Bournemouth - Nottingham Forest

[Floridared]

I get the view in people saying it was a good point, and it was , but I think its about managing expectations.
Bournmouth were on a run of 6 consecutive defeats and had lost 9 out of the last 10 Premier league games. Their league position doesn't lie, they are a poor team at the moment and on a downward trajectory.
Forest on the other hand were starting to show that the investments made over the summer were starting to pay off with the team coming together and climbing up the table. Some very good performances have been put in and I expected that this would be one of them based on how Bournmouth were performing at this time and I was disappointed that this wasn't one of them. Im pretty sure that Cooper, when traveling down to the South coast, wasn't rubbing his hands together and saying" ill settle for a point here"
We were 5 minutes from loosing that game and were lucky they didn't put 3 past us. Yes I will take that point but I , along with lots of others, given the above circumstances, were expecting more in terms of performance and as a previous poster mentioned I think this was a lost opportunity.

Correct it is and because Bournemouth were on a losing streak that gave us the right to beat them did it ??. That is completely wrong to say. Its true what they say when the Premiership is or one of the hardest leagues in the world and Bournemouth deserve to be there through merit. Like Sniffer said they've been there for alot of the last 8 years so this WAS NOT an easy game for anyone. There is NO easy games in this league so really you shouldn't put to much pressure on the team.

Nowhere have I said that we had a right to beat them, I was talking about expectations based on performances at this moment in time.Please read my post again.
Is not the predictions league based on peoples expectations to some degree? if so look how many predicted a Forest win yesterday.

You're right you didn't that but when you say its about managing expectations it sounds an awful like we were expected to beat Bournemouth because of their performances and all I'm saying is in this league you can't expect to beat anyone and thats all.

ok 'nuff said

[Tricky]

There has been a few people on here commenting about how poor Lodi was yesterday, as well as Aurier. I fully agree that Aurier was not at the races yesterday when it came to defending at least. He did make one or two decent runs down the line second half though.

Lodi though, I think is being singled out a little bit unfairly. Nobody has mentioned that new signing for Bournemouth who played on their right wing. He was immense and outran, outwitted and outplayed Lodi almost every time. I think some credit has to go to that new lad they've got. He is going to create all sorts of problems for most of the defences in the PL and I can see him contributing greatly to Bournemouth getting their act together and picking up a few points

[wassy04]

Jadon Anthony on the other side was also really good. Be nice if someone could sign him off them!