Watford FC 1-1 Crystal Palace - 26/12/2016

Discussion in 'Match Day' started by hornetgags, Dec 22, 2016.

  1. Ghost of Barry Endean

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    If BFS is in, he'll only have Christmas Eve and Christmas day to instill this new approach. I reckon he won't want a defeat first game and appointment will not be until next week.
     
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    Anyhow, them palarse singy blokes will be all loud, so 1881 et al, we need to be singyer and louder.

    I'm sure I read somewhere there's no trains on Boxing Day, so maybe they won't come?

    I'll be having a hangover
     
  5. hornetgags

    hornetgags McMuff's lovechild

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    Just ran into Iggy at Morrisons, shook his hand and wished him a happy Christmas.
     
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    We should get at their players with lots of taunts of how they got Pardew sacked and that Sam's a big fat crook.
     
  7. Ghost of Barry Endean

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    Bizarre. He's doing his show on 6 Music as I type. Might be pre-recorded though.
     
  8. hornetgags

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    It was definitely him...he was taking a selfie for Instagram (ok that last bit was a lie).
     
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    We're going to lose this one, whoever we put out. It's just inevitable.
     
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    Yep nailed on defeat if ever I saw one. Like when we were last on tv on Boxing Day at home to Wolves and lost a miserable game 0-1. Expect a repeat this Monday.
     
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    Monday.
     
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    By a strange coincidence I just ran into Jamie Vardy at Lidl
     
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    God, I remember that. Even took some relatives to this one, they weren't impressed.
     
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    Im chuckling at the media frenzy thats surrounding Big Sam, like he s the greatest manager thats walked the earth. It reminds me of the cliched stories we heard last year about Ighalo and Deeney every game, even though the Watford fans knew they were seriously underperforming.

    This is the table the BBC are wheeling out...

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    The facts in that table tell you that every club hes managed hes conceded more goals than scored, and that he averages about 1.2 points per game ie 45 points over a season. Hardly the stats of a top manager.
     
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    The stats suggest he's average but he's good at getting a bit of fight and being safe but nothing more.

    In fact I felt as England manager we were never going to get relegated.
     
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    Sad but true.
     
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    His brother Jimmy was better though!
     
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    Cheers. Modified accordingly.
     
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    Did his trolley veer off course and end up in the vegetables?
     
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    He should have tried the booze aisle if he was looking Troy.
     
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    I can't wait to not go to this game
     
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    Hope he wasn't seriously hurt! I trust you reported the incident to your insurers.
     
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    So he wont be playing on Monday, did you call an ambulance or take him down A & E yourself?
     
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    Deeney at 7/1 for first goal scorer looks good (based on law of averages rather than recent evidence). Palace are a shambles and anyone who thinks that fat, chiselling, gum-chewing, slob Allardyce can turn them round in two days is in for a shock. 4-1. Happy xmas to all
     
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    Got to beat Palace in honour of George Michael now.
     
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    Yep. Sunderland improved under Fat Sam but it took him about 6 months
     
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    But according to the media Sam will turn the Palace relegation prospects into title favourites after 1 hour training session
     
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    I wonder whether he had time to enjoy a couple of pints of wine with his Christmas dinner?
     
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    This. Nothing else matters. Bushey Meads finest son
     
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    There's so much pessimism on this forum that we're bound to win now. In 7 hours you lot are going to be hailing this as one of the best Watford squads ever put together and that we're bound for Europe in a matter of a season or less. Cheers.
     
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    Really?

    The only thing we'll get from the game, a Deeney penalty, in a 1-3 defeat
     
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    Yep a hard fought snatching of defeat from the jaws of victory looks on the cards.
     
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    I'm as trepidatious about our possibly makeshift defence facing Fat Sam's aerial bombardment as anyone, and the fact that it is now being launched at us in the colours of the Holmesdale Ultras is like a perfect storm of terrible omens.

    That being said, remember Sammie's first game at Sunderland was a 1-0 loss to a much-worse-than-currently West Brom, and they were still on the wrong end of embarrassing tankings, such as the 4-1 against Spurs, in January of last season. That match marked Kirchoff's debut and made him look like the worst CB in the league, and look at what Sunderland fans think of him now, so there's always plenty of scope for mistakes even under fire from the assembled siege engines of Allardici.
     
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    Is anyone remotely excited by the prospect of Ighalo and Deeney as our front two for this ?

    I can't remember the last time I genuinely was. Sometime around the Man City game in January I think. That's pretty shocking now I've come to think of it.
     

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