Nathan Collins D Brentford b.2001

**seanfhear** · 22/11/2024, 8:20 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

So essentially we need Collins at the base with a prime Wes and a prime John Sheridan

Might as well go full-hog ~ Prime Johnny Giles and a prime Liam Brady as well.

**Fixer82** · 23/11/2024, 1:05 AM

Originally Posted by seanfhear

Might as well go full-hog ~ Prime Johnny Giles and a prime Liam Brady as well.

We might as well lose Collins and stick McGrath in so

**Eirambler** · 07/12/2024, 5:09 PM

Lovely one touch finish for Brentford today. They're up to seventh now and his form is playing a major part in their run up the table. Really starting to deliver on all the early promise now.

You don't want to take these statistical ratings sites too seriously, but notable all the same that he was rated by WhoScored as the best defender across the 100 or so clubs that make up the top 5 European leagues for the month of November.

**Stuttgart88** · 07/12/2024, 9:01 PM

I was at the game today. Great fun.

**Bungle** · 07/12/2024, 9:33 PM

He still is raw and has a mistake in him, but I think he has a really high ceiling.

Put it like this, he would have won a cap or two for England by now if he was English and face it, that's a rare compliment for young Irish lads these days.

**Eirambler** · 07/12/2024, 10:50 PM

Him, Ferguson and Kelleher are probably the only three players we have currently where that would be the case if they were English.

**Stuttgart88** · 08/12/2024, 1:45 PM

Funny thing is, he had a really good game overall yesterday but it has to be said he made a total mess of a back pass that Isak capitalised on but then inexplicably allowed the keeper to recover. He should have just put it into touch, in hindsight anyway. And I’d fault him for Isak’s first equaliser too, stepping back to play Isak onside instead of stepping up or holding the line. Each the result of bad decision making / game management imho.

In general Brentford have a great thing going on at the Gtech. And Mbeumo has the biggest glutes I’ve ever seen.

**Buckett** · 08/12/2024, 7:23 PM

I like big glutes and I cannot lie

**tetsujin1979** · 14/12/2024, 1:03 PM

Interviewed in the independent today
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...327991848.html

**Eirambler** · 14/12/2024, 1:20 PM

It's great to hear the commitment and everything but sometimes the stuff they come out with, presumably off the back of the media training they get at their clubs, stretches credibility. In this article Collins says:

"It’s such a good squad. It’s really frustrating that we couldn’t get over the line [and qualify for last summer’s Euros]."

I mean, in terms of the last Euros, we were so far from the line that we couldn't even see the line. We were miles off in our group and it's nearly harder to not at least make the Euros playoffs these days and we didn't even manage that either.