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Wycombe Match reports

The positives.

10,500 crowd. Great atmosphere. We played them off the park and should have won by a country mile. Great finish and a what a player Sam Williams looks, he HAS to start IMO. I thought he looked good versus Barnet but today looked the real deal.

Negatives, 3 softer goals you will not see. Two horribly poorly defended corners and then dickson got dispossesed doing a drag back in our half and their bloke ran through to bury it. Apart from that WW offered nothing in attack all game and I can not remember 1 shot or effort at goal.

Ref was as usual poor, how the heck harrold did not get a red for the elbow ad then escaped the second one without a even a free kick is beyond me. They got away with 4-5 bad arial challenges and doherties red was a bit harsh.

Versus 10 men for 60 mins at 2.1 up we would have won at a canter.

Anyway, 1 more game gone and nobody is making inroads.
 

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It was a great a atmosphere, overall we were the better side, played the better football.

Shame about Wycombe's third goal, I think it was Johnson who lost the ball, cause Dickson went off at half time, I just knew something like that would happen.

But we didn't give up, we didn't lose confidence, the red card did certainly help us alot, I didnt get a good view so not sure if it warranted a red or not.

Williams took hes goal well, a big big goal for us this season
And im glad he missed against Barnet and not today.

But overall, i'd have taken a point before the game and happy with a point now.
Could of been all different if we didnt have that man advantage.

7 points clear, 9 games to go, looking very good, tuesday will be a good game cant wait.
 

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Great game Bees easily better than WW poor defending for all goals though. Where has Hunt been he was different class and did not waste a ball all afternoon.

Special mention to the forwards all did great today.

Come on you Reds
 

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i'd have taken a point a the start so i'm happy. we had the better of the first half and i thought they had the better of the second till they went down to 10.
both sides conceded soft goals, but in the end i think a draw was a decent result. akinde looks very dangerous, and wycombe have themselves a player that will take the pi$$ in this league.
ref was the usual inconsistent self. didn't show red for a few nasty challenges and then sent doherty off, couldn't really see what for.
bennets yellow probably deserved; high footed tackle, whether he got the ball or not. he must be getting close to 5 yellows now?
hamer didn't have his best game ever, but made a couple of decent saves. glad for rhodes that he got back on the scoresheet and also pleased with hunt, who had a good game i thought. we probably did miss KOC today, but hunt played better than i expected him to.
williams looked good upfront, and boy am i glad he scored today and not on tuesday!

great crowd and atmosphere, with a great game for the neutral (but not for those of a nervous disposition!)
reckon we need 4 or five more wins and we're up, given how other teams seem to be dropping points.
 

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It was Johnson not Dickson who got mugged for their third goal. Dickson was off by then.

Strange how the two tightest defences in the league ended up playing a 3-3, with only one decent goal (Williams) out of all of them.

The sending off was right in front of me and I thought a yellow would have been sufficient, and consistent with earlier decisions. Hunt had a bit of a naughty grin on when he came off after getting up, and would no doubt have been called a cheat if he'd been a Wycombe player.

If anyone was going to win in the second half, especially after Docherty got sent off, it was us, but I don't think it was an unfair result and it certainly wasn't a bad one all things considered.
 

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A great game with the draw being probably the right result. Some of the Brentford attacking play in the 1st half was great, quick, to feet and Wood causing all sorts of problems.

Seemed neither team remembered how to defend set pieces and Akinde looked very tricky to deal with and caused difficulties all over so no suprise to see him bag a brace. Hopefully we won't see many more like him play against us for the rest of the season.

Seems elbows are the in thing and there was no suprises with the bookings for Harrold and Mousinho but the Doherty should have been a yellow too I reckon. Wycombe seemed to look to shut up shop at this point so it was great to see us finally break through with a good Williams finish.

Thought Hunt looked good today and the long throw helps add another weapon. Be interesting to see if Smith plays on Tuesday. Nice to start to have these midfield options.

Took a Japanese friend to the game today and had to explain it was not always as exciting as this. A memorable game and hopefully Brentford maintain the attacking play and set piece finishing and leave the defensive slips behind them.
 

