 Hello and welcome to another AFC BTV preview show here at Vitality Stadium. Matchday commentator Chris Temple joins me and we'll be going through everything that's gone on here at AFC Bournemouth in the last week. Let's take a look at what's coming up. We'll be looking back at that brilliant 5-0 win at the AMEC Stadium. We'll also be looking ahead to next week's documentary release, minus 17. And finally we'll be looking ahead to tomorrow's game against Fulham here at Vitality Stadium. Well first we'll start back at last week in that 5-0 win over Brighton. Let's remind ourselves of the highlights. Fraser! Yeah and the Turis counter-attack! And Fraser smashes it into the top left corner. He seemingly had it all to do from where he was, wee man. But he had it all to do and he did it. And Smith between them there as a challenge goes in for Knockout. He's going to his back pocket here, Kevin Friend. And it is a red card for Anthony Knockout. In but King holds him off and now a little ball where Brooks takes over into the feet of Fraser. Back to David Brooks. This will be brilliant! This is brilliant! Bournemouth got their best here in Brighton. Cintillating football, finished by Brooks. Game over, Brighton-nil, Bournemouth 3. On the left-hand side now, Fraser just about keeps it in. Salanki's with him, Callum Wilson wants it too. Brooks is arriving, driven into the box where Wilson takes a good first touch. Not a bad second! And a 5-on-excellent 4! Wilson joining in on the attack now. Again Ryan Fraser a contributor, another assist for him. Wilson finishes it and that sends the Brighton fans home with their tails between their legs. Brighton-nil, Bournemouth 4. Which suddenly sounds manageable, doesn't it? As Lerma picks up the ball and Lerma drives on through the middle here. He's going to get ahead of Duffy, is he? It's going to run instead for David Brooks. A real chance of a fifth! It could be Stanis last! It is Stanis! It's better and better at the Amex for the Terries. Brighton torn apart, cut to ribbons and finished off. 5-nil. Well, Jefferson there, man. They need to go and hit, rush away to him. What a magnificent tackle to block and win the ball back. Well, five different scorers. Soros pick up all three points there. Chris, it was quite an afternoon, wasn't it, at the Amex? Yeah, it's nice to be standing here for a weekend. I'd say, well, didn't that go badly? But didn't that go badly for Brighton? It went really well for Bournemouth. It's just, I mean, you can't really quantify how polar opposite those performances are. The Burnley and the Brighton performances, seven days apart. Same players, pretty much, given one or two that will come on to, you know, introducing to the team probably had a bit of a key impact. But yeah, absolutely everything fell right. It was back to the Bournemouth that had such a scintillating start to the season. Again, the context is that Brighton were hopeless. I mean, they were really bad. But they were made to look that bad by Bournemouth and the way they played. The first half hour was, you know, a bit cagey. Two teams who obviously haven't been on a great run and the first goal felt important. Obviously Bournemouth got it. Dan Gosling popping up at a good time with his first of the season, first for what, 14 months or so. And I think even the first goal just signified the confidence that players have suddenly found in the week leading up to that game because there were some great decisions made in the build-up to the goal. Callum Wilson could have easily shot, and you'd expect sometimes a number nine to shoot in that situation, but he made the sort of percentage decision, which was to lay it off to Dan Gosling. And that wasn't the only sort of decision that was correct in the sort of goal-scoring moment, if you like, because two or three of the other goals as well had really nice build-ups and the key pass at the right time was the right choice. So yeah, it was just absolutely poles apart from the Burnley performance. And for the couple of thousand Cherries fans that went, and we saw some great access, you know, Michael, from your media team, behind the goal got some great footage from the game. So yeah, it was really nice to watch those moments back for fans as well. And of course, five different goals, five different scorers as well, which would have really pleased Eddie Howe. Yeah, and you know, some of the players that maybe haven't been firing on all cylinders, and you know, with the greatest respect to the Ryan phrases and the David Brooks, it's been a long season. David Brooks, as we heard the manager say, had an injury and took a bit of time to come back, but both contributing assists and goals as well. Even from the alternate angle footage, I was still trying to work out whether David Brooks actually put them all into the net for his goal or whether it was a Lewis Duncan goal, but we'll give it to Brooks, for sure. But yeah, obviously, Callum Wilson as well, getting one, that was a great, great finish as well. I suppose only Joshua King of the sort of front four, if