Former Blues loanee Keith Andrews is now an odds-on favourite with all bookies offering prices on the Brentford job, Town boss Kieran McKenna having drifted out overnight.

Andrews, the Bees’ set-piece coach, was one of two notable members of the Brentford staff not to join departing head coach Thomas Frank at Tottenham along with assistant manager Claus Nørgaard.

Last night, following confirmation that Frank had taken the Spurs job and Brentford head of coaching/assistant first-team coach Justin Cochrane had joined him as his assistant, Blues manager McKenna was odds-on favourite in the early betting.

However, that appeared to have little behind it beyond speculation, while reports elsewhere linked Burnley manager Scott Parker.

This morning, however, Andrews has moved to the head of the pack, priced at 9-1 on with SkyBet and Paddy Power, and 9-4 on with William Hill and 6-1 on with Bet365.

McKenna has drifted to 10-3 with SkyBet and Paddy Power, 7-2 with Bet365 and 13-8 with William Hill.

Former Republic of Ireland international Andrews was on loan with Town from Blackburn Rovers in the first half of 2011/12, scoring nine goals in 19 starts and one sub appearance.

The 44-year-old hasn’t previously held a manager or head coach’s position but was reported to have been interviewed for the role at the MK Dons, one of his former clubs, in April.

McKenna committed his future to the Blues on a couple of occasions towards the end of the season.

Photo: REUTERS/Tony O Brien

Blue_Moses added 12:33 - Jun 13 Goal a game Keith Andrews!
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BlueRaider added 12:45 - Jun 13 I always like him !
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ArnieM added 12:48 - Jun 13 Good. Thrn they'll leave McKenna alone, hopefully. But I think Brentford will be sliding towards the Championship this coming season.
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Uhlenbeek added 12:55 - Jun 13 Class act when he came on loan, how on earth that was 14 years ago is another story. He must have some coaching chops on him if Brentford are happy for him to take the top job. Good luck to him
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TimmyH added 13:06 - Jun 13 Personally think it would be too much of a gamble for them to hire Andrews whose basically only been a set piece coach at Brentford for a year...NO coaching experience at all. In my opinion I think McK will still be in the picture (unfortunately).
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Len_Brennan added 13:09 - Jun 13 League 2 MK Dons rejected Andrews a couple of months ago & appointed Paul Warne as their manager; hard to think he'll now be given the job of managing a top half side in the Premier League.
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BerksBlue15 added 13:31 - Jun 13 Andrews the "odds on" favourite despite none of the odds for him in fact being odds on... ? I'd also question if he's "head of the pack" if he's as long as 9-1 at Sky Bet (KMK much better odds at 10-3, or 3.33-1), 9-4 at William Hill (KMK 13-8, or 6.5-4) or 6-1 at Bet365 (KMK 7.2 or 3.5-1). Either the odds listed are incorrect or in fact Mr McKenna remains much more likely than Andrews to get the job, at least in the opinion of the bookmakers.

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Fermi_Parradox added 13:46 - Jun 13 9 to 1 on mate.
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blues1 added 13:48 - Jun 13 Berksblue15. Hes 1/9 on sky bet. Not the other way round.
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blues1 added 13:51 - Jun 13 Find it very odd that they would want to give the job to some1,with no managerial experience whatsoever. Not sure the pl is the right place to take that risk nowadays.
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Gforce added 13:53 - Jun 13 I'm pretty sure Mckenna will be staying here,I certainly hope so,as Hutchinson staying put,could well hinge on it.
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Gforce added 13:58 - Jun 13 With those ridiculous short odds on Andrews, the bookies obviously know something and have almost certainly had an insider tip them off.
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blueboy1981 added 14:05 - Jun 13 McKenna proved the Prem’ level last season was above him - cannot see Brentford taking a chance on him, or any other Prem’ Team. Would be a huge gamble.
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Widj123 added 14:28 - Jun 13 Unfortunately can’t see Brentford much better to go with unproven Andrew’s just let McKenna stay and destroy the club completely
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BotesdaleBlue added 14:41 - Jun 13 McKenna staying at our club for 2025/26 (and hopefully beyond), is the biggest positive I can think off for ITFC. End off.
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dirtydingusmagee added 15:29 - Jun 13 mmmmm cant see it myself.,
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blues1 added 15:48 - Jun 13 Blueboy1981. Stop talking bs. No1 could have kept us up last season. The sooner fans like you realise that the better. Integrating a lot of new players into the team, was always gonna be difficult, in the hardest lge in the world. Did he make somezerrors during tge season? Absolutely. But so did most of the managers in the pl. Suppose you think they were all out of their depth too.

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blues1 added 15:50 - Jun 13 Widj123 you really are a moron. Either that or a norwich fan. Whichever, just go away.
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Michael101 added 15:52 - Jun 13 Why would Brentford want McKenna ,when he was a failure in the premiership.
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BangaloreBlues added 16:40 - Jun 13 Yawnarama
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pablo123 added 18:06 - Jun 13 Ando's a good man , wish him all the luck
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pablo123 added 18:06 - Jun 13 Ando's a good man , wish him all the luck
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pablo123 added 18:10 - Jun 13 Sorry sausage fingers
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Bazza8564 added 18:23 - Jun 13 Brentford need a bigger impact manager than him. But i sense thats a club on a downward cycle now. Mbueno already talking to spurs I see
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tetchris added 18:43 - Jun 13 McK wages and release clause are too high for a lot of clubs to take the risk. If he fails next season we will be lumbered paying his high wages if/when he is sacked. I think McK played Ashton and got himself a cracking deal but I don’t think he is worth it as he hasn’t proved himself at PL level yet and was actually quite disappointing last season
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