Negativity

[Brentford 4 Life]

I just opened a packet of fruit pastils and the first 2 were both green. That sums it up for me. I only got 1 red and 1 black, all the rest were bloody yellow.

 

[JTofBFC]

Negativity <---- Andy Scott and our style of play!!!!

Exactly, I actually see those of us who want him out as being Positive.

 

[westwing]

I just opened a packet of fruit pastils and the first 2 were both green. That sums it up for me. I only got 1 red and 1 black, all the rest were bloody yellow.

Even fruit pastils are made in China thenlol

 

[scruff puppy pup]

2 tough away games coming up and a potential banana skin at Aldershot on Tuesday night - jeez, I am feeling depressed.

If my theory that we are actually a club treading water, going nowhere, is true, then we'll beat Aldershot on Tuesday and win one of the two away games.
Then the pro-AS bombard the anti-AS's with the usual, and we are re-assured that we are heading for the play-offs, keep the faith, etc, etc. If you look back over the past two seasons, it's actually happened like this quite a few times.

But we're still currently a club playing ugly football and not going anywhere anytime soon.

Still, be positive, eh?

 

[SmiffyBee]

It could be worse.
Anyway we will beat Plymouth and Aldershot and everyone will be happier. Even those who want the beautiful football of Martin Allen to return to GP

 

[KGB]

Smiffy,

Positive or negative, I do think it's slightly ott to be sarcastic about Martin Allen's brand of football after what we saw today - or in our previous two home performances for that matter.

 

[maddogging]

It could be worse.
Anyway we will beat Plymouth and Aldershot and everyone will be happier. Even those who want the beautiful football of Martin Allen to return to GP

 

[magicbees]

It could be worse.
Anyway we will beat Plymouth and Aldershot and everyone will be happier. Even those who want the beautiful football of Martin Allen to return to GP

Ever if we beat Plymouth and Aldershot, the football will still be horrible to watch, today was awful, but no worse then I expected. People have just had enough, without the ST holders today's the crowd would have been less then 4,000. People are just voting with there feet.

 

[RobbeeF]

Funny thing is I actually don't remember Martin Allen's football being bad/poor etc.
The only thing I remember is having a fantastic time as a Brentford fan!
I have missed 7 home games this season (inc today) and that is more than I have missed for God knows how long.

Going to Brentford is not fun at the moment and I find myself looking for excuses not to go. Andy Scott will not change his style of play, he has been giving a budget way bigger than any previous manager and has failed to deliver, time for a change.

If that change is Martin Allen then all the better

 

[Brentford 4 Life]

Funny thing is I actually don't remember Martin Allen's football being bad/poor etc.The only thing I remember is having a fantastic time as a Brentford fan!
I have missed 7 home games this season (inc today) and that is more than I have missed for God knows how long.

Going to Brentford is not fun at the moment and I find myself looking for excuses not to go. Andy Scott will not change his style of play, he has been giving a budget way bigger than any previous manager and has failed to deliver, time for a change.

If that change is Martin Allen then all the better

It was poor towards the end, we were negative but in MA's defence he didnt have much to work with and had to fight an up hill battle so i can understand his "sheepish" decisions. I would love him back now but i would like to think his attitude wouldnt be "us against the world" or "non league hopefuls and league rejects" i would want our image to be a bit more superior (perhaps not the right word).

 

[newbee88]

WE WANT MARTIN ALLEN BACK TO SAVE OUR SEASON

 

[SmiffyBee]

WE WANT MARTIN ALLEN BACK TO SAVE OUR SEASON

Straws for grasping. £1.69 in Tescos

 

[WisBee]

And no this is NOT a direct result of getting a 10 pont infraction yesterday( by the way 10 points? jeez how many to get a full ban?

............................can't answer that, I'm afraid, because all I got last April was a month's ban - no prior warning, no 'number of points' scored, just banned...............................(I think the person responsible must have had some hidden agenda against me, can't understand why he'd think that, of course.....................).........................

 

[WisBee]

AS will recall bush from afc
he wouldn't allow them to play him in the cup
because of the possibility of just this eventuality

..........................and if he doesn't??...................

 

[KGB]

WisBee,

Spillane can play at centre half & Wright also did that at Coventry for a period. Can't say I look forward to the prospect of the latter but MS might do an ok job there.

