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SH said:
I'm with you Jockbee. I've seen every play-off cock-up and near miss for 40 years so this isn't knee-jerk. Someone posted Rudyard Kipling in another thread:

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same

We're still in it for gawd's sake. Get a grip and we'll go up... and then we'll laugh all the more about it's Brentford innit :sorted:
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If you can meet with Tranmere and Doncaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
 

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my take is simple and positive. ln life you rarely get a second chance. we have.the alternative is to cave in. battle lost.win the war.
 

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Kettering Bee said:
I've just had a word with him and sadly he doesn't share my vision. I think we've lost him.
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I tried too :(

He's a cult hero on here( to me anyway ) and I find it a shame that those who normally lead the fight are going AWOL.

VftB is guilty too but I think he'll be back in a couple of days :)

The opinion formers going missing is not what is needed.

We need leaders of men!!! Perhaps it is your moment Kettering Bee.
 

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Just trying to get some positive vibes.......seems some people agreed with me......even on Beesplayer they said it was still in our hands.....we may have lost the battle ..but not the war.....I thought that we would win yesterday.....one kick away from the Championship....it felt like a kick in the goolies to me....however I have learnt how to roll with the punches....after 64 years.....about attending the games....if somebody could put me up for a couple of days.....save me paying...Travelodge...Premier Inn prices....bee most grateful....almost forgot the travel expenses...and beer money.....as always....YOU REDS...:sorted:
 

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taxi driver said:
I tried too :(

He's a cult hero on here( to me anyway ) and I find it a shame that those who normally lead the fight are going AWOL.

VftB is guilty too but I think he'll be back in a couple of days :)

The opinion formers going missing is not what is needed.

We need leaders of men!!! Perhaps it is your moment Kettering Bee.
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Let's give them time to get it out of their system their way - both are diehards and better servants to this club than most players that have ever donned the red and white. NBs' mates need to work on him, VFTB I only really know by sight but he could still be found doing his best work yesterday moving undesirables out of the New Road, sure he'll be back.
 

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sonofabee said:
Let's give them time to get it out of their system their way - both are diehards and better servants to this club than most players that have ever donned the red and white. NBs' mates need to work on him, VFTB I only really know by sight but he could still be found doing his best work yesterday moving undesirables out of the New Road, sure he'll be back.
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like good old arnold thingymebob...."i will be back" lol depression subsided today.....still cant believe we're not in the championship this morning though :(
 

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Voice from the Braemar said:
like good old arnold thingymebob...."i will be back" lol depression subsided today.....still cant believe we're not in the championship this morning though :(
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Good to hear and like you still doesn't seem real - I really thought we'd do it but feared we'd run out of time and ideas until the ref blew for the pen. At that moment it just felt like it was fate and the whole Sheff Utd episode made perfect sense - King Kev was ready to slot the pen that wrote him into folklore and fired us into The Championship.......I really ought to know better. lol
 

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I keep on checking news reports to see if I dreamed it all. I'm a few thousand miles away so had to follow it all on twitter. Crushing. At the time I feared a knock like that would dent confidence irrecoverably. Maybe I'm right, but I think the way uwe has handled the penalty fallout should galvanize rather than deflate the lads. Hope so anyway. :owusu:
 

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7 is a lucky number. It's our time and no better way than to see the lads win silverware at wembley. We'll do it the hard way, but do it in style. COYFR.
 

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I had the perfect antidote today .....my sons team, which I coach, needed 1 point to wrap up their league. They won 9-0 and its the first time they have won anything at all in 4 years of trying.

Proud dad tonight
 

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Well, I've started my campaign. Some of you may have seen me on the FL show with Clem. Lol

Everyone deals with grief differently and many of the characters are struggling with it.

For me, I have to get back in the saddle and go again. I'm not prepared to throw away a whole season's travel and support. In my opinion, this is the time that our young group of players need our support and I would hope the players will make an appeal on Bees Player this week to get as many to Swindon as possible.


taxi driver said:
I tried too :(

He's a cult hero on here( to me anyway ) and I find it a shame that those who normally lead the fight are going AWOL.

