2010–11 Brentford F.C. season

Brentford
2010–11 season
Chairman	Greg Dyke
Manager	Andy Scott; (until 3 February 2011); Nicky Forster; (from 3 February 2011)
Stadium	Griffin Park
League One	11th
FA Cup	First round
Football League Cup	Fourth round
Football League Trophy	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Alexander,; MacDonald (9); All: Alexander (12)
Average home league attendance	5,172
	← 2009–10 2011–12 →

During the 2010–11 English football season, Brentford competed in Football League One. The mid-table season was memorable for runs to the final of the Football League Trophy and the fourth round of the League Cup.

Season summary

Homegrown central defender Karleigh Osborne made a career-high 51 appearances during the season.^[1]

After an impressive 9th-place finish at the end of the Brentford's first season in League One since 2006–07,^[2] manager Andy Scott signed almost an entirely new team.^[3] Released were centre back Mark Phillips and forward Steve Kabba and six players were transferred out during the off-season,^[4]^[5] with the most notable departures being left back Ryan Dickson to Championship club Southampton and captain Alan Bennett to League Two Wycombe Wanderers.^[6]^[7] 11 players were transferred in before the end of the summer transfer window, including two goalkeepers (Richard Lee, Simon Royce), four defenders (Pim Balkestein, David McCracken, Michael Spillane, Craig Woodman), two midfielders (Nicky Adams, Toumani Diagouraga) and forwards Gary Alexander and Kirk Hudson,^[8] with Nicky Forster returning to Griffin Park for the first time since his departure in 1997.^[9] Huddersfield Town forward Robbie Simpson was signed on a season-long loan.^[10]

Brentford opened the league season with a run of just two wins from the opening 11 matches, which left the club bottom of the table by late September 2010.^[11] However, some cheer was had in the League Cup,^[11] with the Bees progressing to the fourth round to equal the club record for its furthest progression in the competition.^[12] After seeing off League Two club Cheltenham Town in the first round, the Bees beat Championship side Hull City 2–1 at Griffin Park in the second round,^[11] clinching victory with an 88th-minute diving header from Marcus Bean.^[13] The victory set up a third round tie at with Premier League club Everton at Griffin Park.^[11] Gary Alexander cancelled out Séamus Coleman's early goal and the teams were locked together until full-time and through the extra time period.^[14] Goalkeeper Richard Lee was Brentford's hero in the penalty shootout, helping the club win the first of the four shootouts it would compete in during the season.^[15] The Bees took Premier League club Birmingham City to a shootout at St Andrew's in the fourth round after a 1–1 draw, but were knocked out.^[16]

Brentford recovered its form in League One between 2 October 2010 and 1 January 2011, winning 8 and losing just two matches of an 11-match spell,^[11] but manager Andy Scott was moved to complain to the press of the "negativity" surrounding the club, despite the run being achieved with players missing through injury and including a club-record equalling five consecutive away league wins.^[17]^[18] By early January the Bees had also progressed to the Southern Area finals of the Football League Trophy, but a draw in the first leg versus Exeter City was one of only two draws secured during an 8-match winless run which kicked off 2011.^[11] A 4–1 away defeat to bottom-place club Dagenham & Redbridge on 1 February led to calls from the Brentford supporters for the removal of Andy Scott as manager.^[19] Two days after the match, Scott and assistant manager Terry Bullivant were sacked.^[20] Captain Kevin O'Connor remarked that the blame led with the players, for "making far too many individual mistakes".^[20]

Forward Nicky Forster was named as caretaker manager on 3 February 2011 and Brentford owner Matthew Benham brought in Mark Warburton as first team coach.^[20]^[21] An unbeaten run in his first six matches in all competitions led to Forster being named as manager until the end of the season.^[22] The run included a 2–1 away victory over Exeter City in the Football League Trophy Southern Area final second leg, which set up a Wembley final versus Carlisle United on 3 April.^[23] The Bees won four and lost three of the seven league matches preceding the final, which included a 2–1 victory over Carlisle United at Griffin Park.^[11] Brentford's third Football League Trophy final appearance ended with a 1–0 defeat, in which the Bees' "domination failed to yield a single shot on target" and midfielder Toumani Diagouraga was sent off for two bookable offences.^[24] In the aftermath of the defeat, Brentford meandered through the remainder of the league season to finish in 11th place.^[11]

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
9	Rochdale	46	18	14	14	63	55	+8	68
10	Colchester United	46	16	14	16	57	63	−6	62
11	Brentford	46	17	10	19	55	62	−7	61
12	Carlisle United	46	16	11	19	60	62	−2	59
13	Charlton Athletic	46	15	14	17	62	66	−4	59

Updated to match(es) played on 2 May 2011. Source: BBC
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Pre-season

14 July 2010 Kevin O'Connor Testimonial	Brentford	0–5	Fulham	Griffin Park
20:00		Report	Baird 14' Elm 24' Duff 29' Johnson 49' Davies 67'	Attendance: 4136

17 July 2010	Tonbridge Angels	0–0	Brentford	Longmead Stadium
15:00		Report		Attendance: 486

20 July 2010	Brentford	1–1	Wycombe Wanderers	Griffin Park
20:00	Betsy	Report	Hunt	Attendance: 984

22 July 2010	Staines Town	3–2	Brentford	Wheatsheaf Park
19:30	Butler Ifura Griffiths	Report	Spillane Saunders	Attendance: 694

