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See my point re a striker leaving. You try to sign a player who is similar in style to the one who has scored loads of goals before shafting you and sneaking off to another club. If they’re a Matty Taylor style poacher and you replace him with a new striker who is a hold-up merchant, and who...

I completely agree with you. The manager - or rather head coach, which is vastly different - has every right to do things their way, but it’s then up to the club management to ensure that said way fits what’s already here and what the rest of the staff are prepared for. There will always be...

No, I don’t blame Buckingham for wanting his own players or having his own ideas, or I would have done so. But it is pretty dreadful management practice to spend nearly all year working towards something specific, have everything going the way you want it to go to the point that you’re second in...

Think that’s unfair. Ed Waldron spent the better part of a year lining up targets for a manager who left unexpectedly a month or so before the transfer window opened, and was replaced by a guy who told him he didn’t want the same type of players as he plays a different way, with a different...

We have four available. Brannagan, McEachran, McGuane, Smyth. Whether they’re all good enough or Buckingham is willing to use them is another matter, but the bodies are there. Brentford B used to play Stevens as a defensive midfielder on occasion. You can see why given he’s tenacious and has a...

Pretty sure he travelled as the spare man and was on the pitch warming up before the game. Looked like he and Thorniley were involved with playing balls into the back four during a drill.

Yes, and for far less money than the £150m currently being touted by the Chairman. Which I am certain will be less than the final amount. Someone is spending more than double what it cost Brentford to build a bigger stadium in the most expensive part of the country just five years ago. It’s...

That’s a very wishy washy term. It might as well be promising to “level up” the club given what it could ultimately mean. Regardless, you’ll forgive me if I don’t take what management or the council say as gospel before we’ve got a legally binding, publicly available lease agreement signed that...

First time I’ve heard him say “the club” rather than “football”, but I’m glad that he has as it’s on record. Now it needs to be properly safeguarded in the terms of the agreement, which also need to involve a very clear framework in terms of finance, so that the club can’t be lumbered with...

The land isn’t a protection aid unless it’s leveraged properly. If the stadium built on said land is put around the club’s neck financially without sufficient protections then that’s pretty much that - the council keeping the land is only a positive if they get the terms and conditions bang on...

I’ll have a lot more to say on this once the planning process is over, one way or the other. The narrative of how this all happened absolutely stinks. Also, nobody has the moral right to rack up record debts in the club’s name, while putting millions of pounds against it for a stadium it’ll...

I rather strongly disagree with that.

We’ll be paying for at least some of it through rent, which is the same thing. We’re absolutely going to be paying for a chunk of this stadium one way or another, unless people think we’re being handed it as a gift. Which we’ve already been told isn’t the case. Also, the several million pounds...

It’ll be the current rate of loss plus several million in stadium project fees. Could be over 11m let alone 10m. Around £30,000 per day. People can talk about sustainability and the need for a new stadium all they like, but these levels of losses won’t be wiped out by a 16,000 seater new build...

I believe the annual loss that will be announced in a year’s time will be in excess of £10m.

That I remain utterly unconvinced this is anywhere near as in hand as some make out.

Colour me surprised.

3-0. Paul Powell, Bobby Ford, O’Neill Donaldson with the goals. Arjan van Heusden to save a penalty. Danny Hill to be in charge of bibs.

None of said players have a ‘t’ in their name, so you’ve lost my trust, as well as my respect.