Steve Coppell

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Steve Coppell

One of the benefits of Premium TV finally getting their act together and providing a search engine for the newly designed websites is this little gem from Sir Steve Coppell about us, when he spoke prior to our Griffin Park Centenary game in 2004:

"It's a lovely little club. Clubs like that are the lifeblood of the game as far as I am concerned. People in the game try to eliminate smaller teams and make life hard for them but they survive because of the concern of the local community. There will always be five or six thousand at Brentford no matter what.

"Even when other clubs in that area are fashionable people are proud to follow Brentford, and it's like Reading not so long ago. I remember going to Elm Park with five or six thousand there but those people are the ones who give the club tradition.

"I'm looking forward to going back to Brentford and putting on a good show to mark 100 years of a terrific club."
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http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~543134,00.html
 

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Good stuff Steve, you've made me quite moist
 

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i love brentford said:
i dont think thier will be 5 or 6 thousand at griffin park next season every week.......
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go check the season average maybe:sorted: Coppell wrote that in 2004 and I bet you he was right
 

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Top top man Steve :cool:
 

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Coppell has always been a modest man, from a player into management. Never gets out of his pram, I'm glad he got to manage us. Steve Coppell = top bloke.
 

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:imwith: everyone but the numpty going on about attendance

He is a legend my eyes. Coppell for England NOW NOW NOW
 

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bees66 said:
go check the season average maybe:sorted: Coppell wrote that in 2004 and I bet you he was right
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He is, home average last season in league matches was ~5,400 as I checked it for a previous thread. Might take a slight reduction this season due to less away fans and probable reduction in ST sales, but that's what it was last season.

Talking of which, when is the BFC site getting its redesign then, eh? Tackling this one in reverse alphabetical order, are they?
 

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**** me, can everyone stop binting about attendances? this thread is just for unreserved adoration thankyouverymuch :yes:
 

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....a proper Top Man............
 

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GP said:
Takes charge of his 1000th match as a manager tonight. Good effort !! :sorted:
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blimey, good luck Sir Steve
 

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Arise, Sir Steve. A true gent and a top manager to boot - he could certainly teach that whining sourpuss Fergie a thing or six! Congrats on this excellent achievement, Mr. C. :cool:
 

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1,000 games.

A great acheivement Steve.

Well done.
 

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Nice one Steve, and congratulations.
 

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Asked him for a foreword (effectively) for a publication at our school. History based and I chose him as he has a degree in Economic History.

Got my assistant to type the letter and sent it off. I explained who I was sending it to and she thought we had no chance of a reply. Couple of weeks later a letter came back with a lengthy reply. So now loads of people in the community know which period in History Steve Coppell would visit given the chance - frankly not the answer you would get from most football professionals I would suggest. Though I might try Andy Scott next time :)
 

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Downbeat Bee said:
So now loads of people in the community know which period in History Steve Coppell would visit given the chance - frankly not the answer you would get from most football professionals I would suggest. Though I might try Andy Scott next time :)
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Well, what was it?
 

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Well done Stevie!

Now as a present can you NOT offer Ben Hamer, Alan Bennett, Steve and Noel Hunt new contract when they expire and show them the way to GP? :idea:
 

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I enjoyed that season under him, we played good football but there again he had loads in his favour with the money being funded by Noades up until it looked like we were going up. We should have gone up and in the end he failed but Brighton will have a right result if it comes off.
 

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agree 100 northampton. although he nicked a few of our players for reading, he did us big faviours with loans.

what odds the first players he will sign for brighton (if it happens) will be tabb, hamer (if they let him go) and ingarmarsson? (wrong spelling i know!)
 

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Good luck to Coppell if he gets the job.....A club with a big loyal fan base & new stadium coming.
 

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blunstone said:
agree 100 northampton. although he nicked a few of our players for reading, he did us big faviours with loans.

what odds the first players he will sign for brighton (if it happens) will be tabb, hamer (if they let him go) and ingarmarsson? (wrong spelling i know!)
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Hamer might be a big possibility tbh..
 

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NorthamptonBee said:
I enjoyed that season under him, we played good football but there again he had loads in his favour with the money being funded by Noades up until it looked like we were going up. We should have gone up and in the end he failed but Brighton will have a right result if it comes off.
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IIRC he didn't get any significant money for players, just enough to pay for Sidwell and Burgess on loan. Not enough to offer Price a permanent deal. Not enough to offer the out of contract players new contracts. Not enough to sign a loanee striker at the end of the season when Owusu and Burgess were knackered.

Shows what a good squad he inherited and how poorly managed we had been for the previous 2 seasons with largely the same players.

