Who Do You Blame?

All roads lead to Rome. Gino is a control freak who doesn't trust anyone to be left to do their jobs.

 

Hard to refute this.

 

I blame @NathWFC

His relentless negativity and toxicity has doomed the club. If he had just got behind the boys this season, we'd be comfortably top 10.

 

A visionary indeed!

 

I also feel very responsible for all this.

 

I wouldn't know. You are on my ignore list. Quite how I'm replying to you even now, is beyond me.

 

You forgot to login as GoingDown m8

 

I am complicit in the whole negativity as well.

Hey ho #goagain #inpozzowetrust #deeneycaptainleaderlegend #mooney

 

Dominic Cummings

 

Myself for putting a Watford flag in the van since the resumption of the season
Certain players for looking grumpier on the pitch than I do on a Monday morning which takes some serious doing
Gino, despite how thankful I am to him for all he’s done for the club, not being able to read a managers personality when interviewing them for the job and seeing if they’re the right fit, terrible judgement
Giraldi coz I genuinely have no idea what he brings to the club

 

I've been trying to get my head around the reason for the apparent decline in Watford's fortunes over quite a long period of time.

We've all thought that Gino was the main man, making all the decisions, but what if there was a lot of hand-holding from Papa Smurf in the early days?

I wonder if there has been a gradual reducing of his father's involvement over the years, hence seeing poor decisions cropping up more often than not now.

The thing that highlights this more than anything actually occurred a few years ago when we appointed Billy McKinley. Clearly he wasn't given the job as head coach without sign off from Gino, but the axe was very swift in coming. 8 days wasn't it? I wonder if once Papa Pozzo found out he pulled the plug and insisted on getting a proper head coach. We never got to the bottom as to why he was given the job, then had it taken away just after 1 week.

I wonder now, if the father has relinquished all control to Gino and does not get involved in our affairs at all, apart from a holistic overview, this is why we're getting a lot of things wrong?

 

Gino is running the club as if it’s an exercise in Performance Management, and the more we fail the more feverishly the measurements to understand why we fail.

Data is important, but far better to agree goals and outcomes with individuals in an open book way, in sport or business.

 

Tsk! Too many English players innit. We fell into the trap of trying to please Ian Holloway by buying English footballers when we were already world beaters with the hoards of loophole foreign loans.

I'll wager he's in a cave somewhere trying to comb his last remaining grey hair into a quiff, all the while cackling to himself because of our demise. He who laughs last laughs like a CGI skeletal figure with a ring fixation.

 

Leave our next manager alone.

 

Its not the managers. Or the players. Its the recruitment.

The managers are getting sacked but in reality the recruitment hasn't been good enough so they don't have a bench full of players they can trust as being good enough.

The players are getting slated for under performing on the pitch but then what usually happens is they are replaced so that they can then work harder and play better to get their place back. The bench players not being good enough to challenge means the underperforming players in the first XI can continue to underperform because they are comfortable in the knowledge their place in the team is not at risk.

 

Poppycock, sir.

 

I’d say the arrogance of the pre-season...no games against ‘cloggers’ that would prepare us physically. Instead games against a ‘nicer’ class of opposition to get us ready for our metamorphosis into the ‘best of the rest’.

 

Far better to SCORE goals, I feel.