Honestly none of us know do we ? Maybe the intention was to sell Asprilla before "debt free day" and it happened later than had been expected a year earlier when he'd said it ? Who knows. The accounts when published should reveal.
That would be pretty absurd even by Duxbury standards! To claim in, what, 2023 we would be debt free by 2024 but that includes selling Kone and Asprilla for £30 odd million a year in the future. 2 players who hadn’t made much impact by that point! But, seeing as it’s Duxbury you may have a point and he factored in “random £30m receipt for young prospects” before deciding to declare it to the fanbase.
It’s been 48 hours or so and in that time, I’ve actually become more annoyed by it. For the second consecutive year we have travelled there (that’s a point I will get into in a bit) and become too frightened by the occasion/atmosphere and completely melted. It’s not the fact we lost, it’s how we lost. Football is a simple game of winning and losing- you won’t win every game but you won’t lose every game either. If Bachmann wasn’t fully fit like Cleverley said, he shouldn’t have started. It was clear that he had trouble kicking the ball as most of the time he either just played a 5 yard pass to Ogbonna/Pollock/Porteous or threw it long. Andrews should have gone off at half time- he was atrocious and his game was summed up when he ran the majority of the pitch with the ball, got near the goal, took too long to make his mind up and crossed it out for a goal kick. Luton aren’t brilliant by any means but they did the basics right. They got at us from the first whistle and we couldn’t handle it. In our faces the entire game and constantly having two or three players instantly pressing. The travel up there was a joke, again. I don’t really care about having to get a coach but the fact we had to pay for them when there was quite literally no other option available is just ridiculous and then being made to wait nearly an hour in Yellow Brick Road whilst it poured it down outside just summed it up. Treated like a bunch of unruly teenagers playing up on a school trip. Come February for the return fixture, Luton will have the freedom to do as they please. Leeds will beat us but I think that was a given anyway so if we don’t beat Blackburn I think Cleverley is in trouble. He got it wrong against Luton and if it doesn’t change sharpish, he’s done. That’s not what I want to happen but we’re not stupid, we’ve seen what Pozzo does
Well no in all honesty probably not that bit but I have seen the film about his Dad, terrible ending.
Although I think that our Media Team made an almighty ricket, I would prefer we were far better than Saturday's misjudged effort. We can though rest safely in the knowledge that them up the road should not be sitting on top of the moral high ground. Some on here might have forgotten that this smug Hatter director - proudly showing off his gleaming gnashers acquired from the best dentistry that money can buy in L**** - sank even lower with his journalistic effort in 2023. Luton director’s brutal swipe to rival uncovered by football fans An English football club’s director has been exposed after a message to a rival club was uncovered by eagle-eyed fans. Henry Tomlinson – The Sun less than 2 min read April 13, 2023 - 11:39AM Fans uncover football boss' hidden message Luton director Stephen Browne hid an X-rated message about Watford in a matchday program. Fans spotted the note to the club’s rivals after looking at the first letter of each paragraph in Browne’s ‘From the Boardroom’. The Hatters recently beat the Hornets 2-0 at Kenilworth Road, helping the club cement their spot in the playoffs. Watford are languishing in 12th place in the Championship, while Luton sit third on the table. Despite the gap between the teams it didn’t stop Browne from delivering the shot to the club’s longstanding rival. The secret note said: “Watford are s*** COYH.” Fans uncover football boss' hidden message Hidden message uncovered by fans Eagle-eyed fans who helped uncover the secret message were loving it, as were fans on social media. One fan tweeted: “The written piece as a whole is a work of art, a true wordsmith in action.” A second commented: “Superb Mr Browne.” A third wrote: “Excellent as always by Stephen!” A fourth said: “Do we really need this level of childishness? Of course, the answer is yes. Yes, we do.” While a fifth added: “Petty. But I love it.” Luton director delivers brutal swipe to rival The two sides have only faced each other four times in the last decade. They have won two games each during this time, but Luton are the team in the ascendancy at the moment.
It was just the sort of thing that comes back to bite you.. TBH most places would look dreary and dull in a wet day.
Still fuming. Makes me actively want to stay away from the football club. Getting absolutely destroyed by them lot at work. Useless tosspots.
Put super glue on their seats and salt in their coffee. If they want to act like kids, treat them the same. Also, it's pretty funny to get your own back.
According to TC, this isn't our game. Competing to win the ball isn't our game! So god knows what he's asking them to do.
Wow. What's he waiting for a misplaced pass to get possession. That's one of the most worrying comments I've heard from a coach/manager of Watford, ever.
Oh that’s ok then, dogsh*t performance excused. Why didn’t someone mention this sooner, would have saved 15+ pages of angry reactions.
This is one of the most alarming and concerning things I’ve ever heard a Watford manager say. Is he actually losing it already?
It was night and day on the touchline at the Dog Kennel. Edwards was clapping, goading his team on. Cleverley was hunched up hiding in his coat with zero communication. Cannot judge that on one game, but it could be a sample size of when the going is tough, Clevs hides away. I hope not, because I want him to do well here.
I have received , as we all probably have , some flak from Lootun fans that I know . This doesn't bother me in the least which is strange What bothers me are the person's responsible for leaving us in such a position where we are so toothless up top . All the worldies that we have scored over the last 10\11 months , Hoedt at Blackburn, Livermore at QPR Asprilla at Rotherham Chak at Millwall have just papered over the glaring attacking deficiencies in our team . I'm not angry at Bayo or to a lesser extent Jebbo. I am angry at those who have left us in this mess. Our opponents know that we are toothless away from home and set up accordingly.
I remember after the game quite a few players did come over to apologise. I didn't really notice at the Sissoko telling us to calm down and thought it looked more like him trying to front to the fans ahead of his team mates than asking to calm down but I'm not confident enough to trust that recollection. I do remember the vitriol was very strong, rightly so.
I standby this line you've picked out. The opposition was poor, lots of injuries, no form etc yet we never laid a glove on them.
They didn't play poorly on the day though in that they were bang up for it. They had 13 shots to our 9. We managed more shots from open play (6 to 5). Their xG was more but not by a huge amount (1.3 to 0.45). We had more possession (58%). We even won more tackles - 24 to 23. Away at Preston earlier this season we had less possession (55%), a bigger xG deficit (2.9 to 1. 4), and won fewer tackles (only a meagre 10 to their 18), as well as having the same scoreline; and they're a team with less ability and the conditions were more favourable to us. So it's not even convincing to say Luton was our worst performance of this season, and this hasn't even been that bad of a season so far yet relative to other miserable ones. Even only going back a year or so you must be forgetting how pathetic we were at the end of the 22/23 season under Wilder, eg we had a team with Hoedt, Kone, Sarr and Joao Pedro which lost 3-1 at home to an even more relegation threatened Cardiff who finished the season 21st. You're usually a reasonable poster, but you've lost it here.
