Well that was coming I guess and why wait until we're in the championship, I hate seeing all these coaches leave this club faster than they leave Victoria station and I'm really hoping for stability and success, I understand we're always going to be a stepping stone as players will go to the top clubs as will coaches if they're good enough. But to honour a contract for a couple of years is not much to ask. So onto the new guy Javi I'm not going to pretend I knew about him as I've never heard of him until today and with his fast appointment it never even gave me the opportunity to email my cv. It's a gamble but I don't think it's as big as some make out plenty of coaches have come from foreign shores and succeeded and he's already experienced a couple outside his homeland , the thing that pleases me the most is he was out of work and not poached from another club. I'd love for another up and coming English coach to be given a chance but where do you find one of them out of work that any good.
Actually I don’t read the Daily Mail but after reading your post I did have a quick look at their online pages. Omg I see what you mean. Very biased, slanted reporting, with little proper understanding of how we run our club and why it’s been successful. Not good. I’m sure somebody will post a link to Samuel’s latest piece today about ‘hapless owners’. I won’t as I don’t feel it deserves one. Silva deserved to go. Gracia looks an interesting appointment, and I’m excited to see how he gets on.
We'd all love to see us attract a coach who has won things in lesser leagues, but we've done that times now, and look how it's turned out. Maybe Gravy Thank You is more out level and the remedy to our particular malady. I am optimistic about his appointment and will give him 3 games before I boo him
From everything I've read it seems he is somwhere in the middle ground between QSF and Mazzari but closer to QSF. Pretty much what we need right now. We just need to start turning what have been defeats into draws and build from there.
Which means he’ll start out promisingly and then the fans will turn on him when he fails to turn us into Barcelona.
Or he could be like Boothroyd, comes in and manages to keep us up, then does something amazing the next season. Probably not though.
Having reflected a bit my biggest worry is how the players will react as Silva was clearly pretty popular. In the promotion season the squad pulled together because there was an obvious common purpose - promotion, and the hope they'd all get taken along to the promised land with the club. This time though it's different. As someone else pointed out on another thread if we go down most of the players we're relying on now will be offski. They don't have to be particularly concerned about playing Championship football because they won't be. And there's no stigma for a player in being relegated unless they're particularly culpable. So Mr Gravy Thank You is going to have to work really hard to convince them it's worth putting back in that 5-10% of effort that seems to have drifted away for whatever reason since the end of November.
It appears to be option B. The buzz word we'll all have to tune into going forward being 'situations'. Though 'in this moment' seems to have been handed over too. http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co....ws/javi-gracia-grateful-given-watford-1097853
There was lots of talk yesterday about new manager bounce. Interestingly, Boothroyd lost his first 3 matches in charge. And the rest is history!
The Mail have hated us since the days of one of their reporters Jeff Powell. They were in love with Bobby Moore who had been lined up as our manager by hoodwinking Elton but thankfully Bertie Mee and sensible football people persuaded him to take Graham Taylor instead. Then started the Mail's campaign against us and our long ball game.
The Mail’s stock in trade is hatred. In this case it wants people to hate our owners. It’s not an opinion, it’s a marketing method. This silly **** may even think he believes what he writes, but if he was told to he’d big us up and slag someone else off he would, like the **** sucking no morals ***** he is.
Just so! Martin Fat Sam is a mere novice in comparison to the vitriol that dripped from the pen of Poison Powell. I was in an press conference once for the WO when he was present. Smug,self satisfied and cruel. MFS has learnt well from the master.
Are you sure? Wikipedia (never a reliable source I know lol) has it as 16th April...with AB joining us late March
No and no. We were unbeaten in Joka's first four games.. two victories and two draws and GT didnt start badly, winning eight of the first 10 games.
More on the Boothroyd chat - he may of tailed off in the end, but I will always be thankful that he kept us sliding into League One that season he first arrived late.
I think it was at Lincoln GT started badly? Didn't he lose his first few opening matches as a league manager?
Over recent years it's been rare for a new WFC Head Coach to lose their opening match. I stand to be corrected on this, but I think Garcia was the only one to do so under the Pozzos.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news Malts, but "The Bold Italian" lost 3-0 away to Manchester City in his first game. If your talking about purely the Pozo era - then no none of them have. We did need a leveller against Ipswich with BS if I recall.
First games in the Pozzo era.. Zola won Sannino drew Garcia lost McKinley won Joka won QSF drew Mazzari drew Silva drew