27 July 2010	Woking	0–4	Brentford	Kingfield Stadium
19:45		Report	Forster Spillane Weston Weston	Attendance: 658

28 July 2010	Hendon	0–1	Brentford	Vale Farm
19:45		Report	Bush

30 July 2010	Brentford	1–1	Crystal Palace	Griffin Park
20:00	Forster	Report	Cagogan	Attendance: 2166

League One

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
Ground	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	D	L	W	D	D	L	L	W	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	W	W	W	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	W	D	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	W	W	W	L	L	W	D	D	L	D
Position	21	23	22	24	22	19	19	22	24	23	24	21	19	15	14	18	13	13	10	9	10	13	13	12	16	17	19	14	15	15	14	14	14	16	14	15	11	10	9	11	11	10	10	10	10	11

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
46	17	10	19	55	62	−7	61	9	5	9	24	28	−4	8	5	10	31	34	−3

League position graph

Matches

7 August 2010 1	Carlisle United	2–0	Brentford	Brunton Park
15:00	Madine 22' Harte 45+1' (pen.)	Report		Attendance: 5913 Referee: A. Haynes

14 August 2010 2	Brentford	1–2	Walsall	Griffin Park
15:00	Alexander 44' Bean 90'	Report	Nicholls 12' Gray 54' Brain 29'	Attendance: 4544 Referee: G. Sutton

21 August 2010 3	Swindon Town	1–1	Brentford	The County Ground
15:00	Prutton 40' Prutton 24' Douglas 43'	Report	MacDonald 8'	Attendance: 8132 Referee: S. Rushton

28 August 2010 4	Brentford	1–3	Rochdale	Griffin Park
15:00	Simpson 27' Simpson 79'	Report	Elding 11' O'Grady 60' Kennedy 62' Kennedy 18' Holness 51' Kennedy 62'	Attendance: 4636 Referee: S. Hooper

5 September 2010 5	Brentford	1–0	Sheffield Wednesday	Griffin Park
12:00	MacDonald 41'	Report	Purse 79'	Attendance: 5396 Referee: G. Hegley

11 September 2010 6	Bristol Rovers	0–0	Brentford	Memorial Stadium
15:00	Campbell 30' Lines 38' Sawyer 60' Sawyer 70'	Report	Osborne 19'	Attendance: 5609 Referee: S. Mathieson

18 September 2010 7	Brentford	0–0	Hartlepool United	Griffin Park
15:00		Report	Haslam 90'	Attendance: 4710 Referee: K. Wright

24 September 2010 8	Leyton Orient	1–0	Brentford	Brisbane Road
19:45	McGleish 25' Omozusi 13' Spring 45+2' Dawson 51'	Report	Spillane 51'	Attendance: 4485 Referee: G. Scott

28 September 2010 9	Brighton & Hove Albion	1–0	Brentford	Withdean Stadium
19:45	LuaLua 78' El-Abd 63'	Report	Bean 19' Osborne 80'	Attendance: 6740 Referee: G. Ward

2 October 2010 10	Brentford	2–1	Charlton Athletic	Griffin Park
15:00	Alexander 13' Diagouraga 31' Spillane 83'	Report	Wagstaff 74'	Attendance: 6342 Referee: A. Penn

9 October 2010 11	Brentford	1–3	Oldham Athletic	Griffin Park
15:00	Weston 4' Legge 64'	Report	Furman 14' Taylor 46' Stephens pen.' (65) Alessandra 54' Lee 59' Taylor 61' Evina 78' Tounkara 83'	Attendance: 5339 Referee: Keith Stroud

16 October 2010 12	Tranmere Rovers	0–3	Brentford	Prenton Park
15:00	Darville 18'	Report	O'Connor pen' (7) O'Connor 67' Bean 81' MacDonald 67' Alexander 77'	Attendance: 4929 Referee: D. Webb

23 October 2010 13	Brentford	2–1	Peterborough United	Griffin Park
15:00	Woodman 39' Alexander 58' Spillane 85'	Report	McCann pen.' (19) Mackail-Smith 85' Zakuani 86'	Attendance: 6543 Referee: D. Phillips

30 October 2010 14	Exeter City	2–4	Brentford	St James Park
15:00	Cureton 28', 58' Duffy 89'	Report	Legge 4' Alexander 62' Wood 64' MacDonald 72' Bean 48' Spillane 56' Hamer 67'	Attendance: 5510 Referee: Darren Deadman

2 November 2010 15	Brentford	1–1	Bournemouth	Griffin Park
19:45	Grabban pen.' (68) Legge 44'	Report	Hollands 64' Bradbury 31' Wiggins 90'	Attendance: 5278 Referee: A. Woolmer

13 November 2010 16	Brentford	0–2	Milton Keynes Dons	Griffin Park
15:00	Woodman 27' Osborne 62' Balkestein 86' Balkestein 87'	Report	Doumbé 57' Balanta 59' Leven 58' Guy 85'	Attendance: 4789 Referee: F. Graham

