Bee positive: After the Grey Mist Clears, Brentford fans are defiant

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   Stephen O'Brien on April 29, 2013 at 1:18 pm

   Superb write up, summed up mine and probably 1000’s of others thoughts over the weekend. Is it wrong that the first thing I thought of this morning was that penalty miss and the chance for everybody who knows you’re a Brentford fan to mutter those unforgiving words of ‘But that’s just typical Brentford isn’t it’? And the fact that we still have no counter argument to it…….as yet.

   I, like you, want to move on and look forward to success in the play offs like any Bees fan but one last little dwell on Saturday and this is in no slight a knock to Kevin O’Connor nor Trotta, who has in no doubt played his part in getting us to that chance of glory at the finishing line on Saturday but if a 31 year old, grown man, who’s captain of the club really wants to take that penalty and a 19 year old, loanee is holding the ball, I think for certain I can only see one winner in the argument. The fact that there was flapping of arms and raised voices and finger pointing after, was more a cop out of a situation whereby there is every chance to be the undoubted hero, forever remembered in Brentford folklore but the flip of the coin proved too much to bare for the captain. I think had he had more than the couple of games at the tail end of the season, out of position and felt that he had really played his part to get us there, as opposed to enforced absence through injury, the situation may have been somewhat different.

   However, we’re all experts in hindsight and as you say, we need to let it go but support for the club is support for all, even more so Trotta at this time and if this team, which I honestly believe can achieve promotion still can pull it out of the bag, then lets do it together, everyone of us and without the negativity that years of underachieving and falling at the last hurdle has made us the brentford fans we are today. Sad but still upbeat and maybe blindly lead to think that maybe this is our year and 7th time lucky in the play offs. Please Bees, for all our sakes.

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   Andy Scott on April 29, 2013 at 8:57 pm

   I caused a scene in the bookies on Saturday. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to follow the match as I was out but managed to get into a bookies just before it was FT. Over the commentary I heard there was a penalty at GP to Brentford and seeing the score was 0-0 thought this has got to be it. Then the dreaded moment when they said the pen was missed and before Doncaster scored I was stomping around the bookies shouting a selection of 4 letter expletives. One punter turned to me and enquired how much money I had just lost (obviously thinking I had a large bet on)I turned to him and said, nothing mate but I have supported Brentford for over 30 yrs so he sort of understood. I do like a bet from time to time but would never place a bet on the bees. Anyhow, looking onwards, let’s get to wembley and do it the hard way, as long as none of the matches go to a penalty shootout I am still confident we can do it, after all we have the incentive of going back to Loftus Rd next year!

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