Bournemouth fans had seen their club lead 1-0 at Manchester City after 83 minutes.
Then leading 1-0 when the clock passed 90 minutes at home to Everton.
Bournemouth fans though then seeing Man City score twice very late on and Everton grabbing an equaliser in added time.
Taking a 2-0 lead inside 35 minutes against Newcastle United was a dream start, though a Harvey Barnes wonder goal instantly halved that lead.
Nevertheless, Bournemouth fans saw their team leading 2-1 at St James’ Park as the game reached the 88th minute on Saturday…
Bournemouth fans commenting via their message board Up The Cherries…
(Comments late in the match before and then after the Newcastle United equaliser)
‘Really hoping we don’t see a repeat of the last two games. Not winning this game would be criminal.’
‘In many ways holding on for a 2-1 win would do us more good than winning 3-1….wouldn’t do me any good though.’
‘Why are we sitting back so much?
Newcastle are the team that play out from the back, and they couldn’t handle our press whatsoever first half. Just letting them slowly build up pressure yet again, we need to get some fresh legs into the team and revert back to what we were doing before.’
‘I’ve got a horrible feeling where this is going.’
‘Not worried at all.’
‘We need some and subs on pretty quick!’
‘Getting absolutely dominated in the middle.’
‘Would like some changes please mr Rose’
‘No changes needed….everything is going to plan.’
(Jacob Ramsey scores…)
‘Ffs three games in a row.’
‘Bottled 3 from 3. Impressive. Another set piece too.’
‘3 games, 3 leads of at least an hour and more dropped point. This team is unbelievable.’
‘We just don’t have the quality off the bench.’
‘Thomas Tuchel on steroids.’
‘Shout out to the ref who seems to have really peed off the geordies. I thought he was fine lol.’
‘I think the press clearly works for about 60 minutes, then due to fatique (TM) we run out of steam.
Newcastle can bring on a 50 million quid substitute, we have never even payed 50 million for a starter.
Cook and Brooks are not where it’s at unfortunately, and Jebbo would be lucky to start for a league 1 club.
We don’t have depth.
When we lose the ability to press because of fatigue, it looks like we are sitting back.
We just don’t have the depth to keep the press alive when we start replacing the starters.
Fitness will improve, the quality won’t.’
‘I knew that we were in for an afternoon of disappointment as soon as we scored first. I said it at the time as well!’
‘I didn’t see the rest of the game because I put my foot through my telly as soon as we scored.’
‘Just to make everyone feel better, if we hadn’t conceded injury time equalizers in 2 of our last 3 home games last season , we’d be in the Champions League. It’s hardly a new phenomenon for us.’
‘It strikes me that under Andoni, it was quite rare that we went flat out from the first whistle. It felt to me that we often played more of a containment game in the first half, keeping plenty of energy in reserve for the second half – then once we had the momentum with us, then he would bring on “the finishers”. In both away games so far, we’ve done really well in the first halves, but then seem to run out of steam, and lose the momentum, and once that’s happened, it’s very difficult to stem the tide’
‘I would have had either Truffert or Scott as my MOTM, toss a coin. Both brought a steady level of quality among chaos.
Part of the reason the home crowd are so upset with the ref is because the NUFC players had to keep kicking them.’
‘Worrying trends and more points thrown away.
Fantastic.
PS – Rose’s subs and timing of subs are confusing.’
‘AFCB fans on social media today. It’s verging on the hysterical in some cases.
I think some newbies need to take their expectations down a little bit.’
‘Some context needed. 280 minutes been played. Have been ahead for 200 mins and behind for 2! Things will even themselves out in time.’
‘Im as disappointed/gutted as the next fan but we need perspective. We are a handfull of minutes away from being on maximum points. Weve played some tough games, been the better team for long periods and whether through design or not we have dropped back and let those leads go late. For a new manager with a new centreback and arguably our best striker out on long term injury, I think we are in a good place. We need to start scoring proper points and taking what we deserve soon but lets not get too upset.’
‘A reasonable return would have been 3 points from these first three matches, given the fixtures and change in management.’
‘I would have been very happy with more but wasn’t expected it tbh.’
‘What about 2 points?’
‘As has been said before our results probably would have been better if our young striker Kroupi had been in the team.
But he is out injured and the manager has to work with who is available.
Hopefully like with most players and strikers confidence is key, in the case of Evanilson a goal could help him go on a run of finding the back of the net, but he has at least contributed 2 assists so far.’
‘Relax, we will be fine.’
‘People shouldn’t be disappointed about throwing away seven points in three games?’
‘”Throwing away”? Don’t the opposition have any say in the match?’
‘I actually don’t feel particularly negative because we’ve played very well so far but the idea that people shouldn’t be disappointed by getting beat… because we’ve been beat before and eventually won is a new one on me.’
‘For me, City away = defeat, is par for the course. And Newcastle away = draw, is a decent point any season.
I’d like to think we’d beat bang. average, gritty mid table sides at home. So we’re one late and lucky Tarkowski strike away from a start I think most would have been good with that.
Frustrating as hell that we could easily be on 9 points, but equally I’m not burning effigies of Marco Rose like the imbeciles on Twitter.
I loved the football we played at St James’ Park, seeing our use of space and movement from so high up was a joy to watch and we just need to manage the last 20-30 minutes a touch better and we’ll forget this start in no time.’
‘Disappointing to drop points to late goals? Of course, it always is. But at this stage, im happy and reassured by how we look under Rose.’
‘I remember a “ we’ll be fine” attitude at the start of the last season with Eddie in charge.’
‘I like the idea that thoughts on a forum can somehow change the trajectory of a season if we “realise things sooner”.’
‘Bottom line is that we should have been at least 4-1 at HT…Eva and Tavs missed great chances to score…consequently we did what we did at Citeh and tried to defend a lead for most of the second half and got punished.’
‘There is a lack of depth, I don’t think the subs we’ve been making are having any effect when they come on, need Kroupi back and should’ve added more during window.’
‘Apparently Bournemouth were bumping right up against the tougher scr ratio for uefa as it is.’
Andoni would have seen the momentum shift and would have undertaken something right away to help get us back on top of the game. Every time.’
IMO Rose needs to stop hanging the players out to dry like this or things could start to get very messy between the coach and the players.’
‘Everytime?….lol only Newcastle dropped more points from winning positions than us last season……this comparison with Andoni is so lazy.’
‘Three games and the criticism heading towards Rose and the coaching team is over excited and misplaced for the most. One poster calling for Rose to be sacked says more about his character than Rose.
Maybe, I’m one of those after 70 years of watching football, that I have a lot more patience and happy to see us going toe to toe with the bigger clubs, and doing well. I get disappointed, like today, but learnt not to allow my brain and what I’ve watched throughout the game being overcome by extreme emotions by such an ending.
Having thought we’d lose today I was very pleased with the overall performance. Was it perfect. No, but when is it that.’
‘Adams had hardly introduced himself to Barnes before waving him through with a platinum card invite. The game shifted after that.’