20 November 2010 17	Plymouth Argyle	1–2	Brentford	Home Park
15:00	Fallon 38'	Report	Bean 26' MacDonald 67'	Attendance: 6939 Referee: P. Gibbs

23 November 2010 18	Colchester United	0–2	Brentford	Colchester Community Stadium
19:45		Report	Alexander 26' MacDonald 90' Woodman 83'	Attendance: 3172 Referee: D. Foster

4 December 2010 Postponed	Brentford	P – P	Notts County	Griffin Park
19:45

11 December 2010 19	Southampton	0–2	Brentford	St Mary's Stadium
15:00	Seaborne 16' Hammond 50'	Report	Alexander 13' MacDonald 28' Diagouraga 67'	Attendance: 19641 Referee: O. Langford

18 December 2010 Postponed	Brentford	P – P	Huddersfield Town	Griffin Park
15:00

26 December 2010 Postponed	Yeovil Town	P – P	Brentford	Huish Park
15:00

28 December 2010 Postponed	Brentford	P – P	Tranmere Rovers	Griffin Park
15:00

1 January 2011 20	Brentford	2–1	Dagenham & Redbridge	Griffin Park
15:00	Simpson 10' Alexander 87' Wood 13'	Report	Vincelot 34' Antwi 31'	Attendance: 5405 Referee: G. Horwood

3 January 2011 21	Bournemouth	3–1	Brentford	Dean Court
19:45	Feeney 11' Bartley 70' Fletcher 88' Smith 67'	Report	Bradbury 65' (o.g.)	Attendance: 6877 Referee: J. Linington

8 January 2011 22	Yeovil Town	2–0	Brentford	Huish Park
15:00	Huntington 32' A.Williams 59' S.Williams 70' Smith 90'	Report	Woodman 14' Forster 70' Wright 79'	Attendance: 3688 Referee: A. Woolmer

11 January 2011 23	Peterborough United	2–1	Brentford	London Road
19:45	McCann 5' (pen.) Obika 90+3'	Report	Laird 74' Laird 30' Osborne 88'	Attendance: 4667 Referee: R. Madley

14 January 2011 24	Brentford	1–1	Exeter City	Griffin Park
19:45	Forster 90+4'	Report	O'Flynn 2' Duffy 32' Nardiello 63' Noble 90+3'	Attendance: 4767 Referee: R. East

22 January 2011 25	Oldham Athletic	2–1	Brentford	Boundary Park
15:00	Tounkara 40' Morais 70'	Report	Simpson 82'	Attendance: 3759 Referee: C. Sarginson

29 January 2011 26	Brentford	1–2	Yeovil Town	Griffin Park
15:00	MacDonald 39' Alexander 42' Spillane 64' Woodman 70' Lee 81'	Report	Johnson 22' Wotton 83' Johnson 23' Kalala 76' Wooton 78'	Attendance: 4753 Referee: P. Quinn

1 February 2011 27	Dagenham & Redbridge	4–1	Brentford	Victoria Road
19:45	Nurse 19', 66' Osborne 56' (o.g.) Vincelot 67'	Report	MacDonald 90+4'	Attendance: 1907 Referee: S. Hooper

5 February 2011 28	Brentford	2–0	Plymouth Argyle	Griffin Park
15:00	Weston 35', 56' Osborne 37'	Report	Arnason 83'	Attendance: 5613 Referee: D. Drysdale

12 February 2011 29	Milton Keynes Dons	1–1	Brentford	Stadium:mk
15:00	Marsh-Brown 48'	Report	Grabban 50' Bean 27' Saunders 48' Alexander 58'	Attendance: 8636 Referee: D. Coote

22 February 2011 30	Brentford	2–1	Tranmere Rovers	Griffin Park
19:45	MacDonald 2' Legge 90+1' Simpson 90'	Report	Labadie 65' Labadie 43' Akins 62' Kay 84'	Attendance: 4192 Referee: P. Miller

26 February 2011 31	Brentford	1–0	Bristol Rovers	Griffin Park
15:00	Alexander pen.20'	Report	Lines 15' Logan 18' Sawyer 37'	Attendance: 5944 Referee: C. Pawson

1 March 2011 32	Brentford	1–1	Notts County	Griffin Park
19:45	Osborne 74' Bean 55' Byrne 80'	Report	Westcarr 44' Harley 19' Harley 24' Regan 28' Edwards 75' Gobern 87' Edwards 90' Pearce 90+3'	Attendance: 3795 Referee: I. Williamson

5 March 2011 33	Hartlepool United	3–0	Brentford	Victoria Park
15:00	Monkhouse 36' Monkhouse 57' Liddle 83' Murray 51' Brown 90+2'	Report	Reed 61' Legge 76'	Attendance: 2936 Referee: K. Evans

8 March 2011 34	Brentford	0–1	Brighton & Hove Albion	Griffin Park
19:45	Legge 40' Reed 73'	Report	Osborne 74' (o.g.) Bridcutt 43' Elphick 66' Dicker 90+3'	Attendance: 5694 Referee: S. Hooper

12 March 2011 35	Charlton Athletic	0–1	Brentford	The Valley
15:00	Dailly 45'	Report	Legge 89' Weston 59'	Attendance: 14985 Referee: M. Russell

