Watford FC 2-0 Brighton & Hove Albion - 11/08/2018

Well that was piss easy wasn't it? Not sure what all the worry was about. If that's the quality we have to play against to stay up this season then it's already in the bag.

 

Blah, blah, Blah "Pereya". Blah, blah, Blah "Foster". Blah, blah, Blah "Deeney & Grey". Blah, blah, Blah "Doucouré"... all very interesting stuff. But the real question is: did the '81 sing the "Knockaert song" for at least 90% of the time?

 

Thats for me one of the big positives today. Last season we looked totally inept from set pieces with the delivery often failing to beat the first man. It certainly shows that we have put some effort into them on the training ground.

 

I didnt see Pereyras celebration today but at over 2 minutes long i'm surprised he didnt recieve a yellow card

 

My wife has been playing that for months for the kids. Is it now mainstream?

 

So what decade exactly will we stop applauding Taylor in the 72nd minute?

 

I’ve still got no idea.

 

Was very pessimistic before a ball was kicked, mainly due to our inability to sign a striker and a ball playing centre back, BUT, pleased to see we got off to a great start today!

Credit to Javi, he seems to have got us playing as a unit and we seem compact and solid. I guess it's difficult to judge as we came up against a side that played poorly, but couldn't have asked for anymore today....a win and a clean sheet is perfect!

I just HOPE we don't pay the price for persisting with two Championship strikers and not signing a player that could bang in 12-15 goals. I wish to be proved wrong, and I will say in Deeney's and Gray's defence, they play better in a front two than as lone strikers, so may spark something at that end of the pitch.

No idea why people are so shocked at Success doing well when he came on. Rewind a couple of seasons when we signed him and he was running teams ragged, we were absolutely distraught when he got injured and missed most the season. Has all the potential to be a really really classy player and a defenders nightmare, just needs to stay fit!

Great start though.

 

Great win, don't care who it was against - we didn't manage to beat them last season.

Everyone was at least a 7/10. Tougher tasks ahead, but it was nice to see out a game without being fearful of the dreaded last minute equaliser.

Knockeart tried to repeat his dying swan dive on virtually the same part of turf.

With some decent players to come back in to the squad, it's nice to feel positive after a lot of recent doom and gloom.





And the first goal filmed from the Rookery End:
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As a father of three, two of whom are under 4 and somehow know how to use YouTube... Bobby p’s celebration was touching. Not a bad result either.

 

Haha, this needs to be his new song somehow!

 

Pey Rey Ra do do do do do do...

 

The reality is our first team isn’t as bad as everyone thinks, but we’re at the stage we’re it can’t be improved by much either.

 

In terms of improvement? Hughes, Doucoure, Pereyra, Kabasele (Chalobah & Deulofeu) all have potential to fulfil.

Deeney, Janmaat, Capoue, Cathcart and Foster are probably in their peak years

 

Excellent all round performance. Thought the level of intensity was incredible and we already look fitter than last season which may help the injury situation.
Some of the posts between 2pm and 3pm today on this thread were ******* embarrassing

 

Utter ********

 

MODS I'm gonna have to ask you to forcibly remove Bonkingbob's signature right ******* now please.

 

Having only supported Watford I don't know if this generally applies to football fans, but most of the smelliest people I've encountered in my life have been at Vicarage road.

 

A few years back, I went with a Spurs supporting mate to see them play West Brom on a Sunday as his brother had come over ill on the morning of the game (Spurs lost, it was hilarious). I'm 99% sure the fat **** sitting next to me had shat his pants - or if he hadn't, his odour was an exact match of pure *****.

 

What a match. Utterly dominant from start to finish and there was no fear that we'd throw out away at the end. 2 superb goals from our superstar and even gray did pretty well.

It's miles better having the unpredictable success coming on from the bench than okaka.

Ken looked like he's going to be ace too I reckon.

Hughes was sensational, he is so tenacious. If he wasn't so ugly and British he'd be one of my favourite players.

Even gracia looked suave in his nice grey suit.

What a marvelous day. Pissed and content

 

Just seen MOTD. How the f... did we win that?

 

Well done, first Watford game in at least a season that you haven’t left at half time.

 

Because we scored 2 and they didn’t have a shot on target

 

He deserved it. Whoever said that dive was identical to the one in playoffs was spot on. Deserves a ban.

Looked like a comfortable win against an overrated side. Should be beating them at home and did. Job done. Will be interesting to see how JG approaches away games. Got to start with Gray, surely? No way will he go two up front.

 

Good to see Slithers habit of throwing away a lead has stuck.

 

Foster - good but a couple of crosses he didn’t cleanly collect, needs to watch that

Janmaat - solid, easy game defensively for him

Holebas - I like him, proper competitor and world class at the old sh*thousery..,,every team needs that

Cathcart - great...we’ve missed him

Kabasele - sadly missed that sitter in a nice homage to Gray/Deeney but he’s quick and covers us well in defence

Doucoure - slow out of the blocks but settled well into the game. He’s going to be an important player to keep fit

Capoue - usual August performance....give it another 3 or 4 matches before that’s it...to be next seen giving a sh*t at the end of April 2019

Hughes - another important player. Tidy stuff and uses the ball well. Deceptively strong in the tackle for a pasty ginner. He’ll be well happy the heatwave ended just before the season started.

Pereyra - played in a Champions League final did you know?

Deeney - stripes are slimming. To be fair though looked fit and harried their centre backs although without much end product. Horrible one on one miss.

Gray - tried hard and was committed. How is he a premier league footballer? He’s like a repelling magnet to the ball and unerringly accurate when shooting directly at the keeper. Striking 1.0 - “Shoot across the keeper”

Success - being weaned off the Baileys and the hookers seems to have been...well, a success

Ken - love it that we have a player called Ken

Femenia - probably should start, shouldn’t he?