 

[brooks]

I've seen a great many worse seasons than this, some real grade A crap, but I can't say I am particularly enjoying this season. I can't put my finger on the reason either and suspect it is a combination of over-expectation and the fact that we probably couldn't cut it economically in the Championship anyway. The role model has to be the likes of Doncaster but they, at least, like to play football and get the ball on the ground and pass it which we do not appear to want to do at all. When I first came to GP in the mid-60s the New Road contained a huge amount of moaning old gits and slow handclaps often used to start there. I may have lost the insane "sleeping giant" optimism of my youth but I'm not quite ready to embrace old gittery quite yet. Probably another couple of seasons though.

Don't forget that those 'moaning old gits' had been watching crap football since the early 50's.

 

[Bee49]

I suggest New Road take a look at the Stoke match yesterday.The support from their fans at all parts of the ground was incredible and non-stop.There were little kids sitting on the shoulders of parents and older children with their families singing their heads off endlessly.If only we could generate some belief it might help the team. Otherwise the side will feel nervous about playing at home.It's our job as supporters to get behind the lads as much as it is their job to produce their best and get results.The crowds are very poor this year, it is almost a feeling we're not going to do very well.We have done well in the cups but cannot quite achieve safety in the league mainly due to 4losses at home.All I hope is we stay up and get back to mid table.The problem is this year there is not alot differental in the points of teams near the playoffs and the bottom four.
Get behind the team they need us,keep the faith.

 

[62-63]

Going out of the cup on Tuesday would be a blessing. Even if we scrape through we have a humiliating televised defeat at Dover to look forward to.

Lets play Peter Gilham at CB.

Im sure he used to be a goalkeeper.

 

[slatts]

Going out of the cup on Tuesday would be a blessing. Even if we scrape through we have a humiliating televised defeat at Dover to look forward to.

Lets play Peter Gilham at CB.

Er, didn't get that far. yeh, I did not enjoy saturday as much as i might have done as we were utter crap. It's sad that we have no form, one minute looking fantastic in the League cup games and the next getting duffed by an average MK side at home and then ko'd by 4th div Aldershot. I liked MA, he had charisma and it was always exciting when he was in charge. I am sad to see us in the doldrums with AS at the helm as he got us out of the clag a couple of seasons, won us the 4th div title and then last year to 9th. I would feel a certain sorrow to just chuck him out after a bad start. However, if things continue in the same vein and we are plummeting before Christmas then I am afraid AS will have to go.

 

[SpiderBee]

I've seen a great many worse seasons than this, some real grade A crap, but I can't say I am particularly enjoying this season. I can't put my finger on the reason either and suspect it is a combination of over-expectation and the fact that we probably couldn't cut it economically in the Championship anyway. The role model has to be the likes of Doncaster but they, at least, like to play football and get the ball on the ground and pass it which we do not appear to want to do at all. When I first came to GP in the mid-60s the New Road contained a huge amount of moaning old gits and slow handclaps often used to start there. I may have lost the insane "sleeping giant" optimism of my youth but I'm not quite ready to embrace old gittery quite yet. Probably another couple of seasons though.

The thing is WOB is football clubs rely on the "football factory" theory that new fans will rock up when the older types have had enough and, to an extent, this has worked well at Brentford FC.
I rarely attend matches now for many reasons and when I do, it is ever so slightly out of some long term loyalty and an excuse to catch up with old mates. When I do attend, I spend most of my time (as do those around me) talking about the "good old days", which they most definitely were not. Sure we had some good days out and the odd reasonable season but, in truth, the club has lacked REAL ambition since I started watching in 1974. Those people who are still going regularly earn my full respect and always will.
I believe the club needs a leader who has the vision and determination to take the club up to the next level, remain there, and build for the next push. We have a lot of passionate people running the club but it simply isn't enough. If i knew all the answers, I would tell you. We have genuine fans on the board but I suspect they do not carry any real clout at the top level. IMHO we all have to realise we will never be any higher than we are under the current status of the club without a huge benefactor. It would appear that many fans (BU has 2,500 members I read somewhere) would prefer the fan run option. Fine by me either way but at the present time, few of us are expecting much progress, on and off the field.