Ox pub team after a night on the razzle. At one point In a piece of sublime skill he turned with all the grace of a sherman tank and hoofed the ball back to Jalal so hard and wide it went for a corner.

Mcqouid then gave us a cameo on why he can't cut it in League 1, let alone the Championship. The rest of the team were engaged in a competition over who could pass the ball best to the opposition. Fogden won with a precision pass to Ritche who fired in their opener.

And the mastermind behind this debacle, step forward Paul Groves to receive your first class honours degree from the Jimmy Quinn School of mis-management. How jealous we were of the rampant enthuisiasm of Di Canio while Groves stood staring into space, no doubt pondering on where to plant his petunias during his forthcoming gardening leave. I left the ground just grateful I wasn't wearing the club's colours they made me so ashamed. Championship Mr Mitchell? Please, stop now, you really are making me laugh.

He's right about Jimmy Quinn too... he was a woeful manager.

Just had a good chuckle reading that article...some saying their paper will be banned by that prick of a chairman they have!!! Talk about a power trip and he doesn't even own the place apparently!

Could you imagine if Sam Morshead penned that? The adver would be using Subbuteo scenes from our matches every week for eternity

damn right he was

David James is training with Bournemouth. Convenient little number for him living fairly close by.

He could catch the bus - be about the only thing he does catch these days!

He did well for City...... well, in my opinion he did.

Hot off the press

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/cherries/clubnews/9957513.Cherries__Mitchell_clashes_with_supporters/

Hahaha, again. He is a massive cock.

What are the fans protesting about? The manager or him? Both? They're extreamly lucky to have the money being injected that they are presently, much like us.

Fans need to calm it down, they don't need those Russians fucking off and leaving them in the shit.

The manager. However the biggest problem is at the top

I don't think Groves will see out the weekend in his current job.

How much you want to bet JJ? A pint will do. Mitchell's appointment, he can't admit he was wrong. They have spent shed loads of the Russian's money(loan at 6%) and entrusted it to a bloke who once played for Grimsby

I dunno mate I know Mitchell is a bit belligerent but this has to be the final nail in the coffin, their run of form is attrocious with only 1 win in 11 games.

I have a feeling that David James will get the job as he was after a foot into management.

You know what JJ, that might not be a bad shout, at least he's played at the highest level. I'll cheerfully get you a pint anyway. I'll stick that on my work colleagues B'mth ST holders Facebook post about today. He came up with me last week, he was happy about Bar71 but not about the result

Apparently Eddie Mitchell has now come out in public and said he chose Groves over Glenn Hoddle who also applied for the managers job, all I can say is what a twat.

Have to meet up for a chat and a beer at some point soon Dave, been ages.

Bizarre

What kind of thought process results in the conclusion that to reveal such as thing is a good idea? He clearly needs an advisor, whom should advise him to shut the fuck up.

Anyone know of a football "advisor" who isn't doing much at the moment? Ideally one with proven PR skills and situation management.

I would call that a massive own goal, but then Mr Mitchell seems pretty good at shooting at his own goal and scoring.

What a twat.

Mitchell's an embarassment and doesn't appear entirely sober in that clip, much like last time he had a slanging match with fans. He looks like a dodgy car salesman with about 5 buttons on his shirt undone.

I would be worried right now if I was a Bournemouth fan. This Russian dude seems dodgy to say the least and his best mate Mitchell is a bit of a twat who doesn't really have much of a clue about football. How he can keep backing Groves I don't know. He's had plenty of cash to spend and bought in some good players but the results are not coming for them. There's nothing wrong with giving a manager time but to keep coming out with these comments just seems to make me think he knows he's fucked up appointing him and is trying his best to save his own face. If the results don't start coming for them then the Russian may well get bored and withdraw his interest. Now that would be worrying for them given the fact their crowds are quite small and the infrastructure is not there to maintain that kind of spending.

He keeps backing Groves as it was his appointment, sacking him would bring his judgement into question, trouble is he's never wrong

From what I can gather the "investment" is in the form of loans to be repaid at 6%

The best thing would be for the Russian to get shot of the Mitchell clan altogether. Apparently his son is Director of Football at the ripe old age of 23. It's all very dodgy, and tbh I do feel for the fans

Loans to be repaid at 6%. Bloody hell that's not going to end well for them considering they've already spent over a million of his money.

It's not his backing of an underperforming manager that is his failing - that's quite refreshing amidst the hire and fire culture of football. It's his naivity in publically remonstrating with fans on more than one occassion. He should accept that you can't keep everyone happy and that it is a figurehead's role to rise above that sort of behaviour, maintain some order and not stoke the flames - can you imagine Jeremy Wray or Andrew Fitton doing that? He has brought more focus and put more pressure on Groves than if he had stayed inside and allowed the protestors to drift away after a time.

OK he lasted 3 days longer than I expected :D

I owe you a pint JJ

Hoddle to be announced on Monday according to the fans on the local rags pages