VftB is guilty too but I think he'll be back in a couple of days :)

The opinion formers going missing is not what is needed.

We need leaders of men!!! Perhaps it is your moment Kettering Bee.
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Well the numbness has subsided and the depression has set in. I feel genuinely low, and can't face anyone at the moment. I keep replaying the penalty in my head, with O'Connor tucking it into the bottom left hand corner, sending Sullivan the wrong way.

I certainly haven't got a grip yet, but I will be there at the Swindon game.

Also, the thought of going to work tomorrow makes me even more depressed. Surely I should get a couple of days compassionate leave for this?
 

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I have decided to give the play offs a miss,yesterday did me in the worst feeling ever in the 50 or so years in supporting the club.l was going to cancel my weekend trip to Getafe in Madrid that is on the same date as the playoff final but I am def going and if we do go up l will have no regrets celebrating in Spain.At least I can then put all these years of disappointments down to me being a jinx at the club.
 

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we will have a beer in your absence bill up the Winchester . ps don't get too sunburnt voice will get jeal;ous lol
 

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wibs said:
You're missing the point.
No-one is blaming anyone for not being thethere, people are simply saying somehow this was something unlike all the other heartache people have experienced.

Therefore if you weren't there I don't think you actually can imagine what it's like, and simply lump it in with big game defeats previously suffered.
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Those of us who were not there know EXACTLY what it was like!!! It f***ing hurt big time!! I remember going to Bristol City in 93 and coming out numb and driving back to Bournemouth with mates, none of us uttered a word. Yesterday and today felt a lot worse. Going to work tomorrow will feel horrendous, at least some of you have got QPR supporters to take the p out of, ive got a bunch of annoyed Bournemouth supporters!!
 

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I can't make the play-off final, I booked a trip abroad knowing that we wouldn't need the play-offs or if we did I wouldn't be able to face another final. If I can get myself sorted in terms of mood, I will get to the semis.

I found myself sitting in between two men considerably older than I yesterday.

On my right someone who first attended in the 1940s. He told me that soon after we were relegated from the first division, it broke his Dad's heart and his Dad never returned to Griffin Park, eventually converting to being a Brighton fan. I asked him at half time how confident he was, feeling fairly upbeat myself with our play to date. He grimaced, shrugged and said something along the lines of 'it's Brentford...'.

The man to my left got there just before kick off, he walked with the aid of a stick and had had a terrible journey of delays and difficulty. I marvelled at how he got up and down the New Road steps, it took him a long time to sit down and getting out of his seat was a struggle. His hands shook which meant that opening his bag of Fishermens Friends was a task and a half. I didn't get a chance to have a chat with him, wish I had.

My two new friends either side of me reached across and held each others hand for a few moments as we kicked off. No words were exchanged, they didn't need to be.

I learned from them both. On my right I learned that if I am going to support this club I need to temper my passion with a quiet resignation, resilience as a supporter of BFC is a long game not a short one.

On my left I learned that no matter how hard done by I feel there are many of you who have had a far worse time, watching a great club slowly decline. And yet you are still able against the odds and in poor health to turn up and support the team you love.
 

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Voice from the Braemar said:
like good old arnold thingymebob...."i will be back" lol depression subsided today.....still cant believe we're not in the championship this morning though :(
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I would concur with sonofabee mate. Again know you by sight but I thought your ejection tactics were excellent. In fact you run up the steps quicker than any of Donnie's back four could have.

I salute you sir ;)
 

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I reckon my old man is up there with God chipping away in his ear..."this is the most unlucky club in history, 6 play off defeats, the first and only team to lose a game in the lucky end at the millennium, the team that finished second in the only year there was one automatic place, the late goal versus reading, 5 final defeats ect."

God said, hang on, what about 91?, what about 2000? what about 2009? .... haven't you forgotten about those 3 championships you won?....oh yeah says my dad, forgot about those, but still we have been pretty unlucky trying to get to a higher place and we were cheated out of the championship by the ref versus notts county.

