Hi there, My name's Ryan and I'm a new reporter at My Watford news - I'll hopefully be giving the club better and more substantial coverage than the magazine was offering before. I'll stick anything I write/film in this forum for you to have a look at. In the meantime, you can find me on Twitter @RJGray__ to get intermittent updates/opinions about the club etc. Here's an interview with Daryl Janmaat - https://www.mynewsmag.co.uk/life-is-good-under-gracia-for-janmaat/ Here's a reflective piece I wrote following the Liverpool match - https://www.mynewsmag.co.uk/three-things-to-learn-from-watfords-defeat-to-liverpool-at-the-weekend/ I look forward to sharing more content with you in the future and if there's anything you think we should be covering that we currently aren't, please do let me know. Thanks. Ryan
You secured an interview with Janmaat and didnt think to ask how he gets his hair to look like cassette tape? You've dropped a bollock there Ryan. Re: your liverpool write up. I was staggered to see that the first thing you choose to talk about is one of their players. If you took salahs plums out of your mouth for a minute, maybe you'd realise watford fans want to read about watford players, not shitbags from liverpool who we couldnt give a single **** about.
"While this might not help Watford too much for the rest of the season, it is something that could give them a bit of comfort, knowing that they were defeated by a true master at the top of his game. Salah’s goalscoring prowess this season looks to have him in contention for the player of the season award and his performance against Watford may have been the best of the lot. Receiving a heavy defeat is never a pleasant thing for a football team to stomach, but for Watford, admitting they were simply outclassed by a much stronger outfit could well be the best way for them to move on from this thrashing." If you read the point I was making about Salah, you'll see that it was both relevant and important to Watford. Sure, defensively Watford could have defended better and maybe kept the score down a bit, but I think that it's important for them to realise that actually, when people like Salah turn up and play to the best of their ability, they're nigh on unstoppable. If Watford dwell too much on the defeat, it could have a big negative effect on morale, but if they realise that there wasn't much they could have done on that day to prevent the defeat, it'll be much easier for them to move on and pick up momentum again. Sometimes in football you're going to come up against stronger opposition playing to at the top of their game and, while the point focused on a Liverpool player, it was from a Watford perspective. Hope that clears up my intentions for you a bit.
I'll pass this on to Javi at tomorrow's press conference - see if he'll consider giving you a run out against Bournemouth.
When I was sat there watching that scruffy Peter Sutcliffe lookalike take the piss out of our defence yet again, then smash home his second, I can assure you I took no comfort whatsoever from the fact that were were being humiliated by "a true master at the top of his game". And if you think our gormless goblin of a manager will learn anything from this then you're off your rocker. There are no positives to take from seeing your team get whipped 5-0. None at all.
Perspective please! Just a few years ago we lost 3-0 to Yeovil at home. Add to that we were once 2-0 down to Blackpool at half time. Also Harry The Hornet used to look like a cocaine binging bee. Ryan should have mentioned this but no doubt got distracted by his phone background picture of Salah.
Not to mention the strange and mysterious disappearance of his wife that the club seem to have swept under the carpet.
the thing I wanted to know about Janmat is why he wears short sleeve shirts and gloves, I mean where is the sense in that Daryl? Are you hot or cold eh?
It's all good compadre, but it's not really adding anything is it? What does your report have that all the other reports about the Liverpool game don't have? It's the same old platitudes, if you'll excuse me from saying. Where is your angle? Where is your inspiration? I don't want to appear over-critical, but also the division of paragraphs into numerical divisions is ugly. clumsy and not really needed. Choose your story, your narative, you angle, and write it through. Think about what words you're using and whether they're cliched or not.
Perspective please. Just 35 or so years ago we were beating the same scousers to finish 2nd in the top league in the land. Now we have to be grateful for having our arses whipped 5-0. How the mighty have fallen .
Watford don't need to learn their best defensive line up, what Watford need is a good, settled, back line that can stay injury free for most of the season, get that and the tactics sort themselves out because they build an understanding of each others play. This season we have constantly struggled to see the same back line for two matches in a row.
That will involve buying 3-5 new defenders (not bargain-basement ones) and then bedding them in to work as a unit within a team. Easier said than done but it’s desperately needed. ...Nah, I can’t see us doing it either.
