Cogs/clappers/gino Backers Roll Call

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by wfcmoog, Sep 27, 2022.

  1. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Come on you holdouts - announce yourselves. Who still hadn't reached peak Gino?
     
  2. foxywfc

    foxywfc Reservist

    He fixed the stadium. Had us spend some good years in the premier league. Could have the red helmet. Careful what you wish for.


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  3. With A Smile

    With A Smile First Team

    Built an obstacle outside the new hornet shop in the middle of the path
    Renamed the Rouse stand
    Renamed the East/Main stand after letting it rot and have to be condemned and dismantled
    No hot water in the mens loo's
    Cost me several hundreds of pounds on wasted journeys to Wembley
    Changed the pitch from traditional mud and mire to synthetic desso tosh
    Forced us to stay at some hi tech training center near Park Street instead of letting us return to cassiobury park

    #AshleyIn
     
  4. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Correct decision was made sacking Edwards
     
  5. RS2

    RS2 Squad Player

    What about all the other stuff?
     
  6. With A Smile

    With A Smile First Team

    I forgot

    Having 8 coaches available to the head coach, who don't report to the head coach but give continuity when the Head Coach is sacked.
    This team of 8 are stalwarts of the club and are kept, even if they don't implement what the other 17 head coaches want. This gives us a great platform and helps breed much needed complacency around the training ground.

    A sporting director who the players report to in term of having days off, contracts, agents, diet, injuries, training schedules, in fact everything except training sessions and matches. This helps players undermine the Head Coach which stops him getting too big for his boots. If a player therefore disagree with being dropped, he doesn't have to embarrass the Head coach by confronting him. THe player is able to go directly over the head coaches head to his boss.

    #BringPetchyBack
     
  7. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    Who are these 8 coaches of the apocalypse?

    If the model is how you describe, then there's no hope for any manager. The whole set up would be built on deeply institutional undermining.
     
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  8. With A Smile

    With A Smile First Team

    The club had "staff" that you see in training ground videos and you can often see them on the bench or behind the bench on match days. So it was Edwards ( and the other 17 ) to get them to coach the methods and philosophy that they want.

    Thats why the club let the HC bring in 1 maybe 2 people, because Gino already has a team there to work with the HC

    It doesn't matter how many HCs come and go, these guy seems to remain in place
     
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  9. The Duck

    The Duck Academy Graduate

    When the club appointed Rob Edwards, they did say they wanted an English manager and stability. I like Rob Edwards and I would rather he stayed. However, he is very inexperienced as a manager and sadly, I think it was beginning to show. I hate to say it, but I think the club made a mistake appointing him in the first place. We all know what the owner is like and can anyone really be surprised at the change in manager? I wish Rob well and hope he gets another job soon and has success. He is a good guy. I think Bilic is an excellent appointment and my expectations are higher with him. It's a shame we didn't appoint him this time last year.

    I know Gino isn't everybody's cup of tea and I find his impatience frustrating to say the least, but the last thing I want is for him to sell up and move on. I just look at how fantastic the stadium is, the way we have punched above our weight and had some great times in the last 10 years, God's statue and stands being named after the 2 most important people that changed our club forever in the 70s and 80s. Can you imagine the position we would be in now, what our ground would look like now, if Gino bought Charlton instead of us? He has a funny way of showing it, but I do think he wants the best for the club and I sense he is actively desperate to get back in to the Premier League.
     
  10. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    I assume everyone mentioning how amazing the stadium is hasn’t been in the VRE. It’s an unfit for purpose disgrace.
     
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  11. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Fair enough.

    But - one thing. You seem to discount the fact that there is anyone else that could improve the stadium, build statues, name stands, get promotion…

    Sadly, for me, all those things are great - but they aren’t worth dragging the clubs name through the mud for and destroying any and all identity.

    No point having a stand or statue of GT when frankly, the man himself would be ashamed of how it operates.
     
