Ah, I see one of my fellow Bees has popped by to comment so nothing new from me I guess.
It's usual for an opposition fan to say ... fan in peace but I can’t say that entirely because I am fucked off with the original poster’s two blogs passed as "views from Brentford".
I am a moderator of the Griffin Park Grapevine where the comments have been lifted from and for some reason only the blogger can explain to you, he has decided to post the worst comments he can find and pass them off to you as “our” view with very little else for balance. If he’s going to do that with every club all season, it seems a bit worthless to me, especially when it’s two hours after a game where most away fans would take 3 hours plus to get home. I thought that kind of shite was for Twitter.
The real view, pre and post-match, if anyone is interested – nobody expected to go to an away ground we don’t generally have much luck at against a team on such a high and expect an easy ride. We do though have high hopes for our season as we too finished brilliantly last year, hung on to our best players (for now) and bought some quality in. We therefore hoped to win - didn’t work out that way but on a different day we could have got something out of that game. It seems you scored when you were on top, we didn’t (we even had a contender for worst miss of the season).
Consensus is we got the midfield wrong in playing three who are generally quite defensive and it is no co-incidence that when we brought more attack minded players on we got on top and finished strongly. So, evidently not under-estimating you. We were also missing a very good player in Sergi Canos on the left who is almost as important to our attack as Jota on the right. There are a few comments that you seemed a bit more ready for the game than us – not happy with that from our perspective as we have often started seasons slowly and it’s not good to hear us being out fought. Huddersfield did exactly the same to us last season.
Anyway enjoy your season and I’ll look forward to the return. This is a tough league as you’ll find but we will work out our best formation in time and we will be a match for any club on our day. If we can remove some of the inconsistency from last season, we’d expect to be challenging play offs at least - our confidence has been knocked back a bit today though. Can’t add to how you’ll do as I don’t know enough about you – I suspect you’ll be strong at home throughout which should see you comfortable so it’s what you do away that will define your season for you.
