Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[cdbearsfan]

They are bottlers though. They had it in their own hands and they bottled it. The financial model, historical size of the club or other factors don't alter that fact.

[Hookeysmith]

They are bottlers though. They had it in their own hands and they bottled it. The financial model, historical size of the club or other factors don't alter that fact.

Harsh but very true

[AsTallAsLions]

They are bottlers though. They had it in their own hands and they bottled it.

Are we bottlers for not finishing 16th then? Or if we'd finished 16th, would we be bottlers for not finishing 15th? Etc.

Nobody expected Brentford to finish 3rd at the start of the season. The Playoffs can be bloody brutal, as we all know, but being there was a big achievement for them.

[PeterWithesShin]

Bottlers is very harsh, to have gone up automatically they would have had to end the season with 9 wins out of 10, or 8 wins and 2 draws. Not many club manage runs like that, never mind one with the post lockdown fixture list and a limited squad.

[OCD]

They had done a lot of the hard work and got to the point of having it in their hands though.

[andyh]

They are bottlers though. They had it in their own hands and they bottled it.

Are we bottlers for not finishing 16th then? Or if we'd finished 16th, would we be bottlers for not finishing 15th? Etc.

Nobody expected Brentford to finish 3rd at the start of the season. The Playoffs can be bloody brutal, as we all know, but being there was a big achievement for them.

They also had 2 league games prior to the play offs to finish 2nd and to stop the stripey fuckers finishing runners up.

Bottlers.

[AsTallAsLions]

Bottlers is very harsh, to have gone up automatically they would have had to end the season with 9 wins out of 10, or 8 wins and 2 draws. Not many club manage runs like that, never mind one with the post lockdown fixture list and a limited squad.

Indeed

[cdbearsfan]

They are bottlers though. They had it in their own hands and they bottled it.

Are we bottlers for not finishing 16th then? Or if we'd finished 16th, would we be bottlers for not finishing 15th? Etc.

Nobody expected Brentford to finish 3rd at the start of the season. The Playoffs can be bloody brutal, as we all know, but being there was a big achievement for them.

Losing to generally better teams doesn't make you bottlers. There is no real difference, other than a few quid, between 15th and 16th. They are a better team than Stoke or Barnsley, as they showed for most of the season.

They failed to beat either because they are bottlers. I'm not sure what circumstances you'd accept for calling someone bottlers if failing to get a single point from successive matches against absolute shite doesn't meet the criteria.

[cdbearsfan]

Bottlers is very harsh, to have gone up automatically they would have had to end the season with 9 wins out of 10, or 8 wins and 2 draws. Not many club manage runs like that, never mind one with the post lockdown fixture list and a limited squad.

They were excellent when they were chasing the top two. When they got ahead of one of them, the arse fell out of them and they bottled it.

[PeterWithesShin]

Doesn't alter that a 10 game run like doesn't happen very often. There's a reason it took us over 100 years to win 9 in a row again.

[brontebilly]

When does our pre-season start? Just over four weeks to the first game.

[WilliamStanding]

What an age we live in where
Brentford are classed  as bottlers ( As pissed off as I was at them letting Smethwick go up).

Their best players we are allegedly after may not be the catalyst of this alleged bottle  job.

PSG and Man City don’t too badly as CL bottle jobs.

[cdbearsfan]

Doesn't alter that a 10 game run like doesn't happen very often. There's a reason it took us over 100 years to win 9 in a row again.

Yes, as I said. They were very good, until they got in a position to bottle it and did so.

[ADVILLAFAN]

They do have to worst record in the English Football Playoffs, which suggests they are bottlers

[cdbearsfan]

If a player goes 17-0 up in this weekend's snooker final then loses 18-17, presumably they can't be bottlers because they did well to get to 17?