Reminds me of the One Foot in the Grave episode where all Victor and Margaret's friends are in the wrong house for their house warming party as Victor's 0s look like 9s. The elderly gentleman looks forlorn as Mrs Warboys etc depart and says " Oh. I was enjoying that". Oh well. Eyes down and pray.
If nothing else, I'm looking forward to watching Bayo spend 90 minutes falling over his own feet again
Looking forward to seeing the guys I go to football with again (minus one sadly). Looking forward to a couple of beers. Off to see Hamilton afterwards in London so looking forward to that. And then there is the match, oh well, can't have everything 0-0
We've been s*** in every game against QPR since Deeney called us "their cup final" about 5 years ago. And their 0-5 demolition at the hands of Oxford tees the narrative up perfectly for them to get a healthy win on opening day.
I know in my bones this season is going to be terrible, I know that this squad is a bit unbalanced and poor compared to previous seasons but despite all that I can't help but go into the first game of the season with a bit of optimism. Maybe a few results and a defined system of play will get the ball rolling, give them some confidence and we can actually perform as a team not a group of individuals for the first time in years. It's the hope that kills . . .
It might be a welcome change for us fans to have no expectations. The problem is that our owners will have unjustifiably high expectations. Progress isn't in one direction. Changing the culture of the club is more important than promotion this season.
If there's one thing that unites Watford fans it's a good underdog story. What if Bayo scores regularly, or Bachmann has a more consistent year again? Imagine Ince being the player for us he usually is when he is against us! Even one of the youngsters getting regularly game time and playing well. Grimes? Forde? Adeyemo?
This is something I have thought of. I do think Bayo is better than what we have already seen from him. He could become a hero. Could be another Boothroyd season where no one expects anything. But what happens next year. If we go up? Squad no where near good enough. Even more work to do.
From the way pre-season and the window has unfolded, it feels like we're still floundering about trying to do up our laces on the starting block as the pistol is fired, so I presume we might well come flying out and record a surprisingly energetic result just to get some ludicrously enthusiastic and prematurely aggressively triumphant false hopes up and out there come Saturday evening.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1686270538963161088 A year ago today we beat Sheff Utd with this goal involving Dennis, Sarr and Pedro. So depressing to see the forward line we have now compared to what we had only 12 months ago and how far we continue to fall under this ownership.
Managed by an up and coming English manager who spoke well and engaged with the fans. I think last season goes down as one of the worst I can remember. I can accept doing badly in the premier league and the mid 90s was awful but it still felt like the team and fans were together, battling to stay up. Last year was utterly joyless to watch as players who didn't care strolled round and Pozzo went full mad dictator. Within a couple of seasons we'd gone from a middling premier league club to the likes of Sunderland and Stoke. Edwards was on a hiding to nothing with us. Rotten squad and a narcissistic owner. No one could have got a tune out of the dreadful squad that Pozzo and Mr Mogi had slapped together. Right, now back to my coffee as I sit looking out over the Sava river on a floating house just outside Belgrade, trying to forget about the decline of Watford for 4 more days.
We still had a (poor) prem cost squad then. We now have to build a champ cost squad. How far we have fallen” is simply from a prem team and squad to a champ team and squad. We should have enjoyed those prem years more than we did.
There’s an increasing trend in many threads on here that, despite previous evidence, people are thinking or hoping that Bayo will be the man this season: top scorer, super sub, whatever. I find that frightening and depressing in equal measure.
He has got a goal in him no doubt . However if we are away from home and under pressure will he be able to relieve that pressure by gaining good possession and holding the ball long enough to bring others into play ? . I'm not so sure as others seem to be .
Which is fine, but why have we got multi layered management/scouting team sucking millions out of the club when they only have a 50k transfer budget? The Pozzo cronies are still trashing the club for their own enrichment.
One of the very rare occasions when I almost 100% agree with you ! I do think scouting is massively important but we do seem to have an excess of chiefs without a clear defined structure. As many have said Giaretta seems a waste of space and money. At least Bayat seems less involved ?
NHS, Police, Fire Brigade, all job titles that save lives should be on that sort of money or near enough. You do wonder what Duxbury actually does to earn such a massive salary. Not suggesting he is stealing a living, but it does make you wonder.
Bought 2 tickets for this and now have been offered a pair next to a mate, so got 2 spare (1 Ov-65) in the SEJ if anyone wants them. Not the best seats.
Can we actually name 9 subs worthy of the name ?! Probably be a few kids then the club will say they are giving them a chance.
Theres a few QPR fans floating around work and their every bit as pessimistic. Everyone of them thinks we will win this weekend and that they are probably going down - so that almost guarantees a QPR win then.
QPR seem to be looking for some defenders. https://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/qpr-trio-to-miss-watford-game-as-ainsworth-chases-defender-deal