15 March 2011 36	Brentford	0–1	Huddersfield Town	Griffin Park
19:45		Report	Clarke 90+2'	Attendance: 4402 Referee: D. Whitestone

19 March 2011 37	Brentford	2–1	Leyton Orient	Griffin Park
15:00	Bean 6' Alexander 24'	Report	McGleish 55'	Attendance: 6368 Referee: D. Phillips

25 March 2011 38	Brentford	2–1	Carlisle United	Griffin Park
19:45	Schlupp 74', 83' Legge 85'	Report	Michalík 88' Arter 38'	Attendance: 4365 Referee: R. East

29 March 2011 39	Sheffield Wednesday	1–3	Brentford	Hillsborough
19:45	Jones 12' Osbourne 84'	Report	Spillane 3' Schlupp 18', 82'	Attendance: 14797 Referee: A. Haines

9 April 2011 40	Brentford	0–1	Swindon Town	Griffin Park
15:00	Legge 71'	Report	Andrew 80' Jean-François 61' Andrew 80'	Attendance: 4593 Referee: R. Madley

12 April 2011 41	Walsall	3–2	Brentford	Bescot Stadium
19:45	Macken 40', 64' Cook 57'	Report	Balkestein 30' Grabban 62'	Attendance: 3154 Referee: C. Boyeson

16 April 2011 42	Rochdale	0–1	Brentford	Spotland Stadium
15:00	Jones 64'	Report	Simpson 79'	Attendance: 2963 Referee: D. Drysdale

22 April 2011 43	Brentford	1–1	Colchester United	Griffin Park
15:00	Saunders 74' Reed 88'	Report	Henderson 15' Izzet 72' Wilson 88'	Attendance: 4480 Referee: G. Horwood

25 April 2011 44	Notts County	1–1	Brentford	Meadow Lane
15:00	Hughes 82' (pen.) Chilvers 45+1' Bishop 51' Craig Westcarr 65'	Report	Schlupp 90+5' Bean 51' Simpson 61' O'Connor 75' Saunders 75' Moore 82' Wood 90+5'	Attendance: 6879 Referee: D. Foster

30 April 2011 45	Brentford	0–3	Southampton	Griffin Park
15:00		Report	Lallana 16' Connolly 30' Gobern 90+1' Fonte 81'	Attendance: 7015 Referee: T. Kettle

7 May 2011 46	Huddersfield Town	4–4	Brentford	Kirkless Stadium
15:00	Ward 14', 15' Novak 52' Afobe 63' Naysmith 80'	Report	Schlupp 45+1', 50' Grabban 58', 68' Grabban 37' Neilson 58'	Attendance: 13977 Referee: A. Bates

FA Cup

6 November 2010 1st Round	Brentford	1–1	Aldershot Town	Griffin Park
15:00	MacDonald 20' Weston 61' Diagouraga 75'	Report	Small 13'	Attendance: 4090 Referee: R. Booth

16 November 2010 1st Round Replay	Aldershot Town	1–0	Brentford	Recreation Ground
19:45	Small 8' Harding 73'	Report	Legge 58'	Attendance: 3627 Referee: S. Tanner

Football League Cup

10 August 2010 1st Round	Brentford	2–1	Cheltenham Town	Griffin Park
19:45	Simpson 31' Woodman 35'	Report	Jeffers 61'	Attendance: 2049 Referee: P. Miller

24 August 2010 2nd Round	Brentford	2–1	Hull City	Griffin Park
19:45	Simpson 20' Bean 88' Bean 69'	Report	Cullen 6' Cullen 40' Devitt 58'	Attendance: 3335 Referee: I. Williamson

21 September 2010 3rd Round	Brentford	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	Everton	Griffin Park
19:45	Alexander 41'	Report	Coleman 9' Coleman 59' Fellaini 84'	Attendance: 8960 Referee: Oliver
	Penalties
	Weston Forster Spillane MacDonald		Baines Neville Arteta Beckford Jagielka

26 October 2010 4th Round	Birmingham City	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	Brentford	St Andrew's
19:45	Phillips 90+2'	Report	Wood 68' MacDonald 86' Lee 89' Osborne 92'	Attendance: 15166 (3123 Brentford Fans) Referee: D. Whitestone
	Penalties
	Phillips Gardner Dann Bowyer Carr		O'Connor Hunt Spillane Grabban Woodman

Football League Trophy

31 August 2010 1st Round	Stevenage	0–1	Brentford	Broadhall Way
19:45		Report	Simpson 29'	Attendance: 1916 Referee: O. Langford

5 October 2010 2nd Round	Leyton Orient	0–0 (4–5 p)	Brentford	Brisbane Road
19:15	Omozusi 45'	Report	Wood 73'	Attendance: 1152 Referee: P. Crossley
	Penalties
	Dawson Omozusi Chorley Daniels Spring		Forster Hunt Saunders Alexander Woodman

9 November 2010 Southern QF	Swindon Town	1–1 (2–4 p)	Brentford	The County Ground
19:00	Austin 12'	Report	Simpson 38' Legge 65'	Attendance: 3469 Referee: J. Moss
	Penalties
	Austin Ball Timlin Rose		O'Connor MacDonald Spillane Woodman Simpson

