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A great article that makes interesting reading. I like the idea of new set up, if Watford with all their changes in head coaches during the season are anything to go by then there is something to be said about the backroom structure we now have. A final thought on possible chants from the Ealing Road terrace, especially if we’re running the opposition ragged how about “You’ve got an anus we’ve got Marinus”?
Absolutely nailed that, Sir.
Spot on.
Good article Alex. A common statement made with our younger new signings is that Brentford will be assisting with their development. With this in mind & following what would be described as a good season on loan at MK Dons I feel Will Grigg could well be a viable re- addition this season. I recall that when Lewis Grabbon was a Bees player comments on Bees World was that he didn’t convert enough of his chances. Since then he scored 13 goals in 42 (goal in every 3.23 games) appearances for Bournemouth in their league one promotion year. 22 in 44 in the Championship (a goal every second game)and then 12 in 36 for Norwich in the Championship 1 in 3. Many of these appearances would be off the bench. (these stats also include cup games)
I feel Bournemouth & Norwich would be happy with Grabbons contributions & see no reason Grigg could not achieve at least similar in the Championship with the Bees
Three comments:
1. Once Tony Craig was not playing there was no natural left sided centre back. That now seems to have been resolved.
2. If the God is now statistics why has Warbs been effectively fired when statistically he had just about the most successful win ratio in the history of Brentford. Someone wanted Warbs out and the statistics God went missing the day the decision was made to remove him. One day….maybe….the real reason for the fall out will be disclosed. The deafening silence after the Times article was, I am sure, due in part to making sure everyone was reading from the same script and once again the remainder of the season was managed very well by all parties.
3. The new guy is still an unknown quantity (until around October time) and even if he is good, bad or indifferent the long term for Brentford will be wonderful because the structures for success are being built exceptionally well.
Interesting article. Enjoyed reading that!
Interesting to read the comparisons of centre back pairings, but i think it’s too small a sample (10 games for T&C, 12 games for C&D) to be reliable.
The goals conceded by player in the team is much more reliable and insightful (over 20 games). Backs up my belief that Tarkowski is our best defender.
I’m glad David posted to restore some balance here. Alex’s piece is an interesting but very one sided view on life under Warburton. I’m not going to speculate on the reasons for his departure, but isn’t it odd that even with prior knowledge of the “statfest” to come both he and FCM’s coach have left their positions?
Yes there were areas in our play that needed improvement, defensively we were too open, and our product from set plays not good enough. But I finished the article feeling that pretty much everything was wrong and that we’d had a poor season. Really?
MW’s era is over now and we will get behind Marinus – but i’m saddened by the way that some fellow Bees are diminishing last season, one where we played the best football I’ve ever seen and achieved a stunning play off finish. I’m confident that MB/MW working together would have taken us all the way, and I fully expect MW to now revive Glasgow Rangers.
As for BFC, let’s not get too carried away – whilst i’m hopeful, we haven’t yet kicked a ball under the new set up yet.
Hear we go again warbs walked away simple as that he did not want to be part of the restructuring, in fifty years of supporting the bees Benhams the best thing thats happened for us the mans a winner closely followed by Warbs and then Rosler,don’t forget he employed both of them and without his backing we would’nt be where we are today
Rosler a winner – not for me, now he is someone who walked away from BFC – on the morning of a match!
If MW was made that way he’d have gone in Feb when the story broke, it is the last thing i’d accuse him of.
No doubt that Benham is a winner and has done brilliantly for us so far, I don’t think anyone would argue against that. Still it shouldn’t allow history to be rewritten on what was the best season most of us have ever seen.
Give Rosler just bit of credit our recent success started under his management FACT, yes he was allowed to walk that was another master stroke by Mr Benham and as he found out the grass isn’t always greener.
I don’t give Rosler credit for anything, we’d have been promoted earlier with a more able manager. MB was incredibly patient with Rosler despite a very poor start to the 13/14 season. I’ll happily credit MB/MW instead for the progress made in his time. I doubt Rosler would’ve ever taken us up but we’ll never know.
MB didn’t have much choice when Rosler walked, but he deserves credit for getting us proper compensation and appointing MW.
Simply writing the word “fact” in caps does not make it so i’m afraid.
Mr rebel fact is your unbelievable
Why am I unbelievable malbee? For choosing to disagree with you?
I’ll sleep tonight.
Re Alex’s assessment of the centre back partnership. Whilst enlightening it needs to drill down further. Maybe an analysis of the opposition form guide when each of our pairings was playing giving some form of ‘handicap’ rating.
This the may give a completely different slant on his conclusions but, may I suggest, be a slightly more accurate and relevant one!
Fair point, also the goalkeeper’s role as part of the defensive unit, Button had a great season overall & got better as the season went on. However he was prone to a few mistakes that reflected harshly on the work done in front of him. Forest, Cardiff games spring to mind – there were others.
TC was calm and measured against many opponents but really struggled against pacy powerful forwards. In the end it was why Harlee and Tarkowski were starting.
Many thanks for reading and all the comments, it’s very much appreciated. It was never my intention to appear negative about the previous regime. I think Warburton did an absolutely fantastic job and as I said, I think we played some of the best, if not the best football in the division. If the article had been about all the good things from last season it would have been 5x as long!
I am just hugely encouraged with the recruitment drive so far, it seems to address the area’s I think we probably all felt we could improve upon!
Cheers,
Alex