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Connells done good considering he was on the bench a lot under Butcher( yes its suprising he didnt squash him)
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I'd rather have 4 15-a-seasoners that enjoy playing for us and no one else takes any notice of for a while than 1 30-goal scorer who we lose for a relative bargain.You're missing the point.
I care more about promotion and winning than selling players the minute they become an asset.
And if I've missed the point again (probably), that's just what I do
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This should be the 1st season for 6 years we have 2 players in double figures
Maybe 3 players. Can Elder get another 8 in the last 17 games (or 20 games including the play-offs)? I think he has 1 for Brighton and 1 for Brentford.
36 in 25 games for Billericay suggests he could if he gets going.
"I'm not a blinkin' thickie, I'm Billericay Dickie, and I'm doing very well !"
(copyright Ian Dury and The Blockheads)
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Maybe 3 players. Can Elder get another 8 in the last 17 games (or 20 games including the play-offs)? I think he has 1 for Brighton and 1 for Brentford.
36 in 25 games for Billericay suggests he could if he gets going.
"I'm not a blinkin' thickie, I'm Billericay Dickie, and I'm doing very well !"
(copyright Ian Dury and The Blockheads)
Great song for him if only we can get him to change his name - I can't think of anything that rhymes well with Nathan
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come on !
We all love the Nathan
He won't get a drugs ban
cos he's not Dwaine
or Christine Ohuruogu
no-one runs like Nathan
He's been on the All-bran
Classical goal from Nathan
Like some art by Rodin
Fear the name of Nathan
You'll wish you brought t' Klu Klux Klan !
Teddies in the Sudan
Get more news than Nathan
but that will change after an impressive display in this game
Coleman is a con man
He'll get his, from Nathan
On a bench in Accringtan
Pissing in his beer can
also a rhyme is the phrase.....Chapman
and Charlie Chans......still working on that verse.
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come on !
We all love the Nathan
He won't get a drugs ban
cos he's not Dwaine
or Christine Ohuruogu
no-one runs like Nathan
He's been on the All-bran
Classical goal from Nathan
Like some art by Rodin
Fear the name of Nathan
You'll wish you brought t' Klu Klux Klan !
Teddies in the Sudan
Get more news than Nathan
but that will change after an impressive display in this game
Coleman is a con man
He'll get his, from Nathan
On a bench in Accringtan
Pissing in his beer can
also a rhyme is the phrase.....Chapman
and Charlie Chans......still working on that verse.
That ones alrite comin from you, better than other ones you done
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if we could get him back we might go down he is unlucky
look at all the teams he has played for
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Can see Elder comfortably getting 15 at least if we're still in League 2 next season. Connell as well and if Poole weighs in with double figures again should be a very exciting season.
However if we beat Chesterfield on Saturday I'll be very confident for the play offs this season
However if we beat Chesterfield on Saturday I'll be very confident for the play offs this season
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2004/5 Burton 10
2005/6 Owusu 12
2006/7 Kuffour 12
2007/8 Poole 14, Connell 12
2008/9 Elder 22, Connell 12, Younghusband 10
Wishful thinking....If another club waves £100K under Dykes nose for Connell or Elder he will sell them quicker than you can say DJ Campbell...
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Why would any incoming offer of any of our players have anything to do with Dyke.
I thought he was just a figurehead. Not as though he has invested millions of his own money into the club. I still cannot see what he brings to BFC. Perhaps someone ''In the know'' would enlighten me.
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He's chairman (and as far as I know non-exec), not club manager. He doesn't choose the movies for the BFI either.No Big Speech from him on this year's new ST form either. Shame.
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By my reckoning since Asaba left in the summer of 97, and this is the 11th season since then, Owusu has passed twenty twice, 98/99 and 01/02, and no-one else has
And yet Owusu got such stick for not being a striker!
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Everyone loves Elder at the moment, but when he starts scoring goals they'll turn against him. It's the English way.
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Name me a BFC Chairman that has "invested millions of his own money into the club" please.
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Seriously if we sell anyone when we have a play off spot there for the taking next season, then no one at the club has heard the expression " false ecomomy"
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English people, including Brentford fans, love the guys who are on the way up. Yet when they reach the top, they love to shoot them back down. Michael Owen, David Beckham, Lloyd Owusu, Ricky Gervais, Tim Henman.
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If you already have the players in place, why sell? In any case they won't give him all the money to spend. We have a good squad being built which i think has every chance of promotion. We have to get out of this league and next season is our big chance. I understand about our finances, but staying in this divison another year or 2 will cost us more than any transfer fee.
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If someone comes in for XXXXXX at £10m are you suggesting we shouldn't sell and buy someone (or somebodies) else?
Also you will find that a large number of footballers will have a clause in their contract that says something like "If another club bids more than <insert low figure> then Brentford must sell me to that club"
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Of course not but i think the fee will be rather less than that. Brentford may sell Elder for say £75000, and take a gamble on signing someone as good for less than that. If there is a clause then obviously that is different, but i was under the impression that he was bought with next season specifically in mind, so why on earth would we have agreed to said clause. We would lose much more than 75k by not going up next season.
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Isn't the difference in TV money between L1 and L2 more than £100,000 though?
Add to that the bigger away crowds in L1 and slight increase in home attendance...
Also the non-monetary things like relationship and bond between players who play together...
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As I am sure you know. There are many many factors to be taken into account. What I do not accept is that there are people on the BFC Board that deliberately want to scupper promotion (e.g. by selling DJ Campbell).
I know it's a bitter pill to swallow but actually we all want the same thing!
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Sure
But there is that question of false economy of selling a player who can command a little fee. The Campbell situation was something that had to be done when someone waves £250k up to £500k in front of your face. There was no way we could have turned it down at the time. A £100k fee would have to be considered against a lot more than just the fact that it's £100k though and I think we have two players who could get that money or more (Elder, Dickson), with another two commanding a possible £75k under the right circumstances (Connell, Poole). We all hope for a big spending idiot to come in and offer way over the odds for some of the others Brain-dead Bee
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If Elder and Dickson were bought as investments, buying someone for £35k (Elder - I'm guessing similar for Dickson, but don't know) and selling them for £75k doesn't fit the bill... you'd need a 50% success rate in purchases to break even on that basis.
Depends on their form of course, but if they are playing well, we have to be looking at £150k or more
Depends on their form of course, but if they are playing well, we have to be looking at £150k or more
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Sod Reid, you can buy me instead for that money
Bigbee in goal(cos apparantly hes better than Brown...however am sure with his physique, just letting him lay in the goal would stop a lot of shots) and VTG going round moaning everyone to death on the pitch, they would be two good assetts for the team . . .
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She's one of the resident experts
lol You two are like a couple of giggling school boys with your Viz magazines!!! lol
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