Clarity After Brentford’s Statement: Warburton and Weir WILL Leave At End Of Season

Stephen on February 18, 2015 at 9:47 am

This season is over!!!!

It’s a harsh but undeniably true statement that happened the minute the news article was written and broke on the morning of the Watford game. Plain and simple. Benham did not want it to happen, Warburton did not want it to happen, the players did not want it to happen and the majority of fans who have pinned almost every last iota of hope that we have to get to the promised land of the Premier League at the very first attempt did not want it to happen but it’s as true as it ever will be. And was it all contrived to be that way?

Has Benham pulled another mastermind stroke that we are all unaware of? We’re we ready for th Premiership? Answer in my opinion is, not even close to it!

We’re we really supposed to do this well under Warburtons stewardship this year? Doubtful. Are we over achieving with he group of players we have? Very possibly. Have we got a squad or group of players fit for the challenge of the Premier League! Undeniably no (especially at centre back and most notably Dean who is getting embarrassed on national TV on the Football League highlights show on a weekly basis these days). Is our ground fit for purpose? Not in the slightest, regardless of what the Press statements of the club might suggest otherwise. We are approximately 3 years away of mounting a strong challenge and one that is sustainable, a word that Benham himself uses when he speaks about the club.

This season is over because if Warburton is not already lined up or courted or hasn’t already signed a pre contract agreement with another club, quite possibly QPR or Leicester or any other, I’d be very surprised by now. And if he has, early mornings, after training, in the evenings, at weekends after the games or even in the hotels prior to them he next day, Warburton will be in contact with his new club talking transfer targets, putting in place ideas/training methods/pre season trips or other such things that will be important for HIS own personal success next season……and who can blame him, even if it is at our nearest local rivals because if we don’t want him, who can begrudge him the chance of doing it there without the need to uproot his family or move house half way up the country? Not me.

This season is also over because the group of players who were protected, cajoled, bigged up, put on a pedestal by Warburton and who he remained fiercely loyal to, are now in fear of where they’ll be playing next season. Those who are nearing the end of their careers namely Douglas, Craig, Saunders must be fearful that the stats or figures of which Benham seems to assess his playing targets, might not stack up in their aged legs in their performances anymore. Players like Harlee Dean, Bidwell (although I think it’s just a small blip but I’m not sure he could progress much higher than Championship as he cannot beat a man round the outside ever), Proswitcz, numerous others within he squad must be quaking in their boots and realise that their days are numbered at the club. Our analysis team must have ran out of ways of watching the video replays back of the games and after watching Deans numerous unforced errors and glaring mistakes, must be trying hard not to make it sound other than personal at this stage but it’s a harsh fact of life that he has not coped with the step up to Championship and will very easily find his level in Div 1 again sometime soon but hopefully not with us in tow and under Benham, I doubt that will happen in the near future. But all these players, some of which sound and appear from the outside in, are the big personalities in the dressing room. Definitely Douglas, Saunders and Dean and the only way to break their hold on the team if Benham thinks it will hold it back, is to break them up and move them on.

It is horrible to hear or read about as the day before Watford we were all dreaming about trying to break the top 2 before the end of May but I’m not sure it was ever in Benhams mind to do so. It would have been a logistic and PR nightmare. A club with a ground not fit for it, playing in a borrowed home, home and away games played away, most of the money being earned being siphoned off to our landlords and all in all a drag for supporters each week. premier League big wigs sniggering at our attempts each week to mix it with the big boys, given the small little club we are, well I doubt that is Benhams vision. He is much more forward thinking than that. He’ll do it in his own time, under his own rules and when we get there, which I seriously believe the single mindedness of the man will achieve, he will do it when he will fell more than comfortable walking in to the marble halls of Old Trafford, or The Emirates or Stamford Bridge on an even par and not as anything inferior at all. We’ll go there holding our own. But I’m afraid this season is over. Anything other than that way of thinking is naive at best.

Benham has sacrificed, what appears to us loyal fans as our best chance in years of dining at the top table next year, for a much better, more balanced approached go at it, in a few seasons times but what with the recent worlds ‘success as quickly as possible’ outlook these days, we cannot accept it. But give him time, he’ll do it. Has he let us down yet? Not me anyway.

Everyone’s head has been turned, the manager, his assistant, his back room team, players, reserves, fans, general staff at the club and the air of uncertainty is rife so there is no chance we’ll sustain our challenge this year but as I said, I’m not sure it was Benhams interest to do so, just in case we did happen to achieve it.

On a final note, if we look back on our previous 28 years of absolutely struggle to get out of the bottom 2 tiers, and then it was only for a year the last time, well we’re all well ahead of schedule but in that same time period, we were all aware of the most successful club over a sustained period of time in Man Utd. Although they kept the stability of the manager in place for all that time, although at the start there was a real blip, they changed almost every year, they made widespread changes to playing staff, they made calls on getting rid of popular players to bring others in, some who went on to much improve te team but one thing they did was they never sat on their laurels, they kept moving forward to stay ahead of the others. Is Benham simply doing the same with his new way of thinking. I would love to think that we are so blessed that right now, those so called professionals and Press who are writing tabloid headlines about the huge mistake Brentford are making, will be totally embarrassed in a few years time when they will all be lauding Benhams model as the way almost every club is run and be knocking down our door to find out how to do it and why we are so successful at it.

Keep the faith. We’ve seen change before but I’m not sure we’ve ever seen anyone as visionary as Benham before and I for one think we are more than blessed to have him.

