Bournemouth documentary

Watched a documentary on Sky about the rise of Bournemouth last night and it was a brilliant insight into how to rebuild a club from the day they avoided relegation to the Conference up to the PL.
Had to relive them pumping us to secure promotion last season but well worth the watch. An object lesson in living within their means, totally engaging the fans and the local community, intense training and recruiting players with "the right attitude" without paying silly wages.
Even if they get stuffed and relegated this year, they will make a packet and I have no doubt they'll invest it wisely.
What was noticeable is that they learned a lot from us i.e. how not to run a football club. Experienced players looking for a final payday were given short shrift or fair contracts, usually short term. Training is the most intense that e.g. Sylvain Distin has ever experienced. Everyone including the fans is bought into the idea of austerity and now they're reaping the rewards.
But more than anything else, it gave an insight into the type of player required to achieve success on a limited budget. Not as limited as ours currently is, but "what we could have had" when we did have some money to spend.
Recommend all Wanderers fans watch this if the opportunity arises.

Just had a look but it's not available on Sky Catch Up, so that's that then.......

It'll no doubt be repeated at some point though.

wanderlust wrote: An object lesson in living within their means

Ha Ha Ha

It's amazing what a Russian can do for a club who were minutes away from liquidation.

£25 million in loans and writing £10 million a year loss off.

If Bournemouth lived within their means they'd be playing Havant and Waterlooville in the Vanarama Conference South now.

Copper Dragon wrote:

wanderlust wrote: An object lesson in living within their means

Ha Ha Ha

It's amazing what a Russian can do for a club who were minutes away from liquidation.

£25 million in loans and writing £10 million a year loss off.

If Bournemouth lived within their means they'd be playing Havant and Waterlooville in the Vanarama Conference South now.

theres nowt wrong with the vanarama national league south...

It was a great city in the 90's.

Can't believe how far it's fallen honestly.

Copper Dragon wrote:

wanderlust wrote: An object lesson in living within their means

Ha Ha Ha

It's amazing what a Russian can do for a club who were minutes away from liquidation.

£25 million in loans and writing £10 million a year loss off.

If Bournemouth lived within their means they'd be playing Havant and Waterlooville in the Vanarama Conference South now.

They had about £5 million debt at the time they survived in 2008 and no sign of a buyer. Demin came along three years later in 2011 by which time they had already been promoted to League 1 and were pushing for the playoffs.

The numbers involved serve to highlight our plight. We are stuffed.