saw him miss over two months of the season and he endured another injury-hit spell between late January and early April 2008. He finished the 2007–08 season with 25 appearances and one goal. Saunders began the 2008–09 season in excellent form, with five goals in a seven-match spell. Beginning with an injury time equaliser in a 1–1 draw with Chesterfield on 14 March, he finished the 2008–09 season with a run of six goals in eight games, as Dagenham narrowly missed out on the League Two playoffs. His form won him the League Two Player of the Month award for April 2009. It was Saunders' final season for the Daggers, in which he made 45 appearances and scored 14 goals. During his four seasons at Victoria Road, he made 142 appearances and scored 21 goals. Brentford League One (2009–2012) On 1 July 2009, Saunders and Dagenham & Redbridge teammates Danny Foster and Ben Strevens signed for League One club Brentford on free transfers, with Saunders agreeing a three-year contract. Used as a wide midfield player by manager Andy Scott, Saunders began the 2009–10 season as a starter, before falling out of favour in October and being used as an impact substitute. Despite making 30 appearances during the 2009–10 season, Saunders found himself well down the wide-midfield pecking order at the start of 2010–11 and didn't make an appearance until 18 September 2010. He requested a loan move, which was rejected by Andy Scott and he later admitted that the first few months of the 2010–11 season were the most difficult of his career. After Andy Scott was sacked in February 2011, teammate Nicky Forster was given the manager's job until the end of the season and immediately reinstated Saunders to the starting line-up. Saunders scored Brentford's first goal in their 2–1 Football League Trophy semi-final second leg win over Exeter City on 7 February, which sent the Bees to the 2011 Football League Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium. He started in the final, but came away empty-handed as Brentford lost 1–0 to Carlisle United. Saunders made 27 appearances during the 2010–11 season and scored three goals. Under new manager Uwe Rösler for the 2011–12 season, Saunders went on a goalscoring run in September and October 2011, scoring four goals in six games and helping Brentford to a winning position in each game. He came into form again in January 2012,