f**king hell we needed that. Way too difficult but I'll take a league win no matter how ugly.

Pafos then Palace away. Need to up the tempo somewhat. Anyhoo

Up the Chels

A win but that was not football, at least not the game I fell in love with

Good result, rubbish performance. Brentford will be unhappy that they didn't win that.

Had to remind myself we’d won this one. Still feels like a loss

Just now, carrickblue said:

3 points- never in doubt

Absolutely!

Good subs too - looked far more secure once Santos was on...

They'll feel they should have got something out of it but they didn't ... that's football lol

Would we have won it with the bald clown in charge ? Not a chance imho 😁

Good result, pretty poor performance. Both goals handed to us. I know it's early but there doesn't look to be much of a bond between the manager and any of our players looking at their responses to his embraces. Rosenior needs to spend less time ticking off the boxes from the David Brent handbook of man manager and actually focus on bonding with these kids

1 minute ago, WhiteWall said:

Good result, pretty poor performance. Both goals handed to us. I know it's early but there doesn't look to be much of a bond between the manager and any of our players looking at their responses to his embraces. Rosenior needs to spend less time ticking off the boxes from the David Brent handbook of man manager and actually focus on bonding with these kids

Always going to be a difficult one that... time will tell.

Tottenham booed off, Frank looks distraught, Gallagher played the full game

A win is a win.

Not a good performance, this team really doesn’t like running.

A win is a win though.

One of the worst performances seen by the team.. improved once we actually decided to tackle.. also tactically we were very suspect today.. simple kept playing the ball over the top to the sides and we kept getting caught out.. for front 4 of pedro palmer neto and Garnacho who provided no pressing this was easy for Brentford .. very very lucky 3 points..

2 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

Tottenham booed off, Frank looks distraught, Gallagher played the full game

Even when we olay sh*te football has a way of bringing a little joy

Back up to 6th

Very surprising some of the negative vibes here ... always going to be a bit scrappy

And after the shyte we had with Maresca... 3pts and a clean sheet is good day at the office.

7 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

Tottenham booed off, Frank looks distraught, Gallagher played the full game

Amazing isn't it. Frank worked wonders with Brentford then goes to a club with better facilities, stadium, finances, players etc and he can't catch a break. Something wrong in that club

Ladies and gentlemen. That was awful but it could have been worse. We could be Conor Gallagher.

Just now, BewareoftheDrog said:

Amazing isn't it. Frank worked wonders with Brentford then goes to a club with better facilities, stadium, finances, players etc and he can't catch a break. Something wrong in that club

I caught over a season ago Frank being interviewed by Lineker, said he was happy at Brentford and did not want the stress of managing a big club. Well perhaps Spurs are no longer a big club yet their fan base does have high hopes.

He might not last the season.

So sounds like a fluke win due to Brentford poor finishing and 9 times out of 10 we lose, or maybe draw, that game, fair?

4 minutes ago, BewareoftheDrog said:

Amazing isn't it. Frank worked wonders with Brentford then goes to a club with better facilities, stadium, finances, players etc and he can't catch a break. Something wrong in that club

Or maybe Brentford’s structure is spot on and Frank was less important than everyone thought? The current manager is matching Frank with an arguably lesser squad.

15 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

Tottenham booed off, Frank looks distraught, Gallagher played the full game

It's funny when a new player joins they always seem to lose. Like a quick dose of reality quickly hits.

Just now, axman2526 said:

So sounds like a fluke win due to Brentford poor finishing and 9 times out of 10 we lose, or maybe draw, that game, fair?

Only real difference to Maresca era was that Rosenior made better substitutions. When we were right up against it and it seemed inevitable we would concede Rosenior didn't wait until we had conceded. Took off a very ineffective Garnacho and brought on Santos to try and gain a bit more control of the game. Delap coming on was the right swap too.

A win but very unconvincing. Any other day we concede 2 or 3 of those chances.

12 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

Or maybe Brentford’s structure is spot on and Frank was less important than everyone thought? The current manager is matching Frank with an arguably lesser squad.

Spot on. I had Andrews down as one of the first casualties. Fair play to him. He is on course for manager of the season in my book, looking at the hand he was dealt. The fella Thiago, up top, would walk into most prem teams.

46 minutes ago, BewareoftheDrog said:

I'm thinking that while BlueCo are in charge then no manager is gonna be popular with fans. Too much interference from upstairs.

Although i dislike a lot of the ownership I don't believe for one second egdbali & Co are telling the manager how to play. These people are billionares and they got that way with good delegation and picking people to do jobs they are qualified above them to carry out, hence the medical team saying how fit players are.

The manager already looks weak to me and it will take a serious upturn in our style of play, and discipline to change my mind

32 minutes ago, Bebe1980 said:

Very surprising some of the negative vibes here ... always going to be a bit scrappy

And after the shyte we had with Maresca... 3pts and a clean sheet is good day at the office.

I was at the game and came away feeling fairly positive. I’m always surprised how negative it is here. Thought we were more solid than we have been of late and created a few chances. It’s easy to focus on the negatives but we have some winnable games coming up and have a good chance to make some progress.

KTBFFH