Back Of The Net - The AFC Bournemouth Podcast

Two very different performances from Boscombe sees contrasting views from AFC Bournemouth fans, who firstly react at full-time after beating Bristol City 3-2 in a scoreline which possibly flattered the opposition. Aside from a few minutes at either end of the game, Bournemouth looked sharp and strong, and whilst the Robins showed spurts of impetus, the Cherries defence and Mark Travers were up to...

Cherries fans jubilantly react after AFC Bournemouth beat Huddersfield Town 3-0 at the John Smith’s Stadium thanks to goals from Jaidon Anthony, Jefferson Lerma and Dominic Solanke. Also, a chat with four Cherries fans who will be driving to Poland to deliver aid for the Ukrainian refugees. The quartet are working with the charity "Help from Bournemouth to Ukraine", and amongst them is former Cher...

Tigz was on the mic at full time to gauge the reaction as fans reacted outside the ground as Cherries got back to winning ways at Dean Court on Saturday after a 2-0 win against Wayne Rooney's Derby County, thanks to goals from Dominic Solanke and Jamal Lowe. It was an improved performance from the lads, but also the crowd too, who got behind the boys for the full ninety - and as a result, there wa...

Annoyed AFC Bournemouth fans reacted at full time after two painful games to watch! Firstly, Cherries lose 2-1 at Preston North End thanks to a winner from danger-man Emil Riis, which was compounded shortly after with the sending off of Scott Parker and Adam Smith. Jamal Lowe scored the first goal of the game after a Lilywhites defensive mix-up, but the home side equalised soon after with a sharp...

Exasperated yet ecstatic AFC Bournemouth fans reacted at full time outside Dean Court as Scott Parker’s men left it late to secure victory over Stoke City, thanks to last gasp strikes from Dom Solanke and Jamal Lowe. It was a performance which was similar to Blackpool, with little bite or fight for large parts of the game - however during the latter stages, the blue touch paper was seemingly lit,...

Cherries left it late against Blackpool on Saturday as Siriki Dembele popped up in injury time to notch a crucial winner that saw AFC Bournemouth form a cushion between second and third at the top of the Championship, after a last gasp 2-1 win against the Tangerines. The weekend was crazy - from the party atmosphere in The Manchester before the game, right through to the nightlife in Blackpool aft...

Two games, two very different reactions! Firstly, Sam and Tom fans react after they witnessed AFC Bournemouth getting humbled on their own patch by National League Boreham Wood in a Sunday night to forget for Scott Parker's men. The performance was bad. Manager of "the Wood" Luke Garrard suggested that they'd need to be at their best and Cherries would have to put at their best in order to cause a...

Forthright views and frank opinion as 1,000 Bournemouth fans travelled up to Barnsley to watch Bournemouth edge out the Tykes in a less than convincing win at Oakwell against the league's bottom side. The Cherries made hard work of it on this away day, but an early Philip Billing header after a goalkeeping mishap ensured the away side emerged victors and could take advantage of some results that w...

At one point this season, Bournemouth were NINE points clear of the team in third, yet now, we are three points behind the team in second. It's all a bit tense, so let’s come together, breathe, and talk… so, to talk Tigers it’s Sam, Tom and Tigz. This season has been dubbed the poorest in terms of Championship quality. On paper, we should be streets ahead, in reality, we’re just one of many teams...

We take a comprehensive dissecting of Saturday lunchtime’s 3-2 defeat at the hands of Luton Town with Sam Davis, Tom Jordan, Jeff Hayward, plus your thoughts after the game too! It was a last minute goal from the Hatters that secured the points at Kenilworth Road and it was a sickener to say the least. In the first half Cherries were outfought and didn’t lay a glove on Luton or look bothered by it...

With AFC Bournemouth more than half way through the season, it's time to do our analysis of the Cherries players who impressed, and also those that digressed - in our regular Player Gradings tier list! Tom Jordan and Sam Davis are at the Pear at Parley where we placed all players who have had a significant amount of minutes into one of six categories: The Absolute Don Baller Solid Shift Room For I...

After Saturday's turgid performance at Middlesbrough, Jacob Tanswell from Dorset Live joins Tigz, Tom and Jeff to mull over the sorry showing at the Riverside as Bournemouth fell to a frustrating 1-0 defeat. There's lots to discuss, not least - a major worry about Cherries recent showings, and mutual cogitation over how Scott Parker can arrest this decline in form. The loss at Boro initially looke...

