Watford Match Thread sponsored by 0-0 draws

[AthleticoSpizz]

palms of hands held skywards

[Victor Meldrew]

A Watford supporting friend of mine just posted this comment on Facebook

"having to suffer a really sh*t Watford team lose to a one dimensional hoofball outfit."

Now that is ironic bearing in mind the way Watford played for so many years.

[Winchester Royal]

We lost 3:0 two games in a row didn't we - against CP and Wimb .... two of the most inept home performances ever. Who was our manager then - AP or SC?

Have a feeling it was SC. I think it might actually have been three 3-0 defeats in a row. That game against Crystal Palace pretty much kick-started Andy Johnson's career.

Yes it was Sir Steve's early days with us.

IIRC the third 3-0 defeat was at home to Watford (of all the teams) in the cup...I was there when Lloyd O came on, and was the only player that looked like actually doing absolutely anything.

Stoke (a), Palace (h) and Wimbledon (h) were the games in that run. The 3-0 cup defeat to Watford was in 2004, with two 90th minute goals being leaked as the team gave up. I remember this because I started Uni the next day and shared halls with a Watford fan, who delighted in the previous night's result.

[windermere_royal]

i believe we went to Watford the following Saturday in the league and won 1-0 , so i guess he wasn`t laughing then

[AthleticoSpizz]

mmmmm

definately remember a 0-3 Watford game on a cold winters evening about then Winch...but their goals came a long time before the 90th minute

....will have to consult the history books

[Winchester Royal]

i believe we went to Watford the following Saturday in the league and won 1-0 , so i guess he wasn`t laughing then

Yeah, all of a sudden football wasn't so important to him. He quit his course at Christmas, so was, as our easy end dwelling chums might say, a bit of a 'melt'.

[Ian Royal]

palms of hands held skywards

Ohhwwwuuuuuuuuuuuusssuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

\o/<o>\o/<o>

That (and a couple of headers) were literally the only good things about him.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Slough boy made good

Think he ended up back there last season

[JIM]

Please can someone explain, WHam stopped for 9 min due to injury, game finished 30 seconds after Reading .

[AthleticoSpizz]

more pace

[paultheroyal]

Please can someone explain, WHam stopped for 9 min due to injury, game finished 30 seconds after Reading .

How do you know it finished 30 seconds later?

[Ian Royal]

Because we started 1 minute late and were late out after half time / had more first half injury time?

[Muskrat]

1 minute 26 seconds of first half injury time and 7 minutes of second half injury time according to the beeb, so about right.

[SydenhamRoyal]

We are a better team without Guthrie.

+1

Currently. He's still comfortably our best midfielder. Poor form doesn't equal shit player.

I agree he is out best midfielder, maybe even best player. But maybe he is wrong for the team. The last game we won before today was ... away to Huddersfield. When he was suspended. He slows it down too much. It might be because the others can't read him well enough, but the fact remains that we were much zippier today in our play, and it was without him.

[RoyalBlue]

1 minute 26 seconds of first half injury time and 7 minutes of second half injury time according to the beeb, so about right.

Ref added 5 mins in 2nd half but there was no way that injuries accounted for anything like seven minutes.

[bloody Volvo driver]

Please can someone explain, WHam stopped for 9 min due to injury, game finished 30 seconds after Reading .

For some reason or another, the game didn't actually start until 3.06 - 3.07, always going to be behind schedule from then on in.

[ILoveMoonPig]

mmmmm

definately remember a 0-3 Watford game on a cold winters evening about then Winch...but their goals came a long time before the 90th minute

....will have to consult the history books

Was this the night they all left singing "See you on Saturday", because we were playing at their place at the weekend?

[AthleticoSpizz]

Yes..sounds familiar

[Ian Royal]

Currently. He's still comfortably our best midfielder. Poor form doesn't equal shit player.

I agree he is out best midfielder, maybe even best player. But maybe he is wrong for the team. The last game we won before today was ... away to Huddersfield. When he was suspended. He slows it down too much. It might be because the others can't read him well enough, but the fact remains that we were much zippier today in our play, and it was without him.

Might be better off short term with him out. But once the team is in better form and we've got a more settled 11 and system, he'll be a real positive again. Like he was at the start of the season, when he was playing like a nailed on PotS.

[SydenhamRoyal]

Currently. He's still comfortably our best midfielder. Poor form doesn't equal shit player.

I agree he is out best midfielder, maybe even best player. But maybe he is wrong for the team. The last game we won before today was ... away to Huddersfield. When he was suspended. He slows it down too much. It might be because the others can't read him well enough, but the fact remains that we were much zippier today in our play, and it was without him.

Might be better off short term with him out. But once the team is in better form and we've got a more settled 11 and system, he'll be a real positive again. Like he was at the start of the season, when he was playing like a nailed on PotS.

Cant disagree with that