 Welcome to our first preview show of 2019. We hope you all had a wonderful new year and are all looking forward to what's to come over the next 12 months. Today I'm joined by Matchday commentator Chris Temple and we'll be talking very much about the here and now. So let's take a look at what's coming up. We'll be looking back at the Watford game and the 3-3 draw here at Vitality Stadium. We'll also be turning our attention to the January transfer window and then the incoming's all-out goings that could be happening. And finally we'll be looking ahead to Brighton in the FA Cup here at Vitality Stadium tomorrow. But first there's just one place to start and that is with that thrilling 3-3 draw against Watford here at Vitality Stadium. Let's take a look at the short highlights. At the hands of Troy Dini or rather the head of Troy Dini, 1-0. Four formation, Gosling's ball is presently straight to Dele Feu. And now Watford on the counter attack, Dele Feu up against Acay. Dini's with him, he's got support to the right as well. Dele Feu challenged by Cook and Dini puts it in and is 2-0 to Watford. In the village of Lerr as I'm afraid coming back to haunt the cherries again. Gosling on the halfway line gave it straight away and Watford ruthless with their punishment. Cherries-nil Watford 2. I think it was Kingi, sorry, Cookie who got back and actually got a great tackle in, but the ball just bobbled up and spilled off a really black shirt, not sure, but Troy Dini just took advantage of it by side putting it home. Brighton 2-0, it's Fraser and points on towards Steve Cook. The head of back in, Gosling! Still up time, Watford 1, Watford 2. It looked like a set play, Cookie peeled off to the far post, headed the ball back across, and Keefer made an amazing save, but Acay was there just to nog it home for that second goal, actually saying two games. It's going to be Charlie Daniels, now it's going to be Ryan Fraser, who whips the free kick in. Wilson 2-0! Into the cherries with his right goal, and it is 4-2 Watford 2. Well, you have to say what the head of that one is, a well-worked free kick, and I'm not sure about the keeper of this. At one stage, I thought he was getting to that. Over Watford since 1963, Acay jumps with the header on the edge of his own penalty. The shot goes, it's 3-2 to Watford! Irogerys didn't deal with it on the edge of the penalty area, and Sema swung the left boot, and swung the hornets back into the advantage, 3-2. Oh, what a game on that from here. Acay jumps for the original header. Cherry's right, and the cherries pile forward again. Early ball into Wilson, he lets it run for King, who steps over for Fraser! I think there were three dummies along the way before it had actually got to Fraser, gets his head hard and low, 3-3 as you say. What a game this is. Oh, there we go, four goals in six minutes, saw the points shared earlier in the week. Four extended highlights are available on AFCB TV 4-3. Well, Chris, what a game it was. Where do we even start with that? Unbelievable, I mean, let's start with the fact that everybody that came on Wednesday night, it was pretty cold, but they got their money's worth, that is for sure. Yeah, amazing, amazing first half. A few people at halftime were predicting there'd be no more goals, and they were right. But yeah, just ridiculous, I mean, I tweeted my thoughts after the game to say it was a cocktail of attacking quality and chaotic defending, which it was really, because both teams lost the plot defensively. But I think the biggest positive to come out of it, first and foremost was obviously a point, but secondly was a bit more of the attacking flair that's been missing. It's been there in snatches in recent matches, but we started to see that sort of wave after wave, particularly in the second half, the pressure. Again, just the final ball, you know, Jefferson Lerma, we're still searching for a couple of his shots that were heading towards the carpark. But yeah, the Joshua Kings, the Callen Wilson, the Ryan Fraser, the David Brooks streaming forward, even the likes of Dan Gosling, I know he made a mistake, but I thought he had an all-action game as you would expect from him on his first return back. He had, I think, one training session. So he turned in a performance like that, and a game like that, full credit to him for that. But yeah, ultimately Bournemouth probably should have won the game, but everyone comes out afterwards going just like, what a game that was, and some great goals. I think it was at least two dummies for the third goal, maybe even three. And two-nil down as well, it shows that great character once again. We saw it so much last season, but it was back again. Yeah, I mean really on the canvas with the recent results and performances and then two-nil down after 25 minutes, having started the game quite well, mentally that you've got to be digging really deep there. Thankfully it didn't stay two-nil for long, that was the key. Nathan Ackay popping up again, as you've seen him do prowling for those bits and bobs in the six-yard box. So yeah, the fact that they reduced those arrears pretty quickly, because the longer it goes two-nil, the crowd start to get a bit aggy, everybody gets a bit frustrated, you