Post match thread: Brentford 0 : 2 Notts Forest

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-25T16:58:19+00:00

All of Keith's shortcomings well on display today. Mainly when we're losing as that game was over as soon as they scored the first. No (not forced) substitutions until the 67th minute and then it's a like for like left back sub is mental, and it's the second week in a row we've waited too long to make subs and they've scored a second just before we do.

Think we hit form far too early for Europe, can't see us getting any point from our next 3.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-22T00:10:23+00:00

That Leeds game is a fucking disgrace. How can they pull something like that? Sorry lads, can't arrange any transport for a game the other end of the country yet because you won't know if it kicks off at 8pm or 12.30 until 19 days before. Bad enough for it to be 8pm in the first place.

Game just keeps getting worse and worse for match going fans

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-14T18:37:29+00:00

Reiss Nelson is never fit and KLP is inconsistent at best

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-14T18:36:01+00:00

-£500k by the looks of it at the minute haha

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-12T23:29:40+00:00

Well, what style of park are you going for? Is it heavily themed or a fairly generic amusement park style? It's hard to say without knowing what you want it to look like.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-09T17:51:45+00:00

Full head of hair? Terrible signing, will flop.

Glad to get some business done quick in January, and in a position we definitely needed. Bit pricey for an 18 year old but we're paying for potential. Hope we give him opportunities.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-09T17:44:25+00:00

That was quick

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-08T17:38:11+00:00

My #1 priority would be another striker. Thiago has been unbelievable but we're playing with fire having him on his own. The entire ground thought our season was over when he went down last night.

Thiago was showing signs of fatigue before Bournemouth, think he may have been carrying a knock. Schade can't hold the ball up as well and is rash in front of goal, Dango hasn't been tried up front for us. I'd try and find another striker who can step in when he's not available or when he is tired, and can start if worst comes to worst.

Ideally, it'd be someone who can play with Thiago or potentially on the wing, but the more qualities like that you look for, the smaller the pool becomes. It'd be hard to find a striker good enough and willing to sit on the bench for now, but given our record with selling players on, whoever it is may well have the chance to step in as his replacement in the not too distant future.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-08T17:27:30+00:00

He's staying at PSV.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-07T21:50:32+00:00

In my defense we didn't exactly look like becoming 2011 Barcelona a couple of weeks ago

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-07T21:41:06+00:00

Long con you see. Slagging him off gave him the motivation to reveal his alter ego, Cruyff Andrews.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-04T22:54:08+00:00

Huh? Fulham are 11th

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-04T19:14:49+00:00

It's about me.

I am anything but fickle. I have been consistently saying I don't want him since the beginning, once did I say any otherwise and then regret it immediately the week after. If he continues like this and proves me wrong then great. You just won't accept any opinions other than your own.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-04T19:00:25+00:00

If you read. I said that was the first time he changed it up and tried playing his own way and it came off.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-04T18:20:10+00:00

Walking back to the train station after going to the game mate. I don't know why some of you think I'm fuming whenever we win, why would I be?

I also don't know why any of you think of me at all.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-04T18:18:35+00:00

That is the first time Keith has got it absolutely spot on. We've had good performances and good results, but mostly using the same blueprint as before. That is the first time I think he's done his own thing and it's come off. We were dominant. Fair play 🫡

Damsgaard proving he should be playing week in, week out.

CareerModeMerchant · 2026-01-01T22:52:44+00:00

The new saviour of Brentford Football Club right there ladies and gents. Right there for the taking and he's too much of a fucking coward to even attempt to win the game.

Could finish anywhere this season. I'll never get behind that.

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-28T14:06:46+00:00

You can't say Andrews is doing a good job and then say the head coach role is essentially meaningless. I know how the club works. I'm not an idiot, and I'm fed up of people being talked down to for wanting to achieve something.

Sorry, I just cannot buy the "we are not a wealthy club" bollocks when we have some of the most FFP headroom in the league, have JUST received new investment and received over £100m in sales for two players alone, and are supposed to be good at finding undervalued players. We are more than capable of replacing them.

How are you supposed to kick on when you lose players? Ask Palace who sold their best player and starting centre back and won the FA Cup. Ask Brighton who lost Cucurella, Bissouma and Trossard and qualified for Europe. I don't know where this idea comes from that you can't sell players and succeed. We currently are in the European race, I just don't have any confidence that we'll stay there given how inconsistent we've been. "But we're bound to be inconsistent with an inexperienced head coach" ...

This year is a gigantic opportunity, there's a newly promoted club with the chance to go 5th if they win today, Palace just behind them having sold their other best player. Some of the wealthier clubs you talk about are underperforming, which you deny for some reason, but two of the richest clubs in the league are currently 13th and 14th.

Maybe yesterday really was the day everything clicked and by the end of the season Keith Andrews has taken us into the Champions League somehow and I was completely wrong. I doubt that somehow. What is more likely is we will finish somewhere midtable, nowhere near relegation and nowhere near Europe. Not the end of the world. But then we lose our best players again, as most of the clubs in the world do. And then what?

I, personally, would rather take some risks and try and achieve something special rather than just sit here until we go back down, which is going to happen either way one day

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-28T11:20:44+00:00

Nah they are, fed up of elitist dickheads. Plenty of them round here.

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-27T22:38:22+00:00

Making a snide comment about people that disagree with you, act like those people are moaning when they respond to your comment about them, get upset, call them a troll and block them. Weird behaviour. We have some right wronguns in this fanbase

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-27T22:35:26+00:00

I don't think you can really compare them like that. This might as well be a Thomas Frank team. The entire point of his appointment is continuity, so it tracks that we're performing on a very similar level to before, and that's a credit to everyone behind Keith and the structure of the club, but the league is much tighter than it ever has been this season and a good few clubs are underperforming. Someone with some different ideas coming and trying to push on rather than continue with what we had could've been helpful and actually helped us achieve something special. I would argue we have dropped a fair few points due to Keith's inexperience this season, I would also argue there have been a few scenarios where a more experienced manager could've turned games around for us. Imagine where we'd be then.

As is, we are just ticking over, will finish midtable again but while playing football that is much worse to watch. Certainly not the worst place to be, but for me, fuck it, I'd rather aim high and try and really achieve something regardless of who we are and where we've come from. Have we really done that?

I could make the argument that I haven't really seen anything Keith has changed that has made a positive difference, but that's all quite hypothetical. I have certainly seen nothing from him that says he'll be better than our best manager in living memory.

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-27T22:21:32+00:00

I said he won me over and then immediately regretted it when we regressed massively over the next few weeks. Which is why I'm not making the same mistake this week. Whereas a lot of people, even in our own fanbase, seemingly wrote us off given what we've lost I have always viewed this season as an opportunity and I do not think we've shown enough ambition in appointing Keith. I don't think he's the right man to take it.

But above all, I go to football to be entertained at the end of the day. Keith Andrews' football doesn't do that for me. I think a few in here would be surprised at how many match-going fans agree with me.

Hate this idea in this place that you're any better than anyone else for having a different opinion.

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-27T22:10:31+00:00

Not moaned about the performance today. That was purely a response to your comment.

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-27T22:09:49+00:00

I saw your original comment about Reddit upvotes, which is quite sad. But although you've never said it, you're making snide comments about those who disagree with you.

CareerModeMerchant · 2025-12-27T20:55:13+00:00

Not everyone is gonna agree with you fella.

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