Les Ferdinand!!!

[kendo]

In the NOTW today he is considering offers to come out of retirement!!!!

 

[Canadian Bee]

I don't think he would be a good signing.
Much too old i think 38 is streching it a bit...

 

[Brentford_till_die]

I would have him.

Sort of player who can come on last 20misn and score a goal.

Hes strong, tall, and skilfull

 

[Beesnut]

Who would pay for the zimmer frame?

 

[West Wilts Bee]

Not for me, we made that mistake with Claridge. Sir Les is way past his sell by date. Dont forget he's always been injury prone.

 

[mattfarr89]

well teddy sheringham still plays at 82...but he's quality

 

[Barry Proudfoot]

He scored against me in my youth. I think he played for Viking sport at the time. Anymore old Isleworth Colts stars out there?

 

[kendo]

Who would pay for the zimmer frame?

Age concern!!!!

 

[Brentford_till_die]

He is nothing like Clardige ? how can you compare SIR LES and Claridge ???

SIr LEs can still score goals and hes puts 100% effort in, claridge was a mistake no effort and lazy. Never even tucked his shirt in or roll up his sock

 

[Ace Face]

Kanoute and Ferdinand with Shipperley and Lloydy on the bench.

 

[blunstone]

we have enough experience --- we need to find more bright young players in their early twenties that we can eventually sell on and not take to the knackers yard!

he (les) actually is a former brentford player - did you know that? sorry, too old; ditto shipperley.

 

[NorthamptonBee]

He scored against me in my youth. I think he played for Viking sport at the time. Anymore old Isleworth Colts stars out there?

Guested for them when they took on Brentford, Fulham, QPR jnrs.
Played Jamie Bates off the park once, told him I'd let him look good for a while in the 2nd half.

 

[Barry Proudfoot]

Guested for them when they took on Brentford, Fulham, QPR jnrs.
Played Jamie Bates off the park once, told him I'd let him look good for a while in the 2nd half.

No that was that quiz night in the early 80's when you "guessed" for them not bad thought 11th out of 10.

What did you play with JB?

Baz

 

[West Ealing Bee]

Apparantly we tried to get him last season, so it wouldn't surprise me if we made an offer this time around.
I suspect he'd still be a handful for defenders at this level but surely you'd get no more than 30 minutes out of him or 1 full game out of 3.

He wouldn't be playing on for the money surely, he must have enough of that.

 

[chizbee]

we have enough experience --- we need to find more bright young players in their early twenties that we can eventually sell on and not take to the knackers yard!

he (les) actually is a former brentford player - did you know that? sorry, too old; ditto shipperley.

I'm old enough to remember him playing for us...................
and old enough to remember him being absolutley RUBBISH !!!!!

We don't need or want him back.

 

[WarrenBee]

 

[West Wilts Bee]

He is nothing like Clardige ? how can you compare SIR LES and Claridge ???

SIr LEs can still score goals and hes puts 100% effort in, claridge was a mistake no effort and lazy. Never even tucked his shirt in or roll up his sock

Read my post again.

 

[teddbee]

He scored against me in my youth. I think he played for Viking sport at the time. Anymore old Isleworth Colts stars out there?

peter crouch used to play for the colts so my mate tells me.

 

[GP200]

Back to Hayes.............................

 

[Les Beeavinu]

I beat him at pool once. Bought me off as "winner stays on" by buying me a pint so that he could play with his mates. Hayes circa 1986.

Does that help :shrug:

 

[Paul O'Brien]

Les? Les not bother signing him. The worst player I've ever seen in our colours. (Yes, worse than Murray J!)

 

[Jimbee]

Brought me off circa 1986.

Does that help :shrug:

No. :drunk:

 

[beesbeesbarmyarmy]

Les? Les not bother signing him. The worst player I've ever seen in our colours. (Yes, worse than Murray J!)

Are you serious? But then again, you did say this:

by Paul o'Brien

Sorry. Can’t see Ron’s going the same way as others do.

Take off the rose-tinted glasses for a moment and look at the facts as I see them. (I don’t guarantee they’re all spot on – like I said, they’re as I see them.)

FACT. We’re a small club with attendances around the 5,000 mark.

FACT. On the outskirts of London as we are, we not only have to compete with London clubs, we have to compete with other Thames Valley clubs such as Reading for our attendances.

FACT. For the same geographical reason, we have higher outgoings, even before we look at bills and overdrafts: players expect and need higher salaries than, say players at Oxford or Cambridge.

FACT. We are living off the fact that 60 years ago, we were in the old First Division for a few years: we need to look at how a) we can get back up there and b) still be around in 6 years time, never mind 60 years.

FACT. Since Ron came to the Bees,, we’ve gone up to the Second Division.

FACT. We’ve reached the playoffs.

FACT. We’ve signed a large number of players who would be under serious consideration for Bees fans’ all-time teams.

FACT. We’ve paid out a record transfer fee…

FACT. … and got back a record transfer fee.

FACT. We’ve had the free admission day against Peterborough

FACT. We’ve tried to move…

FACT. … and got nowhere, so far. As far as I can make out, that’s partly because we didn’t want to go to Woking or Kingstonian, even temporarily, and Hounslow etc have presented barriers.

FACT. We became one of the first clubs to have a fan with a say in the running of the club.

FACT. We’ve followed a pretty successful youth policy – take a look at the U.19 league table.

