Disappointly safe from Clevz. Throw the kids on for a laugh. Can’t be worse than some of the dross we have on show.
Just sit Kalu in the middle and he can renounce the youngsters of tales of when he was a lad... back in 1902.
Seen someone on Twitter spouting about a ‘Dennis rumour’. Anyone got any tales to tell? Love a bit of baseless gossip.
Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English manufacturer of commercial vehicles based in Guildford, building buses, fire engines, lorries (trucks) and municipal vehicles such as dustcarts. All vehicles were made to order to the customer's requirements and more strongly built than mass production equivalents. For most of the 20th century the Dennis company was Guildford's main employer. Following a decade of financial difficulties original shareholders sold out in 1972 and Dennis's ownership has since passed through quite a number of hands. The Woodbridge site was sold and a new small factory built in Slyfield remains in use by lineal business descendant, bus-maker Alexander Dennis. No Dennis haulage trucks have been built since 1985. The last Dennis fire engine left the Guildford factory in 2007. The Dennis brand is still used on Alexander Dennis buses, Dennis Eagle dustcarts and Dennis mowers.
Final Shout Box of 23/24 is up. Thank you in advance to all who have participated in the winging and moaning of our on-field efforts this season. Prepare for 46 more next season.
Our kids must be really naff if they are not giving them a decent run out in a match with nothing to play for.
Easy to focus on the sickening Bayovic debacle up top but frankly the entire squad is pretty dogshit and scarily this is whilst we still have parachute payments to prop us up. Our final finishing position this year is pathetic and embarrassing frankly With a summer of outgoings, a rookie manager and broke finances it’ll be a small miracle if we aren’t in the relegation mix next season.
Good riddance to the season. Glad it’s finally over. An incredibly mediocre squad, poorly assembled by a bunch of unaccountable nobodies. Strikers who rarely score, defenders who find defending difficult and over-hyped others such as Sema and Chak who flatter to deceive with little actual end product. A serial failure as a coach in charge for most of it before common sense prevailed. A rookie albeit one with lots of promise to end it. A disinterested and incompetent owner who has long outstayed his welcome. A chief exec milking else for almost a million a year for presiding over three recent seasons of nothing. A dodgy agent who hangs around like a bad smell. We end the season with 2 wins in 13 matches. It’s going to take a lot of good work (some of it from people not recently associated with such a phenomenon) to get us even half competitive come August.
Another dismal end to another dismal season. Another season of being bored into submission and another season of regression both on and off the pitch. Good times.
To be honest I was more interested in the other games than ours - that and I was listening on a crap 5Live stream full of Ipswich fan boys. But credit to them it has to be said, remarkable promotion today. From what I gathered from the Shout box we were pretty decent in patches but again our terrible finishing was all there to see from the side not playing in red and white. Nice goal from Hoedt, a flicked header and he is one of the squad I do hope we retain. Bayo is Bayo, and with finances tighter than Gino's ego I can see him being here next season. It's a shame we let them score so soon after Kone' could of put us 2-1 ahead, but it's the story of our season in a nutshell. Poor defensive mistakes have cost us so often and until we get the right people in in the right positions it's going to keep happening. Hats off to Clevs, who despite having a losing final game, I am sure he has seen more than enough for ways to improve going forward. Gino needs to back him as much as possible - if he wants to build a side capable of not spending the majority of next season in the bottom five.
Only good thing to say is that it SHOULDN'T be too difficult to improve upon a number of positions throughout the pitch
Disappointing result. There didn't seem to be too much in that, but it seemed a game where more confident and clinical attackers did make the difference. Latte Lath has been in excellent form for them and was a thorn in our side all afternoon, and scored with pretty much his first chance. Meanwhile we had Rajovic slicing the ball wide from one decent chance in the first half, and Bayo taking far too long when put through on goal in the second half. Rajovic actually seemed heavier today than usual somehow, rather than more agile which is what he should be aiming towards, which was also a concern. A few on here have wanted to see Bajovic tried together - it was so useless the one other time it has been used this season that they seemed to forget it had even happened. But today was another reminder that it's not a great idea. It wasn't only them who fluffed good chances mind - Kayembe and Asprilla were among the other, albeit both came to them on their right foot. Andrews followed up his goal last week with a bright performance today, putting in two unusually good final balls today (one cross, the other the through ball to Bayo iirc). Sema also provided his typical threat going forwards in the first half before being subbed at half time. His replacement was Morris, who looked like he was running through treacle and put in three crap crosses (and the two second-half goals came down his side as well, albeit he wasn't the only player at fault for them). He just can not be a regular option for us next season. Hoedt put in a captain-worthy performance. We really need to keep him here for next season. Kone was bright. Asprilla was his recent erratic self. Another game where a quick word needs to be had about the ref - the booking for Pollock in the first half was an absolute joke, Jones just slipped over as he tried to run past him and Pollock was only leaning in to him a little bit. I'm not convinced it was even a free-kick. Then Azaz was lucky to not get a red card with his nasty studs-up sliding tackle on the bottom part of Andrews' shin, which we were lucky did not result in serious damage. Perhaps not a huge surprise we seemed a tad flat throughout the game, but ultimately we looked the middling Championship side which our 15th place at 0 GD finish suggests. We'll need to add some genuine quality over the summer, in the attacking third especially, if it's not going to be below that next season.
So we end the season as we largely traversed it - meekly, shot through with moments of rank incompetence. A third season in a row of decline, drudgery and depression. A fourth on the horizon. That second golden era already feels a long, long way away, and as Jumbo articulated rather well above, we are a club that feels like it's in the protracted process of being hollowed out. Huzzah.
Well Massiah-Edwards had a very good opportunity to play the ball across to Bayo for a tap-in but woefully underhit the pass. All of Grieves, Eames and Massiah-Edwards seem a decent way off making a proper contribution still. I thought Massiah-Edwards did show enough promising signs mind in his cameo given he's only just turned 17 to suggest there's a player there somewhere, he seemed very lively. Didn't really see enough of Eames to get much of a gauge on what he can bring. Grieves has some quality on the ball but not sure he has the pace and agility to really cut it at this level. But people want to see our academy players given a chance. There they are. One of the benefits of having a final match of the season with nothing to play for as Malts so bemoaned is it meant we can give minutes to such players. As per my comment above, posts along these lines are always a complete an utter nonsense. Of course they can be worse. If they weren't they probably wouldn't be on the bench all season. And just look at Morris - someone who is somehow worse than Lewis. There are many, many levels of the football pyramid below our "dross" filled with players who are indeed worse than ours.
Shows how tight it was. Just 6 points off the bottom 3 in the end! Need to be better in every area . If possible..
I'm going to get stoned to death in front of a baying crowd for this, but I actually enjoyed being a Watford fan again this season for the first time in 5 years. I actually saw a committed group of players again. The football was average to poor for most of it, although I saw some cracking away wins and could actually relate to the club once more. Everyone harks back to the days of Capoue and Deulofeu but they downed all their tools and got us relegated, then 17 first team players declared themselves unfit to play in the first game of the championship. I don't care what their ability is, that's absolutely disgusting behaviour. The whole Pozzo operation was build on sand and it was only a matter of time before it all collapsed. I don't want to go near the Premier League again until we have a solid group of players who dig deep for each other and are passionate about playing for Watford. The championship is more enjoyable anyway, more games, better away days, less tourists taking all the tickets and no VAR. The Prem is like watching a sh*t reality TV show. Buzzing for the Euros and looking forward to following the Hornets across the country next season. Have a great summer all, it's been emotional.