14 December 2010 Southern SF	Brentford	0–0 (3–1 p)	Charlton Athletic	Griffin Park
	Wright 3' Bean 54' O'Connor 58'	Report	Abbott 32'	Attendance: 2783 Referee: K. Hill
	Penalties
	O'Connor MacDonald Spillane Alexander		Jackson Racon Reid Doherty

17 January 2011 Southern Final (1st leg)	Brentford	1–1	Exeter City	Griffin Park
	Alexander 64' Alexander 20' Diagouraga 84'	Report	Cureton 39'	Attendance: 3093 Referee: M. Haywood

7 February 2011 Southern Final (2nd leg)	Exeter City	1–2	Brentford	St James Park
	Nardiello 90+5' Noble 73'	Report	Saunders 20' Alexander 26' Alexander 76' Bignall 87'	Attendance: 5322 Referee: K. Wright

3 April 2011 Final	Brentford	0–1	Carlisle United	Wembley
	Reed 19' Legge 23' Diagouraga 84' Diagouraga 86'	Report	Murphy 12' Michalík 57' Robson 76'	Attendance: 40476 Referee: G. Salisbury

Playing squad

Players' ages are as of the opening day of the 2010–11 season.

No	Position	Name	Date of birth (age)	Signed from	Signed in	Notes
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Richard Lee	(1982-10-05)5 October 1982 (aged 27)	Watford	2010
21	GK	Simon Royce	(1971-09-09)9 September 1971 (aged 38)	Gillingham	2010
31	GK	Simon Moore	(1990-05-19)19 May 1990 (aged 20)	Farnborough	2009	Loaned to Basingstoke Town
Defenders
3	DF	Craig Woodman	(1982-12-22)22 December 1982 (aged 27)	Wycombe Wanderers	2010
5	DF	David McCracken	(1981-10-16)16 October 1981 (aged 28)	Milton Keynes Dons	2010	Loaned to Bristol Rovers
6	DF	Pim Balkestein	(1987-04-29)29 April 1987 (aged 23)	Ipswich Town	2010
12	DF	Michael Spillane	(1989-03-23)23 March 1989 (aged 21)	Norwich City	2010
17	DF	Ryan Blake	(1991-12-08)8 December 1991 (aged 18)	Youth	2009	Loaned to Woking & Ebbsfleet United
22	DF	Karleigh Osborne	(1988-03-19)19 March 1988 (aged 22)	Youth	2004
24	DF	Stephen Wright	(1980-02-08)8 February 1980 (aged 30)	Unattached	2010
25	DF	Chris Bush	(1992-06-12)12 June 1992 (aged 18)	Youth	2010	Loaned to Woking, AFC Wimbledon and Thurrock
27	DF	Robbie Neilson	(1980-06-19)19 June 1980 (aged 30)	Leicester City	2011	On loan from Leicester City
32	DF	Leon Legge	(1985-07-01)1 July 1985 (aged 25)	Tonbridge Angels	2009
33	DF	Nathan Byrne	(1992-06-05)5 June 1992 (aged 18)	Tottenham Hotspur	2011	On loan from Tottenham Hotspur
Midfielders
2	MF	Kevin O'Connor (c)	(1982-02-24)24 February 1982 (aged 28)	Youth	2000
4	MF	Marcus Bean	(1984-11-02)2 November 1984 (aged 25)	Blackpool	2008
7	MF	Sam Saunders	(1983-08-29)29 August 1983 (aged 26)	Dagenham & Redbridge	2009
11	MF	Myles Weston	(1988-03-12)12 March 1988 (aged 22)	Notts County	2009
13	MF	David Hunt	(1982-09-10)10 September 1982 (aged 27)	Shrewsbury Town	2009	Loaned to Crawley Town
16	MF	Sam Wood	(1986-08-09)9 August 1986 (aged 23)	Bromley	2008
20	MF	Toumani Diagouraga	(1987-06-20)20 June 1987 (aged 23)	Peterborough United	2010
26	MF	Adam Reed	(1991-05-08)8 May 1991 (aged 19)	Sunderland	2011	On loan from Sunderland
34	MF	Jake Reeves	(1993-05-30)30 May 1993 (aged 17)	Youth	2011	Loaned to St Albans City
36	MF	Charlie Adams	(1993-05-30)30 May 1993 (aged 17)	Youth	2011
37	MF	Manny Oyeleke	(1992-12-24)24 December 1992 (aged 17)	Youth	2011
Forwards
8	FW	Nicky Forster	(1973-09-08)8 September 1973 (aged 36)	Brighton & Hove Albion	2010	Manager
10	FW	Charlie MacDonald	(1981-02-13)13 February 1981 (aged 29)	Southend United	2008
14	FW	Kirk Hudson	(1986-12-12)12 December 1986 (aged 23)	Aldershot Town	2010	Loaned to AFC Wimbledon
19	FW	Lewis Grabban	(1988-01-12)12 January 1988 (aged 22)	Millwall	2009	Loaned from Millwall before transferring permanently
23	FW	Robbie Simpson	(1985-03-15)15 March 1985 (aged 25)	Huddersfield Town	2010	On loan from Huddersfield Town
29	FW	Gary Alexander	(1979-08-15)15 August 1979 (aged 30)	Millwall	2010
30	FW	Jeffrey Schlupp	(1992-12-23)23 December 1992 (aged 17)	Leicester City	2011	On loan from Leicester City
35	FW	Luke Hacker	(1993-06-30)30 June 1993 (aged 17)	Youth	2011
Players who left the club mid-season
9	FW	Carl Cort	(1977-11-01)1 November 1977 (aged 32)	Norwich City	2009	Retired
18	MF	Nicky Adams	(1986-10-16)16 October 1986 (aged 23)	Leicester City	2010	Loaned to Rochdale, transferred to Rochdale
18	FW	Nicholas Bignall	(1990-07-11)11 July 1990 (aged 20)	Reading	2011	Returned to Reading after loan
27	MF	Marc Laird	(1986-01-23)23 January 1986 (aged 24)	Millwall	2011	Returned to Millwall after loan
27	FW	Rowan Vine	(1982-09-21)21 September 1982 (aged 27)	Queens Park Rangers	2010	Returned to Queens Park Rangers after loan
28	MF	Owain Tudur Jones	(1984-10-15)15 October 1984 (aged 25)	Norwich City	2011	Returned to Norwich City after loan
41	GK	Trevor Carson	(1988-03-05)5 March 1988 (aged 22)	Sunderland	2011	Returned to Sunderland after loan
41	GK	Alex McCarthy	(1989-12-03)3 December 1989 (aged 20)	Reading	2010	Returned to Reading after loan
51	GK	Ben Hamer	(1987-11-20)20 November 1987 (aged 22)	Reading	2010	Returned to Reading after loan

