I reckon that game pretty much summed up the season. Left ourselves with too much to do from the start, slowly crawled back into contention but then just didn’t have the quality to see it through even when chances were there to save ourselves.
Welbeck showboating with a clear tap in the 6 yard box following by Deeney missing a free header in the 6 yard box. Take both of those and we stay up. Not good enough, story of our season.
I wouldn’t have minded staying up if we’d have seen that level of performance all year. Hopefully a change in policy moving on. Let’s see
It is astonishing isn't it? Entry level stuff. An athlete's time is short. Most of these players,if they have a brain cell will at some point in the future reflect that they wasted a large chunk of their careers. Whilst counting Gino's money that is.
I’m not really the slightest bit bothered, but the fact that we only needed to win the game but went 3-0 down sums us up perfectly.
The players tried, but ultimately that's what having a Championship quality defence and forward line gets you. The can huff and puff all they want, but lacked the ability when it mattered. Arsenal couldn't really give a toss for the last 30 minutes but we couldn't punish them. What a disaster of a signing Dawson has been- seems to just love being relegated. Deeney didn't seem that bothered when the final whistle went - either he's off or he's a joke (or both?). Sarr and Welbeck appeared to be the only two who seemed hurt at the final whistle (along with Gomes, who will be gone now). Chalobah is not the player you want to bring on when urgently trying to chase a game. He can bugger off along with his party mate Gray. Masina is a clown. Can't believe some still try and claim he's decent. He'll be right at home in the Championship but please can he also be one of the ones shipped out asap along with Troy, Gray, Pereyra, Chalobah, Deeney and Dawson?!
Good to see a Chalobah and Cleverley coming on to ensure we hold onto our relegation position, and then seeing a very brief encouraging cameo from Pedro. I think some of the non playing staff and board have a few mental issues they need to have addressed.
Welbeck shows us what you get with a striker with a bit of speed and movement in the box. Unfortunately his finishing isn’t the best but - and I do feel bad for going on and on and on about it but this is what Troy doesn’t give us. Thought Pedro looked good again, he has the sort of running style I love seeing in a footballer, he kind of glides but with pace.
Saddening to see that some fighting spirit and ability was there somewhere. Had we seen that in a few more games we’d have been fine. Always harder when you gift a few goals, but at least they gave it a go and didn’t go down with a total whimper.
If we had put that level of performance in over the season we'd probably have stayed up quite comfortably.
You’d cry too if you’d seen a 5 year contract extension melt away into a measly 3 year one due to relegation.
A season of catastrophic, inexcusable and unfathomable mismanagement from the gang of 3 and the useless talisman. Having dug ourselves out of the hole we were in we failed to strengthen in the window and collapsed under Deeney's failed leadership, Giraldi's insane micro managing and Scott's empty bull$h1t dragging us back to the Champo. I honestly couldnt have handled another season of that shyte and am genuinely glad that next season will be different one way or another.
First to say how sorry I am for everybody on this forum. We are all Watford fans. Of differing ages, genders, backgrounds, outlooks, some optimists, some pessimists but all of us support the same club. And this will hurt. A sad day, however hard some may try to shrug it off and say it doesn’t matter. People wouldn’t devote so much time posting on here if they really didn’t care about the success of the club. I doubt I will write anything original here but history will now put this season in the context it deserves. Namely a shambles from start to finish. A classic example of how not to do things. How to take a club who finished 11th and made a cup final last year and turn them into a relegation side through sheer incompetence and maybe arrogance too. Bar one glorious hope-lifting month, everything about the season ticked the box marked shambolic. Poor recruitment in both transfer windows. A terrible choice of replacement for Gracia. Sacking Pearson with the two biggest matches of the season still to play and replacing him with a popular but ultimately out of his depth temp. An interfering and overbearing incompetence of a Technical Director. A propensity to concede late goals (that one at Villa Park being the most costly of all). And in my opinion most maddeningly of all, a terrible post lockdown period in which we went behind in all nine games, had fringe players disregarding social distancing rules, looked unfit and even unmotivated. Bar Norwich, we looked the worst club once the season resumed. How was this allowed to happen? It’s inexcusable that we threw away all the credit we’d earned beating the likes of Liverpool, Wolves, Man U and even Villa at home. We gave ourselves enough opportunities to stay up and each time we failed miserably. Just an awful awful awful eleven months, and I don’t feel very confident lessons will be learned from it. Uff. Btw ultimately it didn’t affect us but Bournemouth went down as an indirect result of Sheff Utd’s goal v Villa that the broken technology failed to award. Lol
If we'd have put in that much effort in the other games since the restart we'd not be in this position. If we could hit a barn door we'd have won that comfortably, but hey ho. Personally I'd accepted relegation in November, Pearson's bounce was just some unexpected hope along the way.
Realistically we were already down after the last round of games, today was about ensuring Bournemouth game with us
I’m absolutely gutted. Questions need answering about what’s happened this season but for now I’m just gutted
Twitter ****s update: Heartbreaking Rollercoaster We'll be back Thanks for the memories We go again (not even a joke) No word from the professional overseas fans, assume they are working out who to support next season.
Gutted now know why we play with 1 upfront , we look a threat with 2 upfront , but Defense can’t hack it
And to think I reckoned Villa buying Tyrone Mings was insane. No individual played a bigger part in keeping them up. Sent from my ONEPLUS A5010 using Tapatalk
Deeney says it could be his last game for the club. He’s got a knee operation next week and then maybe the club will choose to go a different way. He’s happy he went out ‘on his shield’. Also agrees changing head coaches had an effect and says there needs to be an ‘audit from top to bottom’.