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Jordan Rhodes was not happy about one of their first half goals nad was till complaining at the end about being shoved in the back. He was also blatantly shoved in the second half when on attack. To me it was like the 26th North Carolina at Gettyburg on the first day. For those who know that is sufficient,for those who dont,well I thought we were magnificent. This team has a fight I have not seen for a few years.
 

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I think we can accept a point today as being a good result. We could have won late on and certainly Hunt's monster throw is a real attacking weapon.

Williams looked good but to say "he must start" is being harsh on Rhodes and Mac who both continue to be excellent. He is certainly a useful bloke to have ready to come on though.

Quite a few stand out performances today. I thought Wood, Bean, Hunt and Halls all did well particularly.

Bennett had a very difficult afternoon coping with Akinbe who was a real handful and looks a useful loan signing for Wycombe - maybe he could be the difference between auto and play offs for them. Despite that Bennett stuck to his task well and was unlucky to be booked for a knee high foot up ona head that shouldn't have been that low. Ref was a bit card happy at that point in the game though and it was our turn to get one.

Fantastic to see such a great crowd. I hope they all come back on Tuesday but we know it won't happen but nevertheless 10,600 must have exceeded everyones expectations.
 

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Harrold's elbow was the one that deserved a red; cowardly, deliberate and dangerous. Not too sure about Docherty's but it looked less intentional but he doesn't have the regal appearance of his team-mate and got the Hurlock treatment.
 

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Probably a fair result - we had the majority of possession, but they looked dangerous at every set peice.

Our defence didnt play amazingly well, but was impressed with Harold and Akinde, they were real handfuls and often came out on top.

TBH, no one had an outstanding game, and we really missed Elder - both attackingly and for defending set peices.

Referee/linos were piss poor and ridiculously inconsistent - e.g their second goal. Ball went out for a goal kick, only for lino to give a corner, with their wycombe player not even appealing. Didn't see the sending off, but it allowed us to send 3 upfront and perhaps changed the second half.

Williams impressed when he came on, but would have liked to see Poole on the bench as I feel he could have nabbed us a goal towards the end. Sometimes I feel we do an arsenal and try and pass the ball into the net. Wood especially can be quite wasteful; he tries to beat defenders when he should just put it in to the box.
 

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Overall pleased with a point after being behind.Andy wont be happy with the defending though. We gave them the first two, really soft goals to concede and that is so unlike us this season. However i thought that after a sluggish start to the second half and a very good strike from Akinde, who looked excellent throughout, we could have gone on to win it. The Wycombe No.5 won every header today.It was a great move to put Williams on and go for broke and it paid off.It almost felt as good as 3 points at the end.They scored 3 and still could not beat us. We have a great spirit and that shone through again.The games are running out and our lead remains strong. Its a wonderful time to be a bees fan.We can and will hold it together.
 

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In the first half we should have been 2 up at a canter, but kept letting them back in it with sloppy goals. Phillips and Bennett had a hard time with there centre foward (on loan from bc) and Phillips had a few sloppy balls away when in good positions.

Overall I think we deserved a win just from our first half dominance, but a point is good and now on to a very tough game Tuesday and another tricky centre foward Jack Lester.

Come on you REDS!:sorted:
 

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If they are supposed to be the second best team in this league, then we've got nothing to worry about. Could have forced the win right at the death. Fantastic resolve from the lads. Great support too.
 

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Andy said on Radio London that we didn't deal with their set pieces very well.
Thought a draw was a fair result. Great to see over 10k at GP and the welcome return of Staines Bee!!!!

Akinde was a handful and very lucky he didn't get a red card in the first half for his challenge on Phillips. Harrold was a lucky boy also. Great finish by Williams to get us a deserved point.
 

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Pulseating game. Best league game for ages and ages.

We played well in spite of some unusually lax defending

I think both sides got caught up by the big game atmosphere to be honest but we came out moral winners. WW far more physical and rudimentary than I imagined.

Where did all those people come from??
 

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RandomHero88 said:
Shame about Wycombe's third goal, I think it was Johnson who lost the ball, cause Dickson went off at half time, I just knew something like that would happen.
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aaaahhhh. I could not work out why dickson suddenly looked to have a bald patch second half. Apart from that Johnson did alright actually.
 

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Great entertainment, fair result, well played Wycombe, crowd fantastic - please cme back again thogh, other results good...TOO BIG FOR THIS LEAGUE, loving this season.
 