you like, missed it out. But again, he paid, you know, a couple of key passes in the build-up to goals as well, where he was unselfish. So yeah, really nice. A nice Virginia Stanislaus to come on as well at the end and get a goal because obviously he's had a stop-start season as well. So yeah, hopefully now that does bode well for, you know, the right players coming back into form. And we're talking about the attacking thrust, but of course we've got to mention the clean sheet. Arthur Borich and Steve Cook came back in. Big call from the manager, you know. Not big in terms of the choice. I mean, I stood here last week, as you know, and said that I thought I was going to beg of it to a place. I got that completely wrong. Happy to fall on my sister-in-law with that one. But for Eddie to change it back after a couple of games, I think, you know, we don't see him do that very often. But Steve Cook, we've got to mention, you know, him. He came in and captain's performance. Who knows how ready he was to actually play. I think adrenaline against his old club and everything else that comes with it and the comeback that he's had. I think that powered him through the game. I reckon he was probably out on his feet by the time he sat on his sofa on Saturday night, I would have said that. But he made a huge difference. He looked like he'd never been away, did he? And as well, we have to mention Dan Gosling as well, someone that's, you know, played frequently this season, but hasn't always been the first name we pick out on a Friday morning. Yeah, and again, I mean, you could pick out everybody actually made a contribution in the game as well. But Dan Gosling, as you say, you know, had the captain's armband for a little bit during the difficult spell, relieved of those duties with Cookie coming back. But yeah, I thought he was, you know, it was really part of the platform, him and Steve Cook. And you know, the reshuffle back for it was yet another new defensive unit combination. I think that's up to about 23 or 24 different backfives if you include the goalkeepers this season. I think, you know, Eddie was quite creative in the way that he got sort of the foremost informed defenders into the team, moving Nathan Akke to left back. You know, it's not an obvious thing to do is to move your best player out of his most comfortable position. But I think what it does do is it enables Chris Mepham to stay in the team, which I think, you know, he has to do to keep developing. At this stage of the season, now safe, he's getting onto a little bit of a role. He's impressing everybody how quickly he's taken to the Premier League, a bit like David Brooks, when he settles straight in as well. So it's great for him to be able to continue those games. We all know what Nathan Akke can do at centre half. And I'm sure he probably enjoyed, in a game like that, he probably enjoyed being able to bomb up and down the left-hand side. So, yeah, and obviously, you know, Nathaniel Klein has found it tough at times, you know. So I think on four, Madame Smith moving over to right back was probably the right thing. So, yeah, credit again to Eddie for shuffling it around and coming up with the answers. And we have to talk about that red card as well for Anthony Nucke. It was an awful challenge, wasn't it? I mean, awful being generous. It was an absolute shocker. I mean, from our commentary position, we were sat right above the tunnels, the commentary you heard on the highlights. And it's about as far away from us as it could be. So when we had the benefit of two or three more looks at that, it just got worse every time you looked at it. Particularly the angle from behind the goal. Yeah, I mean, absolute red mist. Glenn Murray's reaction, which quite a few supporters I know picked out on social media when it was shown of sort of putting his hand up to his face as if to say, what is he doing? So, yeah, straight away, it was a red card. Thankfully, it was right under those other linesmen who would have helped the referee out there as well. Just an awful tackle. And very, very lucky for Adam Smith that he was able to sort of slightly ride it, slightly hurdle it. Obviously, he caught him, but, you know, luckily, if it had been a standing leg or a lot more sort of definitive contact, then that could have been a real bad one. And all in all, it was brilliant to get another away win. Of course, just a second one in 2019 after Huddersfield. So brilliant for confidence. Yeah, of course. You know, beating two struggling teams is one thing. And, you know, the negative people will say, well, you've only beaten two teams who are struggling. But at the same time, clean sheets in both. And of course, through 40 points now to up to 41. You know, all of a sudden, now things are just a lot rosier. It is only one game. So, you know, here against Fulham tomorrow, it's going to be very important to keep that sort of momentum rolling forward now to finish the season on a high. But that result at the time they got it after the couple of performances they'd had was absolutely exactly