Exiled_Rover

Those penalty decisions get worse and worse the more you see them. The man in pink has decided the game tonight - no idea why they've let a Brentford fan referee his own team.

His highlights included, erm... his highlights. Done absolutely nothing beyond slotting a penalty away.

How's that not a pen from calamity Raya?!?!?!

You really are a piece of work.

Do Brentford have any British players?

Raya is a better shot stopper. In fact that's all he's good at. Kaminsky is a far better goalkeeper.

Kaminsky is better. £500k.

Schooled our CBs but only had the one shot on target. A non-penalty. I feel like the narrative for a lot of these players is written before the match. Judge them on what happens on the pitch on the day

Piss off. There's nothing special about Brentford.

How is that not a foul in Gallagher? The Brentford RB has literally gone through him to make him kick the ball out for a goalkick.

Buckley gets cleaned out - they get the free kick. This ref might as well put on one of those drab grey shirts.

And their lot don't?

There's been contact both times Brereton has been on the floor too. Ref hasn't blown up for those.

At some point we're going to come across a good ref, right? Diving bastards.

4-2-3-1. Dack playing #10 behind Dolan.

Lee Trundle really grates.

How the fuck do you give a penalty for that when you've bottled a 2nd minute penalty / straight red decision? Unbelievable.

This ref is a disgrace.

It's a difficult job because there's literally no structure behind the scenes. Waggot, regardless of how poor he is at his job, is retiring at the end of the season. An experienced manager with a plan would absolutely love it as they'd have free reign to mould the club in their image - but it's a bloody big ask. Assuming we've still got a Cat 1 Academy after these bastards have finished flogging our training ground I'd love the next manager to promote the youth. Mowbray is terrified of doing so - mainly because he's a cack manager. Not only does it save money, but it allows the fans to bond with a player. If we're going to have mediocre players I'd rather they came through our system than be mercenaries.

It's also a different game now - Scholes would have been sent off a lot more nowadays.

I will say this - whoever scouts for our Academy does a bloody good job. McBride and Nolan stand out in that side - they're both products of other Academies. Seems like a lot of our players are cast offs from elsewhere.

I saw him once when he was a 21 year old in the Academy - he should be bossing the game at that age. You seem to think that everyone is wrong about him and he's a world beater. Good luck to you.

I mean he's 22. He's past being a prospect at this point. I saw him play once for the Academy and he didn't stand out at all. Good luck to him (except at Burnley), but he's clearly not good enough.

Do we have any sort of settled 11 for the Academy? It seems to be a different side every time I see them - with Thompson having disappeared off the face of the earth!

Who would you drop?