So here we go for a Wilder ride for the last 11 games. Let's be honest this season has been more disconnected than last year which sums up the current Pozzo apathy around the club. Credit to our new boss for quoting GT and trying to rally the troops but we've been here too many times to really hope for much. What line up Wilder will deploy is anyone's guess but let's hope his main priority is to get Sarr to at least be more than a bit part player. Injury news: Looks good as we have options at RB, RWB and hopefully never again Craig Cathcart there! QPR news: Rangers are assessing Ilias Chair, Ethan Laird and Kenneth Paal and hope they will also return to the squad this weekend. Dykes is back after illness too. Favourite Loftus Road moment: Tommy Smith late winner. Scenes in the away end like no other. Link to QPR forum match thread: https://www.wearetherangersboys.com/forum/general/qpr-fans/2587809-match-thread-qpr-v-watford Tache predicts: 1-2 late winner from Pedro
I will be closer to the pitch at QPR than I am at Vic, I hope Davis will be able to hear me telling him he is ****. I don't actually want him to hear me as I hope he doesn't get off the bench.
They haven't won in 13 games (including a cup loss to Fleetwood), and have lost their last 5 on the bounce...
QPR will begin their march to safety here. Only going as Shepherds Bush is usually good for a few beers.
Im near from too Div4. We can team up, reckon we can take him together. You distract him from the front by letting him repeatedly punch you and Ill sneak round the back and trip him over.
CW is working his magic already. With the exception of Kalu, I think that the only players not available are probably out for the season anyway (Cleverley, Kayembe, TDB, Sierralta). It's also questionable whether any of them would have made the squad in any case.
If he's going to go three at the back and with wing backs, and Ferreira is now fit, I'd say this is about as good (I use that world very loosely) as it gets: ----------- Bachmann (sigh) ----------- ----- Cathcart - Porteous - Hoedt ----- Ferreira - Choudhury - Louza - Sema ------------------ Pedro ------------------ ---------- Sarr (sigh) - Araujo ---------- Sarr is garbage and not a striker, but Davis might actually be even more garbage and even less of a striker, so Sarr is somehow potentially the lesser of two evils here, by about 0.1%.
Think this is what i'd go for as well, think it actually ticks a lot of boxes and *should* be effective.
Genuinely interested to see what he does. I think he might play Pedro up with Sarr, Louza behind and bring in an extra CM (which would have to be Gaspar ?). Will he bring our £16m valued LWB back in for Sema ?
For 45mins last weekend we also had our best side out, and played like a bunch of strangers. There is always a question whether or not the players will want to play for Wilder and we get the fabled "bounce". What I would like to see is sticking with a formation, changing it if needs be, and making subs at the right times of the game. Not taking off forwards for defenders when we are chasing a game.
Must win game. Just tell them to take more shots on goal, get more crosses into the box, press harder, move the ball quicker up the pitch and take a chance. Just be more positive in general.
While this may not be a good game by any means, this is the first match I’ve looked forward to in a while as it’s one of those games where anything could happen (expect possibly them hammering us). Will we see the QPR that was top earlier in the season (there’s also the derby factor), or one that is as bad as their slide down the table has suggested, and will we see a revitalised Watford under a new and experienced manager (QPR have changed manager as well recently but they are yet to get off the mark under ex-player Ainsworth)? Someone said we don’t have a good record against QPR, but we did the double over them during both of our first two promotions to the Prem, and have had our fair share of memorable victories over them, most notably Doyley Day and the 3-1 at their place when I think they had a 100% home record. And wasn’t there that comical moment at Loftus Road during one of the last games of 2005/06 when they thought they’d scored and we went up the other end for Ash to equalise while they were wrongly celebrating?
I don't know how I feel about this, I don't know whether to go into it almost as a free hit seeing as the play-offs are more distant than ever points-wise, or whether this could be the start of our play-off charge. Naturally, I'd also much rather not lose to them as they are an annoying team who always seem to ruin our day of late, but from my perspective growing up in Watford, I know few Rs fans so I wouldn't call it a derby (obviously wouldn't say the same about L*ton despite not knowing too many summers until recently!), those living south of me might not agree though
20 word review: This squad should be top six. They don't care enough to achieve this. Gino reaps what he sows. Pozzo out.
Just listened to Wilder's press conference & he certainly seems motivated. Saying all the right things etc. Let's just hope the players will respond and put in some effort but I'm not holding my breath.
Forget the game, my main worry is Mooney tweeting something anti-Tory and getting told to 'step back' from Hive Live.
