Pre-season 2019

Foulquier! Hope we see him get some minutes, he'd be an upgrade on Janmaat and probably Kiko as well from what I've seen.

 

Watford winning 1-0. Capoue outside the box and it deflects in.

Deeney has had one cleared off the line but QPR did hit the post early on.

 

There's no such thing as a friendly between us and are ryvles QPR.

 

Looking at some of these challenges flying in from QPR I think my hypothesis about Doucs and Deulofeu being wrapped in cotton wool could be a valid one.

 

“Defender signed from Championship club in ‘looking poor against Championship opposition’ shocker”

 

Never thought I would see him in a competitive game for Watford. Maybe I won't as there seem to be a few in the team / squad today that are likely not to be with us when the season starts. Let's see what happens.

 

...?

 

One week out from the start of the Championship season...
45 mins in...

L*ton 1-4 Norwich

 

Come on mate, no need to be like that.

 

I understand this isn't the right place to ask, but has anyone come across any flowing rivers?

 

What formation did we play 1st half?

 

36=Foulquier?

 

Slightly off topic but still pre season related: not received my ST yet? Have they been sent out?

 

Have you moved seat/ new ST?

 

Success had a good half and a bit today. Probably his best since Wolves away.

 

If you’re a new ST holder then yeah, about 3 weeks ago.

 

Like signing a new player ?

 

Wouldn’t know what that feels like

 

Watford win 1-0.

 

Nope. 7 yrs

 

I'm aware it's pre-season, so things have to be taken with a pinch of salt. We also finished 1-0 vs them last season and if we can repeat our league performances as well then there can't be massive complaints. Still, here goes:

Foster - had yet another worrying moment misjudging coming off his line vs a quick player, from which we almost conceded. Other than that, fine.
Kabs - not really involved or tested.
Dawson - Looked good in their box, but poor in ours. Misjudged a couple of headers and got dribbled passed easily. Slightly concerning.
Prodl - wouldn't want to use him in the PL given his lack of pace, but actually looked more solid defensively than Dawson. Sharper than I've seen from him for a while. Might be a cup regular.
Masina - trash.
Femenia - One of the few bright sparks
Capoue - Class. Standard.
Hughes - playing in a three-man midfield vs Championship opposition, and still looks poor. As soon as any opposition player comes near him he realises he's too slow and weak to evade them, so he throws himself to the ground hoping to get a free-kick, half the time it doesn't work and he just loses the ball. Almost as infuriating as Jurado's backwards passes.
Quina - bright at times, but his passing was a bit sloppy compared to other times I've seen him. Unlike Hughes, when he gets fouled it's actually from the opponent having to take him out.
Success - looked decent overall, however he suddenly disintegrates whenever he gets in the last third, which isn't really what you want from a striker.
Deeney - completely anonymous. What's the point?!

Notable mentions from the team that came on at 60 minutes:

Cathcart looked drunk. Really. What's up with him? Didn't feature vs Leverkusen at all either. Faces a real race against time to be in contention to start vs Brighton on this evidence.
Foulquier - exists. Based on that showing, might as well not for us.
Sema - not the answer.
Okaka - Only alright, but did more than Deeney in his 30 minutes.

 

Massive win!! Are you watching Wolverhampton Wanderers?

 

I did not watch the game against QPR so I can not comment on Cathcart's performance today, but he played the full second half against Bayer Leverkusen and was okay in that game.

 

Glowing praise from lowerrous there.

 

With that sort of praise I’m putting us down to win the league! We’re going to do a Leicester, and now your going to believe us, we’re going to do a Leicester!

 

I'm told we won this game 1-0. Got this from a source, will likely break soon.

 

Disaster as this result undoubtedly is, let’s hope the club do the sensible thing and start building a team capable of getting us promoted back to the Championship in three seasons time.

 

Shows how far we have come. We lost to this lot a few years ago in pre season. Majestic

 

Lets hope we got the Dryworld Cup out of their trophy cabinet before leaving.

 

We've clearly not improved on last season though. Same result, same deflected goalscorer.

 

Okay, well I only saw the highlights of that one, didn't realise. It's odd that he keeps being paired with Mariappa in his cameos though - he certainly hasn't played a minute yet together with Dawson, which is strange considering that most would have probably expected those two to be our first choice.

He really was all over the shop in his cameo today.

 

Just got back from Loftus Road .

What a **** hole .

Makes our **** hole look like a ******* palace .

Probably the only place that has a lower quality gene pool than The Scum .

Still it shows some foresight from Gino and Dux coming to these clubs pre season as we should seamlessly adjust when we have to play them every week next season.

 

From where I was sitting - in the south Africa road stand with the qpr fans - he looked dreadful. A certain contender for this seasons scapegoat