By far the best manager in my time supporting the Bees.
 

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AB said:
IIRC he didn't get any significant money for players, just enough to pay for Sidwell and Burgess on loan. Not enough to offer Price a permanent deal. Not enough to offer the out of contract players new contracts. Not enough to sign a loanee striker at the end of the season when Owusu and Burgess were knackered.

Shows what a good squad he inherited and how poorly managed we had been for the previous 2 seasons with largely the same players.

By far the best manager in my time supporting the Bees.
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Price was offered a good deal but Tranmere offered more and it closer to home. Noades just showed his true colours towards the end but SC had enough of a squad to get us up. I really enjoyed his management but his mistake at Northampton ended up being a costly old number. A humble but gifted person.
 

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NorthamptonBee said:
Price was offered a good deal but Tranmere offered more and it closer to home. Noades just showed his true colours towards the end but SC had enough of a squad to get us up. I really enjoyed his management but his mistake at Northampton ended up being a costly old number. A humble but gifted person.
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Was that the game where he rested half the first team? Also, didn't Burgess fall away after the away game at Bury (on the mud)? Or was it earlier? Sad the way that season ended - no, gutting would be a more accurate description. :(
 

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dbee3 said:
Was that the game where he rested half the first team? Also, didn't Burgess fall away after the away game at Bury (on the mud)? Or was it earlier? Sad the way that season ended - no, gutting would be a more accurate description. :(
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.........think that they played Northampton on the Tuesday and had Brighton on the Thursday...................
 

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GP200 said:
.........think that they played Northampton on the Tuesday and had Brighton on the Thursday...................
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That's right, now I remember! Northampton was the last of about five straight defeats or something - then we thumped Brighton 4-0 on TV. :cool:
 

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I wasn't at the Northampton away game - but looking at the line up it doesn't look to be particularly weak (although Hutchinson and McCammon started, they'd been replaced by Mahon and Owusu quarter of an hour before Northampton scored their winner).
 

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I can't see this happening
 

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Steve Coppell turns down Albion

According to reports on various websites and in the local papers here in Sussex , our former manager and all round good guy, Steve Coppell, has turned down approaches to manage Brighton.

He deserves better!!! Wait for the right job, Steve!

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I turned them down too and so did my wife.
 

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Brighton will do well if he goes there.

For once I disagree with Northamptonbee, although I agree that his point re the N'hampton game may be valid. I think losing Price was a huge blow that season, but I agree that we may not have been able to keep him as SC may not have been willing to re-negotiate a deal on which I believe Price had previously 'shaken hands'.

The squad he took over had not performed well for the previous 2 years but, with comparatively little 'tinkering', Coppell transformed it into a formidable outfit. IIrc, the only permanent signings that SC made were Hunt (an inexperienced squad player & Evans - not sure why he signed other than to make up numbers for the following season??). Burgess & Sidwell were inspired loanees & he also converted Ivar into a central defender.

However I understand that Coppell wanted to sign Jerome Thomas on loan on Xfer deadline day (& who knows maybe others?). Stoke were able to strengthen their squad significantly whereas we lost Gibbs & Mahon & had Powell, Rowlands & Burgess playing with significant injuries. Clearly Noades was unwilling to add to the squad & in fact we also knew that he was unwilling to offer them contracts for the following season. Under the circumstances I believe we did fantastically well to come as close as we did to going up & Coppell is certainly in the top 3 managers in my 55 years of watching the Bees.
 

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dbee3 said:
That's right, now I remember! Northampton was the last of about five straight defeats or something - then we thumped Brighton 4-0 on TV. :cool:
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Also emember us thumping them 4-0 after a few days after he left Brighton (who were around top of the league) and replaced Pardew at Reading. Never would have happened if he hadn't gone...
 

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My misses works with the wife of ex Brighton player John Crumplin and he's forwarded his C.V to the club . tbh I've never heard of him.
 

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If his available in a few weeks we might be begging him to come back:sorted:
 

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A great manager and the the team of 2002 was one of the best i've ever seen here.
 

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KGB said:
IIrc, the only permanent signings that SC made were Hunt (an inexperienced squad player & Evans - not sure why he signed other than to make up numbers for the following season??).
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Was Mark Peters, the striker from Southampton one of his too?
 

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dbee3 said:
Was that the game where he rested half the first team? Also, didn't Burgess fall away after the away game at Bury (on the mud)? Or was it earlier? Sad the way that season ended - no, gutting would be a more accurate description. :(
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Burgess was with the crowd behind the goal at Bury apparently:wave:

That game against Reading still haunts me :(
 
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