No - he's already reported what the sources are telling him previously and now he is making it up as he is going along and throwing it into irrelevant articles. Sannino walks out of a 4-2 win with 10 men to essentially be asked "ARE YOU GOING TO BE SACKED YET YOU EGG FACED BALD CANUT?" If Frank Smith wrote the section on the Harlequin raid he would have tagged onto the end "Watford residents are now left with the same fear and hatred the players feel walking into training every morning". He's quite clearly flexing to restore face after he has been slapped down by Deeney 3 times in the past month.
He may be quick over a long distance but in a defender it is the first 10 metres that is the most important, yesterday proves my point, put him up against a quick winger and he struggled, bringing on Paredes who is quick stopped the threat, you say he is our quickest CB this maybe be correct, the other CB's are not that quick either
Beppe was trying to swap Tamas and Ekstrand immediately after Tamas received his first yellow. He was either ignored or there was a communication break down.
Reading their forum, their view of the game seems exactly the same as on here, which is so rare between rival fans. None of them claiming teybwere robbed, or that we cheated, or that we are crap and they are brilliant. A thoroughly decent bunch with the basis of a good team. Shame really because I felt that they could've been our new rivals.
After the second red card yesterday, I checked out the disciplinary stats. Red cards, not good, average yellow cards, and second lowest fouls committed in division - which surprises me. http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/ClubDiscipline/0,,10794~20147,00.html
Noise really doesn't travel too well in The Vic. I sit in family stand and they sang for most of the game whereas sporadic noise from the rookery was all I heard(apart from the last 10!). I suppose anyone sitting in the directors box will be able to give a true reflection on what the atmosphere is really like.
Yeah 'slapped down' so much Deeney gave him a pretty extensive interview just a couple of days ago. Ask yourself why the club haven't killed the Sannino story. There's many ways to skin that particular cat and they've done...none of them.
I sit Lower GT on the half way line and I thought Huddersfield were quite noisy. We are getting louder but generally the away fans are louder
Always like to see the opposition's view of the match afterwards and, agree, thought this was a very balanced and well written account. It still seems strange, though, seeing us being referred to as 'a very good side' and having opposition fans refer to competing 'at the highest level against a very strong and clever Watford'. For so many years Watford has been one of the teams that other clubs have presumed they should be beating, I'm still struggling to get my head around a fixture against us now being seen as one of their more difficult matches by the opposition.
I'm aware of the comment that he made. And Deeney explained it in the interview if you've read it. He was annoyed that Smith seemed to have the inside track yet the club were refusing requests for him to be interviewed directly. Now it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out Smith was getting that info from the club as it was in their interests to keep the auction rising. Smith has already confirmed it was the same source who gave him info about the inbound deals (Cathcart, Vydra, Parades) ahead of time earlier in the window and those all turned out spot on.
We shouldn't get too excited though - the 4 games we've won have been against teams in the bottom third of the division, with 2 of those in the bottom 4.
Yeah but they all could be 3 points better off in they didn't play us... & 3 points after 5 games can lift you a long way. Anyway, Rotherham away isn't easy & Huddersfield looked very decent today, plus obviously Norwich away. I do agree we need to improve & become totally accustomed to the system & tighten up against different sorts of teams. We're still a bit patchy, but I think with all Pozzo teams, they get better as the season goes on.
All the away fans say that - doesn't help they sit next to the quiet family section and an empty stand plus close to the Rous.. The Rookery is the only place where the atmosphere is maintained.
