Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast

I've wanted to talk about the Brentford Woman's team for a great while, so it was a thrill and an honor to have Gary Enstone and Richard Merritt in the studio to share their experiences and their passion.  The woman are an exciting and engaging story that is appallingly underappreciated by the larger Brentford community.  

But it is my hope that people will listen to the podcast and head down to Belfont Sport to support the mighty Bees.  This is an important podcast for me, and I can only hope that it starts a conversation about how great we have it with not just one club to be proud of, but also a woman's club that should make us all proud to call ourselves Brentford.

This may well be a promotion season for the Woman - don't miss the chance to learn about and see this team on the rise!

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Martin O'Brien agrees to return to the studio for a discussion of a very satisfying Saturday down at the Gtech.  Southampton seemed determined to gift us goals and we were kind enough to accept.  

An upcoming Cup match against old friends Leyton Orient leads to a trip back to 2014 and 2006, years when we were on the steep rise...and on the steep decline, respectively.  Pivotal matches in their own ways, in Brentford history.  

I suspect they still hate us.

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Despite some headaches from the production crew, which will be dealt with internally at ASFB, we bring you the big Summer Spending Spree podcast!

Martin O'Brien joins Greville Waterman and myself for a discussion of one of the most consequential, good or bad, windows since 2019.  Youth and potential are as ever the motif, while some long-serving members of the Brentford squad have moved on.  Whatever the future holds for this cadre of new additions, it will be exciting/frustrating/inspiring/infuriating all at once.  And isn't that why we love Brentford?

Let me know what you think of our analysis.  And a sincere thanks for listening.

Tim Searls

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The season heats up fast, doesn't it?!?  From the relative calm of a first week win we're suddenly playing three matches in 7 days.  Liverpool and Colchester were lessons for Thomas Frank and warning shots for us all that there's a lot of drama coming in this 'dangerous forth season'.

Apparently Ivan Toney is still at the club...well he was when I typed this - he may be gone by the time I hit 'publish'.  Or we've got the lovable enigma for another 4 months.  It's silly season, as guest Nick Green rightly puts it.

Nick has some great memories of Griffin Park and growing up a Bee, and with Greville Waterman it's a fascinating conversation.

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What a first match.  Palace was a perfect first opponent, and evidence from a small sample size is that...we're okay.

Glenn Houlihan visits the ASFB Towers all the way from Ames, Iowa to look back and to look forward to a difficult match at Liverpool.

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I know it's the 4th time at this level, but I still get lightheaded looking at the schedule and seeing who we play on a regular basis.  Lincoln City wasn't that long ago that it doesn't still feel like I'm in a dream.

It starts again!  The terrifying thrill ride that is being a minnow (but a smart minnow) in this big pond starts Sunday against Crystal Palace.  Surely it's about time we got something from a match against Palace, right?

Greville Waterman joins the pod as we talk about the squad for the 2024/25 season.  A lot of departures and a few additions make this a tightrope walk of a start.  Thanks goodness we have the best manager in the league.  

Thanks sincerely for listening and for all the feedback.

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Football, bloody hell.  

Greville Waterman and I look back at a tumultuous season.  It promised so much in the heat and humidity of Washington DC in July, and in the end we hung on.  16th at Christmas and 16th at the end, Brentford Football Club were never boring but you did watch some of the matches through your fingers.  Admit it.

We look forward as well.  There are big decisions to make and there will be new faces to bring in.  An important off-season to be sure.  

Thank you all for listening and commenting and supporting all the people that have taken part.  If you'd like to be a part of this podcast's glorious forth campaign, please don't hesitate to write to me so I can get you on the schedule.

Let's all take a well-earned break now...see you in August!

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Glenn Houlihan joins me as we look back at Fulham, and specifically...well, you know who we discussed.  And we look ahead to Bournemouth.  

What a season it has been, but I'm proud of who Brentford is and how they've conducted themselves throughout this often insanely challenging year.  Top to bottom, the club has made me proud this season.   Even that one player we discussed so much in the podcast!

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Old friend Lev Riley joins Tim and Greville this week in the ASFB studios for a really fascinating conversation.   Lev tells us of his first trip to the Gtech, with side-trips to The Griffin pub and to the spot of old Griffin Park.  It's (rightly) a bit of a sacred pilgrimage now for a visiting American Bees fan.   The Gtech is great n'all...but I miss the old girl.

It is the 10th year anniversary of promotion out of League One and fifteenth anniversary of our promotion from League Two, so we celebrate what a long, strange trip it's been with some memories from those campaigns.   We look back a bit to the Everton match and look forward to the visit of our own noisy neighbours from Putney.  

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What a season.   The Luton victory says as much about this lost season of such high expectations as any match could.   Now that we are back to a near first team (ok...without Rico, Norgaard, Toney and DaSilva!!) we are rampant against a Luton side that really couldn't afford to be beaten.  

What could have been...

This week Adam Harder and Greville Waterman join me in the ASFB studios.  Adam is a  fascinating and insightful guest that I've been eager for weeks to have on.   He is here to discuss his experience as a Brentford fan, be it a walk down Braemar Road past Griffin Park to The Griffin pub or a Saturday morning pint of Guinness in the Red Lion with the lively crew that has grown there.   We look back at the Luton match, and on to our effectively guaranteed future in the Premier League.  

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