Relegation watch

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by IRB, Dec 12, 2017.

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Are we going to get relegated?

Poll closed May 24, 2018.
  1. No

    87 vote(s)
    79.8%
  2. Yes

    22 vote(s)
    20.2%
  1. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Did they ever deal with that fat goonbar who ran on and hugged Gomes in the last few minutes?
     
  2. onion8837

    onion8837 Reservist


    first trophy ?
     
  3. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    Joka was brave bold and enigmatic. Didnt stop me wanting him booted out when initial results were bobbins.

    Same for Flores. Same for all of them really.
     
  4. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    Yeah they made him club Captain....
     
  5. Luther Bassett

    Luther Bassett Reservist

    The good, the bad and the indifferent feature in that list.
     
  6. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    Cathcart (very good), Ekstrand (mid-Championship defender), Connolly (played like 5 games), Angella (scored a few and decent with his feet, but mid-Championship defender), Hoban (mid-table Championship defender), Bassong (upper-end Championship defender and definitely improved us, but played less than a quarter of our games and left mid-season), Pudil (crap), Paredes (crap), Layun (unsuited to the league), Tozser (good deep-lying pivot, but was easily bypassed defensively), Munari (I'm honestly struggling to remember him! I think he started well, but lost form and was dropped by Joka before we went on a good run of form?) and Watson (was there for half a season and instantly improved us, which gives me confidence that Toszer and Munari were not good enough defensively).

    How many did we keep, even as fillers, for our Premier League squad?
     
  7. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    Third Division title 69? 4th Division title 78? Second Division Champions 98? Play off winners 99 & 2006?

    Had we won the Championship it would have been our highest level trophy yes.. but not our only one.

    KEN FURPHY Division Three title.jpg.gallery.jpg
     
  8. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    Apologies, I meant major trophy but that didn't come across.
     
  9. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    No worries.. gave me a reason to make up a Watford trophy montage :)


    I wonder what actually counts as our highest honour.. old 3rd division title or Championship play off winners?
     
  10. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    The play-off trophy is false one. You only have to finish 3rd at best to have a shot at it and it’s just something to wave on the day at Wembley if you win. Remember, you get nothing in the way of a trophy for finishing second - as we well know...
     
  11. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Actually, we did. It's just such a super lame concept you'll barely find an image of it.
     
  12. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    You missed out

    A vital trophy in our club's amazing history.
     
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  13. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    True.. they might just as well wave a cheque around at the Play off final!

    But is it worth less than our highest "normal" honour.. the 3rd level title?
     
  14. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Yes, otherwise you go down the Wenger route of saying finishing 4th is a trophy.
     
  15. Pretty sure, if you are talking about honours, that either FA Cup Runners Up, or Football League Runners Up are our highest.
     
  16. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

    If it helps your confidence with this bet and my awful gambling luck lately, only I could lay money down on man city v wigan and actually lose!!!!!
     
  17. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

    I'm not even mad! Fair play Wigan!!!
     
  18. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    It's what the cup is a about. They were played off the park by 10 men, 83% possession to 17%, 26 shots to 4, 14 corners to none, but won.
     
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  19. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    Yes.. well they always list runners up places in any list of honours but i bet Willis will say you don't get a trophy for coming second :)
     
  20. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    First is first and second is nowhere!
     
  21. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Great memories, but where did that quarter of a century go?
     
  22. StuBoy

    StuBoy Forum Cad and Bounder

    Luton put to sword 3-0 in the quarters! Fond memories.
     
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  23. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Yes. Players make a difference. Three strikers who are rated very good by the standards of their division is pretty much a luxury. I don't have any stats in front of me, but surely Deeney, Vydra, Forestieri and Abdi were all scoring shed loads of goals when we got promoted. I'm sure Guardiola is a very fine manager, but look at the players he has at his disposal.
     
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  24. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Couldn’t agree more. Players 90%, manager 10% in my book. I hate the cult of the manager these days, which was really ramped up with the arrival of the self-publicist Mourinho.
     
  25. Aberystwyth_Hornet

    Aberystwyth_Hornet Squad Player

    How can you all forget the Cupa de Ibiza which proudly sat on top of paperwork on a filing cabinet in the ticket office for years?
     
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  26. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Have "we" FORGOTTEN the big Trophy win in 2000 so quickly? Plastic fans, the lot of you.
     
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  27. Right. But if the powers that be feel obliged to honor our shame...

    Even first looser is something.
     
  28. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

    That was an awesome pre season tour!
     
  29. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Wayne Hennessey has just done his Achilles leaving Palace with no senior keepers.
     
  30. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    In Hamleys at Christmas the guy trying to sell my boy one of those hover footbalk things told us he was friends with Munari. I said he was good when the sun was shining but then went AWOL for months. He said he was hating the weather and also was injured that's why his form went off so much.
     
  31. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Haven't they just signed their equivelent of Gary Plumley ?
     
  32. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    Hennessey already is their equivalent
     
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  33. vic-rijrode

    vic-rijrode First Year Pro

    We finished officially 4th in the FA Cup in 1970 - I was at the first 3rd/4th place play-off for the semi-final losers at Highbury against Man Utd that season which we lost 2-0.
    Don't think we got a trophy though and the concept of a 3/4 place in the FA Cup was quietly ditched soon after in 1974.

    Not many clubs have finished 4th in the FA Cup though....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup_Third-fourth_place_matches
     
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  34. lutonh8a

    lutonh8a Squad Player

    West Ham have been charged by the Football Association over a breach of anti-doping regulations.
     
  35. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Apparently this is fake news.
     
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