You can almost understand Eddie Howe’s thinking. With a top-half position in the Premier League to safeguard and eminently winnable games against Hull City, Watford and Crystal Palace ahead, he risked it and rotated.
A full rotation, too, for this FA Cup tie, with all 11 players sent out here different from the side that faced Arsenal in midweek. Against League One opposition, it must have seemed a gamble worth taking.
But, as we all know by now, the FA Cup can bite those who disrespect it and Howe’s Bournemouth reserves were well and truly mauled by Millwall.