Matthew Benham
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aawharris
Doesn't do well with idiots.
TW3Bee
Can We Play You Every Week
Matthew Benham
Matthew Benham
Sad if this is true, however that sort of behaviour certainly doesn't surprise me unfortunately.
aawharris
Doesn't do well with idiots.
Matthew Benham
If you had a mate that lied, went behind your back and tried to destroy your reputation to anyone that listened, would you still be mates?
TW3Bee
Can We Play You Every Week
Delbee
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Matthew Benham
Yes there are a load of prats who dont understand that it's highly likely that without his financing of the club there would be no club
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walsall bee
religion.= football.church= griffin park
Matthew Benham
I couldn't give a monkeys you can't deny the position he got us to.. Like I said I'm not getting in that row again mate,, the "STAT" didn't lie,, he got us to 5th!!!
BURFORD BEE
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Matthew Benham
You couldn't possibly mean Saint Mark could you? I mean he wrote the second gospel. The one that says **** the guy that pays my wages and has given me a chance of a job that I actually had no experience of beforehand.
Voice from the Braemar
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Matthew Benham
i agree.....he has got us to this position when no-one else would have been able to or wanted to
for that reason hes a treasure ........but im not sure about some of the things that have happened this season with managers, players, backroom staff, pitches, formations, captain appointments, contracts, decision making etc etc though.....there does seem to be an unhappy mood in the place though with some players wanting to get out far too quickly for my liking and not enough quality coming in through the door as replacements....whose fault that is, is up for discussion but something at gp isnt right and im scratching my head wondering what the problem is ?last season was great fun....this season has been pretty dismal at times......the atmosphere at games isnt great either, we need to get this season over and done with as soon as possible and make some massive changes for next season cos i'll tell you this now that team that started and ended the game at brighton will go down next season unless we get some decent quality in......absolutely nailed on
for a start i would give harlee the the captaincy and a great big contract as we need players who will fight for this club......i like bidwell but hes no captain and its so damn obvious it hurts.......id shift vibe, hoffman and marco out sharpish too....we need forwards that are strong, pacy, win headers and like a shot.....all 3 of those dont meet these requirements.....and thats just the start
we need big fkin changes for next seasonguildfordbee
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walsall bee
religion.= football.church= griffin park
Matthew Benham
Well from what I saw on the pitch, I wouldn't have called that lucky
aawharris
Doesn't do well with idiots.
Matthew Benham
You asked why didn't we do all we could to keep Saint Mark, i gave you a little question to answer and you swerved it.
mhead bee
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Matthew Benham
That is because you don't know what you are looking at or looking for in relation to what made us look good and how we found our players, if you did you wouldn't prattle out such horse sh*t all the time.
WQ had much better players last season who unfortunately wanted to leave to triple their salary this year.
Rather than trying to point out what is wrong why don't you compile a list of the players you think we should sign for under 500K each who will replace the ones who have forced a move?
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Novice01274
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Matthew Benham
Thank goodness for MB. Because of our owner, we are arguing about not building on a superb season in the Championship last season rather than how we are going to pay next month's wages. Ultimately because of the obscene financial imbalance in football we may get no higher than we currently are but with a bit of innovation we might just get a bit higher. We cannot buy success with the way the game is set up. Teams relegated from the Premier League have enough spare cash to buy all our first team and stick them in their development squads. It is not a level playing field. Our owner has given us a chance nothing more. Imagine if Newcastle, Sunderland and Villa come down. It is going to be a whole lot tougher next year. We cannot outspend them. We have to take chances.
What is amazing about this turbulent season for me is that we are 11 points ahead of our friends from Fulham who are still filling their faces on Premier League parachute payments. How must they be feeling. Perspective needed in my opinion.
What is amazing about this turbulent season for me is that we are 11 points ahead of our friends from Fulham who are still filling their faces on Premier League parachute payments. How must they be feeling. Perspective needed in my opinion.
jlove
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Matthew Benham
Blimey, I leave the GPG for half a day and some lunatic postings appear! I'm off to my loft to dig out that old bucket I'll be shaking in New Road as we look forward to our local derby against Staines Town, thinking about what could have been if that Benham bloke hadn't retired to the Antilles after selling up after Webb became his consultant.
Guildford Bee
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Matthew Benham
I think that was the case over the first part of the season but they eventually showed that where we finished was about right.
I wonder where they have us this season....
