Gianfranco Zola - Ex Manager

But surely can't surprise you, unfortunately there are those who use forums, social media etc to launch personal attacks on players, these are pathetic individuals who wouldn't have the bottle to say them to the persons face.

 

Forget the Pozzos takeover and if Zola was our manager under old owners he would have been sacked by now.
Forget the nice bloke thing, this wins u f all.
Forget last season, he's been riding his luck for too long now and the form table does not lie.
No belief, no confidence, no chance of the play offs if he stays.
It's no good keep bringing in new players, it's like pimping an old Allegro with Rolls Royce parts but not giving it any wheels, it ain't going nowhere.
The dressing room has been lost and even Zola has stated he doesn't know what to do next!
What are we waiting for, nothing will change whilst he is there we are just papering over the cracks.
Act now whilst there is still time to make something from this season or prepare for a bottom 6 finish.

 

Elton John is performing on the XFactor tonight - maybe its a ploy...

Hes actually going on there to publicly sack Zola (as hes a bit of a god) and name the top 5 candidates for Watford manager, which we have to vote for by the end of the show!

 

prentice , shut this forum down , it`s ****ing shambolic to be reading this utter tripe, sorry mate

 

I'm pretty racist to be fair. I'm just glad we can all let it out into the open as a group of supporters and stop having to cover it up.

 

Well, let's hear why you feel people are wrong. I've disagreed with thousands of posts on many forums down the years, and I've never demanded that a message board be shut down, not even tongue in cheek.

If you really do feel that strongly, then I'd like to hear your reasons.

 

Has he gone yet?

No other club in this league has a record as bad as ours right now....

 

Everyone just gets all emotional without even stating reasons as to why Zola should stay.

Nobody's denying he's a nice guy.

 

Will you please start respecting other people’s opinions, even if you don’t agree with them

What is shambolic is the constant abuse from forum members like you to anyone that has a different opinion to yourself

 

I disagree you ****.

 

If we lose against Ipswich and Millwall, the actual site itself will probably explode anyway.

 

The level of racism in football disgusts me.

How many black coaches/managers are there? We need a Rooney rule.

And yes I'm still pi55ed off with Angella's brainstorm at Boro. Those two points would have kept us up.

 

My spleen will vent definitely.

 

Forget your speech.. It means f'all.. Your a fan and thats all, like us all. The Pozzos own us and there is f'all you can do.

 

I am still trying to understand what exactly you are trying to say here. I feel you have not explained your first comments sufficiently. You do not believe Watford fans are more or less racist that others. So are you saying there are racist Watford fans and thus they would have booed him if he was black? The club that whilst racism was prevalent in the early 80s across the terraces, brought in 2 Jamaican born players into top flight football, going on to represent England, that inspired a generation like myself to get into the game.

You then mention the Rooney rule later on as something of a side track as far as I can tell?

What the hell as this got to do with Zola's ability to manage or even Angell's poor skills at passing a football, which I do agree with you on there.

Starting to feel Layton has a point :dismay:

 

Of course there are racist Watford fans. I do not believe many exhibit racial hatred but many hold racist attitudes whether they are aware of them or not.

I also believe race had a part to play in the short lived Watford careers of Tony Agana, Rod Thomas and Worrell Sterling. Though admittedly not in the case of Moses Ashikodi.

Lets face it Barnes and Blissett were brilliant from the start of their careers and were accepted from the off.

Image is everything in society and Angella's homoerotic influences on many fans distract from his ability as a footballer.

I admit I may have used a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

 

Hear them doing what Smithy? This isn't people booing when we're 3-0 down while top of the league or moaning because we've finished 3rd rather than 2nd. These are people not happy because we've lost 5 on the bounce at home for the first time in 23 years and not scored in 4 of them. I'm pretty sure if form turns around they'll be perfectly happy so of course they won't still be disgruntled.

 

Accept it and move on buddy!

 

Mirror are saying he's on the brink of leaving, but I think it's just the headline. The rest of the story has no more insight than the WO on Saturday.

Just reading what he says, you can only hope that he succeeds.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/gianfranco-zola-watford-future-doubt-2931709

 

Agana - We gave him the chance from non-league football, signed by Bassett, Harry get sacked so he joins back up with him at Sheff United.
Thomas - My favourite ever player possibly after Barnes, got England youth recognition and was predicted to be the next big thing but his career fizzled out and ended up at Carlisle. McNamee was perhaps the more modern equivalent?
Sterling - Started out in the top league but didn't have the ability for top flight football ended up being a solid lower league player in the basement divisions.

You could say the similar things about Perpetetuni, Friskin, Bakali, Lee Johnstone etc. Im my opinion, it always been ability not race with us.

Not sure on the Angella comment either, personally I am more of a Casetti man and even then, I can't understand why he played ahead of Pudil on Saturday.

 

Would be a pretty boring forum otherwise! Aren't we all meant to disagree to some degree.

 

Sorry, but I cannot agree with that.

 

Who's black?

 

HB, I appreciate interpreting a story (esp in The Mirror) is a matter of opinion but actually I think the story DOES support the headline

I know we mustn't C&P the story but look at some extracts:

left Zola considering his future after Saturday’s 1-0 loss against struggling Sheffield Wednesday and admitting he had “some considerations to make overnight.”

asked if he feared for his job. He replied: “I love what I do and I’m responsible for what I do – and I know that if I’m not doing a good job, I do something else.

“That’s what I have to consider. I love being here, but I want to be helpful – and if I’m not, someone else will be. The fans have always been supportive and good to me, but this is a game where you need to get results and not just play good football.

 

Angella.

 

I think he's taken the weekend and has done some soul searching. Knowing Zola he could well do the honourable thing and offer his resignation in the morning, but the doesn't mean the Pozzo's will accept it. I do think this is a personal crisis point for Zola though. If he really is doubting himself then from that point it only usually goes one way.

The way I see the situation is that Zola needs some help. Bringing his friend in the summer might have seemed like a good idea at the time and of course it's important for Zola to surround himself with his people, but there's no replacement for experience. Even top managers have good experienced men around them.

 

#headsgone

 

Why has racial equality been brought into this? It's a ridiculous notion.

 

Things Gianfranco has been doing since leaving Watford FC.....

[video=youtube;sV6rYWWPTQ0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV6rYWWPTQ0[/video]

 

I admire the inclusion of a keytar, but this song is atrocious.

Gianfranco's cameo made my day.