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Nigel Brooks
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Ron's easter message....
To quote Uncle Ron "Pound for pound we are the best value side in Division Two"
Ron, thank you for not accepting silly offers and for your recently discovered candour. Why, o why, didn't you do this earlier in the season rather than stirring up the unprecendented levels of animosity?
Happy Easter.
Ron, thank you for not accepting silly offers and for your recently discovered candour. Why, o why, didn't you do this earlier in the season rather than stirring up the unprecendented levels of animosity?
Happy Easter.
Leonardo
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Ron thanks for your belief in our promotion bid and your openness about the state of play re. GP. Don't hold your breath for that May deadline 'though with local elections and HounSLOW.
Presumably we'll have to wait till the start of next season to see who is staying and who is going. I think the way that even Reading are offloading players shows signs that the players leaving will not command astronomical pay increases that recently they have become accustomed too. Let's hope if we get promoted we can follow the Crewe example and go mid-table or beat relegation while bringing through younger players.
Let's all support the players and really give it all for an automatic spot so we don't have to rely on the lottery of the playoffs. COME ON YOU BEES!
Presumably we'll have to wait till the start of next season to see who is staying and who is going. I think the way that even Reading are offloading players shows signs that the players leaving will not command astronomical pay increases that recently they have become accustomed too. Let's hope if we get promoted we can follow the Crewe example and go mid-table or beat relegation while bringing through younger players.
Let's all support the players and really give it all for an automatic spot so we don't have to rely on the lottery of the playoffs. COME ON YOU BEES!
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I couldn't agree more. I think we ARE the best team in this division, I just hope that run of 5 successive defeats after Christmas don't ruin what should be a great season. Just 3 points from any of those games would have us in the 2nd automatic promotion spot breathing down Readings neck, I don't want to think what the table would look like if we'd won 3 or 4 of those games 
Strangely the sad death of Ken Wolstenholme will enable me to finish on a positive note, because it reminded me of the 1966 World Cup Final and the late great Sir Alf Ramsey's extra time team talk. He simply said "You've won it once, now go out and win it again"
U REDS!!!!!!
Strangely the sad death of Ken Wolstenholme will enable me to finish on a positive note, because it reminded me of the 1966 World Cup Final and the late great Sir Alf Ramsey's extra time team talk. He simply said "You've won it once, now go out and win it again"
U REDS!!!!!!
Edmundo
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A big thanks to Ron for taking the gamble on not selling Lloydy and Evo (would Evo have gone to Stoke?). Even if it doesn't pay off, it was worth it, for otherwise we would never have known if we were good enough.
Definitely the best value team in the division - and possibly the cheapest admission too! Now let's hope that all the negotiations that will enable Bees United to take control work out. Do they have £100,000?
Definitely the best value team in the division - and possibly the cheapest admission too! Now let's hope that all the negotiations that will enable Bees United to take control work out. Do they have £100,000?
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i cant agree more. i think we may have seen ronnie's true side these past couple of days. and after having read his easter message i believe he has the best interests of the club at heart.
bees bees goin up
bees bees goin up
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Ron- fantastic. Just what the doctor ordered and the increased morale should see us go up in style! The pressure is on now, but we are a fantastic club, with great players and supporters, and, if we play our football, then we will be in Division 1 next season! Also, we must leave Griffin Park asap so will HounSLOW council get a move on and find us a new site for a stadium where we can fufil our potential. YOU BEES!!
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Thank you Ron, for giving this team a fighting chance to achieve promotion. I don't know what the future holds for the Bees, Griffin Park, Bees United etc. any more than anyone else does, but that will become clearer if we can produce the form that we have seen this team give at home and away and start the next season in Division One.
Some of the factors that affect our viability are in our hands. We can make a difference in the local council elections to raise the legitimate issue of support from the London Borough of Hounslow for a community asset - Brentford FC. We can make the atmosphere at the Club for its Chairman and Board more co-operative, if we are treated to the sort of information sharing and factual straight talking that you can give when you want to and we can bring more supporters in IF we are winning !!
If we go up this year we deserve the biggest celebration that Griffin Park and the BEEs have ever seen !!
YOU REDDDSSSSSS
[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: AndyV ]
Some of the factors that affect our viability are in our hands. We can make a difference in the local council elections to raise the legitimate issue of support from the London Borough of Hounslow for a community asset - Brentford FC. We can make the atmosphere at the Club for its Chairman and Board more co-operative, if we are treated to the sort of information sharing and factual straight talking that you can give when you want to and we can bring more supporters in IF we are winning !!