Source: Soccerbase

Coaching staff

Andy Scott (7 August 2010 – 3 February 2011)

Name	Role
Andy Scott	Manager
Terry Bullivant	Assistant Manager
Simon Royce	Goalkeeping Coach

Nicky Forster (3 February – 7 May 2011)

Name	Role
Nicky Forster	Manager
Mark Warburton	First Team Coach
Simon Royce	Goalkeeping Coach

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Substitute appearances in brackets.

No	Pos	Nat	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		FL Trophy		Total
No	Pos	Nat	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Richard Lee	22	0	2	0	3	0	6	0	33	0
2	MF		Kevin O'Connor	39 (2)	2	1 (1)	0	4	0	5 (1)	0	49 (4)	2
3	DF		Craig Woodman	40 (1)	1	2	0	4	1	7	0	53 (1)	2
4	MF		Marcus Bean	32 (5)	3	1	0	3 (1)	1	4 (1)	0	40 (7)	4
5	DF		David McCracken	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2 (1)	0
6	DF		Pim Balkestein	17 (3)	1	1	0	2	0	4	0	24 (3)	1
7	MF		Sam Saunders	18 (3)	2	1	0	0 (1)	0	3 (1)	1	22 (5)	3
8	FW		Nicky Forster	6 (12)	1	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	4	0	12 (14)	1
9	FW		Carl Cort	0 (3)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (4)	0
10	FW		Charlie MacDonald	28 (2)	9	2	1	3 (1)	0	2 (1)	0	35 (4)	10
11	MF		Myles Weston	33 (9)	3	1 (1)	0	3	0	4 (1)	0	41 (11)	3
12	DF		Michael Spillane	18 (6)	1	1	0	2	0	3 (1)	0	24 (7)	1
13	MF		David Hunt	0 (3)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (5)	0
14	FW		Kirk Hudson	0 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (4)	0
16	MF		Sam Wood	13 (7)	1	1	0	2	1	2 (2)	0	18 (9)	2
18	MF		Nicky Adams	3 (4)	0	—		1	0	2	0	6 (4)	0
19	FW		Lewis Grabban	13 (9)	5	—		0 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	13 (12)	5
20	MF		Toumani Diagouraga	32	1	2	0	2	0	6 (1)	0	42 (1)	1
21	GK		Simon Royce	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0
22	DF		Karleigh Osborne	41 (1)	1	1	0	4	0	4	0	50 (1)	1
24	DF		Stephen Wright	9 (2)	0	2	0	—		1	0	12 (2)	0
29	FW		Gary Alexander	37 (1)	9	0	0	4	1	5	2	46 (1)	12
31	GK		Simon Moore	9 (1)	0	—		1	0	1	0	11 (1)	0
32	DF		Leon Legge	27 (3)	3	1	0	3	0	6	0	37 (3)	3
34	MF		Jake Reeves	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0
35	FW		Luke Hacker	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0
Players loaned in during the season
18	MF		Nicholas Bignall	1 (5)	0	—		—		0 (1)	0	1 (6)	0
23	FW		Robbie Simpson	11 (16)	4	2	0	2 (1)	2	3 (1)	2	18 (18)	8
26	MF		Adam Reed	8 (3)	0	—		—		1	0	9 (3)	0
27	MF		Marc Laird	4	1	—		—		1	0	5	1
27	DF		Robbie Neilson	15	0	—		—		1	0	16	0
28	MF		Owain Tudur Jones	4 (2)	0	—		—		0	0	4 (2)	0
30	FW		Jeffrey Schlupp	6 (3)	6	—		—		1	0	7 (3)	6
33	DF		Nathan Byrne	4 (7)	0	—		—		0	0	4 (7)	0
41	GK		Trevor Carson	1	0	—		—		0	0	1	0
41	GK		Alex McCarthy	3	0	—		—		—		3	0
51	GK		Ben Hamer	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0

