as opposed to Gray who scuffed 2 chances to score when the opposition are up the pitch chasing a goal
Agreed. I think he was looking good before the Burnley game, and is starting to show he's a solid player.
But he battled today, won some tackles and bust a gut to get forward before the goal. Admittedly he wasn't on long enough to get bored with msking the effort.
We’ve got super Nigel Pearson He knows exactly what we need Cathcart at the back Deeney in attack He gonna keep us in thePremier League
I would just like to point out that without Gray's shot heading into the corner the opportunity would not have fallen to Pereyra in the first place. Both players were bought on late in the game as fresh legs. They are not good enough to start games as it stands. The sooner Gray leaves this great club the better, that way I wont be able to read all the cr*p spurted out every time he is on the pitch.
just imagine if I actually came to a home game and sat in the Rookery bogs...the mind boggles at the potential outcome.
Start to finish magnificent. Chalobah is back.. Capoue imperious.. we are finally seeing the Dawson we thought we had bought for the first time... Sarr dangerous... even Deeney running in behind and I never thought to see that! Douche brilliant... Masina brilliant... all of them at least 8/10. Nige is a genius. Come on Citeh!
When Pereyra scored we had 5 players in their box, in injury time! And yet it wasn't just throwing players forward, it was controlled. How many times did Bournemouth give the ball away? Often under little pressure. Saint Howe said the reason they let in the first goal was because they tried to play the game properly. If that is playing properly, then no wonder they are struggling. Suddenly our goal difference is also looking half decent compared to our rivals despite the Man City thumping. Every player put a shift in and played well. We looked so solid throughout the game. COYHS!
I'm not, I'm just happy Nige gave him a chance which some of us were worried he wouldn't after his petulance last week.
This is only the third time in our top flight history we've picked up 13 points over five games (we've never won 15). Who can remember the other two times? The same players that were slated for setting many other bad records are changing things around!
Had to look them up - the first sequence was in late 1984: Ipswich (a) 3-3, Sunderland (h) 3-1, Sheff Wed (h) 1-0, Stoke (a) 3-1, Nottingham Forest (h) 2-0. The next was from late November to Boxing Day 2015: Villa (a) 3-2, Norwich (h) 2-0, Sunderland (a) 1-0, Liverpool (h) 3-0, Chelsea (a) 2-2. Surprised none of them were from 1982-83 (we lost a lot of games for a 2nd place side), 1983-84 (where we had a really good second half of the season following a terrible start with an injury-ravaged side) or 1986-87. I should have remembered the sequence from 2015 as I saw all those games, going to Norwich and Chelsea, but it didn't immediately occur to me that we had such a sequence during the Pozzo era, during which we've been so inconsistent!
I had toast and marmite and a liquid almost but not quite entirely unlike tea! Good to see Danny D&D proving such a great acquisition! Three nil!
Excellent performance. Committed and dangerous. What an important win that was. I think Masina was very good and hope he starts the next few games while Kiko recovers.
I'd come in and grease their poles for them. Can't believe the turnaround at our club. If you'd told me after that whimpering loss to fellow strugglers, Southampton, that we would go on a run of 12 points out of 15, be out of the bottom 3, scoring goals, keeping clean sheets and looking every inch like survival was inevitable, I would not have believed you. I didn't believe it. Simple as. I thought we were dead and buried. We'd had two coaches have a crack at it, with very little to separate the abject performances and mostly deserved, poor results. Many players looked finished. Now, the likes of Kiko, Chalobah, Masina, Doucoure, Deeney - all reborn. I never called it, I never saw it, I utterly didn't believe it and I'm completely amazed and delighted it is occurring. I didn't dare hope for a win today, let alone a comfortable stroll, because the game was so massive for both sides and Bournemouth have shown us year in year out, they are no mugs, so to have such a comprehensive, clean win is huge. Let's hope we can get some players back from injury to keep the momentum going. I said at the time that if Pearson got us safe, it would be the biggest achievement of any Watford manager in my lifetime. I stand by that. If we stay up this season, Pearson is automatically going to be up in the pantheon of the greatest managers I've seen at Watford, alongside GT and errr, the others. He's totally transformed the whole ethos of the club. I'm in awe of him and the whole collective improvement around the club since his arrival and it's utterly no coincidence that this turnaround in form happened at exactly the same time as Stuboy resuming his duties with his magical stool. Bless them all and COYH!
Funnily enough this situation feels a bit like that of 2014/15, if more nerve-wracking - several players not pulling their socks up, us in 6th place adrift of the automatic spots (and even a play-off place looking precarious), a terrible record against our promotion rivals, before the new manager turns us around mid-season. Like last time round, quite a bit of tension where every point matters and we have to get many more before the job's done, but I'm enjoying the excitement!
Yeah it wouldn't have surprised me with the number of results that have gone against us if City were held to a draw, but they're coasting it.
Comment on BBC: "Watford coach driver has chucked us out at Fleet Services Northbound because (and I quote) 'We're going no further until this coach stops smelling like a curry house' He's sat in the cafe with his tea and sausage roll sulking."
