October Newsfile

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It would be nice to think that we have turned a corner. Last term it was an own goal by Plymouth at Ninian Park that changed our season, we then went on a winning streak and cruised to the top of the table and the rest as they say is history. I'm not suggesting we can race through the division that easily this time but a win tomorrow would set us up nicely for consecutive home games against Orient in the Cup on Tuesday and against Chesterfield in the league on Friday. We have seen a shake up of the players. Jarman and Thomas have been transfer listed, several players were dropped for the mid week game against Blackpool, Josh Low made his debut and impressed. Change is needed and seems to be happening. Yes we still need a quality goalscorer but he's not going to pop up by tomorrow. As you may have guessed by now I'm ever the optimist but we are not suddenly a bad side, we need freshening up and sorting out. As I say that seems to be happening to some extent.

Team news for tomorrow. Four players have been added to the 16 that were on duty against Blackpool. Willie Boland, Craig Middleton, Scott Young and Mark Bonner have been added. So a squad of 20 have travelled to the South Coast. The only injury doubts hang over Tony Vaughan and Matt Brazier. Both will receive fitness tests in the morning.

Bournemouth go into the game on the back of a 3 - 0 reverse at Preston on Wednesday. The Cherries are 6 points ahead of us with two games in hand but they are not playing well at the moment. It appears the fans at Bournemouth now go to matches fearing the worse and the feedback I have had is that they are not confident of winning at all. Pre match though this is all psychological. Roll on 4:45pm tomorrow and three points.