When does 'frustration' become 'entitlement'?

The feeling around Vitality Stadium at full-time on Tuesday evening was one of frustration.

Frustration that Bournemouth had once again failed to beat their bogey side Brentford, which they have not done in a regular-season league game in 11 attempts since 2014, after creating the better chances in Tuesday's goalless draw.

Frustration that Ryan Christie missed a gilt-edged first-half chance when through with only the goalkeeper to beat.

Double frustration after Marcus Tavernier hit the post twice in the second half.

Triple frustration after TV replays appeared to show Tavernier having his ankles clipped by a defender as he was about to take one of those shots. (TNT Sports co-commentator Robbie Savage, a man not known for any particular pro-Bournemouth leanings, immediately called it as a definite penalty. Naturally the Cherries camp agreed, but the video assistant referee did not).

And while stretching their unbeaten run to nine games was welcome, there remains overall frustration that four of the last five of those games have been draws, keeping Andoni Iraola's side tantalisingly adrift of the European places, when turning two or three of those draws into wins (even at the expense of a loss or two) would surely have put them in the mix for an undreamt-of European qualification.

On the plus side, the Cherries have reached the magical 40-point mark, surely the first objective for a club of their size still punching above their weight to even be in the Premier League, and have done so with nine games to go.

Indeed, probably earlier than many would have anticipated after losing nearly their entire defence last summer and star forward Antoine Semenyo in January.

But they remain 16 points shy of last season's record top-flight points tally of 56, and it would take a Herculean effort to take 16 or more points from their last nine games, as welcome as that would be.

And at what point do feelings of frustration start to become those of entitlement over where a team supposedly "deserves" to be?

Perhaps it would be for the best to sprinkle a sense of perspective onto those feelings of frustration.

After all, half of the Premier League would probably rather be in Bournemouth's league position than their own – and how often has that been true?