Favourite Championship Season

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by JimOrn, Aug 4, 2020.

  1. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    It was a great season - we beat L*t*n!
     
  2. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    I think I speak for everyone here when I say, what the **** are you on about?
     
  3. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    05/06 - a team seen as likely strugglers, a rookie manager but just an unbelievable spirit and will to win. Still get massive goosebumps when I see the footage in the tunnel before the Play Off Final, have never seen a Watford team that up for it.

    I watched the highlights back in the video posted on here and was struck by how many assists Ashley Young had. Was too far into it to start counting but if anyone can dig out his stats for that season, I'd be grateful.
     
  4. leighton buzzard horn

    leighton buzzard horn Squad Player

    98/99 was a brilliant memory. Not just Wembley but the run up to it when Mooney couldn't stop scoring. The spark for it was the Tranmere game and that mad final 20 minutes, two goals and down to 9 men. That was a team that really played for each other and showed pride in what they did. It was made all the sweeter by coming off the back of a title winning season and that great away day at Fulham.
     
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  5. Mr MoJo

    Mr MoJo Academy Graduate

    Anyone that answers with anything other than 98/99 wasn’t at St Andrews that night....
     
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  6. JimOrn

    JimOrn Academy Graduate

    I have similar feelings about the 1st leg game against Palace! It seemed everyone in the away end that day was in total disbelief that we’d won so convincingly against a strong Palace team. It’s still probably my favourite away game.
     
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  7. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    I believe that was the first time I'd ever struggled to get a ticket. Gutted I missed it. Was there earlier that season, though just after the u beaten run had started.
     
  8. HornetMan

    HornetMan Academy Graduate

    Marlon King's goal in that game summed him up perfectly- brute strength to hold off the defender, a neat turn and just fired it in with enough power to ensure Kiraly couldn't reach it and to make sure it bounced the right way off the post. A wonderful goal. In fact all three of our goals there were superb
     
  9. Moosegasm

    Moosegasm Reservist

    The 98/99 play off win at Wembley was my greatest day as a watford fan. But as an overall season 05/06 was my best champo season. Partly cos of how the team came together out of nowhere with Aidy calling in favours, begging and borrowing players very late in the day after atrocious early transfer moves. I'll never forget the feeling after we beat Cardiff early doors and realised we had a team on our hands and the 3 play off games were fantastic. 81/82 would be only just behind, the emergence of John Barnes, the mighty Luther and first ever promotion to the top flight.
     
  10. leighton buzzard horn

    leighton buzzard horn Squad Player

    I recall Sam Parkin turning us down late on which seemed like a big loss.
     
  11. 3000

    3000 Reservist

    2014/15 for me, we were the complete team and really classy to watch yet solid in defence.

    I have honestly never been bothered about throwing the league away in the last minute, it was disappointing for about 10 minutes but then the p*ss up in town with all the fans jumping about in the high st for hours was brilliant. We got promotion which is what we set out to achieve at the start of the season. A piece of silverware in merely a bonus.
     
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  12. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Would I be more pissed off this time around if we do the same thing? Probably, I've seen us go up through the play-offs and in second, but I've never actually seen us win anything, would be nice for a change to actually put something in that trophy cabinet!
     
  13. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    I liked the season under Harrison. We had a new set of strikers each month it seemed.
     
  14. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    Next season, cause we're going to win the league........................

    WE ARE GOING UP, WE ARE GOING UP​
     
  15. R4E

    R4E Reservist

    The BSaD report from that match makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
     
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  16. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    This one for me. I was a bit too young to really appreciate the achievement in 99, so the promotion under Boothroyd was spectacularly unexpected. It really felt like we could achieve anything that season.

    The Palace away game in the semi is probably my favorite game as a fan in attendance.
     
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  17. HEY HO

    HEY HO Academy Graduate

    Strange one but I actually really enjoyed the 11/12 season under Dyche. Especially the second half of the season. I turned 18 that season and can count on one hand the amount of away games I have missed since (not counting covid obviously). A limited but hard working team doing all they could to get a result. Couldn't ask for much more as a fan at the time. Iwelumo scoring a backheel down the Rookery on the last game of the season topped it all off.

