Do they? In the Bowyer era I would say that was the case. Away from this forum I don’t see much ambition in the fanbase anymore, plodding along in mid table and staying out of the third division suffices with many these days, ‘we are a small club’ etc. The expectations we had even as relatively recently as, say, 2015 seem to have long gone...

‘You need to learn the position from Steve Livingstone’

I know he’s not exactly working for The Times, but a bit cringe that tweet, no?

His pal is a big Brentford fan, works at Heathrow.

It’s a shame, and I think people are missing out. We know it’s not exactly top quality in terms of skill level, but it’s without the doubt the best competition in the country, as that crackers last day proved once again.

He’s asked for it now! 21 questions in 30 days incoming!

To be fair to BDS’ mates, it’s not just them that don’t follow the Championship, what’s far worse are the football journalists that are like 19th century explorers when they visit a newly promoted sides’ ground...

It’s called disagreeing with you Joe. You struggle with that, you are very sure of your views, perhaps your data background is to do with that, as shown by the nonsensical view that those that don’t have the same opinion as you on JRC must be ‘biased’, not that they simply see things differently. So obviously you must think someone who doesn’t share your opinion a fair bit (like me) must be on ‘the wind up’, how dare I have the temerity!

Of course, or he’d have been loaned out to this level to make his mistakes. We used to be so strong with keepers that even Shay Given couldn’t get a sniff!

You are an angry bugger aren’t ya when challenged, not sure you’ve got to grips with this place yet. Ok does Raya have poor stats? (That’s golden glove winner David Raya). Stats that make him ‘shit’?

Agreed, very important. So could you clear up why Goode should be avoided at all costs ‘because the data’... yet Raya who has ‘awesome’ data is ‘shit’ and it’s great that he was sold?

Oh. I was hoping for some more bar charts I asked and he delivered ⬇️

It’s rushes of blood to the head that seems to be his biggest problem. Does he get bored? The free kick error only came about because of that kamikaze charge to the halfway line.

‘Shit’, is that what the stats say?

‘We sold our goalie to buy Sam Gallagher’... that kind of thing?

‘In transition’, not surprising when we are loaning in a centre half, left back and keeper every season...

The PM is on about £150k... there’s around a dozen execs in Blackburn with Darwen Council alone on 100k+

You rate Walton, so not sure what that says about you...

10 from 41 for Raya in 2018/19, 12 from 46 for Walton, so. So a near percentage dead heat. And of course, Walton had a more settled/generally better quality centre half partnership in front of him - Raya has just won the golden glove award for Championship clean sheets - so perhaps the poor defence he was behind here might have something to do with it? See we can all spin stats! End of the day was selling our promising but error prone keeper for a couple of million (the proof will be in what Brentford sell him for) just to loan in players as poor and even more error prone as Walton a good move? And now just weeks away from a new season we’ve 0 first team keepers on the books, seems poor planning to me.

Still the man as far as the Brentford forum is concerned... https://griffinpark.org/forums/showthread.php?t=132179&page=35

What they doing on holiday then?

To be fair for a club like Brentford this method is probably making them more than their sum of their parts, a League 1 club size wise.

Raya has fantastic shot stopping ability, but Ederson he ain’t, he needs to knock all this sweeper keeper stuff on the head ASAP.

How do you know that Waggott, Gill and Silvester are on holiday?

‘On their holidays’. Didn’t realise it was 1990? Hopefully TM’s hotel has a phone he can use...