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Credit to Frank, looked a much better performance today (admittedly gleaned from a slightly up and down live stream!). Still need to cut out the soft goals but could well have won that. Tough 2 games coming up though
 

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HertfordBee said:
Who?

Yennaris (waiting for his flight to China), Macleod (injured), Marcondes (injured), McEachran? Okay, that leaves Dasilva who everyone on here thinks is the messiah and yet those who watch him in training every day believe he isn’t ready yet.

So, who? That lack of quality midfield options is one of the reasons we’ve gone for three at the back.
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Judge?
 

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Mr Cynical said:
Credit to Frank, looked a much better performance today (admittedly gleaned from a slightly up and down live stream!). Still need to cut out the soft goals but could well have won that. Tough 2 games coming up though
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At Hull they (we) were singing "we want our Brentford back". Today it felt like we did have them back.
 

Thomas Frank

He has reacted by changing things pretty dramatically: five at the back, no longer playing out from the back most of the time. Pragmatic rather than champagne football but we looked much more solid today and he deserves credit for that. A couple more decent results and I think he will be secure for the rest of the season.
 

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IslandBee said:
He has reacted by changing things pretty dramatically: five at the back, no longer playing out from the back most of the time. Pragmatic rather than champagne football but we looked much more solid today and he deserves credit for that. A couple more decent results and I think he will be secure for the rest of the season.
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He’s secure for the rest of the season now and has been since he took over.
 

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Banana said:
He’s secure for the rest of the season now and has been since he took over.
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You don’t know that, it’s highly likely he’d have been given more time than most fans would have allowed him. He wouldn’t be allowed to take us down playing awful football and losing week in and week out ?
 

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Banana said:
He’s secure for the rest of the season now and has been since he took over.
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I’m not sure that’s true.Failure to pick up points whilst playing unconvincing football would not have been allowed to continue unchecked in my view .TF’s formation change yielding 4 points in the last 2 games has brought him some time .
Hopefully a corner has been turned and the improvement is maintained.Time will tell.
 

Thomas Frank

He’s done what needed to be done to steady the ship. You could probably argue the changes should’ve made after the Sheff Utd game but in any case the last two games have been encouraging. Now we’ve got to slowly get back to level we were at.
 

Thomas Frank

If he can get 4 points out of the next 2 games I might start thinking about trying to like him as head coach.
 

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Guildford Bee said:
He’s done what needed to be done to steady the ship. You could probably argue the changes should’ve made after the Sheff Utd game but in any case the last two games have been encouraging. Now we’ve got to slowly get back to level we were at.
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I think he was somewhat limited at that point by how many fit players he had.. :shrug:
 

Thomas Frank

Banana said:
He’s secure for the rest of the season now and has been since he took over.
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There comes a point, if a manager can't turn things round, that no owner (even one like MB) can sit by and do nothing. Fortunately, it seems increasingly unlikely this scenario will occur
 

Thomas Frank

I dont think he is quite out of the woods yet but everyone is certainly breathing easier now than they were a week ago.
 

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North London Bee said:
I dont think he is quite out of the woods yet but everyone is certainly breathing easier now than they were a week ago.
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I think the point yesterday is a big result for him. We lose that and the pressure is all back on. Brum is a massive game, pick up 3 points which i think we can and we will be up and firing again. (fingers crossed).
 

Thomas Frank

Brum pulled it off with 30 odd % possession against Stoke. It will be interesting to see how much we've learned. At least we can reasonably be hopeful.
 
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liverbee said:
Bruno pulled it off with 30 odd % possession against Stoke. It will be interesting to see how much we've learned. At least we can reasonably be hopeful.
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..............there is always hope...........
 

Thomas Frank

We weren’t at a great level away even at the start of the season, maybe TF is building something stronger than that.

I seem to remember DS using 3 at the back a while ago and it not working. Maybe TF is a better coach than he’s getting credit for.
 

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hughbee said:
We weren’t at a great level away even at the start of the season, maybe TF is building something stronger than that.

I seem to remember DS using 3 at the back a while ago and it not working. Maybe TF is a better coach than he’s getting credit for.
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Didn't he try it with Egan Dean and Bjelland/Barbet though, which probably doesn't suit as you have to have some extra pace.
 

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hughbee said:
We weren’t at a great level away even at the start of the season, maybe TF is building something stronger than that.

I seem to remember DS using 3 at the back a while ago and it not working. Maybe TF is a better coach than he’s getting credit for.
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I'd say that the significant changes in defensive structure and style are probably down to Brian Riemer, obviously with Frank's support. It was also interesting to see at Bristol that Kev had the attackers all together in the pre-match training. Getting a defensive team ethic throughout is something we've not had in any of our Championship seasons. It's clearly taken a while to turn that ship around... when you see Saïd doing more tracking back than Ollie in a game, you know something is going on!
 

