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I just have no confidence in this squad at all. I think they'll put the effort in, no concerns there, but I just don't think the sum of our parts is anywhere near the level needed to compete effectively in this division. We are utterly devoid of creativity, outside of Cantwell, which means we'd need to rely pretty heavily on set pieces. But we're terrible at those as well. Can't see how the current team is expected to achieve anything other than relegation. Other than that, looking forward to the game.

Lol. The precursor to shit results is hiring a shit manager.

There can't be many clubs where sales have 0% impact on the transfer budget. It's a ludicrous statement unless the club is in deep financial peril and needs every penny to keep the lights on.

I visited the Brentford forum to gauge the mood and was surprised to find the majority optimistic and happy with Keef in charge, even after the weekend. They really seem to trust their decision makers, even if from the outside it looks like lunacy.

3 shots on target in two league games, I believe. Roughly 85 consecutive minutes across both games where we didn't register a single shot. You notice now people are saying we're decent and doing OK just because we aren't getting hammered. It's brutal.

Chaddy's probably still correct tbh.

Keef in charge alongside multiple sales seems like a recipe for disaster. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see Brentford drop this season.

Billionaire owners, club apparently can't afford a Sky Sports subscription. Lol.

Based on what? We didn't have a shot on goal for the first 35 minutes of the opening match and none until the 50th minute of this one. Going to be difficult to put up a fight if we never create any chances. Running around a lot isn't the same thing.

Think there are still a lot of fans who have not grasped how catastrophic this summer has been for us. The loss of Championship experience and leadership is going to really take its toll as the season goes on. Cheap replacements from foreign leagues will not be adequate. I truly believe we are in deep, deep trouble. Of course, I would love nothing more than to be wrong and hope that at the end of the season this post will be quoted as being totally ridiculous.

Not sure I'd class WBA or Brum as the better teams in the division, neither looked like it playing against us, but even if we do put them at that level who are we expecting to be below us? Sheff Weds, probably - then...? Other than Cantwell, who's scoring the goals in this team? Who's creating the assists? It feels like blind optimism to think the likes of Yuki, Gueye or Kargbo are going to step up like that. Hedges certainly isn't. No evidence as of yet that the new signings are capable. I think to have any chance we need to scrape a win or two very quickly and hope momentum carries us for a while. It will be very difficult for such a technically barren team to reverse a downward spiral this early in this season.

I didn't say they were a bad side, but they were bang average when we played them. We didn't have a shot in the first 45 and two on target the entire game, at home. If that's decent then standards are frankly through the fucking floor.

The worrying thing is neither WBA nor Big Club were very good. I think our first 11 from last season takes at least 4 points from those matches.

Relegation written all over this squad I'm afraid. We don't create enough and one goal a game at best ain't gonna be enough. You can argue we were hard done by today, but it's a common complaint amongst poor teams. Good teams make their own luck.

Ayo, not only a shot on goal but also a goal. That'll do.

First 45 mins of the season at home and not a shot on goal. Nice. We are in fact the only team in the division this afternoon to have zero shots so far. Only positive is that Birmingham have been pretty shit as well. One of those games that would make somebody wonder why football is so popular.

Not a huge fan of our new strategy of never creating chances or shooting. Would personally prefer a different approach.

Yep, the 16/17 team under any remotely decent manager would have stayed up. Even being saddled with Coyle until Feb we still only went down on GD and what I think was a record number of points for relegation? Close to, if not.

Trying to think of another example in modern times, at this sort of level, where a manager has literally been stopped from attending a press conference due to his alleged incandescent anger over the incompetence of the people he's working with. To be a fly on the walls of Ewood on that day.

Laughable. I love Big Mak's personality but more often than not he looks totally out of his depth in this league. Yuki has done OK but he's not an Arma, Szmodics, or even BBD.

Honestly, I do see a relegation team. Even more so if Travis and Hyam leave. There just isn't enough reliable Championship experience. Aside from that I think we massively lack in creativity, have no real goalscoring threat and no squad depth whatsoever. If we stay up then fair enough, Ismael will have done well.

I understand Rooney being upset with Brady's words and his portrayal in the Birmingham promotional series. It was a bit cowardly to do that without giving Rooney any chance to put his side across. From the "documentary" we have no idea why Rooney was hired or what he was attempting to implement, nor do the owners show any real understanding of their culpability beyond Brady's brief remark on changing too much too soon (and then proceeding to blame the players anyway). Rooney saying he inherited a mess is baffling, though, considering they were 6th and had won Eustace's last match there comfortably.

Don't think we'll have a choice tbh, as even if we shopped him around for free I'm not sure he'd have many takers. Haven't heard anything about interest in Pears either. Need to get someone at Man Utd to remind Amorim to get that one done soonish.

Interesting. Massive mistake from Mowbray to sign him then, in your view?

I would take a look at the senior leadership and wonder why costs were increasing but our goals were not being achieved. With that said, this assumes the goal is to get promoted. Waggott already said during JDT's time that the aim is to develop players and plod along in the division.