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I would have settled for a point before the game, so can't really complain, but I wasn't expecting to concede so poorly, with Brett Johnson's error being especially embarrassing and putting an overstretched Bennett in unnecessary difficulty. Sam Williams was good value, Sam Wood worked very hard and Hunt was a solid replacement for King Kev, who we missed for sure, but not as much as I'd feared at first. Harrold seemed to have a point to prove against us and played a bad-tempered game, even cynical at times. The red was a tad harsh, but perhaps the ref was making up for being too soft on them earlier. Bennett's yellow was probably deserved, but some rough treatment by Wycombe went unpunished, and seemingly entirely unnoticed by the ref, so it looked a bit rough by comparison.

My boy got Sam Wood's squiggle before the game and we met his mum and dad on the train back, they seemed very nice and I tried to put over, without laying it on too thick, that that their son is a credit to them.

The huge turnout was the best bit, even though many of the new faces weren't backed up by loud voices.
 
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stating the fecking obvious,but

I thought that we we're the better team,though they are well organised.When we were 3-2 down I would of taken the draw,At 3-3 I wanted then win and thought I may get a heart attack with the excitement,my BP was racing and my head was hurting bad,but I would die for this club:sorted:
 

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What a cracking game of football and played in a white hot atmosphere.

Neither side was at its best I suspect and like Bury probably got caught up in the event but made for excitement throughout and the game flew past.

Taylor has done very well to get Akinde in and with him they probably will go onto get the automatic promotion slot I thought was slipping away.
He's the most dangerous, direct forward I've seen here this season and probably what we hope Nathan can become.

Thought we were by far the better footballing side but both Harrold and Akinde looked dangerous when the ball was in and around our box.

People around me said their 2nd was after a blatant push and why Rhodes and Hamer were so incensed.

Tommy Docherty got mugged off today and I care not one bit, he's a nasty snarling little sh*t who is always at it and bullying refs and today it was he who was cheated.

Thought Hunt ahd a cracking game, with great deadball kicks, scud missile throws and a little guile to go alongside the effort.

Rhodes and Charlie worked their socks off again, Rhodes reminds me in style of Van Persie and deserved his goal. The new boy looked very sharp and that bodes well for the run in with options for AS up front.

Have to say that for me Halls had an outstanding game, he barely wasted a pass, was far more positive with his attacking runs and looked a class above.

Specisl mention to Sam Wood who although not at his very best still made a couple of brilliant runs and covered ground to get in a vital saving tackle.

Point won at the end of the day and one less game for teams to catch us......now let's get three points on Tuesday.
 

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Cracking game, thought we deserved to maybe come out of the game with all three points! We seemed on top for all of the first half despite it being 2-2 at half time. We pinned them back pretty much in their half for most of the 2nd half.
Atmosphere was good! Ealing road was rocking! New Road need to perk up though and Breamer a little too. Paddock looked back on form though.
Fantastic Attendance! 10,600ish. Shame tuesday will be back down to 5,000 max i reckon. Shame lot of the bees fans there today cant make it a regular thing coming down to support their club which is flying high at the moment. ah well know i will be there like i have been all season!
They brought 1,600 ish good effort but made little noise!!
And bit of banter at the train station made it a laugh. Shame they only sang at the station!
Good point should of been 3 but hopefully take win on tuesday.
Special mention for Hunt who i thought was outstanding when you consider thats his first start for us. Good lad. All the lads worked really hard today.
You Reds!
 

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Special mention for Hunt. MOM in my view. Looked great. Teamwork fantastic. We can improve still in a few areas but what a great piece of team work. Sorry for Johnson as he did slip but Akinde finished well.
Elbowing right in front of us, Harrold should have gone off. Docherty had to go as he raised is hand and struck face of Hunt. Sadly unless player goes down poleaxed nothing happens. That was a sending off offence.
 

