They've sold 3 of their starting back 4 from last season, but they seemed very confident in the management of the club to have replaced them with equal quality.

I'm not myself as I've very little knowledge of their new signings, but it seems like a lot to change in one summer and they start their season away at Them tonight!

I hope they get a result tonight, obviously, but I don't overly like Bournemouth due to some of their fans. One of them referred to us as a "nothing club"...and they've never won a major trophy in their entire history.

Hope they go down, tbh.

It was always going to be a tough ask with it being their first home game in front of their barmy supporters. Who knows what will happen, we are weakened by injuries but much strengthened by Dewsbury-Hall & Grealish in particular.
I think those two are going to be huge for us if they can stay fit.

The betting is about right I'd say but let's face it, it's impossible to call.

It would just be like Everton to fall victim to that scenario especially with Branthwaite missing.

Moyes really has to have a solid plan to deal with the intensity Leeds will have.

Almost the complete opposite of us.

I don’t the RS will win this year. They’ve held into Salah and VVD too long. Not convinced by the newbies despite early success. I reckon Chelsea or City

Any chance of us getting Iraola next season as our manager?

Get innnnnnnn!!!!

They can still score at any moment though. The twats.

Very fast on the counter attack, but they are also exposed to this tactic because they play such a high line, and they are also a team that I’m sure can be bullied.

Even Slott has alluded to this by saying that he thinks they are the most honest team in the league🤦‍♂️ as-fucking-if🤷‍♂️

Bournemouth looked poor at the back. Keeper was no where near the goals. Difficult opening gane with 4 of last years back 5 missing.

Any team with goals in them will win a lot more than they lose, so I’m just hoping that Liverpool end up coming up a little bit short defensively🤞

Van Dijk was past his best last season so another year older isn’t going to help him or Liverpool.

This has served as a reminder of why I shouldn't watch them.

Liverpool looked less than convincing at the back, but applied one of the basic principles of football. Stating the obvious, but if the opposition score, go and score more than them.

The RS will concede goals this year, especially against teams with pace down the flanks. Bournemouth were poor at the back and made mistakes for nearly all the goals. They missed the calm presence of the lad who has gone to Madrid. Their new CB, Diakité, who they paid Lille around £30M for, looked like a rabbit in the headlights. With a bit more nous at the back, they'd have at least got a point.

Managers will be watching that game (and last week) and creating tactics to exploit the RS weaknesses.

Maybe I'm just too critical, need to work on my mental attitude, learn to appreciate the subtle skills on show, and the tremendous lives of dedicated effort and untold sacrifice these instant multi-millionaires have suffered?

Nah...

The only thing to learn from the game so far is that goal kicks to somebody standing next to you in the 6-yard box is an utter waste of time and ends up with somebody wellying it long under pressure which could have been done more accurately in the first place.

That's all I learned from that.

Even if Gordon was as weak as piss and collapsed like a Nottinghamshire cooling tower.

Amazing what happens when you get minutes and faith.

A mate I was watching it with is of the "it's a foul so he's entitled to" opinion but I reminded him of the '60s and '70s when the striker would have shrugged it off and went on to score. How the game has changed.

I just hope it sets a consistent precedent and any such contact results in a red card. I won't hold my breath.

These days, it's the consistency — or lack of it — that is the big issue.

And this time-wasting bollocks. Let's give the VAR just 8 seconds to make their call, eh? Not gonna happen.

Good luck to him at Spurs. Maybe this will be his season to push on, stay fit and score a shedfull.

Since the spivs took over, and they moved to their soulless stadium, they are not what they were.

Also watched Spurs last 2 games. Richy back to his best. Scored an absolute belter for his second today.

A lively start for the Black Cats, blowing the bubbles away.

West Ham look awful.

Fulham equalised in 96th min

Here’s a bit of useless information that has stuck with me since those days—— when West Ham won the FA Cup in 1964 they had seven players whose name began with the letter “ B”
Bond, Burkett, Bovington, Brown, Brabrook, Boyce and Byrne.

Not sure if it was the same season that West Ham knocked Everton out of the cup with a Johnny Byrne penalty, might have been a year later.

I am hoping no one comes in for him so Saints will have to drop their demands

Let's get off to a flier,eh lads on Monday night!!...COYB

Dibling back in training and may play tomorrow for Saints.

So far, after the last game, we have gotten 6 repeats from the other lot v Bournemouth, no explanation.

Wrexham v West Brom and currently have Wolves v Manchester City on.

Both hosts playing their first home games of the season. The opposition rode the initial and inevitable storm, took the sting out of the game and took control of the game.

Note to Everton for Monday.

Very true — and that's when they are being polite!

"Absolutely fucking horriblist shower of dirty cheating lying shithouses in world sport ever. Vile."

So you ain't a big fan then?

ps: I dare you to ring talk TalkSport when they are having a red love-in, and say that, Pleeeeease!!! Pleeeeeease!!!😁

It just wasn't for me. Call it a hunch, but I saw a manager that was at a well run provincial club and the expectation was primarily remain in the Premier League and anything else was a bonus.

I always thought that if and when he stepped onto a bigger stage, he wouldn't meet the expectation, which so far has been proven at Chelsea and, yes, West Ham. The latter may raise an eyebrow, but they are a big club. Not always successful, but over the years have prided themselves on their footballing pedigree and what we now call an academy. Their supporters don't take prisoners. Ask Allardyce and Moyes. Neither were popular.

We may have been starved and deprived for decades, but Everton is a far bigger stage than Brighton and the supporters remain way more demanding.

Rightly or wrongly, and maybe harsh, so feel free to shoot me down, but when his name was called on these pages, I instantly thought of Mike Walker, who came on the back of achieving great things at Norwich.

As an attacker, you are not allowed to be part of a defensive wall. Think it's classed as offside.

Pretty silly from the Palace man.

I've never heard of that.

Remember when attackers used to try to get in the wall?

I seem to remember teams used to put me on the end of opposition walls? Was it to stop that?

What a shame that anyone out of the Sky favourites need to sell their best players and can't then challenge the top teams.

No penalty. Even with VAR. "Would be given in Europe" What the Fuck???

I don't understand this game anymore.

Palace build a team to challenge and go head-to-head with top teams, but will just have best players cherry-picked.

Never could understand why Brentford went for him, because as far as I know he's not been a manager anywhere else, though I could be wrong on that one.

Even in boxing, that's a foul!

VAR is so inconsistent. There were a few given for that last year.

On the Eze free kick. The rule is that opposition players must be one metre in front of the defensive wall until the ball is in play.

Begs the question why didn't the ref intervene and move them before it was taken?×

My man Wood nets two again, I really wish cheddar head Dyche had pursued Wood when he was out of favour, given he worked with him at Burnley back in the day.

Honestly think we've missed a striker in that mould for years now.

For the last two seasons I’ve been saying we should put in a bid for Casemiro and was told he’s too old, too slow etc.. Today he’s showing he’s still class and would start in most teams.

It's way too early to predict where anyone apart from the obvious are going to finish. If I recall, the league table never used to get published until 3 games in.

Having it after one makes no sense or context.