frightened rabbits caught in headlights?
How will our team fare in the 8 games left....in my opinion none of us at this time have any idea, but we can speculate.
Both Leeds and Fulham are coming off defeats, disappointing performances, but both have plenty of motivation to put the last disappointing result behind them.
Will our team benefit from an empty stadium with no atmosphere, with no crowd backing, but will not be exerting any negative pressure on the team if the game is not going our way?
Plenty of questions for our team to answer in the last 8 games.
Will the remembrance of last seasons collapse play psychological mind games on the players....will they freeze knowing the importance of this match.....too anxious to play with the freedom to take the game to Fulham and win?
Will our team display the 'Look of Eagles' and at last grab this golden opportunity to get the promotion the club and fans badly need?
Or God help us display the freezed look of rabbits caught in headlights, remembrance of failed attempts in the past?
The 'Look of Eagles' or....
posted on 26/6/20
If we win tomorrow, it's all but over. But if we lose, still in a great position.
If we lose, we are still 4 points clear with 7 games remaining. We've been in the position of 'chasers' before looking at the playoffs and automatic spots when we've been 5 points or so off and thinking "if we put a run together". Fact is, it very rarely happens for teams to make up that sort of a gap in the final set of games. Even when we went on that poor run in Jan and February, we never actually dropped out the top 2. Fulham and Brentford haven't shown that consistency.
It's a big game but it's not all or nothing.
Brentford last 8 results before lockdown: 3 wins, 4 draws, 1 loss
Fulham last 8 results before lockdown: 4 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses
Unlikely they will suddenly put together 6 wins+ in the last 8. If we get 4 wins, I think we're fine. Brentford worry me more as their run in is better than Fulham but it would still take a hell of a run and a hell of a collapse by us.
posted on 26/6/20
well this is a very tough game to predict.
think if we score early - nerves could settle and we could win it really well. they score first, and it could be a very painful watch
posted on 26/6/20
My point is we have baggage from previous seasons maybe such as Fulham, WBA and certainly not Brentford have no such end of season baggage like we do? The pressure to achieve promotion lies heavily with us, probably more than the other teams in the frame.
posted on 26/6/20
comment by NJS - Prem4Harj (U8272)
posted 2 hours, 44 minutes ago
My point is we have baggage from previous seasons maybe such as Fulham, WBA and certainly not Brentford have no such end of season baggage like we do? The pressure to achieve promotion lies heavily with us, probably more than the other teams in the frame.
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West Brom also got knocked out of the play-offs last season. I think we both deserve to go one better and get promoted this season.
posted on 26/6/20
comment by MaidinLeeds (U2464)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by NJS - Prem4Harj (U8272)
posted 2 hours, 44 minutes ago
My point is we have baggage from previous seasons maybe such as Fulham, WBA and certainly not Brentford have no such end of season baggage like we do? The pressure to achieve promotion lies heavily with us, probably more than the other teams in the frame.
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West Brom also got knocked out of the play-offs last season. I think we both deserve to go one better and get promoted this season.
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You're not wrong!
posted on 26/6/20
Interesting match this eveninig - Brentford / West Brom
posted on 26/6/20
It's a must win to settle nerves.
posted on 26/6/20
NJS.. posted the below on another thread, thought it was fitting! A lot in your article could be answered in the players mindset of looking backwards at Fulham! Or thinking let’s go win it, bollox to this league !
comment by The Spanish Italians - its got to all come home now??? (U21595)
posted 4 seconds ago
Totally get the point of view of wanting Brentford to lose!
But there’s something in head that’s all shades of wrong about that! We SHOULD, being in the top two all season be thinking about westbrom and fighting for a title. Showing the ambition to finish the position we’ve been going for all season
But, we all know promotion is what really counts, this is why we all look backwards at Brentford and Fulham!... looking backwards makes you nervous in sports!.. and that’s what we all ate right now! Dreading the worse possible outcome
posted on 26/6/20
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posted on 26/6/20
Deleted that post because it was k r a p!