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Best 2 teams in the Division going toe to toe with our biggest league crowd for ages what more can you want other than a win?...they seemed to have about 6 blokes over 6ft 3 which is what caused all the problems at set pieces...be very surprised if Wycombe don't finish the season strongly and clinch automatic promotion along with us and one other(Gillingham?...8000 plus for that one surely)peter Taylor knows what to do at this level and Akinde is a fantastic signing ......great credit to Andy Scott got the team and the subs spot on as usual weve got some depth in our squad as well thought David Hunt proved today he can do much more than than a Rory Delap impersonation...he used the ball well and kept driving the team foward in 2nd half....Sam Wood could prove to be a good signing as well...when Nathan was injured didn't you just know that Scotty would come up trumps !
 

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great game, a point is fine given other results. good performances from "new boys" hunt and sam williams.... i thought sam wood was exceptional again too

we dont seem to be very good against quick powerful forwards, hopefully not many left to face
 

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Bigbee said:
nd thought I may get a heart attack with the excitement,my BP was racing and my head was hurting bad,but I would die for this club:sorted:
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I can vouch for this. I was behind BB and he I was genuinely concerned he was going to drop dead of the excitement!! :D
 

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A wonderfully entertaining match, that probably produced the right result. A truly superb advertisement for lower league football that will hopefully retain many of the crowds that were there today. I think that everyone at GP this afternoon, no matter who they supported, thoroughly enjoyed themselves and could have had no complaints about "value for money". Congratulations to all involved today !
 

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I would have been happy with a point before the game as it keeps them seven points behind us.

The first half I thought we were in charge, although WW had a good spell, including equalising, and we did well to go back in front when they were in charge.

Matt Harrold and John Akinde were both lucky not to recieve red cards, Harrolds for an obvious elbow only got a yellow.

Doherty went charging in with his elbow raised and was IMHO deserverdly sent off.

I think we just edged it and, apart from Akinde, who looks a very good loan signing for them, they didn't really trouble us.

Shame we couldn't have got a fourth near the end but I'll settle for a point.

Very good crowd with all three sides of Brentford fans in good voice.

Very dissappointed with the Wycombe fans, although good in numbers, they were very quiet.
 

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HunsburyBee said:
A wonderfully entertaining match, that probably produced the right result. A truly superb advertisement for lower league football that will hopefully retain many of the crowds that were there today. I think that everyone at GP this afternoon, no matter who they supported, thoroughly enjoyed themselves and could have had no complaints about "value for money". Congratulations to all involved today !
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Akinde, an excellent debut for them!, an Elder-esque type player who can finish!
He was WW's only outlet, IMO, we couldn't cope with his power and strength.

Still, we got what we deserved at least, Harrold should've gone, Akinde booked, and Doherty sent off (which was correct IMO).

I thought Phillips and Hamer had a poor game today, which i can allow as they have both been outstanding this season.

Hunt impressed, Bean (player of the 4th division IMO) immense, Wood excellent (and what a find), Rhodes and Mac harried and caused problems. MOM Bennett again, captains performance. Forgot to go for the 'toss up' too! then realised he had to be there!

The crowd was superb, WE NEED IT MORE OFTEN !!!, come back tuesday!

Sam Williams, after tuesdays mishap i can forgive him!, a lovely player who scored the goal of the game (sod Akinde's!!!)

We Are Going Up, Say we Are Going Up !!!
 

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One negative for me was things being thrown onto the pitch.
Cant wait for Tuesday now!
Wishing away days now for the next Bees games!
 

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I will settle for a point, Who said we don't need lionel rd? What a great crowd. We never dealt at all well with Wycombe's height. I thought that Phillips played to deep for their first goal, if he had moved out their guy would have been well offside. Instead he stayed back and headed the ball out for a corner which resulted in a goal. their 2nd goal resulted from another corner that never was. Hamer needs to learn and play to the whistle. Just after h/t another fatal error from Johnson cost us a third, he did not slip he was just too slow and got caught in possesion. I thought Wood yet again had a fine game. That lad is destined for the top, well done to David Hunt what a good first start. I felt sorry for Jordan and Mac because the midfield support was not there. It came when they went down to ten men, This has bothered me at times over the season. We battled well, and for all our effort managed a draw. When your 3-2 down it's something you settle for.:sorted:
 

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moribee said:
Jordan Rhodes was not happy about one of their first half goals nad was till complaining at the end about being shoved in the back. He was also blatantly shoved in the second half when on attack. To me it was like the 26th North Carolina at Gettyburg on the first day. For those who know that is sufficient,for those who dont,well I thought we were magnificent. This team has a fight I have not seen for a few years.
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I thought it was a blatant foul for their second goal. Ref looked at the linesman... who gave nothing. But then that lino was awful...
 

