Troy Deeney

Decent finish at the weekend. Also played a beautiful through ball for the brum player to make a complete dogs dinner of a 1v1 on the keeper with no one else near.

 

John Barnes was arguably the best player ever to play for this club. He also consistently turned it on week in and week out. He them moved to Liverpool and was voted Football Writers' Player of the Season for his first 2 seasons there. He could also play centre forward, as he did in our runners-up year when Ross Jenkins got injured. He, Cally, Luther, Ross/Mighty Mo/Mark Falco were part of the one of the best forward lines in the country. An era when teams used to dread playing us. Despite playing on trice pudding patches at times, his dribbling skills were immaculate and he could ghost past a player and get a pin point cross in from the tightest of angles. His free-kicks weren't bad either.



Watford beating a very good Liverpool team during GTs first era:



Deulofeo was highly skillful but was a tad inconsistent.

 

Despite the 82/83 team finishing runners-up, the squad that finished 9th in 86/87 was a better squad on the whole and that to me was peak 80s squad and then Bassett dismantled it in one summer.

 

Watford win performance of the week as voted by the LMA.

https://www.watfordfc.com/news/news...verton-wins-lma-performance-of-the-week-award

 

To beat a team that won 7-0 to that award takes some doing.

 

and 5-0 away to Man Utd.

 

Great to see that his time at WFC accounts for only the first 30 secs of the 4 min 39 secs of "the best of John Barnes".
Great second goal against Liverpool in theother video.

 

Think they missed a sentence:

"The experienced and highly distinguished panel has managed a combined total of over 6,500 competitive matches in professional football. Rachel Yankey was also on the panel."

 

Training Ground Guru | Head of Performance Garcia exits Watford after only four months

Jordi Garcia has left the club. Disappointed to hear that.

 

Good news. Hopefully all the remaining failure specialists with links to munoz are also removed from the club.

But surely after the abject performances so far this season the Head of Performance should have honourably resigned weeks ago rather than waiting to be sacked. What a coward and a fraud.

 

Finally we have a head coach who truly knows what he's doing and isn't learning on the job. The organisation and pressing today was unbelievable and you can see the players believe in it as the energy levels today were incredible.

I've always maintained that we're probably going down but Ranieri will make me eat my words if he keeps getting performances like that out of the team. Get him two or three players that he actually wants in January and we could have a strong second half of the season.

 

He is definitely not afraid to make big calls within matches and they certainly look the right choices. I can honestly say we're in safe hands at the moment.

 

**** Gengenpress. All hail Ranieri-press.

 

Perfect day for him, a 4 goal attacking performance and he still doesn't have to fork out for a pizza!

 

I dunno, he might have to buy Ole one to help with the long hitchhike back to Manchester.

 

We’d probably be looking at our first ever top division title if we’d not pissed about all summer letting Munoz do whatever it was that he did, and given Ranieri a whole pre-season.

I bet he keeps us up effortlessly, and then gets sacked next September after 0 wins in the opening 5 games.

It’ll be a wonderful journey.

 

Ole at the wheel no more. Not sure if you’ve seen the news.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54826343

 

There’s a lot to dislike about Watford at times - but my god, Ranieri and Sissoko are 2 things that I’ve loved most about it in years.

 

Gotta love uncle Claudio. Little old Watford 2-1 up against Big, Bad Manchester United with Ronaldo on the pitch? Hmm lets take off a midfielder for another striker and score two more.

 

If we are to thank anyone for yesterday, it’s Nigel Pearson. Ranieri has just taken a good thing and is letting it play out.

 

The burning question is why did the Pozzos insist on trying the failed other nationality manager experiment? If we'd have stuck with Italian managers from the outset we'd be an established top half premier league side.

 

The only way I will accept Ranieri leaving is if he retires.

A master of the game - give him the tools he needs (defenders) and he will take us to our highest PL finish in coming years.

 

Troy speaking out (again):

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/60486426

TBF I 'get' what he says. I always used to feel slightly ashamed when walking through St Mary's graveyard (on the way to our weekly post-crash physiotherapy sessions) and I was asked about the memorial by my ASD son didn't know it was for and why there was only one.

 

Think he’s in Talk Sport as well this morning incidentally.

 

I didn't know he was behind(?) "...taking the knee..." in the EPL.

 

funnily enough, Troy has been at the heart of my anti-racism teaching this year. i used his previous comments to lead a discussion and made posters featuring him (in Watford kit)

 

The 'Wood GK Nathan Ashmore was supposed to speak to the kids at my son's SEND class/school but covid came along... Home schooling this 'unit' allowed me to show off my extensive familiarity with the work of Benjamin Zephaniah - first time I've regretted having stopped, ahem, 'smoking'.

 

Not going so well at Birmingham (although it seems the anger is also towards the club in general)

 

Birmingham are a poorly run club with or without Troy, but we all know he was no longer the player he was at least three seasons ago, so it was never going to be the fairytale everyone connected to Birmingham hoped it would be.

 

I would have thought getting relegated would be the worst feeling he's had as a professional.

 

In fairness, there's a bit of a difference between getting hit for 6 by Man City and Blackpool!

 

“You know, Troy! You know!”

Superb.