Watford Related Predictions 17/18

League position: 16th
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: Final
Player of the Season: Gomes
Top Scorer: Gray
Best summer signing: Hughes
Flop of the season: Amrabat/Sinclair
Worst disciplinary record: Holebas
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

League position: 9th
FA Cup: 5th Round
League Cup: 4th Round
Player of the Season: Gomes
Top Scorer: Deeney
Best summer signing: Hughes
Flop of the season: Okaka
Worst disciplinary record: Holebas (nap)
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

Time to be a tad optimistic

League position: 11th
FA Cup: Quarterd Finals
League Cup: Winners
Player of the Season: Chalobah
Top Scorer: Troy
Best summer signing: Chalobah
Flop of the season: Janmaat
Worst disciplinary record: Doucoure
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

League position: 13th
FA Cup: 3rd Round
League Cup: 3rd Round
Player of the Season: Amrabat
Top Scorer: Deeney
Best summer signing: Chalobah
Flop of the season: Gray
Worst disciplinary record: Amrabat
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

League position: 10th
FA Cup: 5th round
League Cup: 3rd round
POTS: Doucoure
Top scorer: Gray
Best summer signing: Gray
Flop of the season: Success
Worst disciplinary record: Holebas
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

League position: 14th
FA Cup: 4th Round
League Cup: 3rd Round
Player of the Season: Doucoure
Top Scorer: Gray
Best summer signing: Marco Silva
Flop of the season: Cleverley
Worst disciplinary record: Holebas
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

League position: 16th
FA Cup: Semi Finals
League Cup: 5th Round
Player of the Season: Gray
Top Scorer:Gray
Best summer signing: Gray
Flop of the season: Sinclair
Worst disciplinary record: Holebus
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

League position: 12th
FA Cup: Semi-finals
League cup: 5th round
Player of the season: Richarlison
Top scorer: Gray with 15 goals
Best summer signing: Richarlison
Flop of the season: Anyone who tries to oust Holebas from LB!
Worst disciplinary record: Holebas but only half as bad as last season
Second season for Silva: Yes
First manager to go: Benitez (after he walks away)
Notable result: A win against Spurs at Wembley

 

Since we've signed Gray I have had to edit this a bit...

 

League position: 11th
FA Cup: Quarters
League Cup: 4th Round
Player of the Season: Doucoure
Top Scorer: Gray
Best summer signing: Gray
Flop of the season: Whichever winger we panic buy on deadline day to replace Amrabat - Carillo
Worst disciplinary record: Holebas
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

Alan Shearer thinks we're going down ... shame really, I used to like him

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40955493

 

There is no logic behind either Merson or Shearer's predictions. It is based on the following so-called facts rather than the quality of our players or performance. We are a small unfashionable club; we play in bright yellow shirts; they don't like the way the club is run; we 'sack' our manager, sorry coach, every year; we play long balls forward and the list goes on. Ultimately we don't play pretty football like Bournemouth. When we play a more entertaining type of football regularly (like last week) we will start to get some credit and win a few more over. It will be interesting to see how the promoted clubs get on in the second week but any rational assessment would at least perm 2 out of 3 of the promoted clubs to go down. Merson and Shearer are stuck in a football world of 20 years ago - they are best ignored.

 

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League position: 13th
FA Cup: 3rd Round
League Cup: quarters
Player of the Season: Doucoure
Top Scorer: Deeney
Best summer signing: Richarlison
Flop of the season: Zarate maybe? Not sure how he fits the system now.
Worst disciplinary record: Holebas
Second season for Silva: Yes

 

Would love to see two of the current bottom 3 go down.

West Ham
Palace
Joined by Newcastle

Unfortunately I don't think that Brighton will get many points this season and will finish bottom.

 

If they continue to struggle I wonder how long the owners will give Houghton to turn it round before pulling the trigger

 

Looking at yesterday's highlights, it looks to me that the players just aren't up to it, much like when we came up in 1999 and 2006. Houghton cant do much unless they invest.

Glad to see Newcastle lost to Uddersfield, pushes us down to fourth though

 

Yep. More torture for Toon so worth it

 

League Posistion. 10th
FA Cup. Quarter-Finals
League cup. Winners
Player of the season. Doucoure or Pereyra
Top Scorer. Deeney
Best summer signing. Chalobah
Flop. Janmaat
Bad boy. Holebas
2nd year for Silva. Yes

 

Well done @Knight GT and @Halfwayline ; the only two to correctly predict our 2nd round league cup exit. Tbh I thought we entered at the 3rd round. Got confused with the FA cup I guess.

 

At least there's a number of us on track with the "Worst disciplinary record".

 

Wasn't rocket science!!!

 

In hindsight it was so obvious this would happen. We were all just blinded by the natural optimism of football fans.

A quick memo to anyone thinking of attending next season's League Cup 2nd round match: Don't.

 

or brain surgery. Which ironically is what Holebas could do with.

 

I wouldn't trust him with a scalpel - no way Jose!

 

League position: 1 out
FA Cup: Correct
League Cup: 1 out
PoTS: Correct
Best Summer Signing: Erm
Flop of the Season: His knee is floppy.
Worst disciplinary record: I haven't checked but I assume Deeney.
Second season for S***a: 1.5 out.

 

Can we have your World Cup predictions now?

 

Hmmm, surprised we had so many low predictions for us. I mean, we didn't even match most of them, but we weren't to know that Silva would snake us, or that our chronic injury problems would persist.
I thought we'd get top 10, and decent in the cups. Even so, we weren't far off in the league...

 

You deserve the prize for prediction of the season - handball penalties, falling over in front of their strikers etc

 

League position: spot on. Very proud of that.
FA Cup: 1 out
League cup: 2 out
POTS: no, but was great when not injured
BSS: I’d argue yes
Flop: considering Bailey’s gate and his spell at Malaga, I’d argue he was the flop of the season in more ways than one (2x points)
Discipline: no idea who it was, but it wasn’t Prodl
Second season: no.

 

I didn't seem to post on this thread, but I knew everything would unfold exactly as it has.

 

My only prediction was you would be correct in whatever you predicted. Called it.