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Matthew Benham
I think i would rather us be where we are now,i am watching championship football albeit selling players for millions instead of watching LG1 OR LG2 footy selling your best players for peanuts, i know which i prefer and that would not be possible without MB, i do get upset but premier lge fans and championship fans do not have the patience of the lower lge loyal fans who follow their team up the leagues and down the leagues so as long as the owner is here and where he has taken us so far he has my total support COYB!!!!!
readingbee
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Matthew Benham
Yep agree. I just cannot believe all the shiite being put out by people here. I don't do Facebook or twitter on BFC sites. I would like to speak directly to some of these *****. As I'm sure you would as well.
beeinireland
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beeinireland
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Matthew Benham
Rubbish. . Warburton has a football brain unlike someone else who thought a computer and stats could do the job. .he was wrong
Owlsmoor_Bee
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dbee3
100% Brentford
Edmundo
Whinging pom
Matthew Benham
I'm in Australia, which is a lot further away than Ireland, but even at this distance I can tell you that no-one thought a computer and stats could do the job. Is there a reason why you are so spectacularly misinformed?
Edmundo
Whinging pom
Matthew Benham
Hey, can we keep it civil, please? I've deleted the last three messages as I think the posters may regret what they said.
Isleworth_Bee
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Matthew Benham
If it wasnt for MB MW would be no where near a manager role. End of.
Isleworth_Bee
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Matthew Benham
Im dusting down and pumping up the tyres on my bike to ride to some non league club if you fancy it? I hear we could do with a few pennies...................
hanworthbee
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Matthew Benham
MB ambition is to see us promoted ..,.,it's going to be very hard to achieve that if we allow our best players to leave even if they want to and especially to rivals in the same league ....hopefully if LR ever comes to fruition we can have bigger revenues which will allow us to compete on wages more so than now.....the key is to make sure we have enough good players to maintain our league status over the next few years which atm IMO we don't
Houghton Bee
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Matthew Benham
The 'stats computer' was making signings/recommendations during Sir Warburtons almighty reign, you know that right? That bloody computer made us a lot of money from Andre Gray when Lord Warburton wasnt interested in him, for example.
hanworthbee
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Matthew Benham
Was gray actually a stats signing because I'm sure I've read on here his agent was beating on our door to sign him up
Houghton Bee
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Matthew Benham
Iirc the agent made the first move, then the stats were run against him on the computer and we went in for him despite Warburtons reservations. I might be wrong
aawharris
Doesn't do well with idiots.
Matthew Benham
Unlike most on this thread you understand. I don't really like to classify fans in terms of how long you been attending GP but the increase in gates
seems to be mainly made up of impatient people who expect constant improvement which is simply not possible. Our sport does have a few miracle
stories like Wimbledon going from non league (I remember being at plough lane when we robbed the non leaguers in the fa cup) to the top flight and also
becoming cup winners and maybe Leicester this year but these are rare exceptions. I for one am happy that M Benham is our owner and am proud of
what our club has achieved during his watch. Football is always evolving and it is now partly a trading business rather than smaller clubs producing
younger players in the hope that they can sell them for financial survival . I used to enjoy saying he used to play for Brentford when seeing top flight
clubs having seen a player develop but what I see now at GP is far superior. I now accept players will come and go , some thankfully and some unfortunately
and whilst I may go through many different emotions my support for BFC will be constant.
kendo
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Matthew Benham
Certainly has a football brain.
A Full vocabulary of football one liners.
How can we forget" we will learn from this" and other greats such as " Pitch Geography".
Or my personal favourite" where's that number to my mates in the press".
Matthew Benham
Anyone that doesn't think Smith has a say on transfers etc only has to look in the direction of Saunders signing a new contract. Whether you agree with it or not I would suggest Smith has had a fairly big say in that decision.
Also, going back to our transfer strategy it is the only way and correct way that we should be doing business, that is finding hidden value.
Leicester are doing quite well aren't they. Two of their stars are a bloke bought from the 2nd division for £400k (ring any bells?) and a bloke from league 2 for a 'paltry' £1M.
Also, going back to our transfer strategy it is the only way and correct way that we should be doing business, that is finding hidden value.
Leicester are doing quite well aren't they. Two of their stars are a bloke bought from the 2nd division for £400k (ring any bells?) and a bloke from league 2 for a 'paltry' £1M.
