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I liked their old one.

Are Brentford just trying to completely drop their history with the new stadium move?
It's probably partly, if we're going to go in a new direction, might as well do everything in one go.
 

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The lack of symmetry on the bee is bugging me..
 

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During that guess the badge thread the other day I thought that Brentford probably have the best badge in the league. Shame they've binned it for generic crap.
 

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Nice but I don't like the bee. They should have robbed the bee the Wolves programme artist used for the Brentford game.
 

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We're having a minutes silence before the game on Saturday for Armistice Day. maybe I'm wrong but I'm sure this was last week? Why are we having another minutes silence a week after the event just because we didn't have a game last week? I did a 2 minutes silence on Friday, a minute on Sunday and a minute whenever England played. I don't understand the need for this.

Don't get me wrong, I respect the fallen, donate to the poppy appeal every year and remember my two great grandparents who died in WW1. I just hate this ridiculous fear to offend that has developed over the last 10-15 years.
 

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We're having a minutes silence before the game on Saturday for Armistice Day. maybe I'm wrong but I'm sure this was last week? Why are we having another minutes silence a week after the event just because we didn't have a game last week? I did a 2 minutes silence on Friday, a minute on Sunday and a minute whenever England played. I don't understand the need for this.

Don't get me wrong, I respect the fallen, donate to the poppy appeal every year and remember my two great grandparents who died in WW1. I just hate this ridiculous fear to offend that has developed over the last 10-15 years.

Are you shitting me?

Are we having a 20 minute round of applause as well, for anyone who may have died in the West Lancs area in the last fortnight?

Gets on my tits.
 

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Are you shitting me?

Are we having a 20 minute round of applause as well, for anyone who may have died in the West Lancs area in the last fortnight?

Gets on my tits.
Unfortunately not.

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Thought it was normally done at your last home game before the date?
 

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Those minutes applauses piss me off more, my cats died after 8 years so can I have a minutes applause on the 8th minute please.
 

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The way football handles the remembrance day weekend (or fortnight more accurately it seems) feels so staged nowadays, like it's all for show, the latest gimmick for Sky or something. As seen with the poppy furore as well, it's all getting so lost in itself and the narcissism and the quest to appear to be being really respectful that it's becoming too much of an event in itself, and being separated from the genuine message that's supposed to be remembered.

On a similar note, it seems more of a rarity at the moment for a game not to feature a minute's applause for some reason or other. Whilst I'm sure it's a very touching moment for individuals close to whoever has passed away or got a terminal illness or whatever, the regularity of it is diluting any meaning; and what can be a poignant tribute is more and more becoming a case of "oh, what is it this time".

One thing I do want to see though is what happens if a team scores during one of these minutes. Does everyone turn into disrespectful bastards and start celebrating? Or the other way round, if you concede will people still sit there clapping politely?
 
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The way football handles the remembrance day weekend (or fortnight more accurately it seems) feels so staged nowadays, like it's all for show, the latest gimmick for Sky or something. As seen with the poppy furore as well, it's all getting so lost in itself and the narcissism and the quest to appear to be being really respectful that it's becoming too much of an event in itself, and being separated from the genuine message that's supposed to be remembered.

On a similar note, it seems more of a rarity at the moment for a game not to feature a minute's applause for some reason or other. Whilst I'm sure it's a very touching moment for individuals close to whoever has passed away or got a terminal illness or whatever, the regularity of it is diluting any meaning; and what can be a poignant tribute is more and more becoming a case of "oh, what is it this time".

One thing I do want to see though is what happens if a team scores during one of these minutes. Does everyone turn into disrespectful bastards and start celebrating? Or the other way round, if you concede will people still sit there clapping politely?

We actually scored v Brentford during or towards the end of a minutes applause last February, was a bit odd.

The club have stated we will start doing a minutes applause/silence at the turn of each year to remember the fallen rather than on more individual basis!

That said it only takes some tart on Facebook wishing for a summat cos her aunties cat aged 17 got run over to beg for a minutes silence/applause on 17 minutes and every twat gets behind it. Grips my shit
 

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We actually scored v Brentford during or towards the end of a minutes applause last February, was a bit odd.

The club have stated we will start doing a minutes applause/silence at the turn of each year to remember the fallen rather than on more individual basis!

That said it only takes some tart on Facebook wishing for a summat cos her aunties cat aged 17 got run over to beg for a minutes silence/applause on 17 minutes and every twat gets behind it. Grips my shit

Too reyt pal I think it's becoming a bit of a joke myself.
 

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The way football handles the remembrance day weekend (or fortnight more accurately it seems) feels so staged nowadays, like it's all for show, the latest gimmick for Sky or something. As seen with the poppy furore as well, it's all getting so lost in itself and the narcissism and the quest to appear to be being really respectful that it's becoming too much of an event in itself, and being separated from the genuine message that's supposed to be remembered.

On a similar note, it seems more of a rarity at the moment for a game not to feature a minute's applause for some reason or other. Whilst I'm sure it's a very touching moment for individuals close to whoever has passed away or got a terminal illness or whatever, the regularity of it is diluting any meaning; and what can be a poignant tribute is more and more becoming a case of "oh, what is it this time".

One thing I do want to see though is what happens if a team scores during one of these minutes. Does everyone turn into disrespectful bastards and start celebrating? Or the other way round, if you concede will people still sit there clapping politely?
Rovers scored this season during a minutes applause against Oxford. The minutes applause was for a Rovers fan (no idea why though) so it was quite the timing.
 

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The club have stated we will start doing a minutes applause/silence at the turn of each year to remember the fallen rather than on more individual basis!

We've done this for a few years, still doesn't stop us having some random minutes applause each week.
 

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We scored right at the end of the tribute to Gary Speed at Forest, first game after his death. Was pretty fitting.

We also do a minute for all fans who died in the last year once a season too, but these days every week I see something about fan organised stuff on the 8th minute or whatever.
 

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We don't do an applause during the game. On the last home game of the season before the match starts we have the local minister read out the names of all those that have passed during the season. Seems to work well that way. The away team can also add their fans to be read out too!
 

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And now there's gonna be a minutes applause for some random guy in australia. Wonderful.
 

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Fuck's sake...

Not even in the same timezone, man
 

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We had a minutes applause in the 8th minute of the last game of the season against Wolves in 2012 to celebrate 8 years in the Premier League. Needless to say Wolves scored right in the middle of it. Looking back at it now, we probably deserved that for having a minutes applause for such a ridiculous reason.
 

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Yeah brilliant letter fair play to him.
 
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Even only reading that and no prior knowledge of it, someone should be losing their job over that.
 

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Our game with Cardiff brought forward to 12pm.
 

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Chinese siblings eyeing up a 75% share bid for Reading, they were both part of the failed bid for Hull in the Summer.

Doesn't sound too good to me. Also if true, would be four owners in 4.5 years.. like a revolving door.
 

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Chinese siblings eyeing up a 75% share bid for Reading, they were both part of the failed bid for Hull in the Summer.

Doesn't sound too good to me. Also if true, would be four owners in 4.5 years.. like a revolving door.

The Thais' tried to sell the club a year ago, failed and then one by one they've started to drop out bar Tiger. He has been the only person putting money into the club since then.
 

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Seems like something will happen soon anyway. The guy who organised the deal for the Thai's to buy the club back in 2014 became listed as a director last Thursday.

Optimistic side says that it'll give us a decent January transfer budget to push on (ala Zingarevich in 2012), but we've been stung at least once in recent times, and are still a club in a very fragile place financially. I just don't see why they would want the club for any reason other than moving money out of China.
 

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