| An honest opinion. 17:45 - Aug 19 with 3151 views | powinswitch |
I think we mugged them today. Not pretty, not really a great deal of football, and not many chances fashioned. But I was proud of my team and club today. With that injury list, and not one real centre back in the side, they were awesome. Absolute commitment, throwing bodies into challenges or blocks, and stifling a decent football side. Playing for your mates, and helping each other out. A real team effort. Knudsen was terrific. Great stuff
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| An honest opinion. on 17:46 - Aug 19 with 3125 views | J2BLUE |
Kevin Beattie disagreed. He said if the game went on another three hours they wouldn't have scored. Doesn't sound like much of a mugging. |  |
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| An honest opinion. on 18:00 - Aug 19 with 3006 views | BlueBadger |
Early flurry aside, Brentford offers very little, in my view. That's not really a mugging. |  |
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| An honest opinion. on 18:04 - Aug 19 with 2955 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
The answer is somewhere in the middle on this thread. Tuesday was more of a mugging IMO
Still defended deep 2 up at home hmmm |  | | |
| An honest opinion. on 18:07 - Aug 19 with 2911 views | WD19 |
| An honest opinion. on 18:04 - Aug 19 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
The answer is somewhere in the middle on this thread. Tuesday was more of a mugging IMO
Still defended deep 2 up at home hmmm |
Had a brief chat with Neil Harris yesterday. He hadn't got over the other night and how 'lucky' we were. |  | | |
| An honest opinion. on 18:15 - Aug 19 with 2827 views | Swansea_Blue |
Didn't see the game, but it's amazing the difference a couple of goal scorers make to results. Garner and Waghorn looking like the missing pieces of the jigsaw. I don't think Mick can do anything other than play cagey, ugly and tight. But with the goal threat up front we could have a decent season even if ugly at times. Not a bad start in any case! |  |
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| An honest opinion. on 18:19 - Aug 19 with 2776 views | lowhouseblue |
they looked the more likely to score for much of the first half. but we contained them, frustrated them and the second goal finished them. i agree it was attitude and commitment that won it for us. but no one had a bad game for us - the back 4 battled and looked comfortable for much of the second half. brentford looked a decent side though. |  |
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| An honest opinion. on 18:25 - Aug 19 with 2722 views | pointofblue |
I'd be worried if I was a Brentford fan this season. To go up against no centre backs and not really put on sustained pressure is pretty unimpressive however it's dressed up. I think they missed Anita today but considering we're missing first team defenders and midfielders we're going to have to grind and rely on luck at the moment - and it's nice to have some of it working in our favour for once as, since our Play Off season, we haven't really had any whatsoever. | |
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| An honest opinion. on 18:59 - Aug 19 with 2597 views | brightlingseabee |
| An honest opinion. on 18:25 - Aug 19 by pointofblue |
I'd be worried if I was a Brentford fan this season. To go up against no centre backs and not really put on sustained pressure is pretty unimpressive however it's dressed up. I think they missed Anita today but considering we're missing first team defenders and midfielders we're going to have to grind and rely on luck at the moment - and it's nice to have some of it working in our favour for once as, since our Play Off season, we haven't really had any whatsoever. |
I'm not over worried although the second half was the worse we have played this season, you won at a canter in the end apart from one Vibe shot tipped over by Bart we never looked like scoring in the second half, we are too much tippy tappy at the moment and need to stop trying to walk the ball into the net, missed Jota today, if we don't have width we never really play well, thought your young lads done well, you had a game plan and it worked, btw thought it was a penalty in the lead up to your first goal, our man barged into the back of your player, I was right in line with it.
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| An honest opinion. on 19:04 - Aug 19 with 2561 views | sixtouchfootball |
Mug teams all season if we have to. We've been mugged off for 15 years. |  | | |
| An honest opinion. on 19:50 - Aug 19 with 2447 views | mikeybloo88 |
You're not allowed to say anything on here other than we are brilliant...but good man for trying. |  | | |
| An honest opinion. on 19:52 - Aug 19 with 2439 views | 3_5_2 |
Here here.
Spot on mate.
If we had drawn or lost even, you could not have faulted the effort or desire.
Knudsen was very very good [Post edited 19 Aug 2017 19:54]
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| An honest opinion. on 20:18 - Aug 19 with 2367 views | RegencyBlue |
On the evidence of today we are much more resilient this season than last - personally I think we would have lost this badly last season in the same circumstances. |  | | |
| An honest opinion. on 20:23 - Aug 19 with 2324 views | pointofblue |
| An honest opinion. on 18:59 - Aug 19 by brightlingseabee |
I'm not over worried although the second half was the worse we have played this season, you won at a canter in the end apart from one Vibe shot tipped over by Bart we never looked like scoring in the second half, we are too much tippy tappy at the moment and need to stop trying to walk the ball into the net, missed Jota today, if we don't have width we never really play well, thought your young lads done well, you had a game plan and it worked, btw thought it was a penalty in the lead up to your first goal, our man barged into the back of your player, I was right in line with it.
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Apologies, I meant you missed JOTA, not Anita! I think my spellcheck must have done an auto-correct and I missed it when posting.
Looking at the highlights, I think McGoldrick might have just been on the edge of the box so it would have been a free kick rather than penalty.
I guess you didn't have the players available to play with width? I thought your best bet would be to really try and stretch the play, trying to move inexperienced centre backs out of the middle. In the first half you really looked to close us down which did give us problems - we never like teams doing that to us. Once we had the goal we were clearly not bothered with possession and you couldn't put that side of the game into action. I think at the moment we're almost better off the ball than on it. | |
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| An honest opinion. on 20:24 - Aug 19 with 2317 views | GavTWTD |
I thought Brentford were really poor and offered little apart from an early shot in the first half. I do worry about what will happen when we meet better teams but "you can only play the team in front of you". Perhaps by then our crazy injury list will be shorter. |  |
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| An honest opinion. on 20:36 - Aug 19 with 2256 views | Kropotkin123 |
| An honest opinion. on 20:24 - Aug 19 by GavTWTD |
I thought Brentford were really poor and offered little apart from an early shot in the first half. I do worry about what will happen when we meet better teams but "you can only play the team in front of you". Perhaps by then our crazy injury list will be shorter. |
Even if what we are playing is relegation fodder, it is a relief that we are unlikely to be amongst them on, based on the results so far. After the 6-1 defeat to Charlton, we had little to suggest we would do better than "struggling but safe". |  |
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| An honest opinion. on 22:34 - Aug 19 with 2097 views | Herbivore |
| An honest opinion. on 20:36 - Aug 19 by Kropotkin123 |
Even if what we are playing is relegation fodder, it is a relief that we are unlikely to be amongst them on, based on the results so far. After the 6-1 defeat to Charlton, we had little to suggest we would do better than "struggling but safe". |
Brentford had about 20 shots but I don't think any of them were actually from in our penalty area. They were pretty much all pot shots. For all their possession we always looked more threatening imo. |  |
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