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I guess it was the wages/ lengthy contracts that managed to keep them mostly together as it was. But as they slip further down, more and more will be making noises. On the back of Parker's comments, it looks like a nudge to his employers to pay him off.

I half expected a last gasp Broja bid, with Chelsea bringing in a forward. I'm quite fond of a lot of the outgoing players, but the new owners have certainly pushed on with a refresh. Not all kids either,but older players with untapped potential too. I wonder if the Redmond deal will go through.

While I want Jack to do well, I also want Bournemouth to continue to ship in loads of goals and be one of the three definitely keeping us safe. While he might not have been the first choice with us, 's been no bad thing to have him availalbe as squad player, able to do a job when required. He has looked good in short spells. Perhaps longer first team runs will allow him to get past any set backs and settle into playing regular first team football. I've always liked his attitude on the pitch, and thought he'd improved under Ralph.

He did okay for Ross County last season. I thought he'd be perhaps be moving up a little. Hopefully he'd be getting lots of minutes this season.

As above, I hope everything's okay. Not necessarily a bad thing to realise you'd much rather be where you were, homesickness aside, and trust in Saints having that clearer pathway into the first team squad.

Green

What?! Have Everton had a rhyming epic thread for him all this time?! 🙂

Like so many others, he quickly became a favourite player and I'm really sad to see him go. I was happy when we got such a quality player at such a good price in the first place. He may have had to bide his time to get first team opportunities at first, but he was always clearly capable of stepping in, as he did here when we had a few deaprtures. We always looked at our best when he was the heart beat of our midfield. Particularly in the last couple of seasons. When he wasn't playing, generally the team didn't either. His superb work rate, good tackling and physical presence were assets enough. But his development had also given him techncial skills that not many others in that role would have. He could still have continued his solid service to us for a couple more years. But the club are looking to move in a different direction, and I'm pleased he's got a good move. I'll be watching out for him to see how he gets on. A great bloke who loved his time with us and was loved in turn by the fans.

Looking forward to Ronaldo arriving, with a bit of a cough, through all these smokescreens. 🙂

Probably easier to get than Ainsley Maitland-Niles. 🙂

I hope you're not going to try and convince us that Gakpo and Saga rhyme 🙂. The Cody Coda would have had a ring to it...

Scrappy game, with a JWP free kick getting us the points.

Sounds like they've put an under offer sign on him, in the hope of getting a bigger fee. Here's hoping.

Chicken

We didn't overcommit to a high pressing game, which was part of our undoing last time. But when we did trigger tonight, we really put them off their game. And we were relentless in doing it. Moi and AA constantly getting into good positions, and harrassing. Adams was a great outlet. Smart and sneaky as well as skilled. He bullied their defense. They tried falling over a lot for a while. But when that, and their mewling didn't work we had an advantage over them. Our own defence worked really hard as a unit. We had a very physical looking pairing, but they worked intelligently off each other too. Cover from Perraud (another who worked his socks off as normal) and the excellent KWP. Having Djenepo, now more comfortable at Perraud's positon, come on is a good bonus. It freshens things up as Perraud generally runs himself into the ground. Djenepo has the pace to keep teams on the back foot too. Lavia offered plenty of support form the back, lots of skill to give himself space and time to make the right choices and link up going forward. Let's hope it's nothing more than a niuggle that took him off. Such a good feeling to have 7 points on the board.

wow. Nosebleed. 🙂

Yeeees!! Such a good win. Loads of good performances. And what a difference between this performance and last season!

COuld do with seeing more nbite from Aribo. Not winning too many, and we could do with giving Adams the chance to hold it up.

good tackle from Moi there.

dropping back quite a bit now...

Moi and AA again working hard.

Moi might not have much luck with the flicks he's tried., but he's working really hard and making himself available. AA doing the same.

Adams played for that free kick, but Cucurella is all elbows. Sneaky.

That KWP/ JWP link up nearly worked again there. Like to see that.

Gah! So close to a third!