Watford Fc 1-3 Southampton - 28/06/2020 - An Effin Disgrace

We won't be desirable to take over as the idiot Pozzo has saddled us with loads of external debt combined with about 3 players who have an resale value. He is an incompetent baffoon.

 

Still, at least the boys did us proud. Southampton's away form is top 6 level, so this was never going to be a game we could expect much from. To nick a goal and to show a lot of spirit, going toe to toe with this formidable Saints side at times, was something to be proud of.

Deeney worked his socks off and caused all kinds of problems. Aside from the goals, I thought Catchcart and Dawson looked solid.

Kiko and Femenia both gave us width as well as being useful defenders, considering the money we paid for them at least (a club with our finances is never gonna have Maldini and Cafu at full back).

Sarr just makes your heart race whenever he gets on the ball and Pereyra has so much dialogue. Hughes had a great blocked shot and Doucour and Capoue both dominated the midfield.

Overall lots to be positive about. Plenty more games to come. We will be fine.

 

Agreed. They're all crap anyway.

 

Apart from Pearson's new manager bounce (13 points from 5 games) when he changed the formation and Sarr caught fire, we've got 15 points from 27 games this season. We had a 5 game run and apart from that we've been utter shyte. Last season it was just the first few games when we had a new system that we got so many points that it looked like we had a good season overall. But apart from the first few games our points per game was mediocre. We are better on paper than we are in games. We look as good as down.

 

Yeah - Deeney may have done zero but he occupied the defenders and won a couple of fouls. Solid day work for some.

 

I'm not having this anti Pozzo bollix. Give your heads a wobble.

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******* useless. We’re gone if we’re turning in effortless **** like that. Takes a lot to make me think in anything but an optimistic light, but **** that lot managed it tonight.

 

Start Pedro.

 

At least they won't be up against Shane Long every week. A small crumb of comfort.

 

Right so guys can you imagine watching that in a 30,000 seater in Bushey?

 

You do of course JEST

 

Spot on... but that's grasping at straws.

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It was but then he had Welbeck attacking the front post.

Sarr has Deeney and Pereyra to aim it at.

Play Sarr Welbeck and Pedro next game and I bet his crosses look better instantly

 

If you actually think this situation is ok you must have a desperately low standard in your life.

POZZO OUT

 

If we're going to play like that, why the **** aren't we at the very least reverting to one of the most successful tactical periods of the last few years: 4-4-2 with Deeney and Gray upfront?

Don't get me wrong, as ever, I think Gray is awful and an asshole to boot, but this is just not working in any way whatsoever. Deeney is even more immobile than ever, but he has a strike relationship with Gray.

Our coaches and hierarchy seem to have forgotten something that we have all already known; Deeney is not capable of playing the lone No.9 role; he never has been. This season we've just ignored that and forced him there, and in turn his input has to been to do the square root of **** all. We have to at least try and luck into the few goals needed to survive, and we can talk about chucking kids who've never played outside third tier leagues (if that) before, but in reality the pressure of this situation is unprecedented.

Our strikers are terrible individually, but we're not even leaving them out to accomodate our more talented midfielders as it stands, because GD is out and the others are dreadful. Use the wingers we have as wingers, and have two strikers who can play off each other. Times are more than desperate, and at least we might score a ******* goal that way.

 

That was terrible . It is looking likely we will get relegated as we simply haven’t got going since the restart . I was really hoping for a reaction today but it took 45 minutes to muster anything at all .

Southampton were winning everything . This really is depressing to watch . We could still beat Norwich as they are dreadful and maybe hope we can get one more win but it’s looking dire .

 

Spot on.

 

Why?
Did he turn the game around?

 

Have it or don't have it. It's my club too and I have hated them for years.

 

Most of our players were bad today, but Pearson seems impassive on the touchline, no signs of motivational ability at all. Where is the passion we have seen from him when at Leicester

And Deeney shows no leadership whatsoever.

I watched him at the drinks break mid 2nd half, and he just stood around on his own. Why isn't he getting round all the players, in their faces, geeing them up? 2 minutes later Ings scores again, and we are finished.

It wouldn't be so bad if he actually did something on the pitch, but yet again, he was a total waste of space. It is like playing with no captain, and 10 men. If only he put as much passion into his football as he does in his media work and BLM. He even effectively went on flipping strike when the training started.