can start trying too hard. So that was the key, I think, and then once Nathan Ackay goal goes in, then all hell breaks loose, and I started to lose count of what was happening to be honest with you. And two-nil down, most fans probably would have taken a draw at that point, but as you say, Bournemouth could have gone on and won it. Yeah, and probably should have. Again, if you're being harsh, you'd probably say that there were certainly enough chances in the second half, Watford has got to the last 15 or 20, they were certainly seemingly looking happier with a point. I think a couple of, well, certainly one very naughty tackle in the game, which decorates amazing when you see the referee's view, how he's decided it's a yellow card, looking right at it on the far side as well. So just an amazing decision that that wasn't a red card. You know, there was talk about Dan Gosling's as well. For me, that was firm but fair. I think yellow was probably right. Officials are looking out for follow-throughs and things these days. You know, we saw a Vincent Company for Manchester City get away with what looked a red card tackle as well. So I'm not sure what's happening in a minute with some of the decisions, but ultimately, yeah, a point's good, three goals is good, conceding three in the first half for the third game in a row, not so good. And you say three goals there, but three different scores as well. Yeah, Nathan Ackay, of course, as we say. You know, you need to send halves to chip in. We see Steve Cook probably more often than Nathan Ackay, but three goals for Nathan Ackay now. He's probably, what is he, fourth top scorer with that, I reckon? Maybe fifth. Obviously, you know, to see Callan Wilson back on the score sheet as well. Now in his record Premier League goals tally for a season of nine. He's got 11 if you include his cup goal and his England goal as well. So yeah, from that point of view, and Ryan Fraser, of course, with that great finish for the third one. And he's already missed a great chance as well. So for him, that was important to put that away. And everyone's seen his interview after the game, that face that's doing the rounds on social media over the last couple of days with Troy Dini. So, yeah, that was a memorable moment for him as well. And of course, it's been such a tough run of fixture, so it's so important to get a point on the board, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. Like, you know, look at the pressure games of the past few weeks of Brighton here in the league, Huddersfield here. They were the pressure games that had to get something from. Probably need to win actually both of those. Some would have said, you know, would have said running up to the Watford game, probably need to win that one as well. But it was just such a mad game that that's what everyone ends up talking about. If it had been a dull 1-1, I think everyone would probably be saying, oh, well, do you know what, points are not very good. But actually, you know, the way the game panned out, the performance in the game, albeit defensively still porous, but I think that's, you know, it's given everybody a bit of hope. And now we look forward to the FA Cup this weekend. And with those festive fixtures pretty much out the way now, how do you assess that period? That's a tough one, but there's been some important points along the way. Yeah, there has been a few important points. November and December hasn't been a good period for Bournemouth in the Premier League. They seem to get dealt the hard fixtures in those few months. I don't know if you'd rather have them then than right at the start of the season when you're still trying to find your feet in the season. I think you'd rather probably have a chance to get up and running with a few games that you'd be expecting to get something from. But you definitely don't want them all back-to-back, the big teams. So, yeah, they'll be absolutely delighted to see the back end of December rather. Wasn't a great month. But then we're still talking about a record breaking start to the season. So it's not like we want to write off 2018. We just want to write off the last month of it or so. But in that month, you know, brightening just before Christmas, hopefully that result will give them some confidence to take into this weekend. And despite those tough fixtures, they're still in a very respectable position in the league 12th on the table with all those fixtures out the way now. Yeah, you know, won't play Manchester United again this season. There's one of the big six out of the way completely, for example. Chelsea not too far away in the fixture calendar as well. So they'll be out of the way as well. But, yeah, in terms of the table, I've said it many times, the middle portion of the table is so tight. You know, West Ham and Brighton drawing in midweek. Cherries and Watford obviously drawing, taking points off each other in that middle section of the table. A win or a couple of wins is going to be worth four or five places every time now. The key is just to make sure you stay in that middle section. Keep flirting with the seventh sort of eighth position rather than the 15th, 16th position. That would be the nicest thing, nice end of it to stay. And