Players listed in italics left the club mid-season.
Source: Soccerbase

Goalscorers

No	Pos	Player	FL1	FAC	FLC	FLT	Total
29	FW	Gary Alexander	9	0	1	2	12
10	FW	Charlie MacDonald	9	1	0	0	10
23	FW	Robbie Simpson	4	0	2	2	8
30	FW	Jeffrey Schlupp	6	—	—	0	6
19	FW	Lewis Grabban	5	—	0	0	5
4	MF	Marcus Bean	3	0	1	0	4
32	DF	Leon Legge	3	0	0	0	3
11	MF	Myles Weston	3	0	0	0	3
7	MF	Sam Saunders	2	0	0	1	3
2	MF	Kevin O'Connor	2	0	0	0	2
16	MF	Sam Wood	1	0	1	0	2
3	DF	Craig Woodman	1	0	1	0	2
27	MF	Marc Laird	1	—	—	0	1
6	DF	Pim Balkestein	1	0	0	0	1
20	MF	Toumani Diagouraga	1	0	0	0	1
8	FW	Nicky Forster	1	0	0	0	1
22	DF	Karleigh Osborne	1	0	0	0	1
12	DF	Michael Spillane	1	0	0	0	1
Total			55	1	6	5	67

Players listed in italics left the club mid-season.
Source: Soccerbase

Discipline

No	Pos	Nat	Player	FL1		FAC		FLC		FLT		Total		Pts
No	Pos	Nat	Player											Pts
4	MF		Marcus Bean	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	8	0	8
32	DF		Leon Legge	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	8	0	8
20	MF		Toumani Diagouraga	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	5	1	8
22	DF		Karleigh Osborne	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	0	6
12	DF		Michael Spillane	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	5
3	DF		Craig Woodman	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	5
29	FW		Gary Alexander	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	0	5
6	DF		Pim Balkestein	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4
1	GK		Richard Lee	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	4
26	MF		Adam Reed	2	0	—		—		1	0	3	0	3
16	MF		Sam Wood	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	3
7	MF		Sam Saunders	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
23	FW		Robbie Simpson	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
24	DF		Stephen Wright	1	0	0	0	—		1	0	2	0	2
10	FW		Charlie MacDonald	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2
2	MF		Kevin O'Connor	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	2
11	MF		Myles Weston	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
33	DF		Nathan Byrne	1	0	—		—		0	0	1	0	1
27	MF		Marc Laird	1	0	—		—		0	0	1	0	1
27	DF		Robbie Neilson	1	0	—		—		0	0	1	0	1
19	FW		Lewis Grabban	1	0	—		0	0	0	0	1	0	1
31	GK		Simon Moore	1	0	—		0	0	0	0	1	0	1
8	FW		Nicky Forster	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
51	GK		Ben Hamer	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
18	MF		Nicholas Bignall	0	0	—		—		1	0	1	0	1
Total				51	2	3	0	4	0	12	1	70	3	82

Players listed in italics left the club mid-season.
Source: ESPN FC

Management

Name	Nat	From	To	Record All Comps					Record League
Name	Nat	From	To	P	W	D	L	W %	P	W	D	L	W %
Andy Scott		11 August 2012	19 May 2013	38	16	7	15	042.11	27	9	5	13	033.33
Nicky Forster		3 February 2011	7 May 2011	21	9	5	7	042.86	19	8	5	6	042.11

Summary

Games played	59 (46 League One, 2 FA Cup, 4 League Cup, 7 Football League Trophy)
Games won	21 (17 League One, 0 FA Cup, 2 League Cup, 2 Football League Trophy)
Games drawn	17 (10 League One, 1 FA Cup, 2 League Cup, 4 Football League Trophy)
Games lost	21 (19 League One, 1 FA Cup, 0 League Cup, 1 Football League Trophy)
Goals scored	67 (55 League One, 1 FA Cup, 6 League Cup, 5 Football League Trophy)
Goals conceded	72 (62 League One, 2 FA Cup, 4 League Cup, 4 Football League Trophy)
Clean sheets	13 (10 League One, 0 FA Cup, 0 League Cup, 3 Football League Trophy)
Biggest league win	3–0 versus Tranmere Rovers, 16 October 2010
Worst league defeat	3–0 on two occasions
Most appearances	53, Kevin O'Connor (41 League One, 2 FA Cup, 4 League Cup, 6 Football League Trophy)
Top scorer (league)	9, Gary Alexander, Charlie MacDonald
Top scorer (all competitions)	12, Gary Alexander