Matthew Benham
I dont see where people have come to the conclusion that smith doesnt get a say in things, perhaps its just an easy dig at benham and the team. He said when he came here we dont operate as differently to other clubs as people make out and that he contributes hugely on lots of things
aawharris
Doesn't do well with idiots.
Matthew Benham
Its the muppets that think all signings are made by a faceless stats computer and that RA and PG are two henchmen for the evil megalomaniac MB
NorthamptonBee
Yes Boss
Doovster
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Matthew Benham
No Benham no Warburton.
No Benham no Championship football.
No Benham no Lionel Road.
No Benham no future.
It's not that difficult to understand is it Mr Leprechaun?
LostBee
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Matthew Benham
This thread is utterly depressing,the same old people moaning and the same (sane?) people defending the club.
You would think that we were bottom of the League 1,not on course for our second highest league finish for 50 odd years.
You would think that we were bottom of the League 1,not on course for our second highest league finish for 50 odd years.
NorthamptonBee
Yes Boss
Matthew Benham
What are we defending though mate, I have no idea what actually needs defending.
kendo
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aawharris
Doesn't do well with idiots.
Matthew Benham
Nothing actually needs defending BUT for some reason we have to defend the good people doing good things for the club, against some people that think being a stable club in the highest division we have ever been in is a precursor to the end of the world if we lose a game
jlove
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Matthew Benham
As we return to this groundhog day, the thing that is entirely clear was that, although it seemed a good idea at the time, allowing MW to take over the PR and set the PR agenda while he was Head Coach was a real error.
It's a fact of life that most football fans, including most Brentford fans, have a limited band-width when it comes to understanding how a top football club operates. Most see only two people: the "manager", who's jobs are to run everything, making all decisions, recruiting all players, defining the style of play, negotiating contracts, coaching individual players, coaching the first team, analysing the opposition, and telling the fans the truth about what is going on... and the "chairman", who writes the cheques. This black-and-white view is, of course, entirely incorrect, but is a convenient short-hand. It was "Mark Warbuton's Brentford" that achieved promotion, it was "Mark Warbuton's Brentford" that achieved a play-off place, and it was that nasty "chairman" who sacked that nice, banale man with his platitudinous, comforting press conferences that created the club with his bare hands.
It's been done and it is done (despite some voices off) and it can't be undone. What is interesting in more recent times is that Phil Giles (who will be here after Dean Smith has gone) is fronting up more and I hope the club broadens the faces the fans see, so that gradually a better understanding of how top clubs operate permeates the core Brentford support base and we can all get on with supporting the club through the bad times and celebrate the good times together.
It's a fact of life that most football fans, including most Brentford fans, have a limited band-width when it comes to understanding how a top football club operates. Most see only two people: the "manager", who's jobs are to run everything, making all decisions, recruiting all players, defining the style of play, negotiating contracts, coaching individual players, coaching the first team, analysing the opposition, and telling the fans the truth about what is going on... and the "chairman", who writes the cheques. This black-and-white view is, of course, entirely incorrect, but is a convenient short-hand. It was "Mark Warbuton's Brentford" that achieved promotion, it was "Mark Warbuton's Brentford" that achieved a play-off place, and it was that nasty "chairman" who sacked that nice, banale man with his platitudinous, comforting press conferences that created the club with his bare hands.
It's been done and it is done (despite some voices off) and it can't be undone. What is interesting in more recent times is that Phil Giles (who will be here after Dean Smith has gone) is fronting up more and I hope the club broadens the faces the fans see, so that gradually a better understanding of how top clubs operate permeates the core Brentford support base and we can all get on with supporting the club through the bad times and celebrate the good times together.
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BURFORD BEE
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Matthew Benham
He could have the best friggin brain in the world but without a body it isn't a lot of help.
The club is the body. It dies without a heart. The heart is Benham. He's the only thing that got us where we are, not the supporters, so called because half of them have only arrived in the past 2 seasons, not feckin Warburton who wouldn't have even been considered as a manager by anyone apart from Benham, who he repaid much in the same way that Brutus repaid Caesar.
I am pig sick of reading the puerile tripe peddled by you and others.
Cough up £100m of your hard earned and see yourself trashed as a result.
difford
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Matthew Benham
copyright: John Mackie, Adam Griffiths, Shane Westley, Leon Townley
Doovster
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Matthew Benham
I can see him hunting for his pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in his little fairy land he obviously lives in
