West Bromwich Albion 2-2 Watford FC - 30/09/2017

I'd feel a lot more confident about this game if we still had a midfield containing Albumen Abdi.

 

Same old poultry jokes.

 

Crack a new one then

 

You might give me the bird.

 

Talking of which - WBA's bird is a kind of thrush. There must be a joke in there, somewhere.

 

Irritating cnt

 

They're managed by Tony Pullet.

 

Two of our best defenders

 

Yep. Totally concievable.

- We can lose this one. Wba are no mugs. Our form is good but they have some good players.

- Arsenal are looking good finally. Will be very hard to get a result out of that, even at home.

- It's likely we will lose to chelsea away.

I think the difference between this season and last though is that Silva appears to want us to go for these teams, and we have a formation and the people to do it. Not sit back ala Mazza.

So while it is obviously posible, it's also possible that we could get 3, 4, 6, 7 or 9 points.

Definitely no need to panic if we do. It's a tough run.

 

Signed by AVB and then Sherwood & Poch didn't fancy him too much. Didn't amaze under QSF or Mazzarri and is 4th possibly 5th choice under Marco Silva as well as a reported bust up in the summer. Maybe the problem is Capoue who just seems like an absolute *****.

At 29 years old, Capoue is a write off. He's hit his ceiling, good player 5/6 times a season, average the rest, nothing wrong with that, he seems content on being an average player but don't see the point in him filling till Chalobah is back when Hughes probably can't do much worse.

 

So here I sit tanked up on Edelstoff (google it), my wife has retired to bed with a "terminal" headache and all I can think about is 'we are better than them all over the pitch' ...

Wake me up when it's over and please

BE GENTLE!

 

Am I dreaming it or did I read somewhere that he had very little interest in football?

Agree, if he was consistent across the season then we would never have been able to get him from Spurs

 

I read that on here so it may or may not be true. I choose to believe it

 

I see in the Sky Sports Scoop 6 competition, Jeff Stelling has got the Watford result wrong every time we have been in it this season. Today he has predicted us to win 2-1.

 

Damn. We'll just have to win 2-0 instead.

 

I hope we win this one!

 

I'm expecting/hoping to see Deeney given a good run out today.

Glancing at the Baggies' forums, Nyom is being highlighted as their major cause for concern.

Such a shame as he was absolute class for us until that one match (can't remember who it was we were playing - might have been Crystal Palace), where much to our surprise he had been obviously targeted as a weak link by their manager despite being a rock up till then.

He got torn a jagged new one and was never the same player after that.

 

Big win for the 'orns today. 3 or 4 nil, and Tony Pulis to die on the touchline from a burst blood vessel in the brain.

 

Speaking about match of today, We could Win a 5-4 thriller and still become last on the pecking order behind arsenal who will win like 1-0 or something

 

Burst blood vessel at West Brom brings back one particular memory

 

I think you are thinking of Assou-Ekoto.

 

Average means he can hold his own in a Premier League team, which is pretty good. He even turned out for France. None of our managers have dispensed with him, his stats show consistent effort.

We know his limitations but he is far from finished and not so easy to replace as you think.

 

No he's correct, Capoue has said he doesn't take much interest in football when he's not playing.

 

Team:

Gomes (GK); Femenía, Mariappa, Kabasele, Holebas; Doucouré, Capoue; Carrillo, Cleverley, Richarlison; Deeney (C).


Precisely what I predicted - TD in for Gray.

 

Horses for courses, their CBs are physical, so Troy's going to beat them up then 20 minutes to go Gray comes on tears them a new one.

 

BREAKING: WILL HUGHES HAS BEEN FOUND

 

Subs:

Karnezis (GK), Janmaat, Britos, Watson, Hughes, Pereyra, Gray.

 

Surprised he hasn't brought back Britos, obviously has a lot of faith in Mapps!

 

Shoutbox open

 

Looks like West Brom are going 4-4-2 against us today.

I expect them to be very aggressive and try to kick lumps out of us.

Their disciplinary record is worse than ours.

West Brom: 6 PL games 11 Y 1 R
Watford: 6 PL games 8 Y 1 8

This game definitely has penalty and red card written all over it.

 

Deeney gets a chance thank goodness . Bringing gray on around the65th minute will cause a lot of problems for the tired slow deffence.

Could be a close one , I'm going for a 1-2 victory if nothing drastic happens , and are deffence puts in a good shift.

 

Sorry about my spelling, it's all the drugs I'm on I'm almost as high as a kite.

 

Time to see if Charlie can do it on a wet Saturday afternoon in Birmingham.