  12. Halfwayline

    Halfwayline Reservist

    Give me a budget of 170 mill and I could build a shiny statue, put together a stand made of meccano, buy some white paint from wickes and paint some EJ lyrics and buy and sell players like I did when playing Pro Evo.
     
  13. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    Also, Mogi Bayat.
     
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  14. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    While I've been going to Vicarage Road our owner / chairman has been - in chronological order, I think - Bonser, Elton, Petchey, Elton again, Simpson, the Salad Bros/Ashcroft, Baz, Pozzo. Apart from Elton, obviously, Pozzo has been 1000 per cent better than all of them. There's no denying he moves in mysterious ways and this situation with the agent is odd to put it mildly, but, on balance, he's still in credit as far as I'm concerned. Fuxbury on the other hand....
     
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  15. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    Then the wrong one was made hiring him. And his predecessor. And his predecessor etc. etc.
     
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  16. CarlosKickaballs

    CarlosKickaballs Forum Picarso

    Drinks in the Bunker. Bantz on the Pod. Away days with the lads.

    #keepitreal #pozzoin #dontforgetwhatfootballisabout
     
  17. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Also, as someone has said on Twitter, without doubt Gino would have even sacked GT had that been possible.
     
  18. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Didn’t he lose his first 3 home games or something or have I imagined that ?
     
  19. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    100%
     
  20. dynamo380

    dynamo380 Reservist

    The apologists would have been out in force... 'but he was in over his head, it was the right decision!'
     
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  21. dynamo380

    dynamo380 Reservist

    Such as engaging in murky deals that see the club pay well over the odds for a league 1 level striker whose was only worth a fifth of what we paid for him 24 hours earlier, yet only a couple of months later we have to sell and loan back our left back to keep going.
     
  22. Pob

    Pob Reservist

    I'm still a Gino fan.

    One of our most successful owners ever both on the pitch and in developing club infrastructure and community links.

    Ok so he possibly sacks a few too many managers and has neglected the centre back positions. But compared to some of the ethical records of other club owners I'm not sure he deserves the demonisation he gets.

    I think he was right to sack RE and probably never wanted to appoint him in the first place but in a rare moment of weakness he bowed to the jingoistic and ageist pressure of certain factions who bullied him into going for a young english manager. Be strong Gino and believe in yourself.
     
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  23. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Each to their own.

    But that third paragraph is pure parody.
     
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  24. K9 Hornet

    K9 Hornet Border Collie Dog

    How much of the good that's been done over the last decade is down to Pozzo senior in the first 5 or so years?
     
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  25. RS2

    RS2 Squad Player

    Do you not think other owners develop stadiums? Would someone actually have bought us from Bassini and not developed the stadium? It would have been one of their first jobs surely. People talk like Gino Pozzo is the only football owner in the country who could have had an East Stand built.
     
  26. Pozzo Out

    Pozzo Out Squad Player

    Pozzo in
     
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  27. Bowwow

    Bowwow Academy Graduate

    Pozzo in

    Happy clappers out
     
  28. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    This is getting confusing.
     
  29. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    What does COG stand for again?
     
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  30. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Critic of Gino AFAIK :)
     
  31. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    For an intelligent man he has made some awful decisions in the last few years.

    Recruitment be it F****bury,Mangey Buyout,mangers/coaches since Gracia and defensive players has been deplorable since the cup final.

    I'm not sure he can help himself anymore.

    4-5 down in the final set,Pozzo serving.
     
  32. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    He was only involved for two years.
     
  33. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    New amusing Twitter character “Robert Peters”. Spraying insults around and warns people to keep any protests outside as he’s not having it toxic in the ground

    “make sure they aren’t in the ground. I’ll happily argue with anyone who brings it inside”. You have been warned!:D
     
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  34. K9 Hornet

    K9 Hornet Border Collie Dog

    Fair enough. My memory is lousy when it comes to dates.
     
  35. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Chairmen of greatness

    Long live Gino!
     

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