    Worst? Surely it's got to be 2001/02. I was only young but at the time I knew it was pretty poor. I can still remember my Dad's despair when Heidar came on as a sub during a home game at RWB. Another shout out for the 2007/08 season. The performances during the last few months were absolute garbage.
     
  18. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    Exactly what the current squad needs. A bit of positive psychology.
     
  19. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    The second half of 2007/8 was horrible. Embarrassing to watch. That must have been one of the worst sides to make the playoffs?
    Was still fuming when we go ****ed over in the games against Hull.
     
  20. Abdi

    Abdi Academy Graduate

    The 14/15 team was brilliant, just as exciting to watch as 12/13 but with a lot more bottle. That team would never have lost the Leeds game or the Palace play-off final.
     
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  21. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    I still remember the home game against Barnsley. We could go top with a win and they were coming off the disappointment of losing the Cup semi-final just three days earlier. Watford 0 Barnsley 3. Disgrace.
     
  22. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    I seem to remember Barnsley having a major physical presence up front in that game, and he absolutely wrecked havoc in a way that I don’t recall seeing since the halcyon days of Ismael Miller in his prime destroying Watford twice a season days.

    Horrific beating.
     
  23. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Was 0-3 against Yeovil the worst Watford game I've ever seen? Dunno, maybe one of the many City games has overtaken it, but it was ******* grim
     
  24. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Yet they couldn’t beat Sheffield Wednesday at home to win the title despite leading going into injury time?
     
  25. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Eh, the pitch invasion didn't help, and the intensity might not have been quite the same given promotion had already been assured
     
  26. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Didn't have Guedioura due to loan expiry. We should have refused to play and demanded the EFL award us the title.
     
  27. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Plus plucky little Bournemouth broke FFP rules, we wuz robbed!
     
  28. Abdi

    Abdi Academy Graduate

    Pressure was off in that game. If promotion was still undecided I'm certain we would have won.
     
  29. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    I disagree. The pressure was completely on. The biggest and by far the most winnable league title was in the club’s grasp - the historic trophy was in the tunnel and the ‘Champions’ paraphernalia was pitchside - and that team completely and utterly bottled it. They missed chance after chance that day to smash a pathetic Sheffield Wednesday team and then let them score a soft injury time equaliser to spoil everything in injury time. Bottlers to the end and they should be remembered as such.
     
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  30. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    I have genuinely never quite got over that day. It’s always baffled me that so many people seemed to think it didn’t really matter, because they were prizing something that was going to happen the next season over something that could have been won that season.
    It’s the same principle as when Wenger claimed that qualifying for the following season’s Champions League was like a trophy.
     
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  31. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Did irritate me, would have been so good to have a trophy in the cabinet, but ultimately, we had a great season, and we had some great times in the Prem (better than Bournemouth, who ended up doing basically the same as us without the cup memories--****, they'd probably cut their ******** off even to get battered in a cup final!), what I do feel sad about was missing out on Europe last season. Ultimately we weren't good enough, but even if we'd stayed up this season we wouldn't have got that close again. I'm sure we'll challenge at the top of the Championshop (or whatever the second tier will be called in future) plenty of times in my lifetime, and even if we don't, promotion would be one he'll of a consolation prize!
     
  32. Abdi

    Abdi Academy Graduate

    Personally it's never really bothered me. Promotion was the ultimate goal. I don't recall anyone in Brighton the weekend before worrying about whether we'd win the title or not.
     
  33. LondonOrn

    LondonOrn Squad Player

    Some will disagree, but I consider the Championship title to be a major trophy as you get promoted to the Premier League while finishing top of the division.

    Premier League/Championship winners, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League are major trophies in English club football, the rest, like lower division titles and the Football League Trophy aren't.
     
  34. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Aside from the obvious reason why that might be, it also underlines we don't really have a winning mentality at our club. It's not in the DNA.
     
  35. R4E

    R4E Reservist

    Didn't feel like not a proper trophy when we were celebrating on the pitch at Fulham.

    As far as I'm concerned winning your division at the end of the season - whatever league you're in - is an achievement.
     

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