The collective poor performances start at the top, and when your two leaders are so lacking in inspirational, a team suffers.

However, I still think we are good enough to stay up, we just need a break and NP to find his balls and make some decisions - start with Pedro, replace Deeney with Welbeck and make him Captain next week.

We are slightly better off than when the football restarted, and all the teams around us are doing just as badly and their fans are feeling just as bad as us right now, but I do think our players are better when they play more like they can. We will stay up!

 

Sarr hasn’t put a cross near a Watford player since the restart. His final cross today finished 8 rows back in the Rookery.

 

That sad thing is it would’ve been incredibly easy to stay up, especially with our games. We could’ve probably even drawn every game since the restart and that would’ve been enough, but we can’t even do that.

I wouldn’t choose to go down, but I think it would teach the owners a few valuable lessons. Obviously they’ve not got bottomless pits of money so they have to be a bit creative with how they operate, but their existing model was always going to end in tears.

It can’t be chance that every single one of our managers does well for a period, then we descend into a sustained period of worse than relegation form. If you consistently cut corners when it comes to recruitment in defence and attack then eventually the talent levels of those players become the overriding factor in how you perform on the pitch.

 

He tried to and kept the ball on the deck whilst showing speed, agility and movement.

That’s more than enough for me right now.

 

Funnily enough I said similar thing about Gray in the shoutbox ie his lack of proper mins means we dont see enough of opponent's penalty area. But because of the party not sure he or the other players will be allowed back for the next home game. Plus Pearson not seeing that striker plan so unlikely to happen.

 

Don’t get me wrong, he needs to look up - but many players hit the ball into good / dangerous areas and rely on their team mates to make the relevant runs - it’s a percentage thing. When you only have two players in the box and neither want to move anywhere you’ve got a bloody hard task on your hands.

 

Genuinely sickened by this team. I hate the lot of them. For years I watched not very good players try their hardest for the shirt, and they are all but a distant memory thanks to the shower of sh*te that we have representing us now. The team is in the mould of our supposed "leader on the pitch" - all mouth, no b*llocks and unfit as hell. Sexy football is long dead and i'm going to have to wear a neck brace if I bother to watch the next game.

I HATE THEM ALL

 

Leicester are a top team this season and were third when we played them, but regardless, we shouldn't expect anything from matches against our betters anyway, it's not prudent.

 

Shambles. Consistently have the oldest starting XI this season and it shows - time to give the kids a chance and start the rebuilding process.

West Ham away on 15th will be make or break. Assuming we're still in it by then!

 

Having read the majority of the posts on here I can't really say much else that hasn't been said already.

I actually HATE every single player in this squad. A spineless, cowardly bunch of c**ts that have had a right touch with this whole pandemic and games being played behind closed doors. They can just stroll around the pitch for 90 minutes with no pressure on them. Easy money for them.

'Captain fantastic' is one of the worst culprits! He's completely undone all of the great work in the first 5-6 years of his career over the last 3-4 seasons with his big mouth and no action attitude.

Nigel Pearson is another one who literally looks like he couldn't give a toss. So much for the man motivator we all heard about, i've seen more enthusiasm on death row than in our squad!

I'm guessing Deeney has some uncompromising photo's of Gino, no idea how bad he has to be to be dropped or sold?

I'd love to lambast Pereyra as well but I literally don't have the energy. If they don't give a f**k, why should I?

Pearson needs to go tonight if we want to stay up, it's clear he isn't the answer, our 'football' (if you can call it that) is just aimless hoofball with no Plan B whatsoever. That's HIS fault. He's been at the club long enough now to be able to get us playing at a higher tempo passing the ball to feet in the final third.

As soon as the last ball has been kicked at Arsenal away, we need to sell 2/3 of the squad. It's as simple as that.

Down and out.

 

Shame they didn't restart League 1, would have preferred Oxford or even Wycombe (local and their first season in the 2nd tier) to bloody Rotherham yet again. That's their fourth promotion from that level this millennium!

 

The other problem we got is at the back. Dawson can't cope with anyone that can run and Cathcart/Kabasele have been rusty since the restart.