Thought we'd get a 0-3 or worse tonight. At least the goal difference didnt take a bashing. And a striker scored.
Any sort of positive result would have been magic. Brentford are the most difficult team in the league to play against, so at least we earnt 3 points off them this season.
Better team won, we played as well as we could given the squad, huge 2 games coming up need 4 points as a minimum, hopefully both Millscum and Brizel win tomorrow 🙏🙏
Feel like people complaining about the subs need to realise that it's more a mark of our lack of squad depth than bad tactics from Bowyer. Williams doesn't have 90 minutes in him when he's at his peak match fitness and he's barely been judged fit enough to appear in our games so far from the bench. Field has come back from a knee injury that was supposed to end his season and before the restart hadn't played since October. These were forced changes and it's just a shame that we don't have equivalent players on our bench when changes needed to be made. It's hard to swallow as we were winning until 75 mins in but if we take these performances into our upcoming 'winnable' matches then we should be ok.
Very disappointing in the end as we were good value for at least a point today. Brentford very good there, you can see how they’ve been scoring for fun. Field was injured I think and Williams was knackered so I don’t really think Bows could have kept them on.
Could have got something, although the stats say we would have been fortunate. On another night we could have shipped 4 or 5 so the positive is that we've protected our goal difference.
Assuming the 12 point deduction for Wigan, we are in reality 5 points clear with 4 games to go. I would have bitten your hand off for that when we restarted.
Didn’t expect anything, but so pissed off with the manner of the defeat. A couple of the substitutions were laughable. Don’t want to knock Bowyer as the tools at his disposal aren’t great, but he needs to get a bit of tactical nous on-board. Whilst we were backs to the wall for the most , Doughty and Williams are our best form off attack....not much good sitting in the stand.
Honestly thought after the first 3 games back we had a bit of backbone, but after the last 2 games we are only heading in one direction.
The best first half for a long time. If we play to that standard over the next three games we should get some good results. Cullen, Field, Foster Caskey and Williams in midfield is a decent Championship level when on form.
Feel like people complaining about the subs need to realise that it's more a mark of our lack of squad depth than bad tactics from Bowyer. Williams doesn't have 90 minutes in him when he's at his peak match fitness and he's barely been judged fit enough to appear in our games so far from the bench. Field has come back from a knee injury that was supposed to end his season and before the restart hadn't played since October. These were forced changes and it's just a shame that we don't have equivalent players on our bench when changes needed to be made. It's hard to swallow as we were winning until 75 mins in but if we take these performances into our upcoming 'winnable' matches then we should be ok.
And a striker scored!
Gotta find something else to moan about though - Surprised Phillips isnt getting anything for that spilled shot that hit him in the chest
Trouble is a lot of Lifers have been proven wrong already after saying we didnt have a hope in hell post-Millwall
All over the place at the end. Midfield confused with all the changes lead to them all leaving Brentford's most influential player to stroll at free will.
Aneke looked like he'd already played 80mins when he came on!
A goal from open play, only -1 on GD and however frustrating, I was anticipating worse. Bonus was the 1-1 draw at the foot of the table. The next three games, as all have been saying, are the all important ones and 2 wins from those three should do it, ideally one of those against against Wigan.
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Any sort of positive result would have been magic. Brentford are the most difficult team in the league to play against, so at least we earnt 3 points off them this season.
3 far more important games to come, 1 win and a draw should be enough...maybe even less than that.
Worry we start thinking too much about the next game before we have finished the current one.
Poor not to close down the cross that led to thewinner, but the players had been chasing the ball for the last 30 minutes which is bloody tiring.
It was a free hit - we nearly got something. we didn't. We move on.
Dont just sit there and bemoan decisions from Bowyer, actually suggest what he should have done better?
Chill
Trouble is a lot of Lifers have been proven wrong already after saying we didnt have a hope in hell post-Millwall
Midfield confused with all the changes lead to them all leaving Brentford's most influential player to stroll at free will.
Aneke looked like he'd already played 80mins when he came on!
Stick him up front at the end and tell him to draw fouls.