Marco Silva Sacked

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by PowerJugs, Jan 21, 2018.

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  1. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Those Everton fans are rather serious all the time
     
  2. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

    Moyes left west ham.

    If Everton can't be bothered with the hassle we're kicking up then can see Silva going there.
     
  3. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

  4. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Fonseca is apparently all but confirmed as the next WHU manager. Been interviewed already supposedly. Silva is will either get the Everton job or won’t be touched by anyone I suspect. He must be dreading any more details coming out which would sure make any PL clubs very wary of him.

    His advisors should be hounding Moshiri to pay over the odds to us in damages/compensation if he wants a job. Even then, the damage to his reputation will be considerable.
     
  5. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

  6. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Bumped for obvious reasons....
     
  7. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    First manager to concede 6 goals at home for 3 different premier league clubs...

    Narcissistic fraud.
     
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  8. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    You got my hopes up
     
  9. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Gives narcissists a bad name
     
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  10. Aberystwyth_Hornet

    Aberystwyth_Hornet Squad Player

    I'm guessing we'll never get compensation and have to pay Everton?
     
  11. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    I think the compensation will be Everton leaving Marco Silva tied up on Scott Duxbury's doorstep with a note tied to him saying "sorry, but you can have him back now".
     
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  12. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I prefer daffodils.
     
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  13. dynamo380

    dynamo380 Reservist

    I must admit im enjoying all the crying and calls for him to be sacked by some of the everton faithful. Going by their forum he's not the most popular of managers
     
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  14. vic-rijrode

    vic-rijrode First Year Pro

    Rarely have I enjoyed a footie run-up to Christmas as much as this year, with our result at Wet Spam and Ssssssssssssssilva's tonking yesterday.

    [​IMG]
     
  15. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    A quote from my 8 year old; 'i guess they wanted Marco Silva and they got Marco Silva!'.
     
  16. vic-rijrode

    vic-rijrode First Year Pro

    Out of the mouths of babes.....
     
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  17. Vicarage Road

    Vicarage Road Reservist

    I heard a sad little Everton supporter on talk***** this morning moaning about their second goal being wrongly disallowed yesterday. He went on to say, Everton have had no decisions go their way this season. Err, short memory d1ck 5h1t, Richarlison’s goal was ducking offside!!!
     
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  18. Chunky monkey

    Chunky monkey Academy Graduate

    Appreciate that this thread was faded away a couple of years ago and rightly so but with lockdown 2.0 and just having come off a zoom call that included a younger ex WBGS fellow pupil he pointed me in the direction of this thread. With nothing better to do this a bump and having read this fresh I am convinced I attended at or around the same time as forum legend Clive of the Kremlin. It may please you, or maybe not, to know Clive that I once faced Toppo in his office charged with a couple of others of connecting him with the communist party; in early years facing Neil Hart as a consequence of collecting identity tags from the trees in Cassiobury Park (punishment: write to the Council to apologise - but never policed or followed up on) and a final flourish of being complicit in the forging of a letter from Neil Hart to another teacher (couriered by a turd) instructing all chairs in the school hall to be transported on to the school field ahead of the sixth form “leavers soirée” on the final day in the U6th thus providing a birds eye view from the 6th form common room of initially small boys struggling to lift one or two chairs individually across the quad but then with typical WBGS ingenuity forming boy-chair-boy-chair-boy chains up to twenty long flowing out of the doors on to the quad moving said furniture cajoled by teachers to ensure no slacking. Punishment: having to move all the chairs back into the hall with the co conspirator. As has been said on this thread, here is this years kick off to the annual WBGS reminiscence.
    Trog, Toppo, Nobby Clarke, Miss Fink, Mrs Jefferies, Beery Thompson, Dave Evans, Hairy Thompson (“Be quiet...I will not repeat myself....I said I will not repeat myself”) Mr Christopher, Dusty Miller (maths - sadist) Graham Gower (Geography commonwealth games sprinter - finished 7th), Cyril. Mike Weston - economics teacher and Doc Wise (history). They are all there.
    GT addressing school assembly. Memorable times. Sorry lads, bit too self indulgent.
     
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  19. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player


    That seems harsh. It was common knowledge all around the school that baldie Toppo was a dedicated and die hard card-carrying Marxist Leninist. He didn't deny it did he?

    As for the others, Miss Fink certainly. Dusty Miller of course. Some of the other names sort of ring bells, but I think you must have been after me because I had no idea GT ever spoke to the assembly.

    I can add. "Frank" someone (Thomas?) - ancient old decreipt fossil who taught Latin. Someone Jackson who wore a bright orange track suit and taught PE. Gave out huge amounts of lines which he never checked on whether they were completed or not.

    I don't think it was a great school at all and certainly didn't do me any good at all - left at 16 with 2 measly O levels. They managed to put me off learning, which was quite an achievement, because I found out later on that I absolutely love learning. I wouldn't send any of my kids to a single sex school either.
     
  20. Cyril Oaten was I believe the father of Lib MP Mark Oaten who was disgraced in some sexual scandal which I can't recall but which probably wouldn't raise an eyebrow these days.
    Had a massive garden railway I believe. (Cyril)
     
  21. Jackson the PE teacher. Cross country. Still brings shivers of fear. Being made to run through the Gade in the depth of winter. Evil *****.
     
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  22. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Yes a complete sadist. Not like the decent Mr Tibbett, who brought in and played the stranglers "no more heroes" as an exercise circuit backdrop, or McClosky. Remember Miss Smythe's "assets" in the physics dept ? No wonder I never did well at physics.
    I was there 1974 to 82 I think.
     