If we go up this year we deserve the biggest celebration that Griffin Park and the BEEs have ever seen !!
YOU REDDDSSSSSS
[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: AndyV ]
Paul USA
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I have looked at as many other team sites as time would allow - I can see no other Easter messages to fans from the Chairman - Mr Noades continues to do what he as always done - Post sensible, resoned argument which anyone with a brain can understand even if they do not agree. (I will allow him the "Thick Pratt" comment on the basis of the rubbish that has been directed at him during the course of the season)
I look forward to seeing postings from the Stupid Majority (Sorry - Silent Majority)and others (They know who they are) offering their apoligises to readers of this board for all the rubbish they have been posting about what was going to happen on transfer deadline day, we are going to to get screwed, Ron has only his interests at heart etc etc etc.
Mr Noades, thank you for taking the time to send your message, thank you for what you continue trying to achive for BFC, thank you for an exciting season, thank you for having the buisness sense to know what would happen to BFC if nothing was done.
I shall be travelling by car to Leicester, Derby and Ipswich next year - Have room for 2 people on each trip - Anyone want a lift !!!
Onward - AND UPWARD
You Reds
Paul USA
I look forward to seeing postings from the Stupid Majority (Sorry - Silent Majority)and others (They know who they are) offering their apoligises to readers of this board for all the rubbish they have been posting about what was going to happen on transfer deadline day, we are going to to get screwed, Ron has only his interests at heart etc etc etc.
Mr Noades, thank you for taking the time to send your message, thank you for what you continue trying to achive for BFC, thank you for an exciting season, thank you for having the buisness sense to know what would happen to BFC if nothing was done.
I shall be travelling by car to Leicester, Derby and Ipswich next year - Have room for 2 people on each trip - Anyone want a lift !!!
Onward - AND UPWARD
You Reds
Paul USA
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Agree with the other posts on this thread - well done Ron and BFC. But how long will it be before someone turns this positive message into some sordid conspiracy theory. Just wait, someone will have one.
Sweepy
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Thank you Ron for those positive words. I am still unable to suss you out though! Using past evidence, I was certain you would be selling a player yesterday. Perhaps you realised our most well-known players would not leave anyway, bearing in mind they can control their own destiny at the end of the season. No matter what, we are in a solid position for the promotion run-in, and I thank you for your involvment in our current situation.
Just one more question I would like to ask you Ron... Will you be purchasing Easter eggs this year, or is it more viable to buy regular chocolate bars? Are you prepared to allow your funding to stretch to buying Easter eggs this year, or are you tightening the purse strings in your household? Just a thought!
Just one more question I would like to ask you Ron... Will you be purchasing Easter eggs this year, or is it more viable to buy regular chocolate bars? Are you prepared to allow your funding to stretch to buying Easter eggs this year, or are you tightening the purse strings in your household? Just a thought!
PAZ
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A hugely positive message from Ron.
I'm delighted he turned down what was quite a large bid from Millwall - I suspect they saw the Blackpool video, or match!
I also think Ron has a good sense of humour. It's very dry, but I like that. His comment on knowing Cardiff's wage bill made me smile - I bet it's at least double ours.
Finally, I'd like to say Ron may be a changed man. I'm vaguely assuming that this recent spate of public messages owes a lot to his seeing how positively we respond to it. I think he may not fully have appreciated before that it wasn't him we objected to, but his keeping us in the dark. I may be being optimistic, but I think Ron will keep us informed much more.
Basically, good work, Ron. I always had faith that as long as you kept Forzoni, you wanted us up, and I think you've demonstrated that now.
P.S. Is that good news about the planning permission? The suggestion is that he thinks we'll defintely get it, as I read it anyway. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
I'd also like to say that I am more than heppy to become a Crewe in terms of operational style (at least for now), but let's make sure it's not a Colchester we become. London is a huge area, and a prolonged presence in the first division will see our gates rise as more and more Londoners choose us as their club since we can rival some of the other big London clubs.
Up the Bees!
I'm delighted he turned down what was quite a large bid from Millwall - I suspect they saw the Blackpool video, or match!
I also think Ron has a good sense of humour. It's very dry, but I like that. His comment on knowing Cardiff's wage bill made me smile - I bet it's at least double ours.
