Spot on Hucks - Brentford were as good as we were bad - they are certainly the best team to play at CR this season and in Dallas and Pritchard two of the best individual players I've seen all season too. They were organised, well-drilled, zippy, passed to feet (and to their own players), were first to every loose ball and basically wanted to win - they were everything we were not. Well done Bees - you were excellent today.
Bournemouth played well at CR earlier this season but Brentford are the only team to totally dismantle us. Comfortably the best team performance I've seen against Norwich this season. They were very impressive.
I Brentford have had time to develop. Despite the fact we were awful I don't think we would have lost if O'Neil or Tettey had been fit.
How Whittaker survived as long as he did on the pitch before being substituted I'll never know. When Wes was coming on I thought he should have taken Whittaker off then and not Hooper because we would have had Hooper still on the pitch (hopefully) instead of Grabban and he would have probably slammed his chance into the net past the Brentford keeper to equalise and get us a point unlike Grabban who fluffed his chance when all he had to was just beat the keeper.
I suppose the question has to be asked, would adams have been naive enough to play whittaker in midfield?
God, Grabban's miss. I'd forgotten about that! I might try and forget about the rest of the match I really don't think Whittaker was as bad as some are making out. Yes he was at fault for the goal (though a lot happened after he gave it away) but actually he passed the ball quite well. It's not his position though and he shouldn't be playing there. I hate square pegs in round holes solutions. The last manager did it, I don't want AN doing it too
Not to worry boys I bet Neil is busy preparing to bring a load of his mates down from Accies to replace all the deadwood you currently have!
Why is Guru listening to Canary Call? We were more direct today and it was a poor performance all round. We were outplayed for 90 minutes. But we need to be more direct because the tippy tappy nonsense was absolutely dire. All about balance. The balance wasn't right today.
I think AN will have learnt everything he needs from the last three games. We've shown him our best and worst traits in those 270 minutes.
Im having a lovely weekend away in your lovely county, happened to catch it on the radio. By all accounts the crowd really wasn't happy, fancy that a championship side standing up to the mighty norwich city!
Of course the crowd was unhappy! We were outplayed at home by a side who were two leagues below us 8 months ago!! Some of our fans behaviour today, and indeed over the past two years though has been unacceptable. At times it was embarrassing again today. Our board like to tell us we have 'the best fans in the land' but nothing could be further from the truth. We're more of a hindrance most of the time.
To be fair at least the Barclay tried to get things going in the second half today. It is tough to drum up a good atmosphere when the football has been so lacklustre for so long.
