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True, but unlike the repeats on the BBC I never get tired of hearing it.
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I was waiting all last season for a Mads long throw and a Pontus nod in. First time in our first PL game my son turned to me and said this is going to be the one, albeit Norgaard, not Pontus. All credit to young Mads for making that goal.
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Indian Bee
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Just seen his post match comments. I think he is disappointed that we didn't get 3 points and similar tone as last week against Palace. His comments was spot on we need to be braver in the final 3rd but most supporters if not all are happy with 5 points after 3 games but TF wanted 9 and feels slightly disappointed we only have 5. I love that mentality.
badgerbee
Mafeking Avenue........gets you there!!!!
Thomas Frank
Absolutely agree.
Will be really interesting to see how we come out after Int Break.....
Gives us a time to reflect on the fact that we've proved we clearly "belong" here, even though we've adopted a more pragmatic approach....
As a result, would love us to start to trust more in our abilities, and to see us play more of our "natural" game........ and hopefully pick up more points.....
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Every team so far has targeted our right side so I reckon they've made up their mind on that already.
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Thomas Frank
Personally I believe speed through the middle will be our undoing attacking the Vikings
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Really good interview on the Warm Up tonight about his first 150 games in charge .. the full interview will be on You Tube next week apparently
Indian Bee
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The game was won with TF doing his homework on Wolves and the players executing his plans. I hope TF is enjoying his red as I am. A tactical masterclass.
Thomas Frank
I genuinely love how much other teams fans don't like him. That to me means he is doing a good job, in fact, a fantastic job!
I love the man so much, he fits the club so well and gives me so much confidence we can survive and then thrive in years to come.
I love the man so much, he fits the club so well and gives me so much confidence we can survive and then thrive in years to come.
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It's weird tbh. He now goes out of his way to praise the opposition before and after games. Constantly bangs on about being 'humble'. Really nothing to hate other than the fact that he's very good....
Thomas Frank
Opposition fans probably don't actually listen to his words, they just base their opinions (which aren't facts) on what they see during the game and post match. He is a fantastic man manger, which extends to how he manages us as fans, he is the conductor of Brentford FC. I wouldn't want anyone else.
Thomas Frank
To stick with two up top with half hour to go was tactically brave and brilliant.
Thomas practicing what he preaches - all About getting the next goal.
The high press was executed brilliantly.
Thomas tactics made Neves ineffective as Norgaard and Janet hustled and Traore was shown the line by 3 patrolling.
The team were magnificent but the planning by the tutor was a masterclass.
We have reached the level required in this league in 5 games and Thomas is steering his career and this team to new heights and writing new pages in our history books.
1947 the last time we were achieving results like this - 74 years - these are just incredible times.
Thomas practicing what he preaches - all About getting the next goal.
The high press was executed brilliantly.
Thomas tactics made Neves ineffective as Norgaard and Janet hustled and Traore was shown the line by 3 patrolling.
The team were magnificent but the planning by the tutor was a masterclass.
We have reached the level required in this league in 5 games and Thomas is steering his career and this team to new heights and writing new pages in our history books.
1947 the last time we were achieving results like this - 74 years - these are just incredible times.
Indian Bee
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Thomas Frank
Superbly summed up. I expected Bryan to go off after the sending off but a brave brave decision to stick two up top.
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Thomas Frank
I don't think Thomas is motivated by money. I'm pretty sure he's well paid. He wanted to manage in the Prem and he is. Why go elsewhere in the Prem and get sacked? IMO he might at some stage be tempted by to manage the national team but thats a way off.
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I don't want to think about that. We're at the stage where it's difficult to imagine anyone else but TF being the manager (or head coach, whatever). To be honest, I'm not sure we'd promote from within next time around. He and BR have done and are doing a superb job. Long may it continue.
I would like to think TF realises what a good thing he is on to with us. I don't think he's the kind of boss that will go elsewhere and get instant success and that's what clubs in a higher position than us will want. Nor will he get given the time he might want to turn things around that he got here.
There is also the question of the set up around him here, that has helped bring the best out of him. He is the perfect fit for us and us for him at the moment.
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TF was tactically spot on today as others have already said , Traore is a scary prospect and we managed him brilliantly although from our previous encounters with him his end result rarely is as good as the build up.
Loved it when we went down to 10 and we kept 2 strikers on , we did it before at Watford last season , it’s so important to still pose some sort of threat in that situation even though they dropped deep obviously we still got up the pitch and even hit the bar.
Compare that with the way Solsjkear withdrew a striker against Young Boys in the Champions league , didn’t see the game but Utd fans apoplectic on the phone ins , total surrender , you won’t see TF ever do that , whilst Ivan was MoM today TF ran him close with the way he set the team up and managed the game !!
