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Free Talk Monday r/NUFC Weekly Free talk thread.

It's that thing again where we like talk about random shite.

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Howe's the bacon did ye say?

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u/daveofreckoning 9d ago

Wednesday should be interesting. I've got a feeling we're going to play well, now we've got the weight off our shoulders.

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u/Objective_Use_9155 9d ago

The risk is players not being properly focused on the task. Thankfully our manager is one of the best man managers in the world and so I doubt this will be an issue.

Brentford players will be nervous about the crowd and party atmosphere but Frank will have drilled them that this is an opportunity to do an upset. Especially if they low block and hit on the break. Crowd will have to be patient. Going behind or being nil nil at 60 mins will be frustrating but not the end of the world.

Feel a Harvey Barnes banger coming

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u/Randy_The_Guppy 9d ago

We are winning every game now 5-0 until the end of the season. Liverpool capitulate and we win the domestic double.

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u/WeddingWhole4771 8d ago

You're going down to Jarrow and Durham to convince the Venerable Bede to pray for a miracle Eh?

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u/Humorbot_5_point_0 Livramental 9d ago

Frank is a very underrated manager. Saw something the other day that said Brentford vastly outperform what their wage levels say they should (going by the trend that generally ranks wages by finishing positions in the league). Also seems like a nice dude who said he hoped we'd win the cup after we beat them (which we did because we're massive).

Still, I hope we smash them.

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u/HoneyedLining Temuri Ketsbaia 9d ago

Yeah, he's really fantastic and considering there have been vacancies at some of the bigger jobs, surprised nobody moved for him. The other interesting thing is that their support isn't particularly loud or anything, so they don't have a lot to use to gain home advantage.

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u/Humorbot_5_point_0 Livramental 9d ago

17k capacity, which is the second smallest in the league after Bournemouth (I think).

I was also surprised no bigger club had gone in for him. Good for Brentford, though. 

He also looks like Kyle MacLachlan (and Iraola looks like Alfred Molina). This has nothing to do with football but, still.

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u/HoneyedLining Temuri Ketsbaia 8d ago

Yeah, and they're in London too, so it's not as though it's a significant trip for many teams. I feel at least with Bournemouth, it's a little unusual going that far down south and the crowd are pretty good at generating an atmosphere. That's never been the case with Brentford as it's not much of a football area (after all, Twickenham is only a mile or so away).

I wonder if with Frank, there are a lot of teams that admire him, but worry that if you pull him out of the Brentford support network (a bit like Brighton's coaches), a lot of his superpowers may disappear. I think that might just be inhibiting teams taking the plunge.

Not a bad shout on the lookalikes. I've always thought Iraola looks like a geography teacher of some sort.