This game will be played infront of the fewest number of fans seen at the City Ground for some time, but those of us canny enough to realise it will save us from an evening of being terrorised by trick or treaters can at least hope for an interesting diversion this Hallowe’en. With only the Main Stand open for home supporters, Forest are clearly fearing the worst in terms of how many people will show up – and who can blame them, with an exhorbitant £15 price tag on tickets!
Our visitors from Griffin Park are on a rather poor run, in their last twelve competitive games only limping past Northampton on penalties has registered as a victory for Brentford FC, a run of appalling form that sees them hover just above the relegation zone in 19th place in League One. The Bee’s are not having a great time of it, it has to be said, and of course, not only do they face the 140ish mile journey from Griffin Park to the City Ground tomorrow night, they face the same thing in the league on saturday!
Of course, all bad runs must come to an end, and it may be paranoia on my part, but I always fear they’re more likely to do so against us! The empty edifices of the City Ground for our Johnstone’s Paint Trophy tie tomorrow should not prove too daunting for the southerners, used to playing infront of an average crowd of less than 6,000, this will certainly be the case tomorrow – with only two stands open to enable us to witness the fixture.
Whilst I’m warming to the idea of a day out in Cardiff to a cup final, the league fixture between the two of us remains critical – whilst we’ve had a very good run of results after the Scunthorpe debacle, we still have Yeovil and Bristol biting at our heels (well, okay, biting somewhat short of our heels, but biting nonetheless) – but this cup fixture again brings Colin limited opportunity to test some fringe players and new ideas, as well as getting a very good look at the weekends opponents at close quarters.
We have to be expecting a home win here, given Brentford’s appalling form of late – but on All Hallows Eve I suppose we should be conditioned to expect the unexpected?
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