It’s all becoming increasingly challenging now.
Every year we come up short against the black arts bullies and it costs us. This season we seemed to have overcome this but after being robbed at Swansea and then completely bullied off the pitch by Barnsley and QPR.
I hate to say it but I just can’t see us beating these teams again, we have lost the momentum and we all know these teams are allowed to play like this and we have no answer for it.
QPR’s first goal today, FFS, they gave away 12-13 fouls tonight stopping out counter and we just let them run from deep in their own half without a challenge going in.
We all know you can’t just football your way out of this division and the refs are totally complicit in dark arts tactics and we have let it derail us again.
To be honest as much as I can’t handle another collapse, another play off failure or another team of cheats being allowed to go up there is a huge part of me that wants to be there when we do it.
Being in the premier is something I would enjoy and see if MB can pit his wits against the big boys but the promotion to get there would be the golden moment of my Brentford life. I don’t really want to do it in my spare room watching on an iPad with those soulless stadiums.
Good post and I agree with everything you say! While we keep finding new players and our recruitment is top notch, I think Toney has hidden a lot of problems this season.
His goals and assists have been unreal and I think it's fair to say he won't spend another year in the championship, also will we keep Raya, Da Silva, Norgaard and Rico in the championship!
We're on a great journey and I can also take or leave us being a PL club, but I'd love to see us achieve it for MB, it may also be essential for our mid to long term competiveness. My concern has always been there becomes a time we aren't lucky with a Toney etc and lose too many players at the one time and end up with other problems. Football wise we'll always be there as fans but I want the club to continue moving forward.
If we do miss out this year part of me thinks we've threw a lot at it in the last two years, and that might not be sustainable especially coming out of a pandemic. I'd love to be there to witness promotion in person but what if this is us taking a financial risk to achieve the dream, and if we fail again then it becomes increasingly difficult to go at it again.
Preston had a great run at it a decade and a half ago, I think they got to three play off finals, they didn't get over the line and eventually had to fall back into the pack.
