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Three years left on his Brentford contract, combined with the Bloom/Benham dynamic, makes this highly, highly unlikely.

But, even setting that aside, he's always struck me as being a bit of a knob, so nah.
He has a lovely timbred voice, very similar to Oliver Postgate (Ivor the Engine, and more to the point, Noggin the Nog).

But...come on, look, let's stop beating about the bush.

He's not Leif Erikson. Or David Cassidy.

Get you f***ing hair cut, you plausible, yet weird, weird man :shrug:
 


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Simster

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Bmuff bigger club financially these days unfortunately. They've overtaken us now.
Why do you come out with this bollocks?


Whilst Brighton and Bournemouth debating who is bigger is rather like two tramps squabbling over a fag butt in the context of the Premier League, we are slightly ahead of them on every metric graphed in that article, which is just 2 weeks old.

Plus they play in a shoebox with a capacity of approximately the same as my garden shed and haven't had a gate over 20k in my living memory, meaning that it is debatable as to whether they can ever attract the levels of support we get.

So no, they are not a financially bigger club than us and haven't been since the Amex was built.
 


Sid and the Sharknados

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Why do you come out with this bollocks?


We were ahead of them financially in this article only 2 weeks ago. Plus they play in a shoebox with a capacity of approximately the same as my garden shed. So no, they are not a financially bigger club than us and haven't been since the Amex was built.
Dwayne's on the cutting edge of the news cycle reality.
 




A1X

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I would be very surprised if the club is briefing it’s business to Richard Keys
 


Baldseagull

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I would be very surprised if the club is briefing it’s business to Richard Keys
Tony might like to wind up his old mate a bit, but if that was the case, he would feed it to someone with some credibility.
 








dwayne

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Why do you come out with this bollocks?


Whilst Brighton and Bournemouth debating who is bigger is rather like two tramps squabbling over a fag butt in the context of the Premier League, we are slightly ahead of them on every metric graphed in that article, which is just 2 weeks old.

Plus they play in a shoebox with a capacity of approximately the same as my garden shed and haven't had a gate over 20k in my living memory, meaning that it is debatable as to whether they can ever attract the levels of support we get.

So no, they are not a financially bigger club than us and haven't been since the Amex was built.
At the end of the day, bmuff have billionaire investors who are willing to put in more money for transfers and more money on wages than Tony, and as we know there is a big correlation between these figures and league position. They have a more expensive squad and they will overtake us on wages next season.

It hurts to hear that but it's true.

Stadium size , revenue etc all fairly irrelevant in the world of EPL when you have crazy rich owners.
 
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Bozza

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Setting him being a bit of a knob aside, when did a manager's contract or the board not wanting him to leave ever stop a manager leaving if he wanted to go?
Buying a manager out of a three-year Premier League contract won't be cheap, and you'd need to add the Bloom/Benham-hate tax on top. I just can't see we'd want to spend that kind of cash.
 




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I like some of what he says, but other times he just says dumb things in an attempt to be controversial and relevant.

A poor man's Richard Keys, in fact.
You like some of the things that Richard Keys says?

Crikey.
 




peterward

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Bmuff bigger club financially these days unfortunately. They've overtaken us now.
Yeah 💯

32k sell out stadium versus 11K, finishing higher than them last season by a distance with an FA Cup semi Final run and Europa league last 16 this season, plus, let's not forget, Bournemouth banked over 200m from player sales with their record PL sale of an Ecuadorian to Chelsea.

Miles bigger financially!
 


dwayne

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Yeah 💯

32k sell out stadium versus 11K, finishing higher than them last season by a distance with an FA Cup semi Final run and Europa league last 16 this season, plus, let's not forget, Bournemouth banked over 200m from player sales with their record PL sale of an Ecuadorian to Chelsea.

Miles bigger financially!
That's not my point

My point is that they spend more on players than us and now spend more on wages. Those are the two most important things correlating to league position. And shock horror they've now overtaken us in the table with a better manager and a similar level squad. As well as absolutely smashing us on Sunday.

Get ya head out of the sand !! It matters not that we sold caciedo for 100m when we are in so much debt to Tony and are not reinvesting the money in the same way as bmuff are spending.
 


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