OK, OK, I will give the poor suffering bar stewards a beak says god, I will give them a penalty in the 94th minute but you are on your own after that.

The rest I am afraid is history.

However I still think my dad is up there chipping away.
 

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its hard to take and rosler send trotta back now he ain't wanted .To do what he done was hard enough but against team orders i wouldn't take it on my watch with lads under my command ...
 

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I wasn't at game due to my work etc and i was gutted .My heart goes out to all who was there and saw it , gobsmacked is all i can say ....Gobsmacked i tell you!!!!!
 

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The pressure finally got to them and the team simply self-destructed at the most crucial, pivotal and final hurdle - victims of thier own making.
 

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After 93 minutes yesterday, I was more or less content in the knowledge that the Bees were sadly not quite good enough to get promoted automatically. Then came the most critical decision that Mr Oliver gave in an afternoon during which he did not give much in our favour. The players’ ‘my ball’ fiasco offered nothing to reassure any of us and then it was back to the same old Brentford.

What’s all this ‘New Brentford’ tosh? I feel as down trodden today as I was after the play-off semi against Huddersfield Town back in 1995.

Do I blame Marcelo Trotta ?

Did I blame Jamie Bates after his shoot-out miss in the play-off semi against Huddersfield Town ?

NO.

Had Marcelo’s drive been millimetres lower, it would have gone down as one of the best penalties seen at GP in donkeys’ years. Had Sullivan stood up, it would have taken his head off!
In the cold light of day, the Bees won just two of the 7 league games they played during the month of April. Many chances to gain sufficient points to win promotion were missed during April. Trotta simply missed our last chance.

Now it’s down to the plays off once again.

Will it be 7th time lucky? This is the club that were given the Millennium Stadium changing room that had seen its previous 12 occupants win their final. Brentford don’t deal in luck when offered to them.
 

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If you take away the goals Trotta scored against Crew Sheffield utd & Hartlepool we would have not even been in a position to go up automatically.
 

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It's got progressively worse today rather than better as it has gradually sunk in that we were one kick away from the championship and blew it. I feel drained and depressed contemplating an early start for work tomorrow. The one bright light on the horizon - Swindon away next Saturday. Crazy, isn't it? It caused me utter despair this weekend and I can't wait to go through it all again next week!
 

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TuckerBee said:
If you take away the goals Trotta scored against Crew Sheffield utd & Hartlepool we would have not even been in a position to go up automatically.
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If he hadn't failed to score with numerous attempts vs Bury and Walsall and if he hadn't been absolutely abject vs MK Dons we may have scored more and secured enough points for yesterday to not matter. Too many if's for me.
 

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TuckerBee said:
If you take away the goals Trotta scored against Crew Sheffield utd & Hartlepool we would have not even been in a position to go up automatically.
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Take away being the right words. Take him away now. He must not play for us again EVER!!!!!!
 

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'Kettering is our leader', 'Kettering is our leader'. however I like NB will not be travelling on Saturday. I do have an evening engegment that I need to attend but part of me (and I hate to say it) is quite pleased I cannot attend. I still cannot get the vision out of my head of when Olver blew his whislte for the penalty. He took up this reallly strange pose and held his forearm out in front pointing to the spot as if he was fencing. Thereafter time stood still. I said before the game 2-1 Bees comimg from behind to win but after seeing the first 45 mins I revised my toughts and made two comments returning to my seat for the 2nd half...... they were 1) We will now win 1-0 and Trotta will score and 2) Oliver has been fairly non-controversial for the 1st half I wonder if he will give us a penno!... Alas only one of my thoughts came true! Hats off to those travelling to Swindon.
 

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There's an awful lot of bullshit on the gpg today.

If it's helping to alleviate the pain for fellow supporters, then feel free to carry on, gents.
 

