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At times breathtaking, City produced the most amazing first half performance to cheer another 10,000 plus crowd.

Peter Thorne latched onto Scott Youngs inch perfect 40 yard pass to rifle in his 3rd City goal. It was to be a bitter sweet match for Thorne who was clobbered soon after and taken off as a precaution after trying run his knock off. City were in full flow, Bowen was awesome as he danced his way through the Brentford defence. Only bad luck and poor finishing let him down.

The moment of the half was when Earnie took a ball from Kavanagh, the little fella had no where to go but he managed to drag the ball back and unleash the most sublime shot into the top corner to put City 2 up.

The action was non stop, Brentford were very open and this allowed City to pass the ball and get wide, there is no complaints tonight about keeping it central, we used very blade of grass and could have been 5 or 6 up at half time.

As expected Brentford tried to get back after half time, City held firm though and still chances were created.

Then came a sticky moment, Leo, on earlier on for Thorne dropped back into central defence and Kavanagh dropped back as well. All of a sudden City were under pressure and the obligatory goal against was scored.

This time though there was no panic, City came forward again Leo pushed back up and the pressure resulted in Bowen again racing forward, a corner was the result and Kavanagh pruced a perfect ball for Gabbidon to head home, the keeper looked to have scrambled it out but the spin on the ball eluded him and it was 3 - 1.

Brentford tried to push forward and City exploited the space it was left to Earnie to have the last major say on the game. A ball through the middle after a lovely Kavanagh interception saw Earnie break free, Gibbs was only able to chop him down in the box just before Earnie placed the ball past the keeper. The result was a penalty for City and a straight red card for Gibbs. No argument on the decision. Earnie was cocky and saw his shot cannon off the crossbar and the ball was hacked away.

As things stood it mattered not. We won the game by the two clear goals need to see us up into 5th place.

It really was a great night an Ninian Park and full credit to everyone. A performace for most of the 90 minutes and a performance with width.

Special mentions to Dean Gordon who was as cool as you'd expect a Premiership player to be. To Jason Bowen for being at his best to produce some great moments and to Daniel Gabbidon who was awesome when breaking down the wing, he got a goal for his efforts as well.

I've critised Corky in the past and this time I have to credit him. He had the players going wide and producing the best home team perfomance of the season.

Wonderful. Just wonderful.