Transfers & loans

Players transferred in
Date	Pos.	Name	Previous Club	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2010	FW	Nicky Forster	Brighton & Hove Albion	Free	^[9]
1 July 2010	FW	Kirk Hudson	Aldershot Town	Undisclosed	^[25]
1 July 2010	GK	Richard Lee	Watford	Free	^[26]
1 July 2010	GK	Simon Royce	Gillingham	Free	^[27]
1 July 2010	DF	Craig Woodman	Wycombe Wanderers	Undisclosed	^[28]
2 July 2010	DF	Michael Spillane	Norwich City	Undisclosed	^[29]
5 July 2010	DF	David McCracken	Milton Keynes Dons	Undisclosed	^[30]
16 July 2010	MF	Toumani Diagouraga	Peterborough United	Undisclosed	^[31]
5 August 2010	FW	Gary Alexander	Millwall	Undisclosed	^[32]
5 August 2010	DF	Pim Balkestein	Ipswich Town	Undisclosed	^[33]
19 August 2010	MF	Nicky Adams	Leicester City	Undisclosed	^[34]
29 October 2010	DF	Stephen Wright	Unattached	Free	^[35]
25 January 2011	FW	Lewis Grabban	Millwall	Free	^[36]
Players loaned in
Date from	Pos.	Name	From	Date to	Ref.
6 August 2010	FW	Robbie Simpson	Huddersfield Town	End of season	^[10]
12 August 2010	GK	Alex McCarthy	Reading	31 August 2010	^[37]
31 August 2010	GK	Ben Hamer	Reading	5 January 2011	^[38]
8 October 2010	FW	Lewis Grabban	Millwall	8 November 2010	^[39]
25 November 2010	FW	Rowan Vine	Queens Park Rangers	5 January 2011	^[40]
4 January 2011	MF	Marc Laird	Millwall	30 January 2011	^[41]
21 January 2011	MF	Owain Tudur Jones	Norwich City	27 April 2011	^[42]
31 January 2011	FW	Nicholas Bignall	Reading	20 April 2011	^[43]
16 February 2011	DF	Robbie Neilson	Leicester City	End of season	^[44]
21 February 2011	DF	Nathan Byrne	Tottenham Hotspur	End of season	^[45]
21 February 2011	MF	Adam Reed	Sunderland	End of season	^[46]
14 March 2011	FW	Jeffrey Schlupp	Leicester City	End of season	^[47]
24 March 2011	GK	Trevor Carson	Sunderland	20 April 2011	^[48]
24 March 2011	FW	Jonathan Cosgrove	Fulham	n/a	^[49]
Players transferred out
Date	Pos.	Name	Subsequent club	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2010	GK	Nikki Bull	Wycombe Wanderers	Free	^[50]
1 July 2010	DF	Ryan Dickson	Southampton	£125,000	^[6]
1 July 2010	DF	Danny Foster	Wycombe Wanderers	Free	^[51]
1 July 2010	FW	Ben Strevens	Wycombe Wanderers	Free	^[52]
1 July 2010	MF	Cleveland Taylor	St Johnstone	Free	^[53]
23 July 2010	DF	Alan Bennett	Wycombe Wanderers	Free	^[7]
1 January 2011	MF	Nicky Adams	Rochdale	Undisclosed	^[54]
Players loaned out
Date from	Pos.	Name	To	Date to	Ref.
31 August 2010	DF	Chris Bush	Woking	20 September 2010	^[55]
21 September 2010	DF	Chris Bush	AFC Wimbledon	10 January 2011	^[5]
23 September 2010	MF	Pelayo Gomez Pico	St Albans City	24 January 2011	^[56]
1 October 2010	DF	Ryan Blake	Woking	n/a	^[57]
1 October 2010	FW	Kyle Vassell	Woking	n/a	^[57]
9 October 2010	GK	Simon Moore	Basingstoke Town	5 January 2011	^[58]
14 October 2010	MF	Nicky Adams	Rochdale	1 January 2011	^[59]
1 January 2010	FW	Kirk Hudson	AFC Wimbledon	End of season	^[60]
1 January 2010	MF	David Hunt	Crawley Town	End of season	^[61]
10 January 2011	DF	Ryan Blake	Ebbsfleet United	End of season	^[62]
18 January 2011	DF	David McCracken	Bristol Rovers	End of season	^[63]
February 2011	MF	Jake Reeves	St Albans City	n/a	^[64]
February 2011	FW	Kyle Vassell	St Albans City	n/a	^[65]
22 March 2011	DF	Chris Bush	Thurrock	n/a	^[66]
Players released
Date	Pos.	Name	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
24 January 2011	FW	Carl Cort	Tampa Bay Rowdies	10 August 2012	^[67]
22 June 2011	DF	David McCracken	St Johnstone	1 July 2011	^[68]
30 June 2011	DF	Chris Bush	AFC Wimbledon	1 July 2011	^[69]
30 June 2011	MF	David Hunt	Crawley Town	1 July 2011	^[70]
30 June 2011	FW	Lewis Grabban	Rotherham United	4 July 2011	^[71]
30 June 2011	FW	Kyle Vassell	St Albans City	12 October 2011	^[72]
30 June 2011	DF	Stephen Wright	Hartlepool United	2 September 2011	^[70]

Kit

The 2010–11 Brentford kit designs were chosen by the club's supporters and launched on 9 July 2010.^[73]^[74]

Supplier: Puma
Sponsor(s): Hertings (home), Bathwise (away & third)

Home

Away

Third

Source: brentfordfc.co.uk

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