  23. Yes, I'm a couple of years older than you and had escaped compulsory pe by the time No More Heroes came out!
     
  24. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Yes he was. "Ceeee-ril" lived just over the road from us on the Cassiobury. Mr Harverson, just down the road.
    Lots of "stories" about Mr Rycroft of course.....
    Mr Clayton the geography teacher who made everyone meditate for 2 mins before starting the lesson. Had a furious temper and this was clearly something he'd picked up in anger management treatment....
    Had Killer Collins as form tutor a couple of times. Remember the time he meant to pull a hair out for a physics test and pulled out about 2 inches square. Also when he took some phosphorus out of it's oil and told us it was kept in oil to prevent it spontaneously igniting. It spontaneously ignited and the science block had to be evacuated. Or when he turned the mercury manometer on blow instead of suck and sprayed liquid mercury all over the desks. "Don't touch it boys its highly poisinous" he screamed as we all tried to shepherd the biggest mercury balls we could around our desk space....
    One of the guys who later survived D Nilsen, Paul Nobbs, was in my year. Think he joined in 5th year or 6th.
     
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  25. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Who was Miss Fink. Name rings a bell but can't picture her ?
     
  26. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    Watford GAYS we hardcases from Ricky school used to call it.

    Of course our biggest rivals were the Joaners, crazed religious fanatics from St Joan of Arc catholic school on ricky high street. I believe it was a remedial school, judging by the dullwitted students we used to bash at the end of our playing fields.
     
  27. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Surprised that your grammar school didn't teach you the usage of paragraphs.
     
  28. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    He was a useful fast bowler also; I played against him on the local cricket scene a few times. He left to go to Mansfield & we bumped into him up there when Watford were playing there. A much nicer bloke when away from being a PE sadist.
     
  29. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    I had the pleasure of being placed into Bushey house & my first year was also Miller's first as a teacher. He must have developed the sadism later on in his career. Frank Thomas used to demand that we put his chair on top of the front desk so he could see over the whole class easily. Over a period of a couple of weeks we gradually set the chair up nearer to the back of the desk, until one day we had it with one of the rear legs half off the desk....luckily for all he chose that day to put his case on the chair first causing it to crash into the cross beam of the blackboard resulting in quite some damage. We also carried out an experiment to see how many days he would wear the same socks by squirting ink onto them...the record was about 3 consecutive days. The way he chose to demonstrate on one poor fellow-student how Odysseus escaped from the Cyclops' cave still engenders shudders.
     
  30. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Good old Andy Tibbett...drove the hockey 1st XI to Oakham & back (where he'd done his teaching practice I think) for a friendly where we inflicted their first defeat for about 2 seasons...he also kept wicket for the Chorleywood when I played there.
     
  31. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Also took a bunch of school pupils/supporters to the away game at peterboro in 1978/79 season in the school minibus. We won 1-0, Blissett scored I think. Only my 2nd away game after the FA cup vs WHU in 1977/78.
     
  32. nisman94

    nisman94 International Man of Mystery

    As a younger ex-pupil, I only recognise three teachers from that list- Mr Hart (only because we had a tribute for him at school when he died), Mr Gower (his name cropped up in a lot of Geography books) and Mr Weston (I think he's still there at the school?)
     
  33. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Trog was head & Toppo deputy when I was there. Beery "cricket is a sideways game" Thompson attempted to teach history, but luckily we had such as Neil Hart & Wise to balance him out. I remember a History Society meeting when someone mentioned "plant a tree in '73", Neil Hart piped up about 3 minutes later with "plant some more in '74" & then laughed so much he fell off his chair. All in front of some learned Cambridge don giving a lecture on the Dissolution of the Monasteries or something. Wise wrote as part of my History report when in the 6th form that he "beseeched me in the bowels of Christ" to be less strident; I think my Mum was planning to complain until I explained the Cromwellian reference to her.
    The set up of the school changed dramatically whilst I was there: from "Upper 6th Removes" & all that tosh to pretty normal definitions. Rock concerts in the school hall (1970 before the new arts block was built....Cochise were the headline act); allowing the 6th form to organise a concert at the American School (?) in Bushey where Hawkwind played one of their first professional gigs & Dave Raper (Divinity) apologised to us in school on Monday for "having" to confiscate our bottle of cider.
    No more Fanny Lister stalking the corridors in full gown, mortar-board & swishing his cane; stopping Tom Vale (woodwork) from throwing hammers above the heads of pupils who were not listening. A lot changed in society in general at that time.
     
  34. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    The whole English department was surrounded by semi-scandal, with Jim McCabe & Nancy Sherman and such like.
     
  35. AndrewH63

    AndrewH63 Reservist

    Same year as me. Killer put the phosphorus in the fume cupboard but the fan was in reverse, which created a Chernobyl like noxious cloud. Clayton left after incidents in the Venture scout hut.

    The other thing I remember was the great fog of fag smoke that seeped out each time anyone opened the main staff room door.

    In my form was a lad who built a dinner voucher empire setting up an exchange value for goods from the ice cream permanently parked in Shepherds Road. Would not be surprised if he invented Bit Coin.

    Unlike some I enjoyed my years there. Even if the PE teacher Jackson made me push a scrum machine around the Main field. We had games skills session in week 2 and he asked me what the winger in rugby did (I knew it was not taking corners). But at 11 and having not been to prep school. I just shrugged. But it was my response about not being the teacher that got me into trouble.

    I see to remember the school day was a lot longer in the first years with a very long lunch break between morning and afternoon sessions.

    I seemed to catch all the worst end of events. Having to come in during oil delivery drivers strikes to sit in a freezing school, and then missed out on all the A level trips due to govt cut backs.
     
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