5 away wins so far

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Silent Blade said:
And we have not reached the halfway stage yet
Impressive!
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I've moaned for a month that we look powder puff away from home. I actually think it's more that we've played teams that set up to defend first and specifically to nullify us. Brentford backed themselves to just be better - 4-1 to us would have been a fairer score. Hopefully we continue to play well against the better teams and start to Nick wins against the teams that change specifically for us.
 
Newbury Blade said:
Tonight was our first (and only) win in November, and our first in a month, to the day (4-2 v Wigan, 27 October). Not a true reflection of the way we’ve played as we deserved 4 points v Wednesday and Forest.
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I disagree on Forest, we were average at best.

Great result tonight and another 3 points from a tricky game.
 
We shouldn't be getting too carried away over this result. There will be a few putting it down to Wilder's genius in swapping the team around and so on but the bottom line is Brentford are a shit team and their league position confirms this, they are in a relegation battle. Saturday will be a better test of where we are (and I've no worries about this personally by the way)
 
snootyfenooty said:
We shouldn't be getting too carried away over this result. There will be a few putting it down to Wilder's genius in swapping the team around and so on but the bottom line is Brentford are a shit team and their league position confirms this, they are in a relegation battle. Saturday will be a better test of where we are (and I've no worries about this personally by the way)
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Thing is, they're really not. The departure of Dean Smith has coincided with their fall.

They have plenty of players I'd take.
 
Scooter_mcgavin said:
Hmm, not sure I agree, thought two teams that for most part nullified each other. 0-0 fair result.
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Fair opinion to have. I thought that for a team of cloggers like Forest that they actually played better football than us at times and looked far more likely to score than we did, not saying they were good by any chalk but I thought they offered more than we did.
 
Further evidence to back up that they're not really that shit and their run is false:

1-1 Leeds A
0-1 Bristol C Home (* 10 men)
3-4 Preston A
0-1 Norwich A
2-0 Milwall H
3-2 QPR A
1-2 Boro H

Defeats Narrow and vs in form Boro, QPR and Norwich sides.
Draw at Leeds
Bristol Defeat they pumelled BC before man sent off and was a last min goal
Preston away isn't exactly a shock.
 
derekacorah said:
Fair opinion to have. I thought that for a team of cloggers like Forest that they actually played better football than us at times and looked far more likely to score than we did, not saying they were good by any chalk but I thought they offered more than we did.
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It was definitely a poorer performance from us. Very much similar to 75 mins of the game last season (where the first 15 we were superb).
 



Scooter_mcgavin said:
Ok, they're shit.

They were probably thinking the same about us if you go by the stats of our last 7 games too.
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You must be following a different team to me. We lost two out of the last 7 and of the other games we should have buried two of the teams who we drew against. Not exactly shit. Last nights result was a fair reflection of where the two teams are at the moment. I think you should have a trip to the docs, seems like you haven't yet shaken off last season's attack of Brentforditis.
 
snootyfenooty said:
You must be following a different team to me. We lost two out of the last 7 and of the other games we should have buried two of the teams who we drew against. Not exactly shit. Last nights result was a fair reflection of where the two teams are at the moment. I think you should have a trip to the docs, seems like you haven't yet shaken off last season's attack of Brentforditis.
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But you watched our games, you have no idea how Brentfords games have gone.

The stat that they've had more shots than any other side shows they're not quite as shit as you believe.

I think you need to think a little beyond...they're near the bottom, they're shit.
 
snootyfenooty said:
You must be following a different team to me. We lost two out of the last 7 and of the other games we should have buried two of the teams who we drew against. Not exactly shit. Last nights result was a fair reflection of where the two teams are at the moment. I think you should have a trip to the docs, seems like you haven't yet shaken off last season's attack of Brentforditis.
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I'll wager they finish top half.
 
Carlton Blade said:
I've moaned for a month that we look powder puff away from home. I actually think it's more that we've played teams that set up to defend first and specifically to nullify us. Brentford backed themselves to just be better - 4-1 to us would have been a fairer score. Hopefully we continue to play well against the better teams and start to Nick wins against the teams that change specifically for us.
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Who's Nick and where does he play?
 
1993 said:
Including all 3 London away games. Wonder if we've ever done that before?
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We're 100% for the season in London then because that's us played our full complement down there. If we can win at Wigan and Preston we'll be 100% for Lancashire as well.

0% and shite return for the East Midlands , yet to be tested in East Anglia and West Midlands.

Work's a bit slow this morning.
 
In theory, the way we play should give us an advantage playing away from home. The onus is normally on the home side to attack a bit more, which should leave more space for us to capitalise, whereas at home, sides tend to be much more defensive and we have struggled on occasions to break them down.

That said, we'd been awful in our two previous away games prior to Brentford, at Forest and Rovram.

The performance at Blackburn has been perhaps the 'perfect' away performance so far.
 
If we can repeat that in the 2nd half of the season and maybe cut down some of the losses to draws then we might have a chance of play offs
 



Saturday 1st December - Sheffield United 12:30 Leeds United
Saturday 8th December - Reading 17:30 Sheffield United
Friday 14th December - Sheffield United 19:45 West Bromwich Albion
Saturday 22nd December - Ipswich Town 15:00 Sheffield United
Wednesday 26th December - Sheffield United 15:00 Derby County
Saturday 29th December - Sheffield United 15:00 Blackburn Rovers

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