now moving on to January, we've obviously got the transfer window. Can we expect much business to be happening there? Eddie Howe's favourite time of the year. He particularly loves talking about it. That is for sure, not. Yeah, I mean, speaking to Eddie after the game at Manchester United, I sort of got the vibes that they weren't that hopeful of getting anything done particularly quickly. He just couldn't guarantee anything. It was more of a sort of a, we're going to try, but I can't say we're going to. So I don't know, I got a feeling then that they weren't that close to anything. I think the wheels probably are turning a bit faster in the background, whether that was Eddie playing his cards close to his chest or whether things have moved on quickly in the last couple of days. So, yeah, they certainly need a couple of bodies, I think, mentally as well to see some reinforcements come in. Dan Gosling's obviously back because that's a great option to have. Adam Smith, I think, is probably maybe two, three weeks away possibly from being back in first team contention. So there's a couple of bodies coming back, but this is saying they don't pick up any more problems. So I think definitely why you've got the opportunity to strengthen you need to. Right back will be one of the priority areas I'm sure with Simon Francis out because Adam Smith comes back and I've only got one right back. I don't know Eddie wants to have cover. So, yeah, and the outgoing, you know, the talk about Jermaine Defoe going to Rangers, it looks like that one's going to happen. No real surprise there because he hasn't had the minutes he would want here. And I'm sure that Bournemouth would have wanted to give him when they signed him and the amount of money they've been paying him as well. So from that point of view, probably a good move all round, I think, does make the squad one body lighter, but who's to say that some striking reinforcements won't come in? Who knows? And just in terms of Simon Francis there, Eddie Househead in his press conference this morning, that it was almost like losing a centre back and a right back. So it really goes to show how important he is and how much they kind of need to get someone into. Yeah. And when you look at this weekend, I was sort of trying to pick a sort of a ghost team in my head as to what Eddie might do this weekend. And you're looking at sort of central defence or the number of defenders available. And one of the centre halves regularly I think is going to have to play. Nathan Acker, he had a problem at Old Trafford, so I'd be amazed if he plays in the FA Cup. So I would guess, as we're standing here now, Steve Cook will probably have to play, because even if you play a back three, you still need Steve Cook, let's say Jack Simpson and Tyrone Mings, for example, come in as well, because you haven't got a right back to put in there unless they play Charlie Daniels or Diego Rico in a back three. But even then as you move forward, you're starting to feel the other holes and if Jermaine Defoe is heading off, he probably won't be involved. So up front you've got Lice Moussa, and we'll talk more about this later on, but in terms of options, so Simon Francis, to go back to your point, covers a couple of positions, can be shuffled around in when cup games come along. We have seen him play cup games. So yeah, the defensive options, particularly at the moment, are limited, yeah. And in terms of Dan Gosling, it's obviously great to have him back. We know Jefferson Lerner is only one card away from a two match suspension. Is that an area they should be looking to strengthen as well? Well, having Dan Gosling back is a bonus. Emerson Hyman, obviously, has come back from Hibernion at the end of his loan. I'm not sure whether he may go out on loan again. Possibly not back to Hibs, but possibly somewhere else. There's talk of that. He hasn't obviously had much of a chance in the Premier League. He's played the one game at the back end of last season against Burnley on the last day. He's been in Scotland. He's done pretty well in the Scotland Bowl accounts in both the spells he's been there. Of course, the SPL with the greatest respect isn't the Premier League. So I don't know if he is an option in terms of Premier League, really. So you've got Lerner, Sermon and Gosling. So they may be looking at a central midfield area. We've seen Brooks and Stanis last tried there and doing an admirable job filling in, but they're not central midfielders with the greatest respect to them, their strength or elsewhere. Junio Stanis has his strength is now right back, so it appears from the other night's performance. But yes, so central midfield could be an option they're looking at, I think. Certainly Gosling being back still needs to be careful with his return. Jefferson Lerner, as you say, on the brink of that ban. Probably worth just clarifying that ban as well, because we were talking about the FA Cup game. If Jefferson Lerner was to play against Brighton in the FA Cup, if he gets booked in that game, that's not his 10th booking. There's been a bit of confusion from supporters about the change of rules this year. So if he got booked against Brighton, that's one booking in the FA Cup. You need to