Rob Edwards Sacked

You have a heart of stone.

 

What was the high point of Rob's short time with us? The win over Sheffield Utd?

 

Elton John gave him a shout out. I’d have left Forest Green just for that.

 

What about Zola, Sanino and Garcia and the bloke who lasted about 20 minutes?

 

I think Bilic is quite animated and he wears a wooly hat to cover his bald patch. He's going to be awesome

 

Bilic is far more animated than Ivic.

But then again so is a cactus.

 

Lower league opposition? When did we turn into Everton or Leeds fans? The entitlement says it all, in other words it was disastrous because we werent running away with it. The football might not have been great but it wasnt sh1te either, bar Blackburn away, but then again what were peoples realistic expectations with a hodge podge squad that was often spearheaded by competition winners Bayo & Manaj? The football wont be much better under Bilic.

And Scott was right in regard to the academy - there should be a pathway available if needed to the first team, otherwise whats the point in having the academy in the first place? Might as well do away with it.

 

All football fans are like that. Win a couple and the fans love everything about the players, manager etc, lose two and the manager and players are **** and the owner needs to leave

 

In fairness to Gino, not all those managers pre-Gracia were sacked as such. Silva was effectively poached by Everton despite being 'sacked' a few games later, Flores had an option to extend his contract at the end of the season and didnt and wasnt Jokanovic out of contract and a new one couldnt be agreed. The contrast post-Gracia though is stark and just a list of punts and shambolic appointments

 

The academy is sh1t end of and if by some massive error of judgement on their part a PL quality teenager ended up there he'd be off to a PL academy before you can say 'Jadon Sancho'.

If a recently relegated PL club hoping to have a positive goal difference against lower league opposition is entitled then lets get entitled!!

 

He was patently out of his depth he looked like he had won a competition to be a Championship manager for large parts of this season he managed to win 3 games in 11 and one of those was only because he started Dennis, JP and Sarr in the Championship if it wasn't for those three we would lost to Sheffield United as well. His tactics have been crap and his substitutions were often poor. I get that the players are not suited to 3-5-2 but it is what it is a decent manager would find a formation that suits the players better. Annoyed with Pozzo's but Rob Edwards was never the man for the job.

 

Large parts of the Rookery have been booing the players and RE off the pitch in recent weeks which felt harsh given what he was working with. I'm sure those involved will welcome this change.

 

The average life expectancy for a Slavic manager at Gino's demented circus is 29 games. Talk about resilience!! Bilic might still be here after Xmas.....

 

Simon Jordan has been somewhat supporting Pozzo this morning in an ‘end justifies the means’ way. Although he doesn’t like the hire and fire approach he points to Watford’s 6 years out of 10 in the PL, in comparison to the very long spells clubs like Wednesday, Forest, Derby and Ipswich have spent in lower divisions. His line is that all managers are sacked eventually, it’s just a question of when. So in effect it doesn’t matter how many we get through if we are outperforming those other bigger clubs.

 

From Pozzo's point of view, he probably lost all confidence in RE when he needed to turn up with 4 'senior players' to make his point over Giaretta.

 

We're crap enough as it is, thanks very much!

 

Why doesn't Papa Pozzo realize how sh1t Giarretta is? Even his porn is mediocre and outdated!

 

As @Burnsy alluded to - it could be telling who those 4 'senior players' were.

If the only people in the dressing room who really had Edwards' back were the likes of Cathcart and Gosling then it would have been far from a ringing endorsement of him.

 

You best not change your mind. You are new Project Manager for the Pozzo Out revolution!

 

The extent of Giampaolo Pozzo's practical, hands-on work at Udinese is often grossly overrated. He's 81 now and has a large executive team at Udinese, including his daughter Magda, who is apparently well respected.

 

https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/22691168.watched-farce-now-must-hear-pozzos-script/

Andrew French’s latest thoughts. Although I think he’s ambitious in having any hope that Gino will talk to him, given the way the Duxbury interviewed has spectacularly backfired.

I know the club genuinely did tell him he would get an interview with him a few weeks ago for an unspecified date - wishful thinking IMO if he think that agreement still stands.

 

Not for me. I don't even care if Bilic gets a few results and a short term fix to put us in the promotion race anymore. I wanted to have a club to support again. That means players and a manager who are bought into Watford, at least in the medium term and who are backed to be here, not just the ephemeral shyte we put up with. Even if we somehow go up, we will still be a hollow shell of a club, ready to get beaten raw in the Prem, as Gino gets a slightly higher turnover and spends slightly higher fees with Bayat.

 

Who knows? Maybe Papa Pozzo reckons he's done a good job (at Udinese)?

 

What is the end goal here? Are we still killing ourselves to get to 17th in the Premier League?

If we achieved that again would it genuinely feel any different to what it does now? There is nothing left to support for me as long as Gino Pozzo owns this circus. This isn't the club myself, family or friends grew up proud to support. I don't know anyone who still has an affinity to us anymore. Unfortunately I booked tickets to Millwall yesterday before the news broke but that will be my last game of the season for sure.

 

Well, the fact that they decided that the man whose tenure as overseen 2 relegations and a series of some of the most disastrous transfer business in our club's history, was worth keeping, tells you everything.

It's almost as if the owners have priorities which override the success of our first team.

 

Havent Udinese improved exponentially since he left??

 

Did he have any involvement in bringing in any of the (non-WFC) players that have seen their form improve? I don't know; I'm just mulling over possible reasons for the decision to sack RE & reinstate Giaretta as I'm struggling to find any real logic to it.

 

I'm done with it. As I've said I won't boycott and have indeed just booked my tickets for Blackpool away but we can't have a cub run this way. I'm just pleased GT is not around to see it as he would be mortified

 

I agree, that was the 30th August I bet driving home the thought of being sacked within a month didn't enter Rob Edwards's head!

 

So RE had a better starting 10 games, with arguably a worse squad, than either Zola or the Joker apparently, yet Gino and the other COGs apparently deduced from those ten games he wasnt good enough and out of his depth or atleast thats the excuse that they are hiding behind.

 

The first comment posted on the Athletic article re the current state of the club!

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's in my nature.,”

 

With Zola (haven't watched all games if I'm being honest) and even more so Jokanovic(I know I may be biased) we were often unlucky to lose when we lost and looked pretty good when we won. With Edwards it was the other way around. We were lucky to win and draw our matches and we definitely deserved to lose when we lost. The points we were getting under Edwards just didn't seem sustainable. The timing of the sacking, appointing him in the first place, bad recruitment, etc were all poor decisions, but we weren't going anywhere with Edwards. We would have finished somewhere between 8th-14th place had we kept him.