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Yesterday was almost indescribable. Very nervy. I don't know if the fans were jittery which made the players jittery or the other way round. I do know that a lot of people were nervous. We have seen and experienced so much 'nearly there' moments over the years that we almost expect to fail. Understandably. We all had the desire for Bees to win, but did we have the belief? I had the desire, and the hope but I'm not sure I had the belief. If Kev had taken the penalty he could have tapped it and it would have gone in because we all believed it was his and our time. Now we need to desire and believe we can and will win the playoffs because the footballing gods are making life difficult for us, either just to make life tough or only let us be promoted when we are ready and able to stay there for more than one season. I believe this squad and manager are more than capable. Now we need some or a lot of Martin Allen's PMA. We have the desire and wherever in the world Bees fans are, we all need to believe. COYR.
 

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mhead bee said:
I reckon my old man is up there with God chipping away in his ear..."this is the most unlucky club in history, 6 play off defeats, the first and only team to lose a game in the lucky end at the millennium, the team that finished second in the only year there was one automatic place, the late goal versus reading, 5 final defeats ect."

God said, hang on, what about 91?, what about 2000? what about 2009? .... haven't you forgotten about those 3 championships you won?....oh yeah says my dad, forgot about those, but still we have been pretty unlucky trying to get to a higher place and we were cheated out of the championship by the ref versus notts county.

OK, OK, I will give the poor suffering bar stewards a beak says god, I will give them a penalty in the 94th minute but you are on your own after that.

The rest I am afraid is history.

However I still think my dad is up there chipping away.
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:D
 

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clad1 said:
Yesterday was almost indescribable. Very nervy. I don't know if the fans were jittery which made the players jittery or the other way round. I do know that a lot of people were nervous. We have seen and experienced so much 'nearly there' moments over the years that we almost expect to fail. Understandably. We all had the desire for Bees to win, but did we have the belief? I had the desire, and the hope but I'm not sure I had the belief. If Kev had taken the penalty he could have tapped it and it would have gone in because we all believed it was his and our time. Now we need to desire and believe we can and will win the playoffs because the footballing gods are making life difficult for us, either just to make life tough or only let us be promoted when we are ready and able to stay there for more than one season. I believe this squad and manager are more than capable. Now we need some or a lot of Martin Allen's PMA. We have the desire and wherever in the world Bees fans are, we all need to believe. COYR.
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i can't entirely agree with you, the atmosphere in the ealing road stand was electric and even the sitting stands got into a bit of singing and shouting. i thought it all felt very positive and supportive (as it should be) up until the stunned silence. but i do agree the need to shift expectations quickly and make all of us all realise that there is still something very real and possible to aim for.
 

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Reasons to be cheerful:

1 - the team isn't going to get broken up at the end of the season.
2 - Saturday was a setback, but we are still in it.
3 - the players and management seem to totally understand that our season did not end on Saturday and that we are still in it. Redemption is now key.
 

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Sheffield United have been in the play offs six times and never won it, the losers!

:kingkev:
 

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This setback should make the team stronger. I'm sure if Uwe detects any player who isn't 120% focussed then he won't select them. I can't think of a greater motivation to succeed this time around.Men to the front-rest to the back.
 

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Doovster said:
I would concur with sonofabee mate. Again know you by sight but I thought your ejection tactics were excellent. In fact you run up the steps quicker than any of Donnie's back four could have.

I salute you sir ;)
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lol apparently they were all "neutrals", so they said..............with yorkshire accents...........i nearly fell for it lol
 

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One thing we will have in our favour in the play-offs is EVERY neutral in the land will be wanting us to win them now.
 

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Pleased someone else noticed the offside. Wouldn't make any difference to us but Bournemouth must be gutted at having the championship taken away by a totally useless lino.
Gonads2 said:
Sick, cant think straight. There was actually a 30 second spell as I woke this morning, from an alcohol induced coma, when yesterdays horror was forgotten. As it came flooding back I put myself through the FL Show just to make sure I was remembering it all correctly.......still can't believe it.

Not only did we miss a penalty but the Donny goal was also 10 yards offside (for what it matters) my son and I were sat in line when the ball was passed for the tap in.

That said, thought we played well yesterday and were in complete control, it doesn't matter now, width of a post, a missed penalty and an offside goal. We MUST look forward but this is going to take a bit of time to shake off for me.
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I don't believe the player was off-side when the ball was played to him.
 
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