No dig at you, but if the club essentially said Troy is playing with an injury so won’t be very good for the crucial matches coming up and it’s going to be like playing with ten men and a statue, I think I’d be even more annoyed at him getting picked. It’s actually insane that he’s been selected if this is a factor in his performances and the manager needs sacking this very second. Anyway - 2 good penalties today, 3 points and probably another year in the Prem
Josh King really isn't the style of forward we need - he's more like Welbeck, prefers to come deep and runs the channels. If we were to look at Muff players were they to go down, Callum Wilson would make the most sense for what we'd need as a Deeney replacement. The main issue with Wilson though is he's been a shadow of his former self this season. 2018/19 Wilson was a very good CF and earned an England call-up, but he seems to have lost something lately. So I wouldn't actually want us to go for him either.
Honestly was just thinking out loud, I think both could would go and sit on a bench of a team in European competition at the very least. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have to disagree. He's been and is being played out of position. He's stated on many occasions he prefers the central striker position. His best season is when Wilson was out injured and he played that role. Good player but not what's needed I believe.
Same, planned to boycott the restart and to continue with the diy I've been doing since 21st March lol. Of course listened to the first match and got sucked straight in. Was a much happier hornet doing the painting this afternoon than I expected to be at half time!
Yep, built my kids a playground in the back garden to try and occupy the time, however I kept checking my phone to see the results each game. Watford is such a terrible habit.
Thank you for posting the highlights! As someone who was unable to watch today's game, these are my thoughts.. - I had a good feeling about today's game and I was right - Very unlucky for Danny Welbeck not to score there. True, the ball didn't quite cross the line, but he showed his quality with the finish. He has had his injury problems, but with the trajectory the cross from Femenia was moving at, that was a very difficult ball to strike and Welbeck did very well to not only get on the end of it but to pop it in the corner. Quality effort. - Great save from Foster. - Deeney is today's saviour. He should no longer be starting for us but fair play to him for putting away 2 penalties. - I think the first penalty is more of a stonewall decision than the second! I do feel that Sarr was looking for that one, but I'll certainly take it. - I don't really have any feelings towards Villa, but I am sincerely hoping that our second goal today goes a long way towards consigning Bournemouth to a long stint in the Football League. Cannot wait to see the back of them. - COYH!
I missed the first half while cleaning the house, left one of the kids watching to keep me updated. Hoover drowned out the pain of going behind that way. Watched the second half. Got that the right way round
After two minutes and two hoof balls to Deeney I thought it was going to be another pathetic performance . At half time I had given up. Thought Newcastle were so much better than us in the first half I just couldn’t see us scoring let alone winning. The whistle happy ref was terrible. I was surprised he gave us one pen let alone two. Deeney showed us what he’s all about. That boy has definitely got steel balls. A nail biting end to the game even though Newcastle had long thrown in the towel. Thought Townsend and Shearer were excellent pundits considering their allegiances.
Happy clappers are frothing at the mouth like nineteenth century evagelists at the promise of the second coming. Negativatron Boo Boys left licking their wounds .One eye on the table calculating how many goals we need to lose to City to ensure our relegation, the other eye on their Ebay sale of their Watford tops in order to exchange for another team who will be worse than Watford next season .
Enjoy your sparkling kitchen while you cab IBB. By next season all the surfaces will be scrubbed back to the foundation.
Haha.... and you think some forum members are like that ? Don't you just think that some fans are more optimistic and some more pessimistic ?
This is where VAR helps us. Without it he might not have given those pens, but with VAR he knew if he didn’t he’d very likely be overruled and look like a lemon.
What would you rather ?? We go down ?? We have a 3 sided stadium still ?? C’mon, let’s all enjoy the good times as small or big as they may be !! COYH
Yes I heard that, just after the restart. He said ‘we’ve got the oranges and we’ve got the lemons’. It was very appropriate if not intentional at that point in time.
Watford should not even bother with Josh King or Callum Wilson. King has been looking for a move for the past two seasons. I very much doubt Watford will be on his radar. Wilson's knees are dodgy and has not been at the races for a long time. His falling at the slightest touch or into the defender no longer works on the Premier league ref. We need a new back four, two in midfield and another two strikers. Send your suggestions to Gino asap.
It's interesting when you look at the three teams that (hopefully) will go down. There are plenty of players from Bournemouth I'd take, there's even a couple from Norwich I'd take, but there's not one player from Villa I'd like Watford to have in their squad. That's quite revealing.
I suppose it would be easy to say that Newcastle are home and dry mid-table and were not going to break legs to win this match. But their defence was so poor. It was worse than ours I think. It was not just the penalties (soft or not they were penalties, Steve Bruce), they could easily have conceded 2 or 3 goals in open play. I recall they were extremely poor at the start of the season (the worst of the lot) and we were robbed up there by VAR incompetence. How Bruce has kept them up, let alone mid-table, must at least be testament to good coaching by Bruce. Deeney's open-play chances: I think he has so few of these chances these days he has simply lost the striker's instincts and reactions. He easily has the ability to place that chance in the corner, to the keeper's left but, contrary to Mr Ice-cool-nerves-reputation, seemed to panic. I still wonder if there are fitness issues at Watford: Watford's slow match-starts might at least partly be down to Pearson wanting to conserve energy for a barn-storming finish. The problem being the team are not good enough to shut the game down and defend a whole half.
Forget Grealish. We couldn't afford him and he wouldn't look twice at Watford anyway. The others you mentioned yes, plus King, Lewis & Fraser. I'd even have Wilson, but he'd be too expensive and has been off form all season.
I just realised, this must be how Man Utd fans feel every week. See their team struggle a bit then get two penalties to solve the problem.