Dreadful game,cant get my head around ollys team selection/selections or mindset, which I seem to be saying to myself and mates all season. Drop our top scorer, play Ingram and have smithies on the bench? ? Just nuts. Brentford were nothing special. Hopefully the hierarchy have a plan for next seaso
Just back... Before the game, despite there being a bit of a buzz in the away end I didn’t like the body language of the team or Holloway who seemed subdued in his snooker outfit. We started so, so poorly. Honestly can’t remember us stringing three passes together in the first half hour. We gave away several corners unnecessarily and just kept giving them opportunities to attack. No real worldie saves from Ingram who again was hesitant on crosses I felt but just under the cosh almost all the time. The goal when it came was still a disappointing one to give away from a set piece and I thought he was going to put it over but a tidy finish into the roof of the net. We came back into it a bit without having a shot on target then got drawn in and done with a good through ball to Watkins who skinned our defence and then punted it beyond Ingram and took the inevitable contact. The Reading-esque home fans weren’t up to speed with the rules and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t a red. More seriously, Ingram had barely moved but after several minutes (only four given for injury time bizarrely) got up and didn’t seem in a good way but Dale Winton would have saved that penalty. Suddenly we had a bit of momentum and actually played some football for about two minutes and carved them open with Sylla scoring on the rebound. Scenes. Limbs. Embracing a 20 stone sweaty skinhead with a St George flag on his head like a long lost brother. Kids flying. Old people fearing for their lives. Trendy teenagers losing their sunglasses. Better than sex. Silence from the 12 (I counted) Brentford fans who had been singing occasionally but were really, really poor given the importance of the game to them for multiple reasons. From 46-65ish we were better but still not good but looked likelier against a pretty mediocre side. Their centre-halves were strong against Sylla’s presence in the way a dog is strong against a crisp packet flying around in the wind. Luongo had one good chance comfortably saved but that was about it in terms of saves from Bentley. Lots of huff and puff but no quality. The winning goal was a lovely move not befitting of the 70 or so minutes before it. The kid who scored was pretty good. Appalling choices from Holloway meant the removal of Smyth when Sylla was half-dead. Not sure how we’ve signed the only Gambian who can’t run but there you go. The long hoofs to the SAS strikeforce did nothing at all. Manning for Bidwell made no real sense even bearing in mind his booking when we desperately needed Eze or a replacement for Sylla. Then in the last seconds a ball spilled across the goal and Sylla did his best bambi impersonation when Gemma Collins probably had the movement required to get there at the back post. Other points: three awful, awful challenges got yellows when all could have been red. Woods very snidely IMO elbowed Luongo contesting a header. Watkins was horrifically late on Furlong then second half Baptiste managed to miss man and ball with what could have been one of the most spectacular leg breakers of the decade. Glorious really. Great crowd, below average from the team, plain crap from Holloway, sadly. Brentford fans seem like nice people to be fair.
Identity crisis? That's another new one. No wonder DT likes Ollie, they both spout total bollox most of the time...
Freeman had a poor game for him and I thought Eze for him may have got us passing the ball better. Maybe Holloway thought it wasn't the game for him and Freman would improve as he usually does. But Kakay seemed to handle the big day for him well and Ingram made some good saves too. Lost the game because they were better than us midfield.
I was expecting a mid table spot this season, and to be honest I'm grudgingly content of our position, given the spectre of ffp hanging over the club, and the lack of quality in the squad it was apparent we were going to struggle. Would love to know the way the management plan to move us forward. is this as good as it gets?
110 posts on a match day thread for a local derby. Are we sick of the season, sick of the team or just sick of football?
I like Ollie and hope the club retains his services. Given the circumstances that he has been given by the management he has been a total success in my book Remember most thought we would never make 50 points and a lot thought we would go down. We have got some brilliant results this year with a team of only fair quality Already looking forward to next season plus watching England fail again and France rise yet again is something to look forward to
All three, plus many are sick of 606 too I suspect. We are getting nowhere with Ollie in charge. Years of mid table obscurity beckon or worse. Goodnight Elsie!
It's It's a new low for me. We like to think of ourselves as rivals with Chelsea whereas in far we are just an itch I the groin for them. That's how I used to view Brentford - a spot on the bum. Sadly, for this season at least, they're overtaken us. If next season is like this, attendance will drop.
Things we didn't know part 2 Ollie's mother died Thursday evening... RIP Sent from my STF-L09 using Tapatalk
Sad about his mother, really sad but in reality that shouldn't effect what goes on on the pitch. Ollie stated that Ingrams injury scuppred our game plan!?!?!? Would love to know how exactly. Were we planning on playing from the back with his distribution or were we hoping he would come out and help press?? Really has to be one of his ****test excuses to date.
Pretty dumb game plan if it gets thrown out the window by a first half sub being required. Did Mrs Smithies have the baby?
