Matt Ritchie.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I don't care about the money or media 'love in', all I know is, that is how I want to see football played and maybe, just maybe they will make a paralyzingly, crushingly mind numbingly boring Premier League just a little bit more interesting next season. Here's hoping.

If that makes me ignorant, then so be it.

[chalkies_shorts]

So for less than the Traders have spunked up the wall, Bournemouth are in the Prem where they will make shitloads of money and pay back every penny to the Russkie and still have money in the bank even if they go back to the Championship...and on a lot less than other clubs have pissed down the drain.
May not be a total fairy story but fair play to them. We'd do it if we could.

[Baggins]

They are, however, paying Kenwyne Jones 35k a week.

They lost 15m they year they got out of league 1.  11m on wages with a smaller average crowd than us.

Pleased for Matt Ritchie, great player.  Happy enough for the fans, don't like the way they've done it, but fair play to the club.  I just cant stand the media and ignorant football fans of other teams who have told me how great it is.

I agree, in general, with your point.  I do wonder though, if it happened to us - random loaded person spunks money on us, we get to the "promised land" - if we would feel it was tainted in some way.  I suspect not.  I can't help but feel happy for Bournemouth fans - they seem a decent club, they've been through dark days and they've just won the lottery.  

[jonah]

Bournemouth are cunts. The end.

[Saxondale]

I agree, in general, with your point.  I do wonder though, if it happened to us - random loaded person spunks money on us, we get to the "promised land" - if we would feel it was tainted in some way.  I suspect not.  I can't help but feel happy for Bournemouth fans - they seem a decent club, they've been through dark days and they've just won the lottery. 

Nah Id be lapping it up if it was us.  Hypocrite that I am.  Its the media bollocks that does me in.

[Batch]

if it happened to us - random loaded person spunks money on us, we get to the "promised land" - if we would feel it was tainted in some way.  I suspect not.

Absolutely not. How many clubs do what Bournemouth and Brentford have done on break even? Fuck me, the top two premier league teams have spent shit loads chasing the title/champions league.

Pretty much everybody spends money they don't have trying to be successful. Its only "buying the league" if they spend more than you

Whether it will be "worth it" for Bournemouth in the long run, that will be answered in the fullness of time. Its certainly worth it in the now.

[joteddyred]

They play some good stuff and I like Eddie Howe, so I'm pleased to see them get there.  Even if they implode financially in the future, at least they'll have this to look back on.

I'm still convinced we would have been promoted in 2013 if Ritchie hadn't been sold.  

[RedRag]

Not sure I go with the Bournemouth jealousy.

You can't really spunk money if you get it all back, can you?  Is that not investment, particularly when allied to the choice of a talented and dedicated manager?

Do we really value financial fair play more highly than success and excitement on the pitch?

Well when it comes to the other 90 clubs the answer is yes, fair play must never be compromised.  Of that I have been certain since Black left us in the lurch.  Damn the Cherry Cheats!

[kerry red]

Eddie Howe reminds me of the goody-goody school snitch whose face I'd like to pummel

[Peter Venkman]

Nowt against the player.
Irked about how he departed.
Sick of the Bournemouth miracle shit.

Exactly this.

[horlock07]

Frankly good luck to them, riding the wave to promotion I suspect the majority of fans will not care about whatever financial foundations it is built upon, we would have been exactly the same if we had done this with Blacks money - its the fact that the wheels fell off spectacularly in our case that I suspect has made many cynical - we know from experience how quickly such a structure can collapse - and the fact that Bournemouth were probably the main immediate beneficiary of our downturn will obviously cloud many judgments - especially as they are being lauded as plucky little community Bournemouth in the media.

The media love in does grate a little, however as with all mainstream media regarding 'small' clubs its actually quite patronising to them (again I suspect they won't care). The airbrushing (or ignorance) of many facts does get my back up - little Bournemouth have done it (funded by a Russian sugar daddy who is charging them interest on his £15m a year), Eddie Howe is loyal and Bournemouth through and through (apart from when he buggered off to Burnley, couldn't hack it and then came back 2 years later). 

It will be a very interesting season, be interested what happens to the premiership money, will the owner invest in the club/ground or alternatively take money back out (like Blackpool), equally what happens to Howe, if they do poorly possible sack, if they do well bigger club comes calling.

And then its perfectly set up for Redknapp to return to his first club, phoenix like.....

[kerry red]

With Twatford and Muff in the PL, all we need is Brentford to get in the POs and win them and what a trio of small clubs that would be amongst the great and the good.

Be a helluva good bet to have all 3 to come straight back down again.

I loathe Twatford most amongst them 3

[Arriba]

Fair play to Richie(who has clearly got better since he left us) and ballmouth. Their budget is smaller than many teams in the championship so credit where credit is due.

Why some of our fans are bitter and critical of them after the way di canio threw money at league 2, which saw us spunking huge amounts of money at it is ironic to say the least

[reeves4england]

Fair play to Richie(who has clearly got better since he left us) and ballmouth. Their budget is smaller than many teams in the championship so credit where credit is due.

Why some of our fans are bitter and critical of them after the way di canio threw money at league 2, which saw us spunking huge amounts of money at it is ironic to say the least

I think you're missing the point. People don't simply dislike the fact Bournemouth spend money. It's more to do with the way they whined about Di Canio chucking the cash around, labelling Town as cheats, then did the same thing.

At least that's the way I understand it.

[Arriba]

I think you're missing the point. People don't simply dislike the fact Bournemouth spend money. It's more to do with the way they whined about Di Canio chucking the cash around, labelling Town as cheats, then did the same thing.

At least that's the way I understand it.

That's a bit unfair to generalise their fans like that.

Our spending in league 2 in comparison to our rivals at the time was far more than Bournemouth in comparison to their championship rivals.