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

[cdbearsfan]

We won 9 of 11 to finish '98, beating the sides that finished 1st, 3rd and 4th. The 2 defeats were at home to Barnsley and Bolton, both relegated. It's just incredibly hard to sustain that form over that many games, even against poorer sides.

There's some absolute desperate whataboutery here to try to pretend that a team that was in a position to get promoted, with two easy games remaining, didn't bottle it when they lost both games.

Still, I'm going to do a big Billy Nobs flounce out of the thread.

[WilliamStanding]

Tbf CDB that actually made me laugh.

Fair play to you.

Noroc.

[PeterWithesShin]

There is, bringing up snooker being the best example.

[Malandro]

Anyway, I'm underwhelmed by links to Brentford players, in case you hadn't guessed.

I was hoping this transfer window would be about signing next level players, not the same sort of players we were linked with for the last two windows.

I do agree we should be going for better.

[Ian.]

A couple of my mates who support Exeter have followed Watkins since he signed for Brentford and reckon he’s a fantastic talent and would be well worth signing.

[Steve67]

Watkins yes please, still has growth and is worth the risk. Ramsey? Absolute yes. Good enough for Arsenal and certainly good enough for us, if his wages are sensible. Surely a signing or two soon.

[Ian.]

I’d love us to sign Ramsey, even if he’s prone to the odd injury. Could be just what we need.

[paul_e]

Bottlers is a bit strong but they definitely fell apart. Won 8 games and scored for fun to get to the brink of the automatic promotion places then lost 4 of the last 5 games to miss out on both auto and the playoffs. Regardless of how well they'd done to get there that's a very disappointing way to end the season.

I'm with CD on their players as well, I'd take Watkins as cover but I've got no interest in Benrahma or anyone else.

[LukeJames]

Ramseys on 400k a week.

[cdbearsfan]

Kin ell.

[PeterWithesShin]

Seeems fair, it's not much more than we get for moderating this place.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Ramseys on 400k a week.

That's just wrong on so many levels ......the world truly has gone mad

[Rudy65]

Ramseys on 400k a week.

That's just wrong on so many levels ......the world truly has gone mad

He was a Bosman. Still ridiculous though

[Rudy65]

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.

The phrase Bottlers was made for Brentford Last season. They even had two chances to go up automatically and bottled it. How else could you describe it?

[john e]

How many games did we bottle

Liverpool
Spurs x 2
Arsenal (away)
Man Utd

we had the outstanding result against Arsenal at home (probably the only defining result against the odds ) to put the whole thing in our own hands
we were in control going into the last game against a team on the beach just turn up and win and we are virtually 100% staying up

we couldn’t even do that and had to rely on others to bail us out

count all the no shows when we really needed results against Bournemouth Watford Brighton etc
and when it comes to bottlers we are there or thereabouts near the top of the table