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andy pipkin
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The day we become a feeder club is the day Brentford FC dies...
Why would brentford die if we were a feeder club
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sonofabee
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Unfortunately there are 80+ other league clubs doing exactly the same and with more money to offer the proven successes their opportunity.
Currently we need to get in a centre forward who can score goals not one who might be able to in time. I also believe that there is still potential Sodjes and DJ's, just few and far between and we cannot afford any more punts this season!
andy pipkin
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surely if a prem club gave use some of there good youth players on loan it would be better than getting player that cant get in to the bristol team. Mark Yeates realy helped get Colcester get up. Birmingham have got 3 arsenal player which are all doing well.
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i belive leon knight coul be a big chance he career is screwed and needs to put him self back in the shop window and i think he will have a field day wth the chances we crate
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Do we have any other forwards. Moore's ill - who else is there?
Alan D
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If we could control his behaviour, I think it would be worth a punt on trying to get the poison dwarf, from Swansea on loan for the rest of the season. After he certainly seems to like scoring goals at Griffin Park. It might also help put himself back in the shop window for next season.
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As swindon are now out of the cup will Lee Peacock be joining us with alex rhodes going the over way
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Nick Hester
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They need to hurry up mate!
No forward is going to want to join a relegated club!
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Jimbee
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He's their top scorer and highly likely to be on more than any of our players, why on earth would he come here?
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I think we need to look at youth and hunger rather than a several clubs player like Peacock.
I would be happy with a season of consolidation in Div 2 if I could see a team being built, while contracts expire.
If I was Fitz I would be on the phone to all the local prem and championship clubs and let them know that BFC would be interested in giving one of their CF cast offs a loan run out with a view to a permanent signing.
Please no more Willock after January!
I would be happy with a season of consolidation in Div 2 if I could see a team being built, while contracts expire.
If I was Fitz I would be on the phone to all the local prem and championship clubs and let them know that BFC would be interested in giving one of their CF cast offs a loan run out with a view to a permanent signing.
Please no more Willock after January!
Les Beeavinu
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With respect to the comment re Cox above, at the time we took him on loan initially it was pointed out that his best position was as a striker. He has NEVER played there for us & in the last few weeks has been played totally out of position on the left wing (as has JK on a number of occasions), despite the fact that he has done a decent job in midfield. No wonder he is very uncommitted about staying with us.
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Leon knight?
For all the problems he's had in the past of his own making, which have probably left him at a career low, does anyone who posts on this site, (apart from the ones who seem to live in some kind of state of denial), seriously think that knight would plunge his career even further down the tube, by joining BFC?
For all the problems he's had in the past of his own making, which have probably left him at a career low, does anyone who posts on this site, (apart from the ones who seem to live in some kind of state of denial), seriously think that knight would plunge his career even further down the tube, by joining BFC?
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Don,
When was that then? The nearest was as a kind of support striker in a 4-5-1 formation - possibly his best game altho' I wasn't at Millwall. His early games were in m/field & recently as a l/winger - Swansea/Chesterfield where he was totally wasted.
You may well be right but I can't remember him as an out & out striker.
Surely the point is that you play your best players in positions that suit them. Neither Cox or JK perform well enough on the left wing to justify putting them there - frankly they hardly out perform players like Rhodes & Tillen there. I've saId before that if any player should have been played there it's Brooker, who has done so often in his career. I'm not suggesting that's a great solution, but JK's balance makes him more likely to succeed on the right if you don't play him up front.
When was that then? The nearest was as a kind of support striker in a 4-5-1 formation - possibly his best game altho' I wasn't at Millwall. His early games were in m/field & recently as a l/winger - Swansea/Chesterfield where he was totally wasted.
You may well be right but I can't remember him as an out & out striker.
Surely the point is that you play your best players in positions that suit them. Neither Cox or JK perform well enough on the left wing to justify putting them there - frankly they hardly out perform players like Rhodes & Tillen there. I've saId before that if any player should have been played there it's Brooker, who has done so often in his career. I'm not suggesting that's a great solution, but JK's balance makes him more likely to succeed on the right if you don't play him up front.
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Youth will not keep us up this year and will not serve us well next year either.
Its another idealistic vision that doesn't work when it comes to results.
You don't win anything with kids (copyright Alan Hansen)
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I'm astounded that any thread on strikers doesn't contain more about just how poor Willock is, he is as woeful a striker as I have seen in four decades, how some people can still be supporting him is beyond me. Can anyone tell me when he last actually had a decent attempt on goal?
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...and the frightening thing is, that Martin Allen had actually attempted to sign Willock a year before he actually did so...and when he couldn't get him, he bought Scott Fitzgerald instead!! 
flowerpower bee
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3 goals in 33 appearances. John Griffin strikes again.
this shocking return from the player that martin allen
insisted was better than dj campbell
LostBee
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We all know he's pony,but it's not his fault that we offered him a contract (and even,unbelievably,stumped up 50k).