what they needed. Absolutely. A brilliant game at the Amex. Now then, as you may have seen, AFCB TV are bringing out a documentary to mark 10 years since The Great Escape. It's coming out on Thursday. Absolutely free on AFCB TV. But here's a little look at what you can expect. The breaking news in sport that AFC Bournemouth had lost their fight to avoid going into administration. Starting the next season on minus 17 points, he's thought, well, this is it. There isn't going to be a Bournemouth anymore. There wasn't going to be a Great Escape season. It was the end of the road. I think a number of us thought, well, the writing could be on the wall this time. This might be just one deduction too many. He was always aware of the situation, the ramifications of what could happen if we did get relegated to the club. The journey began with it. Free kick, Pittman 30 yards out ahead. Oh, Fletcher left with his strike. It's into the back of the net. The Bournemouth fan. It's one of the best moments in my career, still now. Our attitude was, these are the big boys, coming in, let's have it with you. Still running, Molesley. Yeah! Oh, Mark Molesley! It's into Pittman's path once more. Still he goes out, two players! Oh, what a goal! My friend, Pittman! It was difficult times for the club, but they still showed up in the numbers and backed us when we needed them. You rarely get their moments in your life. When you look back and look at it from start to finish, what an achievement it actually is. If there's ever a time in my 20-odd year career to score a goal, it has to be now. If everything had been easy at the start, I think the story wouldn't have been as good. Well, a season full of drama there. That will be coming out on AFCB TV, completely free on Thursday. Chris, a season 10 years ago, what are your memories of it? I'm looking forward to watching the documentary first and foremost, because often some of these moments they pass you by. I wasn't the regular Bournemouth commentator, then I probably did a handful of games in that season, because I was presenting our programme on BBC Radio Stolen, but a couple of games that I did do, that actually were quite crucial. I seemed to get parachuted in for those ones. I did the Dagon of a Way game on the mid-week night when Mark Molesley popped up with that last-minute goal. My stand-up memory from that as well as the goal is Jason Tyndall coming on in the times when the club couldn't fill the bench. They had nobody fit to play, so Jason Tyndall had to be, I think he'd been registered earlier in the season, I think actually, and just came on. I can't remember who went down injured, but he had to come on. There was no other option. He'll tell you he played this cultured, right-footed, swerving ball down the right-hand side, but basically, I think he just lumped it forward. That basically created the goal for Mark Molesley. I just remember those Bournemouth fans on a pretty grim Tuesday night in Dagonham. I'm not sure there were many great Tuesday nights in Dagonham, but that was particularly grim. But not after Mark Molesley put the ball in the back of the net. And the other game I did right at the end of the run was Chester away, which again just had a really big feeling about it, which set up the Grimsby game here. So yeah, it's going to be absolutely fantastic to relive it, I guess, through the... Ten years is a long time, and you think where this club is now. So that'll be a great night coming up. And we've got the Premier coming up next week down at the ODE, and a lot of ex-players coming as well. And it'll be really nice for them to be reunited with their ex-teammates ten years on. Yeah, and of course, a lot of them are still around the club in various capacities. You know, you think of big Steve Fletcher and Mark Molesley and the likes of Brett Pittman, who's always back here watching, even though he's down the road at Portsmouth these days as well. And of course, I think for the manager and for Jason as well, this was right at the start of their managerial journey, coming in halfway through that season. So again, just to bring back a lot of the faces that they won't have seen too much of as well. All in one room will be really nice. And yeah, if we can stop Steve Fletcher talking about his Grimsby goal, then that's the biggest challenge, I think, of the evening. And we've also got a handful of season ticket holders from that season coming down to the ODE as well. For them, that'll be a really nice opportunity to relive it and, you know, be in a room with all their heroes and remember a key part of AFC. Yeah, and we've got to remember how big a part the fans played back then, you know, in the troubled times when, you know, it was shaking buckets. It was raising money to sign lone players. It was all of those things. And those supporters who went up and down the country who would have been supporting the club for many years before that as well. But, you know, that will be the sort of, I guess, a landmark moment for them as well as when the club, you know, they survived that, you