The Premier League - 2021-2022

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by The Voice of Reason, Apr 26, 2021.

  1. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    Weird seeing a team in yellow unsettle an opponent constantly with a well-coordinated press.
     
  2. LondonOrn

    LondonOrn Squad Player

    I suppose people thought they'd struggle because of Vieira's limited experience as a manager and it was primarily Hodgson keeping them afloat but going by the BBC highlights he seems to be everything that Xisco wasn't at this level - pressing from the front with aggression and making substitutions that actually improve the result.
     
  3. RS2

    RS2 Squad Player

    Hughes playing the role of squad filler nicely.
     
  4. Heidar

    Heidar Squad Player

    Palace concede another 95th. Phew
     
  5. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Unlucky Paddy
     
  6. LondonOrn

    LondonOrn Squad Player

    Or not so much...

    Was bringing on aging Tomkins who's hardly played in the last two seasons really a wise move? It just brought on the late pressure that led to their equalizer, when they'd been doing fine containing Arsenal up to that point.

    Looks like Arteta is on borrowed time anyway, getting outplayed by Brighton and only scraping a point at home to Palace doesn't look like someone who's really turned the corner.
     
  7. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Another team showing passion and tenacious attitude compared to our gutless cowards. Notable exceptions for Sissoko and some of the forwards. Foster, Kucka, Kiko we are looking at you. Cathcart and Masina are just useless so get a pass due to Pozzo incompetence.
     
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  8. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    Odds on Arteta outlasting Ranieri?
     
  9. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

  10. lutonh8a

    lutonh8a Squad Player

    Our team consisted of players that had barely played all season at that stage and Palace had their first team playing and still lost 1-0.
     
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  11. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    No idea what arsenal fans and hierarchy see as par performance these days. With the team they now have, they have no right to expect anything other than mid table.
     
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  12. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    It is very contradictory considering the deals City have in place, but at the same time I’m not sure why Newcastle are complaining because their owners aren’t connected to the Saudi state…. Are they?

    You can see the concern though, they could immediately tie up a sponsorship deal with someone like Aramco who are the most profitable company in the world and then FFP goes out the window.
     
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  13. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Vieira's lack of experience was also the main reason why I wondered if they'd struggle, but they made good (and costly) signings in the summer with Guehi, Edouard and Olise and have a decent squad. Gallagher has also surprised me a bit so far this season.
     
  14. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Fair comment - thought we were a bit lucky to win though .

    Take it though .
     
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  15. Eric IS Bananman

    Eric IS Bananman Academy Graduate

    Rumour around twitter Doucoure is out for the season with a broken foot.
     
  16. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    That's ok, he'd still run rings around our cement shoed heroes.
     
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  17. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Didn’t he do the same last season ?
     
  18. Eric IS Bananman

    Eric IS Bananman Academy Graduate

    That's right, was it a broken foot though? I remember him being out for a good while.
     
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  19. onion8837

    onion8837 Reservist

    Looks pretty definite that he is out for a while, if not the whole season. Calvert-Lewin is out until Xmas they reckon too. Hoping Richarlison doesn't make it back for Sat as well.

    Everton 4 (Davies 2, Rondon 2) Hornets 0
     
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  20. Eric IS Bananman

    Eric IS Bananman Academy Graduate

    At least it's progress, conceding one less per game.
     
  21. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Townsend is bound to score !
     
  22. RS2

    RS2 Squad Player

    I'll rip your arm off for a draw. Anything that gets us closer to beating 11 points.
     
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  23. Heidar

    Heidar Squad Player

    Metatarsal for Doucs. Shame as he was playing very well, but potentially good news for us if we remember how to play football.
     
  24. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

  25. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Contrast that to the NFL which is 95%, which is surprising, when from the outside you generally assume the US has a lot more antivax nutters than we do.
     
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  26. BusheyOrn

    BusheyOrn Reservist

    68% double dose, much higher percentage have had the first one.
     
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  27. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    Mmm, and they do, but it's because the NFL have put very strict rules in place essentially enforcing it, which has created an amusing dichotomy between NFL being the sport of the 'freedom' obsessed right-wing/libertarian ****wits, and its strong no-nonsense stance on bullshyt that flies directly in the face of the lack of brain cells inherent in a great deal of its supporter base.

    Also, really we have to take a lot of the blame for the modern, virulent strain of the anti-vax movement thanks to our exporting of Andrew Wakefield. I watched a documentary on this a few weeks ago, actually (on channel 4, I think) - fascinating and horrifying/depressing/etc in equal measure.
     
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  28. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Then why on earth haven’t they had the second one?
     
  29. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Wakefield is the biggest hack going, how people listen to him I'll never know.
     
  30. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I am not religious, but I hope there's a hell, just for people like him.
     
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  31. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    Oh absolutely, but he's much, much worse than that, too - he originally came up with his fake anti-vax study to try and discredit the existing MMR jabs, because he had taken out patents on individual versions of each jab that he was planning to supply once he had sunk the joint shot - it was a purely venal move, and look at what it has cost us all.
     
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  32. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    Obviously that doesn't even take into account everything he has done subsequently, which is even worse and more knowing than his original despicable, repulsive, psychopathic sin.
     
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  33. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    The absolute idiocy of people who follow him. He's undermined 2 centuries of vaccine progress due to his own greed and arrogance. Utter scum.
     
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  34. WatfordÉire

    WatfordÉire Squad Player

    Looks like Everton will be without Calvert-Lewin, Demari Gray and Doucoure on Saturday, 3 important players for them, Richarlison is a doubt too.

    Clutching a bit maybe, but we need all the help we can get at the minute.
     
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  35. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Behind the Bastards did a great feature on him.
     

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