The Opponent: Brentford
Happy Christmas to every member of The TEF, I hope you have all had a fantastic day in whichever way you have chosen to enjoy it, for me personally its been a nice simple one with a few beers, family and friends, a rather nice bit of gammon and chicken and finally being force fed the plight of David Platt and Roy Cropper. It seems the ticketing arrangements for today’s game have been changed so we can now pay on the gate, not sure this will have a significant effect on the attendance but best wishes to all of those making the journey today. Its fair to say a win in the London Borough of Hounslow today would be massive. I’m sure last season’s play off disaster may be on the minds of a couple of players but a majority of our 1st team is made up of players that have only been with us since the summer and they have nothing to fear at Griffin Park.
Brentford’s plan to move to a new community stadium took a massive step forward, back in June 2012, when the club, via Matthew Benham, purchased the 7.6 acre site in Lionel Road South, Brentford, from Barratt Homes who had originally acquired the site in January 2008. The club is planning to build a 20,000-spectator capacity stadium on the land. Along with outline planning permission for a Hotel and Apartment buildings, on unused land surrounding the site, to help fund the project, as well as applying for outline planning permission for Griffin Park which will also be sold to developers as to fund the Lionel Road South project. It will be interesting to see how near they are to getting anywhere near 20’000 in this stadium, although some of the faces that may pop along to watch the Bees in action include massive nobody, Dean Gaffney, Status Quo bassist John ‘Rhino’ Edwards, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, and Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman. With Gaffney taking lead vocals this could be an interesting musical line up.
Where the opposition gather – Another one of those sites that pre registration is required.
http://www.griffinpark.org/forums/forum.phphttp://www.brentford.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=2Last 6 – WDWWWW (3rd on 43 points) Just the 9 wins in their last 10 league outings.
They have served us both – John Buttigieg, Alan Connell, Alan McCormack, Deon Burton, John Bostock, Jonathan Dougla$, Lionel Piggin, Nigel Gray, Chris Kamara, Percy Whipp. Junior Lewis, Richard Key, Harry Morris, Matt Heywood, Mark McCammon, Nathan Byrne, Jimmy Glass.
The Odds - Brentford 10/11 Draw 5/2 Swindon 3/1 Clayton Donaldson seems to enjoy scoring against us and his odds on scoring the 1st goal are as short as 4/1, the shortest price Town player is Dany N’Guessan at 7/1. Nile Ranger is a decent 8/1 with some outlets.
The Son Says – After wearily raising his head from his new iPad Air he has gone for a 2-1 away win.
The Prediction – Records are there to be dismantled and that is exactly what we will do this lunch time. I feel a dismantling is on the way, 4-1 Swindon with goals from Pritchard (2), Luongo and Ranger. A crowd of 6’212 with 789 from Swindon.
And Finally – R.I.P former Brentford and Crystal Palace chairman and manager Ron Noades who passed away a couple of days back.
