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Brentford
Oct 24, 2019 21:51:53 GMT
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Post by alanwycombe on Oct 24, 2019 21:51:53 GMT
Hate Sky. Monday night😕 Just piss takers. your never about for Saturday matches so thought you would like midweek 😁 I'm pinkie really. |
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Brentford
Oct 24, 2019 22:12:22 GMT
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Post by alanwycombe on Oct 24, 2019 22:12:22 GMT
On a serious note I reckon W will have them worked up for this one and we'll do them despite a Barbet penalty. Won't stop me hating Sky😁
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Brentford
Oct 25, 2019 5:23:41 GMT
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Post by West Acton on Oct 25, 2019 5:23:41 GMT
On a serious note I reckon W will have them worked up for this one and we'll do them despite a Barbet penalty. Won't stop me hating Sky😁 team that can’t defend faces team who regularly stick three goals past teams. What can go wrong |
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Post by croydoncaptainjack on Oct 25, 2019 9:12:29 GMT
I would take a draw. A nil nil one perhaps?
Unlikely, so let's go with a Desmond.
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Brentford
Oct 25, 2019 13:12:42 GMT
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Oct 25, 2019 13:12:42 GMT
You should check out the score predictions on their site,mostly a hammering for us
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Post by acricketer on Oct 25, 2019 13:44:06 GMT
You should check out the score predictions on their site,mostly a hammering for us Overconfidence. I like it! |
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Brentford
Oct 25, 2019 14:48:11 GMT
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Post by West Acton on Oct 25, 2019 14:48:11 GMT
You should check out the score predictions on their site,mostly a hammering for us they are pretty confident bunch hopefully plays in our hands |
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Post by croydoncaptainjack on Oct 25, 2019 14:58:30 GMT
The turning point for their season may well be that great comeback against Millwall last week.
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Post by shepherdsmush on Oct 25, 2019 15:07:10 GMT
Hi friendly Bee again. You obviously haven't been upstairs in your own away end. It's nearly all restricted view can't see the near goal! Anyway we try to arrange it so sitters go upstairs and standers down. We're finally coming into form with our new team. You're doing well under Warbs - should be a great local derby! Actually I have on a tour of the ground. Have you been at the back of the away end in your tinpot shed where you gamble on having people standing in size order !? As most games, you just get on with it and enjoy the buzz of a derby. Got a feeling you are going to royally piss on us 3-1....though, fortunately I am never right ! |
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Brentford
Oct 25, 2019 15:48:23 GMT
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Post by West Acton on Oct 25, 2019 15:48:23 GMT
Let’s hope your not right this time either Mush but I feel your apprehension
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Oct 26, 2019 10:24:59 GMT
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Post by manti on Oct 26, 2019 10:24:59 GMT
Yep I have. It used to be the home end! To think there used to be a 12,000 capacity covered terrace that end! Anyway I agree with you and it's why we need a new stadium.
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Brentford
Nov 12, 2019 15:37:10 GMT
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Post by West Acton on Nov 12, 2019 15:37:10 GMT
Brentford away live - It’s like the reading game there obsessed
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Post by West Acton on Jan 23, 2020 13:39:50 GMT
For fans who keep saying it’s disgrace we’re not spending and we should be doing more in transfer market and matching other clubs this is a good watch
They say ‘we can’t outspend them we need to out think them’ and this is a key point.
We’re now trying to go down this path but it’s a total culture change and shock for this that started following us in prem and have no idea of how or have forgotten how club used to operate. Spending millions and millions is not QPR, it was for about five years of our history. What we’re doing now and how Brentford operate is QPR and we need have patience while we get back to what is the norm for us
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Post by Corbray on Jan 23, 2020 13:55:52 GMT
brentford are a brilliantly run club and for their size, history and the league they're in i think they're the best run club in the country.
they improve year on year too despite selling their best players every year. excellent club who rarely gets it wrong and a model to any club of similar size
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Post by esoxlucius on Jan 23, 2020 14:04:24 GMT
brentford are a brilliantly run club and for their size, history and the league they're in i think they're the best run club in the country. they improve year on year too despite selling their best players every year. excellent club who rarely gets it wrong and a model to any club of similar size This decade's Southampton? |
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Brentford
Jan 23, 2020 14:31:26 GMT
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Post by West Acton on Jan 23, 2020 14:31:26 GMT
Not sure as Southampton had good youth system. Brentford don’t have youth teams, they scrapped them I think, they have just nailed getting right players in with potential so they can sell on but replace them cheap without it impacting on team
Really got to admire that
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Jan 23, 2020 16:14:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 16:14:30 GMT
Not sure as Southampton had good youth system. Brentford don’t have youth teams, they scrapped them I think, they have just nailed getting right players in with potential so they can sell on but replace them cheap without it impacting on team Really got to admire that That's right - no academy, they just run a B team that plays identical to the main so any players that prove to be good enough can step in when others move on. Interesting model that works well for them. |
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Brentford
Jan 23, 2020 16:38:35 GMT
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Post by itsonlyagame on Jan 23, 2020 16:38:35 GMT
My 8 year old plays at one of their development centres in Gunnersbury.
