To be pedantic, the newspaper quote's from 1900 - the club were denied promotion to the top division of the Southern league that year due to promotion be decided by the 'Test match' play-off system (sound familiar to anyone?). You may well be right about the nickname's origin as according to Graham Haynes and Geoff Buckingham's 'The Brentford Story 1889 - 1979' ( the club played its first game in November 1889 and may well have been founded in that year and not 188icon_cool.gif they were known as the Bonny Boys in the early 1890s.

Really? The price of a match ticket is more important to you than the cost of a 12,000 mile flight?

I claim my flights back against the company....tickets to a game are only 50% redeemable.

You are correct SR, the pitch will certainly be short for this season.
All of the decisions that have been approved are from plans submitted two years ago and so long before there was a suggestion of Broncos coming. He has been waiting for all the previous planning issues to be resolved before submitting new ones.

It will be interesting to see what he applies for next. I have been told that it will be an extended West stand, new north stand behind the North terrace and changes to the East stand to extend towards the car park and put a decent roof in place for the seats on that side.

You'd probably claim for a duckpond if you could.

Too right I would.