Not often we play a match in the PL that actually means something, not since the first season anyway.
I'm out of ideas. Lucky yellow socks or not? Lucky black and yellow trainers or not? Lucky penny? Lucky yellow Alice band? I've chatted and patted the GT statue so many times on the way back from WG I've worn out his shoulder. No Stephen,he's long down the Cam. What am I to do?
I'm taking someone to their first Watford game tomorrow, he asked about the potential atmosphere vibe. "It will either be insane jubilation as faith is restored when we beat them 2-0, or insane booing and bile throughout the match when we miss an open goal and they go down the other end and score" No middle ground. It looks like proper football weather tomorrow, so I'm going for a Watford win.
The perfect result for ‘Negative Nath vs The Happy Clappers’ to plow on through another International break.
I'm gonna spend the next 24 hours looking at a thesaurus as I feel I need to up my vocabulary to properly express how I will feel when we lose this one.
The thing is, everyone is so built up to beat Sheff Utd with it being "a must win game". But it would be just one step. We would then go to Spurs and Bournemouth at home. We'd have to take at least 7 points from the next three games, and even then we'd only be on 9 points from 10 games. Unless we win 3 or 4 on the spin, from now until the end of the season, we're going to be playing under a lot of pressure in every game.....and that kind of intensity takes its toll. We've never really had this pressure for years, since the Championship days. We've always started well, got points in the bag early which allowed us to play without any real kind of pressure. It's going to take a long time to pull away from this mess. It's not a case of "we'll win a couple, then jog through the rest of the season". We cannot have that luxury now. To be safe. you've got to be around a point a game on average. We'd have to win the next 3 games to be around the safety mark, then would have to pull away from that position also.
I do like Lawros logic. It’s pretty much I don’t know why I think they will win, but logically they can’t keep losing, and therefore will win eventually. There’s a flaw somewhere in that argument
This is classic Lawro logic he does it all the time. He lays out a logical of why team A will win, and why team B will lose... but then predict a team B win.
Look at Stoke (9 seasons between 9th-14th), Swansea (6 seasons between 8th-15th) and WBA (7 seasons 8th-14th with one at 17th). Years of comfortable safety and then first season of struggle and blink and they are gone. Same with many others. The pressure of trying to dig your way out of a whole takes it's toll. Especially if it's new.
Whereas Charlie Nicholas logic is flawed beyond belief. Has Newcastle to beat Man Utd on the sole basis that United are in poor form, whilst completely disregarding Newcastle’s form and the fact they are worse.
Guardian to look out for this weekend... Watford must find shooting form to arrest tailspin Of Watford’s last 19 league games, amounting to exactly half of a top-flight season, they have won only four, and taken a total of 15 points. That is point accumulation at a rate that would guarantee relegation if continued over an entire campaign, and partly explains the haste with which they disposed of Javi Gracia last month, after he led his team to one point from four winnable matches. More worrying still, all but one of those four victories came against teams now playing in the Championship. Not since Andre Gray’s last-minute goal brought a 2-1 win over Leicester more than seven months ago have Watford beaten a current Premier League side. They took 16 of a possible 18 points against the teams that eventually went down last season, and this first meeting of the season with a recently-promoted side is a chance for them to see if they feel equally at home against sides that eventually came up. Watford’s defence is seen, not unreasonably, as the side’s great weakness but it is surely time for their attack to contribute a little more: they have taken 105 shots – more than every side except Manchester City (150), Chelsea (120) and Liverpool (105), but of those only 30 have been on target and just four have gone in. SB
Prematch concerns. I was thinking of wearing my retro style yellow long sleeve top, black jeans and red DMs tomorrow. Would this demonstrate that I'm a proud supporter or that I look like a tragic clown, or both?
Go and get Stephen back. That's where it all went wrong. You should never have got rid of him - he's the Jadon Sancho of Chateau Bassett.
I just re-watched QSF's pre match interview and he seems pretty upbeat. One of the words he said I found interesting was "player mental state", so I am guessing they have been doing some work on the Psychological side of things this week then? I hope so, and I hope it's at least somewhat been effective. Interestingly, he seems to find Holebas's booking record rather amusing, I know we joke about that too - but him getting needlessly sent off in big games is going to cripple us even more. He needs to cut out such rash challenges - and I know it is not always his fault he gets booked, but most of the time it is.
Yup Attack and Midfield both need to improve, as well as the defence. Only Harry has been remotely on form this season...
No less a person than the Prime Minister says we shouldn't listen to the gloomsters, we should be generating hope.