get booked twice in the FA Cup to miss an FA Cup game. It's completely separate from the Premier League. So hence if he got booked against Watford in midweek, he wouldn't have been banned for the Brighton game. Any booking he would get if he does play, I'm not sure if he will, wouldn't count for the 10th booking. And just a word as well on Aaron Ramsdale, he's going on loan to Wimbledon. It would be great for him to get some minutes as well. He's in a difficult position there at Ramsdale because he obviously came down from Sheffield United and he's an England age group keeper and an under 20 goalkeeper. He's done well at the national level. There's a lot of talented English goalkeepers around and he's managed to keep himself in the national setup without playing any minutes. He's obviously had loan spells in the past. He went to Chesterfield didn't he? I think he got injured. So I think he's another one who could do with certainly benefiting from getting some games. He would appear to be down the pecking order a little bit here in terms of he's obviously got Begiritch and Borich and Mark Travers has been the sort of next cab off the rank if you like in terms of the goalkeepers Jordan Holmes as well. So yeah, I think important for him to go and get some games. Absolutely. Well next up for the Cherries is Brighton and I hope I'll be in here in the FA Cup. We faced Chris Huthinside just a few weeks ago so let's take a look at the highlights. Here's David Brooks. Nicely fed by Joshua King now. Brooks on to his left foot. Opportunity to shoot still. Brooks shoots! There it is! That's shooting once. Then opened up some more space and drove it beyond the despairing dive of Matt Ryan into the bottom right-hand corner. Brooks is back on the score sheet as are the Cherries after three blanks in a row. 21st minute. Won that up on Brighton. The way things stand at the moment. Everton could go back above them with a win over Newcastle. In fact they're not playing Newcastle tomorrow are they? Now towards Brooks for a second! Game intact on it and the ball loops agonising over Matt Ryan and dropped into the corner of the net and Bournemouth now at last do have some breathing space. Well there we go, a double from David Brooks securing the three points for the Cherries. Chris it's going to be a very different game tomorrow isn't it in the cup? I think so. It's a difficult game in the calendar for both teams. There's only two all Premier League ties in the third round of the competition by Bournemouth against Brighton and Wolves against Liverpool. I imagine it's going to be the same for both teams in that they've both had a heavy Christmas period of fixtures. They've probably got one or two knocks carrying in the squad. So both will make changes. Just doing a bit of early research on Brighton. A lot of their players that they're likely to change I've got to say haven't heard of them much about. There's a lot of sort of unknown foreign names in there as well. So yeah how much Eddie and his staff have been able to glean and having not seen a lot of them as well. Whereas a lot of the Bournemouth sort of next I guess the next best players if you like the ones who haven't played as much are much more recognisable names. So I imagine Brighton's preparation is probably a bit easier than Bournemouth for this game. But yeah two teams in the same area of the table main priority is to stay on the league. Brighton got to the quarter finals of the cup last year so they had a good run. FA Cup hasn't been good to the cherries out in the third round to lower division teams in each of the last two seasons. So you know I guess for one sense if you're playing a Premier League team who are in the same boat as you I guess at least you're matched in terms of your ambitions. Whereas when you're playing a lower league team they are clearly trying to knock out a Premier League team so it's probably a bigger game for them if you like. But Eddie said all the right things in the press are what you'd expect about obviously they want to win it of course they want to win it, they're professionals. The game sold out which is brilliant. A lot of fans who don't get a chance to come and see the team very often will be able to come in the cup which is also fantastic as well. So yeah from that point of view people always talk about the FA Cup being a good avenue for a team like Bournemouth to have some success but Eddie's hands are tied slightly because they have had so many injuries they've had such a busy period physically demanding games as well as the frequency of games that he just has to make changes and there will be players coming in who haven't played very much. But you know they've played in the league cup recently quite a lot of them, you think of the Jack Simpsons and people who've played well at Chelsea recently in the league cup so quite a few of them are coming off the back of a relatively recent good performance so hopefully from that point of view they're not too rusty if you like in terms of match action. Jack Simpsons and Lee Smith it's a great opportunity for them to go and get some minutes in front of a home crowd as well. Jack Simpsons has been a regular in the league cup for a couple of seasons now he was good