know, ridiculous points deduction and managed to climb the biggest amount, if you like, and reaping the rewards today from that. So, yeah, for supporters today who are watching a completely different brand of football to what they watched back then and different opponents. And, you know, this ground was probably half empty back then. You know, there were 20... No south stand, there was probably 25 away fans used to come and watch their team. So, yeah, absolutely everything about it is now... The rewards, I guess, of what Eddie started and Jason started all those years ago. Well, that's certainly going to be a very exciting watch. As we said, that's coming out on Thursday. Full free on AFCB TV, so do keep your eyes peeled. Now then, our attention does turn to tomorrow's game against Fulham here at Vitality Stadium. Earlier in the season, it was quite the day out at Craven Cottage. Adam Smith falls over off the ball, but Lewis Kirk continues, and our chance for Wilson in the penalty has gone down. And can it, Wilson wins the cherry's the first back kick? Of course he does. It's another penalty for the cherries, and Joshua King is usually the taker. He's not playing. The goalkeeper is Rico. The strike from his Wilson, the score is 1-0 to Bournemouth. Rose is just left of centre, and Bournemouth take an early lead here, and that could be the thing that breaks full of spirit earlier on. Goal. Good penalty. The ones that hit the net always are. I have to say that it's been a really good start for us, the possession we've had, and the attacks we've had has looked dangerous. But that was quite a silly challenge, rather. Our chance for the cherries. Fraser with Brooks 2-2 here. Fraser plays it in. David Brooks for 2-0. It is 2-0! David Brooks seems to love scoring on the road. One at Watford, and now one here in Fulham. And the cherries, despite probably being second best in the second half, find themselves two goals clear and heading for three more points. Thinical, unselfish, what a goal. Fulham attacking us, having a load of possession. The legs just combine to win the ball back in half-time. It's Fraser, who carries the ball 30-40 yards. Brooks, who makes a fantastic run and shoots through the keeper's legs. Fantastic ball. What we talked about before the game, we heard from Ryan Fraser making the right decisions. Unselfishness, that was it there, because he could have gone on himself on the outside. Brooks' run was clever, onside, perfectly timed. He rolled it through the keeper's legs, united next Saturday. Fraser plays it through. Wilson to really put it to bed. What a critique! And the cherries are home and o's. And it's Karen Wilson for the second time in the afternoon, who sends those travelling supporters wild. And once again, Fulham proving their happy hundred-gram for the cherries. Wilson twice, Fulham-Neal, born with three. Well, what a strike. I think he stood him on the post, doesn't he? I know it had loads of pace on the shot. Well, goals from Karen Wilson and David Brooks, craving cottage earlier in the season. Chris, that was quite an afternoon, wasn't it, just like we saw on Saturday? Yeah, and it's a result we referred to a lot, because, of course, it was the last away win from when completely into the River Thames after that, unfortunately. But, yeah, that was a good day. That was when things were clicking away from home. Fresh off the back of the Watford away win as well. David Brooks and Karen Wilson both on the score sheet was a sign of what was to come from them this season as well. So, yeah, back then, Fulham, they've had problems all season, haven't they? Keeping goals out has been the biggest problem and it's a huge transition coming from the championship. We saw Bournemouth struggle to keep the goals out in the first season as well, because when you're playing attractive football, one of the byproducts is that you are going to be more susceptible while you're getting used to this league. And, of course, you're up against better players who will make you pay if you make a mistake or you leave yourself too open. So, that's been the biggest problem for Fulham this season. But, yeah, it was a memorable away day and, yeah, it's a great ground craving cottage and it will be a real shame that Bournemouth fans don't get to go there for at least a season. Hopefully Fulham can bounce back pretty quickly. And, of course, if we can get three points here, we're all of a sudden onto 44 and just one win away with three games to go from that 47, which would be our best ever point. Yeah, I did say, didn't I, last week, that I would only mention it once more if Bournemouth didn't get the three points last week to try and keep that record points total on the radar. So, it is now six from 12, isn't it? Two wins out of four would do it. You could say that this weekend Bournemouth would have to be favourites to get one of those wins. You're looking at the other three games now and going, OK, where's the other win coming from? It's looking hard here against Tottenham to say that would be the win down the road at