Brentford (A) 16/03: Build-Up & Match Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

Cannot see anything other than a comfortable home win I'm afraid. They're very good at home, we won't be able to deal with Igor Thiago and we have no creativity anywhere.

------------------------Sa------------------------

-------------Mosquera----S Bueno---Krejci--------

Lima---------A Gomes---André---J Gomes-----H Bueno

-----------------------Mané-----------------------------

-----------------------Arokodare-----------------------------

2025/26: L 0-2 (H)
2024/25: D 1-1 (H), L 3-5 (A)
2023/24: L 0-2 (H), W 4-1 (A), D 1-1 (A, FAC), W 3-2 (H, FAC)
2022/23: W 2-0 (H), D 1-1 (A)
2021/22: L 0-2 (H), W 2-1 (A)
2017/18: W 3-0 (H), D 0-0 (A)
2016/17: W 3-1 (H), W 2-1 (A)
2015/16: L 0-2 (H), L 0-3 (A)
2014/15: W 2-1 (H), L 0-4 (A)
2013/14: D 0-0 (H), W 3-0 (A)
1992/93: L 1-2 (H), W 2-0 (A)

 

[Tony Towner]

Personally unless injuries dictate otherwise I wouldn't be starting Angel Gomes again, he's leaking he won't sign for the Championship, so what's the point?
DWs team with Bellegarde for him but we all know Lima isn't coming off the bench let alone starting

 

[Alan]

@Deutsch Wolf who's the last with us and Brentford? I thought I knew the squad that wore that kit (10/11, not that you need telling) inside and out, but I don't have a clue who that is.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

@Deutsch Wolf who's the last with us and Brentford? I thought I knew the squad that wore that kit (10/11, not that you need telling) inside and out, but I don't have a clue who that is.

Marcus Bent

 

[sycophantia]

Personally I'd be starting Armstrong. Potentially bringing Tolu on last 20 minutes if required.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Personally I'd be starting Armstrong. Potentially bringing Tolu on last 20 minutes if required.

I really don't think we can play Armstrong as a lone #9, we have no out ball at all when we do that

 

[Derby Wolf]

 

[Alan]

Marcus Bent

I suppose this makes sense given I "knew" the roster () entirely by FIFA and that game had a 3rd shirt for us that didn't actually exist (probably a Burrda masterclass).

You can thank Burrda for my being here, come to think of it. So move them up a peg or two on your "Shit Shirt Manufacturers" power rankings (which I know you have one, don't play coy).

 

[sycophantia]

I really don't think we can play Armstrong as a lone #9, we have no out ball at all when we do that

Yeah its a tricky one, maybe play both (although Tolu is a striker version of Tchatchoua). Take Angel out of your team.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

 

[Alan]

Yeah its a tricky one, maybe play both (although Tolu is a striker version of Tchatchoua). Take Angel out of your team.

From what I know of Angel (admittedly secondhand for the majority), I don't see that he offers us anything but a body. Not because he's shit, but because we don't make runs that suit the passes that he wants to play.

That's not necessarily anyone's "fault", per se, but it does break him as a player.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

One for @Elephant Pyjamas :

No picture of Dave Beasant this week as he didn't play for Brentford, but check out his fucking keeping here on the winner (3:25). I'd be fining him two weeks wages for that

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

This is when I knew we were going up in 2014

Three lovely goals too

 

[Derby Wolf]

Jamie Smith played for both. Can't find a picture of him for Brentford though.

 

[Alan]

This is when I knew we were going up in 2014

Three lovely goals too

I genuinely can't describe the nostalgia of these highlights for me. You know, I only really committed to supporting the club after Hunt's goal against Blackburn (which I impress British people by being able to describe, which is a neat bonus). So my first season giving a fuck for realsies was 11/12. Obviously, not a fun season to watch, and for the first time, I could, every weekend. NBC spoiled us those first few years by using their entire cable suite; every single PL match was broadcast and streamed (with the exception of the biggest games that got on NBC proper) live. Every single one. Let me watch Agüeroooooooooooooooooo as it happened; count myself lucky being able to see that.

And so, we got relegated. And I couldn't watch any matches. So I went looking for alternative sources, and *ta da*! I am here.

Anyway, that season was also absolutely awful, obviously. We got, what, 6 matches broadcast? I definitely recall being able to catch the end of Ståle's false dawn, a 1-0 against... Blackburn? Boring game, late winner from Sako that came out of nowhere (but a deflection so by his standards it was kind of scuffed). And then we lost. Again. And again. And again. And Karl Henry was a dick. And Wayne Hennessey was a dick. And Roger Johnson and Jamie O'Hara and Dean Saunders were fucking Defcon 1 cunts. And, yes, Kazenga LuaLua at Brighton put Doherty into the ground about a dozen times on the final day as we went down.

Fun couple of years for someone just trying to follow a club in the game!

Then League One, and I couldn't follow nearly any game, but I had here. I knew we had a manager with a shocking resemblance to a gerbil, we still had Bakary, some Irish fuck who seemed like a complete dillweed but could score and take the piss, etc etc. Getting those highlights, seeing us win, seeing Michael Jacobs play like Goddamn David Silva, Nouha fucking Dicko oh my Godddddd give me another player like this in my lifetime... Players having fun. Supporters having fun. Shit, y'all having fun! What a way to turn around those first two seasons of... "damn, this soccer thing might suck".

Wait. What thread is this?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

One for @Elephant Pyjamas :

No picture of Dave Beasant this week as he didn't play for Brentford, but check out his fucking keeping here on the winner (3:25). I'd be fining him two weeks wages for that

Jesus - just a "here you go pal, here is half my goal to aim at"

Also in the build up to that goal, Paul Blades - what are you doing!? (I thought it was Kevin Ashley before checking...)

Burke and Cook looking good in that team in that game though.

Burke with a ripsnorter of a strike.

Cook just casually pinging 60 yards passes (or hoofs...) with little to no backlift.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Paul Blades - what are you doing!?

A sentiment I had for many years in the mid 90s

That's a horrible back four and keeper!

------------------Beasant------------------

Blades---------Mountfield-----Madden----Edwards

I could deal with Mountfield to a point but the rest can absolutely fuck off

 

[Alan]

Oh, and shout outs to James Henry, whom @Lycan once said I was a dead ringer for, which remains the most flattering internet compliment I've ever received.

He may or may not have been the photo I passed to my stylist.

Oh, uh, Henry was also pretty good at football. Really did score some bangers down there. Shame he couldn't quite step up (as with most of that squad, really).

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Oh, and shout outs to James Henry, whom @Lycan once said I was a dead ringer for, which remains the most flattering internet compliment I've ever received.

He may or may not have been the photo I passed to my stylist.

If you put him and Adama in the machines in The Fly, you'd have one of the greatest wingers in footballing history in one pod. And someone who wouldn't get a game for The Dog and Duck in the other.