So, the Championship season has started **Spoilers**

Have to say I wasn't very confident going in to the Norwich game given our performances against Bourenmouth and Watford, but that was a fantastic result and a much better performancea all round.

I reckon we'll win our last 2 so just need either of the other two to drop points.
 
Ipswich game played into Brentford hands and now Brentford lead. Maybe just maybe!

Edit :maybe not lol
Edit edit: maybe.... Close game!
 
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Ipswich should be able to stay in the top six now. Forest at home next and expect we will beat them.

Don't fancy our chances in the play offs!
 
I miscalculated, I thought any dropped points by Bournemouth would mean we'd stay in the top 2.

So Boro still need to win their last 2 and hope either Watford or Bourenmouth draw or lose one of their last 2.
 
Being a Brentford fan for the past few months has been a draining process. How we've contrived to screw it up is, I suppose, fairly typical of Brentford FC, and the equalising goal we conceding yesterday encapsulated everything that has happened since January!

Apparently Benham is likely to go all out on transfers this summer, and it'll be interesting to see who the new DoF and Head Coach will be - Zola was there yesterday, could be an interesting DoF.
 
As a Fulham fan I literally cannot wait for this season to end, and the new manager to come in. Unfortunately as good intentions as he had, Kit Symons is 100% not ready, it's got to the point it's obvious it's not the players, and now his fault, but as much as the clubs in choosing someone so inexperienced. Hopefully a small overhaul and investment we should be back on the right track next season. Not sure who the manager is going to be although most reports it sounds like Warburton.

@toshj - how do you feel about Warburton? I know Brentford/Fulham are historically rivals, but either way :p
 
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As a Fulham fan I literally cannot wait for this season to end, and the new manager to come in. Unfortunately as good intentions as he had, Kit Symons is 100% not ready, it's got to the point it's obvious it's not the players, and now his fault, but as much as the clubs in choosing someone so inexperienced. Hopefully a small overhaul and investment we should be back on the right track next season. Not sure who the manager is going to be although most reports it sounds like Warburton.

@toshj - how do you feel about Warburton? I know Brentford/Fulham are historically rivals, but either way :p
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Mixed. He took us up last season playing attractive football, and despite it being his first go at managing, he had significant support financially and benefited from how astoundingly well run our club is at the moment.

This season after an inauspicious start we gathered pace and have played the best football many have ever seen at Griffin Park. He's been a major part in how the club has developed from U8's through to the first team. Every side plays the same style, formation and structure, and we're really starting to make waves in youth football as a result. Pritchard, Jota and Judge are the best players I've ever seen at the club, and we had a real shot at automatics at Christmas (a win against Ipswich on Boxing Day would have sent us top).

Despite all this, he's a relatively inexperienced manager, and it ultimately showed. Benham's research effort (something that has turned him into a multi, multi millionaire and has seen his other side storm the Danish league in his first year of ownership there) identified the necessary players to shorten our odds of automatic promotion by a relatively significant amount. The players targeted were an Austrian international and a La Liga central defender, amongst others. Despite the transfer seemingly being agreed, Warburton vetoed the signings, along with DoF McParland. Warburton thinks they would have disrupted squad harmony. ITK members of the fanbase have indicated that after the transfers had basically been done, the players' agents were called by a member of the management team and would be told "you player is joining us against the wish of the manager, and therefore won't be played at all". Whether that's true or not, we've heard it from various sources. McParland has been on gardening leave since these events and Warburton announced he was leaving.

Everyone could tell he was making a mistake, and following a rubbish transfer window, it was announced that he didn't want to operate in a new management structure we would bring in during the summer. And we've largely been rubbish ever since. The squad is threadbare, they're knackered and our form is awful compared to a few months back. We had a development squad attacking midfielder on the bench yesterday as our only substitute striking option :rolleyes:

I think Warburton has down well, but the ranks have closed on him recently as it's become increasingly obvious that not investing in January has cost us a possible promotion to the Premier League. Call it naivety, inexperience, arrogance or whatever, but it's just a massive shame, and I feel genuinely sorry for Benham's Brentford ambitions. Should Warburton end up at Fulham (or QPR, as has been mentioned) I'd certainly have no issue and would want him to have a successful career (after managing Fulham/QPR :p)
 
Left my seat on a couple of occasions when I thought Brighton had equalized. Watford were pretty comfortable in the end though.
 
Meh. Poor end to the season. Looked limp up front, unmotivated and lacked any real quality. Thought Wednesday shaded the first half (not sure it was a penalty from where I sit, near the manager) however Leeds were much the better side in the second half. Leeds looked much more motivated and seemed to have endless energy compared to Wednesday.

Oh well. Move on to next season, new pitch, new scoreboards, new players :).
 
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