He wasn't fantastic today but who was? He has been our best player recently though and will be a miss.
Gasper had a headed 'chance' in the second half which at least made the keeper move a couple of steps before calming picking the ball up. Davis and Sarr offer virtually nothing upfront at the moment. Both should be dropped. Sema isnt any better either in fairness but atleast he always tries his hardest. Hamza being banned for a game might not be a bad thing either, he's so deep so often he's little better than a centreback
Sorry but I don’t agree with this. Hes gone from average to poor for me in recent games. He’s completely chaotic, unable to pass the ball more than very short distances and leaves big holes in the middle with his constant haring around. He’s an enthusiastic but limited player.
No need to apologise we all have our opinions. I thought he was very good against Sheffield United the other week and was our best player by a country mile. Wasn't really what we needed against Preston to be fair as I actually am not sure this team needs both Louza and Choudhury against the weaker teams.
On paper, there have been far worse deals than £18m for Gray (what was the general feeling at the time? You know, other than his, erm, colourful past), it's just the small matter of him not being able to kick a ball properly
This club is finished as long as Pozzo stays in charge. One day the wider fanbase will wake up to it. Or doesn't matter who the manager is.
It actually feels worse than last season, awful though that was there were plenty of games that had more quality and where we played better. The opening ten or so minutes set the tone - it really summed up the Championship and not in a good way and the way we seem to have already been sucked back to its level. I watched the match on a stream with QPR fans commentating, and being naturally biased, they were saying what a good, competitive game it was. Well good maybe in the sense of enjoying seeing your players being committed to everything and winning the game, but it was a poor match for the neutral, especially second half. All that possession in their half and barely ever looking like even getting a shot on target (the 9 shots on goal with 2 on target flattered us) whereas QPR never looked as threatening as they did first half on the few occasions they broke away. Hoedt was awful - I hadn’t seen a Watford game for a while but I thought he along with Porteous were supposed to have improved our central defence? But if anything his distribution going forward seems even worse than Cathcart’s.
Sophie O spellbinding as Medea and all the cast, including the two cursed sons showed more energy, commitment and professionalism in their ninety minutes than our team have for about six months. Can someone please let me know when we've reached the last ring of Hell?
We probably all thought this club had reached rock bottom when we got relegatednthe first time. Then the second. I suspect rock bottom will be next year or the year after when the debts come home
Unless Gino sells the club to some multi billionaire, Watford will go into administration the season after next. Failure to go up this season or next, and Watford will be a part of football history. AFC Watford will start up with fans and come through the ranks of amateur and semi-pro leagues, before finally getting back into the professional leagues by 2045.
Unless there's a Watford fan out there with funds to burn who fancies cleaning up the mess, I do think administration is coming, although plenty of smaller clubs have gone through it and come out of it the other side
I don't know but I hope not. He has said he wants to be a part of the club's background team again and if he does, the first thing he can do is boot Gino and his lackey Duxbury out the door. EJ loves this club, we all know that. He surely must be hurting as much as we are right now.
This season seems to have shown that Duxbury was far less of a problem than Pozzo. Duxbury put Edwards in and seemed to want to back him. 10 games in and "I know best" Pozzo kicks out Edwards and locks Duxbury in the tower, never to be seen again. Clearly Duxbury saw the problems with journeymen managers and constant change, but narcissist Gino wasn't having it. Never thought I'd defend Duxbury, but he seemed to grasp the problems and understand that change was needed.
Careful mate, a real life COG tried justifying that us getting to the cup final made the last five years worthwhile at the match earlier. Seriously weird behaviour.
Exactly how much power does Duxbury have? Other than appointing Edwards, what has he done which can't be attributed to the Pozzos?
Hypothetically, if the Pozzos leave us as a secure mid to lower Championship club, we can have that debate over whether all of this was worth it (I think it'll be moot as I don't see it ending as happily as that), but just because they did some good things years ago, it doesn't excuse the litany of errors since...
Then make a change and leave. A man who takes a £900k packet at a job he can afford to be without for a bit isn’t our ally, he’s a spineless gutless yes man.
It should be QPR 1 JP 0. The only player who showed any bollox today. Davis, Louza and Sarr should be fookin ashamed of what they produced today. We're nothing short of an embarrassment of a club. In fact I fookin hate everything associated with it ATM. Yes I've witnessed the dark times but atleast they fookin tried.
Can't remember seeing a side so bereft of ideas. Yesterday was absolutely appalling, and the players clearly could care less. Every game Davis starts is just a massive insult to the fans
His distribution has generally been good since joining, but yesterday seemed a terrible aberration from him - there was a period at the start of the second half where he gave away about 5 passes in a row from a similar position. I do think he's usually better than that.
We should have just kept Bayo here, he's pretty similar to Gray with marginally better ball control. The closest thing we have/had to a goalscorer this season. I wonder if our fans will be a bit more forgiving of him if we kept him around for next season, given how crap the alternatives have been so far? He seems to have just been an easy scapegoat for them given his fee. I wonder if him leaving was to do with Bilic being fed up with him, more so than Gino, and any new manager who arrives in the summer will take another look at him. I'm not saying I'd have him as our first choice of course, but he does at least give us a goal threat, and he might have also functioned alright in a 2 up top system alongside a player with better link up play.
Yes I liked Bayo as a last 10/15 mins sub when chasing a goal (which is pretty much every match these days). We swapped him for a striker, who doesn’t score (and gets others’ goals disallowed), and yesterday doesn’t even touch the ball.
