This is why I don't look forward to games like this. Hopefully no more classic Watford this week, saw enough of that on Tuesday!
Quina will be wearing a full length Duvet coat, Ski boots and dragging round an electric heater tapped straight into the supply that usually powers the floodlights . Kiko will finish the game frozen solid like Jack Nicholson in the final scene of The Shining . The old allotments doubling up as the maze . Will Hughes can play the character of Danny, Holbas the unhinged Shelly Duval character . Mapps will be playing in skins , because he’s well ‘ard. I , however , will be watching this one TV in the comfort of my own home . Anyone want any season ticket ?
I’m not going to freeze my boll*cks off for this bunch of chancers. 0-1 to Cardiff, following a last minute long ball. Javi to scratch his chin and say ‘in this moment we were not good enough’.
Have not been on here in a while as it is jackonory trying to log in on my mobile can only log in on a pc? anyway sneaky feeling about an upset as Cardiff can match us in intensity, am going to match so hope for a win but i am uneasy
Bluebird, flying high Tell me what you sing If you could talk to me What news would you bring Of footballs in the sky......
Watford 0 Cardiff 2 It’s a cold and dreary Saturday afternoon at the Vic. Cardiff kick off and pump long ball after long ball into the mixer, getting their reward after just 3 minutes. Cardiff defend deeply for 86 minutes, watching our attacking players pass the ball backwards or from side to side around them. Corner after corner is headed away easily by the first man, free kicks are wasted and bounce off the wall, Delofeu’s shots cause the referee confusion as he doesn’t know whether to give a throw-in or a goal kick. No room is given by the resolute Cardiff defence. The crowd shout ‘shoooot’ every timet Quina touches the ball but even he can’t score one of his now trademark 30-yarders. You get the feeling that if Watford equalise they’ll go on to win. On 82 minutes Pereyra puts in a lovely cross from the left. The keeper has flapped at it and Gray uses his pace to get on the end. The whoosh of his right boot flying through the air draws a gasp from the crowd as it catches a life-long fan smack in the face. The ball trickles across the 18-yard box for the rightback to shield as the keeper comes to collect it, diving and rolling on it to eat up a precious few seconds. The home fans boo loudly and then prove to everybody that they can count to 10 before the keeper drop-kicks the ball. On 87 minutes the ball eventually breaks and Cardiff attack the Watford half. Such has been Cardiff’s reluctance to attack, only Janmaat is back for Watford. He is easily out played by the two Cardiff attackers running either side of him. Foster comes out to meet them but doesn’t stand a chance on his own and the ball is easily slotted into the onion bag to make it 2-0. The Vic continues to empty as chants of ‘HOW SHT MUST YOU BE’ and ‘IS THERE A FIRE DRILL.’ are bellowed with a Welsh twang from the away end. Cardiff spend the last few minutes in full control coming close twice more. They’re fans are ecstatic, it’s like watching Brazil. They’re in heaven and don’t want the match to end. The benevolent referee blows the whistle 90 seconds early looking at the Watford fans as if to say ‘it’s not my fault, I tried to help you out but your team is ****’. The Watford fans already know that, they’ve been here before and another long cold winter continues.
No idea why but i think this will be the game when everything clicks, great passing, loads of chances, solid defensively. 0-1 to Cardiff
After Monday’s performance it’s hard to know what to expect. We are so Jeckyl and Hyde in front of goal despite overall good performances, it depends what team wants to show up. Cardiff are a decent side and despite being mauled by a few sides early on they have picked up and left the comfortable relegation slot to Southampton now. I want us, heck I expect us to win tomorrow but can we hold on if we’re leading not for Kabs to have another moment of madness? I really don’t think that can happen twice in a week though. We showed the decent side we are on Monday and I fully expect the confidence to be flowing still on Saturday. I would start with Quina, put Success up front with Okaka maybe? Deeney is a good impact sub and changes games so there is that. Delafoo to start as he had a decent game also Monday and Bobby P is due a wonder goal. Will Gracia stick with his beloved formation or can he/will he change it up on a tough winter afternoon? We have him for a little while now and have to contend with our squad the same till at least January, so has he given the big motivation speech after Monday? I hope so. Cardiff will travel with confidence, but honestly we should have enough to grind it out. Win tomorrow and that’s 4 from two games and we start climbing the table again. 2-0
Seriously the weather is going to be shocking, might even be postponed/abandoned. Game will be a lottery, the last thing we want against a bunch of hoofers in one of the few games we would actually be expected to win over the season.
Really? Forecast for heavy rain during the afternoon, surely not enough to call a game off? Further up North perhaps as it'll be cold enough to snow
Actually its not forecast to be as bad at watford as Tring where the rain starts earlier and preceded by snow. Very windy though. Really would have liked a calm dry warmer day to play that lot !
Nothing can beat the abandoned Wigan game! Mariappa tried a knock and run early in the second half but sadly the ball didn't move.
Tring hates you. Don't you ever come here or there will be trouble. I can't be held responsible. Let's just say that Nnnn hasn't posted since he visited.
This is all just coincidence. You will need more than that for a conviction. I have an alibi for that night.....whichever night it was.....
15 miles from Luton, 17 miles from watford, 17 miles from Wycombe, 24 miles from MK. A football hotbed, as you can imagine, the natives are torn.
Guaranteed to **** this right up. This will be just like Swansea & Huddersfield last season. Mark my words
