With the Cherries winning convincingly at Bloomfield Road, and results elsewhere going kindly, AFC Bournemouth are now clear at the top going in to the Festive season.
Following the 6-1 demolition of Blackpool, manager Eddie Howe was quoted after the match in the Bournemouth Evening Echo as saying: "It has been a good day but I don’t think we will look too much at the table at this stage. It is just about trying to get wins because we are still in the first part of the season. I’m delighted with where we are and where the team is at the minute but there are big tests to come with plenty of twists and turns. I don’t think we expected to be where we are. I don’t necessarily think the individual performances are surprising me, maybe more how quickly the team is developing. We are in there at the minute but we don’t want to get too carried away with ourselves and say we can achieve things at the end of the season, we just want to keep ticking along. The second goal was very important for us. We dominated without creating many chances in the first half but that is not out of the ordinary for us. When you dominate the ball as we do, there is a period where you are trying to wrest control of the game. Once you do that and the game opens up in the second half you like to think that your dominance will help you and that was certainly the case. We looked very fit and strong and like we could score at will".