Southampton Palace on the last day of the season with two teams with, you know, nothing directly to play for, at least if Bournemouth are going to Palace with a chance of having that record points total, that will add a bit of interest to the last day. But, yeah, bringing it back to Fulham, you know, and to the 40 points mark, 44 was what they achieved last season. So, the three seasons in the Premier League, 42, 46, 44, now on 41. It's consistent, that is for sure. Now everyone's saying, OK, well, can you push on beyond that 46 mark, 47 mark? But of course, then you are getting up in towards seventh, eighth European territory. So, but, yeah, just the points got so much, it's only three points, but 41 is so much better than 38. In all contexts. Absolutely, and of course, in terms of Fulham, well, they haven't had the best seed and they did pick up a win last week in a clean sheet as well. So, something to be wary of. Yeah, I think Scott Parker has obviously been chipping away trying to, you know, since he's come in after Yukanovich got sacked, he's come in and obviously done a lot of work on the training ground, which has taken a bit of time to bear fruit, if you like, but that's a great result for them over Everton, that keeps them, Everton, within reach of Bournemouth catching them as well. So, yeah, by all accounts, you listen to the players, you read interviews with the players, read some thoughts from Tom Cairney last week that they're all back in Scott Parker's to get the job permanently and that in the championship with a bit of change of personnel that he can do a great job in trying to get them back up. So, yeah, they just clicked at an, I guess, unfortunate time from Bournemouth's point of view, but Bournemouth have clicked as well. So, you'd like to think that the cherries, you know, back here in front of home fans will be able to build on that performance last week. But yeah, Scott Parker, of course, who, you know, has a Bournemouth connection through Harry Arter as well. So, yeah, it's all set up to be a good game. And it's good to see someone like Scott Parker as well get a chance in management at a pretty big club. And they've got players like Mitrovich Babel, players that can hurt another team if given the chance. Yeah, Mitrovich is one of those who seems to blow hot and cold. You know, he's their top scorer and I think I read a stat. He's right up there in probably the third or the fourth in terms of the number of shots on goal he's had this season without actually managing to score so many. Disciplinary-wise, he can be a bit of a hothead. He obviously had that incident last week with Gomez of Everton, which Gomez has been there disciplined for. But yeah, you mentioned Ryan Babel. I mean, he's come back, hasn't he? Back from his Liverpool days and all of a sudden he's proving himself a useful attacking weapon for Fulham since January, scored and assisted in the game against Everton last week. So yeah, when they signed him, it was like, oh, yeah, he's back in the game, Ryan Babel. But yeah, it's a great signing for them. And they're coming here now with absolutely nothing to lose. They're down. You know, their points total is much of a much just now in terms of they can't really go any further. So nothing for them to lose, really. Not too far for the fans to come. Scott Parker looking to make an impact. So I would say dangerous opponents, but Bournemouth from that point of view, you know, got to be favourites from the way they played at Brighton, yeah. And talking of Bournemouth coming through that Brighton game with no fresh injury concerns, that's really positive. Of course, we saw how good Steve Cook was coming back from injury, too. So lots of positives going into the game. Yeah, pretty much everybody that, you know, has been sort of there or thereabouts is now back involved, aren't they? There's nobody I don't think left on the sidelines who is not going to make it back this season. Or is going to make it back this season rather. So yeah, it's nice for ready to have one or two options. The back four, I'm pretty sure it'll probably keep it the same. I would have thought. I can't really see any reason to change anything in that team. The one person we didn't mention last week was Jefferson Lerner, by the way, who played a part in the third goal with one of those sort of driving runs. I'm hoping Jefferson is going to score a blockbuster by the end of the season, by the way, because we've talked about it in commentary so many times. One of these last four games, Jefferson from 30 yards top corner, make it happen, come on. He does line them up, doesn't he? They're not many of them are close. We've already got the diving header at Newcastle so far, but one's going to go in. Well, four games to go, and you never know what can happen. That's all we've got time for today here on the FCB TV preview show. But if you are coming tomorrow, then we hope you enjoy the game. But if not, make sure you keep an eye across all of our social media channels and our website for the latest updates. Thanks for joining us.