Will Lionel Road Move Signal Identity Change for Brentford?

Posted by BillytheBee Grant | Apr 11, 2014 | 5 |

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BillytheBee Grant

Following Brentford for 40 years plus now.. write .. blog .. videoblog .. podcast ... photograph ...eat .. sleep .. Brentford.. am known to attend the occasional England match too (16 World Cups and Euro tournaments now plus a couple of Womens Tournaments too) so can take a few knocks ...Run a grassroots girls football club... organised husky dog racing rallies for a living back in the day ... as you do ..You didn’t wanna go up!!

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Grumpy Bee on April 11, 2014 at 6:55 am
Interesting and exciting times lie ahead. Naming rights will probably go to the highest bidder and I have no problem with that although I like your ‘Hive’ suggestion.
Didn’t we play on season in yellow?
On a pedantic note, ‘then’ doesn’t mean ‘than’.
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Mark Bonner on April 11, 2014 at 8:59 pm
I’m a Life-long Bees fan and Creative Director of one of the most successful UK design agencies of last 15 years. We’re based in Chiswick, and I’d LOVE to do this project for our great club.
Great piece.
I will propose our creds to BFC.
Would be an honour
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Max on April 12, 2014 at 10:51 am
How did it look, the fans favourite away kit from some years ago?
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- Lou on April 14, 2014 at 7:04 am
  Light blue & dark blue stripes.
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Stephen O'Brien on April 12, 2014 at 11:54 am
Times are changing and I think with the ambitious and ‘happy to stay in the background’ owner, who has bank rolled the majority of this success story for our club so far, to one of the most exciting times in the clubs 125 year history, it is more than any Bees fan over the last 60-70 years could ever expect. We might even be in a position where we have to get used to success, instead of abject failure, which is hard to do in itself, as it became quite easy over the years to go along to Brentford, with some seasons of small hope but ultimately realise that it was just not to be, again. Voices in the crowd still reflect this even now, when in my time watching them over the 30 or so years, have never once seen a team this good, or playing a style of football to be more than proud of and yet, I can still hear niggling voices, criticising a stray pass or a ‘keep possession’ ball backwards as opposed to 40 yards forward. It appears some people struggle to cope with change. I embrace it. Like most clubs fans who were opposed to a move to a new stadium, Sundeland and Middlesborough spring to mind, they get used to the plush, modern facilities and very quickly you embrace the new and forget the old. It has to happen, it’s evolution and has happened since time began so let’s enjoy it and if it means cheering and saying positive things instead of the obligatory, ‘typical Brentford’ comments in the next few years, let’s embrace it and look back on this period in our clubs history as one of the best times yet.
On an only negative note, that 125 year badge is dreadful, too fussy and not in the slightest bit appealing. I’m not a fan of the new one where we apparently let a star gazer who likes Middlesex an input to assist in designing it but in my time, the classic Tana castle badge is still the memory of my youth and the most iconic of all of them and think it would look as modern today as it did back then and look great on a retro adidas style kit as well as the new stands and outside of the new Hive stadium or New Griffin Park ground.
Finally, let’s cross the line of this seasons promotion, which dare I say it, I can still see us being crowned champions yet and then move on to next season, where we will inevitably not win or draw as many as this but I hope people realise that this is still progress and not revert back to the negativity that all to often encompasses the elder generation of Bees fans I think.
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