Mazzarri sacked

Then we might. But we won't see him or them next season then.

 

Hilarious

If they employ Wally they deserve everything they get

 

This has all been a dream.

Reality is bleak. Mazzarri remains in charge of Watford for the forthcoming 17/18 season, where during pre season Niang decides he likes playing and stays, Deeney leaves, and Walter is happy with his squad other than that. The players aren't. Holebas, Capoue, Britos opt to leave, with no replacements as Walter is insistent he is happy with the squad to "Sopravviverti di ****ers, è che non è abbastanza buono per te".

Okaka stands around confused as to why he's playing in the pitch and not at the training ground on a match day, as Liverpool hammer the Hornets 6-0, Walter blames the size of the goalposts. Watford are dispatched comfortably 3-1 at Bournemouth, draw 0-0 at home to Brighton as we end with 8 men, lose to Southampton and Swansea (away games for Waltz lol) and City run riot with a record 18-0.

Gino decides enough is enough and rewards him with a new 3 year deal. However Walter declines saying the font hurt his eyes, resigning and returning to Italy with Paolo De Toffol packaged up like a lunch box in his suitcase. Angry Watford fan sign lady is waiting for him at the airport.
Pudil gets booked.

As Gino lined up the replacements for interviews stating we need some solid foundations, a man with a red hat pokes his head through the door.

 

Walter enjoying life at Torino today while winning 1-0 against SPAL.

 

Udin play Torino in a couple of weeks. Will be interesting.

 

Anyone else noticed the zebrette away kit this season?

 

Is it an impala hide?

 

Mazzarri hired… by Napoli! Given it to Walt t’end of season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67419150

 

This guy had a dreadful squad safe by Christmas and the most c retinous fan base in the country hounded him out because he wouldn't clap the obese hordes at the end of the match.

Fast forward 6 years and we're in the bottom half of the championship with a hapless terd of a manager and with no hope of promotion in our lifetimes.

But it's more fun now, apparently.

 

Is this the oldest resurfacing of a thread, ever???

 

Go on, you can beat it. I believe in you.

 

I wonder if Burnley are having more fun this season, or last season.

Agree with most of your post, mind.

 

At least there won't be any language barrier

 

I agree with the general point, but it does overlook how dire and ill suited he was to Watford. He could barely speak English and refused to engage in learning it in a meaningful capacity throughout his tenure. He played a brand of football that was slow and clunky. We had players routinely out of position though the squad in his defence was not especially well balanced.

He really should have been Udinese's manager at that time. He would have suited them a lot more.

 

Was it a ‘dreadful squad’? We had finished mid-table the season before. Under Walt we finished 17th, albeit well clear.

 

Agree 100%. I’ve been saying this for years.

He achieved results with a toxic squad and was vilified for instilling discipline and putting two goalkeepers on the bench to laugh at gammons who laughably thought Quique was a better manager.

Instead of backing him, the club gave in to player power. He is by far the best head coach Watford have had since the Pozzos’ ownership

 

We were doing as well if not better than the previous season, then got plenty of injuries, few key players passed their peak, and had a terrible winter transfer window.

Mostly though, a few rotten eggs played to get him sacked as they didn’t like his disciplined approach, who led to true culture still around today

 

Did we not have horrendous injury problems that season as well ?

However I was at Hull when we lost to 10 men . It is never good losing to a 10 man whipping boy
team !!.

 

Once we reached 40 points after beating Swansea the squad appeared to down tools, they lost the last 6. The records show we finished 17th but in reality it was well clear of relegation danger and that squad effectively finished in the position we were after matchday 32.



At that point it was practically impossible to get relegated. The players hated WM.

 

One of the most dislikeable managers in the clubs history.

 

I liked him

 

This thread delivers big time.

 

We had a lot of injuries, and one of the biggest reasons for our great start to the previous season, Deeney and Ighalo, had either fallen out of favour, or left in January having struggled for a long time

 

Didn’t Deeney consider the win at Arsenal under Mazzari the best tactical victory of his time at Watford?

 

Should this be in the ‘Unpopular Opinions’ thread?

 

WM didn't endear himself to the fans, AFAIK he didn't learn English either, the league table I posted earlier shows that he got the best out of the squad until it no longer mattered.

 

I think he was right. I wasn't a great fan of Walt, but that was a superb moment.

 

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment TBF.

 

Exactly this. The injuries we had were incredible, yet he kept us up effortlessly. But more importantly, he identified Deeney was by then a wrong un and was prepared to get rid of him.

But no, some scruffy old hag with 3 teeth got out her bic biro and wrote the worst protest banner since time began, and you people rallied behind her and the rest is history.

 

Well, except for the fact that the next two managers did far better than he did, yes: you are entirely correct.

 

That Arsenal game was truly magnificent. It was two days after losing at Millwall in the FA Cup fourth round on a Sunday lunchtime – a really lacklustre game.

And it was the night before GT's funeral, which I attended. As we travelled into London I must confess my heart wasn't in it. We'd only won once in seven and a half weeks (and that was the cup win over Burton Albion in round three). We went for an early dinner at Dishoom and the thought occurred to just stay around Coal Drops Yard and have a couple of beers. But my mate said: "No, come on, you know what'll happen if we don't go."

To us in the lower tier of the away end, Kaboul's early goal from the free-kick looked like it was absolutely miles out. From where I was I couldn't tell it was deflected. It seemed to zip off the surface and skid in like a stone skimming across the sea.

We were still celebrating when we broke again, the ball fell to Deeney from Capoue's shot... From where I was, I thought he'd squared it, I couldn't tell it actually deflected off the keeper into Deeney's path. 2-0 up after 13 minutes.

Then a nervy game in which we defended so well. Even when Arsenal got the goal back in the second half I felt strangely confident we'd hold on.

Of course we football supporters tend to believe in omens and all sorts of superstitions but it really did feel like GT was watching over the team that night.

As we left the ground, still celebrating, the chant went up: "There's only one Graham Taylor," and it was sung with real feeling.

The following day at St Mary's, which was absolutely packed, a quiet buzz went through the church as Arsene Wenger walked down the aisle to take his seat just a matter of hours after his team had been beaten by us.