collioure_bee
Vital 1st Team Regular
That's all you can say really. If ever the happy clappys needed proof that the experiment wasn't working, surely even those with their heads stuck furthest up their arses can now see it has screwed up. Big time.
I still don't understand us not only not moving forward on what we'd built, but changing direction completely when we had the best manager, squad, football and support we've had in my time at Griffin Park. We were one of the best footballing sides in the country and now look at us. Hoping there are three worse sides than us in the division. And I'm not sure there are.
Today was, in the main, gutless. Last week we were brilliant, lady luck shone against us and we were unlucky. The week before we deserved more. Today we were back to the Brentford we'd been seeing at home to Barnsley and at Wolverhampton and home to Fulham. It's getting to be a habit.
We have a great quality striker who is offside so often linesman need to go to the doctor for tendanitis. Surely he should learn the rule? Get back now and then and give us eleven players on the pitch and not just ten. Backed up by Vibe today (and I use the term backed up very loosely). Vibe did nothing. Absolutely nothing except try and beat KK's record of eighty nine minutes on a pitch invisible. Smith cruelly ripped that award from him when he quite rightly substituted him. Woods was awful yet again. What was he doing for their first goal? Not the first time he's done it either. His free kicks were excellent if he was aiming to do damage to the one man wall he managed to hit twice in succession before succeeding to hit second man instead much to the anger of his team mates. Another call Smith got right. Anything good was coming through my outfield mom, Barbet and Sawyers, who Smith then took off. Nico is a player I like but he was ineffective today and I'd have changed him instead. Clarke tried hard and had a half decent game. But whereas we were unlucky the last two weeks. Today we were lucky. Very lucky. Bentley stopped it being the defeat it could have, many would say, should have been.
I reserve the right to criticise right the way to the top because no matter how much money you put in it doesn't mean you are right. And someone was not right to change things, just when, for the first time in my forty nine/fifty years they were going right. That has now been proved. He has to shoulder the blame as much as Smith who is getting all the flack. I think Smith deserves much of the flak he's getting too. He just stands there on the touchline, hands in pocket, bellowing out the odd instruction, doesn't seem to have any motivational skills and seems bewildered as to what to do next. The squad he has to play with is second rate compared to what we had, (and being as I am constantly told to look where we were, I will do just that. We were a promotion chasing team that others feared). How weak is a squad that has KK and Hoffman on the bench, and I am sorry, but I am not getting this KaiKai thing. He's been overblown in my humble opinion.
Something has to change in this next transfer window. We need a good few players of quality to come in and get rid of some of the expensive sh*t on the bench, even if we pay people to take them. If we don't, I fear trips to Fleetwood and Port Vale will be on offer and we won't need to look back to where we once were. We'll be there.
Am I being too moany? Maybe. Probably even. But I love this club and I would rather moan now in the hope that moaning fans will get heard and listened to before it's too late. That said. Just watch, one win and the happy clappys will be out from under their rocks again, asking where the moaners (or realists) are.
Oh well. Burton next. Up the Bees!
I still don't understand us not only not moving forward on what we'd built, but changing direction completely when we had the best manager, squad, football and support we've had in my time at Griffin Park. We were one of the best footballing sides in the country and now look at us. Hoping there are three worse sides than us in the division. And I'm not sure there are.
Today was, in the main, gutless. Last week we were brilliant, lady luck shone against us and we were unlucky. The week before we deserved more. Today we were back to the Brentford we'd been seeing at home to Barnsley and at Wolverhampton and home to Fulham. It's getting to be a habit.
We have a great quality striker who is offside so often linesman need to go to the doctor for tendanitis. Surely he should learn the rule? Get back now and then and give us eleven players on the pitch and not just ten. Backed up by Vibe today (and I use the term backed up very loosely). Vibe did nothing. Absolutely nothing except try and beat KK's record of eighty nine minutes on a pitch invisible. Smith cruelly ripped that award from him when he quite rightly substituted him. Woods was awful yet again. What was he doing for their first goal? Not the first time he's done it either. His free kicks were excellent if he was aiming to do damage to the one man wall he managed to hit twice in succession before succeeding to hit second man instead much to the anger of his team mates. Another call Smith got right. Anything good was coming through my outfield mom, Barbet and Sawyers, who Smith then took off. Nico is a player I like but he was ineffective today and I'd have changed him instead. Clarke tried hard and had a half decent game. But whereas we were unlucky the last two weeks. Today we were lucky. Very lucky. Bentley stopped it being the defeat it could have, many would say, should have been.
I reserve the right to criticise right the way to the top because no matter how much money you put in it doesn't mean you are right. And someone was not right to change things, just when, for the first time in my forty nine/fifty years they were going right. That has now been proved. He has to shoulder the blame as much as Smith who is getting all the flack. I think Smith deserves much of the flak he's getting too. He just stands there on the touchline, hands in pocket, bellowing out the odd instruction, doesn't seem to have any motivational skills and seems bewildered as to what to do next. The squad he has to play with is second rate compared to what we had, (and being as I am constantly told to look where we were, I will do just that. We were a promotion chasing team that others feared). How weak is a squad that has KK and Hoffman on the bench, and I am sorry, but I am not getting this KaiKai thing. He's been overblown in my humble opinion.
Something has to change in this next transfer window. We need a good few players of quality to come in and get rid of some of the expensive sh*t on the bench, even if we pay people to take them. If we don't, I fear trips to Fleetwood and Port Vale will be on offer and we won't need to look back to where we once were. We'll be there.
Am I being too moany? Maybe. Probably even. But I love this club and I would rather moan now in the hope that moaning fans will get heard and listened to before it's too late. That said. Just watch, one win and the happy clappys will be out from under their rocks again, asking where the moaners (or realists) are.
Oh well. Burton next. Up the Bees!