After Saturday's turgid performance at Middlesbrough, Jacob Tanswell from Dorset Live joins Tigz, Tom and Jeff to mull over the sorry showing at the Riverside as Bournemouth fell to a frustrating 1-0 defeat. There's lots to discuss, not least - a major worry about Cherries recent showings, and mutual cogitation over how Scott Parker can arrest this decline in form. The loss at Boro initially looke...

A resurgent Blackburn Rovers came to Dean Court full of confidence after their incredible run of games, and they continued that form thanks to a goal either side of half time. Indeed, a dispirited AFC Bournemouth failed to make inroads against a well drilled and well-organised Tony Mowbray team - and this left the Cherries just three points clear of third - ouch! Sam, Jeff, Tigz, Tom, and Neil get...

Fulham was always going to be a tough game wasn’t it? Form, momentum, injuries - everything seemed to dictate a home win, but despite the confidence from the home side, it was Cherries that stole a march on their rivals with a superb set-piece routine from the second half restart, but frustratingly, Tosin's late header ensured the top two shared a point. In this pod, Sam and Tigz return to dissect...

Cherries form recently hasn't been the best. With a loss at Derby, followed by a couple of frustrating draws where we've let the lead slip on both occasions, Boscombe are showing a vulnerability to their game which other teams are exploiting. Do a couple of injuries really upset the applecart that much? Apparently so! On this pod we take in some raw reaction from recent matches. Firstly, Sam Davis...

After Cherries suffered their first defeat of the season on Wednesday night against a stubborn and clinical Preston North End, all eyes were on the visit of Swansea on Saturday - with a reaction needed against a team that often provide us with a stiff test both home and away. In the weekend, the Lilywhites won 2-1, thanks to goals from Ben Whiteman and Ali McCann, which sandwiched a Philip Billing...

Cherries carried on their unbeaten run at the weekend with Reading being the latest victim after a 2-0 win at the Madejski Stadium, one which had punmasters across the South scrabbling for Royals and Biscuit related jokes to jazz up their otherwise formulaic articles - Bournemouth start slow, Bournemouth get a foothold in the game, Bournemouth win the game... Join Sam Davis, Tom Jordan, Neil Dawso...

This weekend, Boscombe comprehensively took apart Huddersfield 3-0 at Dean Court, and as a result, Cherries sit atop the Championship, with a five point gap over Fulham. Bournemouth put in a shift, and Scott Parker’s class of 2021 have now equalled a long-standing club record as Dominic Solanke’s first-half double provided the springboard for a 3-0 win over Huddersfield Town. Victory, cemented by...

Sam Davis and Jeff Hayward spend just under an hour looking at two very different performances over the last few days as AFC Bournemouth gained maximum points from our trips to Bristol City and Stoke City. This includes a certain hat-tip to a reporter of the latter club, whose report on the game - it's fair to say - won't win any literary awards! Don’t let the result fool you, AFC Bournemouth abso...

In our last league game, Bournemouth overcame a deficit for the first time this season as Solanke and Billing netted inside three minutes to ensure that Boscombe go top of the table at a rain-soaked Dean Court against Sheffield United. Fans were nervously optimistic despite the bore-draw against Peterborough, and in the pub beforehand, 2-1 seemed to be the fashionable scoreline. True to form, Bour...

Bournemouth survived a second-half fightback to defeat Luton Town 2-1 to return to the Championship summit, so in this pod, Sam Davis and Mr Tigz get together to chat over the weekend's antics - as resilience and steadfastness were once again key to retaining the top spot! As has happened in recent home contests against Blackpool and QPR, Cherries took a comfortable-looking 2-0 lead into half-time...

The match against the Bluebirds at the Cardiff City Stadium was always going to pose a unique challenge For The Cherries, not least because the majority of their side were over 6ft - but enough of that tall story, because a Mick McCarthy side is always going to well drilled, work hard, and they’ll also be dogged. So to be able to get three points of the Welsh side would be massive, and whilst most...

After a number of draws, AFC Bournemouth got back to winning ways at the weekend - as they managed to wrecked the Tykes - psyche, in an accomplished display of control, flair, and hunger. The 3-0 dispatching of Barnsley was one of those performance that you could purr at - indeed, it was purr-fect. If we were to be picky we’d probably be recording this suggesting that we should have won 10-0, but...

A chance to analyse the weekend's 0-0 at the MKM Stadium in Hull as AFC Bournemouth failed to display their attacking prowess, and instead, took part in a rather mind-numbing match against a side who were well organised, but equally impotent. It was a "Hull" of a journey as Boscombe fans traveled in their numbers up to East Riding of Yorkshire to face the Tigers - where we hoped that we would be a...