FACT. We’ve bought smartly – and cheaply – from non-league.

FACT. Ron Noades is a business man. A successful one.

FACT. Unlike many other chairmen, he is interested (and good) enough to manage us successfully for over a year.

FACT. He (or his company) invested in our club. Now he wants to see some return on his money…

FACT. But, again unlike other charirmen, he hasn’t pulled the rug out from under our feet.

FACT. He is not good at communicating to the fans...

FACT. …but he cannot be expected to tell us everything that goes on.

FACT. Thgere have been stories galore about him; insults, banners…

FACT. But as far as I’m concerned, he’s done as good a job as anyone could do given the current climate and our previous financial condition. (Remember, 35 years ago we nearly went out of business and we’ve never been really stable financially since then.)

If that’s a bad track record, the only manager good enough for us is Mother Theresa. Oh. She’s dead – well, we’re stuffed then.

Two years ago, when the ‘Do Ron Down’ campaign started to gather impetus, I sent a letter to him thanking him for what he’d done. He called me one afternoon to thank me in return. Didn’t know me from Adam. He talked for almost three quarters of an hour, giving me some background on the arrival of Steve Coppell. Then he said he had to go – he was ringing from Spain.

Now, I call that a highly courteous gesture. For that alone, he gets my support. Any one else feel the same way – or am I just a voice crying in the wilderness?

rofl

 

[rg12bee]

I'm old enough to remember him playing for us...................
and old enough to remember him being absolutley RUBBISH !!!!!

We don't need or want him back.

sadly so am i, and he was. Don`t even think about it...... rather have I ****in

 

[Brain-dead Bee]

Ferdinand was rubbish when he was on loan to us, but I wouldn't hold that against him - it must have been nearly 20 years ago, and he became a good player in the meantime

Problem now would be that he is too old and has played relatively little football recently; we couldn't carry a player who was only able to play 45-60 minutes in any game and was susceptible to injury.

 

[Boston Bee]

This thread is silly because it simply is not going to happen. But....

Surprised I'm swimming against the current on this one, but I think he could still be quite useful, provided:

1. He was doing because he really wanted to play, and the money wasn't important to him (ie, he took nearly none as a salary)

2. He recognised that MA was in charge so if he only got the last 30 minutes every 4th match, that's what he got and he would just deal with it.

I'm really concerned that we'll be useful and no one will show up until March again. Obviously, we're **** at PR and we'll average barely 5000 for the first few months unless a 'name' signing were to stir up interest. There is no reason this potentially exciting squad shouldn't average 7000 at home in Aug-Nov. Even with the tiny away following we'll get, there's no reason we couldn't do well with just home support. If we just had some positive buzz going - which we SHOULD.

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On a side note, can I just say that the posts above saying "he was **** when he played here at 19 so wouldn't want him back" are bizarre in the extreme. He has proved at least pretty useful at some points since then.

 

[IsleofWight_Bee]

I'm not that surprised you feel you're in a minority Boston! LF 30 mins every 4 games and paying him too!!! nono:

He was/is quality but you need more than that! Just thinking back to Salako's performances over a whole season - and he seems to look after himself and is less injury prone than Les - I think its fair to say that life would be far too hard for Sir Les in League 1

Providing they deliver we should be OK on the striking front and I'm hoping Fitzgerald, who will hopefully be fully fit will deliver what, my Watford friends tell me, he's capable off.

No more old old boys

PS no good at PR!! Have you mentioned that to MA?

 

[warwickroadbee]

Les Ferdinand was the first player inducted into the Premier League Hll of fame for the year he scored all those goals at Newcastle.. He ws a great player regardless of how he played at 19... Personally I think that he could still do a job for us.. he'd be stepping down in terms of quality and I think his power and pace and finishing abilities would be useful... if he wanted to come along just to keep playing and not for the money then fair play... Hes a west london lad and my guess is, his family cant be far away... he'll have nothing else to do all day so why not give him a chance...

bet he'd get 11 goals a season which is more than anyone else got last time.

 

[Boston Bee]

Deep sigh. It's like you didn't read my post.

Paying him absolute peanuts, but letting him play another season near his home.
Not relying on him at all, but slotting him in infrequently. He gets hurt, no damage done to season really.

Second heavy sigh.

No one other than MA has an interest/ability in PR and there is a limit to what MA can do on his own. A 'name' would go a long way. What do YOU think the attendances will be Aug-Nov, Isleo'Whight? by the way, was the "have you mentioned that to MA" meant to be clever? Just checking.

Why I'm continuing to discuss this I don't know. Maybe I feel like there must be an attendance/attention grabbing name out there to sign. Alternately we could be promoting the club we have, but since no one at BFC seems willing/capable of this...

I'm not that surprised you feel you're in a minority Boston! LF 30 mins every 4 games and paying him too!!! nono:

He was/is quality but you need more than that! Just thinking back to Salako's performances over a whole season - and he seems to look after himself and is less injury prone than Les - I think its fair to say that life would be far too hard for Sir Les in League 1

Providing they deliver we should be OK on the striking front and I'm hoping Fitzgerald, who will hopefully be fully fit will deliver what, my Watford friends tell me, he's capable off.

No more old old boys

PS no good at PR!! Have you mentioned that to MA?

 

[Nada Bee]

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[Boston Bee]

He'll never make it in this game.

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