He puts in a lot more effort than many players who have a lot more skill.He deserves to be supported,as well as laughed at for being utterly hopeless.
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I don't mean not supporting him on the pitch, every player deserves at least that when they're making an effort...I meant more support in as much suggesting he could still be the answer or do a decent job.
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Again today Willock showed that he is not the man we need up front with Jo, hopefully this will be fixed up before the next game!
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Mads Bee
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I also believe that Scott Fitz has put feelers out for experienced players rather than youth to play upfront.
I like Moore and always have and am not suprised he hasnt been given the old heave ho and surely Fitz is keeping Willock as the ( albeit lesser quality ) replacement for Owusu to keep inline with this "target man" scenario that everybody likes.
I don't care who plays upfront as long as they can bloody finish. All those signed on loan at the moment have barely a goal between them, so doubt whether the goals will come from them. For the rest of this season and for next we need a goalscorer who can work with the likes of Kuffour.
However, JK will go as well, as he is a good player but we could do with him next season whether we stay up or go down but he is only on a years contract and we must be resigned that he will bugger off, unless an offer of another year can be made.
I like Moore and always have and am not suprised he hasnt been given the old heave ho and surely Fitz is keeping Willock as the ( albeit lesser quality ) replacement for Owusu to keep inline with this "target man" scenario that everybody likes.
I don't care who plays upfront as long as they can bloody finish. All those signed on loan at the moment have barely a goal between them, so doubt whether the goals will come from them. For the rest of this season and for next we need a goalscorer who can work with the likes of Kuffour.
However, JK will go as well, as he is a good player but we could do with him next season whether we stay up or go down but he is only on a years contract and we must be resigned that he will bugger off, unless an offer of another year can be made.
Kettering Bee
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Yep, reckon he'll be gone to Bristol City within the next month. Well that was the rumour yesterday, at least. But of course, we wouldn't sell our best player, given our predicament. Would we?
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Mads Bee
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http://www.brentfordfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10421~840286,00.html
News on OS only said one year, lets hope we can give Jo and incentive to want to stay with us for another year
Mads Bee
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Maybe its Bristol Rovers....news - prior to signing for us
Jo Kuffour Update
Bristol rovers summer target Jo Kuffour has had the offer of a contract withdrawn by Jo`s current club Torquay. Former Bristol Rovers boss Ian Atkins has lost patience with Jo and keeper Andy Marriott.
NorthamptonBee
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You are a very naughty boy.lol
The rumour mill was in good form and looking forward to the good news this week.
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Mr Cynical
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To be honest, although he's done well for us, I'd be surprised if anyone wanted to pay money for him, especially if he is only on a one year deal.. He's not really set the division alight has he?
Jimbee
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I think Cox has played well for us and with a lot of passion - like he actually cares.
On the other hand the kids that have been promoted to the first team from our own youth set up have looked like boys playing in a mans game.
There's a difference between loaning a quality premiership youngster and filling your team with youth team players who aren't ready.
On the other hand the kids that have been promoted to the first team from our own youth set up have looked like boys playing in a mans game.
There's a difference between loaning a quality premiership youngster and filling your team with youth team players who aren't ready.
wanderer paul
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Cox's games for Reading reserves more than likely gave him a headstart playing against 'men' than our youth players who have gone from playing against 17 year olds to playing against men straight from turning pro. a reserve team would be nice but the costs involved would probably outweigh the needs of the management.
RoyalOakBee
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The season before last in four games against Sheff Wed, I thought peacock to be their best player. Everything went through him off him at him and Turner and Sodje together could not cope with his presence as was the case yesterday and last season with Fletcher.
Strangely we could have got Peacock for free on a 2 and a half year contract in January last year, the same month we signed Callum.
He wanted to move back south was on a free and would have challenged Lloyd for the target man role he had begun to make his own.
Had we have done so then we would have gone up IMHO so if nobody comes forward with 5K a week to get Shipperley for us I believe a little patience could land us Peacock! Sturrock is not a fan and we could be in a strong position with so many players who could do a job in DIV 2 available to him to take in exchange.
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Kuffour to Bristol City
and an old boy who scored yesterday maybe returning. Wild conjecture methinks or maybe me hopes. I'll have the old boy back but surely Kuffour is not on his way, as I say this all came from a voice in a queue who was adamant that his mate knows Gary Johnson well.
James Hunt is coming and so is Peacock according to some. It's January isn't it and loads of noises being made.lol
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Ace Face
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Why does it take me to start a thread before Fitz starts to hunt for a striker?