Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
I take your point about their ability to replace players and hold their own in the Championship .

I don't expect them to implode as a championship club but to get as close to the PL again ? ........ I'm not so sure Pass .

Going to take some coming back from mentally for the club in my opinion .

Watkins against ourselves late in the game was a centimetre away from putting them in the PL automatically .

Any sort of justice tonight would have seen Brentford triumph .

Tough to take .
It sure is tough to take for them. 3 opportunities spurned. Only themselves to blame when all said and done. It may take them a couple or 3 years to challenge like that once again, who knows? It may never happen again as you say.

I just think that they're an upwardly mobile club. They're moving into their new stadium next season, have a good head coach, play excellent football, they obviously have an excellent scouting team and a few quid behind them. Everything is pointing in the right direction for them.

The point I made in my previous post is a great example to our owners what can be done when you add the quality and experience. Ezri Konsa age 22 (a promising defender)went from Brentford to Villa for £12m last summer, they replaced him with Pinnock age 27 and Pontus Jansson age 29 for around 9 million combined. Their defensive record in 18/19 was poor despite having Konsa, they conceded 59 goals. This season they've only conceded 38 goals and med profit to boot. That is very astute and impressive business by anyone's standards.

We can emulate them IF we can sustain Championship football. That's the $64000 question int it- Can we sustain championship football? Not with the current transfer policy, that much is obvious.

An example Conway and his colleagues surely can't fail to take on board is the difference Sollbauer has made to our team in the closing games, just that bit of experience, know how and calmness around our crop of youngsters makes all the difference. FFS Conway, Beane, Lee, just add that bit more quality and experience in a couple of other positions and we can finish mid table I'm certain. It's been fecking obvious since the 17/18 relegation season what is required at this level and what isn't. To ignore it like we did last summer was criminal and so angrily annoying. Now we've had a touch in staying up, these owners need to take that on board and start learning the lessons.