Loved it when we went down to 10 and we kept 2 strikers on , we did it before at Watford last season , it’s so important to still pose some sort of threat in that situation even though they dropped deep obviously we still got up the pitch and even hit the bar.
Compare that with the way Solsjkear withdrew a striker against Young Boys in the Champions league , didn’t see the game but Utd fans apoplectic on the phone ins , total surrender , you won’t see TF ever do that , whilst Ivan was MoM today TF ran him close with the way he set the team up and managed the game !!
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Brentford manager Thomas Frank batted away complaints over time-wasting from Wolves boss Bruno Lage and insisted his side fully deserved their first Premier League away victory as they won 2-0 at Molineux.
Afterwards Lage complained about the number of Brentford players needing treatment in the second half, plus a change of gloves for goalkeeper David Raya, but Frank responded with a wry smile.
“First of all I want to praise Bruno for his fantastic coaching career and the job he has done with Wolves,” he said. “He is an excellent coach and I hope you write that with what is coming next.
“I could ask him what he would have done if he was leading a newly-promoted team. We are just a bus stop in Hounslow, playing against Wolves, established in the Premier League and with 10 times our budget, leading 2-0 away, 10 versus 11.
“I think his players would lose a bit of time also. But I could also ask him how the first half went.
“You look at the game and did we deserve to win? Yes. Expected goals, big chances, everything. When it was 11 versus 11 and when it was 10 versus 11. You don’t use excuses, just say you lost to the better team on the day.”
Frank offered to post a picture of Raya’s gloves – which he insisted had a large hole in them – on the club’s website for any doubters, but preferred to focus on a performance in which Brentford showing their attacking threat in the first half and their defensive strength in the second.
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Afterwards Lage complained about the number of Brentford players needing treatment in the second half, plus a change of gloves for goalkeeper David Raya, but Frank responded with a wry smile.
“First of all I want to praise Bruno for his fantastic coaching career and the job he has done with Wolves,” he said. “He is an excellent coach and I hope you write that with what is coming next.
“I could ask him what he would have done if he was leading a newly-promoted team. We are just a bus stop in Hounslow, playing against Wolves, established in the Premier League and with 10 times our budget, leading 2-0 away, 10 versus 11.
“I think his players would lose a bit of time also. But I could also ask him how the first half went.
“You look at the game and did we deserve to win? Yes. Expected goals, big chances, everything. When it was 11 versus 11 and when it was 10 versus 11. You don’t use excuses, just say you lost to the better team on the day.”
Frank offered to post a picture of Raya’s gloves – which he insisted had a large hole in them – on the club’s website for any doubters, but preferred to focus on a performance in which Brentford showing their attacking threat in the first half and their defensive strength in the second.
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TF developing that Kloppesque talent for his friendly demeanour hiding barbed comments, takes the pressure off the players when necessary whilst getting right up the Oppos collective nose....
AB
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Raya did put the pic up on his IG. Not sure how the holes appeared as he didn’t have a lot of saves to make, maybe he was picking at the seams while bored in the first half.
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TF played a blinder, his management of the yellow cards after SB was sent off was very good.
Mr Cynical
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Thomas Frank
Thought Frank came across extremely well. Their boss on the other hand, couldn't bring himself to say anything positive about us. Brentford did nothing first half he said. We had the ball in the net 4 times!
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Thomas Frank
No manager who has lost 4 of 5 games including to us is going to be at all complimentary to us when he knows he’s a defeat or two away from the sack and as a promoted team we’re on the Board’s “you should at least be beating teams like” list. Until two seasons ago that was true in the Championship and it’ll be a good few seasons before it stops being true now.
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Good call, though I’d wager David bought online a tracksuit top but got sent the gloves instead, then received an email saying they had no gloves in stock, then got a full refund followed by a phone call asking if he could return the gloves to the shop at his own expense as they had just received a new stock of onions and a garden rake, and if he was still interested in a tracksuit top they had an XXS Sutton United one available if he wanted to buy it for £119….
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Thomas Frank is intelligent,as easy as that. Respects the opposition,respects the players , and respects the fans.when Dean Smith was here and we had conceded he would often turn to Thomas for advice. Thomas has always been an important cog at this club,
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Thomas Frank
When asked post-match on BT about Shandon getting sent off, Thomas smiled and said he'd just apologised to Shandon because he wasn't quick enough to sub him. What a contrast to most managers, love his intelligence and humanity.
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Struggled to understand some of his substitutions yesterday. As usual, he showed he's way, way sharper than me.
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