Come on Brentford ?.....v Watford.

A draw or Brentford.

Tough to call. Expect Brentford to struggle second half of the season, Watford have to be in our sights. Draw, Brentford win at a push.

Watford 1-0, Dennis.

Watford have goals coming out of their ass.

Brentford might well survive this season, but there is no chance they will next year.

Spijed wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:26 pm

Brentford might well survive this season, but there is no chance they will next year.

Not good news at all. Need an equaliser now.

ksrclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:29 pm

Not good news at all. Need an equaliser now.

Get our own house in order and I still think we could catch Brentford.

Spijed wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:26 pm

Brentford might well survive this season, but there is no chance they will next year.

They're missing half of their first 11 including their main central defender, goalkeeper and striker. Plus their best midfielder from last season hasn't played at all yet this year. It's like us without Tarkowski, Wood, Pope, Brownhill.

DCWat wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:30 pm

Get our own house in order and I still think we could catch Brentford.

You mean stop losing leads and missing glorious chances?

That Brentford goalkeeper would worry me to death

DCWat wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:30 pm

Get our own house in order and I still think we could catch Brentford.

When there best players come back they will pull away.

Missing 3/4 of the core players at the moment.

Struggling to see who we are going to finish above at the moment.

Sissoko the perfect player for us, £3m fee. big strong energetic and drives with the ball forward

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:36 pm

Sissoko the perfect player for us, £3m fee. big strong energetic and drives with the ball forward

I would say Emmanuel Dennis is as well.

3.5m - 7 goals and 5 assists this season

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:36 pm

Sissoko the perfect player for us, £3m fee. big strong energetic and drives with the ball forward

32 yrs old and believed to be on £80k a week, we need someone younger and on less money.

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:39 pm

32 yrs old and believed to be on £80k a week, we need someone younger and on less money.

Yep, like him 5 years ago

Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:34 pm

When there best players come back they will pull away.

Missing 3/4 of the core players at the moment.

Struggling to see who we are going to finish above at the moment.

Who are the missing core players and when are they due back?

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:39 pm

32 yrs old and believed to be on £80k a week, we need someone younger and on less money.

Still a very good player and £80k a week is nothing compared to what we could've made with him in the side. £80k a week to win £140m? seems like a good investment to me.

Toney is only missing tonight through illness. Raya (keeper) out perhaps all season.

DCWat wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:40 pm

Who are the missing core players and when are they due back?

Raya - starting goalkeeper
Pinnock - starting CB
Ajer - starting CB
Canos - starting RWB
Toney - main striker

and then Josh Da Silva hasn't played all season but was arguably their 2nd best player last season.

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:43 pm

Raya - starting goalkeeper
Pinnock - starting CB
Ajer - starting CB
Canos - starting RWB
Toney - main striker

and then Josh Da Silva hasn't played all season but was arguably their 2nd best player last season.

Yeah, incredible how they’ve somehow managed to build a better and bigger squad than we have while being in the Championship.

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:41 pm

Still a very good player and £80k a week is nothing compared to what we could've made with him in the side. £80k a week to win £140m? seems like a good investment to me.

We've done it without him so far, so he wouldn't add much.

For us to cough up £80k a week, I'd be expecting someone like a younger version of Defour, or someone with the same drive etc as Mason Mount.

We complain about a lack of guile and goals from Central midfield and Sissoko wouldn't give us the goals we need that's for sure.

Looking at his stats, he's provided 25 assists during his time in England, has a poor shot accuracy rate and poor cross accuracy
Amusingly his long balls appear to be quite good, so maybe he would be suitable for us

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:43 pm

Raya - starting goalkeeper
Pinnock - starting CB
Ajer - starting CB
Canos - starting RWB
Toney - main striker

and then Josh Da Silva hasn't played all season but was arguably their 2nd best player last season.

Imagine if we were missing:

Pope
Tarks
Mee
McNeil
Wood

Brentford will pull away when there best players come back. Similar to Leeds with Phillips and Bamford.

RVclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:44 pm

Yeah, incredible how they’ve somehow managed to build a better and bigger squad than we have while being in the Championship.

They have a very good system of buying to sell, it's done well for them over the years, but they've also incurred debts and a wage bill that was running at 125% of income in the season before Covid, according to the last accounts.
I'm aware that they've had the new stadium built etc
They made £95 million on player sales over the last 5 years, a staggering amount of money, but there's no guarantee that model will still work in the PL, so if they stay up for an extended period it will be interesting to see what they do.

https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/ ... vPpDg&s=19

Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:50 pm

Imagine if we were missing:

Pope
Tarks
Mee
McNeil
Wood

Brentford will pull away when there best players come back. Similar to Leeds with Phillips and Bamford.

Yeah they'll be fine, no doubt, not many sides can go toe to toe with Liverpool and draw 3-3. Good team when they've got their key players in.
I'd have hoped to catch Watford but Ranieri seems to be working his magic and they've got goals come out of their ears. Ranieri is either brilliant or useless, never in between. Good game this played at a high tempo, staggering what youth, pace and energy does.

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:02 pm

Yeah they'll be fine, no doubt, not many sides can go toe to toe with Liverpool and draw 3-3. Good team when they've got their key players in.
I'd have hoped to catch Watford but Ranieri seems to be working his magic and they've got goals come out of their ears. Ranieri is either brilliant or useless, never in between. Good game this played at a high tempo, staggering what youth, pace and energy does.

The one thing that has stood out for me tonight is there quality on the ball. I would be very surprised if Watford go down this season they look miles better than the bottom three

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:02 pm

Yeah they'll be fine, no doubt, not many sides can go toe to toe with Liverpool and draw 3-3. Good team when they've got their key players in.
I'd have hoped to catch Watford but Ranieri seems to be working his magic and they've got goals come out of their ears. Ranieri is either brilliant or useless, never in between. Good game this played at a high tempo, staggering what youth, pace and energy does.

Goals from every orifice by the sounds of things

The pace of this Watford forward line is rather frightening.

3 OF US NOW 6 POINTS ADRIFT if score stays the same

Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:19 pm

The pace of this Watford forward line is rather frightening.

Based on tonight’s form I’m not sure we get anything on Wednesday

Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:50 pm

Imagine if we were missing:

Pope
Tarks
Mee
McNeil
Wood

Brentford will pull away when there best players come back. Similar to Leeds with Phillips and Bamford.

Phillips is out for two months isn't he?

Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:19 pm

The pace of this Watford forward line is rather frightening.

Saw them at Leicester a few weeks ago. Their front three are a threat to any side-very direct and aggressive. But for the Watford keeper (Ben Foster is injured) they would have beaten Leicester

1-1

Very well deserved. I truly believe that we can be better than these two teams, come the end of the season.

As usual with teams down there with us a draw please.

This Watford keeper is a bit of a ****head.

Been all Brentford since Ranieri took off Cleverly and replaced him with a striker for some odd reason

Brentford penalty

Watford have a glass chin, hope SD is making notes… they don’t like it up them

Brentford 2-1 Watford pen

Hopefully Brentford win, best result for us imo

What a result that is for us

Don’t know what all the panic was about

Hideous defending.

That will DO !

Utterly stupid foul.

KRBFC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:46 pm

Been all Brentford since Ranieri took off Cleverly and replaced him with a striker for some odd reason

He's well known at the tinker man.

Ranieri sacked in the morning?

Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:52 pm

What a result that is for us

Actually it's a good result for Brentford, not us we weren't playing.

Phew. Puts Brentford out of sight (for the moment at least) but keeps Watford in the mire. Hopefully that will hurt them psychologically.

Result went for us...Are we capable of doing the business ourself ?