Matthew Benham Exclusive Interview: Lessons Learned and Signing For The Future
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Nice interview and nice answers. Only one answer missing as to why the players are not playing with the desired passion and intensity. This has nothing to do with being a young team
Good interview.
We should be grateful that we have an owner who is Brentford through and through, not some foreigner to whom the club is just a toy to be discarded when finished with.
I am concerned about our vulnerability to relegation but three points on Saturday would make us safe and would be the best three points we could ever get.
What’s being a foreigner got to do about it? I’d happily have a millionaire Uzbek bees fan in charge! Would you prefer Mike Ashley??
Chris….probably they are frustrated and unsure about the state of club. Players leaving, other goings on, all help to unbalance everything. Judge is the epitaph at Brentford, they should be looking at his example. I would sweat blood and tears for him..McCormack coming back will give some stability. Dean and bidwell have been there long enough for them to sort out the mess at the back. The others, only time will tell if they make it..but they have to all grow a pair now! Especially Saturday….and be bloody gratefully they get paid what they do!!! Uuuu reds..
‘Only one answer missing as to why the players are not playing with the desired passion and intensity. This has nothing to do with being a young team’
Players at any club, particularly young ones, are more prone to hide if they expect any mistake to lead to the crowd getting on their back.
Thanks for that lads,all very logical.
It will not be logical to some of our fans Bill.
Fantastic interview,well done to all at Beesotted and especially Mr Benham.
Hopefully the doubters will now get behind the team.
Very informative interview, well done Beesotted and Matthew Benham.The honesty that some mistakes have been made and comments regarding player recruitment was particularly enlightening.
Thanks very much.
Thanks Beesotted for the interview and Matthew for his usual frank and honest responses to some tough questions. All Bees fans should read this interview and try to understand the long term objectives of the club. Yes, there will be set backs on that journey, but get behind the club and team.
Excellent stuff, but is Matthew worried that he can continue to fund the club if the delayed building of Lionel Road goes on longer than expected? He talks about the frustration of not having the stadium in place and “it has drifted further and further away”. Where exactly are we with the Compulsory Purchase Order report that was due in early 2016?
A reminder that John Madjeski at Reading had to sell up eventually……
I have to say that I am encouraged by that interview. It does seem to have the basis of realism and having to face the fact that life in the championship will not be a bowl of cherries. Lionel Road will undoubtedly help the financial position, but we must ensure that the fan base is kept and grown both before and after the move. That is where I see an issue. There are lots of competing teams in our area and other attractions, though the attendances have held up very well this season, despite the quality of football not reaching last years heights. Will this be the case in our third season of mid table competing, if that is the case? In my view, yes … if we have a real go in the cups, to get the place buzzing. Good cup runs create interest, make up for a mediocre league season and may even help to attract players. I think we made a mistake in seemingly brushing the cup competitions aside this season. Other than that I think we all understand the transfer realities and the need to progress from the last three or four years. Lt us hope that this season is a bit of blip and that most importantly we can stay up.
Great stuff as ever. Perhaps people can calm the **** down for a bit!
Sadly Luis – and as Matthew agrees – only results will help with that.
Think he’s right that once we get the required points to stay up the younger lads – some of whom looked like they wanted to be anywhere but Griffin Park near the end of Saturday – will start to flourish a little more.
Just need to get those points in the bag and we will be fine.
Macca will help with that, hopefully.
Excellent interview, well done Team Beesotted and Matthew Benham.
I’ve been a follower of the club since the early 1960’s,Francis,Towers,Coote etc.We’ve had ups and downs galore,some great years,many disasters,but mainly average,fair to middling seasons,but now we’re looking like we can be almost settled in the leagues second tier,which, since before my time as a supporter has not been achieved and even with the team being somewhat erratic at the moment we are a match for most of the teams in the championship,bar five or six high spending sides,so perhaps we should be thankful that the team is in a position now that I’ve not seen in all these years.Keep behind the lads,onwards & upwards and let’s be grateful that we are where we are right now,it could be a lot worse!!
Great interview.As always the boss talks great sense we should be grateful we have an owner like him.I do think the have been unsettled since tarky disgrace think he has a lot to answer for
Well done Besotted. Excellent work!
Very interesting comments about the last three months of last season!!!!
Great work. Something positive before to tide us over before the away win on Saturday. Thanks.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading that and the honest answers from Matthew,like Jim above was interested re the comments about the last three months of last season shame he didn’t expand on that, any well done Beesotted guys.
When things look bleak, take a reality check. Listen to the leader and either buy into the vision and get behind a group of great young guys trying their best every week or stay away and stop being negative and disruptive during a critical phase of the season.
Then think about three teams in the Premier League that overcame immense problems – Southampton, Bournemouth and lastly, Leicester City, who this time last season was being written off a certainties for relegation.
As Brentford supporters we have much to be proud about, much to celebrate and a great team (on and off the field) to support, so how about we get behind everyone in a time of need.
Great interview – Beesotted is a real credit to our club
A very reassuring interview. Well done in getting it to happen. Maybe see if you can get a “Owners state of the club interview” every mid-season.