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Gee Bee said:
Didn't he try it with Egan Dean and Bjelland/Barbet though, which probably doesn't suit as you have to have some extra pace.
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Fair enough, but the organisation seems to be better and more understood by the players this time.
 

Thomas Frank

hughbee said:
Fair enough, but the organisation seems to be better and more understood by the players this time.
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Perhaps Kev's communication skills with the players, having been one more recently than TF or BR?
 

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hughbee said:
We weren’t at a great level away even at the start of the season, maybe TF is building something stronger than that.

I seem to remember DS using 3 at the back a while ago and it not working. Maybe TF is a better coach than he’s getting credit for.
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I would say lets see how it plays out, we've beaten a very poor Bolton side and I thought Bristol City were equally crap when we played them at GP.
 

Thomas Frank

Got to say that his press conferences before matches have greatly improved, he's not half bad now, gives plenty of details, far better than DS, who was a bit dour.
 

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Beat Poet said:
Got to say that his press conferences before matches have greatly improved, he's not half bad now, gives plenty of details, far better than DS, who was a bit dour.
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I agree. But who was the idiot wasting time asking ridiculous questions about a fee for Neal Maupay?
 

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HertfordBee said:
I agree. But who was the idiot wasting time asking ridiculous questions about a fee for Neal Maupay?
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I don't know but he's clearly got no clue about BFC. Did he win a fans' competition to sit in?
 

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sonofabee said:
Care in the community, beyond helping but we’re an inclusive club. What a knob
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Sorry to go all pc but being a mental health nurse is my day job and the mental health charity Mind sponsor the player's names on every football league kit.

Crap questions can be, and often are, asked by people without or with a mental health problem.

Being a knob is also a universal trait not reserved solely for those unfortunate enough to be termed by others as "care in the community" :(
 

Thomas Frank

Isn’t it the chap from BU, whose questions have previously been very good/worthwhile?

Agree the NM stuff was pointless.
 

Thomas Frank

Billy Reeves IMO is an excellent interviewer, very succinct and skilled at getting to the point. He is also very knowledgable on all things Brentford & I've seen him at the Beesotted dos. It was an out of the blue question, but it's something that must be on our minds the way Neal is playing at the moment. He may have done us a favour in putting the goals and assists conversion into a fee out there!!
 

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Well done TF, delighted for you.
 

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w7 bee said:
Billy Reeves IMO is an excellent interviewer, very succinct and skilled at getting to the point. He is also very knowledgable on all things Brentford & I've seen him at the Beesotted dos. It was an out of the blue question, but it's something that must be on our minds the way Neal is playing at the moment. He may have done us a favour in putting the goals and assists conversion into a fee out there!!
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That you Billy Reeves? ?
 

Thomas Frank

Credit to TF for starting to turn things around.

DS got credit when he turned things around, not the assistant coaches. I’m not sure why anyone would not want to give TF credit rather than speculating that it was all down to another coach.
 

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Guildford Bee said:
Isn’t it the chap from BU, whose questions have previously been very good/worthwhile?

Agree the NM stuff was pointless.
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The chap from BU is Stewart Purvis CBE, former CEO at ITN, so I’d hope he never asks the sort of nonsense questions Billy Reeves decided to.
 

Thomas Frank

Looks like TF’s excellent tactics/analysis skills have managed to eek our way out of this run. Good that he’s willing to try various tweaks and see what sticks. Players seemed to have stepped it up a notch too. Perhaps a little rotation has put some understanding into them too.

Norwich are there for the taking...
 

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Banana said:
Looks like TF’s excellent tactics/analysis skills have managed to eek our way out of this run. Good that he’s willing to try various tweaks and see what sticks. Players seemed to have stepped it up a notch too. Perhaps a little rotation has put some understanding into them too.

Norwich are there for the taking...
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Or, he listened to KOC - just a coincidence its started to turn around since KOC stepped up ??
 

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hughbee said:
Credit to TF for starting to turn things around.

DS got credit when he turned things around, not the assistant coaches. I’m not sure why anyone would not want to give TF credit rather than speculating that it was all down to another coach.
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It’s because people hate being proved wrong.. a lot of people have gone in hard on TF and some would rather he failed than have to eat their words. We’ve seen it many times with players like Vibe and Sawyers etc..
 

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Banana said:
Oh yeah. What did KOC say to him do you think?
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We need to stop letting in lots of goals Thomas...

Oh, yeh! Thanks KOC, hadn't thought of that, we’ll do some defensive work... so glad you’re here now, we had no idea!!!
 

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Paul USA said:
Or, he listened to KOC - just a coincidence its started to turn around since KOC stepped up ??
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Isn't King Kev the translator into football parlance, of Thomas' ideas?!
 
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