Brentford has to win this as it coincides with the overall hopelessness of everything at the club. This is a new low point no question about it. You have to go back to the arse end of the Rupert Lowe era which was worse due to the financial mess that ensued. But this is bad. The entire SR strategy is in tatters at this point
It was definitely worse than the Spurs 5-0. At least against Spurs, we created some chances. And it felt like Spurs were very clinical with their chances. On another day, they don't win that by five. Whereas Brentford had a ton of chances, we had nothing, and the scoreline should have been more akin to the Leicester 9-0 - and without a red card this time.
After some consideration I have gone with Brentford. I feel the Leicester one was a bit of a freak result really that was caused more by tactics and Ralph not adjusting to the red card and hammering we were getting. Madness we were still trying to press instead of sitting in and JWP shoulders some of the blame for that too imo. Whereas the (lack of) application shown on Saturday has swung it for me. The lack of closing down, the slow jogging back, the shrugs of shoulders and giving up when they passed through us. Was appalling in every single way and utterly shameful. I feel like if you replayed the Leicester game five times they wouldn't get near 9 again whereas if you replayed the Brentford one five times they'd score more than 5 on at least 3 occasions.. I will balance this with the fact that Saturday and Spurs were the only ones I saw live and that will definitely play a part. I feel like the Grimsby game is right up there as well. That Saints team was probably 3 times as good as this season's one and we lost a last 16 cup tie to a bottom half fourth division side. Probably not the worst performance but almost certainly the worst result in our history.
Its a three way draw between the Leicester 9-0, Chelsea 6-0 and Brentford 5-0 for me. Leicester 9-0 - Well.... We lost 9-0, can't really say much more than that. Also is not a point in our defence but compared to the other two we were down to 10 men for most of the game and Leicester were absurdly clinical. Chelsea 6-0 - An absolute miracle that this didn't become the biggest defeat of all time in the top division, I have never seen such a dominant performance. It was 6-0 and arguably the goalkeeper was the man of the match, Chelsea hit the post/crossbar multiple times and missed sitters. It could have been anything up to 15-0, it is by far and away the biggest gulf between two sides I have seen in any game including when non-league part timers play PL teams in the FA Cup, the reason it is only joint though is that we already knew that Chelsea were a level above.... Brentford 5-0 - Don't get me wrong Brentford are a very good team... at home, but away they were as bad as us this season until now. So the context is that this was probably our best chance of points out of the remainder of fixtures this season, Brentford had not won away for half a season and had only scored 5 on the road in this time... and they utterly demolished us, again it was luck that it was only 5, it could easily have been up to 8-0 and I don't even think they needed to put that much effort in. So context brings this up to level with the other two.
This is basically it for me. Exact same three games. Can't choose between them because all equally awful and unacceptable.
It is pretty obviously the 9-0 against Leicester. I get why people are saying about context with regard to Brentford, but if you want context then when we lost 9-0 we were a well established PL side that were in Europe & cup finals 3 seasons prior. Against Brentford we had just been promoted via the play offs. Context or no context, that 9-0 is probably the worst home performance of any premier league side, let alone Saints.