Finally, I'd like to say Ron may be a changed man. I'm vaguely assuming that this recent spate of public messages owes a lot to his seeing how positively we respond to it. I think he may not fully have appreciated before that it wasn't him we objected to, but his keeping us in the dark. I may be being optimistic, but I think Ron will keep us informed much more.
Basically, good work, Ron. I always had faith that as long as you kept Forzoni, you wanted us up, and I think you've demonstrated that now.
P.S. Is that good news about the planning permission? The suggestion is that he thinks we'll defintely get it, as I read it anyway. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
I'd also like to say that I am more than heppy to become a Crewe in terms of operational style (at least for now), but let's make sure it's not a Colchester we become. London is a huge area, and a prolonged presence in the first division will see our gates rise as more and more Londoners choose us as their club since we can rival some of the other big London clubs.
Up the Bees!
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What is positive about Chairman Noades message?
Short term I will join the applause for Chairman Noades in not accepting offers for two of our “star players”. He appears to have the smell of promotion and the benefits associated with it clearly in his nostrils. But why no mention regarding the remainder of his message? It is full of doom and gloom, surely?
Firstly, before some people erroneously accuse me of posting rubbish, I must again reinforce my position is very similar to that of Chairman Noades. IMO, I do not consider that GP offer a sustainable long future for BFC. We must move in order to generate sufficient additional revenues to reduce, or indeed reverse, our present operating losses. I fully support Chairman Noades 1005 on this and always have, regardless of what either he or some of you may have mistakenly thought. However, what I do not agree with are the methods and procedures that are being suggested we need to adopt to achieve this either long or short term. Chairman Noades appears to have very narrow view of how things may be achieved as well as a shallow knowledge of many procedures etc associated with both Local Government and development.
For instance in his latest message he talks about land values. The values indicated by the Inland Revenue are fact, not speculation. They are averages not site specific. Chairman Noades talks about the price of flats presently being sold in Brentford, but conveniently forgets to mention that all of the developments I would suspect he refers to are in much superior locations to GP and will therefore attract a premium (Brentford Dock, River Views, looking across to Kew Gardens etc.) I'm afraid that GP cannot offer such advantages.
He uses the term EEC when referring to Bosman. Well the term EEC (European Economic Community) has not been in use for many years. It has been called the EU (European Union) for approx 10 years. This may seem like nit picking but I think demonstrates that Chairman Noades is perhaps not as informed on subjects as he would like some people to think! Indeed, the Bosman implications were clearly evident when Chairman Noades arrived in 1998, so why does he keep using it as an excuse? OK, it has not helped but he must surely, if he is as cute as he wants us to believe, taken that in to account when drawing up his business plan when he arrived! If he did not then I consider that it probably demonstrates that he is perhaps not the dynamic businessman he would have us believe?
OK, the ITV money may well be disappearing down the drain and £180k may not be forthcoming in 2002- 2003 season. However, does Chairman Noades really believe that there will be no income from TV rights for Nationwide Games beyond this season? It may not be £180k per year for us, but there will surely be some income? Doom and gloom!!!
Corporate Sponsorship is said to be practically non-existent because of the lack of facilities. Why is that? You do not have to have boxes. Be innovative and use what we have got to get corporate sponsorship in. What do we pay the marketing team for? Are they so sterile that they cannot use their initiative to attract some big corporate names to the support the club in some shape or form? After all, we are 6 or so miles form Heathrow, the Great West Road area has some of the biggest companies in the country less than a mile away and we cannot get one or more of the companies from these areas interested in bringing some money to GP. Well, I suggest that you get your marketing team to watch Rogue Traders and similar consumer programmes on TV Chairman Noades. Then go and poach the sales people featured. They will sell the club for you and bring in some revenue. May not be strictly kosher, but then who cares?
If you really want some boxes at GP why not take out the rear section of New Road seats as a temporary measure and put in some temporary boxes? It's worth a try for a season or so surely? Or perhaps this would not assist in your true objectives?
There is a distinct lack of innovation and inspiration at GP. It seems as if all you are interested in is getting your guarantee money back. If that is the case why not just say so?
Yes, not selling any of our players has been a godsend. But the rest of his message is, as usual, all doom and gloom. Has anyone actually ever seen any positive moves from Chairman Noades, apart from the we must sell GP to survive theory that he constantly peddles? Yes we must sell and relocate to something more modern that generates higher revenues. But why does it appear as if the short term appears to be completely ignored unless it involves shipping the Bees to some far-flung ground that is a long way from west Middlesex?
