Pre Match Brentford v Leicester

[bocadillo]

Referee: Michael Oliver.
Assistants: Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring.
Fourth official: Darren Bond.
VAR: Stuart Attwell.
Assistant VAR: Wade Smith.

****s and ****wits.

 

[popillius]

I think both sides of the two-person-overdramatisation are as bad as each other. The rest of us are fed up with both of you.

You’re both valued posters in your own right, but, for whatever reason, seem unable to accept that you’ve made your point to each other and get over it.

Just ignore each other and let it lie, then the rest of us can get on with it.

The ****?

I've not written a word in this thread up to this point.

Nobody has ever prevented you from getting on with anything you like. Fill your boots.

 

[popillius]

....or keep it up. It's entertaining.
Pop, City Fan said, on a different forum, you were really a massive fan of Cooper, and loved him, .....
And City Fan; Pop told me you're a right wanker and have a secret love of Forest and their managers.

 

[popillius]

I don't think we will see a huge improvement in this game. Cooperball has pretty much ripped any morale out of the squad that was left over from last season. I hope we at least see a little.l more.'togetherness' and commitment from those who were clearly not buying into whatever nonsense Cooper was trying to bring to the club.

 

[pork pie fox]

I don't think we will see a huge improvement in this game. Cooperball has pretty much ripped any morale out of the squad that was left over from last season. I hope we at least see a little.l more.'togetherness' and commitment from those who were clearly not buying into whatever nonsense Cooper was trying to bring to the club.

I’m hoping for similar, in terms of them pulling together. The opposite, where they descend into ego-driven self preservation mode, could lead to chaos (if we aren’t chaotic enough already).

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Brentford are great at home, shit on the road. We're shit home & away.

Brentford at home to anyone is usually a nailed on goal fest.

0-0 it is.

 

[OzzieFox]

Vardy to score at any time 3/1.
It's free money.
I know, I'm getting away with the Ruuuudd boys. It's beer o'clock here!

 

[HFox]

Be nice to see the midfield get past the halfway line. Might be reckless but a bit of pressing would be nice too. If we think back to the first 45 v Bournemouth, we know we capable of it.

Either way, win or lose, on the booze. Umpteen Guinness, two course meal, a snooze on the Midland Mainline.

 

[homer]

Be nice to see the midfield get past the halfway line. Might be reckless but a bit of pressing would be nice.

That's just crazy talk

 

[bocadillo]

a snooze on the Midland Mainline.

...and wake up as the train arrives in Sheffield?

 

[Brown Nose]

Can't stand this arrogant twat.

 

[City Fan]

Can't stand this arrogant twat.

What has he said there that has triggered you into calling him that?

There isn’t much point him watching us, how we have played and setup etc as it’ll be completely out the window now.

 

[FOX Franks]

Can't stand this arrogant twat.

I’d take him as a manager in a heartbeat though.

 

[Jeff]

Head-to-head

• Leicester are unbeaten in eight league games against Brentford since a 3-2 home defeat in the second tier in March 1953 (W5, D3).

• The Bees have drawn two and lost two of their four Premier League matches against the Foxes. The only team they have faced more often in the competition without winning is Newcastle, who they have met six times.

Brentford

• Thomas Frank’s team have earned 16 points at home this season, scoring 18 goals – both totals are league highs.

• They are vying to win four in a row at home for the first time in the top flight since 1937.

• The Bees also have the chance to score at least three times in four consecutive home league fixtures for the first time since 1984.

• The Londoners have won nine successive Premier League home games against newly-promoted opposition since defeat by Norwich in November 2021.

• Brentford kept their first clean sheet in 14 league games in last weekend’s draw at Everton, and are aiming to record back-to-back shut-outs for the first time since October 2023.

• Yoane Wissa has seven goals and two assists in his last five Premier League home appearances, scoring in each of those matches, while Bryan Mbeumo has either scored or assisted in each of his past six league games at the Gtech Community Stadium.

Leicester City

• The Foxes have conceded the opening goal in a league-high 10 of their 12 top-flight matches this season.

• Last month’s win at Southampton is their only victory in 14 Premier League away fixtures.

• The only top-flight match they have failed to score in this season was this month’s 3-0 defeat at Manchester United, then under the interim charge of Ruud van Nistelrooy.

• Leicester have won just one of their past 13 Premier League games in London (D3, L9), conceding at least two goals on each of their five most recent top-flight visits to the capital.

• Jordan Ayew has three goals in his last five league appearances, all scored in added time as a substitute.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

I'll be happy if we can avoid Ruud leaving his seat in the stand at full time & handing in his resignation on the way out.

 

[OzzieFox]

What has he said there that has triggered you into calling him that?

There isn’t much point him watching us, how we have played and setup etc as it’ll be completely out the window now.

Seriously? Do you really need explaining to you why it's arrogant that a manger doesn't need to watch the players his team is about to play against? Wait till Bilal scores and Frank says 'Who?, who the ****s that"??

 

[alex]

I think the point Thomas Frank was making was that he would have little to no idea what Leicester side he's facing, due to the sudden sacking of Steve Cooper. It's probably a dig at the madness of it all too.

 

[City Fan]

Seriously? Do you really need explaining to you why it's arrogant that a manger doesn't need to watch the players his team is about to play against? Wait till Bilal scores and Frank says 'Who?, who the ****s that"??

You’re understanding it completely wrong.

 

[homer]

To be fair, none of us know what team will be picked or what set up it will be, or how they are going to approach the game - whether RvN is influencing this match or not. So he’s got a point.

We all just hope and pray that it’s nothing whatsoever like the rank cowardice and disorganisation we have seen under Cooper, so watching any of our recent matches would be pretty pointless

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Can't stand this arrogant twat.

In other words he's got the hump because we might get 'the bounce' against them.....