You pay for the training and unlike a few of the parents, I’m not kidding myself he’ll play football at any level above Sunday league. I see it as extra training which might just mean we don’t have the drama of him not making the school team when his age group start playing matches next year for the first time. It cracks me up how some of the more clueless parents, generally the more middle class ones, honestly believe their kids have a fighting chance of becoming a professional footballer.
An hour somewhere like Hackney Marshes would probably make them see sense.
They do have a pyramid system where the few really talented kids get moved up to the elite sessions. They say it’s a direct route into playing professionally for them but I’m not sure if any of their current A or B team players came through that system.
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Post by hal9thou on Jan 23, 2020 16:46:39 GMT
brentford are a brilliantly run club and for their size, history and the league they're in i think they're the best run club in the country. they improve year on year too despite selling their best players every year. excellent club who rarely gets it wrong and a model to any club of similar size This decade's Southampton? Nope. The Sotton academy system had been going for years and more importantly was really well run, a kid local to me down in W Dorset got picked up by them on the evidence of a phone call from a spectator at a park kids game. Lots of clubs wouldn't have even considered taking the call, never mind following it up. Brentford had a different plan, but its worked. We have simply been reactive to problems we brought on ourselves. Like I said before, the real 'selling club' test will come in the highly unlikely circs of promotion. The truth is no one in our division with even half an eye on promotion can call themselves a selling club, because the money involved in a 2020 promotion would totally destroy the credibility of any such claim. On the one hand clubs are told to cut according to cloth when (if successful) they're faced with extraordinary incentives for doing the opposite. |
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Post by West Acton on Jan 23, 2020 16:51:06 GMT
Your so negative Hal and really give a vibe of that you dislike the club
They can’t do anything right you give them zero credit at all
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Post by esoxlucius on Jan 23, 2020 16:54:30 GMT
This decade's Southampton? Nope. The Sotton academy system had been going for years and more importantly was really well run, a kid local to me down in W Dorset got picked up by them on the evidence of a phone call from a spectator at a park kids game. Lots of clubs wouldn't have even considered taking the call, never mind following it up. Brentford had a different plan, but its worked. We have simply been reactive to problems we brought on ourselves. Like I said before, the real 'selling club' test will come in the highly unlikely circs of promotion. The truth is no one in our division with even half an eye on promotion can call themselves a selling club, because the money involved in a 2020 promotion would totally destroy the credibility of any such claim. On the one hand clubs are told to cut according to cloth when (if successful) they're faced with extraordinary incentives for doing the opposite. I was referring to the cries of "we should be like Southampton/ Swansea" etc. that get trotted out everytime a club does well and our entitled fans feel like we should be doing the same. The more I see of VAR in the EPL the more I am inclined to join the dreamers who ask if we can win the league and stay in the Championship LOL. |
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Post by hal9thou on Jan 23, 2020 17:03:59 GMT
Your so negative Hal and really give a vibe of that you dislike the club They can’t do anything right you give them zero credit at all This club has form in the book which demonstrates its potential for success. We've been there before and we can go there again. When we do things which obstruct that - and you must admit that this lot have a terrible tendency for shooting themselves in the foot - I call like I see it. I don't do hindsight. It's the reality as I see it. It's the fact that I love the club and have seen it in its pomp that makes me want better, not bullshit. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to hit the 5th round vs prem opposition and really go for it. |
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Post by esoxlucius on Jan 23, 2020 17:09:50 GMT
Your so negative Hal and really give a vibe of that you dislike the club They can’t do anything right you give them zero credit at all We've been there before and we can go there again. When we do things which obstruct that - and you must admit that this lot have a terrible tendency for shooting themselves in the foot - I call like I see it. I don't do hindsight. It's the reality as I see it. It's the fact that I love the club and have seen it in its pomp that makes me want better, not bullshit. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to hit the 5th round vs prem opposition and really go for it. You are a Nottm.Forest/ Leeds United fan and I claim my £10  |
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Brentford
Jan 23, 2020 17:52:14 GMT
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Post by Tarbie on Jan 23, 2020 17:52:14 GMT
Not sure as Southampton had good youth system. Brentford don’t have youth teams, they scrapped them I think, they have just nailed getting right players in with potential so they can sell on but replace them cheap without it impacting on team Really got to admire that Southampton have such a huge catchment area for youngsters. Look along the South Coast, you've got Pompey, Southampton, Bournemouth and a bit further round you have Brighton. Aside from Exeter is about the only other professional club down that part of the country. Totally different story in London. Of course the population is more dense but there are so many clubs vying for young players coming through in London and the surrounding counties. I'd guess it's much easier to scout and attract young players for a club like Southampton than it is for a London club. |
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Jan 23, 2020 18:20:50 GMT
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Post by manti on Jan 23, 2020 18:20:50 GMT
Looks liked the Bees are being outed from under the RADAR! We've made net transfer profit (sales less purchases) of circa £60m over the last 3 or 4 years. But we have a loss of £12m - £15m pa before transfers. So break even effectively. The new stadium will help hugely. Currently we have 60 premium seats. The new stadium has circa 3,000 with access to lounges, and most are already sold for next season on STs. Add the fact that the stadium is 6,000 bigger anyway and we should be in a lot better position going forward. Maybe able to keep SOME of those players we sell. Still be a selling club though. Everyone has their price!