3 Comments

GloryHunterBee on February 17, 2015 at 8:51 pm
In other words, what the Club means is “Four legs good, two legs better!!”
Stephen on February 18, 2015 at 9:47 am
This season is over!!!!
It’s a harsh but undeniably true statement that happened the minute the news article was written and broke on the morning of the Watford game. Plain and simple. Benham did not want it to happen, Warburton did not want it to happen, the players did not want it to happen and the majority of fans who have pinned almost every last iota of hope that we have to get to the promised land of the Premier League at the very first attempt did not want it to happen but it’s as true as it ever will be. And was it all contrived to be that way?
Has Benham pulled another mastermind stroke that we are all unaware of? We’re we ready for th Premiership? Answer in my opinion is, not even close to it!
We’re we really supposed to do this well under Warburtons stewardship this year? Doubtful. Are we over achieving with he group of players we have? Very possibly. Have we got a squad or group of players fit for the challenge of the Premier League! Undeniably no (especially at centre back and most notably Dean who is getting embarrassed on national TV on the Football League highlights show on a weekly basis these days). Is our ground fit for purpose? Not in the slightest, regardless of what the Press statements of the club might suggest otherwise. We are approximately 3 years away of mounting a strong challenge and one that is sustainable, a word that Benham himself uses when he speaks about the club.
This season is over because if Warburton is not already lined up or courted or hasn’t already signed a pre contract agreement with another club, quite possibly QPR or Leicester or any other, I’d be very surprised by now. And if he has, early mornings, after training, in the evenings, at weekends after the games or even in the hotels prior to them he next day, Warburton will be in contact with his new club talking transfer targets, putting in place ideas/training methods/pre season trips or other such things that will be important for HIS own personal success next season……and who can blame him, even if it is at our nearest local rivals because if we don’t want him, who can begrudge him the chance of doing it there without the need to uproot his family or move house half way up the country? Not me.
This season is also over because the group of players who were protected, cajoled, bigged up, put on a pedestal by Warburton and who he remained fiercely loyal to, are now in fear of where they’ll be playing next season. Those who are nearing the end of their careers namely Douglas, Craig, Saunders must be fearful that the stats or figures of which Benham seems to assess his playing targets, might not stack up in their aged legs in their performances anymore. Players like Harlee Dean, Bidwell (although I think it’s just a small blip but I’m not sure he could progress much higher than Championship as he cannot beat a man round the outside ever), Proswitcz, numerous others within he squad must be quaking in their boots and realise that their days are numbered at the club. Our analysis team must have ran out of ways of watching the video replays back of the games and after watching Deans numerous unforced errors and glaring mistakes, must be trying hard not to make it sound other than personal at this stage but it’s a harsh fact of life that he has not coped with the step up to Championship and will very easily find his level in Div 1 again sometime soon but hopefully not with us in tow and under Benham, I doubt that will happen in the near future. But all these players, some of which sound and appear from the outside in, are the big personalities in the dressing room. Definitely Douglas, Saunders and Dean and the only way to break their hold on the team if Benham thinks it will hold it back, is to break them up and move them on.
It is horrible to hear or read about as the day before Watford we were all dreaming about trying to break the top 2 before the end of May but I’m not sure it was ever in Benhams mind to do so. It would have been a logistic and PR nightmare. A club with a ground not fit for it, playing in a borrowed home, home and away games played away, most of the money being earned being siphoned off to our landlords and all in all a drag for supporters each week. premier League big wigs sniggering at our attempts each week to mix it with the big boys, given the small little club we are, well I doubt that is Benhams vision. He is much more forward thinking than that. He’ll do it in his own time, under his own rules and when we get there, which I seriously believe the single mindedness of the man will achieve, he will do it when he will fell more than comfortable walking in to the marble halls of Old Trafford, or The Emirates or Stamford Bridge on an even par and not as anything inferior at all. We’ll go there holding our own. But I’m afraid this season is over. Anything other than that way of thinking is naive at best.
Benham has sacrificed, what appears to us loyal fans as our best chance in years of dining at the top table next year, for a much better, more balanced approached go at it, in a few seasons times but what with the recent worlds ‘success as quickly as possible’ outlook these days, we cannot accept it. But give him time, he’ll do it. Has he let us down yet? Not me anyway.
Everyone’s head has been turned, the manager, his assistant, his back room team, players, reserves, fans, general staff at the club and the air of uncertainty is rife so there is no chance we’ll sustain our challenge this year but as I said, I’m not sure it was Benhams interest to do so, just in case we did happen to achieve it.
On a final note, if we look back on our previous 28 years of absolutely struggle to get out of the bottom 2 tiers, and then it was only for a year the last time, well we’re all well ahead of schedule but in that same time period, we were all aware of the most successful club over a sustained period of time in Man Utd. Although they kept the stability of the manager in place for all that time, although at the start there was a real blip, they changed almost every year, they made widespread changes to playing staff, they made calls on getting rid of popular players to bring others in, some who went on to much improve te team but one thing they did was they never sat on their laurels, they kept moving forward to stay ahead of the others. Is Benham simply doing the same with his new way of thinking. I would love to think that we are so blessed that right now, those so called professionals and Press who are writing tabloid headlines about the huge mistake Brentford are making, will be totally embarrassed in a few years time when they will all be lauding Benhams model as the way almost every club is run and be knocking down our door to find out how to do it and why we are so successful at it.
Keep the faith. We’ve seen change before but I’m not sure we’ve ever seen anyone as visionary as Benham before and I for one think we are more than blessed to have him.
Trevor Stock on February 21, 2015 at 2:07 pm
We Could do with both Mark and his assistant staying at the club,Why as an owner cant you see this is the correct team to gain us premosion. Why break up a winning team?