He’ll be very good for them. Our fans dislike him despite keeping us up with ease in our first season back. God help this forum and manager if we ever win anything.
The squad was also atrocious. 13th place and a cup semi final. That season was nothing sort of miraculous looking back. The football in the second half was the worst I've ever seen from a watford team (and I was a season ticket holder throughout the 90s...) admittedly.
I liked him and he did exactly what was asked of him so not sure why people dislike him. Better football than under Dyche yet people would seem to welcome him back
No. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the worst football ever was under Boothroyd in 2008, the year we limped into the playoffs and were rightly thumped by Hull. Horrible times.
Having seem them all from GT's first coming onwards, I'd put Florrie somewhere near the bottom, given the resources he had (far more than Aidy, Malky or Dyche). I'll freely admit that he was better than Bassett though.
That was the pits I don't deny it. But 2nd half QSF season was so bad to watch I used to feel a physical ache in one of my testicles (no lie).
Flores is just a suavey Pulis, who was lucky here that Troy and Odion defied him for half a season to do the business at the other end of the field from where he wanted his players. I never want to see a manager like him at Watford ever again, but I think the Stoke fans are well used to appalling negativity by now, so as long as they haven't got lofty ambitions of things like scoring goals, or even having a plan for what to do when going forward in possession, then they might just like him.
Because he phoned it in for the best part of half a season, stuck with the same rigid formation and tired line-up game after game, and blew our best ever chance to reach an FA Cup final (1984 aside). If he hadn't accidentally stumbled upon Deeney and Ighalo's partnership we'd have probably gone down.
This is a dreadful post. That rigid formation was ghastly to watch but got us the necessary points. Our star player was capoue for heavens sake! and somehow he guided us to a 13th place finish and one of the very few semi finals in our history! The only way to keep that squad up was to have a rigid system and line-up. None of our other managers would have have the nerve and the discipline to pull that off (GT aside). Meanwhile Silva has spent tens and tens of millions more and will probably finish lower than 13th. But at least he mixes it up a bit, right....
It would be "amazing" to see him back in the EPL. Typical it would be us in his first game. but that's how football works. I liked him, and he was so underrated. To have kept us up in our debut season, as well as an FA Cup semi final, was probably the biggest achievement ever for a Watford manager, outside of GT of course.
Yep, 100% agree! What he did was nothing short of a miracle, to keep us up with that team and have a decent cup run was impressive.
Oh, come on. The football towards the end of the season was dreadful to watch. Southampton away was one of the most miserable spectacles I 've seen from a Watford side in modern times. And the points being gained at that time would have spelt relegation with absolute certainty. They had to say goodbye. Dyche, on the other hand performed tremendously well with practically no resources. Read what GT has to say about him in his book (P316).
Yeah, I'd be interested too in seeing how Andre Gray operates just in front of a full back, and Richarlison as a holding midfielder.
Really? I must have imagined him getting a standing ovation from all four sides of the ground as he did a lap of honour with his family after his final game in charge.
I'd rather have Walter back than Quique, and I don't want Walter back under any circumstaces, unless it is because he and QSF were the last two coaches available. Both are welcome round for a couple of bottles of wine and some fine Cuban cigars though..
It is. This season was wonderful until the Everton crap seeped in. Even now though, it's still a hundred times better than watching Flores so-called tactics.
His season reminds me a lot of this season, we started well, looks like we had something, looked like we were a top half team, hit December fell apart . Ended the season having beat a couple of decent teams and lost to a lot of **** ones. He kept us up and that is all we could really ask for. However once Deeney and Ighalo started being naturalised by other teams he really had no idea how to mix it up. Give him a good team think he would be alright ,not convinced he would have the tactics to keep stoke up
The Perryman era was by far the worse we have ever endured. Colin Lee wasn't much better QSF did a decent job of keeping us up. The first half of the season we placed some good stuff. The 3nd half of the season was saved by a cup run, even with dire football
He'll be forever in my bad books for repeatedly inflicting Jurado on to us. I hope he re-signs him for Stoke.
Some real rose tinted spectacles on here. He did a good job initially in making us solid and hard to beat, but he was very lucky that Igahlo had his purple patch when he did, without that we would’ve been easily relegated. The football was horrific towards the end, I’ll never forget watching the FA cup semi highlights back and Jamie Carragher saying that we had no identity and no obvious system, he couldn’t describe our playing style because we didn’t have one. We passed the ball sideways for a while and then just literally stopped completely clueless about what to do next, he strangled any life out of the team. The guy would only play players he trusted to do exactly what he said, even if they were out of position and worse than others we may have had available. I don’t dislike him at all, but the football was suffocatingly dull.
