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

They've reduced the price down for kids in the Family Stand this season, which might potentially encourage us to attend one or two more games (if we can get tickets). However the ultimate bad planning is to have the family stand right next to the away support.

 

You'd go straight to her what?

 

TBF I *think* these are just the "unsold" family stand "on the day" tickets. From when I've bought them, I was told they do not "openly" advertise the seat availability at all (you coldn't buy online only directly through the ticket office) - my son was issued a fan id (instantly) and we were given seats amongst, I'm assuming, a great many ST holders. Incidently although I was sitting in the "wrong side" of VR the leaking roof brought back happy memories of standing in the rain under the scoreboard...

 

I think we were all a bit apprehensive before yesterday, but it was odd watching the Soccer Saturday preview of our game. Merson ‘fears for us’ but when asked about Brighton struggling this season they all unanimously said they’d be absolutely fine and wouldn’t be near the relegation places. I think a lot of pundits automatically pick us to struggle because they want/expect us to so if they say it every season eventually they might be right once.

 

I think that for the clubs outside of the top 6 the so-called pundits directly correlate spending to survival chances. However it clearly doesn't work like that; our owners have obviously been of the view that they will not overpay for a player no better than we already have and that once the injured return our squad will be strong enough. Cardiff have spent next to nothing and will most probably go down but Fulham & Brighton have spent a fair amount but it doesn't mean they were all good buys.

 

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom.

 

Good question. She's not much of a looker, so I'd steer clear of her head - whatever else presents itself I suppose.

 

Yet he doesn’t make Dennis Wise Team of the Week on Skysports app

 

Bit like the Daily Express annually predicting the hottest summer ever. Eventually they're likely to be right and will shout from the rooftops how astute they are whilst ignoring all the times they were full of it. Let's just hope this isn't the time for the pundits who predict doom to be right in the same way we finally did have that summer.

 

I’m not sure that’s true (but it was interesting and I loved the song so I looked it up)

 

What is the song called? Link?

 

Welsh bloke called Mike Peters who was obsessed with Bono. very dated now.

 

you can certainly see the bono obsession!

Our new anthem?

 

Used to like it - not sure it’s aged well though

 

The best of the Vengaboys that was

 

I like their Shop tab.

Seems like the white flag has been hoisted by the comrades.

 

not me mate. you will see from my post pregame that I predicted a win for us.

 

Only just getting round to this, but what an enjoyable performance. More of that please!

Dominated the game through control of the ball in smart areas, very rarely exposed ourselves or made significant mistakes which is a change.

Gray and Deeney played well making the space for Pereyra/Hughes to move into, whilst Capoue had a good August game for him. Very rare for Holebas to be that consistently accurate with crosses, so will enjoy it for now until he hits Tarkowski every time next week.

 

Very concerned by Saturday's performance, we really missed Alcacer.

 

Same here

 

Slightly deflated as I'd expected a bigger (less fewer ?) margin of victory so there's room for improvement.

 

Is he injured?

 

This is a superbly bitter article from some Brighton fan in one of their local papers:

https://www.brightonandhoveindepend...-brighton-cannot-be-that-poor-again-1-8600393

 

So did I, I was more speaking for the forum in general based on the overall mood.

 

One season of survival in the prem and all of a sudden they behave like giants

What a bunch of ******us *******

 

Losing to the likes of Watford is so terribly below them after their one season in the Premiership

 

Jesus Christ talk about jumped up little shi ts, it's hard to believe anyone has had the lack of self-awareness required to commit that embarrassment to the page.

 

New Rivals #scum#southcoast#pebblybeach

 

Disappeared into the medical dept dungeons. Just like Penaranda, we will probably never see him play for us .

 

I struggle to think of any of their squad bar Gross who might be good enough for our squad.

 

I heard they spent £22m on an Iranian. Iranian!

They're down.

 

Seems a pretty fair article to me ? They were shocking. We are tipped for relegation. Their sub did look useful. The only thing he doesn't address is why Hughton didn't feel confident enough to start with the new additions on the pitch rather than the bench.