Watford Fc 1-1 Southampton - 23/04/2019

Discussion in 'Match Day' started by Cassetti's Beard, Apr 22, 2019.

  1. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    What about him?

    Let's not get ridiculous and start bringing up strikers who barely kicked a ball in the league. I'm clearly making the Gray comparison against strikers who have played regularly in the division.

    I've never seen a regular Premier League striker with such a poor first touch and who looks so frequently awkward, clumsy and uncomfortable with the ball at his feet. That's my opinion.
     
  2. Sort of OK

    Sort of OK Reservist

    Maybe Gray should start wearing that white tape that Ngonge and race horses wear above the ankle, always seems to make you look quicker, then nobody would doubt he is in the fast club. Defenders would know that it wasI remember being chuffed when we made a signing that sounded as exotic as Michele Ngonge, soon got over it though.
     
  3. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    That's because they didn't expect him to score any.
     
  4. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Well, I think I get it. It strikes me that that is where Gray can come in - his dashes into space, created by defenders who are drawn towards the dallying Peyrera or Deleufeu , might be just the thing. Of course, he's still got to score, but his forte is getting the positions in the first place. Deleufeu needs to lift his head up and look around sometimes.
     
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  5. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Well, so it really is about goals, then.
     
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  6. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Not so difficult to avoid burning your fingers while you are out swimming in murky waters.
     
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  7. WeveGotSteviePalmerNo1

    WeveGotSteviePalmerNo1 Academy Graduate

    Not if its the outlet from chernobyl you are swimming in.
     
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  8. WeveGotSteviePalmerNo1

    WeveGotSteviePalmerNo1 Academy Graduate

    Lets not start bringing up players who are worse! So i also wont mention Trevor Senior.
     
  9. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Yes.
     
  10. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    Trevor Senior who didn't play in the Premier League and finished playing for us before I was born? Yeah, definitely not worth bringing up.
     
  11. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    This isn't going to happen bar injury. Gracia replacing the strikers who have scored in the last 2 games, cant see it.
     
  12. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    Strikers are judged on goals not their technical ability. We could have a technically gifted striker who struggles for goals and he would be useless for us.
    A known technically gifted striker who scores goals would be too expensive.
     
  13. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    this is true. Some of you may remember Andy Cole. he scored 40 odd a season but used to miss 40 other ones. Lots of misses but he was always making the runs forward looking for an opening. he used to get slated when he didn't score in a game and missed chances but his end of season tally answered the critics.
     
  14. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    How about Gary Goals?
     
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  15. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    How about Professor Mary Beard?
    She has a Batistuta like maneAlthough somewhat grey/Gray,I'm sure she has the wisdom to convert chances.
    She knows a lot about the Romans and although doesn't have any tattoos that I know of,she doesn't shy away from vulgarities.
    I'm not sure how her goals to minutes ratio matches up to say Professor Peter Jones or Enoch Powell, but I have no doubt someone can provide this.
     
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  16. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Pavlyuchenko was a pretty good striker on his day to be fair.
     
  17. Ybotcoombes

    Ybotcoombes Justworkedouthowtochange

    Well I thought we were alright ish at least we kept going. Southampton looked pretty good to me and were obviously all in to avoid relegation.

    Watched on TV , was starting to get very pissed off with the commentator going on about the 7 second goal, I know he scored in 7 seconds - I was watching, didn't need to be reminded every 2 mins !!!

    Even if we loose everything else looks like we are going to win the FairPlay table. , we are currently 18 points clear of Man U who are in second place. Why is discipline at Watford so poor we have had 84 yellow cards this season, it seems to have always been the case regardless of manager. I think big Troy has really let us down by getting a red at this point in the season, if he was playing yesterday I think we would have had a good chance of winning.

    Gray, he scores but for me better as a super sub , success he does t score for me better in an actual sub

    Guess 7th is between who ever wins on Saturday and Everton
     
  18. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Oddly, we return to bending over.

    Shortly after felicitous Felicity scored such a huge hit in dungarees, a lithe, blonde took her ‘butt to camera’ aesthetic to a different level.

    ‘Professor’ Michael Wood created his own, buttock centric reading of Greek history.

    In my house, we had to take our tv to the car wash after each show.
     
  19. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I like Michael Wood. Also, coincidentally, the name of our nearest M4 services. Not a patch on Gloucester though, where there is a really fancy deli/farm shop/restaurant.
     
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  20. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I like Michael Wood too but can he play the Chalobah role?
     
  21. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    So it is!

    The classic shot is the Felicity one where he walks away from camera, ideally uphill, but then glances over his shoulder to deliver the definitive bon mot.

    The jeans are, though, now baggier, the buttocks scrawnier & hence his narrative a little less compelling.
     
  22. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I disagree. I thought his history of China was magisterial. He has acquired a gravitas which he lacked in his youthful years.

    Doubtful he could fill in for Nate, though.
     
  23. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    More likely to see Nate challenging for the Michael Wood role next season, to be fair.
     
  24. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Interesting. Are you confident a westerner can have that level of understanding of China?

    Assuming Nate never plays football again, I could see a dream team of him & Stacey.

    Hertfordshire yin & Bedfordshire ****.
     
  25. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Ukrainians are tough & skilful.

    Ideal for the Championship.
     
  26. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Can she play the Alex Scott role?
     
  27. Ybotcoombes

    Ybotcoombes Justworkedouthowtochange

    Excellent sausage rolls
     
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  28. WeveGotSteviePalmerNo1

    WeveGotSteviePalmerNo1 Academy Graduate

    Good job i didnt then
     
  29. Siohmy

    Siohmy Reservist

    You can tell what an amazing season it’s been when we still have something on the 36th game and it isn’t relegation along with the small matter of an FA Cup Final. Not too shabby, not too shabby at all.
     
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  30. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Exactly.

    Tumbleweed blowing by on the Transfer List thread.

    Previously the most active one after Christmas.
     
  31. Moosegasm

    Moosegasm Reservist

    I think u have to do a DIY job, dividing the minutes by goals on whoscored.com
     
  32. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Fair point. I was taught by an English chap called Jonathan Spence who, at the time (late 80s) was regarded as the world’s leading scholar on Chinese history, so I guess this is an assumption on my part rooted in that experience.

    In any event, it was damn good telly, properly meeting the Reithian brief.
     
  33. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I have her email,I'll ask her!
    Not sure Sky or BBC would cross pollinate their broadcasting roles to that extent but stranger things!
     
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  34. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    DMB speaking in Latin to Shearer & Ince would be a traffic stopper.

    Also, AS might have a stimulating 'yoof take' on Pompeii.

    Btw, if I were in charge, I'd get Jenas on Blue Peter pronto. The cleancut Peter Purvis role. Stuart Pearce as Noakes?
     
  35. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Is she a Dame now?
    Excellent,she can be captain v Wolves.
     

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