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Brentford
Jan 23, 2020 18:30:37 GMT
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Post by West Acton on Jan 23, 2020 18:30:37 GMT
You must be buzzing with how things are going Manti
Hal I’m assuming you disagree with Mantis view that they are a selling club even though there within sniffing distance of the prem?
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Post by manti on Jan 23, 2020 18:38:33 GMT
You must be buzzing with how things are going Manti Hal I’m assuming you disagree with Mantis view that they are a selling club even though there within sniffing distance of the prem? It's a brilliant but crazy time. Fans get more excited about how much we selling someone for rather than who we are buying. In fact normally we've never heard of who we are buying. We have Leicester in the cup on Saturday, in the past a money spinner, fans want us to play the B team because we have Forrest on Tuesday! Crazy crazy times. My Mum used to work for the club and I've been going for 58 years. Apart from the last 5 years (except 1) we've been below you guys and in div 3 or 4. Heady times indeed. |
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Brentford
Jan 23, 2020 21:00:58 GMT
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Post by alanwycombe on Jan 23, 2020 21:00:58 GMT
My 8 year old plays at one of their development centres in Gunnersbury. You pay for the training and unlike a few of the parents, I’m not kidding myself he’ll play football at any level above Sunday league. I see it as extra training which might just mean we don’t have the drama of him not making the school team when his age group start playing matches next year for the first time. It cracks me up how some of the more clueless parents, generally the more middle class ones, honestly believe their kids have a fighting chance of becoming a professional footballer. An hour somewhere like Hackney Marshes would probably make them see sense. They do have a pyramid system where the few really talented kids get moved up to the elite sessions. They say it’s a direct route into playing professionally for them but I’m not sure if any of their current A or B team players came through that system. Good on you and your lad Itso, as long as he enjoys himself - and at least he won't be a fat knacker like so many of his age group these days. |
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Jan 23, 2020 22:02:11 GMT
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Post by Bill on Jan 23, 2020 22:02:11 GMT
I watch a fair amount of kids football and made recommendations to people at the trainong ground but not much interest is shown and no follow up is made to my knowledge.
This is where we need to be looking if we are to go down this road.
I dont bother now as there seems to be no interest.
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Brentford
Jan 23, 2020 22:05:12 GMT
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Post by itsonlyagame on Jan 23, 2020 22:05:12 GMT
My 8 year old plays at one of their development centres in Gunnersbury. You pay for the training and unlike a few of the parents, I’m not kidding myself he’ll play football at any level above Sunday league. I see it as extra training which might just mean we don’t have the drama of him not making the school team when his age group start playing matches next year for the first time. It cracks me up how some of the more clueless parents, generally the more middle class ones, honestly believe their kids have a fighting chance of becoming a professional footballer. An hour somewhere like Hackney Marshes would probably make them see sense. They do have a pyramid system where the few really talented kids get moved up to the elite sessions. They say it’s a direct route into playing professionally for them but I’m not sure if any of their current A or B team players came through that system. Good on you and your lad Itso, as long as he enjoys himself - and at least he won't be a fat knacker like so many of his age group these days. That’s one thing I definitely don’t have to worry about with him, he looks like a toothpick. Cheeky bleeder pulls me up on my moobs occasionally though 😁 |
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