Some quotes from a Brentford forum from when he resigned - sounds like he plays boring long ball football, with no plan B, but he's good at plan A, for a while at least.
After reading these I don't want him:
Much as i like MA i think his tactics were starting to wane a little, the form and lack of ideas in the last 10 or so games was an indication of what was perhaps a lack of nouse.
thanks MA for 2 and a bit years of success, not ultimate success, but we have moved forward as a club from where we were.
Now time for a young ambitious manager with drive and tatical nous
I hope we get a good up and coming new manager again , but one who likes passing ,attacking football a little more
now is the time to move forward and lets find ourselves a manager who beleives that playing good football on the deck will be the way forward
You can say whatever you like about MA, but he has transformed this club since he arrived and really dragged us out of the shit when we looked doomed, and (apart from recent months) has made me proud again to support Brentford. He's layed the foundations for a very good team, some of the disrespectfull comments on here are just terrible when you think where we could of been if he didn't turn up on that day in late March...
He done the best he could with the resources he was given and along the way has given us some proud and memerable moments, we should'nt forget that !
My criteria is always did he leave us in a better position than when he arrived - the answer is yes.
However, the squad of players we are left with is not that hot - nothing coming through
If I was Palace I wouldn't go for him - better in a negative than a positive sense. Made Brentford hard to beat (mostly) but our failure to beat teams at home sums up the problem he had
you can't knock what he's achieved here although it all went a bit pear shaped towards the end.
a reading fan i know said when he first arrived with us that he would only be successful for so long but then the players would get fed up with his constant bawling and things would go downhill from there.maybe thats how it turned out??
Thanks for the memories martin, now p**s off! Thanks for landing us with loads of duff players on long contracts that aint good enough
He has done a great deal for the club in the last two years in terms of media profile and also results. He couldn't get us over the line and many of us didn't enjoy the style of play that much but no way can he be regarded as a failure.
I thought he took some very poor decisions over the critical last few weeks of the season when the pressure was really on, he made some questionable purchases when we were short of cash and I think he has played all his motivational cards. I'm grateful for what he did but was not looking forward to another season of him in charge.
in the end long ball merchants always end where they belong.Cambridge, Bury, Wimbledon
Disappointed but not devastated by any means and probably a good time for Allen and the Bees to part company.
His 'motivational' techniques seem to have run their course and I doubt we would have had success with him under a reduced budget next year.
