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They knocked it around better and they had a couple of chances and they looked like the Bournemouth we all liked last season.
We'll have a closer look at those incidents in just a moment, but Alan, you were out there amongst it all.
What was it actually like, this first league game?
Well, at times it was flat, Dave, you know.
I mean, they didn't have much to shout about, did they, for large parts of the match.
I think they wanted to get behind the team and the West Ham fans did every now and again burst into song.
But I suppose they'll all have to get used to it, a bit like the Arsenal fans have at the Emirates.
It's a different sort of feeling here than it was at Upton Park.
But, you know, some people that were here for the Juventus game, when they did score and played better, they said the noise was incredible.
I mean, the way it's designed, apparently, it is designed to keep in the noise.
So once they get used to it, feel at home and get the voices behind it, 57,000 fans or 54, 55, whatever, for the home contingent, it would be a noisy place to come, I think.
Seems like some players are still getting used to the enforcement of one or two laws as well.
One or two still being caught with this dissent, Jamie.
Would this have been a yellow card last season, do you think?
Absolutely not.
Winston Reid got caught as well.
He got a yellow card for dissent.
But it's something the referees are implementing.
Is that a yellow card?
He didn't seem to have sworn, did he, or anything?