Our New 'Edge'

[colin69]

We definitely do have a new edge and I’m loving every minute of it. We really are playing some nice stuff too. This could just be the start of something. What a difference a few months makes eh?

[Damo70]

We are more streetwise these days and I suspect a lot of it is down to Dean Smith and John Terry. We have been too naive in the past.

[darren woolley]

You are right we do have an edge and I love it.

[Toronto Villa]

What I love about us this season is that we literally fear no team. It doesn’t mean we will win every game. But we will give it a go. And we have shown it now vs Liverpool and away at Wolves, Arsenal and Leicester. The confidence that it gives the players cannot be understated. Of course we will drop points here and there but it’s because we still aren’t the finished product. A long way from it. But it just feels we’re a million miles from the side that played last season.

Dean Smith had this very reputation while at Brentford albeit on a much smaller scale and stage. I lacked belief in him and I’m delighted in hindsight to have been proven completely wrong. He deserved the criticism at the time but I can see why he was backed once we stayed up and he’s simply gone from strength to strength. It’s truly superb to see.

[nigel]

This is why I don’t mind Jack going down at a slight touch.
All the top teams throughout Europe have players that do it, it’s now part of the game.
How many times have we heard a pundit say ‘Contact was there, he’s entitled to go down’

[The Edge]

Was worried when I opened this as I thought it was about the other twat in U2.

Oi!

[rob_bridge]

Was worried when I opened this as I thought it was about the other twat in U2.

Oi!

Sunday. Bloody Sunday for Albion

[kippaxvilla2]

Just re-watching the 2nd play off leg at smethwick.  No way is the ref sending Brunt off without Jack, McGinns and Conor’s theatrics around the referee.  Culminating with Conor patting the ref on the back when he makes the correct decision.  Happy days.

[dcdavecollett]

Not sure I can think of another game where one player could have been given THREE red cards in the same match!!

[Sexual Ealing]

As has been mentioned above, we're doing what the Brentford side - who used to demolish us - did under Smith. Usually when it was pissing down with rain, but that's not relevant.