at Chelsea, they kept Chelsea out for a long time it was only Azar that came on and changed the game in the league cup late on Lee Smith say we saw him putting a great performance in that game as well he's always been ahead of Jermaine Defoe in the pecking order to come off the bench for Premier League matches late on I think he needs a goal Lee because it'd be great to see him hitting the back of the net so I'm sure he will be the number 9 carrying the team's goal for scoring threat against Brighton in the cup so for those players great opportunities Jordan and I we've seen him in the Premier League recently it will be another chance for the likes of Rico you would think as well Andrew Sermon probably I would expect to play considering he didn't play in midweek Jefferson Lermer is an interesting one because he didn't play at Man United so he's had a game less than a lot of the other regulars there's a week to recover after this game but they probably wouldn't want to take a risk with him that's the only thing I can think of in terms of injury so from that point of view who knows so centrally Emerson Hyman's back he's available would he go straight in he's only just come back to the club as we were talking on Friday he's only just back at the club for the first time today so I don't know if it's a bit quick to suddenly be in the team tomorrow but yeah options ready to rotate but like everybody I'd love to see Bournemouth do well in the FA Cup but I think there are a lot of factors that make it difficult absolutely and we saw them have such a good run in the Carabelle Cup can they take anything from that going into the game? yeah any cup runs is good for confidence of course it is the thing is in this country the FA Cup has that much more prestige than the league cup so I think if you are supporters at the start of the season would you rather have a run in the league cup or the FA Cup everybody would probably say FA Cup I'm sorry if you prefer the league cup but everybody would say FA Cup I'm sure the final at Wembley in May it's one of the biggest occasions in world football to see who's rotating players and leaving players out for a team like Bournemouth who are top 10 material in the Premier League if the big guns are focusing on something else it's a great opportunity to go far the raw stats are that the big sticks have won 27 of the last 32 FA Cups so when you get to the latter stages suddenly the stronger players start coming out the top teams rotated squads are better than obviously by the natural evolution of the Premier League squads their next best players are better than Bournemouth's next best players so from that point of view it's a hard competition to go far in you need some luck in the draw Bournemouth have had no luck in the caribou cup when they've got to the quarterfinals they've always drawn a big 6 team so a home game against a team of similar level is not a bad draw so if they could come through it then get a bit of luck in the next couple of rounds they could go far, we're not writing it off for people to think I'm sounding a bit negative but it's difficult when you've got other priorities put it that way don't want to go somewhere too far away when they've got a big Premier League game coming up again next week that was the thing about Steve Cook's equaliser against Wigan in the last season's third round because it set up a replay away at Wigan which I'm not sure was anybody's ideal which the series of course went on and lost as well so yeah even if it went to a replay it's only a little triple on the coast thankfully it's just the extra game that is not necessary at this time of the season so yeah home draw and as I say that's one thing that a lot of fans who can't get into the ground for Premier League had three home cup draws in the league cup so a great chance for them to get in and watch the game and it's nice to be and it will be Saturday lunchtime it's a south coast clash, Brighton were here they're probably sicker coming to Bournemouth I'm sure because they came here twice in quick succession last year and have done the same again this year but their cars probably drive themselves here I imagine but yeah from that point of view it's a decent game here and just finally it's worth mentioning as well that we've got VAR here tomorrow yeah VAR we saw it at Chelsea of course where a penalty decision was quickly referred and sort of turned down if you like I mean the more decisions that go wrong in the Premier League it can't come soon enough there have been too many decisions recently yes of course it's a hard job we know absolutely it's a hard job but there have been so many that have been wrong recently that it cannot come soon enough VAR it's coming in next season so any game that has it has got to be a bonus they'll still be clang as I'm sure next season we'll still be talking about but you know I think it certainly eliminates the major errors I'm sure if we had VAR here on Wednesday then Dukuro would have been sent off guaranteed absolutely well that's all we've got time for today if you are coming to the game tomorrow here against Brighton we hope you have a great day and we'll be back next week to preview the game against Everton thanks for joining us