Chairman Noades, we are not all fools so please stop treating us as such. You may have fooled some with bit of gloss, a pleasant gloss I admit, but how long will that shine last. Not too long I suggest!!
[ 30 March 2002: Message edited by: Baz Bee ]
[ 31 March 2002: Message edited by: Baz Bee ]
Short term I will join the applause for Chairman Noades in not accepting offers for two of our “star players”. He appears to have the smell of promotion and the benefits associated with it clearly in his nostrils. But why no mention regarding the remainder of his message? It is full of doom and gloom, surely?
Firstly, before some people erroneously accuse me of posting rubbish, I must again reinforce my position is very similar to that of Chairman Noades. IMO, I do not consider that GP offer a sustainable long future for BFC. We must move in order to generate sufficient additional revenues to reduce, or indeed reverse, our present operating losses. I fully support Chairman Noades 1005 on this and always have, regardless of what either he or some of you may have mistakenly thought. However, what I do not agree with are the methods and procedures that are being suggested we need to adopt to achieve this either long or short term. Chairman Noades appears to have very narrow view of how things may be achieved as well as a shallow knowledge of many procedures etc associated with both Local Government and development.
For instance in his latest message he talks about land values. The values indicated by the Inland Revenue are fact, not speculation. They are averages not site specific. Chairman Noades talks about the price of flats presently being sold in Brentford, but conveniently forgets to mention that all of the developments I would suspect he refers to are in much superior locations to GP and will therefore attract a premium (Brentford Dock, River Views, looking across to Kew Gardens etc.) I'm afraid that GP cannot offer such advantages.
He uses the term EEC when referring to Bosman. Well the term EEC (European Economic Community) has not been in use for many years. It has been called the EU (European Union) for approx 10 years. This may seem like nit picking but I think demonstrates that Chairman Noades is perhaps not as informed on subjects as he would like some people to think! Indeed, the Bosman implications were clearly evident when Chairman Noades arrived in 1998, so why does he keep using it as an excuse? OK, it has not helped but he must surely, if he is as cute as he wants us to believe, taken that in to account when drawing up his business plan when he arrived! If he did not then I consider that it probably demonstrates that he is perhaps not the dynamic businessman he would have us believe?
OK, the ITV money may well be disappearing down the drain and £180k may not be forthcoming in 2002- 2003 season. However, does Chairman Noades really believe that there will be no income from TV rights for Nationwide Games beyond this season? It may not be £180k per year for us, but there will surely be some income? Doom and gloom!!!
Corporate Sponsorship is said to be practically non-existent because of the lack of facilities. Why is that? You do not have to have boxes. Be innovative and use what we have got to get corporate sponsorship in. What do we pay the marketing team for? Are they so sterile that they cannot use their initiative to attract some big corporate names to the support the club in some shape or form? After all, we are 6 or so miles form Heathrow, the Great West Road area has some of the biggest companies in the country less than a mile away and we cannot get one or more of the companies from these areas interested in bringing some money to GP. Well, I suggest that you get your marketing team to watch Rogue Traders and similar consumer programmes on TV Chairman Noades. Then go and poach the sales people featured. They will sell the club for you and bring in some revenue. May not be strictly kosher, but then who cares?
If you really want some boxes at GP why not take out the rear section of New Road seats as a temporary measure and put in some temporary boxes? It's worth a try for a season or so surely? Or perhaps this would not assist in your true objectives?
There is a distinct lack of innovation and inspiration at GP. It seems as if all you are interested in is getting your guarantee money back. If that is the case why not just say so?
Yes, not selling any of our players has been a godsend. But the rest of his message is, as usual, all doom and gloom. Has anyone actually ever seen any positive moves from Chairman Noades, apart from the we must sell GP to survive theory that he constantly peddles? Yes we must sell and relocate to something more modern that generates higher revenues. But why does it appear as if the short term appears to be completely ignored unless it involves shipping the Bees to some far-flung ground that is a long way from west Middlesex?
Chairman Noades, we are not all fools so please stop treating us as such. You may have fooled some with bit of gloss, a pleasant gloss I admit, but how long will that shine last. Not too long I suggest!!
[ 30 March 2002: Message edited by: Baz Bee ]
[ 31 March 2002: Message edited by: Baz Bee ]
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Originally posted by Idaho Bee:
Just Three.
Would have been sooner had I had the time!!!!
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I'm with Noades on this 1. He knows what needs to be done and he will do it for us
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It is not the what, but the how and when that may lead to the what that is the cause for concern.