Unbeaten Charlton should be an excellent test and happens to be my first game as well so looking forward to that
Yesterday was the first time since last September we have won 3 league games in a row. The last time we completed that sequence was the 1-0 win over Wigan, which ironically was the last home win we enjoyed under Zola. We finally seem to have hit some consistency, which is good, as a lack of cost us a chance of the play offs last year as we could barely string two wins together, let alone a decent run. Now the excitement of yesterday has faded a bit, I'd sum it up as a great game, a match we should have had wrapped up by half-time, a match that at times we almost did our best to lose, and a match in which we showed huge character to actually win. I said at the time I felt that pre-season friendly when injury forced us to finish with ten men could have been very useful for practicing that scenario in a real-match situation! Any criticism will feel like nit-picking after such a good win, but I feel it's important we also acknowledge our faults for the simple reason that to challenge consistently all season in a very tough division needs constant self-analysis and improvement. We've had a nice run of fixtures and have coped well..to be serious about promotion, I'd have hoped for and almost expected 12-13 points from our opening five matches. Job done. Our discipline still needs improving, our defendings still not quite right, and for the second match in a week we've started a second half very sluggishly. It cost us on Tuesday, luckily it didn't yesterday. I also feel at the moment we have about 8 players on their game each match rather than 11, but lucikly as those 8 include the likes of Deeney, Fessi, Tozser, Abdi (to a degree), Munari and Angella, we're going to win more matches than we lose. So now 2 weeks without a match. I really hope we are not going to have 2 weeks of the Beppe sideshow. Maybe the owners will feel the need to make a statement backing him, to shut up certain journalists and those supposedly ITK once and for all. A simple 'he's going nowhere' statement would end all this circus, and let us all focus totally on the football when it resumes. Obviously there have been problems, maybe a change was mooted until the results picked up, and maybe there will still be dark days ahead (Malteser being Malteser, I still believe there will be) , but for the next 13 days until we kick a ball again I have the league table pinned up besides my PC to keep me smiling!
The club are telling the WO that Sannino is a scum canut : If he has genuine information then he would stop ***** footing around and say specifically what happened and even if not naming names, name where in the club its coming from. He's building hype out of nothing.
An earlier post posed the question as to why Harry Bunn celebrated the way he did in front of the 1881 - I may have the answer, his father Frank began his career not a hundred mile from here, in a small Bedfordshire outpost - I know it's a bit of a long shot but with his father also on the coaching staff at HTFC, it may well be that he has a strong dislike of Watford - when he was playing for them the rivalry was very intense - I can't recall exactly but I know after they won a tight tussle with a late goal their keeper (Jake Findlay?) and a couple of other players - one of which may have been Bunn senior - rather foolishly decided to pop into the supporters club for a post match drink, they got a bit more than they expected though as the place erupted and they lasted about 30 seconds getting a second shower as they beat a hasty retreat! Speculative I know, but it may explain his actions....
http://www.downatthemac.proboards.com/thread/93089/watford-point-view Whoever this mug is; a season ticket for the roof of the Queen's Car park isn't a substitute for attending the match.
Because they're not going to dignify that 'story' with a response, plus as we all know, communication from the club is very rare.
If Forestieri scores next week I hope he's consistent in the match report and says: Fernando Forestieri, who failed to net against Huddersfield last week, scored today. In the interview we asked him "have you asked Sannino if you're still under consideration for being dropped, having not scored last week?" Forestieri responded saying "I did not score last week... (this was followed by an incomprehensible foreign attempt at English which would appear as primitive mumblings in the stone age)."
UEA - you are normally very grounded but you clearly do not understand Journalism at all What they do is sniff around in bins + make bits up they can't establish + add 2 + 2 and equal 5- then publish half truths and create **** storms that wreck lives They rank below bankers estate agents and coppers for me - utter scum and our friend at the Observer is no different He sees his role as being a John Pilger or a Woodward & Bernstein - when all he is is a local hack who should report news and not go all investigative on us
Frank Smith should learn his place and go back to writing nice little articles on the councils decision to change Cassiobury's bin collection dates. About his level. Stop biting the hand that feeds you.
I agree with you, but I still find it strange that a local newspaper that relies on the goodwill and support of the local football club, and one that over the last few months has written some praiseworthy (even cringeworthy) editorials about that club (the one attacking fans who criticised the fact all our new signings are free transfers, the Welcome To Watford piece the day Beppe joined etc) should suddenly start acting the way it is, especially at a time when results are actually quite positive. As I mentioned before, it was a huge leap to go from saying there's unrest to saying BS's job is in serious doubt. They're either going to look very prescient or very foolish over the coming days, and if it's the latter, wounds may be opened that time a long while to heal.
I agree strongly with this. Personally, I don't think we will see a change of manager any time soon as I believe the Wobby has blown this Dyer/Sannino argument way out of proportion, but there is always a chance that I'll be proved wrong.
Nope...try the 2nd Watford fan on that thread. I certainly don't agree with the suggestion they out played us - in fact we should have been 3/4-0 before half time. 2nd half they came onto us naturally and of course had the man advantage. BTW I wonder if McGugan and Murray took note of the effort made by their fellow midfielders - plus the quality shown. Hopefully the past 2 results will show why they aren't playing... If not then maybe they just need to be moved on.