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It was one of the games featured on the BBC World Service, feed via Radio 5.

Sounded a great game. They said the sending off was for an elbow.
 

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I thought the ref was actually good today - it was the linos who let him down. Having said that, the corer the crowd got incensed by is the first half was a definite corner - it came off the Bees defeder (was it Dickson - can't remember).

I thought Harrold and Akinde looked a real hadful: against them and agaist Wycombe we've seen that we have problems against real big solid target men.

Hamer's handling seems a bit dodgy the last couple of games: wonder if he's still suffering from Rotherham?

Hunt was superb today, as was Woods: also thought Rhodes had a very good game in the air.

Great game (their goalie must be sick to let in Hunt's freekick) and great crowd. Let's hope for more of the same on Tuesday.
 

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I thought it was a push for their second goal and the first should have been dealt with, a free header game from six yards. Great game all the same and super performance by Hunt. There's nobody better than WW to face now. We did well to get the equaliser although Docherty helped as he was one of their better players before seeing red. We haven't gone behind in many games this season and AS's substitutions were spot-on.
 

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mhead bee said:
The positives.

10,500 crowd. Great atmosphere. We played them off the park and should have won by a country mile. Great finish and a what a player Sam Williams looks, he HAS to start IMO. I thought he looked good versus Barnet but today looked the real deal.

Negatives, 3 softer goals you will not see. Two horribly poorly defended corners and then dickson got dispossesed doing a drag back in our half and their bloke ran through to bury it. Apart from that WW offered nothing in attack all game and I can not remember 1 shot or effort at goal.

Ref was as usual poor, how the heck harrold did not get a red for the elbow ad then escaped the second one without a even a free kick is beyond me. They got away with 4-5 bad arial challenges and doherties red was a bit harsh.

Versus 10 men for 60 mins at 2.1 up we would have won at a canter.

Anyway, 1 more game gone and nobody is making inroads.
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Dickson went off at half time, did you nod off- Johnson was the culprit I am afraid.
 

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why wasnt Poole on the bench? Two defenders seemsa bit pointless in my opinion. Would have liked to have seen smith come on for the last ten minutes also.
 

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Wycombe fan - I come in peace

I'd just like to say thank you for a great game of Football today.

Was the most enjoyable afternoon of Football this season.
I'm a proud Wycombe fan tonight due to my teams performance.

We've been off form, we don't score, we go away play for 0-0 and then of we go behind and don't have a plan B.
But today we attacked you.

1st half you had the better of it but you'd expect that being the home team.
2nd half until the moment of madness from Tommy Doherty we looked good for 3 points. Although he wouldn't have been sent off if the ref spotted the blantant foul on Doherty a few seconds earlier.

The ref was dreadful, didn't see Harrold's apparent elbow but I can't believe Harrold has committed the 5th most fouls in League 2 - he is fouled more often than not and gets nothing. But gave you free-kicks for eveything and us yellow cards for everything when you did just as much and got nothing.


But a great crowd, a thoroughly enjoyable game and they away support was phenomenal.
I can't talk because at home our support is dreadful, but your support was shocking unless you were winning.
I just may not have heard you due to the noise of our fans.

Your two fans who were sent out where unbelievably funny.


Good luck for rest of season and hopefully see you next year as we join you in League 1.
 

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A game to remember

I'd been looking forward to this game since the match at Wycombe early on in the season when I thought we beat them 0-0.:D

Thought we had more of the game than Wycombe but they are a tall and physical team, not very pleasing to watch but their signing from Bristol City was a handful. Alan and Mark probably were not on top of their game but no complaints from me, they have been outstanding in most games this year. Sam Wood is the find of the season, his work rate and fitness is a credit to him and our coaches, we don't know when to give up, what a difference compared to the previous two seasons.

David Hunt was a good replacement for KOC, very impressed with his all round contribution, good that Jordan scored again after a few games without a goal and Sam Williams looks class.

All in all, think a draw was fair result. After our game against Barnet where we were fortunate to get a win, I'll settle for the draw.

Looking forward to Tuesday night's game now.:)
 
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